Sentences with phrase «of agonistic»

Once one realizes the possibility of an agonistic constitutionalism, one begins to see it everywhere.

agonistic complexes, agonistic supersets (complexing two exercises of agonistic muscle groups, a bicep exercise with another biceps exercise)

Results of experiments in multiple laboratories over the last 20 years have shown that a large part of the cancer - inducing effect of estrogen involves the formation of agonistic metabolites of estrogen, especially 16 - alpha - hydroxyestrone.

It's a subtle interplay of agonistic and antagonistic factors.

And that I think is the optimism of agonistic politics.

Among empirical theologians there has been a ready admiration for Darwin and an uneasy alliance with Whitehead, who despite his deep appreciation of the agonistic nature of things, retained faith in the harmonies and uniformities underlying, he believed, the mathematics, the logic, and the theoretical physics of his time.

Not exact matches

Commencement speeches are targeted toward a very specific audience of people who are on the verge of starting their careers, but the best speakers tend to offer age - agonistic advice.

Relations between Jews and Christians will be forever agonistic: Jesus can not for them be other than a figure of contention.

These process theologians might be mollified, however, by the admission that these comments on «the particular,» as well as the agonistic view of life, are themselves half - blown metaphysical ideas.

In other words, empirical theologians have justified and criticized their agonistic view of life by focusing their inquiry on the particular, so understood.

Democratic citizens» active and even agonistic political participation guarantees the well - functioning of a democracy.

As agonistic thinkers like Bonnie Honig rightly argue (see the interview with herhere), it is important to see the common good not as agreed upon in a set of formal procedures or as fixed principles of equality, liberty, and justice.

The ontologies that these radical or agonistic democratic theories rely on are diverse, but whether they're construed in terms of plenitude or of radical negativity, they share a thoroughgoing anti-foundationalism: social and political being is said to be underpinned by a radical indeterminacy or «undecidability».

The socialitydimension is the degree to which participation is «agonistic» or «solidaristic,» that is, the degree of conflict or cooperation between participants.

But if you aspire to forms of life in common constellated around public things, in affectively charged ways that are both pleasurable and sometimes infuriating, built around finding, promoting and building shared public objects, engaged in some common cause, but not disciplined into oppressive forms of normalisation, then agonistic politics is very optimistic.

That is a very different sort of smear, of a type that New Labour has in my view tended to favour over the years and one that has become, I think, more common on all sides as political debate has become less and less philosophically agonistic and more and more about branding.

For LTßR agonist treatment, mice were treated with agonistic anti-LTβR antibody (3C8, provided by Carl F Ware) by i.p. injection of 100 μg of antibody every 3 days for 6 days.

Agonistic supersets use pairs of similar exercises while antagonistic supersets use exercises that can be thought of as opposites.

Agonistic supersets increase the amount of work done by the target muscle.

Clomid (Clomiphene citrate) and Nolva (Nolvadex, Tamoxifen) are structurally similar and classified as selective modulators of estrogen receptors with mixed agonistic and antagonistic properties.

While acute THC stimulates appetite, the repeated stimulation of CB1 receptors by THC decreases receptor expression and sensitivity, and long - term stimulation may result in antagonistic rather than agonistic triggering of CB1 receptors, which would dampen hunger signals.

This bucket of pure misery epitomizes the film's agonistic, misanthropic tonality.

Although the existence of an overall dominance hierarchy in dogs is debated [23], and the Vizsla is a «peaceful» breed, which, compared to other breeds, rarely fights with conspecifics [34], we detected a dominance hierarchy via a questionnaire assessing agonistic and affiliative situations [29].

Rather than being an agonistic display of territorial defense, urinary scent marking by domestic dogs appears to be a means to make a strange environment smell like home, by masking the unfamiliar odors with individual urine.

The second project is focused on the effect of testosterone on male agonistic behaviour (male threat vocalizations and fights in particular).

Dr. Anna Fabiani Born in London 18-08-1971 PhD in Biology Affiliation: University of Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy Research interests: elephant seals molecular biology, paternity estimation, agonistic behaviour in male mammals and its effect on breeding performance Field experience with pinnipeds: four years of field work on elephant seals (1994 in the Valdes Peninsula; 1995, 1996 and 1997 in the Falklands) Curriculum vitae of Anna (PDF file) Send e-mail to Anna

Agonistic contests have a stereotyped structure, and almost invariably involve the emission of sounds by the contestants.

He attended with his dissertation topic Agonistic exhibition strategies of a hegemonic exhibition complex: About the politics of the 13th Istanbul and the 7th Berlin Biennial, included at several symposiums such as: When exhibitions become politics.

She studied with the German - born guru of painterly abstraction Hans Hofmann, but she shunned the modes of fervent expressiveness — promoted as Action painting by Greenberg's agonistic rival critic Harold Rosenberg — that engaged most artists of the so - called second generation of Abstract Expressionism.

Parma, ITALY About Blog Founded originally in 1973 by the then captain of the national team, Marco Bollesan, as a club by invitation reserved for the best players of the Italian championship the Zebras played their agonistic activity especially in the Northwest.

Agonistic interpersonal striving: Social — cognitive mechanism of cardiovascular risk in youth?

Separate studies of rural and urban Head Start systems tested the hypothesis that an emotion - based prevention program (EBP) would accelerate the development of emotion and social competence and decrease agonistic behavior and potential precursors of psychopathology.