Example sentences of "by appeal [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such designs encouraged confidence in the acceptance of a coin by appealing to the user 's sense of loyalty ( whether secular or religious ) . |
| 2 | Yet , by appealing to the harvest feast , he also uses the chief ritual of agricultural life as the focus for social comment . |
| 3 | Although individualists allow that certain types of individual property may be explained by appealing to the properties of groups , they are committed to the view that other individual properties can not be explained in this fashion . |
| 4 | For , instead of being tantamount to the mysterious suggestion that actions are uncaused , the claim that they are autonomous can be interpreted as a summing up of the individualist view that they must be explained , at least in part , by appealing to the intentional properties of individuals . |
| 5 | Until now I have presented Althusser 's analysis of society as designed to explain social change by appealing to the notion of contradiction . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most obvious course is to elucidate the strategies of classes by appealing to the constraints under which they labour . |
| 7 | Rather than selecting the particular class of political events as the stuff of history , and then seeking to explain it by appealing to the play of national and personal interest , the Annales school advocates eclectic research into such diverse topics as economics , populations , social institutions , technologies and climate , designed to contribute to a complete picture of social life . |
| 8 | The Annales school attempts to deal with this issue by appealing to the third category identified by Braudel — that of événements ; but to say quite what événements are is no easy task . |
| 9 | Thus the view that stainless steel knives would have replaced carbon steel ones even if individual industrialists had acted differently is justified by appealing to the competition inherent in capitalist production . |
| 10 | We may explain the fact that the production units of a particular industry have grown larger over a period of time by appealing to the economies this yields , and in doing so claim that a cause ( increase in scale ) occurred because of its propensity to have a certain effect ( economies of scale ) . |
| 11 | In this case Sartre demonstrates how the singular universal works , by appealing to the concrete example of a boxing match — a random exemplification that just happens to reproduce the single adversaries of the master/slave dialectic . |
| 12 | Instead they do so indirectly , by appealing to the supposed intrinsic and culture-free nature of literacy . |
| 13 | Thus , for example , the way in which it is proposed to structure the rules regulating take-over bids simply reflects a judgment about how far acquiring companies should , through the mechanism of the take-over bid , be given the opportunity of dislodging the managers of the target company — a judgment which can not be justified simply by appealing to the ideal of a free market . |
| 14 | We may find that the corporatist vision of the company is legitimating a structure of hierarchical managerial power by appealing to the purposes for which that power is exercised . |
| 15 | However , this argument assumes that the rules of judicial review which can be waived by appealing to the discretion are themselves clear and certain ; but , as we will see , this is very far from the case . |
| 16 | How could this situation fail to develop if he ‘ failed to stop the nuisance by appealing to the parents of the young people ’ ? |
| 17 | Broad political support will not , of course , be won merely by appealing to the inherent rationality of planning as opposed to the profit-oriented allocation of resources . |
| 18 | The total membership of this third class can not be predicted on phonological grounds , nor reliably specified by appealing to the intuitions of native speakers . |
| 19 | Attempts to specify constraints on the application of the rule by appealing to the intuitions of the native speaker simply raise a fresh set of problems ( see 7.3.2 ) . |
| 20 | He concluded by appealing to the people of Russia for support . |
| 21 | Lawyers acting for Operation Rescue challenged Kelly 's jurisdiction by appealing to the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver . |
| 22 | The Israeli Foreign Minster David Levy said that the Israeli government had secured the releases by appealing to the highest official level in Egypt . |
| 23 | The majority , however , did so by appealing to the view of the Revolution offered by the Convention , that James had abdicated the throne . |
| 24 | One of the main ways in which they did this was by seeking to rally people behind their cause by appealing to the issues of the day , through the press , pulpit , and the speeches given by the candidates at the hustings . |
| 25 | Both speakers are trying to establish their own power by appealing to the plebeians whose support they totally depend on . |
| 26 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 27 | Thus The Telegraph under its new editor has sought to shed its Torygraph image by appealing over the heads of what Max Hastings described as his paper 's principal readership — ‘ the landed middle class ’ ( sic ) and ‘ a second tier of readers who live in suburban bungalows with caravans in the garden ’ — to the solvent young city ( or City ) based consumer via state-or-the-art computer graphics in last year 's ‘ Hitch-hiker 's Guide ’ tv ad campaign . |