Supervening Sentence Examples

Of this newest revelation Christus David was the mouthpiece, supervening on Christus Jesus.

An arbiter who has accepted office may be compelled by an action in court of session to proceed with his duty unless he has sufficient cause, such as ill-health or supervening interest, for renouncing.

For if the pleasure of virtuous activity is a supervening end beyond the activity, it becomes a supervening end beyond the happiness of virtuous activity, which thus ceases to be the final end.

He died, however, on the 4th of May 1865, of inflammation of the lungs supervening on a severe cold contracted during excavation work at La Palisse, leaving a half-finished book, entitled Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was issued in parts and completed at the expense of Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Professor Rupert Jones.

Some unknown Peripatetic detected a flaw in the Nicomachean Ethics when he said that pleasure is a supervening end beyond activity, and, if he had gone on to add that happiness is also a supervening end beyond the virtuous activities which are necessary to produce it, he would have destroyed the foundation of his own founder's Ethics.

The minimum delay between the original order and the supervening event was calculated to be 20 months, the maximum over 2 years.

They are supervenience theses that take the supervening set A to be the identity facts for particular entities of whatever kind is in question.

However, the supervening mental incapacity of the donor of the power automatically revoked that power.

Hence we have taken the Law Commissionâs recommendations on omissions and supervening fault, and included them in our draft Bill.