Sentences with phrase «arbitrary systems of»

But if, on the other hand, we refuse to regard human socialization as anything more than a chance arrangement, a modus vivendi lacking all power of internal growth, then (excepting, at the most, a few elementary rules safeguarding the living - space of the individual) we find the whole structure of politico - economico - social relations reduced to an arbitrary system of conventional and temporary expedients.

The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied.

In squiggles, he argues, Krasner took Abstract Expressionism as a language, an arbitrary system of signs.

Not exact matches

Both residents and state media blasted it for its seemingly unfair and arbitrary criteria, with one state - run newspaper comparing the system to the «good citizen» certificates issued by Japan during its wartime occupation of China.

Those who spoke to Quartz felt the performance review system could be unfair or even arbitrary, with managers awarding higher scores to friends or favorites, to the detriment of other team members.

«The financial panics throughout the late nineteenth century were a result of the arbitrary credit creation powers of the banking system.

As explained by Murray Rothbard (America's greatest economics historian), these pre-Fed financial panics «were a result of the arbitrary credit creation powers of the banking system.»

At scale we will use this liquidity system to set all of our exchange rates across all currency pairs for which there are liquid exchanges (in other words, the rate is not simply arbitrary.)

While numerous crypto exchanges are offering their services, the pitfalls of centralized systems plus the often unfair trading fees, arbitrary rules and security threats add considerable risk for users.

For one thing, we aimed to show that, contrary to the abolitionist claim that the system is arbitrary, in fact it is only the very worst of the worst who are executed in the U.S. today.

Segregation sustains racial stereotypes, facilitates identification by race, preserves traditional arbitrary racial taboos, and aids the suppression of those who would challenge the inequities of the existing system.

Given the continuous nature of the natural hierarchy, any effort to demarcate between living natural systems (those above a specific level of complexity) and nonliving systems (those below that level) is a totally arbitrary procedure.

If there is any public policy proposition that a pluralistic system must agree upon — for the protection of all its members — it is that human life must be immune from arbitrary violation by other humans.

Cudworth, more clearly than any of his contemporaries, realized that if nature was in some sense a coherent and intelligible system, then it could not be explained in terms either of the random movements of matter in space such as Hobbes supposed or of arbitrary and incalculable acts of God and other supernatural and demonic agents.

I focus on three of Whitehead's statements about God that, within his own system, seem somewhat arbitrary.

Also a number of our philosophers of history, in their discouragement, reduce the unfolding of events to the mathematical application of an arbitrary axiomatic system of their own invention.

But that is an arbitrary decision based perhaps on their lack of a complex nervous system.

Incoherence in a metaphysical system is the arbitrary disconnection of first principles.

It's French social theory wedded with Calvinist theology: Everyone is inextricably bound up in self - perpetuating systems of sinful behavior; when everyone is totally depraved, no one is; God, in the end, becomes a celestial umpire, naming this one «just» and that one «damned» according to arbitrary fiat.

Because there are a zillion different religions, many claiming to be the one «true» religion, and many of those religions have belief systems based on intolerance, small - mindedness, and fear, and we don't want to be subjected to those arbitrary capricious fairy tales.

In my case the disease was distinctly what would be classed as nervous, not organic; but from such opportunities as I have had of observing, I have come to the conclusion that the dividing line that has been drawn is an arbitrary one, the nerves controlling the internal activities and the nutrition of the body throughout; and I believe that the central nervous system, by starting and inhibiting local centres, can exercise a vast influence upon disease of any kind, if it can be brought to bear.

Once the physical constituents are granted an independent existence, though, they appear to usurp the whole: gathered together in systems of arbitrary complexity, but all conforming to their inherent laws of combination, they now become coextensive with the universe they so fully explain — including, therefore, the reflecting subject, which is capable of juxtaposing itself to the rest of the world, and of enunciating the theory of the very entities that constitute both.

Children are pefectly familiar with a system where arbitrary power is handed to people simply because of familial relationships.

Everybody knows that tax systems are somewhat arbitrary, few people willingly pay their taxes, and most would probably go out of their way to avoid them.

As an astute lawyer of your calibre and with your long association with the British legal system, I am very sure you know of the latter enactment, by declaring the court of High Commission, which James 11, had endeavoured to reestablish under the name of the commissioners for Ecclesiastical Caucus, to be illegal, put an end for ever to the attempts of the crown to set up courts where men might be tried in an uncertain and arbitrary manner, and which had proved such a fertile source of tyranny in the case of the then star chamber.

Rather than concentrating on improving the current system and insuring the timely designations and re-authorizations of state certified MWBE companies and their entry into the universe of state contracting, the law increases the arbitrary power of the director of the program while complicating the reporting systems required of contractors.

The state's education commissioner says she's open to granting waivers to delay new teacher evaluation for an additional year, saying the new systems should not be hastily pushed through because of an arbitrary date.

The contrived nature of the system is even more abundantly clear when it comes to the discriminatory burdens placed on the nation's minor parties and independent candidates, whether the issue is unfair ballot access laws or the arbitrary and exclusionary 15 percent polling threshold imposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Greens — or any other third - party presidential candidate, for that matter — to appear in the nationally - televised debates this autumn.

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.

A civilised society should have a system which encourages competition to raise animal welfare standards, not competition to lower them and we should not jeopardise our farming industry simply because of some arbitrary rules set down by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

Ogunsanya had filed the suit on behalf of four communities in Lagos namely: Alaba - Oro, Mosafejo Amukoko, Abule Kere and Olaniyonu, challenging the alleged arbitrary estimated billing system of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC).

Namely these factors are CAPE, which is Convective Available Potential Energy, which is the maximum amount of energy that a rising parcel (which [is] an arbitrary amount of mass) can have as it's rising through the atmosphere; wind shear, which is the difference in wind [vectors] at the top and bottom of the atmosphere; and specific humidity, which is the ratio of water to the total mass of a moist system.

His insurer eventually reimbursed him for the cost of the plane, but his plight highlights the fact that trauma care in the United States is not only geographically arbitrary, but in many places, nonexistent.Only eight states — New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, New Mexico, California, Oregon, and Washington — have fully functional, regionally coordinated trauma systems.

Lacerda claims that the spikes and plateaus are largely artifacts of the digitization of the sound and that the system makes arbitrary connections between the rates at which they occur and emotional states such as «high stress» or «untruthfulness.»

All human societies have many apparently arbitrary practices that persist for centuries or even millennia — writing systems, counting systems, sets of number signs, and calendars, to name just a few examples.

Incorporating the Vector scanning system, it can acquire whole fields, sets of arbitrary regions, curves or lines, all with synchronized piezo Z focus and power modulation.

Archive centers may wish to utilize this system to quantify classes of formerly arbitrary spectral classification strings found in classification catalogs corresponding to datasets of pointed spectroscopic observations in their holdings.

It's a safe and effective system, although performance seems to rely more on arbitrary stat boosts over demonstration and practice of any acquired skill.

As a Hitchcock blonde, she would have been expected to at least sacrifice her individuality and strength at the altar of the questionable prize of domesticity, marking the world of the picture as Hitchcock's perhaps German Expressionist - inspired nightmare of automatons ruled by arbitrary rules and social systems.

The game just feels half - baked on several of its arbitrary systems.

Lubbers observed that the issues of an asylum - seeking have henceforth been approached with prudence and led to close scrutiny of both refugee and immigration regulations.37 Refugees and asylum - seekers are the most victims of the growing climate of fear of terrorism and other transnational crimes and thus being treated with suspicion, and sometimes, arbitrary detained and, actually, deported.38 The states are changing their refugee - immigration related policies because of concern that the terrorists may gain entry to the territory through the channel of asylum system.39

Furthermore, Osborne addressed the issue of a fairer funding system, announcing that the arbitrary schools funding system will be replaced.

Parameters in the plan work to «pull» teachers already in the system to remain until arbitrary points in their careers, and «push» teachers out after these points — regardless of their life circumstances, passion or dispassion for teaching and other job conditions.

I blame a system that draws a line and says, «If you can't jump over this arbitrary hurdle, then you can't be a part of this awesome thing.

But the program also has prompted a number of states to lift arbitrary caps on charter schools and, perhaps most importantly, has gotten 36 states and the District of Columbia to introduce more rigorous teacher - evaluation systems.

The DfE has now artificially labelled our primary school system as failing through arbitrary shifts in difficulty levels of tests.

Along with putting a new Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula into statute and moving away from — beginning in FY 2019 — the practice of allocating ECS funds to towns via arbitrary block grants, the ECS formula passed by the General Assembly incorporates several key elements to establishing a fair and equitable school funding system for Connecticut.

What it does do is set up a system in which teachers can be terminated for cause but can not be fired for what are called «arbitrary and capricious» reasons meaning that they can not be fired for political reasons and they can not have their lives ruined as some part of a personal vendetta.

Originally enacted to protect against potential evils in state and local employment systems, such as nepotism, arbitrary dismissal, and political favoritism, tenure has become a common expectation of teacher employment.

On top of the developmental differences that naturally occur among baby humans, we've also got the arbitrary age requirements of the kindergarten system itself, meaning that there can be as much as a six - month age difference (10 % of their lives so far) between the students.»