Not unlike any other term constitutive of our political vocabulary. From Wordnik.com. [Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy] Reference
"The new design of the referendum, which we call constitutive, will be acted on by Kenyans to adopt the draft constitution. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
For a brief discussion of the notion of constitutive luck see the following supplementary document. From Wordnik.com. [Justice and Bad Luck] Reference
Such rules are the so-called constitutive rules, as opposed to regulative rules (the terminology is taken from Kant). From Wordnik.com. [Him] Reference
Some theorists, notably Searle (Searle 1995), have sought to identify institutions with a particular species of rule, namely, so called constitutive rules. From Wordnik.com. [Social Institutions] Reference
In the swan the whiteness is not constitutive since. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Is this allergy to transparency a constitutive part of conservatism?. From Wordnik.com. [Rick Perlstein: 'I Didn't Like Nixon Until Watergate': The Conservative Movement Now] Reference
That is really a constitutive element of what the group is all about. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2009] Reference
Stop trying to find yourself, you constitutive misrecognition machine!. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from Urdoxa 2.0] Reference
He always showed himself devoted to the constitutive principles of the. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
"The constitutive act, makes no reference to economic governance," Netshitenzhe said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
So far 31 countries had signed the constitutive act and four had ratified it, he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Also constitutive of life in communion is acceptance of the same basic moral values. From Wordnik.com. [Archbishop introduces His Eminence Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, to address the Synod] Reference
Innovations themselves, they are also constitutive technologies that enable still more innovations. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
They are neither constitutive of what things actually are, nor operative in supporting their existence. From Wordnik.com. [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Egypt, their gods formed a hierarchy that was carefully related to the constitutive parts of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The constitutive congress had the participation of 14 independent countries and 8 national liberation groups. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PAN AFRICAN WOMEN'S ORGANISATION (PAWO) AT THE LAUNCH OF THE PREPARATORY CAMPAIGN OF THE 9TH PAWO CONGRESS IN FEBRUARY 2008] Reference
The Lashkar-e-Taiba is, ultimately, one of the constitutive elements of what is conventionally called al Qaeda. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Give Pakistan the Attention It Deserves] Reference
Anna van Wyk (NNP) said the issue of states 'sovereignty was not adequately address in the AU's constitutive act. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
To put it in slightly different terms, local churches acknowledge the same 'constitutive elements' in one another. From Wordnik.com. [The Archbishop's Advent Letter to Primates] Reference
Another matter for discussion with Gadaffi would be Libya's proposed amendments to the constitutive act of the AU. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Raffi Lavie has said, more than once, that this exhibition of Aviva Uri had had a constitutive influence on his work. From Wordnik.com. [Uri, Aviva.] Reference
Page 575, Volume 1 as the constitutive elements in Nature exhibit some spontaneity and persons enjoy limited moral freedom. From Wordnik.com. [CREATION IN RELIGION] Reference
Both delegations noted positive developments in Africa over the last 12 months, including the constitutive Act of the African. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
As you are aware, guided by the constitutive act, the AU Summit held in Durban in 2002, adopted the OAU/AU Declaration on the. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The reader cannot, but think of the divisive effects of colonial presentations of Africans as constitutive of different, desperate. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
Presentment that I discover the energetic system of Nature, as a real thing -- beyond, underlying, and by its transmutations constitutive of my. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
The PAWO has a role of observer at the African Union and a constitutive role at the Economic and Social council of the United Nations (ESOSOC). From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE PAN AFRICAN WOMEN'S ORGANISATION (PAWO) AT THE LAUNCH OF THE PREPARATORY CAMPAIGN OF THE 9TH PAWO CONGRESS IN FEBRUARY 2008] Reference
I don't think we can all be in an old-fashioned sort of polis or a-- or I think that it's very hard for us to find a simple or constitutive common good. From Wordnik.com. [Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality] Reference
To continue working with progressive forces for the implementation of the APRM, capacity building and the realisation of the constitutive act of the AU. From Wordnik.com. [CONSOLIDATED REPORT ON SECTORAL STRATEGIES] Reference
Organisation of African Unity secretary general Salim Ahmed Salim on Tuesday urged countries to sign and ratify the constitutive act of the African Union. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Second, Leopold offers what he takes to be an equally pressing moral principle as constitutive of the land ethic — one ought to love and respect the land. From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic] Reference
This would infer that he knows we wouldn't assimilate in the same manner as other constitutive countries as the UK wants "to remain in charge of its own affairs". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
For weeks now, she has been suffering from migraines and constant nausea (she would be glad to have just morning sickness instead of the constitutive day-long one). From Wordnik.com. [Desperately Trying to Have a Baby] Reference
AU, Andrew Mtetwa, also signed protocols Tuesday on the 53-member body's proposed court of justice and an amendment of its constitutive act, the AU said in a statement. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Constitutional principles reflect the fundamental societal norms in Israel, formulated by the Knesset as constitutive assembly and interpreted by the High Court of Justice. From Wordnik.com. [Equality, Religion and Gender in Israel.] Reference
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