Example sentences for: godwin

How can you use “godwin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The heart of my argument, though, is that none of these alternative mechanisms "carr[ies] the promise of avoiding [the] spillover problem altogether" (in Godwin's and Abelson's words).

  • Godwin and Abelson raise some interesting legal points.

  • 5. As to the factual points Godwin and Abelson raise, I refer the reader to my response to the letter from Jay Friedland of SurfWatch.

  • Gates' main straw man is one William Godwin, who in 1793 argued that if you can rescue either your mother or Archbishop Fenelon from a burning house, "you go for the Archbishop, since he has the greater social contribution to make."

  • Of course, Gates comically stacks the deck with the Godwin example, since Godwin asks that we rescue the cleric, not in the name of truth but in the name of some sort of obnoxious aristocratic utilitarianism.


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