Sentences with phrase «absolute value in itself»

I believe Barrante was referring to the CRU data set, which also shows a higher absolute value in 1998.

While God is absolute, it is not the case that each of His words in Scripture has an absolute value in itself.

VIX is largely price - agnostic; it doesn't attempt to reflect the absolute value in the market, merely the degree of price fluctuation.

The issues with which the author deals and the questions he raises are aimed at those who would claim any absolute values in this life, including possessions, fame, success, or pleasure.

* Robert Kane, Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World, M. E. Sharpe Publishers, Armonk N.Y., 1994.

Kane summarizes his book, Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World, M. E. Sharpe Publishers, Armonk N.Y., 1994.

There are no absolute values in the whole blind tragedy of mechanistic Nature — nothing is either good or bad except as judged from an absurdly limited point of view.

Low maximum sea ice extent also occurred over periods of some decades (e.g., mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, early fifteenth and late thirteenth centuries), with absolute values in some cases as low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. . .

Not exact matches

It's that you can't measure a player's value in absolute terms.

Personally, I'm more of a value investor and absolute return investor and will buy stocks that seem more likely than not to have a place in the portfolio.

I search for properties in Austin and let investors know which one's are the absolute best value and will get them the highest return on investment.

Put another way, the problem is using relative values — not absolute values — in calculating costs of capital.

Interest rate risk: is the risk that an investment's value will change due to a change in the absolute level of interest rates, in the spread between two rates, in the shape of the yield curve, or in any other interest rate relationship.

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

While Coke and P&G yield more than Hormel today, the disparate dividend growth shows why you shouldn't get too caught up in the absolute value of the yields here.

Bret is an absolute professional & it is a pleasure recommending him... He's a recognized crowdfunding expert & advocate in North America & a valued asset and leading ambassador to the Canadian crowdfunding industry.

Canada's exports to China lag behind other developed countries in terms of both growth and absolute value.

This is an absolute must - read for anyone in business who wants to create more value for their customers.

This is lower volatility than many other stocks in percentage terms, but because of the high stock price (absolute, not a reflection of value) the moves are large in absolute dollar terms.

As far as which is the absolute «best» citizenship by investment option, that will depend on a number of subjective factors: one's budget, how you value the specific investment deal offered by the second citizenship country (donation versus the potential for an investment return) and comfort in the country.

In this particular example, however, the moaty firm's total economic value creation (area of blue curve), in absolute and in present value terms, is significantly less than that of the no - moat firm (area of red curve), as calculateIn this particular example, however, the moaty firm's total economic value creation (area of blue curve), in absolute and in present value terms, is significantly less than that of the no - moat firm (area of red curve), as calculatein absolute and in present value terms, is significantly less than that of the no - moat firm (area of red curve), as calculatein present value terms, is significantly less than that of the no - moat firm (area of red curve), as calculated.

We argued that the market had experienced a multi-year process of de-rating, as stock prices languished while corporate cash flows and book values had multiplied, and had become inexpensive in absolute and relative terms.

Seeks to provide absolute return while minimizing volatility by investing in U.S. stocks River Road expects to increase in value, and shorting stocks River Road expects to decrease in value.

I can't say definitively that the price spike is justified, but given the small absolute increase in market value, I can easily imagine how it might be.

Interest Rate Risk is the risk that an investment's value will change due to a change in the absolute level of interest rates, in the spread between two rates, in the shape of the yield curve or in any other interest rate relationship.

That said, in terms of absolute value, the organic reach is much lower than other platforms for us as we started growing our Instagram following much later than our Twitter and Facebook following.

The Price Value of a Basis Point (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yValue of a Basis Point (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yvalue of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yield.

This is something that the Link Value Factors made clear as well; There Are No Absolutes in Linking!

Me being a man and believer in all faiths b / c all core values of faith are the same I do have to say that this article is an absolute lie.

Powell a Christian, points out in The Moral Tradition of American Constitutionalism that constitutional rhetoric «is a language of permanence, of settled decision, of absolute political value».

Once you open the door to the idea of an absolute shared value system, then you're just arguing about what is in that absolute system and how you determine it.

The decline of a moral conscience grounded in absolute values is still our problem, and left untreated, it can lead to the self - destruction of the European conscience, which we must begin to consider as a real danger — above and beyond the decline predicted by Spengler.

His predominant theme is the rise of a liberal model of civilisation which he traces from Protestantism, with its «rejection of the normative significance of tradition in the field of Christian dogma» (p. 6), followed by the Enlightenment, which placed an absolute value on the individual.

Camus is confronted with a dilemma: he does not wish to baptize history because history has resulted in the reign of terror; he does want to advocate absolute values independent of time, for that would reconstitute the «old god» that negates human creativity.

And as in the past, so in the future, they must be trained in the highest Jewish value of all — that human life is a sacred absolute

This is the more important because Shaull insists that the Christian must participate in the revolution (since in his eyes the revolution is the Fact), whatever the consequences — a palpable non sequitur, it seems to me, for to say that the Christian must participate is to make revolution a value, even in a sense an absolute value!

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

Values that are held in common are treated as moral absolutes; values that are opposed by certain Christians are presented as controversial, and a neutral stance is adopted regarding which view is right or Values that are held in common are treated as moral absolutes; values that are opposed by certain Christians are presented as controversial, and a neutral stance is adopted regarding which view is right or values that are opposed by certain Christians are presented as controversial, and a neutral stance is adopted regarding which view is right or wrong.

The global mix will not necessarily destroy the values and goals found in these cultures, but it deprives them of their absolute status, and makes them closer to personal options.

But humanity is spiritual as well as physical, and so human society is founded on the absolute value of the individual and the need for a direct relationship with God as the Environment in which men find their Life - Law and their fulfilment:

But, at the best, that value is limited, for I do not, I will not, believe in absolute values.

If the traditional formulations of God show him to be the Perfect Good, Absolute Truth and Supreme Being, since goodness, truth and being are positive values, then there should not be too great a difficulty in accepting a formulation of God's eternity as Absolute or Perfect Time, since time is now revealed to us as positive, thanks to the discovery of evolution.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

He was willing to settle for what he called «practical absolutes, «27 that is, visions of the mind or idealizations which, at any given time, had the value of an ultimate directive in decision or action, but which were clearly to be understood as being a piece with man's own nature and experience.

In such cases the value of the individual or group is made into an absolute and universal rule.

Science is not the source, nor the end, just a medium to learn truth absolute of a matter, having no value of its own, a source in mind of a hindu ignorant Atheist, self centered like an animal, Atheist.

And conversely, I believe morals can not be absolute in that they are a value judgment about certain behavior because I believe value judgments about certain behavior can not be moral absolutes.

The real question, then, is: To what extent are we willing to give up the value of absolute freedom of expression in order to protect society from expressions which might destroy other values in our society, or the society itself?

5 The Western prejudice against relativity is discussed in Hartshorne's DR.. Here, Hartshorne shows that the relative includes within itself, and exceeds in value, the nominative or absolute «as the concrete includes and exceeds the abstract» (ix).

The success of pigeons with cases of absolute value may be relevant to Richard Herrnstein's finding that pigeons possess natural concepts of person, wee, and bodies of water, in the sense of recognizing these objects in many different pictures even when the size or angle of the representation is changed or it is mixed with a bewildering variety of other objects (CVPC 550).