Sentences with phrase «old ad hoc»

(Old ad hoc committees.)

Not exact matches

In the absence of an alternative, one can usually doctor up the old theory with suitable amendments, though there may eventually be so many patches and ad hoc adjustments that in the interests of simplicity one starts looking for alternatives.

Such cosmologies are almost always «vitalistic» in the sense of requiring auxiliary and somewhat ad hoc hypotheses to account for the apparent violation of the law of entropy in the impetus toward greater complexity manifested in the evolutionary process.6 Evolutionary cosmologies thus perpetuate a much older tradition of Romantic Naturphilosophie far more than providing a fully contemporary philosophy of science or some sort of «scientifically - verified» philosophy.7

Referring to a statement as true might be considered meaningful in the case of empirically proven hypothesis, or of formal statements in some symbolic logic, but never regarding ad - hoc metaphysical propositions given to you by an old «holy» book, eyewitness accounts or personal anecdotes.

My 2 year old just recently moved into a «big kid» bed and we actually use my old Snoogle pregnancy pillow as an ad hoc bed barrier, but it's too big and unwieldy to schlep around while traveling.

Over a week in mid-February, an ad hoc team of FBI agents, state troopers, Kingston cops and Investigators with the Ulster County District Attorney's Office relied on a combination of old - school police work and cutting - edge technology to identify and capture four gang members wanted in connection with the October 2017 murder of a suspected informant in Saugerties and the Feb. 2 slaying of a rival gang member in Queens.

This 30 - year - old theory makes an ad hoc tweak to the famous «inverse - square» law of gravity in Newton's and Einstein's theories in order to explain some of the phenomena attributed to dark matter.

Making an impressively assured movie debut, 11 - year - old Lohan ably delivers both Hallie's US teen - speak and Annie's cut - glass English as the sparky sisters bond over fencing duels and ad - hoc ear - piercing.

So it makes sense that Rana Dasgupta would set his new novel here: Solo is the story of a 100 - year - old Bulgarian man, who happens to be an amateur chemist with an ad hoc lab in his apartment, reflecting on his life as it was shaped by the huge, transformative, uncontrollable forces of history.

Pit bull advocates defame the Houston SPCA & Beaumont animal rescue center BEAUMONT, Texas ---- The foulest murky depths in Beaumont, Texas a week after Hurricane Harvey were not those left by the storm itself, but rather by an ad hoc coalition of pit bull advocates whetting old grudges against the Houston SPCA, possible dog thieves -LSB-...]