Sentences with phrase «arbitrariness of»

This method retains the strengths of voxel - based analysis while addressing some of its drawbacks, such as aligning images from multiple subjects and the arbitrariness of the choice of spatial smoothing [23].

In efforts to minimize the arbitrariness of how courts define the worst of crimes, and to eliminate potential bias in capital and other criminal sentencing, the Depravity Scale research aims to distinguish the specific evidence — that is, the intents, actions, and attitudes of a given crime — that warrants the most severe sentences.

The arbitrariness of how this could be applied, and the feeble protections Canadian citizenship now provides, means that Canada may have difficulty in the future attracting economic investment and maintaining our immigration levels.

A series of barriers collectively reduce the effectiveness of initial and subsequent monthly reviews of detention sentences including: arbitrariness of decision - making in detention reviews; detainee's difficulty in gathering new evidence while in detention; standard of proof for detainees; and prohibitive release conditions: Petra Molnar and Stephanie J. Silverman, Everyday Injustices: Barriers to Access to Justice for Immigration Detainees in Canada, Refugee Survey Quarterly (2016) 35 (1): 109 - 127 [Molnar & Silverman, Everyday Injustices].

The fundamental problem, he says, is the arbitrariness of a provision that allows a justice of the peace, in granting or denying bail for whatever reason, to limit the discretion of a superior court judge in deciding whether to grant enhanced credit.

Under the principle of legal certainty, legal provisions must be clear and precise to enable people to predict the consequences of their actions and exclude the arbitrariness of public authorities.

Law is supposed to structure the power and exclude the arbitrariness of public authorities.

I do not judge that getting into personalities on these issues such as Gergis 2016 and post fact selection have much bearing on the issue at hand which is what will a sensitivity test using other criteria for post fact selection of proxies reveal about the arbitrariness of the method and in effect showing the inappropriateness of the post fact selection method.

There is still another source of uncertainty not noticed by Loeb, or indeed by nearly all authors who use time - series regression: the arbitrariness of the starting and ending points.

Piece-wise joined or step - like constructs of linear trends (figs 1 and 3) would always suffer from the arbitrariness of the breakpoints.

Baldessari clearly belongs to the camp that doesn't quite see the distinction as clear - cut, repeatedly asserting the arbitrariness of categories in his works and writings.

On the arbitrariness of police treatment and abuse.

Maychack has found his own way to this sort of provocation, echoing Duchamp (1887 - 1968) less than 1960s makers of the «shaped canvas,» such as Frank Stella, whose paintings» eccentric geometry made the arbitrariness of pictures» rectangularity clearly felt.

All Sherman's personas in Untitled Film Stills project the constructed idea of the women's image, pointing out the arbitrariness of the female stereotypes.

In his charming remarks earlier this afternoon during the press opening of the less than charming 2010 Whitney Biennial, co-curator Francesco Bonami (who wistfully regretted how difficult it was convincing artists half his age to dine with him) alluded to the intrinsic arbitrariness of all Biennial exhibitions.

United States artist Ian Cheng explores the arbitrariness of human behaviour and power systems.

At the core of his work, which seeks to animate the inanimate and elevate the ordinary to the revered, is a deep pathos that examines the arbitrariness of existence through both an expanded understanding of sculptural form and a nuanced reflection on the artistic process.

Much of her work takes up the concept of time, sometimes to consider alternative notions of the temporal experience, and other times to approach the arbitrariness of time and freedom from time.

Their voices should be listened to without the arbitrariness of our Western clichés and we should concentrate on a narrative from another place.

Works by a selection of younger artists who also represented Cyprus at Venice Biennale during the last ten years or so, traverse across ideas of construction and deconstruction, presence and absence, while concurrently investigate issues around the subjectivity and arbitrariness of mindsets as well as the mapping of oneself in the sphere of existence.

With his work, Ted Stamm draws as much from a Minimalist, hard - edge legacy as it does from the randomness and arbitrariness of his own life.

The portraits, which are part of a series she worked on daily from 2011 to 2013 as a «warmup in the studio,» explore the arbitrariness of skin color.

The arbitrariness of such a set - up is epitomized by Bhavini Bhakta, a teacher - of - the - year who lost teaching positions in four Southern California schools over eight years because she lacked seniority.

The lawsuit also cites the arbitrariness of TVAAS estimates that use test results of only a small segment of a teacher's students to estimate her overall effectiveness.

«I think in an era of globalization, and the increasing movement of capital and jobs across borders, gone should be the days of the arbitrariness of national limitations on the «pursuit of happiness.»

In states that have rejected adequacy suits, the courts» analyses have hinged on the inherent arbitrariness of finding a specific standard and the unconstitutionality of applying a static interpretation on clauses whose meaning must evolve.

The picture addresses the ways in which an ordinary working - class family, poleaxed by the arbitrariness of their orphaning (the father has died from an allergic reaction to a bee sting), takes on the burden of grief and regret in the wake of intolerable loss.

The wordlessness of its epilogue isn't one of Ozu's pillow moments but rather surrender, mute, to the absolute arbitrariness of the universe.

They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery

I didn't like the arbitrariness of that.

One of the delights of Watson's collection is that all these categories merge together, and the silly arbitrariness of subgenre classification becomes irrelevant.

And «the ultimate arbitrariness of matter of fact from which our formulation starts should disclose the same general principles of reality, which we dimly discern as stretching away into regions beyond our explicit powers of discernment.»

It is only in terms of this broader context that a political theory's substance can hope to attain insights of greater breadth and validity than those of the myopia of academic «departments» or of the arbitrariness of de facto power.

For sheer fatuity, on this score, it would be difficult to surpass Martin Kettle's pompous and platitudinous reflections in the Guardian, appearing two days after the earthquake: certainly, he argues, the arbitrariness of the destruction visited upon so many and such diverse victims must pose an insoluble conundrum for «creationists» everywhere» although he wonders, in concluding, whether his contemporaries are «too cowed» even to ask «if the God can exist that can do such things» (as if a public avowal of unbelief required any great reserves of fortitude in modern Britain).

In this section, I have shown how my revisions reduce the arbitrariness of Whitehead's God.

The arbitrariness of it astounded me; in comparison, nothing was too marvelous.»

Unless one thinks that God's act of creation is purely arbitrary — and it would be incoherent to attribute arbitrariness of any kind to a God of infinite goodness (an argument for another time)-- then one must understand creation as a direct expression of God's own Logos.

The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.

My demand is, that the ultimate arbitrariness of matter of fact from which our formulation starts should disclose the same general principles of reality, which we dimly discern as stretching away into regions beyond our explicit powers of discernment.»

Ken really exposed the arbitrariness of his arguments when he admitted that he cherry - picks which portions of the Bible he accepts as literal and which he accepts as figurative.

Indeed, what is most striking about these stories is the arbitrariness of the prosecutions, and how disproportionate the consequences are to the crimes.

We can complain about the opacity and arbitrariness of China's governance, she points out, but our own rules with respect to foreign direct investment are no clearer.

Not exact matches

But if there has always been a realm of finite actualities, and if the existence of such a realm (though not with any particular order) is as eternal and necessary as is the existence of God, then it also makes sense to think of eternally necessary principles descriptive of their possible relationships... [T] his correlation between freedom and intrinsic value is a necessary one, rather than a result of divine arbitrariness (PTE 711).

Jettisoning the idea of creation also destroys both the notions of obligation (reducing it to a cautious prudence that restrains no one but the timid) and order (replacing it with arbitrariness and caprice by denying any basis for a unifying principle of reality).

Therefore it is not that we see the relationship of the sexes and apply them analogically to Christ: such a thing implies a certain arbitrariness to our decision.

How then do we present the Church's teaching to the modern world in its orthodox meaning, yet without introducing any sense of arbitrariness or incoherence into God's works, which is what the thinkers named above were all rightly keen to avoid?

The second leads toward a view of divine arbitrariness that makes nonsense of human responsibility.

The charge is that the juxtaposition of faith and truth leads to a self - deceptive arbitrariness.

(p. 591) But his most serious charge is that the consequence of Whitehead's adherence to these two positions is a deep - seated arbitrariness in his system, that some of the characteristic features of his doctrine are without adequate foundation, that his insistence on them must in the end be convicted of gratuitousness.

The natural life and the cultural (spiritual) life will be dominated by the vortex of the global market and their relations will be in dire confrontation in such a way that the natural life will be victimized by market - dominated economic and cultural artificiality and arbitrariness.