| On the other hand, just as comparing intrinsic qualities is subjectively unrealistic, comparing absolutes is a total waste. |
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| And the evidence presented is woefully inadequate to prove anything, notwithstanding the absolutes of science. |
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| Good and evil are to be defined as absolutes on religious authority, admitting of neither critical judgement nor reduction. |
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| I don't believe in absolutes but I do believe in an idea that is agreed as wrong within a society. |
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| As in the abortion debate, a little awareness of ethics will make us mistrustful of sound-bite-sized absolutes. |
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| Of course, as the book progresses, you do encounter ablative absolutes and subjunctives and such. |
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| But what we did have in common was a dislike of soppy, sloppy liberalism, the idea that there are no moral absolutes. |
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| The value and rightness of knowledge are not empirical absolutes, and the benefit of truth does not fit everyone the same. |
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| A thought's breadth away, a woman of perfect absolutes stood in a field of death. |
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| Most ablative absolutes are best translated with clauses introduced by when, although, since, or if. |
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| It's about a lawyer circa 70BC, familiar to Latin students more for his ablative absolutes than his crowd-pulling charisma. |
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| If there's one thing last fall's election debacle taught us, it's that people like to deal in absolutes. |
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| Myshkin is a later, more riddling and more tragic figure of lost absolutes. |
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| The commentaries are not at all what they seem to the student puzzling over the ablative absolutes and indirect discourse. |
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| Our search for values is not a search for absolutes, which are unattainable. |
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| Contemporary feminist epistemologists have pointed out how traditional philosophy's emphasis on rational, logical absolutes has devalued the ambiguities of the embodied life. |
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| But I'm going to take you at your word and assume that those claims are absolutes. |
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| I rebel against that to the utmost, against the idea of moral absolutes. |
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| In our society we want to believe in the absolutes of what is right and what is wrong. |
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| I went into pregnancy and motherhood with a footlong list of absolutes. |
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| The common law and the prerogative law does not tend to like absolutes. |
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| We cannot operate humanely if we take guidelines as absolutes or become anxious about our inability to apply them perfectly. |
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| For this reason, the shrine becomes a constant call to critique the myopia of all human projects that would impose themselves as absolutes. |
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| If nothing else, these talks might give him cover for another whittle at what is left of old republican absolutes. |
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| Go and get yourselves killed with your ethics, with your morals, with your quests for absolutes, with your digressions! |
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| The language game can be a very effective tool, especially when the groundwork has already been laid to erode the notion of truths or absolutes. |
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| There are few absolutes in areas such as these, where ethical deliberation and societal values continue to evolve rapidly. |
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| A commitment to restraint and proportionality is not a commitment to absolutes but to a measured use of power. |
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| I don't know if I will be deviating a little bit from the question, but what is important to me is that we're talking about moral absolutes. |
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| What they're trying to say is that absolutes don't exist in ecology, or anywhere else. |
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| Rosemary Brown's goals endure: to push boundaries, to challenge absolutes, and to make equality a reality for every human being. |
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| However, when they become absolutes in themselves, they cease to represent their original motivation and become ideologies. |
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| Principles are not absolutes, but have to be given a weight. |
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| So when we speak of intellectuals or men of action, it is important to bear in mind that such distinctions are matters of degree, of mere tendencies, not absolutes. |
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| The secular left holds to a hard-nosed set of moral absolutes. |
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| I don't have many absolutes, no religious tracts to adhere to, no political dogma that I feel so strongly about that I feel it should be imposed on everyone. |
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| He rejoiced in the implacability of history and the tyranny of absolutes. |
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| It is important to realise that this debate is no longer about absolutes, about the merits of floating freely versus accepting the disciplines of fixed exchange rates. |
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| Our country is divided between those who believe in moral absolutes and those who believe in moral relativism. |
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| Herzog is known for making delphic pronouncements, and his words tend to be more pensive than the sweeping absolutes that architects like Koolhaas adopt. |
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| No dogmatics or absolutes, as too often happened in past history. |
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| If you insist on absolutes, you end up with monstrosities and fairy tales. |
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| Essentially saying the theory of absolutes, or metaphysical realism, was unnecessary to make sense of the world. |
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| Even those with the most well-trained palates cannot speak in absolutes. |
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| Of these extracts, only absolutes, essential oils, and tinctures are directly used to formulate perfumes. |
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| It is a question of probabilities, but the fact that we do not have absolutes in climate change science does not mean that we should not do anything. |
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| Quantitative evidence and numbers are important to western thought, which often sees things in absolutes, or what can be seen and scientifically proven. |
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| The results of the extraction are either essential oils, absolutes, concretes, or butters, depending on the amount of waxes in the extracted product. |
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