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situational

1903, from situation + -al. Related: Situationally. Situational ethics attested from 1969 (situation ethics first attested 1955).

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situational

a. Of or pertaining to a particular situation.

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Usage examples of "situational".

This network must provide total situational awareness and supporting nodal analysis that enables U.

This network must provide total situational awareness and nodal analysis that enables U.

In plain language, psychoneurosis situational simply refers to the common fact that, if you put a man in a situation that worries him more than he can stand, in time he blows up, one way or another.

As suggested most famously by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict, a member of the OWI intelligence team, the Japanese were said to behave in accordance with situational or particularistic ethics, as opposed to so-called universal values as in the Western tradition.

There are probably a lot more situational than preferential child molesters, although a pedophile who molests will likely molest far more children over the course of his lifetime because that is where his primary sexual urges he.

He was the United States Air Force champ for situational awareness, but he'd just lost track of a combat action.

A delved chamber near Northgate that usually served as a storage barn had been hastily refurnished the night before as a situational head­quarters.

With elements of this technology now more and more on the open market to whomever has the cash or friends, the advantage of obtaining greater situational awareness and real-time processing of available data cannot be taken for granted.

Anyhow, I know that you're not going to grow up to be the kind of person who lets herself drift into problems that are obvious to everyone else, then pleads situational ethics--meaning 'this may be wrong but it's necessary.

Thats the dilemma that Situational Ethics blundered intoif you can change them Situationally, theyre not rules.

This is a finictional philosophy, requiring its adherent to endorse neither the black-and-white values that so hamper religious persons nor the embarrassing contradictions of the situational ethics that characterize both the modern atheist and those whose religion is politics.

Some sniveling worm out there who lives according to situational ethics is not going to call the police now and basically admit that he or she intended to keep the purse or wallet or both until discovering they belonged to a murdered woman, assuming that Katherine has been murdered.

His imagination did not lead him toward vigilante solutions, situational ethics, or anarchism.

A man with a passion for justice that was alien to their world of situational ethics, in which the only morals were the morals of convenience.

This is a functional philosophy, requiring its adherent to endorse neither the black-and-white values that so hamper religious persons nor the embarrassing contradictions of the situational ethics that characterize both the modern atheist and those whose religion is politics.