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  • verb Present participle of actualise.

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  • One, beloved of many business gurus, is that work should be deeply fulfilling and self-actualising.

    This column will change your life: Just the job 2010

  • "For now the challenge remains in first actualising the letter and spirit of the bills and second, carrying out through constitutional review within a year," the Nation added.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • It is in this sense that the individual becomes increasingly conscious of himself as a being that is at least potentially self-actualising and so self-fulfilling.

    Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

  • On the rare occasions that the individual suffers a “perplexity of conscience”, the difficulties can be traced either to differing conceptions of the man's telos, or differing ideas of the best means of actualising the individual's socially endorsed telos (PE 314).

    Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

  • For Leibniz takes God to have created by actualising substances which already exist as possibilia.

    The Identity of Indiscernibles Forrest, Peter 2006

  • Love the stuff about congruence, being true to yourself, I think that now you are actualising your self, and I am sure the cashflow will follow!

    A quick update Rachel 2006

  • It includes fully acknowledging and restoring dignity to the self-actualising activities of teaching, learning, and the search for new knowledge; and recognising the capacity of the human intellect to liberate through questioning and disputation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

  • It includes fully acknowledging and restoring dignity to the self-actualising activities of teaching, learning, and the search for new knowledge; and recognising the capacity of the human intellect to liberate through questioning and disputation.

    Inaugural lecture at the association of Commonwealth Universities/Mandela-Rhodes Foundation and the African Leadership Award 2004

  • The unity of the Alliance is of critical importance in realising the potential for further shifting the balance for forces in favour of the NDR and actualising this exceptional possibility for sustained socio economic transformation in favour of the poor.

    Report of the Alliance Summit 2002

  • Dr Salim further observed that the OAU Summit in Lusaka, Zambia in July 2001 called on the policy organs of the RECs to initiate a reflection on the relationship between the African Union and the RECs, including the adoption of appropriate decisions on the most effective modalities for actualising this relationship.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

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