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Example sentences for "independent existence"

  • Strictly interpreted according to the meaning of the word, it ought to deal with the growth and structure of organisms during their development within the egg membranes, before they are capable of leading an independent existence.

  • Each segment appears in fact to be a sexual individual, and is capable of becoming detached and leading for some time an independent existence.

  • These materials, these forces, have an independent existence.

  • It is a great mistake to suppose that capital, as such, is a thing having an independent existence.

  • It would be an offence against polite conventions to press our doubts too far and question the permanence of our estates, our neighbours' independent existence, or even the justification of a good bishop's faith and income.

  • The substance or independent existence attributed to objects is therefore by no means only or primarily a physical notion.

  • Gunanancha in the second line of verse 14 refers to the objects of the senses, which, as explained in previous Sections, have no independent existence, for they exist only as they exist in desire.

  • The meaning seems to be this: ordinary men regard all external objects as possessing an independent existence, and their attributes also as things different from the substances which own them.

  • It virtually denies that holiness has any independent existence as an attribute of God.

  • He alone has an independent existence, neither introduced nor developed through anything not himself, but, in an inward activity without beginning or end, maintains himself in himself.

  • But long before the establishment of the Turks on the ruins of the Byzantine empire, Greek literature had ceased to claim any original or independent existence.

  • After he had reached the zenith of his glory, about the middle of the century, there appeared in France a display of various talent, evoked by his example and trained by his instructions, yet boasting an independent existence.

  • Thenceforward the Portuguese became a separate nation from the Spaniards, and their language asserted for itself an independent existence.

  • I have already observed, that there is an intimate connexion betwixt those two principles, of a continued and of a distinct or independent existence, and that we no sooner establish the one than the other follows, as a necessary consequence.

  • Kant, when thus developing his position on subjectivist lines, allows no kind of independent existence to anything in the known world.

  • Substance, he further dogmatically decides, is that which is capable of independent existence, and to which all relations of composition are therefore merely accidental.

  • If space and time had an independent existence, they would have to be regarded as more real than the bodies which occupy them.

  • The lil consequently was no counterpart or double of either man or god, but a being with an independent existence of its own.

  • For him it was as real and material as the shadow itself; indeed, it was much more material, for it had an independent existence of its own.

  • But while the body remained thus lifeless and unconscious, the Ka led an independent existence, conscious and alive.

  • Melody has an independent existence, while harmony serves to accentuate its form, and conduces to its subsequent progress among peoples capable of developing it in all its power.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolute power; bells were; better make; continued our; hand shall; independent creation; independent government; independent kingdom; independent life; independent member; independent republic; independent sovereign; independent state; independent states; large bird; leisure class; more difficult; much attention; must depend; open court; place between; rose again from the; three fathoms; various methods; well able; young tree