Sentences with phrase «arbitrary way of»

People are realizing that all those stats aren't really correlating to equal return in the W - L record and that it's hardly more than an arbitrary way of measuring someone's impact on the game.

There is no arbitrary way of determining this.

Not exact matches

More than 75 % of company retreats are absolute failures dominated by «circular conversations and way too much partying» because they «are arbitrary decisions based on a task and not a result,» says Alan Weiss, an organizational development consultant with a client list that ranges from JPMorgan Chase and the U.S. Federal Reserve to Hewlett - Packard and Mercedes - Benz.

The Fed answers it in an arbitrary way, by estimating the replacement cost of real estate structures.

The country will survive an arbitrary, pointless increase in the price of consumer durable goods, but it's still a stupid way to run the country.

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The critical method finds its way between the horns of a dilemma: It rejects restraint from without upon liberty of interpretation, and at the same time excludes an arbitrary or capricious use of liberty by accepting the intrinsic control of the historical movement within the Bible 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.

For it would seem that the arguments from order and from contingency either rest on a misunderstanding of what an explanation is, or more likely, on an arbitrary supposition that man's experience is intelligible precisely in this way.

To attempt to justify this by transforming the epistemological problem of «uncertainty» into an ontological fact is simply a way of mobilizing the present limits of scientific knowledge in order to assert an arbitrary philosophical thesis.

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.

Or put another way, subjectivity «does not mean a matter of arbitrary taste, but a subjectivity which is saturated with God.»

As voters, we are hiring these people to represent us, yet we are not allowed to screen any of them in any way beyond a few useless arbitrary requirements.

God could have willed to order creation in an infinite number of other ways, since God's will is unbounded and arbitrary.

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.

But if this is asserted and if we do not wish to think of the orientation of the development by God as a series of arbitrary measures taken by him and as giving impetus to the development from outside (a way of representing the matter which is absurd in fact and method, for all kinds of reasons), then this orientation can only be conceived as happening precisely through, and out of, 11 the of course ultimately divinely - created reality of what Is itself developing in that way.

In fact, to Richard, the claim that the divine properties are identical to each other and to God depends on the somewhat arbitrary way «one divides up the properties of a thing (how many properties one says that some thing has)» and that applies to all things, not only to God.

And it's not as if that message is tacked onto the movie in an arbitrary way; it's really placed at the core of the story, and it bleeds through every scene, almost to the point of overkill.

The watchmaker argument is flawed in that equates something that does not occur in nature, and applies the logic of design and purpose onto nature in a very arbitrary way.

As the Pope explains in his 1995 «Letter to Women,» «a certain diversity of roles is in no way prejudicial to women, provided this diversity is not the result of arbitrary imposition, but is rather an expression of what is specific to being male and female.»

Beginning with the New Testament, the Christian community has had a theological way of looking at liberation, not an arbitrary secular way.

But do we not run the risk of being arbitrary and subjective if there is no way to tell true from false disclosures?

While it is true that man's spiritual personality has its origins in a direct intervention by God, this intervention itself was in no way arbitrary or discontinuous with the previous history of the cosmos.

And think about it this way, if the school is already setting an arbitrary deadline for toileting skills and not taking into account the individual needs of each child, what other areas will they apply this thinking to as well?

What is really being pushed on parents here is the arbitrary social idea and / or judgment that the earlier the infant does not need intervention the better (in some way for the infant and eventual child and adult) and this concept is inappropriately used as a weapon often by false claims suggesting that if an infant or child can not by some pre-determined age «self - soothe» it never will, or that something is either wrong with them, and is in need of repair, or that their parents are deficient (for not setting «boundaries»).

Stories frequently emerge of advisers being set arbitrary targets to achieve this and being forced to find inventive ways to fulfill their quota.

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.

@pluckedkiwi When it comes down to it, what we define as a «humane» way of attacking the enemy is somewhat arbitrary.

To make matters worse, not even a court order could sway the agency to desist from its abuse of the constitution by way of arbitrary detention of the minister.

The British way is that every measure we take to enhance security is complimented by additional protections against any arbitrary treatment and in defence of the liberties of the individual.

But do they really want the heads of MPs to be chopped off in such an arbitrary way?

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.

What seems universally overlooked in casual conversation is that, much in the way of Gödel's theorem, Church and Turing answered the computability question in the negative: Algorithms can not compute all numbers or functions to arbitrary precision.

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

Our labs are science - based mini-societies — so why do we run them in the same arbitrary and bureaucratic way as the rest of the world?

The direction of the sequence is fundamentally arbitrary, yet if you grouped it the wrong way, it would look like a time reversal.

Eric Posner, a UC law professor and co-organizer of the conference, says it is too early for courts to adopt Oswald and Powdthavee's method but notes that it may be less arbitrary than the existing way of assigning damages.

And they have revolutionised the way we think about location — putting us, rather than some culturally significant but geographically arbitrary prime meridian, at the centre of the map (see «Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us «-RRB-.

An article by two Brazilian scientists in the April issue of the journal Animal Cognition points the way to the future for how dogs can communicate with people about such things as being hungry (Rossi, A. P. and C. Ades, 2008, A dog at the keyboard: using arbitrary signs to communicate requests, Animal Cognition 11: 329 - 338).

You want to touch everything to see if it still matters the way it did before the feeling as powerful and arbitrary as love itself took hold of you and shook you up just enough to want to come home and relearn the world.

The AI was arbitrarily set by the DRI committee at 1,500 mg sodium or a little more than one half teaspoon (3 grams) of salt per day for young adults ``... to ensure that the overall diet provides an adequate intake of other important nutrients and to cover sodium sweat losses in unacclimatized individuals who are exposed to high temperatures or who become physically active...» However, no supporting information on young adults was provided to confirm that this arbitrary figure was in any way justified.

Roos, though, hasn't cracked the puzzle of how to explore that behavior on screen in such a way that the characters behave badly in interesting, rather than arbitrary, ways.

Their actions feed the narrative rather than the other way around, so when the fight scenes and explosions start, they feel plausible and organic instead of arbitrary.

If you can overlook little things like wooden acting and clumsy dialogue and arbitrary twists, you'll find an insane tale of zombies from hell invading Earth and eating their way through a cast of crucified martyrs, blind visionaries, creepy hotel handymen and befuddled cops, while a plucky pair of heroes desperately fleeing a horde of hungry undead.

His pointedly off - kilter direction subtly establishes the immediacy of bored chocolatier Hermann Hermann's (Dirk Bogarde) rapidly unraveling emotional well being, and in almost each scene, Fassbinder instantly establishes arbitrary oppositional relationships between Hermann and commonplace objects in ways that Stoppard's script only hints at.

Others have since suggested that the use of the five - point scale to grade student work depends too much on assumed «common sense» notions of achievement that — in reality — are based on arbitrary teacher judgments with very little consistency between teachers, classes and schools, offering parents little in the way of useful information (London, 2012).

«If there is a way to grade schools that can realistically take into account different demographics of schools, that's one thing, but that's still attaching Draconian consequences to what are inevitably somewhat arbitrary scores.»

(B) It is therefore the purpose of this Act to promote employment of older persons based on their ability rather than age; to prohibit arbitrary age discrimination in employment; to help employers and workers find ways of meeting problems arising from the impact of age on employment.

If it is not safe then they should be prosecuted for dangerous driving not simply exceeding an arbitrary limit which takes no account of weather, vehicle, driver, time of day or any other factor that has far more bearing on stopping distance than one or two mph either way.

That other consumer reporting magazine did not like it, mainly for arbitrary reasons, such as the foot - operated emergency brake (by the time of their 1991 review, only 2 % of buyers ordered the manual transmission) and claims that the doors and hidden hatchback could hit drivers who leaned over in just the right way.