personhood - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • fetus: The issue I have been asked to argue, the personhood of the fetus, is triply crucial.
  • people: Grounded in the philosophy of person-centred care, DCM promotes the personhood of people with dementia and a holistic approach to their care.

Converse of object

  • distribute: It is the connections between objects that allow some unity to distributed personhood.
  • define: For Harris the ability to value life and express preferences in the context of a future defines personhood.
  • recognize: Everyone has the right to have his or her personhood recognized in law 34.
  • describe: Levertov often describes personhood as a contest between such contraries.
  • understand: Moreover, we have replaced heroes with celebrities as a result of major changes in the way we understand personhood and community.
  • achieve: Some, however, argue for abortion on the grounds that the fetus has not ( yet ) achieved personhood.

Adjective modifier

  • moral: These concern: moral personhood, issues surrounding life at its beginning, and issues surrounding life at its end.
  • human: We are caught up in an awesome struggle over the character of human personhood.
  • full: The Word, therefore, is all that God is, including His full Personhood.
  • corporate: We have a group starting here in San Luis Obispo to revoke corporate personhood on a local level.
  • legal: Nor is it obvious why the judges should conclude that legal personhood only starts at upwards of 24 weeks.
  • own: Tho by his own distinctive personhood he perfectly mirrors to us what the Father is like.

Modifies a noun

  • unfolds: White, pure Like the gift You gave of Yourself, flower Of your personhood Unfolds now Beautified in memory.

Preposition: in

  • term: It reveals a bias for constructing personhood in terms that are predominantly individualistic and essentialist rather than thoroughly relational.

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