8 sentences with 'implied'
Example sentences and phrases with the word implied and other words derived from it.
• « The Umayyads imposed taxes throughout their empire, and even insisted that their fellow Arabs pay a tax on their land, which met with enormous resistance because, for Arabs who were not used to paying taxes at all, it implied subordination. »
• « In practice, however, Calvinism implied a kind of circular argument about salvation. Those who were among the elect acted in certain ways: they lived according to the standards of behaviour defined in the Bible, abstained from worldly pleasures, and strove to behave within the legal and social framework of their societies. »
• « They also (incorrectly) described women as having smaller skulls, which supposedly implied lower intelligence. »
• « His conclusion was that all he really knew was that he doubted, that there was something that thought and operated sceptically, which in turn implied that there was a thing, himself, capable of thinking. This led to his famous statement "I think, therefore I am". »
• « This idea was hugely inspiring to other Enlightenment thinkers, because it implied that society could be perfected if education was somehow improved and rationalised. »
• « A large number of people, starting with elite male theorists, came to believe that Darwinism implied that a kind of parallel evolutionary process was at work in human society. In this view, success and power are the result of superior breeding, not just luck and education. »
• « The French Revolution's most famous revolutionary feminist, Olympe de Gouges, was executed for daring to argue that such things as "equality" and "liberty" obviously implied that men and women should be equal. A century later, her vision remains unfulfilled. »
• « He would not allow himself to be helped in any way. He absolutely rejected any behaviour that implied he was not a healthy person. »