Example sentences for: fathers

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  • His best example of empiricism's limits was the (apocryphal) story of how, at the dawn of the Enlightenment, a scientist tried to establish the existence of the human soul "not by speculating on the Vital Principle and the Intrinsic Substance of the Soul, as described in Aristotle and the Church Fathers, but by weighing a condemned criminal before and after execution."

  • (A survey of American art from the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers to the end of the Civil War--the chronological extent of the Japan show--would look ridiculous laid out on a similar model.)

  • Starting in Confederation Plaza, visit Province House, the sober grey sandstone Georgian building in which the “Fathers of the Confederation” met in 1864.

  • CBS's new Early Show debuts next week, taking on NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America in the battle for moral suprema--sorry, for bigger profits in morning television, much as the Founding Fathers anticipated when they devised the three-network system.

  • A study of Great Lakes fish consumers in Michigan also found no relation between serum DDE concentrations and sex ratio, but did find that fathers with serum PCB concentrations greater than 8.1 ng/mL had a higher percentage of male children (OR for a male child: 2.29; 95% CI: 1.11-4.


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