Sentences with phrase «arbitrary boundaries»

In other circumstances, adult bias focuses on student behavior, with adults relying on students complying with any seemingly arbitrary boundaries and expectations laid out by their classroom teachers and building leaders.

Hence the crazily arbitrary boundary of present - day Northern Ireland — 370 miles long although Ireland is only about 100 miles across.

Viruses, meanwhile, pay little heed to such arbitrary boundaries; they prey instead on what we all have in common — our shared, human biology.

Humane education inspires young people to discover who and what they care about, to see beyond the often arbitrary boundaries placed on caring, and to learn ways to live these values.

Nevertheless John Duncan touches on one of the most important, positive aspects of foraging — it is a way to reconnect with nature on the most basic level and, perhaps, to start understanding that any separation of civilization and the wild is, at best, a fairly arbitrary boundary.

The arbitrary boundaries between regions have little to do with true local identity.

«Arbitrary boundaries are not helpful and, if anything, can be dangerously misleading on local and regional levels,» Blomqvist maintains.

«Free from the artificial limits of grade requirements they push on beyond these arbitrary boundaries.

I the parent know my son best, and I know that school choice will allow him to attend the school in which he can best learn, grow and thrive — a school not chosen by an arbitrary boundary map but by the expertise of a stakeholder — in this case myself, his mother.

Variations across time and geography must be taken into account — the ebb and flow of local populations might easily be overlooked or misunderstood by applying a short time horizon (i.e., 12 months) and arbitrary boundaries (i.e., those that define the study site).

Throughout the show, Cianciolo brought together fashion and art, performance and installation, past and present, building a creative utopia where visitors could eat, pray, read, and feel inspired enough to go on themselves to innovate, without fear of arbitrary boundaries — with the openness, indeed, of a child.

B. Make a similar map for an arbitrary boundary value, where there is only New York City and Los Angeles, population 10 million each.

On larger regions the patterns will average out if the math is correct but an arbitrary boundary may or may not have perfect representation.