Sentences with phrase «ad infinitum by»

They tend to get perpetuated ad infinitum by people we trust, like friends, family, and colleagues, so we may tend to take their word for it.

You can refine this kind of model ad infinitum by adding and tweaking vessels, valves and pump etc... i.c. the parameters of the model to fit historical data or to try and make a guess at what the future will be.

If it was followed, a redo is very hard and subject to court challenge ad infinitum by greenies.

As exhibited here for the most part, the initial image, composed largely with the tools of cut, paste and save, and transformed seemingly ad infinitum by computer interventions, has been worked into another reality altogether.

And one of them can be printed ad infinitum by a private corporation in order to be loaned to governments.

This series of cuts can simply be generated ad infinitum by doubling the denominator of each progressive fraction.

Not exact matches

If that is the case, then by the same logic of cause and effect, whatever agent caused it also had to have an agent which created it, ad infinitum.

For, if P is a unit interval, then P is, by the meaning of «unit interval,» bounded by an antecedent interval prior to P and an interval posterior to P. And since the interval prior to P is a unit interval (or a moment of eternal duration, which automatically grants our case), then it too has its antecedent unit interval, and so on ad infinitum.

If the man's intellect was changed by his will and his will by something else and that something else by something further and so on ad infinitum, there would be no sufficient explanation of the fact that the man has started to think about Shakespeare.

Apart from the initial conviction that knowledge is consummated in communion the dialectic of interpretation does not climax in transcendence but only reversal, in an infinite series of reversals: the antithesis simply becomes a new thesis, which is displaced by a new antithesis, ad infinitum.

According to Zeno, temporal intervals are adequately symbolized by spatial segments: they both are divisible ad infinitum, and to the point - like extremities of linear trajectories correspond the durationless extremities of temporal intervals — instants.

PLUGGING THE DRAIN Sirs: Your article, America down the Drain by Robert H. Boyle (Nov. 16), should by law or Constitutional amendment be required reading, rereading and digesting by the President, all members of his Cabinet, all Congressmen, state governors, state representatives and all other political officeholders ad infinitum.

Catch phrases — many of academic origin (supply and demand, economies of scale, stimulus and response, IQ, schizophrenic, identity crisis, reinforcement, social skills, computer model, the selfish gene, and so on ad infinitum)-- are accepted uncritically by most literate people as representing eternal realities.

Although a clause in the law that funds NIH prevents the agency from funding research that would harm or destroy an embryo, a lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services ruled in 1999 that because stem cells — which can grow ad infinitum in culture — are not themselves embryos, the NIH could fund work with cells that were derived by privately funded researchers or researchers overseas.

Indeed, the synchrony of peak - years casts doubts on the notion that as resources become scarcer or less accessible, they can be replaced by other resources ad infinitum.

AFAIK, one of the frequent disasters is the cycle of reducing by calorie restriction which causes loss of muscle followed by a weight regain period when the diet is abandoned, followed by another diet from a worse position repeat ad infinitum or death.

But it does feature a few tributes to Back to the Future, namely Crispin Glover (spot on as a surly one - armed bellhop whose appendage - ectomy is anticipated all through the eighties flashback), a future birth threatened by the trampling the space - time continuum (aka the butterfly effect, which resident nerd Duke explains ad infinitum) and the dubious lesson that self - empowerment is merely a matter of beating up that bully from the past.

is a shoo - in to be pored over by film students at the behest of their professors ad infinitum.

Ad infinitum, he drives home the point that we aren't dealing with dictators or strongmen as is often suggested by the mainstream media so fond of vilifying these working - class heroes.

Simply stated, compound interest is the principle by which the interest you earn also earns interest, and the interest on that interest earns interest, ad infinitum.

I'd pay for a GOOD sequel to The Crystal Bearers, where they take all of the promise the concept of an action rpg with a character who has telekinesis HAD on paper (and in the awesome cut scenes), and then actually live up to that potential by letting you DO awesome stuff with TK powers (instead of just levitating enemies, and throwing them at other enemies, ad infinitum).

In a hunter game you have only one goal: get stronger by creating equipment from materials dropped by your fallen foes so you can fight better monsters so you can craft better equipment so you can fight better monsters, on and on, ad infinitum.

By establishing a basic unit and action and repeating it ad infinitum, Siena allows the unpredictability of his self - generated system to govern the final outcome of his complex picture plane, while still maintaining the presence of the artist's hand.

The exhibition Fiat Lux at the gallery Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, gathers works that deal with light by Jenny Holzer («Four Corners: Truisms, Living» and «Torso»), Brigitte Kowanz («Ad infinitum», «Brightness», «Remoteness» and «Vision»), François Morellet («4 í 4 no. 3» and «Lunatique neonly — 16 quarts de cercle No. 6»), Maurizio Nannucci («Listen to your eyes»), Keith Sonnier («Ballroom Chandelier»), James Turrell («Squat, Red»), and Richard Long («Seeming lightness of light»).

Belying digital technologies capable of spawning image after image ad infinitum, Pétrin's reproductions are executed, cut and collaged by hand.

Texts by Lawrence Weiner (born 1942, USA) have appeared in all sorts of locations over the last five decades: as vinyl or paint on walls and windows of galleries and public spaces, spoken as audio, video or performance, printed in books and on posters, cast or carved as letters and even turned into tattoos, graffiti, lyrics and so on, ad infinitum.

The principle of composition — the arrangement of internal elements within a frame, the creation of tension by the juxtaposition of individual parts — is replaced by an addition of modules, all of them identical, that could — in theory at least — be added ad infinitum.

Pipeline permits printed exclusively on unobtainium, fracking demonized daily in the media and fought in the courts, massive deposits of our highest quality coal placed off limits (by Bill Clinton, with the stroke of a pen without discussion), zero chance for new nuclear construction, drive to replace gas / diesel cars with electric cars - charged from what, ad infinitum.

Science deals with probabilities, not certainties, and there's always a small chance that what's currently considered to be caused by X is actually caused by Y. That's fundamental to the scientific method of «hypothesize, measure, compare measurements to hypothesis, update hypothesis, measure again» ad infinitum.

Rather than just piling one sign on top of the other ad infinitum, Philly likes to mix it up by having one enormous sign with an absurd amount of text instead.

Like I said months ago, CREA thinks that it has morphed into the United Nations of the real estate world, except, unlike the United Nations (another outfit made up of useless left - wing socialist idiots who conduct interminable meetings in order to vote to have more interminable meetings ad infinitum until whatever current crisis exists has resolved itself by the natural forces of nature) which is supported by actual nations» dues, CREA looks out for the interests of everyone «but» its dues payers (I just can't seem to say that enough) aside from producing expensive ads proclaiming things that the average consumer does not believe in the first place... because what the ads are proclaiming (all Realtors are professionals) is obviously not true.

All Realtor.ca does is create churn ad infinitum in the industry and makes us a National target by the CB.

Therein lies the rub; the more educated one becomes, institutionally only, thus, by others who have been educated institutionally only, by others created off of the same pattern, repeated over and over again by mere academics, most being bereft of real life forces acting regularly upon their perceptions beyond those gained from within the class room, the more slanted becomes the education system in favour of a one - way street view of the world as it «should» be, according to an academic's opinion based upon other academics» opinions, ad infinitum, and the beat goes on.