Examples of ultimate

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Coercive political action often appears the ultimate antithesis of the politics of liberalism.
The ultimate effects of initial cost internalization on economic aggregates would have to be modelled according to prevailing price elasticities and technological (production) structures.
The ultimate achievement of cognitive archaeology would be to provide descriptions of the cognitive life-world of human antecedents at many points in evolution.
In fact, gene sequencing is now recommended as the ultimate method of certification of polio eradication [11].
Every historical fact must finally be assigned its place in these great culture systems and acquire its ultimate significance in relation to one of them.
Generally speaking, the biggest measure in the fuzzy set is the ultimate decision.
In this instance, motivation serves the function of a portmanteau concept that hinders further insight into the dynamics of contraceptive failures and their ultimate control.
What are the ultimate social and political ideals that determine the way in which scientists work toward common goals?
There may then be said to be two subjects of legal sovereignty - one immediate and one ultimate.
Africans had no need for such external sources of inspiration ; in their ultimate state of self-realization, they would be naturally socialist and democratic.
Other authors departed from this concern over physical indicators, however, and questioned the ultimate relevance of race.
Four types of "healing connections" involving a sense of bonding to self, others, the phenomenal world, and ultimate meaning, respectively, were identified.
The pursuit of money not only becomes an end in itself, it often becomes the ultimate end of our intentions and actions.
Such an archaeology concomitantly fosters theoretical pluralism, and leads to the ultimate foundation of this pluralism.
I will examine recent findings in cosmology and their implications for the emergence of life in the universe and the ultimate fate of life.
Students of politics generally assume that political actors, regardless of their ultimate goals, will always seek to expand and protect their power.
In a principal-agent approach, if the behaviour of bureaucrats fails to conform to the interests of their ultimate principal - the electorate - politicians can redesign institutions.
The costs and benefits that are of ultimate interest are those that contribute to reproductive fitness.
Almost embarrassingly eager to let us know how much research he has done, he is the theater's ultimate teacher's pet, forever volunteering details.
The ultimate aim of attempts to describe and explain any system must be to make testable predictions, ideally within the quantitative framework of a model.
Even today, in the context of increasing poverty, the village retains its reputation as a place of ultimate security.
The ultimate purpose of archaeology is to understand human societies and their changes.
Further justification was found in the number of leaders who paid the ultimate price.
The increased reliance on the use of civilians in the military meant the induction of considerable numbers of those whose ultimate belief was in independence.
The problem was part of the epistemological difficulties in doing any kind of history, questioning as it does the ultimate meaning of the written word.
Our ultimate goal is to promote healthy growth and development.
Ideally the ultimate goal of any remediation effort will be to reduce the concentrations of contaminants at the site to those befitting a pristine ecosystem.
Interpreting their meanings, expressivity, and psychological significance is a more distant but ultimate goal, a study of which is beyond the scope of this essay.
They defined a standard vocabulary to obtain consistent terminology and levels of detail, with the ultimate goal of creating standardized entities for design repositories.
The ultimate goal of most perceptual researchers is, or at least should be, to provide an account for perception as it occurs in everyday life.
The ultimate goal is to understand the mind by characterizing the neurology that can do rapid information integration.
The university's participants occasionally suggested that the creation of an international university in the liberal mode was not their ultimate goal.
Our ultimate goal is to identify and sequence the factors involved.
Making a critical point sinking is the ultimate goal (perhaps not always achievable).
However, lower water contents (£20%) are desirable for subsequent cryopreservation, which was the ultimate goal of the present dehydration studies.
However, rashly formed expectations of the results of actions are harmful for attaining the ultimate goal.
The first involved questions of authority, such as who exercised ultimate authority and whether any limits could be placed on this power.
The ideological vision tends to center around a few ultimate principles or eternal truths and often has a transcendent reference.
Researchers need to exercise caution about confusing proximate (ecological/ behavioural) and ultimate (evolutionary) functions of dacine lures.
The realization of knowledge led to ultimate freedom and its path of renunciation was critiqued as one leading to inaction.
The set of velocity profiles of all robots provides the ultimate solution.
He, however, understood his context ; sometimes aggressive, always officious, at other times patiently pastoral, he was the ultimate pragmatist.
In this demanding moral context, ultimate hopes are neither trivial nor discretionary.
The ultimate consequence is that the social and cultural context of bilingualism is also neglected, resulting in a reduced view of bilingualism.
19 tension to measure the ultimate strength of metals related to the equation of state.
By removing this very fundamental concept of self-identity, repressors attempt to reach the ultimate point in the destruction of victims' language.
The system drifted from an initial phase of large surpluses to increasing deficits and ultimate crisis.
Theism, like materialism, postulates an infinite or immense number of causal events in its ultimate explanation.
He was the one who was still hammering home belief in ultimate victory to his compatriots even when the war had long-since been lost.
His ultimate mistake was to underestimate fatally ' the forces of conventional morality ' (p. x).
Unsurprisingly, the issue centred on who would have ultimate political power.
Secondly, by knowing the structure of the overall voting pattern, we can evaluate the extent to which the ultimate repeal vote deviated from this structure.
If they characterize it differently, how can we know it is the same ultimate reality to which they point, or which is being experienced ?
One reason that moral worth is regarded as an ultimate form of value is that acquiring it is completely up to the individual.
Ultimism is summed up in the proposition 'that there is an ultimate reality in relation to which an ultimate good can be attained' (37).
The court is the ultimate arbiter of capacity.
Of course, one could say that the speakers are the ultimate authority on this question.
The ultimate form of a performance is determined by the interaction of the dancer's decision-making process and the unpredictable behaviour of the computer system.
Moore was more committed to common sense and our pre-theoretical intuitions as the ultimate arbiter of what constituted an adequate analysis.
People, then, become of the opinion that the purpose and ultimate destiny of (acquiring property) is to have it taken away from them.
Then those mechanics of behavior would supplement ultimate explanations that are based on selection by consequences.
The ultimate forms are selected either by the users or the system.
The state and its betterment practice were crucial to the ultimate demise of the latter.
In both countries, however, ultimate responsibility for enforcement was left to the courts.
In examining the culture of politics, the ultimate aim of social science is to link culture to causality.
The structure represents a chain of argumentation with an ultimate conclusion at one end.
Despite its ultimate inevitability and finality, death was an aspect of the future that generated activities.
However, pursuing i this concern had yet a further, ultimate objective.
The minister would have ultimate responsibility for success or failure in his particular area.
To argue otherwise is the ultimate in reductionism.
In the absence of fixed heart, morality and social order lose their ultimate sanction.
How do we know when it is ethically permissible to take an affirmative step to allow the ultimate harm, death, to occur?
Cardiac disease is therefore a hallmark of poor prognosis, but is rarely the ultimate cause of death.
Long-term studies suggest that the choice of most approved pipe material had only little impact on the ultimate biofilm density.
The three remaining models are all language nonselective but reflect different assumptions about the ultimate locus of selection.
What are the key parameters that dictate the ultimate configuration and activity of microbial populations and how do these parameters change over time?
To answer the ultimate question of the impact of the laws of settlement, the following sections discuss these aspects of settlement practices in turn.
Despite their ultimate opposition to compulsory health insurance, organized medicine's initial response was pragmatic.
The smith is the ultimate sorcerer, who - while being visibly forging - is dealing with invisible forces which he masters or manipulates.
The constraint disfavoring the public use of contested ultimates reflects a sort of bargain-or perhaps a wager.
The standard story about pluralism and the constraint on contested ultimates suggests that modern liberal government is essentially different from premodern government.
A brief note about ultimates: no philosopher can do without assuming something, some principle, state or relationship, as basic or primitive in his or her work.
The ultimate effect of any tax incentive on national saving would depend on how households in aggregate respond.
In other words, it is the ultimate safeguard against anthropomorphism.
The ultimate deal is for the promoter to guarantee the band the whole £4,800.
The unit of selection is the individual phenotype: this, however, implies that the ultimate unit of selection is the gene that contributes successful traits.
The ultimate ingenious compromise has, however, been widely accepted almost without comment.
Also, we did not attempt to identify the ultimate bearer of financial responsibility for these charges.
Postponing the necessary adjustment had, however, only made the ultimate adjustment harder, and the policy dilemmas sharper.
Speaking directly, the ultimate possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.
There can be no ultimate redemption from the tragic character of existence.
The nation was now the smallest unit on which natural selection acted unreservedly, and force was the ultimate regulator of competing nations.
The description in some eye-witness reports suggests that deportation was often seen as a person's ultimate degradation.
One does not provide an ultimate explanation unless one has an explanation that is not contingent.
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