Human life rests more and more upon ideas and emotions whose relation to the conservation of the race or of the individual is indirect and obscure.
But the teaching of Buddha has lost touch with reality; it rests on no basis of observed or of reproducible fact.
It seems to me that the basis of Spiritualism rests mainly upon this phenomenon which men and women in a supernormal condition produce, without understanding it, and credit it to spiritual agencies.
A civilization thatrests on slavery is utterly worthless.
It is possible that our civilization to-day rests upon the price of alcohol, and that, should the price be reduced, we would all go down together?
I have too much confidence in the legislators of that State, and maybe my confidence rests in the fact that I do not know them, to think that the passage of such a bill is possible.
Where reststhe responsibility for the Armenian atrocities?
The mitred bishop rests his head on one hand, in an attitude somewhat ungainly, and his monument is of little artistic merit.
A recumbent figure holding a crozier, he rests on a pillow as if asleep.
The base of the lungs restson the dome-like diaphragm, which separates the chest from the abdomen.
A familiar example is the crowbar when used for lifting a weight while one end rests on the ground.
The spinal column rests on a strong three-sided bone called the sacrum, or sacred-bone, which is wedged in between the hip bones and forms the keystone of the pelvis.
In some parts it is closely attached to the structures beneath, while in others it is less firmly adherent and rests upon a variable amount of fatty tissue.
The eyerests in a bowl-shaped socket, called the orbit, formed by parts of various bones of the head and face.
The thyroid thus rests upon, and is movable on, the cricoid cartilage.
Again, the foundation of physiology rests upon systematic and painstaking dissection of the dead human body and the lower animals, which mode of study very properly is not permitted in ordinary school work.
Upon the nurse, or the person having the immediate charge of the patient, rests the responsibility of preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
I have somewhere come across a legend which may possibly afford the clue, but I have not been able to find that the legend rests upon any authority.
Temple work rests on the principle of the Great Plan that all must be saved, or at least given the opportunity of salvation.
This conception, carried far enough, leads to a gospel or life philosophy which is unshakable, because it rests upon eternal certainty.
This is another distinguishing mark of the true Church, which rests its doctrines upon eternal principles as already outlined.
Nothing is temporary or transient about the Plan itself, for it rests on eternal foundations.
In half an hour we passed a ruined stone bridge across a narrow Wady; it rests upon piers, which are formed of immense blocks EL GHAB.
This substantial mode of building prevails also in most of the ancient public edifices remaining in the Haouran, except that in the latter the arch, instead of springing from the walls or floor, rests upon two short columns.
The Hadj rests here one day, during which the Hadjis amuse themselves with hunting the wild boars which are found in great numbers on the reedy banks of Wady Zerka.
If I recollect rightly, the bridge rests upon thirteen arches; it is well built, but of modern construction.
The small ancient village contains nothing remarkable except a church, supported by a single arch which rests on pillars much higher than those generally seen in this country.
He rests securely on your foresight, why should he think for himself?
This pleasure itself is unnatural; it rests on popular opinion, and popular opinion at its worst, since it depends on scorn of self.
His delicacy is of that pleasing type in which pride rests on the foundation of a good conscience.
You will not be master of the child if you cannot control every one about him; and this authority will never suffice unless it rests upon respect for your goodness.
Every one of them knows that his own system rests on no surer foundations than the rest, but he maintains it because it is his own.
I have really told you all I know about him, and it rests with you to say whether you wish to know more, or know quite enough already.
At this moment the initiative rests with us: Russia is not ready, moral factors and right are on our side, as well as might.
The entire weight of decision nowrests upon your shoulders, you have to bear the responsibility for war or peace.
Its chief claim to international fame rests on its selection by the other civilized nations as the center of the international peace conferences and the seat of the International Court of Arbitration.
That consequently it rests with Russia to avoid war.
Evidence of strength was not lacking here, or in the long legs stretched out on the rests of his chair.
To-day the spring sun rests upon the world like the eye of a mother, and shines warm upon every heart, the wicked as well as the good.
As from a deep abyss, I drew my weary self from that strange sleep That restsnot nor refreshes.
The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
They forget that our spiritual life is beyond all scientific laws, and restsentirely on one spiritual and miraculous book, and one spiritual and miraculous life.
The shadowy land of dreams rests upon the terra-firma of revelation, for the dream literature of the Bible comprises some of its most delightful and important passages.
Some of his Epigrammata and Epitaphia are worth preserving, but his claim to rank as a poet rests on his Mosella, a beautiful description of the R.
At line 694 is stated the important doctrine that the evidence of the senses alone is to be believed--sensus, unde omnia credita pendent, the senses on which rests all our belief.
This postulate, that the future will be like the past, and that like causes will have like effects, rests on a purely psychological basis.
The division of duties into duties of right, duties of love, duties of vocation, and duties of consciencerests on the distinction between community in production and appropriation, each of which may be universal or individual.
The free will of the individual rests on the judgments, manners, and habits of the people, which have arisen without reflection from a universal human instinct.
The privilege restsnot so much on particular exhortations as upon the whole Christian teaching concerning immortality.
But religion is the truth for all men: faith rests on the witness of the spirit, which as witnessing is the spirit in man.
But this actualisation restsat first on the particular subjectivity of the judge, since here as yet there is not found the necessary unity of it with right in the abstract.
At this rate, the state rests on the ethical sentiment, and that on the religious.
The I will rests upon one I know, and works up to another: the I know reflects upon an I will, and includes it as an element in its idea.
As some thinkers quaintly put it, the known rests and lives on the bosom of the Unknowable.
To carry this separation of functions up to this separation in the courts rests rather on extra-essential considerations: the main point remains only the separate performance of these essentially different functions.
The moral conscience rests in certainty and fixity on the religious.
Every judgment, even in logic, rests on such an order of truth.
So this explanation of the origin of evil gets you no further than the Hindoo picture of the world resting on the back of a tortoise, and the tortoise on the head of a snake--and nothing said as to what the snake rests on.
While the monument thus raised to the memory of the great engineer stands in that most delightful of the cities of the dead, his worn-out body rests in the quaint old town of Stonington.
In this case the roof of the top lift rests upon a wooden framework.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rests" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
