Sine qua non Sentence Examples

This process is called conceptual synthesis, the possibility of which is a sine qua non for the exchange of information by speech and writing.

The conferences were opened at the close of July in the camp of the grand vizier, who was pressing Belgrade hard and demanded the surrender of the city as a sine qua non.

The improvement of the telescope was justly regarded as a sine qua non for the advancement of astronomical knowledge.

The commissioners feared that, so long as Greek was a sine qua non at the universities, these schools would be cut off from direct connexion with the universities, while the universities would in some degree lose their control over a portion of the higher culture of the nation.

The only two points on which he departed from the orthodox Lutheran faith of his day were the requirement of regeneration as the sine qua non of the true theologian, and the expectation of the conversion of the Jews and the fall of Papacy as the prelude of the triumph of the church.

An intimate collaboration with England and France was a conditio sine qua non for Czechoslovakia.

According to another point of view, an arboretum should be constructed with regard to picturesque beauty rather than systematically, although it is admitted that for scientific purposes a systematic arrangement is a sine qua non.

The possession of the doctorate is a sine qua non for eligibility to a university chair, and to a lectureship in the university of Paris.

This view has the merit of giving the book a practical religious aim - a sine qua non to any theory of an early Christian writing.

On this occasion he insisted on the re-establishment of the constitution in its integrity as a sine qua non.

While, therefore, there is apparently no correspondence between the area of the wing and the animal to be raised, there is, except in the case of sailing insects, birds and bats, an unvarying relation as to the weight and number of oscillations; so that the problem of flight would seem to resolve itself into one of weight, power, velocity and small surfaces, versus buoyancy, debility, diminished speed and extensive surfaces - weight in either case being a sine qua non.

As spring merges into summer, sunny days become more frequent; the ever-increasing breadth of beeforage yields still more abundantly, and the excitement among the labourers crowding the hives increases, rendering room in advance, shade and ventilation, a sine qua non.

The sine qua non is to decide whether treaties require popular approval.

Belief in natural selection has become the sine qua non of entry to much of polite society.

This would abolish the distinction which is the sine qua non condition for the existence of the two identities.

Such vigilant monitoring is a conditio sine qua non for any physician who wishes to cure the patient of her malady.