2850 examples of fundamental in sentences

The principles taken for granted as fundamental and notorious truths far transcend the extremest speculations of Terrestrial mysticism.

The most fundamental reflexes, those immediate responses to irritation or danger, were laid down, and among them the drive and check system.

The why of the Unique is the fundamental problem of those who would understand life.

The interest in stature is fundamental, and has persisted in the most civilized, nations.

Since, too, muscle attitudes, muscle tensions and muscle relaxations play so large a part in the production of fundamental mental states: the attitudes, moods, memories and will reactions, the vegetative apparatus enters, to play its part as a determinant.

The Russian example has taught the world the instability of diplomatic bargains in a time of such fundamental issues as the present.

The fundamental matter, if we are to get towards any realization of this ideal of a world peace sustained by a League of Nations, is to get straight away to the conception of direct special electoral mandates in this matter.

Our statesmen waste their breath and slight our intelligence when these foreground questions are thrust in front of the really fundamental matters.

It embodies much that has been learnt and thought out since this war began, and I think it is much truer and more fundamental than that mere raging against German "militarism," upon which our politicians and press still so largely subsist.

The movement for electoral reform in Great Britain at the present time is one of quite fundamental importance in the development of modern democracy.

We say epic poem, because one of the distinguishing features in this form of literary expression is that its action hinges on those fundamental passions of humanity, that "touch which makes the whole world kin," whose alphabet is the same in every latitude.

When Abraham appeared, whether four thousand or five thousand years ago, for chronologists differ in their calculations, it would seem that the nations then existing had forgotten or ignored this great cardinal and fundamental truth, and were more or less given to idolatry, worshipping the heavenly bodies, or the forces of Nature, or animals, or heroes, or graven images, or their own ancestors.

The exile was deprived of these by being forced to extinguish the hearth-fire,the elemental, fundamental religion of a Greek and Roman.

And in those degenerate days at Rome, when liberty was crushed under foot forever, it is beautiful to see the greatest of Roman statesmen and lawyers consoling himself and instructing posterity by his exhaustive treatises on the fundamental principles of law, of morality, and of philosophy.

They are not so luminous with fundamental principles as they are vivid with invective, sarcasm, wit, and telling exaggeration,sometimes persuasive and working on the sensibilities, and at other times full of withering scorn.

But I do not believe that any particular form of government is laid down in the Bible; and yet I admit that church government is as essential and fundamental a matter as a worldly government.

A policy about tariffs and revenues, all resting on unsettled principles of political economy, may have been a matter of compromise,not the fundamental principles of the Christian religion, as declared by inspiration, and which he was bound to accept as they were revealed and declared, whether they could be reconciled with his reason or not.

What the Chief Justice had it at heart to do was to surrender a fundamental principle, and yet to appear to make no surrender at all.

What chiefly concerned the nobles, therefore, was not to evolve a masterly campaign, but to propound the fundamental principles of monarchy, and to denounce an awful retribution on insurgents.

And we perceive on a little consideration that from the first great and fundamental discovery of how to kindle fire, every advance in applied science has accelerated social movement, until the discovery of steam and electricity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries quickened movement as movement had never been quickened before.

He is too specialized to comprehend a social relation, even a fundamental one like this, beyond the narrow circle of his private interests.

That was the fundamental purpose which underlay the adoption of a written constitution whose object was to keep local sovereignties intact, especially at the South.

The outer, as regards our knowledge of it, is within; such is Berkeley's fundamental philosophical principle, and it is a principle radical to the whole recent philosophy of Europe (1684-1753).

making it a crime involving the heaviest penalties to question any of the fundamental doctrines of the Romish Church.

BONALD, VICOMTE DE, a French publicist, a violent royalist and ultramontanist; looked upon the Catholic religion and the royal authority as fundamental to the stability of the social fabric, and was opposed to the law of divorce, which led to its alteration.

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