How To Use Propound In A Sentence
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John Lynch, an evolutionary morphologist and historian of anti-evolutionism, dissects the selective history of ID propounded by the Disco ‘Tute’s new faith and evolution site.
The Panda's Thumb: Science and Faith Archives
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Their "uncivil" behavior prompted a number of so-called free speech advocates to start propounding about the need for civility.
John W. Whitehead: Forcing Politicians to Listen: Dissent, Rebellion and All-Around Hell-Raising
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For I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men’s judgments by confutations.
The Advancement of Learning
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Zoologist Eugene Morton has propounded a general theory of the vocal sounds that animals make.
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Begun with the Scientific Revolution, propounded in the Enlightenment, and finally enthroned on the humanist ideals of liberal religion and the rights-based polity, modernity exalted the god of human competence.
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For I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.
The Advancement of Learning
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This latter alternative, which was first propounded by Pallas , seems by far the most probable.
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In the last century a complicated system or differencing by bordures was propounded by Stoddart to allow for cadet arms, but although giving a conceptual framework, this has in practice been more honoured in the breach than in the observance.
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Some salutary ways to improve networked learning community's capability has been propound from social constructivism angle.
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In this connection Hume propounds a kind of utilitarianism for which the good is essentially the useful, in terms of promoting human happiness.
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In the middle of nineteenth century Karl Marx propounded the theory of historical and dialectical materialism.
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Byzantine Christianity had absorbed the hierarchical view of the universe propounded by late Greek philosophy.
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In propounding this concept, he does not adopt a nihilistic view of the continuing use of these chemicals.
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Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it led him to propound the true theory of the mariners 'compass.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S.
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He's written several popular books propounding his theories.
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Unfortunately, this lands him in the predicament of propounding a nonfalsifiable theory.
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Christian religion, from whence the Scriptures derive their authority; which question is also propounded sometimes in other terms, as, how we know them to be the word of God, or, why we believe them to be so; and the difficulty of resolving it ariseth chiefly from the improperness of the words wherein the question itself is couched.
Leviathan
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It is a question much disputed between the diverse sects of Christian religion, from whence the Scriptures derive their authority; which question is also propounded sometimes in other terms, as, how we know them to be the word of God, or, why we believe them to be so; and the difficulty of resolving it ariseth chiefly from the improperness of the words wherein the question itself is couched.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
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Has the postmodernists' faith in the viability of assimilating and propounding notions in fundamental tension with each other been lost?
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A like use of the suspended ring, indicating the early acquaintance of practitioners in these arts with one of the alleged evidences of the so-called _odylic_ force, is thus described by Peucer among various modes of hydromancy: "A bowl was filled with water, and a ring suspended from the finger was librated in the water; and so, according as the question was propounded, a declaration or confirmation of its truth, or otherwise, was obtained.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
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_Mechanicks_, that I have hitherto propounded to my self, but by a certain method (which I may on some other opportunity explain) I have been able presently to examine the possibility of it; and if so, as easily to excogitate divers wayes of performing it: And indeed it is possible to do as much by _this method_ in _Mechanicks_, as by _Algebra_ can be perform'd in _Geometry_.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
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They were nevertheless moderns in natural philosophy who accepted post-Galilean science, and propounded an atomistic theory of matter.
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Among the many false theories propounded, perhaps the most famous is the so-called Spaulding story.
The Story of "Mormonism"
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The theory of natural selection was first propounded by Charles Darwin.
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Between Lord Snooty and Fat Al there are a number of amusing and attractive broadcasters, provided you realise that the views they propound are for amusement only – which was not a problem for me this year.
My bad luck at cards paid dividends at the Cheltenham Festival | Martin Kelner
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Those who propound the deductivist stance argue that it eliminates the need to make the sometimes difficult decision whether a particular argument should be classified as deductive or inductive, that it greatly simplifies the structure of informal logic, and that it is useful to reconstruct the assumptions it recognizes as implicit premises (see Groarke [1999]).
Informal Logic
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Endless books on the cinema - whether they propounded auteur theory or semiotics or cultural studies - forsook the intelligent general reader for arcane interpretation.
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One such idea is being propounded by the critics.
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He propounded views in favour of the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, was appointed to the archbishopric in 1533, and maintained the king's claim to be the supreme head of the Church of England.
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We can propound the idea that entertainment is not optional, but a constituent element of human development.
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When believers have to formularize in set words their hazy notions of the feelings and conditions of souls in bliss, they make but a lame business of it; and nothing that the dear woman could propound, keeping on the side of orthodox spirituality, carried comfort or conviction to Leam.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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Berkeleyan idealism is the view, propounded by the Irish empiricist George Berkeley , that the objects of perception are actually ideas in the mind.
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Renowned evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has propounded what he terms the bottleneck theory: that maximum pressure on the natural world will occur this century as human population peaks, after which a declining human population will supposedly ease that pressure.
The Guardian World News
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On the question being propounded whether he could go and find her, the page desponded and thought not; but being stimulated with a shilling, the page grew sanguine and thought he could.
Nicholas Nickleby
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‘Hey, listen’, I said, with a wry self - deprecatory shake of the head, ‘You don't want to hear a superannuated sociologist propounding half - baked theories.
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Also in like manner all English men affirming themselues to haue bene endamaged by Prussians, wheresoeuer, howsoeuer, and whensoeuer, are to haue recourse vnto the often forenamed right reuerend lorde the Master generall, with the letters of their king and of the cities of their aboad, propounding their complaints and causes vnto him.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The principle that the government can and should run a deficit to stimulate a sick economy was first propounded by John Maynard Keynes.
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Stoke's success in reaching their first FA Cup final will not please those who believe that history began 20 years ago, with the founding of the Premier League, or who propound the tiresome belief that the only way to play football in the 21st century is by trying to copy Barcelona.
Elegance of George Eastham embellished Stoke City's neutral appeal | Richard Williams
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The second view, that globalisation is about to end, has been propounded by John Ralston Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist.
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More generally, antilogy names the basic rhetorical theory (propounded by Protagoras) that two contrary arguments may be given about everything.
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Now the original proposition, commencing with the word "take," was meant by its propounder to achieve its climax in "a seat on one of the hall chairs;" but the liquid inferences of A1, with a dark lantern, had the desired effect, and induced a command from Mr. Adolphus Casay to the small essential essence of condensed valetanism in the person of Jim Pipkin, to produce the case-bottles for the discussion of the said A1, with the dark lantern, who gained considerably in the good opinion of Mr. James Pipkin, by requesting the favour of his company in the bibacious avocation he so much delighted in.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
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The sense, the inward feeling, in the soul of each believer, of its exceeding 'desirableness' -- the experience, that he 'needs' something, joined with the strong foretokening, that the redemption and the graces propounded to us in Christ are 'what' he needs -- this I hold to be the true foundation of the spiritual edifice.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
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The Vâkyakâra then propounds a pûrvapaksha (primâ facie view), 'Once he is to make the meditation, the matter enjoined by scripture being accomplished thereby, as in the case of the prayâjas and the like'; and then sums up against this in the words 'but (meditation) is established on account of the term meditation'; that means -- knowledge repeated more than once (i.e. meditation) is determined to be the means of Release.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48
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It was Ptolemy who propounded the theory that the earth was at the centre of the universe.
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They've ceded the field to authors of speculative fiction, such as William Gibson and Cory Doctorow, whose hacker and brand-ninja characters exist primarily to explain or propound ideas about bleeding-edge technology, or thriller writers who concoct ingenious but outlandish tales about the potential nightmares lurking in same.
How novels came to terms with the internet
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It may consist in a rejection of the specific schemes or lines of evolution propounded by nineteenth-century authors.
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Putting metaphor and other tropes in a rather remote place, he propounded another aspect of figurative language as absolutely essential to the sublime.
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But they minimize the difference in so far as they propound a thoroughgoing assimilation of male and female desires.
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The researchers who propound these theories and the doctors administering these treatments, by contrast, are regarded as courageous pioneers battling against official indifference and dogma.
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The network and commentators have no rules other than to propound the Republican talking points.
Think Progress » Wallace Responds To Cokie Roberts’ Criticism By Joking About Her Watching Kristol Crawl Around In A Dog Collar
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Then the remark is taken up, carried a few miles, a theory is propounded and someone loses a reputation.
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He is not alone; many in India have propounded this theory lately.
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Mr. Haridas says that there are 12 sutras in the Vedas and the method was first propounded by Swamy Brathi Krishna Theertha.
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Harnack -- who has already reviewed his pages in the _Expositor_, and who, to a great extent, adheres to the views which they propound -- admits, notwithstanding, that he has "overstrained" his case, and has adduced as witnesses writers of the second and third centuries of whom it is impossible to prove that they knew anything of the letters attributed to Ignatius.
The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot
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But we somehow feel obligated to spend time explaining away Scripture texts that propound notions that have long-since become moot (e.g., dietary laws that protected desert tribes lacking refrigeration) or are truly repugnant (e.g., Paul's views of women and slaves) at the expense of preaching vivid depictions of God's will in action today.
Eliot Daley: Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God
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He was neither influential on policy, a significant thinker on Germany, or a model of the freedom-is-truth ideal he propounded.
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Zoologist Eugene Morton has propounded a general theory of the vocal sounds that animals make.
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The second misrepresentation runs thus: -- 'The developments of electricity and the formation of stars and suns, luminous and nonluminous, moons and planets, with their rings, &c., is deduced, very much according to the nebular theory of Laplace, from the principle propounded above.'
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Councell, that concerning the premisses, and all other matters propounded, or to be propounded vnto your Maiesty, we may obtaine a speedy answere, and an effectuall end.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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And for three or four years they have sat and listened to lecturers propounding these half-baked ideas.
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Your article starts wonderfully, propounding the sentiments that could have been expressed by a tree hugging commie like me, only you do it so much more eloquently.
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This paper propounds basic conception of reliability in system scheme design of pump station, analyzes basic factors affecting the reliability of pump station system.
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The outstanding distinction lies in the fact that Buddhist doctrine is propounded by an apparently historical founder.
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Socrates, Plato and Aristotle propounded theories about the nature of existence and how human beings should live.
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We have seen how it propounded a notion of divorce, from life and from the world.
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The final poetic statement propounding the belief that life is all one time, not to be squandered or compartmentalized.
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This runs contrary to the Zoroastrian doctrine of dualism, which propounds the idea of two conflicting powers - good and evil.
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In Heuvelmans’ book there is also a chapter propounding the existence of megatheriums, or giant ground sloths, in South America.
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The theory of natural selection was first propounded by Charles Darwin.
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It was at the same time an early version of the idea of Lebensraum—living space—which Friedrich Ratzel, Karl Haufshofer, and Adolf Hitler subsequently propounded.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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That divine spirit whose course is marked with black and white stains, who is the supporter of fire, and who, though free from sin, is the accomplisher of desired karma, whom the wise regard as a great Rishi, is the fire Kapila, the propounder of the Yoga system called
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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In West Germany the trade unions generally accepted the definition of national interest propounded by the government and industrialists, because they benefited from it.
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He was the first economist of note to propound the idea of ‘optimum currency areas’ of which the euro-area is the first.
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The Enlightenment also propounded a belief in the transhistorical universality of human nature.
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Aenesidemus 'eight books of Pyrrhonian Arguments propounded the view that “the Pyrrhonist determines nothing, not even this, that he determines nothing” (ibid.).
Ancient Skepticism
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I'm not propounding a solid theory, here.
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Before the Hite Report, sexologists such as Freud and Kinsey propounded the view that "proper vaginal orgasms" could only come about with penetrative sex.
Shere Hite: 'We need to make a film about me'
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He then propounds his theory that beauty is simply an analogon of moral freedom.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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By doing so, the Palestinians have jeopardized prospects for negotiations aimed at creating their state in order to propound a principle of a settlement freeze that would be irrelevant should talks succeed.
Steven L. Spiegel: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: How to Turn the Current Mess Into a Success
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It is equally ironic and hypocritical that the "Hindus" who champion this censorship also propound that "Hinduism" is a robust and muscular tradition that can win any battle against imagined enemies historical or contemporary, real or otherwise yet they must nonetheless censor anything or anybody that threatens their delusion.
Deepak Sarma: Intolerant Hindus, Censorship And Mohaśāstras (Confusing Texts)
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Brzezinski was, by contrast, a conceptualizer: his mind was fluid, imaginative, creative, ever propounding possibilities and drawing connections.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office
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These works actively propound the belief that the unexamined death is not worth dying.
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Perhaps, when you have read all that I shall write, you will have received answers to the perplexities I have propounded to you, and that you yourself, ere you came to read me, propounded to yourself.
Chapter 1
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And how can those who profess to revere this charismatic figure, propound views so intolerantly divergent from those of their great leader?
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It was Ptolemy who propounded the theory that the earth was at the centre of the universe.
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Dil was on his way to work at the construction when site he stopped briefly to listen to a man propounding the benefits of a herb against impotence.
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Under the assumed name of Parallax he visited most of the chief towns of England, propounding what he calls his system of zetetic astronomy.
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
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The thesis propounds some pointed measures on how to reinforce the concept of stock right cost in business supervisors.
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Grammar concerning the kinds of words, their derivations, deflexions, and syntax; specially enriching the same with the helps of several languages, with their differing proprieties of words, phrases, and tropes; they might have found out more and better footsteps of common reason, help of disputation, and advantages of cavillation, than many of these which they have propounded.
Valerius Terminus: of the interpretation of Nature
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But he lived onto propound his extraordinary theory of "potentiality" -- that medicines gained strength by being diluted -- and his even more extraordinary theory that all chronic diseases are caused either by the itch, syphilis, or fig-wart disease, or are brought on by medicines.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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This runs contrary to the Zoroastrian doctrine of dualism, which propounds the idea of two conflicting powers - good and evil.
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Berkeleyan idealism is the view, propounded by the Irish empiricist George Berkeley , that the objects of perception are actually ideas in the mind.
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But apart from creating suspense, the novel also foregrounds dialogical questions, handling them dialogically rather than propounding any thesis.
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The material in it on Jesus accords with various sources in the Christian popular apocryphal literature, but propounds a distinctive line about Jesus' significance.