(n.) One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
(n.) One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute.
(a.) Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; as, absolutist principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Banditry and disorder metastasise into a threat – which, by virtue of its simple, harsh and absolutist appeal, then begins to replicate itself everywhere where authority is weak.
(2) He speaks to the need for a rational faith or belief in values like dignity, or even an afterlife … Then you have Carrot and Vimes, or the relativist versus the moral absolutist.
(3) The absolutist on the abortion issue, until he is sure that an IUD never works by destroying an embedded embryo, must logically eschew this technique, advising his patient as to his ethical objections.
(4) However Julia Powles, a law researcher at Cambridge University, said: "The way that the ruling is currently being implemented adds strength to those who take an absolutist position in favour of free speech and free enterprise.
(5) Ferguson's absolutist, warrior-like leadership of United has helped the word Manchester to mean something modern and vital around the world wherever football shirts are sold and worn.
(6) The Nazi policies of mass murder and the Holocaust were crimes against humanity and the ruins of Auschwitz stand as a terrible warning of where race hatred, religious intolerance, narrow-minded nationalism and absolutist political and religious dogma can lead.
(7) Here, we're taught from an early age to be absolutist in our defense of free speech.
(8) His own absolutist theory (held by many, but not all, Catholic moralists), which derives from the principles that fundamental human goods may not be intentionally violated, cannot dispense with such exceptions, although he rightly rejects some widely held views about what they are.
(9) By contrast, Kantian absolutist theory, which derives from the principle that lawful freedom must not be violated, has a corollary--that it is a duty, where possible, to coerce those who try to violate lawful freedom--which makes superfluous many of the double-effect exceptions Boyle allows.
(10) A deal is doable and desirable, because at heart the Korean issue is not about absolutist ideology or faith or race or even weapons proliferation.
(11) Ido love me a good cult; and the weirder they are, the more deranged, the more coercive, mind-erasing, wallet-draining, sexually absolutist and murderous they are, and the more they lure their members into a realm of isolation, rote repetition, low-protein diets, 36-hour work shifts, constant exhaustion and the ever-present fear of public shaming or shunning over some minute dogmatic or ideological shortcoming, oh, the better I like them.
(12) At first it can be seen as symbolic expression of rejected anxiety and guilt feelings of the bourgoisie after having thrown the absolutistic institution from power.
(13) The authorities reassure us by saying there is no immediate danger and a few absolutist environmentalists obsessed with nuclear power because of the urgency to limit emissions repeat the industry mantra that only a few people died at Chernobyl – the worst nuclear accident in history.
(14) Gillon concludes that, while the doctrine of double effect is unlikely to be accepted fully by non-absolutists, some of its claims are useful in deciding which clinical interventions are morally justified.
(15) Joseph Boyle raises important questions about the place of the double-effect exception in absolutist moral theories.
(16) Because while in a free-speech absolutist paradise words are just words and everyone just gets over it, we live in a real world where obsessive hatreds can manifest as violence.
(17) The medieval game of thrones that is the absolutist Saudi system cannot endure.
(18) Clare Oxborrow, GM campaigner for Friends of the Earth, said: "We have never taken an absolutist position on GM crops but it's too early to say if we would accept something like this given all the concerns about safety and environmental impact of GM.
(19) A decision to freeze the tax take at a particular level, regardless of the spending needs left unmet and the services left unavailable, is an incremental judgment call rather than some kind of absolutist decree.
(20) They put in place an absolutist cornerstone of the process of rule-of-law, as establishing numbers of missing persons is also vital for any war crimes trials.
Concept
Definition:
(n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
(3) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(4) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(5) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(6) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
(7) The data also support the concept that IgE and IgG4 are not elevated in these patients.
(8) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(9) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(10) The durable power of attorney concept, though not free of problems, appears more likely to be of practical utility.
(11) Homologous insemination in 52 couples during a period of one year yields a conception rate of 38.5%.
(12) The distribution of conceptions after artificial insemination from a donor was studied in 259 conceptions at an artificial insemination clinic and found to be seasonal.
(13) The timing of the occurrence of the disease is closely related to the conceptional age of the infant rather than weeks post birth, birth weight, gestational age at birth.
(14) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
(15) This developed concept of "valve only" energy loss has the potential of standardising the findings of different research groups by removing the arbitrary selection of measurement points from reported results.
(16) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
(17) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
(18) The lack of TBM prior to germinal center development and their absence in aged mice are inconsistent with the concept that TBM are required for the induction of the germinal center reaction.
(19) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(20) The analysis is further expanded to a more general case to result in four criteria based upon the energy concepts.