Finality Sentence Examples

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  • She said it with a sad finality, like someone admitting to having a terminal disease.

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  • The Ontological argument is omitted; but we have already observed that there is a discussion of divine ' Paul Janet's Final Causes seems to follow Mill in this (" the fact of Finality "), but without naming him.

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  • To put the finality of emancipation beyond all question, Lincoln in the winter session of 1863-1864 strongly supported a movement in Congress to abolish slavery by constitutional amendment, but the necessary two-thirds vote of the House of Representatives could not then be obtained.

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  • In 1901 Professor Furtwangler began a more systematic excavation of the site, and the new discoveries he then made, together with a fresh and complete study of the figures and fragments in Munich, have led to a rearrangement of the whole, which, if not certain in all details, may be regarded as approaching finality.

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  • This gives the utmost possible effect of finality to the whole Credo, and contrasts admirably with the coldly formal instrumental end of the Resurrexit three movements further back.

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  • On the other hand, if we assume unity of authorship, it seems impossible to arrive at finality on the chronological relations of these two works.

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  • Schemes of Arrangement have been used to bring finality to 69 insurance companies run-offs, of which PricewaterhouseCoopers have been involved with 58.

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  • There is no right of appeal, thereby giving the parties finality.

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  • The evolution of living beings... presents an internal finality which arouses admiration.

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  • When Prince says no, with pursed lips and a slight shake of the head, it carries a certain finality.

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  • Last week's was the worst - a brown, congealing mess that killed her appetite with a terrible finality.

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  • It dominates the centres of intellectual life in the West because, despite its claim to finality in its principles or premises, and to universality for its method, it represents the only culture of a philosophic kind available to the adolescent peoples of the Western nations just becoming conscious of their ignorance.

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  • It is the pitfall of physical science, immersed as its students are apt to be in problems dealing with tangible facts in the world of experience, that there is a tendency among them to claim a superior status of objective reality and finality for the laws to which their data are found to conform.

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  • The ceaseless movement of growth and change, which presents matter in form after form as a continual search after a finality which in time and movement is not and cannot be reached, represents only the aspect the world shows to the physicist and to the senses.

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  • In the eye of reason the full fruition of this desired finality is already and always attained; the actualization, invisible to the senses, is achieved now and ever, and is thus beyond the element of time.

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  • There is an air of finality to the character's choices this season and while a time-travel storyline indulges viewers with alternate endings.

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  • The actor filmed his last episode on September 23, 2009 in what Braeden described as a rushed and deliberate attempt to intimidate with the finality of the actor's exit.

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  • This work involved several journeys to Europe, and was performed with a thoroughness approaching finality.

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  • Here too Heath now seems more a transitional figure than one who achieved finality.

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  • So although we have finality in respect of the r/o we also have the stress now of the harassment continuing.

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  • This appears to be particularly so when those negotiations never reached any finality, as was the case in relation to the collaboration agreement.

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  • Most of the parole procedure is determined by the desire of the judicial system to provide finality to cases.

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  • Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

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  • However, helpful and important EU Directives on settlement finality and financial collateral have reduced the risks of these legal barriers.

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  • In the election of 1852 Seward supported General Winfield Scott, but not his party platform, because it declared the Compromise of 1850 a finality.

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  • The investigations of Japanese botanists are adding constantly to the above number, and it is not likely that finality will be reached for some time.

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  • However, both the recovery of the compilers' aims and attempted reconstructions are precluded from finality by the scantiness of independent historical evidence.

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  • The 16th-century methods were specially fitted for highly developed music when words were few and embodied ideas of such important emotional significance or finality that they could be constantly repeated without losing force.

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  • The Babis are Muhammadans only in the sense that the Muhammadans are Christians or the Christians Jews; that is to say, they recognize Muhammad (Mahomet) as a true prophet and the Qur'an (Koran) as a revelation, but deny their finality.

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  • Bach contrives to give this anti-climax a definite artistic value; all the more from the fact that his Crucifixus and Resurrexit, and the contrast between them, are among the most sublime and directly impressive things in all music. To the end of his Resurrexit chorus he appends an orchestral ritornello, summing up the material of the chorus in the most formal possible way, and thereby utterly destroying all sense of finality as a member of a large group, while at the same time not in the least impairing the force and contrast of the whole - that contrast having ineffaceably asserted itself at the moment when it occurred.

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  • In this work, the product, according to Lange, of a fanatical enthusiasm for humanity, he sought to demonstrate the indestructibility of matter and force, and the finality of physical force.

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  • It was manifestly one of the disciplines in which a position of finality was attainable.

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  • The conventions of both the great parties had just affirmed the finality of every provision of the Compromise of 1850.

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  • At present it cannot be said that finality has been reached on the subject of the best method, giving a good return of latex with a minimum of damage to the tree.

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  • But it should not be forgotten that to many generations of close scholarship these genealogical lists seemed to convey such knowledge in the most precise terms, and that at so recent a date as, for example, the year in which Queen Victoria came to the throne, it was nothing less than a rank heresy to question the historical accuracy and finality of chronologies which had no other source or foundation.

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  • Although both parties had declared the Compromise of 1850 a finality, the Democrats alone were thoroughly united in support of this declaration, and therefore seemed to offer the greater prospect of peace.

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  • While Schiller's standpoint was too essentially that of his time to lay claim to finality, it is, on the whole, the most concise statement we possess of the literary theory which lay behind the classical literature of Germany.

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  • There had been mutual excommunications before, but they had not resulted in permanent schisms. Now, however, the separation was final, and the ostensible cause of its finality was the introduction by the Latins of two words Filioque into the creed.'

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