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n. 1 (plural of development English) 2 A group of building complexes or apartments. Often used for low income housing.

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But Christian asceticism aims not to destroy nature, as voluptuaries pretend, but to regulate, direct, and restrain its abnormal developments for its own good.

The natural law is law proper, and is reason only in the sense that reason includes both intellect and will, and nobody can pretend that nature in her spontaneous developments acts from intelligence and volition.

Higher aesthetic development, which Kant hints at with his notion of the sublime, would indeed refer to aspects of higher UL developments, but that is not what Kant has in mind for his integrating link.

For his position is, in the last analysis, a form of elevationism, and it is necessary to face this directly if we are ever to make sense of the truly deeper or higher developments of genuine spiritual and mystical experience.

We see it in Marx: rationality, as a worldcentric mode of cognition, will, with its economic developments, overcome egocentric and ethnocentric class divisions and usher in a true communion of equally free subjects.

It not only flattened the Kosmos to a one-dimensional, monological affair, it sealed out the possibility of deeper and wider developments that alone could defuse its own insoluble dilemmas.

Given the very crude state of modern cognitive science, the authors, in a sense, had no choice but to give a Hinayana-level account, and in many ways I think this can serve as a beginning foundation for the yet-higher developments of cognitive understanding, to which, no doubt, the authors of this volume will contribute in no small measure.

Because this camp centers on exteriors, it has an incredibly naive and anemic conception of all the inner and interior developments necessary in order to be able to embrace the All.

Analyze foreign intelligence systems and practices, technological advances, trends, and developments in order to develop and interpret data on the crypto-logic accomplishments and potential of foreign countries.

The earliest traces of the civil order proper are found in the Greek and Italian republics, and its fullest and grandest developments are found in Rome, imperial as well as republican.

God to create existences with the capacity of being completed by successive developments, and actual time is the relation of these in the order of succession, and when the existence is completed or consummated development ceases, and time is no more.

Natural developments cannot in all cases be even allowed to take their own course without injury to nature herself.

It forces nature in her developments to submit to a law which is not in her, but above her.

They are normal developments, not corruptions, and the transition from the consular republic to the imperial was unquestionably a real social and political progress.

And yet the Roman people, had they chosen, could have given a different direction to the developments of their constitution.