You must say,’ they all cried at once, ‘that all the just have the proximate power.
If he calls this power proximate power, he is a Thomist, and yet a Catholic; if not, he is a Jansenist, and therefore a heretic.
And it matters not how broad a purpose constitutes its ultimate motive; for purposes can be served only through a variety of activities, each of which will have its proximate interest and its own continuous yield of satisfaction.
And religion expresses in outer form the human need of reckoning with the final day of judgment, of establishing right relations with the powers that underly and overrule the proximate sphere of life.
In all cases of chronic constipation I have found proctitis, and often colitis, and am forced to believe it is the most common and proximate cause of chronic constipation of the bowels.
This is the most common and serious seat and source of the septic process, which process is usually the proximate cause of death after capital surgical operations upon the rectum.
The proclamation was the proximate cause of her secession, though her action was stimulated by the previous course of the Federal authorities with respect to the Fort.
As cognate to this purpose the effort has been made to show what was the proximate cause which influenced the great body of the Virginia people in the hour of final decision.
That proximate circles or larger groups are connected by the intervention of lesser groups, which he denominates osculant.
In some instances, more, perhaps, than may be generally credited, poverty is a direct and proximate cause of this vice.
We may note the proximate explanation, which he does not at first give--to wit, the sundering force of crystallised religious systems.
Evidently he is considering only the ultimate why, not the proximate why or how.
Trite as the remark is, it would seem still needful to insist that the failure of a finite being to compass the designs of an infinite mind should not invalidate its conclusions respecting proximate ends which he can understand.
The latter merely takes up a particular, proximate cause, or set of such causes, from which, it is argued, the present diversity of species has or may have contingently resulted.
Certainly their title is better if, borrowing from the old terminology of chemistry, they only claim to be regarded as the "proximate principles" of production.
I have absolutely forgot the proximate cause of quarrel, but it was some trifle which occurred at the card-table which occasioned high words and a challenge.
Under approximately constant conditions of hydrolysis, the products obtained are in approximately constant proportions, and this fact has been utilized by Van Slyke in devising a method of proximate analysis.
Proteins resemble one another in bothproximate and ultimate analysis.
But the solution of the difficulty, or the proximate cause of the effects, is the same; induction brings the particles up to or towards a certain degree of tension (1370.
The proximate cause of the war was Austrian policy.
She has a certain latitude in choosing, and, so long as she respects in the selection of her appointee, the principle of kinship to the dead chief (whether this be proximate or remote is immaterial) her appointment is approved and confirmed.
This power depends, first, on the predominance of its proximate constituents--viz.
With the prospect of such fatal issue--so proximate as to seem already present--no wonder that our hearts were dismayed at sight of the waggon moving towards us.
It was only with an effort, I could restrain myself from giving him a hint of his proximate bliss.
In addition to this proximate effect of a dream in disturbing the normal process of recollection, there is reason to suppose that dreams may exert a more remote effect on our memories.
But, though there is no doubt as to this, the question of the proximate physiological conditions of sleep is still far from being settled.
For an account of the latest physiological hypotheses as to the proximate cause of sleep, see Radestock, op.
Since the geometrical order of the living body cannot be a direct function of the materials it must be referred to some more proximate control.
The chemical feature which distinguishes and is the proximate cause of several colour-varieties can now in a few cases be declared.
Meanwhile, she asks nothing at all about the first cause of phenomena, so long as she has so many more proximate causes to investigate.
The fatal and proximate accession of the democracy means the beginning of another phase in human history, the creation of the society of to-morrow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proximate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
