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Sui generis
"Sui generis" in a Sentence (14 examples)
It is easy to describe second-rate talents, because they fall into a class and enlist under a standard; but first-rate powers defy calculation or comparison, and can be defined only by themselves. They are sui generis, and make the class to which they belong.
The transcendent case before us is absolutely sui generis.
The eminent Italian geologist, Stoppani, goes further than I had ventured to do, and treats the action of man as a new physical element altogether sui generis.
The system was neither free enterprise nor socialism; it was sui generis, one of the unique creations of the Middle Ages.
We see him as he sees himself, surveying the invisible depths of ethical space, with all the distinction of a specialist in the sui generis.
Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s remarkable, sui generis semi-autobiographical graphic novel, […]
The basic operational mechanisms and business practices were so new and strange, so utterly sui generis, that all we could see was a gaggle of “innovative” horseless carriages.
Hitchens was sui generis. He made most other book reviewers, to borrow Dorothy Parker’s words about the drama critic George Jean Nathan, “look as if they spelled out their reviews with alphabet blocks.”
They came up with a program that the federal Minister of Agriculture and his provincial colleagues agreed was a good and appropriate approach to handling that particular problem. They did it sui generis.
Another possibility is that the council acted sui generis and expressed a one-off view on the facts with no precedential significance.
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The refutation of Kleinliteratur conceptions enabled Kloppenborg to do away with the idea that Q was created sui generis, which, in turn, enabled him to compare Q with other ancient literature (Kirk 1998:35–36, 64).
It is word-generated knowledge or knowledge by testimony ( K. T. for short ) – a sui generis.
Prior to the 1990s a large segment of New Testament scholarship maintained that the Gospels represent a sui generis, that is, a genre unique to them. This sui generis was viewed as a type of mythology.
Insofar as none of these approaches has ever been formally overruled by the highest Court of the land, the law of deviation remains an area of controversy and is practically treated as a sui generis - that is, as a law quite distinct from the general law of contract.
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