Therefore the motion is not a single motion, since motion that is interrupted by stationariness is not single. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
Each of them has within itself a principle of motion and of stationariness (in respect of place, or of growth and decrease, or by way of alteration). From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
If a similar change should befall the nations of Europe, it will not be in exactly the same shape: the despotism of custom with which these nations are threatened is not precisely stationariness. From Wordnik.com. [On Liberty] Reference
Before we take up an especial expression upon the fall of immature and larval forms of life to this earth, and the necessity then of conceiving of some factor besides mere stationariness or suspension or stagnation, there are other data that are similar to data of falls of fishes. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
But the seed and the doctor and the adviser, and generally the maker, are all sources whence the change or stationariness originates, while the others are causes in the sense of the end or the good of the rest; for ‘that for the sake of which’ means what is best and the end of the things that lead up to it. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
Unity is required in respect of time in order that there may be no interval of immobility, for where there is intermission of motion there must be rest, and a motion that includes intervals of rest will be not one but many, so that a motion that is interrupted by stationariness is not one or continuous, and it is so interrupted if there is an interval of time. From Wordnik.com. [Physics] Reference
And on this happiness, or degree of misery, depends the increase, stationariness, or decrease of population. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Principle of Population] Reference
The fact of keeping his men at quarters also justifies the conclusion that he was thus uncertain about Sampson, for the stationariness of the Flying. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles] Reference
The world of little things therein gazed at her in helpless stationariness, as though they had tried and been unable to make any progress without her presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
What the mind instinctively dislikes is stationariness; and an existence in which there was nothing to escape from, nothing more to hope for, to learn, to desire, would be frankly unendurable. From Wordnik.com. [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference
The most remarkable instance of this, was his statement, in one of his subsequent defences of the Movement, when too it had advanced a considerable way in the direction of Rome, that among its hopeful peculiarities was its "stationariness.". From Wordnik.com. [Apologia pro Vita Sua] Reference
The most remarkable instance of this, was his statement, in one of his subsequent defences of the Movement, when moreover it had advanced a considerable way in the direction of Rome, that among its more hopeful peculiarities was its "stationariness.". From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
'Merit' is that particular world-pervading substance which is the cause of the motion of all things moving; 'demerit' is that all-pervading substance which is the cause of stationariness, 'Body' is that substance which possesses colour, smell, taste, and touch. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
In other words, a hypothesis may be accepted either in order to explain a certain phenomenon (as in astronomy to account for the retrogression and stationariness of the planets), or in order to attain a certain end, which again may be either pragmatic, as belonging merely to the sphere of art, or moral, as involving a purpose which it is a duty to adopt as a maxim of action. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Right] Reference
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