Not exact matches
Duncan Stewart, Deloitte Canada's research director,
points out the obvious problem with that
analysis — that slight growth at this stage in the game is
not really a good thing:
«We do
not see an imminent turning
point in commodity prices and thus forecast further negative repercussions on the Canadian economy next year,» Sebastien Lavoie, assistant chief economist at Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, said in an
analysis of the Bank of Canada's latest policy statement.
Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage
point gender wage gap, their
analysis estimates.
Once again, the
analysis statement doesn't have to be long and should cover only key
points derived from the cash - flow statement.
«The whole
point about behavioural
analysis,» explained Peter St. John, a retired professor of international relations with expertise in aviation security, «is that people can't intend evil like bombing planes and so on without showing some of it in their behaviour.»
In the recent Google case, cynics
pointed out that the EC's
analysis did
not include Amazon (amzn) in the definition of the market for online shopping searches — a seeming legal error that would undercut the case for an antitrust penalty.
But the
point is this: in the future, sustainability
analysis won't be separate from financial
analysis of stocks.
The Bureau of Economic
Analysis, the Commerce Department unit that tracks G.D.P., said the full effect of the government closure «can
not be quantified,» but estimated that the hours lost as government employees stayed home shaved off 0.3 of a percentage
point.
While the IDR does
not contain Glass Lewis»
analysis or voting recommendations, the data
points included are critical inputs for Glass Lewis»
analysis.
No matter how many data
points and geo - political
analyses and expert opinions and astrological charts we have to work with, history shows we're
not very good at predicting the future.
Well, bearing in mind that we start our
analysis with a projection that Canada's economic potential is likely to grow by only around 1.5 per cent, which is
not very inspiring, we need to take every decimal
point of potential growth more seriously than we have in the past.
You may also want to gather costs you incurred so that your customer lifetime value shows your breakeven
point (although that calculation is
not part of this initial
analysis).
It is a strategy that involves both a look at long term fundamental
analysis for the foreseeable future, but also looking at technical indicators to figure out when these two
points of view are
not in sync with each other.
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Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos
point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's
analysis that shows the federal government may
not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.
Connecting these decreasing high
points with a trend line is a standard technical
analysis tool that can help to identify whether or
not a downtrend is still intact.
My
point is merely that the
analysis required to confirm Ogden's claim — even if the
analysis can
not fail to do so — itself mediates access to the allegedly primal phenomenon, and thus leaves Ogden with a «phenomenon» which is
not epistemically «primal,» and access to which is neither epistemically immediate nor privileged nor error - free in principle.
Fr Holloway makes the same
point: «Scientific Positivism has no criterion of intellectual and moral values, because these are
not subject to experimental
analysis and verification.»
The
point of those
analyses and «historical genealogies» that have become an object of derision among the liberals — oddly, from those who advocate a return to Madisonian principles — is certainly
not to retreat to the comfort of the library or the coffee shop; nor is it to deny the contingencies of history by suggesting that 1968 follows upon 1776 with some kind of mechanical necessity.
Pacioni himself tells us that throughout his book he has «tried to reconstruct the framework of Augustine's speculation in all of its most original philosophical traits, following philosophical and logical - linguistic suggestions performing a
point by
point analysis of the texts
not only from a philological but also a historiographical, cultural and logical - formal
point of view» (p. xix).
4 The answer to this question will depend (as Deleuze clearly recognizes),
not simply upon an
analysis of the nature of monadic units, but on confronting the issue at its most sensitive
point, namely, with respect to the difference between the Leibnizian God who «compares and chooses,» and the Whiteheadian God who «affirms incompossibles and passes them through.»
This is very far from being a new
analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame),
pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage -
not least by successive governments - really was.
I fail to see how that response has anything to do with the
point that I was trying to make, and, seeing as how you seem to have missed my postings intention entirely, I will
not bother reading too deeply into your thoughtful
analysis of my commentary in return, which would no doubt be an engaging and intellectual adventure.
Whether this is the logical outworking of the metaphysical and anthropological premises of liberalism or a radically new thing — and Hans Jonas's
analysis would suggest that these are
not mutually exclusive alternatives — it marks a
point of no return in American public philosophy.
As Moltmann
points out, God - language must be set in the category of expectation, since this is appropriate for a God of promise.15 Our problem here, therefore, is
not to establish the ontological foundation for God - talk but to consider the position and claim of linguistic
analysis in relation to the question of the validity of God - talk.
But our work together thus far has already established several
points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is
not divinely preordained and need
not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need
not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit
analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.
Foer's
analysis can
not entirely be dismissed, but it is off center on a number of
points.
The
point is that remarks about the potentially distorting and demonic effects of actions» locatedness do
not need to be added extrinsically, as it were, to
analyses of human inquiry — here theological inquiry in particular — cast in terms of «action»; such remarks are entailed in the very concept of action.
Interestingly enough I recall reading an
analysis of this text which
pointed out that in the earliest versions of it the «go and sin no more» statement was
not present.
I would just
point out in passing that the
analysis so far would suggest that the ordinary, garden - variety notion of a miracle does
not seem to have any meaning in the context of a theological version of process thought.
The
point of the present
analysis is that divorce ought
not to be accepted as a normal and proper practice, for the benefit of couples who no longer satisfy each other.
That he has
not stressed this
point is of apiece with his tendency to assimilate the meaning of Christ to the more generalized interpretation of the love of God one finds in metaphysics, particularly that of Charles Hartshorne, wherein neither revelation nor Christ is finally necessary since what is conveyed through them is available through the metaphysical
analysis of the meaning of love as it is understood in a fully explicated view of God.
However, although in the
analysis of predicate denial («Socrates is
not ill» equals «Socrates is well») that which it denies (illness) is replaced by something else (health), Reese's argument can be refuted by
pointing out that in «Socrates does
not exist» Socrates» physical existence is
not replaced by something else.
Another advantage of this terminological clarity emerges in the
analysis of the famous Roman Catholic apologist Monsignor Ron ald Knox, who
pointed out in his sermon «The Cross «Word of Creation» (published in his 1942 collection In Soft Garments) that order must
not be confused with design.
Hence, to deal properly with Hegel, whose organismic understanding of reality is grounded in the
analysis of macroscopic organisms, the true
point of comparison should be the Whiteheadian notion of a society,
not the doctrine of actual entities.
While recognising that in such an
analysis, which targets both Christians and Muslims, we do
not have the
points for any kind of debate but rather are confronted with a diatribe, nevertheless, I believe that in such a forum as the Gurukul Summer Institute, where an honest spirit of inquiry prevails, and where there is a commitment to a rigorous process of theological exploration, we need to address some of the issues raised.
Whitehead's «method of extensive abstraction» is used
not only in his early writings in the philosophy of natural science but also in his later, more metaphysical, writings to abstract from the complexity of the relations which comprise the datum of sense - perception and to isolate by a conceptual
analysis those relations which express a uniform metric structure, that is, to «exhibit» a basis of uniformity in nature.21 It is the sense in which this uniformity is «required» that is the crucial
point for further investigation.
And to add to the confusion, Wills claims to admire two Catholics above all others: St. Augustine and Cardinal Newman, even though Wills» own pontifications on sex differ entirely from Augustine's views, and his lucubrations on development bear no resemblance to Newman's own painstaking historical
analysis, which would
point out to Wills that false doctrines can
not be said to «develop.»
More to the
point, Newton's «Scholium» which introduces the notions of «absolute, true, mathematical» space and time, and «relative, apparent, common» space and time (PNP 6 - 12), makes clear that absolute space and absolute time continua are thought to be necessary for a satisfactory theory of dynamics, that is, a theory of the forces which determine • the motion of material objects.7 The main idea in Newton's position is that
not all physical frames of reference are suitable for satisfactory
analysis of the motion of material objects; in fact, no physical frame of reference is completely suitable for this purpose.
Newton does
not believe that gravity is an essential property of matter, but he also denies that it can be a force that acts at a distance.15 Newton is clear on one
point with regard to his
analysis of gravitation; he is concerned with the mathematical treatment of gravitation,
not with the nature or causes of gravitation or the manner in which gravitation acts but with the conditions under which gravitation acts (PNP 5f, 192).
My
point is that on the surface, at least, the
analysis of «X is omnipotent» that goes with Griffin's third position concerning the deficiency of Premise X does
not capture the idea of perfect power as understood by Griffin and as generally understood in discussions of this topic.
Inconsistencies in fact and
point of view and the duplication of episodes are apparent even to the casual reader; and detailed
analysis of the text is easily accessible in any standard Introduction to the Old Testament.1 We are skeptical of some of the common criteria of literary priority, however; and we reject the view that the «later» sources (often late only editorially,
not in substance) are necessarily less accurate, less dependable.
Whether or nor particular quanta considered in this kind of an explanation are capable of further
analysis, or yet other sorts of forces (and quanta) are subsequently discovered, is
not, after all, the most significant
point.
But, as Bohm
points out, such a position can
not stand up to critical
analysis, for the molecules studied by biologists in living organisms are constituted of electrons, protons and other such particles, from which it must follow that they too are capable of behaving in ways that can
not be described in terms of mechanical concepts.
We need
not bother ourselves at this
point with an
analysis of the concept of sin, save to remark that he is a very blind man who can claim that his life is perfect by any standard that is at all rigorous and exacting.
Wink makes the important
point that the language of «principalities and powers» in the New Testament is
not reducible to material forces as tends to be the case in sociological and psychological
analysis.
From the vantage
point of an
analysis of lower levels the higher can
not be comprehended.
(We recall the
analysis of Paul Tillich: «This is the great function of symbols: to
point beyond themselves, in the power of that to which they
point, to open up levels of reality which otherwise are closed, and to open up levels of the human mind of which we otherwise are
not aware» (Paul Tillich, «Theology and Symbolism,» in Religious Symbolism, ed.
Scholars are
not wholly agreed on the detailed
analysis of each section, particularly as to the fine
points; but in general terms they agree remarkably well.