Supervening in A Sentence

    1

    An arbiter who has accepted office may be compelled by an action in court of session to proceed with his duty unless he has sufficient cause, such as ill-health or supervening interest, for renouncing.

    2

    For if the pleasure of virtuous activity is a supervening end beyond the activity, it becomes a supervening end beyond the happiness of virtuous activity, which thus ceases to be the final end.

    3

    He died, however, on the 4th of May 1865, of inflammation of the lungs supervening on a severe cold contracted during excavation work at La Palisse, leaving a half-finished book, entitled Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was issued in parts and completed at the expense of Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Professor Rupert Jones.

    4

    Hence we have taken the Law Commissionâs recommendations on omissions and supervening fault, and included them in our draft Bill.

    5

    However, the supervening mental incapacity of the donor of the power automatically revoked that power.

    6

    Of this newest revelation Christus David was the mouthpiece, supervening on Christus Jesus.

    7

    Some unknown Peripatetic detected a flaw in the Nicomachean Ethics when he said that pleasure is a supervening end beyond activity, and, if he had gone on to add that happiness is also a supervening end beyond the virtuous activities which are necessary to produce it, he would have destroyed the foundation of his own founder's Ethics.

    8

    The minimum delay between the original order and the supervening event was calculated to be 20 months, the maximum over 2 years.

    9

    They are supervenience theses that take the supervening set A to be the identity facts for particular entities of whatever kind is in question.