Things do not happen according to plan, and they are not reducible to tidy models. From LearnThat.org. [ldoceonline.com]
reducible to a set of principles of human nature. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Hernias that come and go are called reducible hernias. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
DAWKINS: Well, once again, let's not use the word "reducible" in a negative way. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
Not all accumulation though is reducible to greed. From Wordnik.com. [CONTENTS] Reference
Now prayer is not reducible to any of these operations. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Hence "beholding" would seem to be reducible to meditation. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The world in little is not reducible to a microscopic point. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
Reply Obj. 3: These nine are reducible to the seven aforesaid. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
So that does help your overall reducible -- reduce the taxable income. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2006] Reference
But excess of play does not seem reducible to any of the capital vices. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
This is -- as you can well see, this is reducible to stark mathematical terms. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President On Social Security] Reference
Golden Rule -- as one of the many forms to which its obligations are reducible. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
The UDF's organizational power is reducible to the capacities of its affiliates. From Wordnik.com. [Contents:] Reference
Obj. 4: Further, every commandment is reducible to the precepts of the Decalogue. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Variously described by various writers, the actual circumstance seems reducible to this. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Obj. 2: Further, whatever exists is reducible to some kind of being and some degree of good. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
The fact, therefore, that the crime is reducible to some different head, is not an objection. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
This is subject to the same laws as the simple sorites, to which it is immediately reducible. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Aristophanes are the inviolable Trinity of poetry, even to the extent of being reducible to One. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
The doctrine insisted on by Governor Wright appears to us reducible to the following propositions. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772] Reference
And these are sort of complex societal problems that are not reducible to a sound bite, if you will. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2009] Reference
To-morrow I examine Ceterach, assured that the scales of its under face are reducible to the same type. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Every person with a reducible rupture should wear a proper truss until the rupture is cured by some means. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Humans are not reducible to either the universal or the particular — we are dynamically multi-dimensional. From Wordnik.com. [Global citizens movement] Reference
Whilst he admired he remembered: individual faults or excellencies, he found to be reducible to common causes. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Obj. 2: Further, all other vices are reducible to the seven capital vices, as Gregory states (Moral. xxxi, 17). From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
In very small or large hernias, and in those which are not reducible, the action of the truss is not so effective. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
Now all the moral virtues, since their acts are prescribed by the precepts of the Law, are reducible to the love of. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Some economists say that what is growing in economic growth is value, and value is not reducible to physical units. From Wordnik.com. [From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy] Reference
The world has changed and the fundamental truth, that we are reducible to spatial extensions, isn't so fundamental. From Wordnik.com. [Hemera Rises] Reference
Reply Obj. 3: All the degrees mentioned by Anselm are reducible to knowledge, avowal, and desire of one's own abasement. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
In every congregation it is reducible to a certainty that, before a year has passed, some will be numbered with the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
We are spectators to a plot or intrigue (not reducible in life to the point of strict morality), and take it all for truth. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Intelligent Design has something called irreducible complexity, all though all the examples have been shown to be reducible. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The laws of thought are all reducible to the three following axioms, which are known as The Three Fundamental Laws of Thought. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
It is stated that this method of treatment is applicable to all ores, the most refractory being readily reducible by its means. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
All that mattered was that something -- a tank ride, a surfboard, an incautious phrase, a complex vote -- be reducible to a soundbite. From Wordnik.com. [Dems, Running Scared] Reference
I realized my to-do list is more or less reducible to 5 or so activities, and I don't count drinking a lot of water amongst that number. From Wordnik.com. [oatcake Diary Entry] Reference
Nor is it reducible to something physical, like the nervous system or the electrochemical processes that describe neurological functions. From Wordnik.com. [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 7 Shifting Focus from Mind and from Ourselves to Mental Activity] Reference
Their claims upon us are described as a modification of the Golden Rule -- as one of the many forms to which its obligations are reducible. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
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