(a.) Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines.
Example Sentences:
(1) He knew where he stood, never wavered from his Jeffersonian commitment to individual freedom, and found the essay the ideal form in which to express his views.
(2) In a further attack on George Osborne's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's approach to government as a "nightwatchman", Reeves adds: "One of the most painful experiences of being in government was looking in one direction at an ocean of absurdly cheap capital, and in another at a transport and energy infrastructure crying out for investment – and knowing that outdated Treasury practices and a Tory version of Jeffersonian economics was all that stood between them."
(3) Online voting and other digital innovations can, he says, overcome the practical obstacles that rendered participatory democracy unviable and thus make possible America’s return to a high-tech version of Jeffersonian village meetings.
(4) We patiently explain to our partners that we are not today a Jeffersonian democracy and that a Jeffersonian democracy is our ultimate destination."
(5) After Irma moved into comedy, Lee concentrated on drums, first with New Orleans old-timer Papa Mutt Carey's Jeffersonians and then with saxophonist Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders, playing for the Hollywood socialite crowd.
(6) Anyone who wants to be a good Jeffersonian and be part of an enlightened populace must become attentive to public affairs, and should pay particular attention to their public officials when they're skulking about in the mist with big business.
(7) The foreign minister said Kazakhstan acknowledged the criticism of its human rights record but insisted that it was on a transition to becoming a "Jeffersonian democracy" that would take some time to complete.
(8) The former prime minister advises Kazakhstan on its long journey towards creating what its foreign minister, Erlan Idrissov, calls a "Jeffersonian democracy".
(9) For it has been your glorious destiny, notably in the turbulent years of the twentieth century, to evolve a system in which national power has grown on the basis of a passionate and Jeffersonian belief in individual freedom.
Theories
Definition:
(pl. ) of Theory
Example Sentences:
(1) This theory was confirmed by product analysis and by measuring the affinity of the substrate for the enzyme by its inhibition of p-nitrophenyl glucoside hydrolysis.
(2) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
(3) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(4) Implications of the theory for hypothesis testing, theory construction, and scales of measurement are considered.
(5) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(6) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
(7) These results are interpreted in terms of the accessory binding site theory of Ariëns, and suggest the existence of different accessory binding sites on the Ascaris GABA receptor.
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(9) This theory is supported by a previous experimental report.
(10) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
(11) These findings do not support the theory that 5-HT1C receptor activation causes migraine.
(12) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
(13) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(14) However, our theory differs in several important respects from the latter efforts.
(15) This paper provides an overview of the theory, indicating its contributions--such as a basis for individual psychotherapy of severe disorders and a more effective understanding of countertransference--and its shortcomings--such as lack of an explanation for the effects of physical and cognitive factors on object relatedness.
(16) The various theories of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are reviewed.
(17) Comparison with values predicted from theory shows that the distribution of protein among the various cross-linked species, obtained after different extents of exposure to cross-linker, is consistent with a two-layered arrangement of subunits involving one type of interaction between subunits from different layers and another between subunits within the same layer.
(18) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(19) Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has refused to say whether he believes in the theory of evolution, arguing that it is “a question a politician shouldn’t be involved in one way or the other”.
(20) These findings support the theory that plasma-membrane-cytoskeleton interactions have a role in the expression of specific immunity; the findings also identify new areas that should be considered in trying to understand the primary immunodeficiency diseases.