Crux Sentence Examples

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  • That is the crux of the matter.

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  • Thus in presence of the problem which is the crux of materialism, the origin of consciousness, he first propounds a gratuitous hypothesis that everything has mind, and then gives up the origin of conscious mind after all.

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  • The crux of the difficulty was the doctrine of the supernatural, the relation between revealed and natural religion.

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  • This is a real crux in the gospel of John.

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  • Here we come to the crux of Fichte's system, which is only partly cleared up in the Rechtslehre and Sittenlehre.

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  • Here, it seems to me, lies the crux.

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  • Simple stories, that go to the very crux of what being human really means.

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  • Pulling into the overhanging niche above provides the crux of the climb.

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  • Well, to me that is the whole crux of the issue.

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  • My concern is how this encoding crux modifies the question, " what is the text?

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  • Whether he does or not forms the crux of the story.

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  • Jesus becomes the crux of every man's destiny.

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  • Their very strangeness is the crux of the matter.

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  • At the crux of regular exercise and a healthy diet is weight control.

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  • The second section is the technical crux of the route.

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  • The main crux of my problem is the usual once bitten twice shy thing.

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  • The verse remains a crux inter pretum, and no exegesis hitherto given can be deemed thoroughly satisfactory; but the interpretation of the whole book must not be made to hinge on a single word in a verse which might be altogether removed without affecting the general course of the prophet's argument.

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  • The special ensign of his office is the cross, crux erecta or gestatoria, carried before him on solemn occasions (see Cross).

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  • The crux of Brazil 's industry, the Southeast region is home to a wide variety of cuisines.

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  • Head left along ledges of unfrozen turf to a belay on Crescent Slabs (possible crux).

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  • Whinge a bit then step up right to finish - the crux.

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  • Education is at the crux of their self-proclaimed purpose.

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  • Rumor has it that the crux of the show will be Zoey (played by Jamie Lynn) deciding whether or not she is going to stay at Pacific Coast Academy or go with her family to London.

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  • The crux of the debate over the new pictures is whether they are actually Miley Cyrus and not the result of creative mixing and matching photos of other people with Miley's via Photoshop.

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  • The emblems in the suit of swords are based on the Egyptian crux ansata (a symbol more commonly known as the ankh and looped cross).

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  • The cross that most people picture when they are imagining a Christian cross is actually known as the Latin Cross, or crux ordinaria.

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  • The purpose is to reinforce the ideas of a neutral spine and proper breathing, the crux of Pilates.

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  • Penny always looks for the crux, the toughest place to climb.

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  • The crux of the show is the anecdote of how he once masturbated into a cup and got his housemate to drink it.

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  • Reinach's explanation of this ancient crux interpretum, which has been accepted by Harnack, Bousset, Porter, Sanday, Swete and others, fixes the earliest date of the composition of the Apocalypse as A.D.

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  • These dates are given in the following memorial distich with a frank indifference to quantity and metre "Vult Crux, Lucia, Cinis, Charismata dia Quod det vota pia quarta sequens feria."

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  • The victor, Santa Crux, then suggested an armada against England, but the English Catholics could not be brought into line with a Spanish invasion.

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  • He is said to have suffered crucifixion at Patras (Patrae) in Achaea, on a cross of the form called Crux decussata (X) and commonly known as "St Andrew's cross."

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  • Next year, having solved, as he thought, another ancient crux, the duplication of the cube, he had his solution brought out anonymously at Paris in French, so as to put Wallis and other critics off the scent and extort a judgment that might be withheld from a work of his.

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  • The definition of humour is a generally acknowledged crux, and till it is defined the definition of Pantagruelism will be in the same position.

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  • The crux of all metaphysical idealism is the difficulty of reconciling the unity of the object with the plurality of subjects.

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  • The principal reptiles are a lizard, a tortoise, the vivora de la crux (a dangerous viper, so called from marks like a cross on its head) and the rattlesnake in Maldonado and the stony lands of Minas.

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