(a.) Very excellent; superior or supreme in excellence; surpassing others; as, transcendent worth; transcendent valor.
(a.) Transcending, or reaching beyond, the limits of human knowledge; -- applied to affirmations and speculations concerning what lies beyond the reach of the human intellect.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, it is only by moving to this level that we transcend the paradox of man knowing and explaining himself.
(2) It was also, because it transcended family and clan interests and involved defining what the realm was, the starting point of the modern state.
(3) Common environmental questions encourage people to come together, transcending regional, political or ethical differences.
(4) Click here to watch the trailer Pfister, a long-term collaborator of Christopher Nolan , looks to have implanted some of Nolan's ideas into Transcendence.
(5) QPR lost Nedum Onuoha and Sandro to injuries – the latter had forced Mignolet into a reflex save early in the second half – but Sterling came to transcend the afternoon.
(6) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
(7) Rattle said his performances in these later years were transcendent.
(8) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
(9) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(10) The corps has in many ways enjoyed a strength in inclusivity; a brotherhood that transcends immediate political loyalties.
(11) Keating made the comments on ABC’s 7.30, a program also featuring his successor John Howard , who said that, despite his concerns about Trump, the strength of the US-Australia alliance and shared values meant it transcended individual leaders.
(12) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
(13) Some considerations are made on the importance of clinical, information and its transcendence in medical research, as well as on the ethical value of a qualitatively correct data treatment.
(14) This presentation includes many of the important pioneers and their contributions, as well as a chronicle of arthroscopy's most primitive roots and its transcendency into an accurate surgical instrument.
(15) The Starfire, Allure III, and Transcend brackets had the highest fracture resistance values.
(16) Might The Good Dinosaur be the new Cars – hugely popular with merchandise makers but Pixar’s least effective movie in terms of concept and realisation – or can Peter Sohn’s film about a 70-foot tall Apatosaurus who befriends a human boy transcend its slightly hackneyed storyline?
(17) But the students have persisted, which suggests, again, that their campaign transcends a battle over Rhodes’s legacy.
(18) The Lord of the Rings transcended the thing of simply being films.
(19) Their Prom in 2007 was the event of the decade in this country: a gig that transcended all the usual boundaries of a classical concert, such was the interest generated by the story behind the orchestra, and the commitment of its players.
(20) In fact, I think critics have missed the point about Kafka's talking beasts: like the nameless ape in the story "Report to the Academy", they are absolutely human, and the means by which Kafka asserts that it is our inclinations to the political and the transcendent that must always be provisional, while our physicality cannot be brooked.
Veritas
Definition:
(n.) The Bureau Veritas. See under Bureau.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tonight the MEP, who was facing a leadership challenge from disillusioned Veritas members, said he was standing down immediately having "tried and failed" to change the British political system.
(2) "There is a standing commitment from Veritas that there will be a leadership election in the autumn with the result being announced at the Veritas annual general meeting on September 18.
(3) But around this time, Ukip fell victim to the revived ambitions of the Labour MP-turned-talk-show host Robert Kilroy-Silk – who fancied becoming leader, until his aims came to nothing, and he left to found the long-forgotten party (the French would call it a groupuscule ) Veritas .
(4) He then founded a new political party, Veritas (“the straight talking party”), which flopped at the 2005 general election, and limped on for a decade without ever gaining traction.
(5) Damian Hockney, a Veritias member of the London assembly and another defector from Ukip, has also resigned as deputy leader of Veritas, but said he would be remaining on the assembly.
(6) Det norske Veritas offers an information video and a course as a help to hospitals in implementing the system.
(7) This quality system is to be based on the Veritas produced Model for a Quality Manual for Medical Equipment.
(8) Veritas, a legality research group, said Mugabe's amended election laws still had to be passed by Zimbabwe's parliament.
(9) Sterling said the HSBC accounts were opened by Veritas Asset Management, an investment firm which managed his personal and corporate assets, that his financial arrangements were fully declared, and that no tax had been avoided.
(10) Det norske Veritas has been engaged by the Ministry of health and social affairs to establish a system to improve the use and maintenance of technical equipment in hospitals.
(11) Most Ukip members still reach the apex of their public profile upon being expelled from the party, or leaving to form another, weirder party (Veritas, One London, We Demand a Referendum, New Deal and the British Freedom Party were all founded by disgruntled Ukippers).
(12) The system is complicated, and the manuals developed by Veritas are of little help to users at the clinic.
(13) Det norske Veritas has been engaged by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs to establish measures to improve safety and efficiency in the utilization of medical equipment in Norwegian hospitals.
(14) Television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk, who won the East Midlands for Ukip, later left to form another eurosceptic outfit, Veritas.
(15) Mr Kilroy-Silk's statement continued: "Obviously I'm sorry for all the fine members of Veritas who worked so hard to change the face of British politics but they can be consoled by the fact that the policies we championed - and for which we were vilified - are now espoused by the prime minister and the leader of the opposition - and have become part of the mainstream political debate.
(16) Mr Kilroy-Silk said that Patrick Eston, the party's acting chairman, would lead Veritas until a leadership election in the autumn.
(17) Chatshow host turned MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk tonight quit as leader of the fringe party Veritas, which he set up less than six months ago.
(18) "Those are issues that Veritas will also continue to champion in the future as we develop both the party and our policies.