The preliminary, the first-level decision, was my decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Honor: Covert Lives & Classified Deaths at the CIA] Reference

And we're trying to provide the first-level assistance in the shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2008] Reference

It has commonly been thought that a first-level role for ˜exists™ in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

“What are they doing?” people on the first-level asked one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Minneapolis Flash Mobs] Reference

For Aquinas, there is a first-level use in addition to the second-level one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

For Plantinga, existence is a first-level property that everything exemplifies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Simplicity] Reference

"You suggested we talk before dinner, ser?" asks the tall and blond first-level adept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scion of Cyador]

Think of first-level properties as David Lewis does: as sets of actual and possible individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Simplicity] Reference

Employees who have got 0-1 rating on a scale of 5 typically form the basis for the first-level shortlist.    From Wordnik.com.  [IT companies in India firing employees as a part of cost cutting] Reference

The blond figure of the first-level adept appears, in the same study where Lorn had seen him with Liataphi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scion of Cyador]

Geach, too, argues for a first-level use of ˜exists™ as do Parsons and Zalta, though on different grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

We are not missing anything we need right now, even if we receive only the first-level Kalachakra empowerment.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Alternative Kalachakra] Reference

Another 15 percent of first-level managers weren't at all interested in being a manager before they were promoted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The accidental managers] Reference

These are called first-level predicates or concept expressions, and refer to first-level concepts, e.g. being wise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

Williams agrees that a first-level use of ˜exists™ would require ˜Socrates no longer exists™ to be rendered as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

At least two teachers from each school will be trained to perform first-level maintenance of the computers themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The 20 points beyond the first six to qualify for first-level LEED certification may be chosen from six different areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: LEEDing the Way to Green Buildings] Reference

It is a skill practiced only by first-level adepts .... and he can ask no one in the Magi'i - not even Tyrsal - to assist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scion of Cyador]

They can hardly be two kinds of being if the former is a first-level property while the latter is merely a second-level one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

Mr. Econotarian and Kling are ignoring all those other variables and concentrating only on the first-level economic factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benefits of Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Thus, it follows that no predicate, whether of first-level or of second-level, could be said both of individuals and of kinds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

"Music" is a first-level entry, and now a single click initiates the popular technique of shuffling your library for playback.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEW IPOD] Reference

An intermediate proposal would be to count first-level functions as categoremata and second-level functions as syncategoremata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logical Constants] Reference

Chyenfel looks blankly out upon the Palace of Eternal Light for some long moments after the first-level adept has left the study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scion of Cyador]

Only in its second phase, as a first-level liberated seeing pathway mind, is it first rid of what a seeing pathway mind is rid of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation] Reference

SBA's agreement with the automakers involves first-level and second-level subcontracts (known in the industry as Tier 1 and Tier 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Vp Announces Agreement Between Sba And Autos Big Three] Reference

Because of that, it is called “the attainment of a first-level bhumi mind, ‘extremely joyous,’ or a pathway mind of seeing.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mahamudra Eliminating the Darkness of Unawareness ��� Part Four: Enhancing Your Practice] Reference

Thus, a first-level bhumi mind encompasses the two phases of a seeing pathway mind and the first phase of an accustoming pathway mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation] Reference

This allows us to talk about pairs of shoes as a second-level plurality rather than as a first-level plurality of objects such as pairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plural Quantification] Reference

Conversely, not every first-level function is (intuitively) nonlogical: for example, the identity relation is usually treated as logical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logical Constants] Reference

Given that ˜is™ or ˜exists™ are precluded from being first-level predicates, just how are affirmations of existence to be understood?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

Of the ten levels of bhumi mind (sa-bcu, ten bhumis) of arya bodhisattvas, a first-level bhumi mind is equivalent to a seeing pathway mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ridding Oneself of the Two Sets of Obscurations in Sutra and Highest Tantra According to Nyingma and Sakya] Reference

This first-level critique of equality poses the basic question of why justice should in fact be conceived relationally and (what is here the same) comparatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equality] Reference

(Zalta, p. 103) For our purposes, these views are notable for introducing a further consideration for recognizing the use of ˜exists™ as a first-level predicate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference

There are, however, plenty of reasons (Vallicella 2002, Ch. 2) to reject the view that existence is a first-level property and the ontological schemes that entail it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Divine Simplicity] Reference

Interestingly, one of his reasons for opposing a first-level use was similar to the paradox that some contemporaries insist is generated by negative existential propositions like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Existence] Reference