Sentences with phrase «as finite»

Australian law and policy has identified water as a finite resource that needs to be regulated.

«We show that the fundamental legal structure of a well - written financial contract follows a state - transition logic that can be formalized mathematically as a finite - state machine (also known as a finite state automaton).»

It's the fourth-most bike - friendly city in the world according to some, but living here, you get to see how the city doesn't view being «bike - friendly» as a finite goal: that there are always ways to make things even better for cyclists.

By the way, the cost of oil will continue to rise in the future as the finite supply of dinosaur juice goes down.

In these crisp black and white photographs of the Great Plains, Deal drew upon 19th century survey photography, but used the horizon line and symmetry of square format to reframe our perception of the landscape as finite.

She creates experiences for viewers to observe and reflect on biophysical transitions as finite materials cycle between a figure and its field.

All the paintings should be considered in this way as finite and functional on their own, but also as a step for the development of a complex corpus that should be seen together and experienced in situ along the environment.

I like this game play aspect better than if the game used the TV screen as a finite box, which would make the game feel more claustrophobic considering how big the planes are.

Additionally, you can use shards and crystals to level up your heroes, but these resources are almost as finite as Orbs.

Only to amortize intangible assets which are recognised as finite useful life.

«Paged» media exists as finite pages, like books and magazines, rather than as long scrolling stretches of text, like most websites.

Meanwhile, the game's magic system does away with the concepts of mana pools or the old - school spell tiers, instead existing as a finite resource whose relationship to the party's combat stats introduces a risk - reward question to every battle: Do you cast magic and risk weakening your team, or tough it out?

Church: To some extent analytic biology — that's to say analyzing what's out there as finite but synthetic — is infinite, I mean it's only limited by imagination and a few physical laws.

H: Some people will be very disappointed if there is no ultimate theory that can be formulated as a finite number of principles.

If nomological generalizations were restricted to specific finite space - time regions, the class denoted would be closed and the law statement could be expressed as a finite conjunction of singular statements.

We could say he has a spiritual body in heaven, transcending space - time, but this spiritual body was present to the apostles as a finite living human body in space - time.

Just as finite events receive some of their reality from the predecessors they perceive, so it is with God.

The fact that you referred to me as finite, ignorant, retard is quite appropriate as my cognitive faculties are quite limited.

We follow the Infinite to learn how to live as finite.

In the humanist world view, human freedom is accurately described as a finite freedom, even a created freedom.

Man also enjoys an internal awareness of his own existence and of the existence of his fellow creatures as finite - free parts of an infinite and encompassing whole.

If the word of God can be spoken in this world at all it can only be spoken as a finite word of man.

So far as the finite lives of men are concerned, our hope is that our own life and those of others will be accepted by God as having contributed to his purpose for the world.

From Israel we have learned to see man as a finite creature whose purpose in life is to serve God by the way he lives his life, cares for his fellows, treats all other forms of life and uses the world.

As a finite reality, it explains predicamental being by predicamental being, the categories by something within the categories, in other words not at all.

Let us grant to the modern spirits of the times that, as finite creatures, our view of the world is necessarily limited.

Institutions are as finite as persons — perhaps more so.

The problem arises because, as finite creatures, we inevitably see the world from some particular point of view limited by culture and history.

The solution of the eternal recurrence depends essentially on Nietzsche's conception of the external, independent relation of time to becoming and willing, coupled with his notion of time as infinite and the becoming universe as finite (TSZ 178).

In doing this, we have also seen how one of the consequences of authentic preaching is a determination, established in the hearts and minds and wills of those who have assisted at worship, to give themselves more fully to the service of God — as «co-creators», in Whitehead's fine word, with God in the great work of «amorization», establishing in this world (so far as a finite order will permit it) a society marked by caring, justice, responsibility, interest in others, and relief from oppression, devoted to everything positive which promotes the fullest actualization of human possibility.

The nominalists concluded that our speech about God could only be equivocal: As finite beings, we can have no concepts that capture the infinite being of the infinitely transcendent God.

Religion is a highly conservative thing because the fundamental needs of men as finite and delinquent creatures aspiring after infinity and wholeness do not change.

In short, as finite beings, possessing a combination of personality assets and liabilities, all of us fall short of these ideals

b) we're finite, but we've learned more about God's character this way c) God planned to use our self - rendered destruction to demonstrate his unmerited grace that we would not otherwise personally comprehend as finite creatures

Ramsey's approach, by contrast, grounded in the paradoxical duality of our nature as finite and free, must seek to balance the intricate simultaneities to which this duality gives rise.

Having said this, we must not forget, however, that it is also appropriate to think of ourselves as finite beings, limited by biological and historical constraints.

Finally, it may be useful to ponder whether thinking about death from the perspective of our nature as finite and free can give us guidance about how we ought to live as we grow older.

Based on the evidence that we as finite beings with finite perception have gathered, it is a pretty good guess.

It might be argued that the failure of thinkers to accept the data as they really are has been due to special factors such as their preoccupation with forms or essences and that common people have always viewed things as finite existents.

In consequence, therefore, man must first of all be seen as a finite process of becoming, with recognition of his dependence upon environmental factors both natural and historical.

The distinction would be important if the vision of things as finite existents were in fact universal but had been brought to clear consciousness only by revelation.

Hence, the absence of the Christian understanding of God in preChristian religion indicates that the vision of things as finite existents was virtually absent for common sense as well as for philosophy until the impact of Biblical thought caused it to prevail.

If we first assume that the perception of things as finite existents is the natural perception for man, then we may assert with Mascall that what inhibits this vision blinds us to what is as it is.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

I accept life as finite and appreciate the benefits.

If our political leaders don't evolve their understanding and get with the program, then our energy prosperity will be as finite as the non-renewable resources they tout.

Not exact matches

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

It's an exciting prospect, considering supply on Earth for such rare minerals as palladium — used for electronics and industrial purposes — is finite, pushing prices to $ 784 an ounce on April 2.

Grams, which have a finite supply, will theoretically rise in value as more people use them on the network and as demand for the currency increases.

One is to regard capital as the fuel that is keeping our company alive for a finite period of time, during which one of two things will happen: 1) We prove our company to be a worthy proposition, which will bring it more investment or increased revenue and allow us to stay in business, or 2) we fail to create a worthy proposition, and it's time to move on.