How To Use Sentient In A Sentence

But the teaching also touched sentient beings as moral agents, as agents capable of affecting the welfare not only of themselves but of others as well.
Of course it is circular in the sense that, based on my proffered definition, since intelligence ultimately permeates all aspects of being, what we call sentient beings (life forms) are simply different manifestations of intelligence playing with itself, or as one old text puts it in the title: 'You are the Eyes of the Universe.' Telic Thoughts
The animation of insentient or nonhuman entities produces an effect of cacophony and distraction.
Livy (XXXII 22 1) has a _murmur_ of mingled praise and dissent following a speech: '_murmur_ ortum aliorum cum adsensu, aliorum inclementer adsentientes increpantium'. The Last Poems of Ovid
What to do if machines become sentient? Times, Sunday Times

What then do we do when the computer is as sentient as we are?
When this arises together with the aspiration to attain full enlightenment, then you have realized bodhichitta, that is, the altruistic intention to become fully enlightened for the sake of all sentient beings. Training the Mind: Verse 7
It reminds me of what it'd be like if one of our probes ever landed on a planet with sentient life.
Though we call prussic acid the agent of a person’s death, the whole of the vital and organic properties of the patient are as actively instrumental as the poison, in the chain of effects which so rapidly terminates his sentient existence. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
Mr. Smith with that little account (that particular little account) has called presentient of your arrival, and has left word that he will call to-morrow morning at ten. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
What did you think of the sentients? â€ â€œOh, they were quite dramatic. â€ Chimed one that had just woken from a long death. â€œI only saw the end, but it was very magical. â€ â€œI thought it was a little too over the top. â€ Said the middle aged one. â€œA bit much for my taste. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Then begins anew the old strife, but under conditions far more dreadful, for though it be founded on atomic consciousness, the central consciousness of the heterogeneous aggregation of atoms becomes immeasurably more sentient and susceptible with every step it takes from homogenesis. The Crack of Doom
The dissentients agreed in this construction to the extent that they determined that the position of the barrister was solely governed by section 10.
The other main characters are FBI agent Brad Wolgast, death row inmate Anthony Carter and young African nun Lacey in the near future thread, while in the main part, young "watchers" - ie militiamen/women of the colony that protect it from the "virals" aka ageless and seemingly non-sentient, instinct driven, "pseudo-vampires" that populate most of North America now - Peter Jaxon, Alicia Donadio and Peter's older brother Theo. "The Passage" by Justin Cronin (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
The final and ultimate breakthrough took place, and he was able to teach and work with sentient beings without any inhibition.
Most of us are aware that sentient life is not limited to two legs or even four.
Given the relentless nature of the systemic torment and slaughter of millions of other sentient beings that take place day after day, violent responses from nonhuman animal lovers are inevitable and are a morally acceptable means of extensional self-defense on behalf of the voiceless, defenseless victims. He no longer heard the cries of the animals or saw the flowing blood....
If the consentient votes achieve 3, it may be deemed as a pass, while if the consentient votes are less than 3, it will be deemed as a failure.
Within 20 days of the approval notice a dissentient shareholder must give a written notice of dissent to the constituent company demanding payment of the fair value of his shares.
Any sentient in the galaxy ` took 'on bloodhype would gladly trade you all his worldly possessions, his offspring, his mate, parents, and all his limbs save the minimum needed to inject the drug, in return for the hollow splinter of glass you hold in your hand. Bloodhype
But it is in the madrassah, not at home, that Anu hears a compelling dissentient voice.
There were no loyal, dissentient voices: none, at least, that could be relied upon to stay firm. IN LOVE AND WAR
Prayers were conducted for the spread of the Buddha dharma, for the happiness of all sentient beings, and for a long and successful life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
It usually refers to sentient beings, while the rest is described with "canidae". Kynoid
Views of these kinds, with their roots mainly in clinical observation and practice, held sway with many variations and some dissentients well into the twentieth century.
Psychics are actually good at intuiting the subjects of concealed photographs and cards, so I believe that it is safe to conclude that there is a weakness in the gift that makes it difficult to develop a presentient knowledge of specific numbers.
It is hard for a sentient person to understand how any parents could treat their child so badly.
the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage
Second, I think the most plausible versions of utilitarianism frame themselves as theories of how to treat people (or sentients) equally, and this conception is a big part of their intuitive appeal. Vegan Envy
Only in Goldilocks universes like ours where things have fallen out just right, purely by accident, will sentient beings arise to be amazed at how ingeniously bio-friendly their universe is.
Based on Mars, The Mysterons are sentient computers constructed by an alien civilisation.
I was just having this conversation yesterday with the most naturally psychic / presentient person I know.
How many of us would welcome a dose of concupiscence, when the grinding realities of sickness and need have drained the body of all its sap and sweetness, just as a reminder of being sentient!
Clairvoyants, clairsentients, telekinetics, a few like Cece here who can project. Haven
Chief Justice Dixon was a dissentient in Livingston.
In the Mahayana one takes a vow called the bodhisattva vow, in which one promises to help all other sentient beings to enlightenment before attaining enlightenment oneself, or to attain enlightenment for their sake. Hegel on Buddhism
He shouldn't have embarked on the expeditions for the search of sentient life forms with his team.
insentient (or insensate) stone
The qualified expression would only mean a proper evincement of humanity by every sentient creature, for humanity essentially implies all that is sincere -- all the tender feelings of a man. An Apology for African Methodism
Besides, what does a herbivore with no manipulatory appendages, and no natural defenses except sentient herders to kill off natural enemies, want with intelligence? World of Ptavvs
Disciple wishes to dedicate all merits to all sentient beings.
Why would any sentient adult want to dress like a fairytale creature? Times, Sunday Times
If you have a being that is not sentient, that is not even aware, then the killing of that being is not something that is wrong in and of itself.
Belgicorum, consensu, de praedictis quinque Doctrinae Capitibus, eorumque doctoribus jam judicarit, nobisque consultis et consentientibus sexto Maii proxime praeterito decreta et sententiam hisce praefixa promulgarit; Nos, ut exoptati fructus ex magno et sancto hoc opere (quale nunquam antehac Ecclesiae Reformatae viderunt), ad Ecclesias harum regionum redundare queant, quandoquidem nihil nobis aeque cordi et curae est, quam gloria The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
The pulpit is to all other professions what philosophy is to the various schools of science -- exercises supervisory power, and by a tap here and a prod there, makes them consentient with its own infallible scheme of things, so to speak. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
There was only one dissentient -- Rogers, a burly faceman from the Silver Stream. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
Within 20 days of the vote approving the merger or consolidation, the constituent company must give written notice of the approval to all dissentient shareholders who served a notice of objection.
It must think it really did win the last state election, even though the Libs polled more votes and gained more seats than Labor, which came to office only through backroom deals with two or three Liberal dissentients.
Prepared thus, by a previous knowledge of the want of harmony among the members, for any warmth of tone or variety of counsel in the Convention, the two girls were less surprised than many of the delegates, especially those from a distance, by whom the real cause of the difficulty was to the last unperfectly understood, when it became manifest that even the opening session of the Convention could not pass without a laying bare of long-concealed dissentient judgment and suppressed criticism. The Woman's Advocate Vol. III
On Kierkegaard's religious views, Sartre offers the usual argument against existence of God: If existence precedes essence, it follows from the meaning of the term sentient that a sentient being cannot be complete or perfect. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
‘The liberty to criticize and express dissentient views has long been thought to be a safeguard against state tyranny and corruption.’
How could this possibly be of any interest to sentient adults with experiences of their own? Times, Sunday Times
As far as sentience goes the counter argument to yours is simply that it is as true that carried to term the fertilized cell will turn into a sentient being as that the earth circles the sun, but cows, chickens and shrimp not only are not, but never will be sentient. Men shouldn't have opinions about women's issues?
It is not possible to reciprocate a purely passive or mechanical or insentient conglomeration of objects.
A strange computer called Hal is about to become sentient and then go insane.
What, then, are you and I but sentient units in one great evolving process of life-activity and thought; and yet so circumvolved in that process that the impulse, which we irradiate from the point of our single particular seat of energy and feeling, thrills through the vast spheres of human purpose and endeavor, and raises the standard of truth or forwards the advance of enlightened order like each rhythmic melody is gathered in the mightier confluence of chime and strain to swell the torrent of a mighty symphony. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
Kristin becomes insentient rather than sap her lover's creativity, thus upholding the conventions of the period.
The form within a consentient set is determined by reference to a percipient individual.
Everyone else was either insentient or had run away.
There is obviously a segment of the Labour backbenches which is dissentient on this issue. A Dishonourable Signature
A claim might be made by dissentient member States that the actions of the organisation were not in compliance with its treaty.
It is an umbrella term, applicable equally to concrete and abstract, immediate or remembered, sensory or conceptual, subjective or objective, sentient or insentient, organic or inorganic, and so on.
Furthermore, it teaches us to love all sentient beings equally.
In Greece, where limb and thought were consentient in one grace of motion, the body was too perfect an expression of the mind to admit any consciousness of discord; the greater simplicity of a life passed largely in the open air, left no place for awkwardness in the franker converse of man with man. Apologia Diffidentis
This understanding of the "self" as a dependently originated being must also be extended to our understanding of other sentient beings. Training the Mind: Verse 1
Thus, out of three qualities of Sat, Chit, and Ananda, Jiva or ordinary soul fails to manifest Ananda and both Ananda and Consciousness are hidden in jada or insentient beings.
In response to this challenge, a proponent of the higher-brain approach may either (1) assert that the presentient fetus, PVS patient, and anencephalic infant are not alive despite appearances (Puccetti 1988) or (2) allow that these organisms are alive but are not of the same fundamental kind as we persons: minded beings (McMahan 2002, 423-6). The Definition of Death
But SchrÃ¶dinger is not saying that "the inner world of the sentient being … is the source of Science. Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID
No sign of sentient life at all, absolutely out for the count. The Sun
Atque haec de amore dixisse sufficiat, sub correctione, [5980] quod ait ille, cujusque melius sentientis. Anatomy of Melancholy
Its new policies start with the recognition these animals are sentient beings.
sentient of the intolerable load
The perceptual object arises within this interactive matrix and is ‘determined by its reference to some percipient event, or individual, in a consentient set’.
I call sentient beings out of the blessed gulf of nothingness, that they may pay a duty to my weakness by and by, and curse me in their hearts? A Pessimist In Theory and Practice
The dissentient, in our respectful submission, expressed the position absolutely correctly.
It is a story that takes him through life's journey, from single-celled organisms to sentient beings. Times, Sunday Times
No human soul is left destitute of the visiting of God's spirit, and however rudimentary the moral life may be, no bounds can be set to the growth which may, and which God intends should, result wherever the human will is consentient. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
One of the more depressing aspects of this is the "news management" of the story by the BBC, who delightedly showed the Blairesque General Synod Claque (with a few principled dissentients) applauding this loose-tongued Archbishop. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Rather, these sophisticated sentients start miniaturizing their technology, eventually uploading their minds into some sort of microelectronic computer, at which point colonizing star systems will seem as tempting as oxcart travel. Seth Shostak: Where Are the Aliens? Fermi Paradox Redux
The subject matter of the social sciences is conscious sentient beings who act out of choice.
This is the purposive activity of craving on a large scale, as it embraces all sentient life.
It is worth ending this small number of unethical killings in order to secure the right of women to rid their bodies of unnecessary and insentient clumps of flesh.
a boy so sentient of his surroundings
In respect to the sympathies of action, which produce or constitute fever with debility, the system may be divided into certain provinces, which are assentient or opposite to each other. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
And it was not so much love - an emotion, I concede, that unless you're seriously perverted, only truly exists between sentient beings - as a kind of lusty covetousness; but, you can take it from me, it was a very strong feeling, and one that has only increased over the years I've either had a Brompton between my thighs, or hefted one in my arms. Quickrelease.tv
Sometimes any dissentient shareholder can invoke the right, but normally a percentage requirement is imposed, a somewhat crude way of filtering out unmeritorious cases.
Darel Finkbeiner says: autist: In contrast, the word that most ST fans – myself included – mislearn is “sentient”. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
The Buddha taught that one should practice loving kindness to all sentient beings.
And you could see why – watching his rendition of Crazy Little Thing Called Love was like watching a barely sentient toddler nervously free-associate to himself. X Factor Betting Odds: Louis Walsh To Win?
The error made by the majority is revealed by the reasoning employed by the dissentient, his Honour Justice Wallwork.
In contrast, the word that most ST fans–myself included–mislearn is “sentient”. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
There were predestinarians who believed in transmigration but who felt that every sentient being must pass through every possible fate before release was possible.
What is it about the summer that makes otherwise sentient adults behave like five-year-olds? Times, Sunday Times
Sulpicius declared openly that he would punish all according to the usage of military discipline, being deterred by the consentient shout of the soldiers who threw the blame on one sentinel, he spared the rest. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
No sentient beings lived on the planet, so it would not be terrible if they colonized it.
In fact, all sentient beings have that potential of being free from ignorance and confusion.
This is just another example of the ever-repeated tendency of the long established religions to produce dissentient sects.
The story centers around Umbriel, a mysterious floating city that appears over the land, laying waste to all sentient life in its path and raising the bodies of the fallen to build an army of the undead. The Infernal City: An Elder Scrolls Novel by Greg Keyes – review
We are going to submit to the consideration of the Cuban people and consentient declaration containing the points of view of the Cuban people. MASS MEETING IN PLAZA CIVICA
This world is a very brutal Wonderland, still filled with large caterpillars, sentient cards, jabberwockies, and a Queen of Hearts, it really bears little resemblance to the world Lewis Carroll created. Kids Lit » Blog Archive » The Looking Glass Wars
It was a black mood at a black moment, a spasm that sentient Americans prefer to forget.
Not with another of those decaying relics of past destruction they called booby traps but with an actual ship, under the control of living, sentient beings. Chain of Attack
It is not possible to reciprocate a purely passive or mechanical or insentient conglomeration of objects.
Reflecting on these options, Rachel wonders whether painless death harms a sentient creature.
I think the companies are trying too hard to prefabricate the kind of “sentient universe” idea that Grant Morrison has been known to go on about. Wieringo on the death of Bart Allen
Animals (or at least sentient animals) clearly have an interest in not being made to suffer.
Now the region was strewn with floating wreckage, the sort of flotsam that cried out to any Sentient that battle had raged across the Void a scant time previous.
However, it is not clear if this was the reality, and there were many dissentients from this thesis.
autist: In contrast, the word that most ST fans–myself included–mislearn is “sentient”. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
A faint smile passed over his features, as, after having read, he returned, it with an assentient nod to Middlemore. The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1
The Dalai Llama, I believe, has used the term "respect for sentient life". Reuters: Press Release
Christian's answers -- the more intelligible parts of them -- were a stratified succession of _yes_ and _no_, and as he was a man naturally polite and acquiescent, the assentient strata were of more frequent occurrence; but of course, beyond showing his good-will, such answers were of no practical value. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
Ah, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, that sentient ray of sunshine sent from heaven to warm the heart and readjust the attitude of even the broodiest, most uptight male protagonist. How Now Brownpau
If the sentient be a material entity sensation could only be of the order of seal-impressions struck by a ring on wax, in this case by sensible objects on the blood or on the intervenient air. The Six Enneads.
The Buddha taught that one should practice loving kindness to all sentient beings.
We plead that wage-earning women who are economically independent of men by reason of their labour in shop, office, and factory should no longer be compelled to remain voiceless: the dissentients reply that the presence of women in those capacities is an anomaly of civilization, which will not be remedied by the creation o f a fresh anomaly. The Psychology of the Suffragette
De qua uelut arce religionis nostrae multi diuersa et humaniter atque ut ita dicam carnaliter sentientes aduersa locuti sunt, ut Arrius qui licet deum dicat filium, minorem tamen patre multipliciter et extra patris substantiam confitetur. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
A horse is a sentient being, not a home on which you can "foreclose" if the economy plunges. Horses -- No Easy Solution
A torrent of pain indisputably swirls through the world of sentient animal life as well. Behe: ID rescues Common Descent
Seems you just need to tell someone they're in a team with the computer to have them start deferring to it, as if it was sentient.
Sixty years after the mine collapse, the units glimmered with a sentient robot ferocity nearly a mile below the oblivious world above. 365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
His gut rebelled against the taste of sentient flesh.
On the basis of kaji, which we discussed above, the three mysteries of the hosshin and the three corresponding forms of activities of sentient beings inter-permeate. Laughter
The consentient testimony of witnesses above the suspicion of prejudice establishes the fact that at the present day Buddhist monks are everywhere strikingly deficient in that moral earnestness and exemplary conduct which distinguished the early followers of Buddha. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
Ataxia, the Wooden Continent" continues the absurdism, but does so with entries from an encyclopedia of a floating continent full of sentient wood. Genre Fiction
The conclusion that we live in an unplanned, insentient universe became ineluctable.
Her hand moved slowly to push some of it back into her mouth, her expression appearing more sentient, more aware that she needed to keep this blood, that she liked this blood. The Darkest Edge of Dawn
Seldom performed sequentially and together, they were taken up integrally in 1966 by a dissentient cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in an interpretation that changed the world's perception of Viennese sound.
It would have to be with the video for maximum impact, since the sight of Bono's smug histrionics reduces all sensitive sentient creatures to a state of rabid insensate rage.
Most of us assume we have moved beyond treating animals as insentient things.
With the depersonalisation of this agency, the paring away of anthropomorphic characteristics, Dick escapes a literalist symbolism of divine and sentient beings to offer us a more realistic picture of this type of memetic entity, not a sentient being as such, but a simulacrum of one, a model and a program running in his imagination. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE
The latter acknowledged his sense and approbation of what was said to him by an assentient and expressive "Ugh!" which came from his chest without any apparent emotion of the lips, much in the manner of a modern ventriloquist. Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete)
Furthermore, it teaches us to love all sentient beings equally.
So essentially He just kind of toyed with His (sentient) creations and watched them maim and murder each other for while. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
People frequently complain that their questions nowadays are answered not by sentient humans but by machines.
The entire series is built on speculation about alien life, sentient or otherwise.
To say that "we" can -- never mind must -- control "our passions" is to say that there is a sentient self distinct from the very basis of sentience, to believe in some aetheric ghost-in-the-machine, some supernatural spirit of a mech-warrior pulling levers, pressing buttons, flicking switches, turning dials to make the meat-robot lumber from here to there. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
This time someone absolutely knew I'd had a presentient dream.
An acknowledged expert in finance, his budgets were received with scarcely a dissentient voice.
Translated from the academese, this means that animals are a great deal more sophisticated and sentient than we thought. Times, Sunday Times
Yet that is what we, in effect, tell the millions of sentient creatures who are killed in lab experiments.
This self-awareness, this sentient consciousness is also what separates us from every other animal life form on the planet.
That they were so, we have the consentient testimony of all portions of Catholic Christendom.
The chapter identifies varied readings - dissident, resistant, heritagist, liberationist, nationalist, and dissentient - as responses to colonialism and to the after effects, neocolonialism.
Many sentient civilizations gave of their DNA to have representation of their coding upon this planet.
The informal and individual nature of such taxonomies becomes obvious if we take a word like "person" and look at the philosophical problems that arise when it comes to nascence and sentience: many would not consider a human embryo a "person" until a certain stage of development; many would consider any sentient individual a person, regardless of humanity. THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE
Any sentient being would have called the "demonologist" as soon as the Ouija board went aflame for no reason. Movie City News
The Barbarian squadron is the all-woman piloted champ of the fleet, in no small part thanks to their mechanic Mac, who is an uplifted gibbon (part of a tribe of sentient apes that mixes with human society). Boing Boing
It states that the individual soul and insentient matter are distinct from Brahman, but Brahman is the basis of their existence and reality.
A claim might be made by dissentient member States that the actions of the organisation were not in compliance with its treaty.
Madam Speaker, I draw your attention to the definition of ‘leave’ in Standing Order 3, which states that it ‘means permission to do something that is granted without a dissentient voice’.
The words of dead poets are read and confirmed like the minutes of the previous meeting, with perhaps the dissentient voice of one Scotch shareholder.
Lastly, the problem of dissentient minorities must in the end be addressed if environmental protection regimes are to establish common rules and implement collective policies followed by all member states.
If he were to find their character to be invariable, and peculiar to each of the boards put before him, he would learn that before he trusts his subject to the canvass, he should question himself as to the sentiment he intends it to express, and what combination of colours would be consentient or dissentient to it. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
In the book a speaker writes about her, that "Comet of stillness, princess of what is over/high note held without trembling without voice without sound/aura of complete darkness keeper of the kept secrets" The vixen is a sentient creature endowed with both a totally modern mind as well as deep old foresty knowledge, and so is the consciousness of the poems themselves. Book Patrol
Darel Finkbeiner says: autist: In contrast, the word that most ST fans – myself included – mislearn is “sentient”. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
Etenim hoc quod imputant nobis qui sunt a Valentino, in ea quae deorsum Ebdomade dicentes nos remanere, quasi non adtollentes in altum mentem neque quae sursum sunt sentientes, quoniam portentiloquium ipsorum non recipimus, hoc idem ipsum qui a Basilide sunt his imputant. The Gnostic shuffle ...
Here, the profound inertia of self-duplicating and arbitrary sovereignty is revealed as absurd, unconnected repetition, the phonemes detonating like the ‘thumping’ of the insentient machine imagined by Rachel.
In contrast, the word that most ST fans – myself included – mislearn is “sentient”. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
As a chill ran through the nerd underworld and more than a few sentient adults sat bolt upright and sharply re-evaluated their lives, the news travelled to new Doctor Who Godhead and professional sarky Scot Steven Moffat. SLACKERJACK – American History Lux
Positive Law, to get back to purely natural principles, it accepted from Rousseau and the Utilitarians the principle that all right comes from the State, all authority from the consentient wills of the people of the State. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
And think of what these people might be doing if they weren't rendered insentient and thus harmless by these chemicals. Times, Sunday Times
Anything else in the room remained stationary and insentient.
Of course unless it is alive or sentient through other means, it cannot know about anything, even itself.
There is a large amount of consentient tradition to the effect that the life of man was originally far more prolonged than it is at present, extending to at least several hundred years. Easton's Bible Dictionary
The Little Einsteins; an often-adorable show about a quadfecta of young friends and their sentient robot rocket, Rocket. Words For My Enjoyment
Like everyone else on the team, she now could pass—unless scrutinized very closely—for one of the green, gilled, moist-skinned, sentient amphibians who built and maintained the city. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
My god, these discoveries and research about the Bonobo could be some of the most important in all of the animal kingdom and our religious squirminess has stopped us from truly glorifying what seems to be the other sentient intelligent species on this planet! 2009 February | Netflow Developments
If the encounters between scholars and sylphs, poets and naiads record the possibility of connection between two sentient beings, Badri also records the possibility of connection between the individual and the universe.
These were a literature review, an examination of current activities in England and the Netherlands and a workshop to judge the consentient view of potential stakeholders.
While Shiva is Knowledge-Existence-Bliss Absolute, the Shakti is the manifestation of the Principle at immanent plane as the reality of the whole universe, both sentient and insentient.
He, like his fellow dissentient Lord Slynn, found no compelling reasons for criminal liability.
Ironically, it was the United States for the Soviet dissentient Bukovsky.
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Nay, more, it becomes sentient and sensitive inside the earth. Secrets of the Soil
Where humans live pleasurable easy lives, being looked over by sentient immortal Minds who are far from infallible but pursue a life of wisdom and a search for abstraction while tending the human flock in their care.
Casually and almost unwillingly she knelt down beside Nitrus and Psyd, holding her hands above the insentient body.
We shall follow universality in this way, if we confess that one faith to be true which the whole Church throughout the world confesses; antiquity, if we in nowise depart from those interpretations which it is manifest were notoriously held by our holy ancestors and fathers; consent in like manner, if in antiquity itself we adhere to the consentient definitions and determinations of all, or at least almost all, priests and doctors. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
And not only are the men fond of it, even such insentient creatures as plants and trees have become infected and take delight in it.
The line should be drawn between sentient beings and insentient things.
From an ethical standpoint, such acts would be readily justifiable as a form of extensional self-defense on behalf of voiceless, defenseless sentient beings. To dam the torrential rivers of blood and to silence the cacophony of their agonized cries....
But games aside, some people -- actually, quite a few -- figure that no synthetic sentient will ever be able to do things humans take for granted, such as performing stand-up comedy, writing meaningful poetry, or simply knowing when it's safe to jaywalk. Seth Shostak: Today Jeopardy, Tomorrow the World
The ontological principle of sociality is a fundamentally evolutionary concept that describes reality as a process in which percipient events adjust to new situations and adapt themselves to a variety of consentient sets.
Being aware that Bush and his bunch are barely sentient is not being against America, it is being for what is used to stand for. Page 3
For a telepath there's always a background sense of sentient thoughts around you.
Why does an omniscient, omnipotent God allow pain and suffering to happen to sentient, living things?
An acknowledged expert in finance, his budgets were received with scarcely a dissentient voice.
Apparently satisfied with this reply, the fierce Indian uttered one of his strong guttural and assentient "ughs," and then commenced filling the pipe of peace, correct on the present occasion in all its ornaments, which was handed to him by the Delaware chief. Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 2
Reproduction in their presentient days had been a haphazard and frightful business—a given male fertilizing as many females as he could before being devoured by one of them in the nuptial act. THE WOUNDED SKY
From entering the hospital, she ceases being a sentient adult with a personality and becomes a number. Christianity Today
On the personal level the one most important fact about Honor herself is that she is the "adopted" human of the tele-empath sentient treecat Nimitz who originates on Honor's home planer of Sphinx, the second largest of the three inhabited worlds in the Manticore binary system. Archive 2010-06-01
The “puddle analogy”, or "the sentient puddle" is an oft quoted parable by the brilliant Douglas Adams. 2009 February - Telic Thoughts
And the clerk has brought the lawyer’s papers from Chambers; and in half an hour the literary man knows that the printer’s boy will be in the passage; and Mr. Smith with that little account (that particular little account) has called presentient of your arrival, and has left word that he will call tomorrow morning at ten. The History of Pendennis
The fact is that there are numerous "peace warriors" out there in their respective fields pioneering change, not slowing down for the consensus and forging forward to promote high-minded, big-hearted, ecologically-sound, sustainable and humanitarian values, which we sorely need in order to preserve our precious Earth and humanity along with all sentient life. Mitchell J. Rabin: The Power Of Gathering Empowers Us All
Cunningham paused, and turned to appraise Katalin, who was still lying insentient before the fire.
When talking about the rights denied our fellow sentient animals, Jeremy Bentham asked, It may come one day to be recognized that the number of legs, the villosity of the skin, or the termination of the os sacrum, are reasons insufficient for abandoning a sensitive being. Philocrites: This week at uuworld.org: Heroes' dilemma.
However, if sentient aliens are part of His Creation, then mankind cannot be the focal point of His created universe.
Some of these bodies are declaredly dissentient, some claim to be integral portions of the First and Last Things
Elephants are highly intelligent, sentient and responsive creatures. Times, Sunday Times
How did life become sentient? Times, Sunday Times

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