Sentences with phrase «arbitrary choice of»

The arbitrary choice of 30 years is unfortunate for several reasons.

You're telling me that it is valid to look for temperature difference by an arbitrary choice of time periods and to compare them graphically, avoiding the use of statistics?

An equally arbitrary choice of 1999 - 2009 would demonstrate a positive slope, deviating upward, for example, from the flat or slightly declining interval from 1986 - 1996, also arbitrarily selected.

Unfortunately the method is you making entirely an entirely arbitrary choice of function to fit without any quantitative or even qualitiative justification whatsoever.

Trend lines are used precisely so as to avoid these kind of arbitrary choice of starting points, and using trend lines, one finds clearly that there is more absolute warming late century than early century.

He would have liked the arbitrary choice of green and its varied, intuitive placement.

Regarding allocation across the market cap is arbitrary choice of Fund manager even for Multicap / Balanced fund.

He starts by pointing to the prerequisites for being able to use the formalism of coordinate geometry, namely the arbitrary choice of an origin and coordinate axes.

But how is it possible to come to an understanding which on one hand is not based on some arbitrary choice of particular aspects, but on the other hand allows me to hear the message of the text and not something coming from my own self?

Not exact matches

The alternate vision that marriage benefits are a right, and that the lifestyle choice under marriage is irrelevant compromises the inst - itution of marriage as I argued above, and puts us in a position where marriage benefits are arbitrary and may as well be abolished.

While the choice of the Urals as the border may have been exceedingly arbitrary, the world to the east of the Urals became a kind of substructure of Europe, neither Asian nor European, that was substantially forged by the European subject at the same time as it was excluded from having subject status itself.

Our choice of two — J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away — is therefore somewhat arbitrary, but not entirely, for so much has been written about such novels as The Brothers Karamazov and The Sound and the Fury, and the stories of Alyosha and Dilsey are such perfect illustrations of the parabolic way, that they are almost too easy.

Sartre understood freedom as the arbitrary postulation of values which are created by their very choice.

Determinism rejects this and is left with a choice between Spinozism (or the Leibnizian subterfuge) and a wholesale admission of contingency entirely beyond our experience, back at the beginning or back of the beginning, some act of God, endowed with supreme freedom (in a sense in which our freedom is not simply inferior but is zero), or some mere arbitrary, absolute chance, or finally an infinite regress for which nothing at all by way of reason is conceivable.

This selection can not err for it is based upon obedience of the whole person rather than arbitrary choice.

It is arbitrary in that there are no inherent grounds in the object of that choice that compel my response... Jesus is in the world in such a way that he readies me for whatever beliefs and actions and forms of self - discipline I may be obliged to take on.

I think I accept «arbitrary» as an adequate, if partial, description, of the choice.

Thus freedom is always called to decisions which can not be derived from general norms and eternal laws alone (even though they must not contradict them) and which nevertheless are not left to an arbitrary choice but claim the whole man because of his special call.

Yet if one knows that he is doing it and knows why he does it, the dangers of arbitrary choice based on wishful thinking or one's personal point of view may be somewhat eliminated.

Of course, for practical purposes we regard the position from which we make an observation as a fixed point, but this is an arbitrary choice on our part.

Obviously many of our choices in these matters are arbitrary.

Ye t by globally imposing the «transcendence» of the arbitrary choice, it engenders a new hierarchy of values.

I was further convinced that the historicity of everything was obvious and that we were doomed to an arbitrary voluntarism in which the only choices were risk and life or caution and death.

When one couples this with what we have said earlier about man's freedom, the openness to the future which is before each of us and all of us, and the importance of decision as to choices made, the moral question is radically transformed from obedience to arbitrary command to willing acceptance of the invitation of love.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

Such choices are prompted by nothing other than the individual subject and his private conscience acting either on persuasive evidence or the arbitrary assertion of will.

The Mexico study's choice of chile peppers is completely arbitrary.

That said, it has been my choice to continue to nurse my toddler, not out of a desire to meet an arbitrary recommendation, but because we both still enjoy it.

Justice, delivered by the lowest bidder, coupled with arbitrary rate cuts will create an unviable system of legal aid that fails to grasp the importance of client choice, competition and quality.

Yet the real interest of politics is in its uncertainty, in how marginal choices produce outcomes that must appear entertainingly arbitrary to the gods who know what would have happened if the coin had fallen the other way, or if a human impulse had chosen a slightly different expression.

The choice of Barrett's lab was more or less arbitrary; it seemed suitable because it's a big, bustling lab that has been churning out Ph.D. graduates and postdocs for about 20 years.

«This is worrisome, since her choice of control variables in her previous (2012) research was conspicuously arbitrary and unjustified.»

My particular suggestion does not involve such an arbitrary choice but comes from a fundamental tension between the basic principles of quantum mechanics and those of standard gravitational theory (general relativity), especially the principle of equivalence.

When we pursue something that should ultimately be for ourselves because of the pressure from others, or because of arbitrary deadlines like holidays, we are much less likely to make good choices or stick with them.

Many of the choices seem all but arbitrary, but others are totemic: what better film to stand in for Vertigo, as a Frisco epic of traumatic verticality, than The Towering Inferno?

What an arbitrary choice: Goodbye to Language beats Boyhood for one point, but Linklater doubles Godard's amount of votes as best director.

Here, the selection by cable channels of what to letterbox seems almost totally arbitrary (Pillow Talk but not The Tarnished Angels, for instance); this Sunday TNT is presenting a whole day of letterboxed movies, but the titles selected suggest that artistic considerations had little or nothing to do with the choices.

The silvery monochrome photography itself feels like an arbitrary choice, handsome in hue but not especially evocative of the period, and exacerbating the under - composed aspect of the shots.

Finally, most of the previous reviews of the evidence on school choice have generated more fog than light, mainly because they have been arbitrary or incomplete in their selection of studies to review.

What Why Schools Matter fails to say is that countries themselves are often an arbitrary choice as a unit of analysis.

Voice and choice aren't arbitrary elements of a project — they align to the «why» captured in the project's driving question.

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.

Choice of exchange may be considered arbitrary, but it would be best to go with the exchange with the greatest number of futures contracts issued, as both will be considered liquid from an investor perspective.

The choice of what to omit is arbitrary, and does not affect the relative relationships within a set of dummy variables.

Now you have one of two choices: One, you could go through my list and break down why the games shouldn't be on the list based on an arbitrary criteria you devise to minimize the impact that a list of that size has on your point, or you can put aside pointless console zealotry and decide that the universe has room for multiple successful consoles.

And there's no guarantee of that, because it's not usually related to my gameplay performance, it's simply based on arbitrary choices I'm making.

You'll be given a seemingly arbitrary choice at the beginning of the game as to which division you'll be a part of.

If the choice of showing only her stripe paintings sounds in any way arbitrary (excluding her most famous «wave paintings,» for instance), the show is an occasion to focus on a particular selection of works with the same features.

The rat reference wasn't totally arbitrary either: At the 2015 Frieze New York art fair, Sasamoto created a life - sized maze of rooms — each offering a set of choices to move forward — that well - heeled art patrons were forced to figure out, like big drunken lab rodents.

Although potential comparisons between Bangkok and Phnom Penh can be drawn on many levels, the curators emphasise their choice of the two cities as «arbitrary».