Sentences with phrase «arbitrary definitions of»

The Hyper Games do not inhibit athletes with arbitrary definitions of «fairness» or with patronizing safety rules.

Arbitrary definitions of what science is shouldn't affect one's attempts to figure out the way things really are.»

We escape much controversial matter by this arbitrary definition of our field.

That's an arbitrary definition of a standard Dominant LeBron James Performance, but it's a fair measurement.

I was one person when I stood at the front of the class in my yoga studio, guiding others toward their fullest expression, and a completely different person at home — stressed out, frustrated, and resentful toward myself for not living up to some arbitrary definition of «a good mom,» as well as at my children and husband for «keeping me» from the freedom and fulfillment I craved.

(You can replace this with «get married» or make any big life decision — apparently those with anxiety need to put their entire life on pause until they fit some arbitrary definition of mental health.)

The project's unwieldy brief provides no a priori function, content, strategy, site, or hypothetical condition apart from the arbitrary definition of seven oxymoronic images.

Indeed, I think it «s morally acceptable to default if your mortgage threatens your ability to save adequately for the future, regardless of whether you can pay it according to some arbitrary definition of «affordability.»

Not exact matches

The point is not to be arbitrary about definitions, however, but rather to reveal the following theoretical issue: All three kinds of ideologies in Table have been called civil religions, but there are obvious differences among them.

Lodged in the understanding of theology as reflection upon how we are to order our lives in response to God's ordering and reordering of our lives, individually and corporately, these theological definitions are somewhat arbitrary, though not without being informed by the tradition.

His definition of firstness is one of the most precise definitions in the literature of the idea of external or nonconstitutive relation, and the definition of secondness is equally precise as definitive of internal or constitutive relations, except for the arbitrary limitation to dependence upon just one other entity.

NCB advocates like to claim that medical definitions of «normal» are utterly arbitrary and exist merely for the convenience of doctors.

Of course, like any definition, it is necessarily arbitrary, this is just a commonly accepted one.

Thus, we kept our list deliberately eclectic, pinning the notion of «best horror movies» not to any one arbitrary definition, but covering the full gamut.

The definitions of such groups are inevitably arbitrary; the students in them inevitably have different learning needs; and the educational expectations of included and excluded students are inevitably different.

By carefully studying all definitions we can see that the concept of soft skills is quite arbitrary and one can not define it 100 % accurately.

In other words, the definitions of culture and character provided in the preface strike me as arbitrary.

«I don't think our education problems can be solved with more money, but even if you do believe that, Initiative 42 is not the answer,» Callen said, adding that the school funding formula relies on an «arbitrary definition» of adequate funding.

The «ancestral» phenotype in my arbitrary definition (which, however, is in line with the views of many or most professionals in animal science) is one that comes to mind when one thinks of the Jackal, Northern Wolf, and descendants of the extinct Pale - footed Wolf (such as sighthounds).

The piece illustrates the arbitrary nature of truth in a word's relationship to its definition, pointing to the fact that text plays a visual role as itself, completing an image or idea.

While the definition of a forcing may appear a little arbitrary, the reason why radiative forcing is used is because it (conveniently) gives quite good predictions of what happens in models to the global mean temperature once the climate system has fully responded to the change.

I apologize if this comes across as nit - picking, but I think you've confused verification and validation (easy to do since they are synonyms in the dictionary, and our choice of technical definitions is arbitrary, Roache even used them opposite the currently accepted usage in some of his early work:).

As we now know, both definitions of the philosophical «scratch line» were not merely arbitrary, but rested on factually false assumptions....

First, the operational definition of climate as opposed to weather is arbitrary and heuristic.

However, Grech's endorsement of the Taskforce's proposals differed from Briton's in two ways: The first difference was that Grech was concerned that «from a practical perspective the requirements may prove unnecessarily cumbersome» for sole practitioners or small firms, and thus he proposed «an arbitrary cut off point as a definition of small firm,» for whom the implementation of AMS would not be required.

Any restriction in the application of privacy protections based on the media used to maintain or transmit the information is by definition arbitrary, unrelated to the potential use or disclosure of the information itself and therefore not responsive to actual privacy risks.

One definition of arbitrary is: «based on or determined by individual preference or convenience rather than by necessity or the intrinsic nature of something» Consequently the question becomes, who is being arbitrary and who is acting dangerously in the interests of efficiency?