Sentence examples for doings from high-quality English sources.

• Disguise, deception and dastardly doings await.

• He told his brother of his plans and his doings.

• When morning came he was very stiff, but well pleased with his doings.

• and she shook her finger at him, “I have even heard of your doings in Paris!”

• These beings and doings together are held to constitute what makes a life valuable.

• …form (1836, 1838, 1840) as The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville.

• It has worked hard to monitor citizens’ internet doings, and block or filter content it does not like.

• They narrate the seductions and other doings of a Galician womanizer who is partly an autobiographical figure.

Use doings in a sentence.

• Functionings are ‘beings and doings’, that is, various states of human beings and activities that a person can undertake.

• The growth in what governments spend typically comes with a growth in what they do, and how much they control the doings of others.

• “Feng has not breached the Chinese law — his doings were not even in China’s jurisdiction, and the Chinese government has no right to persecute him.”

• Hall argues that safety net cases belong to the category ‘denials of resources’ which are both conceptually and morally distinct from standard doings and standard allowings.

• A media company with a legacy unlike any other, Forbes remains true to founder B.C Forbes’ mission stated on the cover of its very first issue, to be “devoted to doers and doings.”

• Soon-Shiong has a long — and sometimes checkered — history in the medical field going back to the 1990s, but has kept a relatively low profile in the political, cultural and philanthropic doings of the city.

• On some interpretations (close counterparts to the Millian conception of action), Locke takes forbearances to be voluntary not-doings (e.g., Stuart 2013: 407) or voluntary omissions to act (e.g., Lowe 1995: 123).

• Taking on the doings and non-doings of the past four years will be a knotty task, not least because the current Administration has recently kept doing new things, or allowing things to be done, that could be hard to undo.

doings sentence examples

• The rescue groups have expressed concern the Defend Europe activists will try and disrupt their work and endanger lives, although the group insists its intention is to "achieve a complete documentation and observation of the doings of those NGOs” with the aim of stopping them from patroling the Mediterranean.

• In all these normative exercises, the capability approach prioritizes certain of peoples' beings and doings and their opportunities to realize those beings and doings (such as their genuine opportunities to be educated, their ability to move around or to enjoy supportive social relationships).

• The experiential or denotative method tells us that we must go behind the refinements and elaborations of reflective experience to the gross and compulsory things of our doings, enjoyments and sufferings—to the things that force us to labor, that satisfy needs, that surprise us with beauty, that compel obedience under penalty.

• Another issue raised by attempts to subject the concept of supererogation to some version of the general schema is that of “offence” or “suberogation”: if there are non-obligatory well-doings (supererogation), are there also — as their mirror image — non-prohibited wrong-doings (“permissive ill-doings”)?