Sentences with phrase «as a point of reference of»

Straight Outta Compton also takes place during the Rodney King police brutality case, as a point of reference of N.W.A.'s music and real life.

Not exact matches

As a point of reference, MCX members account for about $ 1 trillion in retail sales.

As a point of reference let's say 6.4 million people (20 % of estimated 2016 US Samsung S6 users) use Samsung Pay for half of their retail payments in 2016.

Even as things change — and they will — the plan keeps the reference points of interrelationships between the different parts so that you can manage change more effectively.

As a point of reference, our in - store mobile payments forecast — which is inclusive of all mobile payment methods, including Apple Pay and CurrentC — has mobile payments reaching just under 7 % of total in - store retail volume in 2017.

As another point of reference, the Starbucks app — the most successful mobile payments app in the US — currently accounts for about 1 in every 15 dollars spent in US - company operated stores three years after launch.

Novices might wish to consider purchasing three of a particular beer for cellaring: one to consume right away as a reference point (huzzah!)

Recent advancements in the technology that powers bots have opened the flood doors for companies of all sizes, and they're rushing in to establish their bot as a point of reference for consumers.

Draft something of a job description that can serve as your reference point in drawing up a contract.

Think of these as multi-dimensional descriptors -; some are more like scales, some are buckets of conclusions, some are expressions and choices, and some are points of reference and departure.

Or you can negotiate your own prices if you'd prefer, but we recommend using online tools like SingleCare or Healthcare Bluebook as a point of reference.

As a point of reference, the professional networking site has named the 12 Best LinkedIn Company Pages of 2012 — the ones that use their page to «showcase their brand and connect with their target audience.»

Thus, the long - term target incentives for the NEOs who head these significant business segments are determined based on a blend of peer positions with similar titles at peer group companies and CEO positions among smaller companies, using the 75th percentile for peer - company positions and the median for CEO positions at smaller companies as competitive reference points.

As a point of reference, the estimated pay for one of these typical gig jobs, Uber driver, amounts to $ 3.37 / hr after expenses.

These two protruding circles that includes the Edwin Jagger logo provide a very good point of reference for your fingers while your shaving as well as provide extra grip.

This week is proving to be a critical turning point for the financial services industry, which is described in the terms of reference for the Hayne royal commission as systemically strong with the world's best prudential regulation and oversight.

In VFC's case, that basic estimate is based on reference point price - to - earnings ratio (P / E) of 15, which is the long - term average P / E of the stock market as a whole.

A good way to «drill down» to the news and information that you're looking for is to use the «Media Center» Home Page as your point of reference.

«While these numbers can serve as great reference points, it's important to remember that your ideal posting frequency will depend on how many overall posts are filling the feeds of your social followers and subscribers.

It is not just a guide to Merkur per se but does provided all the information on their offerings that anyone with questions or researching would want to have as a single point of reference.

Assemblies decide little and often leave the churches in some confusion, but they are always taken as milestone events, reference points for organized «Ecumenism» and the cause of Christian unity.

In this testimonial poem, Milosz directly acknowledges God as the absolute point of reference.

In reference to the flood, one of the most important points to grasp is that in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of powerful deities.

Roe and Casey then begat the 2003 Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down a state antisodomy statute, with Justice Anthony Kennedy making an explicit reference to Griswold «s «right to privacy» as «the most pertinent beginning point» for the line of reasoning that led the Court to Lawrence.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

This mysterious Gospel reading is punctuated by references which, taken together and with the OT as background, point to the presence of God.

As a history of its subject this book is likely to be the principal reference - point for students for a very long time.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

The editors clearly hope so, but they express that hope with a sober realism: «To the extent that the Constitution still matters — as a framework, as a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a framework, as a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a statement of broad purposes, as a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a point of recurring reference, as a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a legitimation of further developments, as a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouas a restraint on the overbearing and the righteous — to that extent it is worthwhile to try to enter into that world of discourse» (I: xii) As always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautiouAs always, however, where the historical scholarship is very good, the contemporary application must be very cautious.

The Anglo - American label may however, be put to a legitimate, if rather specific, use — namely, in the context of a selective reading of Deleuze's works from the late sixties (D&R and LS), and taking the logico - mathematical model of structuralism (developed by the Bourbaki school and taken up by Piaget) as the reference point, rather than the more familiar, but rather different, model derived from Saussurean linguistics.

As with liberation theology, feminisms elsewhere are a point of reference for an indigenous development, the nature of which has yet to be adequately described.

The source and present location of the saying, as part of the Little Apocalypse, and the probability that the section once circulated without reference to the belief that Jesus was the Son of Man both point toward the probable origin of this type of Christology: it originated among those for whom the vision of Daniel was the authoritative statement of eschatological doctrine.

The presence of other divergences too (David Moss's luminous piece on friendship stands very well alone), the dispersal of the group on both sides of the Atlantic, and the fact that some members are already deep into other conversations all suggest that as a movement it will (at least in Britain) either fragment or at best fare like feminist, liberation and nonrealist theologies, and have its main influence as a point of reference and interrogation.

Holloway considers this point quite directly and says that before the Fall, a couple would have had sexual intercourse as «an act of religion [by its reference to God] as well as an act of love [by its desire to share in God's creative work]».

All of them use the current values of secular society as the point of reference against which to present the moral teachings of the Catholic faith.

Talking about it will strengthen their confidence in us parents as their points of reference.

The Archimedean point of reference is missing, for God has no dialectical reality apart from us as well as in our midst, no reality apart from the world as well as in it.

Hittinger correctly points out that this new Thomism finds its point of reference in the human experience: «The Church has held Thomas as the master because humans themselves thirst for the kind of wisdom Thomas pursued and taught.

For example, he rightly points out that Jesus says, «You have heard that it was said, «You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy»» (Matthew 5:38), but what he doesn't say is that there is a reason Jesus uses the expression, «that it was said» instead of his usual expression, «have you not read» or «as it is written» when he references scriptural passages.

The new meaning stood for the conviction that truth, superhuman or supernatural as its reference point may be, must mean complete absence of contradictions and even of inconsistencies.

This human point of view calls for further elaboration, for one often sees reference to the cultural and historical conditionedness of Scripture as though it were a cause for concern.

The Qur» an, for instance, is full of references, which under shore the simple polarity as pointed out above.

The Qur» anic language of the form - spirit is used with reference to the cosmic becoming of al - khalq in Ibn» Arabi.38 The point is that al - khalq as pure thought of the worlds to be [SP] receives its being as the actualized worlds in the same way as Jesus came into being.

As to Jim Jones I was referring to if one does not have a true Bible as a point of reference any promise of God could be a lurAs to Jim Jones I was referring to if one does not have a true Bible as a point of reference any promise of God could be a luras a point of reference any promise of God could be a lure.

Second, Aquinas» conception of just war was the reference point for later theorists at the beginning of the modern era, including both Catholic theorists such as Vitoria, Molina, Soto, and Suarez, and Protestants such as Luther, Ames, and Grotius.

Learning that it was a human who said, «these are the four,» (in reference to the Gospels), and shutting out many of the other Gospels, most of which did not have as strong of a focus on the death and resurrection of Christ, was the turning point for me.

But it lacks a reference point outside the self, as life is improvised in the here and now to fill her emotional needs under no eye of eternity.

Propaganda is most effective when it is able to separate a person from outside points of reference, such as a transcendent religious reference, in order to encourage a tunnel vision which unquestioningly accepts this society «s worldview as «the way it is.

But though God, as the deepest reality of the universe, remains beyond man's grasp, the Christian has a tangible point of reference.

If you think this minor issue is anywhere near as bad as what the crusaders did, I think you're only point of reference is probably some movies that glorified what they did.