Reason Sentence Examples
He had no reason to worry.
For some reason, he experienced a very realistic vision.
Maybe there was another reason he decided to reclaim his money.
No reason to learn.
I think everyone was guilty of staring at her at least once - if for no other reason, wondering if she was going to fall out of her dress.
We cannot understand it nor the reason of it.
They have good reason to be incredulous.
There is no reason any of them have to be.
A poor person with a six-year-old car today has more wealth than a poor person with a six-year-old car did back in 1911, for the simple reason that cars are so much better now.
The reason why she read to her pupil so many good books is due, in some measure, to the fact that she had so recently recovered her eyesight.
AdvertisementThere was no reason Alex shouldn't tell his father.
But then, he had reason - in his head - to believe it wasn't his.
She was jealous of Dulce, but she had no reason to be.
For some reason, she found it all amusing.
I was, for a reason known to God alone, much more calm than the situation dictated.
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Do you have some reason you want to put it off for a while?
She had given him every reason to believe she was interested in him, so it wasn't too surprising.
No, Bordeaux had only one reason for wanting to marry Cassie - the ranch.
Whatever the reason, the kiss had awakened her as effectively as the prince did sleeping beauty.
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I outline forty-five different ways this will happen—surely enough that even if you don't agree with them all, you will still have plenty of reason to be optimistic.
She is not conscious of any reason why she should be awkward; consequently, her movements are free and graceful.
What other reason would there be for telling his daughter not to discuss his occupation?
The oracle at Delphi has ordered that it shall be given to the wisest of wise men, and for that reason we have brought it to you.
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Depending on function, robots can come in all shapes and sizes, and I see no compelling reason to make them like humans.
Not only did his reason not reproach him for what he had done, but he even found cause for self-satisfaction in having so successfully contrived to avail himself of a convenient opportunity to punish a criminal and at the same time pacify the mob.
What reason did he have to stay with the freighters now?
There's no reason to get all worked up.
Stands to reason, doesn't it?
No reason to say otherwise.
The chief reason for devoting no time either to singing, to dress, or to choosing her words was that she really had no time to spare for these things.
She doesn't have any reason to be jealous of me.
Whatever the reason, she felt compelled to answer flippantly.
According to Denton, there was only one reason why a man would give her so much attention.
There is no reason why she should strike from her vocabulary all words of sound and vision.
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.
But today she quite forgot that and was hurt that he should be angry with her without any reason, and she felt unhappy.
It is the reason why the life and activity of people who lived centuries ago and are connected with me in time cannot seem to me as free as the life of a contemporary, the consequences of which are still unknown to me.
However inaccessible to us may be the cause of the expression of will in any action, our own or another's, the first demand of reason is the assumption of and search for a cause, for without a cause no phenomenon is conceivable.
There was no reason to feel threatened.
Whatever the reason, it felt good to have options he didn't know about.
There was another reason she had been turning down Michael's invitations.
I had another reason to go to Ashley.
It read, "Don't call me for any reason for ten days."
As she watched them walk toward the house, it occurred to her that the reason Alex didn't like him was that they were too much alike.
I have no reason to be jealous.
Whatever his reason, the attention was welcome.
There was no reason to pretend she liked the choice.
He could defend many institutions better than any philosopher, because, in describing them as they concerned him, he gave the true reason for their prevalence, and speculation had not suggested to him any other.
Not without reason was its slenderness.
Countess Mary looked round, saw little Andrew following her, felt that Sonya was right, and for that very reason flushed and with evident difficulty refrained from saying something harsh.
And for some reason he went to kill Africans, and killed them so well and was so cunning and wise that when he returned to France he ordered everybody to obey him, and they all obeyed him.
The historians, in accord with the old habit of acknowledging divine intervention in human affairs, want to see the cause of events in the expression of the will of someone endowed with power, but that supposition is not confirmed either by reason or by experience.
Through his reason man observes himself, but only through consciousness does he know himself.
Reason gives expression to the laws of inevitability.
Inevitability without content is man's reason in its three forms.
Whatever the reason for your visit, there are some excellent places to find a rare, medium or well-done steak.
The answer surprised her, but for some reason she was sure he wouldn't hit her.
Sure, you had a reason to go to Ashley.
There's no reason to feel embarrassed about a normal body function.
He.d suspected Sasha was there for more than one reason and didn.t doubt his brother had a plan.
So the only reason you're here now is to reprimand me.
Carmen had reason to know Alex could and would defend himself admirably.
No doubt that was one reason Alex respected him.
It was in his eyes - in the way he picked up the pen and tried to find a reason to avoid her angry gaze.
And yet, there was no reason to be upset with him.
We will avoid war because it is unprofitable; and while that is not a moral reason, any reason that brings peace is fine by me.
He kept my mind alert and eager, and trained it to reason clearly, and to seek conclusions calmly and logically, instead of jumping wildly into space and arriving nowhere.
The highest chords he strikes are those of reason and self-love.
This may explain the reason why Helen claims persistently that "The Frost King" is her own story.
The reason that we do not observe this process in ordinary children is, because we seldom observe them at all, and because they are fed from so many sources that the memories are confused and mutually destructive.
After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.
Though she blamed herself for it, she could not refrain from grumbling at and worrying Sonya, often pulling her up without reason, addressing her stiffly as "my dear," and using the formal "you" instead of the intimate "thou" in speaking to her.
But besides this, since the exhaustion and enormous diminution of the army caused by the rapidity of the advance had become evident, another reason for slackening the pace and delaying presented itself to Kutuzov.
For some reason you wish to deprive me of our former friendship.
When Sarah learned of her plan to go to the house and pick up some things, she insisted there was no reason to stay.
Bordeaux said nothing was going on and he had never given her reason to think he was anything but truthful.
Claudette has no reason to be concerned about Mrs. Cade's furniture.
In the next few minutes she had reason to believe that wasn't his only cause for concern.
She knew that at the time, so why had she pushed reason aside?
Tell Brennan he has carte blanch to give us everything within reason we might need.
Sofi wanted her watched for some reason.
The sight of her shapely form in his bed made his blood burn for a different reason.
You know that's the only reason you're not locked in your room for the rest of your life.
It was a simple kiss that had no reason to quicken her pulse, but it did.
I think he blamed his father for some reason.
Your father had a reason for his wish.
Heidi was back and he wasn't going to give her any reason to stray in the future.
Was that the only reason men had dated her?
They had to break this stifling relationship off before it smothered all reason from them.
Too much was riding on that necklace for her to give any sign she was there for any other reason.
All this was so terrible and unreal that he could not understand it at all, and so had good reason to be afraid.
It was for this reason that I left my fellows in the abbey kitchen and came here to be alone.
Then there are the people who reason the future will be better.
In the eradication of smallpox, as in the near-elimination of polio, I find both fascinating lessons of history and enormous reason for hope.
So, when I tell you we will see the end of war, if you are over thirty-five years of age, you have every reason to roll your eyes and tell me you have seen this movie before and aren't up for the sequel.
The world is happiest when this process is one of persuasion, goodwill, reason, logic, and negotiation.
I decided that there was no reason, except my deplorable ignorance of the great facts that underlie our physical existence.
There is, moreover, a reason why Helen Keller writes good English, which lies in the very absence of sight and hearing.
It was a portrait, painted in bright colors by Gerard, of the son borne to Napoleon by the daughter of the Emperor of Austria, the boy whom for some reason everyone called "The King of Rome."
They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs.
He regarded the whole business of the war not with his intelligence or his reason but by something else.
Reason said if she left now, there would never be a solid relationship.
I realized those receiving our tips lacked a reason to share our absolute confidence.
What's more, I felt if I had said I was the tipster, there was no reason for him to keep me alive.
There was a reason he'd severed his connection to his emotions all those years ago.
She'd been molded to exist for one reason and expected to step aside when her purpose was fulfilled.
Dean couldn't think of any reason not to confirm its authenticity to the old man and did so.
I've been shut out for a reason.
What reason have you given me to trust you?
He left, though she sensed he sought her out for a reason and wasn't about to grow patience.
He.d tried to reason with her, to tell her what happened.
She had a reason to hate him after what he.d done, and he.d been unable to apologize.
She couldn't remember when she'd last eaten, hadn't had a reason to care.
Whatever the reason, he guessed she had a long way to go before her mind was together.
There was no reason for her to even think he might be involved.
You don't have any reason to hurt me like that, do you?
But I'm frightened for a far different reason.
I swear, I have never used influence on you for any reason, never!
You know, these ducks are the reason I agreed to go out with you.
There is a very good reason for that.
No reason except the fact that she was losing a lot of sleep.
The feeling is mutual. You're the reason I spent so much time in Hell.
Whatever reason you have for talking about her this way – just stop.
All the more reason for hubby to stick around.
Is there any reason you can think of for your husband...to just leave?
Dean saw no reason to trouble Mrs. Byrne with this nebulous sighting.
There was absolutely nothing memorable in Dean's baseball career to give reason for lasting impressions.
He had given her no reason to feel this way.
You have no reason to feel ashamed of desire for me.
We've waited this long, there's no reason to push it like this.
Yet for some reason she felt better.
Don't you think it's a little late to come to my rescue now – or is there some other reason you're asking?
He smiled down at her when she searched his face for a reason.
Until I'm married, I see no reason to get a larger one.
All our intel tells us they're after you for some reason.
For this reason many people were glad when he ran away from home and went to sea.
The "why?" is the DOOR THROUGH WHICH HE ENTERS THE WORLD OF REASON AND REFLECTION.
He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.
What reason was there for assuming any probability of an uprising in the city?
I see no reason not to mention my suspicion about John Luke Grasso and his connection to Willard.
She joined them, trying to recall the reason human-Deidre came to these.
If a demon nowhere near his size was able to hurt her, what could Gabriel do, if he was upset at her for any reason?
The whole reason he'd avoided her was because of Wynn's warning – pleasure kills – a reminder that Deidre's tumor was connected to her emotions.
Human-Deidre had no reason whatsoever not to give Darkyn the soul he snatched when the deal was up.
Until you took my soul a few months ago, I was there because I loved you and for no other reason.
Andre was the only one who seemed to think there was a reason for Gabriel to be here, and Gabriel trusted Andre more than both Deidres and Darkyn combined.
After Tess broke their engagement - at the last minute - there had been no reason for him to hold his end of the bargain... nothing but integrity.
Lori didn't deserve what he did to her, but she hadn't exactly given him a reason to respect her, either.
Dread pooled in the base of his stomach for more than one reason.
Same reason she knew better than to let me tie her.
Give me some reason why one percent and an eternity with you beats out the alternative.
Mortals need the power of reason to deal with us.
She assumed he was angry with her again for some reason.
She'd never thought she'd find a reason to want some creature to suck her blood; if ever, now was the time.
There was reason to fear the Ancients, especially this Ancient, who seemed to have no alliance to anything good or bad and was so unpredictable.
A familiar headache started, and she stuffed the last few bites of food down her throat, feeling ill for a different reason.
There has to be another reason you chose me.
Katie wondered if she'd shocked her that badly or if there was some other reason Molly was so surprised.
For whatever reason, people like to attack me.
Now, he had a reason to care what tomorrow brought, and he wasn't certain he liked the newfound feeling.
You must understand there is a reason behind what I ask of you that will not become clear for some time.
At least before, Kris had a reason to keep her around, because he wanted something from her.
She was working with the Dark One, and Rhyn had killed for that reason.
He expected Sasha to sense his betrayal, but Sasha.s gaze glowed for a different reason.
She wondered if Kris would check on her then dismissed the idea he.d seek her out for any reason.
He purposely didn.t think of her, even though she was the reason he.d chosen this path.
I imagine if there are aliens, they've been discreet for a reason.
I don't see any reason to change that.
Another memory crossed her mind, and her face grew warm for a different reason.
As if she needed another reason to want to escape!
Ne'Rin didn't have the mind for battle planning, another reason A'Ran hesitated to assume the worst about him.
Given his experience and lauding as one of the most capable strategic battle planners in the Five Galaxies-- the only reason he hadn't been driven out by the Yirkin despite his tiny army-- he found himself learning a tidbit here and there.
It was what would happen if for some reason she didn't go back to her own planet.
It was part of the reason he wished to speak to nishani later that day.
Part of him knew the Council was stalling him for that reason, though whether they did so to hinder his efforts or to maintain the appearance of their power over him, he wasn't sure.
His dark eyes took in her face, and she felt her heart quicken for a different reason.
They'd been right to use force over reason with the Council, a lesson he'd learned almost too late.
She'd forced herself to walk daily, if for no other reason than to keep her mind off the paintings and memories.
I'm not upset for the reason you assume I am!
She leaned against the wall and drew a deep breath, praying A'Ran trusted this Council member for a reason.
And the only reason you remember dreams is if you wake up in the middle of them.
All the more reason for us to mind our own business.
But, he decided, he had no reason to distrust the man.
Before we can read what she wrote, we can only guess the reason for it.
Dean spent much of the trip speculating on the reason for the law man's visit.
But I guess there's no reason to volunteer the information to her.
In spite of the reason I still can't help but feel incredibly sorry for the girl.
I suppose you've got a good reason why you tried to beat the brains out of a guy holding an ice ax, in the middle of the street with a bunch of people watching.
I didn't lie to him when I told him no one named Shipton was registered at Bird Song but I saw no reason to go out of my way and help him either.
Of all the questions Corday had asked, for some reason, this one made Dean's heart do an extra skip.
I'd hate to think a child his age would try to kill someone, whatever the reason, but I have to admit it's a possibility.
He tried to convince himself the reason was the burden she carried with her mother's illness, but deep down, he knew that was only partially true.
The logical suspect was the person who possessed the most reason to see Jerome Shipton dead.
Unless one of these people had a reason to kill Shipton beyond the apparent.
There was no reason for Cynthia to protect any of the other adults.
But my guess is you don't have any reason to doubt Ryland loves you.
It didn't appear Shipton had a relationship of any kind with Janet nor did she seem to have any logical reason to try and kill him.
While he knew he'd have to speak to Corday sooner or later, he hoped to first learn the reason for his wife's reticence about discussing the ice park fall.
The you in my heaven is the person I create in my mind, the perfect you, who never drinks his milk from the cereal bowl and remembers every birthday and holiday with the nicest card he buys the day before, and he sends roses for no reason at all....
That's the other reason I'm down here.
There was no reason to care when Shipton left town, was there?
The suicide note cut off any reason for investigation.
The room was empty and there was no reason for anyone to look in there.
The reason for the chill became evident as he took in his surroundings.
We have no reason to believe they will destroy you.
I am here to help you understand her, because, for some unfathomable reason, she cares about you.
Yes, but I won't do that either, for the same reason.
Well, maybe our reason isn't as good as we think.
Elisabeth searched his eyes for the reason.
The reason Sarah always chased this now made sense.
She searched his eyes for a reason behind the distress they revealed.
That is not a good enough reason for me to bring a child into the world.
The two were still laughing when they returned to the dining room, and somehow Jackson knew he was the reason.
Victor wanted them all there for a reason.
Oh well, now she'll have plenty of reason to kill off the mice.
Alex would never hurt her - for some reason she was certain of that fact.
Of course, there was no reason to refuse.
For some reason, it was a kiss that left her desiring more.
The only reason Alex was here right now was to help Katie run the farm - and maybe convince her to go back to Houston with him.
This time they didn't kiss good bye, and Carmen was sure that Lori was the reason.
Was there another reason why Katie ran away from home?
No reason why they couldn't get married - except one.
His words were spoken with sarcasm, but not for the reason Alex probably thought.
He brought me to you for some reason.
He made me love you for some reason.
Probably for the same reason it had been for him so many years.
There's no reason to wait any longer.
We're surviving because of our position with the PMF and no other reason.
If he didn't think he'd scarred her for life, he'd look forward to wooing her to his bed for a different reason.
I have reason to believe that's about the only place that hasn't been infiltrated by those professing allegiance to East or West.
I'm sure there's a reason for your survival.
There was a reason the apartment was still the same.
It was part of the reason why he'd turned her down as a companion.
The news that no one had survived the strikes on her condo building made tears rise for a different reason.
Lana rolled onto her side and listened, crying herself to sleep for a different reason this night.
He'd never thought he'd find a reason to leave the battlefield.
I don't think he has a reason to try anymore, Kiki said at last.
Listen, Kris, I'm not trying to be an ass, but logistically and in practicality, there's no reason for us to maintain the Council.
Ully cursed as he moved to seek cover from the downpour. Safe beneath his jungle roof, Toby watched him. The brave, cheerful Ully that sat with him in Hell seemed lost in the underworld, and Toby began to suspect there was another reason their jailer, Jared, had freed them.
We can do more good by engaging Death from some place other than where she has absolute power. She has no reason to negotiate with us.
Rhyn could almost see him thinking. In the end, Kris said nothing else, and Rhyn shook his head. For the first time, he'd tried to reason with Kris. He'd never do it again.
His instincts warned him to hurry, that he had a reason to grab Hannah and go instead of sticking around to see what was causing the activity.
There's no reason I should expect you to understand.
The reason soon became apparent.
The file had listed the reason as "personal."
Suicide lacks reason if you listen to what everyone is saying.
Dean described his conversation with Randy Byrne and detailed his reason for visiting the Whitney Motel.
He gave the frail woman a hug and described the reason for his visit.
He wants to close up that Byrne case unless you've found a real good reason to keep it open.
He lacked opportunity, money or reason to take off.
When he replayed his dictated first draft, the report seemed dry but the evidence produced an overwhelming endorsement that there was no logical reason why Jeffrey Byrne might skip.
Take my word for it, there was no business reason for Jeff to be having lunch with Cece Baldwin—just monkey business.
He felt good, though he couldn't put his finger on the reason.
He didn't want anything—he was nice without a reason.
Well, it stands to reason, doesn't it?
Maybe that was the main reason he was so pissed.
He'd have no reason to cover his tracks!
He had no reason to antagonize Mrs. Glass and have her upset with him.
There's no police reason for anyone to be bird-dogging Arthur.
It's a one-week tour, each day a separate segment, with everyone riding at their own pace—within reason.
I'd guess the only reason they knocked him off was to set an example for anyone else who might have similar ideas.
The reason for their exodus remained open to speculation.
While he'd considered bringing his revolver to Colorado, he had no official reason to do so and was reluctant to lie about being on police business.
There was no reason for her to be in Colorado except thinking her hubby was still alive and here.
Byrne had no reason to subscribe to it weeks before the skip date.
Byrne wasn't near in shape to be looking into this tour and had no reason to write for information on it.
Maybe there's another reason why I don't talk about it—some warped sense of guilt because I can't imagine any life without you.
I think that was the only reason she and Josh became an item.
That was one reason why they never had a television when she was growing up.
He took her there for the same reason he sacrificed so much else for her.
No one seemed to think there was any reason for them to wait.
There was no reason to clean the dairy.
The reason for his lack of response tonight was suddenly clear.
For some reason that thought was comforting.
That might be true, but for some reason Alex felt he needed to protect her.
For some reason, Dad simply didn't care for Josh... never did.
Once they moved the chickens, there would be no reason to walk down to the farm every day.
The biggest reason was Alex.
For what reason, she couldn't say.
Certainly Alex had given her no reason to be afraid - so far.
He had no reason to be and it wasn't like him to be so sullen.
Once again he had been unable to reach her on the cell phone – for whatever reason.
Probably for the same reason Carmen had married a man who couldn't give her children - because she loved him.
But Katie must have had some reason for saying that.
Is that the only reason?
No, but it's the main reason.
Is that the only reason you called, Josh?
Maybe that backward upbringing was the reason she wanted him to be the decision maker.
Don't take me for that reason.
Whatever the reason, gloom tugged at her heart with a heavy hand.
Reason gradually returned to the dark eyes.
As the sobs subsided, so did reason.
It hurt to think he questioned her fidelity, but at least he was willing to listen to reason.
Alex had reason to know Josh could be rough unintentionally as well.
I had no reason to distrust you.
For some reason, the flowers under that tree made her feel uneasy.
Where he'd been the last month was a mystery, but he was here now — and for some reason, what he was saying made her feel better.
For some reason, she wanted him to make all the decisions — even the simple ones.
He had no reason, but he thought he did.
Maybe having one mother leave and not come back ... no, surely they couldn't reason that early in life.
There's more reason to believe it this time.
Part of the reason he'd mated with her so quickly was to get her away from the man she claimed beat her.
Darian had never felt threatened around her, even with his desire to find some reason to write her off as another Claire.
He was uncomfortable for some reason.
As long as you stick to the things he has assigned to you, he has no reason to argue.
I guess I shouldn't have said anything, but don't you realize that the way Alex treats you gives Jonathan reason to question your authority?
That was the reason she gave, but truthfully she didn't want him to see her cry.
He had no reason to be concerned about Gerald.
The reason all revolved around the fact that she felt uncomfortable around Rob – and the fact that Alex had said she was encouraging him.
There was only one reason why she didn't, and that was because she was embarrassed that she had forgotten the phone in the first place.
Maybe he was looking for a reason to get away from her.
A lot of people from the Huston area have reason to know the Medena's – some even have reason to dislike them.
I've done it every year but for some reason when I tried to do it with the sling on, I lost my balance.
This must be the reason the thick short candles were stored there.
It isn't likely, though - for the simple reason that the odds of a tornado hitting any specific spot once are slim.
Yet, for whatever reason, she had been willing to endure her fear alone.
That would be an excellent reason, but actually, I quit for me.
For some reason, his respect was important - even crucial.
Whatever the reason for his absence, the days were lonely and meaningless without him.
Jessi set down the device, aware she was there for a reason.
Jonny had to have sent this girl here for a reason.
She was feeling insecure, and for good reason.
For some reason, the idea Eden was content after so short a time irritated him.
Sensing she was only encouraging him not to do what she wanted, she sought some other reason.
I can't see any other reason why someone would risk pissing you off.
You don't do things without a reason.
He's the leader of the vamps for a reason.
It was the only reason she came back to work this morning after the kiss that almost made her stay the night before.
I see no reason to tell you something personal.
You can't fully make that decision, until you're willing to accept that all this" Sofi waved her hand around the compound "is your new place in life and that for some reason, you belong with a freak of nature of a man."
Apart from the atomic theory there is no obvious reason why this should be so.
Here again, apart from this theory, there is no obvious reason why the composition of different substances should be related in so simple a way.
There he lived in exile till 43, when he was proscribed by Antony, the reason alleged being his refusal to surrender some of his art treasures which Antony coveted.
Simeon of Durham makes his death occur about the same time, after he had been expelled from his country and had lost his reason as a punishment for his misdeeds.
He founded no less than three colleges, two at Oxford, one at Higham Ferrers, while there is reason to believe that he suggested and inspired the foundation of Eton and of King's College.
El-`Azariyeh is a poor village of about thirty families, with few marks of antiquity; there is no reason to believe that the houses of Mary and Martha and of Simon the Leper, or the sepulchre of Lazarus, still shown by the monks, have any claim to the names they bear.
If such is the case, there is reason to think that the composition of Gammer Gurton's Needle should be referred to the earlier period.
The conception will be made clearer when it is remembered that Aquinas, taught by the mysterious author of the writings of the pseudo-Dionysius, who so marvellously influenced medieval writers, sometimes spoke of a natural revelation, or of reason as a source of truths in themselves mysterious, and was always accustomed to say that reason as well as revelation contained two kinds of knowledge.
In reason, as in revelation, man can only attain to the lower kind of knowledge; there is a higher kind which we may not hope to reach.
He carefully establishes the necessity of revelation as a source of knowledge, not merely because it aids us in comprehending in a somewhat better way the truths already furnished by reason, as some of the Arabian philosophers and Maimonides had acknowledged, but because it is the absolute source of our knowledge of the mysteries of the Christian faith; and then he lays down the relations to be observed between reason and revelation, between philosophy and theology.
In 1551 the tsar submitted to a synod of prelates a hundred questions as to the best mode of remedying existing evils, for which reason the decrees of this synod are generally called stoglav or centuria.
He was commonly compared to Olympian Zeus, partly because of his serene and dignified bearing, partly by reason of the majestic roll of the thundering eloquence, with its bold poetical imagery, with which he held friend and foe spellbound.
But for the same reason its policy was always narrow, so that it never exercised any beneficial influence on the world at large.
There is no reason to suppose the human voice has varied, during the period of which we have evidence, more than other physical attributes.
During what is called the Second Mithradatic War, Murena invaded Pontus without any good reason in 83, but was defeated in 82.
He gave its Church a trained ministry, its homes an educated people who could give a reason for their faith, and the whole city an heroic soul which enabled the little town to stand forth as the citadel and city of refuge for the oppressed Protestants of Europe."
There are few birds which have more exercised the taxonomer than this, and the reason seems to be plain.
In 1906 the export of live stock was prohibited for that reason.
The coast, constantly encroaching on the sea by reason of the alluvium washed down by the rivers of the Pyrenees and Cvennes, is without important harbours saving that of Cette, itself continually invaded by the sand.
It is at the disposal of the minister of war, who can decree the recall of all men discharged to the reserve the previous year and all those whose time of service has for any reason been shortened.
The name Marica (" goddess of the salt-marshes") among the Aurunci appears also both on the coast of Picenum and among the Ligurians; and Stephanus of Byzantium identified the Osci with the Siculi, whom there is reason to suspect were kinsmen of the Ligures.
The Apologists themselves welcomed, and commended to others, the Christian revelation as affording a certainty of immortality such as reason could not give.
He adds a reason that recalls one of Plato's, " As manifestly as the human soul is by means of the senses linked to the present life, so manifestly it attaches itself by reason, and the conceptions, conclusions, anticipations and efforts to which reason leads it, to God and eternity."
The expansion has been due mainly to the natural increase; that is, by reason of excess of births over deaths.
The birth rate averages 26.28 per thousand of the population and the death rate 12.28, showing a net increase of 14 per thousand by reason of the excess of births over deaths.
The effects of the crisis were mainly felt in the three eastern states, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia being affected chiefly by reason of the fact of their intimate financial connexion with the eastern states.
He was also fond of hunting, and for this reason usually lived at Adrianople.
There is considerable reason to think, however, that the more frequent ports of call in the Straits of Malacca were situated in Sumatra, rather than on the shores of the Malay Peninsula, and two famous medieval travellers, Marco Polo and Ibn Batuta, both called and wintered at the former, and make scant mention of the latter.
The love of right reason is the supreme virtue, whence flow the cardinal virtues, diligence, obedience, justice and humility.
There is no reason to doubt that some such visit was made about the year 315, when the death of Maximin Daza left Constantine supreme.
Every man being organized in a particular way has, of necessity, an aim, the fulfilment of which is good; and he has faculties for accomplishing it, directed by reason.
The aim is good, however, only when reason guides it for the benefit of the majority, but that is not absolute good.
When reason rises to the conception of universal order, when actions are submitted, by the exercise of a sympathy working necessarily and intuitively to the idea of the universal order, the good has been reached, the true good, good in itself, absolute good.
The same reason that made him depreciate Hegel made him praise Krause (panentheism) and Schleiermacher, and speak respectfully of English philosophy.
There is some reason to hope that the day of these misconceptions is passed; although there is also some reason to fear that on other grounds the present era may be known to posterity as an era of instrumentation comparable, in its gorgeous chaos of experiment and its lack of consistent ideas of harmony and form, only to the monodic period at the beginning of the 17th century, in which no one had ears for anything but experiments in harmonic colour.
There seems no good reason why in modern performances the pianoforte should not be used for the purpose; if only accompanists can be trained to acquire the necessary delicacy of touch, and can be made to understand that, if they cannot extemporize the necessary polyphony, and so have to play something definitely written for them, it is not a mass of interesting detail which they are to bring to the public ear.
While leaving intact the general houses of the various confraternities (except that of the Jesuits), the bill abolished the Religious corporate personality of religious orders, handed over Bill, their schools and hospitals to civil administrators, placed their churches at the disposal of the secular clergy, and provided pensions for nuns and monks, those who had families being sent to reside with their relatives, and those who by reason of age or bereavement had no home but their monasteries being allowed to end their days in religious houses specially set apart for the purpose.
The question whether this surplus was real or only apparent has been much debated, but t,here is no reason to doubt its substantial reality.
The men of the Left believed themselves subtle enough to retain the confidence and esteem of all foreign powers while coquetting at home with elements which some of these powers had reason to regard with suspicion.
For this reason the Anglo-French convention had caused profound irritation in Italy, and had tended somewhat to diminish the cordiality of Anglo-Italian relations.
According to Strype, he was invited about this time to become a fellow of the college founded by Cardinal Wolsey at Oxford; but Dean Hook shows that there is some reason to doubt this.
It is not without reason, therefore, that those two schools, the older and the younger, are commonly called the Black (krishna) and the White (sukla) Yajus respectively.
For this reason the altar, as representative of the universe, is built in five layers, representing earth, air and heaven, and the intermediate regions; and in the centre of the altar-site, below the first layer, on a circular gold plate (the sun), a small golden man (purusha) is laid down with his face looking upwards.
Kant's distinction of " deist " and " theist " may be found in the Critique of Pure Reason, " Transcendental Dialectic," Book II.
Yet the natural or physical theology of the philosophers - in contrast to mere myths or mere statecraft - seems a straightforward effort to reach faith in God on grounds of scientific reason.
Kant swept away, so far as his influence extended, such " dogmatic metaphysics " and the old-fashioned theism which it constituted or included; but Kant himself introduced, in his own more sceptical yet also more moral type of theistic doctrine, a new trichotomy - God, Freedom, Immortality, the three " postulates " of the practical reason."
He is a most difficult writer; different readers understand him differently; and he uses in the earlier parts of his Critique of Pure Reason much of the language of intuitionalism.
If we try to know the real world, we find ourselves distracted by opposite arguments (" ` Antithetic of Pure Reason "), plausible and resistless in attack, helpless in defence.
The only thing which the " Ideas " of " Reason " can do for theoretic knowledge is to exert a " regulative " function.
God, for Pure Reason, is an illegitimate personification of the idea of perfected experience (" Ideal of Pure Reason ").
Just as our knowledge never can finish its task of reducing world-experience to an intelligible system, so our will is never once able perfectly to obey the law of reason.
Such is the train of thought as stated for us in the Critique of Practical Reason.
But there are gaps in Kant's system - a imperfect gap between sensation and the sense-forms of time and space; a gap between sense-forms and thought; a gap between the lower but practicable processes of the Understanding and the higher but unrealizable ideas of Reason.
Reason - under conditions of sensation - created the world of (valid) knowledge; Reason created the practical world of duty.
If the world exists purely to be known, and if every other working of reason comes into consideration qua incomplete knowledge, Hegel is right with his sweeping intellectualism.
Used by Kant sceptically of the limitations of reason, dialectic in Hegel becomes constructive; and scepticism itself becomes a stage in knowledge.
The English thinkers influenced by Hegel are inclined to assert mechanism unconditionally, as the very expression of reason - the only thinkable form of order.
Quite a different view of necessity is the moral necessity pointed to by Kant's " Practical Reason."
It tells men to " obey reason " and crush passion, or to live " according to nature."
He also gives us " natural law " 2 - a Stoic inheritance, preserving the form of an idealist appeal to systematic requirements of reason, while practically limiting its assumptions to those of intuitionalism.
In Anselm's case we have the further sanguine hope of justifying not theism merely but all Christian doctrine to the scientific reason.
In declaring the supreme doctrines of Christianity to be mysteries above reason, he marks off a lower region where reason is to reign; the study of that lower region may well be called, as later centuries have called it, Natural Theology; and as such it presents strong intuitionalist affinities.
The Rational Psychology formulates immortality on the ground that the immaterial soul has no parts to suffer decay - the argument which Kant's Critique of Pure Reason " refutes" with special reference to the statement of it by Moses Mendelssohn.
On the whole then Butler in personal conviction is an intuitionalist, wavering towards the idealism of his age; but in argument he is an empiricist, trying to reason every question as one of given facts.
The necessity in the world's order is regarded by the Stoics as identical with the divine reason, and this idea is used as the basis of a teleological and optimistic view of nature.
The evolution of mind (the positive pole) proceeds by 1 Kant calls the doctrine of the transmutation of species " a hazardous fancy of the reason."
If we seek for the reason of the difference between the scientific position of the doctrine of evolution in the days of Lamarck and that which it occupies now, we shall find it in the great accumulation of facts, the several classes of which have been enumerated above, under the second to the eighth heads.
Notwithstanding the origin of organs, it still for a certain time, by reason of its want of an internal bony skeleton, remains worm and mollusk, and only later enters into the series of the Vertebrata, although traces of the vertebral column even in the earliest periods testify its claim to a place in that series."
For it is almost impossible to prove that any structure, however rudimentary, is useless - that is to say, that it plays no part whatever in the economy; and, if it is in the slightest degree useful, there is no reason why, on the hypothesis of direct creation, it should not have been created.
Naturally very many other factors have to be considered, but this alone is a sufficient reason to restrain attempts to place existing forms in linear phylogenetic series.
He soon began to give proofs of the violence for which he afterwards became notorious; when in 1497 his brother Giovanni, duke of Gandia, was murdered, the deed was attributed, in all probability with reason, to Cesare.
From the manner, however, in which he seeks to distinguish between matter and cause or reason, and from the earnestness with which he advises men to examine all the impressions on their minds, it may be inferred that he held the view of Anaxagoras - that God and matter exist independently, but that God governs matter.
The close affinity of North America with the Palaearctic avifauna becomes at once apparent if we exclude those groups of birds which we have good reason to believe have their original home in the Neotropical region, notably numerous Tyrannidae, humming-birds and the turkey-buzzards.
Faith and reason partly agree, partly diverge.
The latter position, ascribed by the schoolmen to the Averroists, becomes dominant among the later Nominalists, William of Occam and his disciples, who withdraw all doctrines of faith from the sphere of reason.
Along with this affirmation, the Church of Rome (if less decisively) has adopted the limitations of the Thomist theory by the condemnation of " Ontologism "; certain mysterious doctrines are beyond reason.
It is an attempt once more to demonstrate all scholastic dogmas out of the book of creation or on principles of natural reason.
Leibnitz devotes an introductory chapter in his Theodicee, 1710 (as against Pierre Bayle), to faith and reason.
He is a good enough Lutheran to quote as a " mystery " the Eucharist no less than the Trinity, while he insists that truths above are not against reason.
The latter's cheerful man-of-the-world scepticism is transfigured in Pascal to a deep distrust of human reason, in part, perhaps, from anti-Protestant motives.
Reason proves that a revelation has been made - and then submits.
Deism now taught that reason,.
Butler says nothing about incomprehensible mysteries, and protests that reason is the only ground we have to proceed upon.
His general thought was that " rationalism " represents an uprising of the lower reason or " understanding " against the higher or true " reason."
The mysteries of theology are its best part - not alien to reason but of its substance, the " logos."
They had no places of worship, nor, though they had sacred wooden figures, is there any reason to consider that they were idolaters in the strict sense of the word.
A situation - hazardous in spite of its comic substratum - between Thaumasta and the pretended Parthenophil is conducted, as Gifford points out, with real delicacy; but the comic scenes are merely stagy, notwithstanding, or by reason of, the effort expended on them by the author.
In Europe there is good reason to suppose that it includes Shetland; but it is on the north-western coast of the Continent, from Jutland to the extreme north of Norway, that the greatest number are reared.
In opposition to Aquinas, who maintained that reason and revelation were two independent sources of knowledge, Duns Scotus held that there was no true knowledge of anything knowable apart from theology as based upon revelation.
In like manner real virtue consists in the subordination of the individual to the laws of this harmony as the universal reason wherein alone true freedom is to be found.
From the town The judge (ispravnik), who, in spite of the principle laid ordinary down in 1864, combines judicial and administrative functions, an appeal lies (as in the case of the justices of the peace) to an assembly of such judges; from these again there is an appeal to the district court (okrugniya sud), consisting of three judges; 4 from this to the court of appeal (sudebniya palata); while over this again is the senate, which, as the supreme court of cassation, can send a case for retrial for reason shown.
This was precisely the reason why Ivan IV.
The result of this policy of repression, associated as it was with gross incompetence and corruption in the organs of the administration, was the rapid spread of the revolutionary movement, which gradually permeated the intelligent classes and ultimately " Tolstoi - observed that that was argument and reason, and that he paid no attention to them; he only guided himself (he said) by sentiment, which he felt sure told him what was good and right!
There is good reason to suppose that the Beauforts had gone so far as to contemplate a forced abdication on the score of the king's ill-health.
If the officer appointed by the Board of Trade should, after inspection of the railway, report to the department that in his opinion " the opening of the same would be attended with danger to the public using the same, by reason of the incompleteness of the works or permanent way, or the insufficiency of the establishment for working such railway," it is lawful for the department to direct the company to postpone the opening of the line for any period not exceeding one month at a time, the process being repeated from month to month as often as may be necessary.
If, on the other hand, the company is of opinion that the suggestions of the inspecting officer are not likely to prove beneficial, or are for any reason unadvisable, it is at liberty to reject them, the responsibility of doing so resting entirely upon itself.
Blenkinsop placed the teeth on the outer side of one of the running rails, and his reason for adopting a rack was the belief that an engine with smooth wheels running on smooth rails would not have sufficient adhesion to draw the load required.
It was discovered very early in the movement that the accuracy of these communications could not always be relied on; but it is maintained by spiritualists that by the intelligent exercise of the reason it is possible to judge whether the communicating intelligence is trustworthy, especially after prolonged acquaintance with particular intelligences, or where proofs are given of identity with persons known to have been trustworthy on earth.
Marillier further argues that if, on the other hand, there was no bond between god and people but that of the common meal, it does not appear that the god is a totem god; there is no reason why the animal should have been a totem; and in any case this idea of sacrifice can hardly have been anything but a slow growth and consequently not the origin of the practice.
In his last years he lost his reason.
Again his Gifford Lectures are devoted to the proof of the truth of Christianity on grounds of right reason alone.
Every year since her marriage Anne had given birth to a child, and Henry had no reason to despair of more; while, if Henry's state of health was such as was reported, the desire for children, which Anne shared with him, may be urged as an argument for her guilt.
The cypress, which grows no more when once cut down, was regarded as a symbol of the dead, and perhaps for that reason was sacred to Pluto; its branches were placed by the Greeks and Romans on the funeral pyres and in the houses of their departed friends.
He complains especially of his tutors, and in one case with abundant reason; but, by his own confession, they might have recriminated with justice, for he indulged in gay society, and kept late hours.
He adds, what is not quite clear from one who so frankly acknowledges his limited acquaintance with the science, that he had reason to congratulate himself that he knew no more.
It is for this reason that the mountain slopes are generally more abrupt on one side than on the other.
Wollaston starts with the assumption that religion and morality are identical, and labours to show that religion is "the pursuit of happiness by the practice of truth and reason."
We have not the slightest reason to think that the radiation from the sun is measurably weaker now than it was a couple of thousand years ago, yet it can be shown that, if the sun were merely radiating heat as simply a hot body, then it would cool some degrees every year, and must have cooled many thousands of degrees within the time covered by historical records.
Now there is no reason to believe that meteors in anything like this quantity can be supplied to the sun, and, therefore, we must reject this source as also inadequate.
Its influence was especially seen in the creation of the revolutionary army destined to assure provisions for Paris, and in the establishment of the worship of Reason.
Power by its very nature belongs to no one man but to a multitude of men; and the reason is obvious, since all men are born equal.
Nevertheless, or rather for this very reason, its symbols found their way into the rising literature of the vulgar tongues, and helped to quicken the fancy of the artists employed upon church buildings and furniture.
As the Austrian influence increased Panin found a fresh enemy in Joseph II., and the efforts of the old statesman to prevent a matrimonial alliance between the Russian and Austrian courts determined Catherine to get rid of a counsellor of whom, for some mysterious reason, she was secretly afraid.
Such tenets were destructive not only of Catholicism but of Christianity of any kind and of civil society itself; and for this reason so unecclesiastical a person as the emperor Frederick II.
The date of this interview is probably determined by the fact that Aristotle visited his friend Hermias, tyrant of Atarneus, in 347-345 B.C. There is no reason to doubt the probability or even the accuracy of the narrative.
For the same reason the city found itself compelled at first to connive at their illegal representation on 'Change, and then to violate its own rules by permitting them to act as brokers without previously taking up the freedom.
The Moslem leaders acquiesced in the arrangement, which the powers undertook to guarantee, and, notwithstanding some symptoms of discontent at Candia, there was every reason to hope that the island was now entering upon a period of tranquillity.
There was every reason to anticipate the success of the second.
By reason of collections already made and additional gifts, the museum at once took high rank.
By reason of this rejection the relations of North Carolina with the other states were severed upon the dissolution of the Confederation, and it took no part in the first election or in the organization of the new government.
Of the origin of the kingdom of the North Britons we have no information, but there seems little reason to doubt that they were the dominant people in southern Scotland before the Roman invasion.
But, inasmuch as a God is affirmed beyond reason, the mysticism becomes in a.
No distinction is drawn, indeed, between what is reached by reason and what is given by authority; the two are immediately identical for Erigena.
The distinguishing characteristic of scholasticism is the acceptance by reason of a given matter, the truth of which is independent of rational grounds, and which remains a presupposition even when it cannot be understood.
Scholasticism aims, it is true, in its chief representatives, at demonstrating that the content of revelation and the teaching of reason are identical.
Mysticism is not the voluntary demission of reason and its subjection to an external authority.
In that case, all who accept a revelation without professing to understand its content would require to be ranked as mystics; the fierce sincerity of Tertullian's credo quia ab-' surdum, Pascal's reconciliation of contradictions in Jesus Christ, and Bayle's half-sneering subordination of reason to faith would all be marks of this standpoint.
Mysticism, on the other hand, is marked on its speculative side by even an overweening confidence in human reason.
Hence where reason is discarded by the mystic it is merely reason overleaping itself; it occurs at the end and not at the beginning of his speculations.
The appeal is still to the individual, who, if not by reason then by some higher faculty, claims to realize absolute truth and to taste absolute blessedness.
Reason has three stages, in the highest of which the mind is able, by abstraction from earthly things, to rise to contemplatio or the vision of the divine.
Hugh's pupil, Richard of St Victor, declares, in opposition to dialectic scholasticism, that the objects of mystic contemplation are partly above reason, and partly, as in the intuition of the Trinity, contrary to reason.
The final breakdown of scholasticism as a rationalized system of dogma may be seen in Nicolas (or Nicolaus) of Cusa (1401-1464), who distinguishes between the intellectus and the discursively acting ratio almost precisely in the style of later distinctions between the reason and the understanding.
However absolute a philosopher's idealism may be, he is erroneously styled a mystic if he moves towards his conclusions only by the patient labour of the reason.
This second barrier is one of the most mighty upheavals in the world, by reason both of its extent and its altitude.
The mountain mass, moreover, is not less important in causing a complete separation between the atmospheric conditions on its opposite flanks, by reason of the extent to which it penetrates that stratum of the atmosphere which is in contact with the earth's surface and is effective in determining climate.
The reason that the source of the noise is such an enigma is that no one ever traced the sound when they heard it.
There is no reason why their descendants should not be found to-day in various tribes, but the physical type commonly called Jewish is characteristic not so much of Israel as of western Asia generally.
If his reason for taking refuge in Ishbaal's capital Mahanaim is not obvious, it is even more remarkable that he should have been received kindly by the Ammonites whom he had previously decimated.
For the rest, as regards the question of nomenclature, Reid everywhere unites common sense and reason, making the former "only another name for one branch or degree of reason."
Reason is called common sense to distinguish it from ratiocination with uses logic and rational reasoning.
Toke gives reason to believe that the date must be set back at least as early as 910.
They contrast with those of the Oligochaeta and Hirudinea by reason of their frequently close association with the gonads, the same organ sometimes serving the two functions of excretion and conveyance of the ova and spermatozoa out of the body.
The reason for this excessive annulation has been seen in the limited number of segments (thirty-four) of which the body is composed, which are laid down early and do not increase.
In the prose Lancelot his education is complete, he knows his name and parentage, though for some unexplained reason he keeps both secret, and he goes with a fitting escort and equipment to Arthur's court to demand knighthood.
Berthelot, and many other chemists, from whose researches it results that glycerin is a trihydric alcohol indicated by the formula C 3 H 5 (OH) 3j the natural fats and oils, and the glycerides generally, being substances of the nature of compound esters formed from glycerin by the replacement of the hydrogen of the OH groups by the radicals of certain acids, called for that reason "fatty acids."
Until the fall of Lord North's ministry in 1782 he refused to serve, assigning as his reason that he could not trust Lord Sandwich.
This was probably the reason why their marriage was annulled by mutual consent in 1151, but contemporary scandal-mongers attributed the separation to the king's jealousy.
The Unconscious which combines Will and Reason is, however, primarily Will.
In Sindhia's territory, by reason of internal feuds, the British had to undertake measures which were successfully terminated after the battles of Maharajpur and Panniar in 1843.
The summingup of divine powers manifested in the universe in a threefold division represents an outcome of speculation in the schools attached to the temples of Babylonia, but the selection of Anu, Bel and Ea for the three representatives of the three spheres recognized, is due to the importance which, for one reason or the other, the centres in which Anu, Bel and Ea were worshipped had acquired in the popular mind.
He would submit all minor questions to the reason of the individual member, but he set certain limits to toleration, excluding "whatsoever is against the foundation of faith, or contrary to good life and the laws of obedience, or destructive to human society, and the public and just interests of bodies politic."
The missing books were apparently lost early, for there is no reason to suppose that the Arabs who translated or commented on Diophantus ever had access to more of the work than we now have.
Greifswald is, however, best known to fame by reason of its university.
In 1750 he decided not to take holy orders, giving as his reason, according to Dupont de Nemours, "that he could not bear to wear a mask all his life."
On one point both friends and enemies agree, and that is his brusquerie and his want of tact in the management of men; Oncken points out with some reason the "schoolmasterish" tone of his letters, even to the king.
He rebelled at hearing the system under which they flourished described as the perfection of human reason.
And those that lye in a close under a hedge haue longe heare and thyck, and they will neuer pylle nor be bare; and by this reason the husbande maye kepe twyse so many catell as he did before.
For this reason these crops are known as " restorative," cereals the produce of which is sold off the farm being classed as " exhaustive."
For the same reason potato-planting and potato-lifting machines were also in greater requisition.
These doctrines the younger Mill now felt himself forced in reason to abandon.
Jerusalem, near the Egyptian frontier, was an important point, and in one of its internal revolutions Antiochus saw, perhaps not without reason, a defection to the Egyptian side.
There is no reason why we should apply to this particular act a different method of inquiry from that we should apply to any other of the numerous acts, of more or less economic importance, passed in the same session of parliament.
For this reason guesswork must continue to play an important part in economic history.
When we come to exclusively modern questions, there is no reason or necessity for a fundamental change of method.
If our view is correct that, broadly speaking, the two ways of regarding economic questions are complementary rather than mutually exclusive, there does not seem to be any reason why the growth of the historical school should have been destructive of the " old Political Economy " if it had been well founded.
The extensions, the changes or the qualifications, of old doctrines, which at any rate in the works of responsible writers are rarely made without good if not always sufficient reason, have modified very considerably the whole science, and weakened the confidence of ordinary educated men in its conclusions.