Example sentences of "insofar as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are many more , of course , and listing playwrights is useful only insofar as it presents a few guidelines , primarily to help you look in the right places . |
| 2 | It can , however , be dangerous insofar as it promotes heat loss : your body is tending to become cold in a cold environment . |
| 3 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 4 | The rest of this chapter will discuss Mary Leapor 's work insofar as it responds specifically to her experience of being a woman . |
| 5 | Best-selling novelist , short story writer , occasional teacher of creative writing ‘ insofar as it can be taught ’ . |
| 6 | Marx made the point that : ‘ Production in general is an abstraction , but a sensible abstraction insofar as it actually emphasises and defines the common aspects and thus avoids repetition . ’ |
| 7 | This document 's vision was ‘ new ’ only insofar as it proposed rearrangements to the current ‘ social order ’ . |
| 8 | It would seem that the ordered feudal society , insofar as it ever existed , was already broken up by the late thirteenth century and that the small Wealden peasant , who will recur frequently later , was already a common phenomenon . |
| 9 | The Charities Act 1992 makes changes to company law insofar as it applies to charitable companies . |
| 10 | 10.8.13 Without prejudice to its obligations under the foregoing provisions each Party undertakes to each other Party that ( insofar as it has not already done so ) it will procure undertakings from relevant employees members of staff and students to enable it to perform those said obligations . |
| 11 | ‘ For its devotees communism has the value of a religion , insofar as it is felt to provide a complete explanation of reality and of man as part of reality , and at the same time to give to life , as religion does , a sense of purpose . ’ |
| 12 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
| 13 | Those who think that ideas consist of images which are formed in us by the concourse of bodies … regard ideas as lifeless pictures on a board , and preoccupied thus with this misconception they do not see that an idea , insofar as it is an idea , involves affirmation or negation . |
| 14 | Or even love , insofar as it is distinguished from sexuality . |
| 15 | This ‘ moment ’ is itself a point in our own time and history , but insofar as it is also the encounter with eternity , it is the ‘ eternal moment ’ , and shares something of the quality of the intersection of time and eternity in Jesus himself . |
| 16 | The 1984 decree prohibited the Baby Bells from R&D work , except insofar as it goes into their existing networks . |
| 17 | I shall review the evidence relating to these issues , particularly the systematic relationships of fossil hominoids and their palaeoecology , insofar as it is currently available from the fossil record . |
| 18 | For personal affection , insofar as it is good , consists mainly in the admiring contemplation of good states of another person , and these must either themselves be instances of personal affection , requiring good states of someone else for their object , or be instances of the love of beauty . |
| 19 | The preferences of the state are at least as important as those of civil society in accounting for what the democratic state does and does not do ; the democratic state is not only frequently autonomous insofar as it regularly acts upon its preferences , but also markedly autonomous in doing so even when its preferences diverge from the demands of the most powerful groups in civil society ( Nordlinger , 1981 , p. 1 ) . |
| 20 | This can not simply be dismissed as another New Right invocation of the Gulag , for Cixous is arguing something much more specific : that Marxism , insofar as it inherits the system of the Hegelian dialectic , is also implicated in the link between the structures of knowledge and the forms of oppression of the last two hundred years : a phenomenon that has become known as Eurocentrism . |
| 21 | Foucault 's account is particularly useful insofar as it gives a good indication of the characteristic French , as opposed to German , emphasis on the relation of Marxism to enlightenment rationality and the questioning of enlightenment claims to the universality of its values . |
| 22 | The inadequateness of the term , however , insofar as it offers a univocal description of an extremely heterogeneous section of the world , also means that a suitable alternative general category can not by definition be produced . |
| 23 | For we can say that deconstruction involves the decentralization and decolonization of European thought — insofar as it is ‘ incapable of respecting the Being and meaning of the other ’ , and to the extent that its philosophical tradition makes ‘ common cause with oppression and with the totalitarianism of the same ’ . |
| 24 | Poststructuralism , which in its own way also takes part in that history of Western Marxism , differs only insofar as it foregrounds the implications of the theoretical difficulties involved rather than repressing them in pursuit of the unrealized ideal . |
| 25 | Sartre founds communist action precisely by refusing any productivity to history and by making history , insofar as it is intelligible , the immediate result of our volitions . |
| 26 | The second alternative poses a serious problem , however , insofar as it leads to the further question , how could such Marxism not be true — in the sense of how could History , in the objective processes on which a scientific Marxism places so much faith , be undialectical enough to produce Stalinism from the October Revolution ? |
| 27 | So , although it is possible to conceive of any event as an incarnation of the totality , insofar as it must itself make up a part of that totality in its determination , unlike the case of the boxing match , where we can define the overall entity ‘ boxing ’ , it still remains unproven that an overall entity , ‘ History ’ , can be said to exist at all . |
| 28 | For Sartre 's singular universal could never be expected to solve the formal theoretical problem of how individual existential existence can be related to History insofar as it simply renames , in one oxymoronic category , the original antithetical terms . |
| 29 | This final criticism amounts to the challenge that Sartre 's history can only ever be theorized as totalization insofar as it has been conceptualized as a synchronic form . |
| 30 | The Derridean critique of logocentrism necessarily includes the concept of history insofar as it depends on notions of presence and meaning determined as truth . |