conception - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • mathematics: In the case study we witness Randy working on these new ideas and fitting them with his former conceptions of mathematics.
  • morality: Now her conception of morality is ' silent ' on the question of suicide.
  • autonomy: Some of these concerns arise from the reliance placed on a liberal conception of autonomy as the necessary justification for respecting anticipatory decision-making.
  • liberty: I am not arguing about what people ought to do but about what a certain conception of liberty entails.
  • socialism: These are two completely different, and, in the last analysis, directly opposed conceptions of socialism.
  • causation: Ignorance and fear of the unknown combined with a false conception of causation and cessation resulted in many Elizabethan superstitions.

Converse of object

  • assist: Information: Several cases of children born from assisted conception developing tumors have come to light.
  • differ: These differences stem ultimately from their differing conceptions of God and of His relation to the world.
  • compete: Also Karen Armstrong writes a column that argues: We can defuse this tension between competing conceptions of the sacred.
  • articulate: The question whether European integration can articulate a conception of the social independent of national society is a major challenge for social theory.

Adjective modifier

  • virginal: But that is quite unlike the accounts of the virginal conception in the Gospels.
  • immaculate: But you believe in the immaculate conception of everyone; Catholics believe in the immaculate conception only of Our Blessed Lady.
  • teenage: The prevention of early teenage conceptions is being addressed through a separate national program.
  • miraculous: The child is said to be from the stars, implying a miraculous conception of sorts.
  • under-18: Fifty per cent of under-18 conceptions occur in the 20 % of wards with the highest rates.
  • Marxist: Does Craipeau see sufficient reasons to revise the Marxist conception on this capital point?

Noun used with modifier

  • materialist: This was established under a materialist conception of history.
  • absolutist: Most of these teachers were also found to hold absolutist conceptions of mathematics; images that matched their teaching styles.
  • commonsense: Is ` instrumentalism ' the only other possible view of the status of our commonsense conception of the mental?
  • idealist: In this paper, we adopt a legal idealist conception: that law is necessarily conceptually connected to morality.

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