Sentences with phrase «as a phenomenon of»

The precipitous decline of liberal Protestantism is frequently viewed as a phenomenon of the last few decades, but the stereotype of religious liberalism as desiccated and dying goes back much further in time.

Large sections portray contemporary anti-Semitism as a phenomenon of the right, with a full chapter given to a vicious caricature of «the religious right,» when in fact anti-Israel and overtly anti-Jewish passions today are more than equally on the left.

Lloyd Morgan (1933; cf. Wright 1935) treated the origin of mind in the course of evolution as a phenomenon of the same sort as the emergence of a new organ or physiological capacity.

Looked at from the outside, it is certainly not visible as love in the real sense of the word, but only as a phenomenon of spiritual or psychic history which is open to various interpretations.

The author attends a meeting of the Promise Keepers at Oakland Coliseum and reports on the event, as well as the phenomenon of this successful men's movement.

And although we think of this as a phenomenon of the 21st century, it's been going on much longer than that.

Another line of research dovetailed with Steere's work, locking Lyme disease into place as a phenomenon of the Northeast.

I have outlined the relation between effort and reward, as well as the phenomenon of diminishing returns in the article

Okoshi also found inspiration in the work of Mark Toby... Is it reading too much into the relationship of this postwar period and the Japanese - ancestry if not nationality of several of these artists, to offer that Yellow Slow (by Kawabata) is a shape that could have expressed nuclear fission as well as a phenomenon of perception?

Donald Judd was a major figure in the Minimalist art movement in the 1960s when he and others sought to create a depersonalized art in which the physical properties of space, scale, and materials were explored as phenomena of interest on their own.

If it could be expressed equivalently as a phenomenon of tidal forces, then it would be valid.

«Posner goes on to explore the subtleties of motivation, reception and culpability of a range of literary, student and academic plagiarists and near - plagiarists as well as the phenomenon of ghostwriting, and the difficulties of writing textbooks without borrowing ideas.

Most Australians prefer to think about the Stolen Generations — and other brutal episodes in 230 years of colonisation — as a phenomenon of the past.

Not exact matches

The so - called «buy the dip» phenomenon has been a hallmark of the eight - year bull market, helping sustain it as traders use weakness as an excuse to load up on more shares.

«I think of it as a local phenomenon,» he said of real - estate prices, effectively ruling out the possibility that his interest - rate policy has stoked a national mania.

Wishbone became somewhat of a viral teen phenomenon, and as of September, just months after it launched, Wishbone had been downloaded 3 million times.

But as it and other digital «cryptocurrencies» have evolved, along with the public ledger system that makes up the blockchain, much of the bitcoin economy has been increasingly overtaken by big money — or by entrepreneurial prospectors who want to grab a piece of the bubblicious ICO phenomenon.

This is what's known as «a phantom traffic jam,» and according to new research out of MIT (hat tip to Lifehacker for the pointer), the phenomenon isn't caused by ghosts (or even road conditions).

Some people would blame a similar phenomenon known as «the paradox of choice,» which contends that too many options can make people feel less satisfied.

«Apps such as Tinder are taking advantage of a simple emotional phenomenon; we can't feel data.

Make a tear - off flyer These easy - to - create flyers have become an online phenomenon as office workers attempt to develop new and inventive ways of creating tear - offs that will seek the attention of their co-workers — or even the general public.

As recently as last May, Balsillie told attendees at the annual RIM conference he wasn't seeing evidence of the bring - your - own - device to work phenomenoAs recently as last May, Balsillie told attendees at the annual RIM conference he wasn't seeing evidence of the bring - your - own - device to work phenomenoas last May, Balsillie told attendees at the annual RIM conference he wasn't seeing evidence of the bring - your - own - device to work phenomenon.

Those thrown out of work would have difficulty finding new jobs, as their existing skillsets are not otherwise in demand, a phenomenon economists refer to as structural unemployment.

The phenomenon of Brooklynization has officially reached the point where the cool kids who couldn't shut up about it 10 years ago now dismiss it as fad.

PsyBlog quotes Peter K. Jonason, one of the researchers who documented the correlation, to explain the phenomenon: «Those who scored highly on the Dark Triad traits [narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy] are, like many other predators such as lions and scorpions, creatures of the night.

Hoffman credits Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, for the term «extended intelligence,» or «treating intelligence as a network phenomenon and using A.I. to enhance, rather than replace, human intelligence.»

The two least - notable events for Americans, of the 10 possible choices in the poll, were the Angelina Jolie - Brad Pitt divorce filing and the «Pokemon Go» app game phenomenon, each described by most as forgettable.

Williams became something of an internet phenomenon, with his light show going as far as being featured in a Miller Lite commercial.

Aurora Borealis Otherwise known as «northern lights,» there are a variety of ways to enjoy this arctic phenomenon.

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

As of last week, this weird phenomenon accounted for a delay of close to 6 minutes.

As human beings, we frame new phenomenon using our existing mental models, which means we need to think differently in order to succeed in this new era of digital change.

Since then, longer rates have come closer to being overtaken by short rates, a phenomenon known as yield curve inversion, which has been a reliable precursor of past recessions.

Irma is not expected to linger over the U.S. mainland as long as Hurricane Harvey, a phenomenon that led to record rainfall and storm surge in areas of Texas and Louisiana.

This phenomenon is known as groupthink and it is a silent killer of good decision - making.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

The phenomena is larger than the people: having traveled a lot, I would argue that the entrepreneurs and engineers in San Francisco are pretty much the same sorts of people as the ones you'd find anywhere.

To judge from media coverage, one might think of the U.S. tech industry as a bi-coastal phenomenon.

Karsan suspects that Research In Motion has been a victim of a phenomenon he sees often as a value investor: confirmation bias, the tendency to selectively place undue importance on items that confirm one's original opinion.

That's just one example of a phenomenon known as griefing.

More than introducing new products or marketing strategies, Facebook wants to cement its position as the social backbone of the web — and entrench itself as more cultural phenomenon than corporation.

Call it «the sharing economy» or, as Sunrun does, «dis - ownership,» but whatever term you use, the phenomenon is largely the same — thanks to a host of smart companies, it's now often easier to rent, borrow, or lease many items than to actually own them.

Multinationals, as strong as they might be, are fighting the global phenomenon of king dollar.

The January effect is also a stock market phenomenon that occurs at the end of the year as investors begin to fret over taxes.

«The psychiatrist sees symptoms of diagnosable conditions in everyone from the grocery checkout cashier to his spouse; the economist views the simple buying of a cup of coffee as an example of a macroeconomic phenomenon.»

While social influence behaviors like ingratiation are typically thought of as a dyadic phenomenon (that is, involving two people — the ingratiator and the ingratiated), these behaviors are actually embedded in a much more complex and dynamic work environment, which includes many other people.

The results of Snapchat's news gathering can be seen in a post that Mashable did, as well as a similar piece that Business Insider did on the phenomenon.

Rather than assuming that people understand their own interests and act according to them, the writers approach the negotiation process as a phenomenon that's only understood as a set of essentially irrational and emotional responses.

Psychologists have known for a while about a phenomenon called «reciprocity of liking»: When we think someone likes us, we tend to like them as well.

In his book, The Upside of Irrationality, psychologist Dan Ariely refers to the phenomenon of being too wedded to a personal philosophy as the «toothbrush theory.»