I haven't hurt any living or non-living thing since last Wednesday.    From Wordnik.com.  [badbadzoot Diary Entry] Reference

That law applies to human behavior as much as it does to non-living objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Students Organize Media Reform Group, Make Plans to Send Group to NCMR] Reference

But it shows at once a possible connection between living and non-living nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference

If life spontaneously arose from non-living matter, I would probably dismiss ID.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Look] Reference

A team of biologists and chemists is closing in on bringing non-living matter to life.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Biologists on the Verge of Creating New Form of Life] Reference

This nature of the light spectrum applies to the idea of living and non-living as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: Redefining Life: God Need Not Apply] Reference

Most of us point guns at non-living things most of the time - paper, steel, wood, gravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready on the Left? Ready on the Right?] Reference

We should not call vein a tissue, nor do we include under this heading non-living secretions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

The group claims that it has successfully harvested eight uteri from non-living human donors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2007] Reference

Windbreaks can also be constructed of non-living materials, which are likely to be expensive.    From Wordnik.com.  [28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture] Reference

But it felt somehow out of character for them to be interested in a non-living part of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warhorse]

Either way, we have an immediate and obvious non-living example of information stored digitally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: Redefining Life: God Need Not Apply] Reference

An ecosystem includes all the organisms and the non-living environment found in a particular place.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES FOR ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATES] Reference

For a description of non-living resources (oil and gas, salt, harbors and beaches), see Mailu, 1998.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somali Coastal Current large marine ecosystem] Reference

Nice try, but please, stop obsessing over the non-living embryos and focus on the actual debate here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » GOP Rep. John Fleming On Doctor Saying He Will Refuse Care To Obama Voters: ‘I Applaud What He Said And Did’] Reference

These political changes often include changes in the ways that living and non-living resources are managed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responding to climate change in the Arctic] Reference

A new motor designed by scientists from Japan offers the best of both worlds: the living and the non-living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incredible Motor Powered By Living Bacteria | Impact Lab] Reference

Some “living being” has to have always existed or some “non-living being” has to have always existed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Church-going] Reference

There isn't any evidence that living organisms can arise from non-living matter with intelligent intervention.    From Wordnik.com.  [After thoughts on Barr] Reference

In the body of a small child there is still comparatively little contrast between living and non-living organs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Nature i.e., the living and non-living elements that make up an organism's environment is calling all the shots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Believe in me, help me believe in anything (What if No One's Watching?)] Reference

These resources include mineral and other non-living seabed resources as well as some sedentary living organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Lodges Continental Shelf Submission] Reference

The man, called ‘Oro’ which means ‘sting’ had the power to change to anything, either living or non-living.    From Wordnik.com.  [War in Africa] Reference

"Workers earn non-living wage and they are hired on the basis of casuals and contract workers," the memorandum said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But what is the function of the active in connection with those non-living powers which we have classed as qualities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

An anthropocentric view of morality can at best make the non-human and non-living world an object of moral consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pantheism] Reference

The racially discriminatory laws ensured that Africans receive inferior education, do menial jobs and earn non-living wages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Address By ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Gert Sibande Memorial Lecture] Reference

Brazil is expending great efforts to assess the state of the living and non-living resources of its Exclusive Economic Zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Brazil Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference

Conscious, programmed for emotion, and to a degree self-willed'the boundary be - tween the living and the non-living was narrowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

When I insist that 5 year olds accept the fact that rocks are “non-living” (because I say so) am I helping or hurting democracy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meier: Trust and skepticism in public schools] Reference

The existence of digitally stored, self-replicating information cannot define life because examples are found in non-living systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: Redefining Life: God Need Not Apply] Reference

Brazil has expended great efforts to assess the state of the living and non-living resources within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).    From Wordnik.com.  [South Brazil Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference

It was clear that there were several distinct ways in which matter in living systems behaved in ways different from non-living systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life] Reference

The most important non-living element of the Pine Barrens ecosystem is water, considering its availability and characteristic chemistry.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 March « Beachwood Historical Alliance] Reference

The difficulty arises because every characteristic that was supposed to be unique to life has ultimately been found in non-living systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: Redefining Life: God Need Not Apply] Reference

If it can be demonstrated that life can arise from non-living matter via unintelligent, blind/undirected processes, ID would be falsified.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACLU wins in Dover] Reference

You underestimate the fact that everyday in countless ways energy is used to push against the entropy flow of disorder in living and non-living systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Exploitation of these non-living resources has damaged the coastal environment and, in the case of oil production in the Niger delta, caused civil conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coastal and marine environments in Africa] Reference

Here, just as in the general subject of fermentation, we must inquire whether the bacteria form the substances in question directly or by means of non-living ferments or enzymes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference