Sentences with phrase «as irrelevant in»

But, as Nassim Taleb and Thomas Kuhn have both observed, coming at the problem from two totally different starting points, it is the outliers that may be telling us exactly what we need to know, yet these were systematically discarded as irrelevant in order to «hide the decline».

Before I'm accused of being a Luddite, I have no problem with technology but I do with the prospect of being told what to do by a machine and the fear that one day a non-driving legislator might view the «drivers» viewpoint as irrelevant in the wider sense of transport for the masses.

Buddhists and Hindus of the Sankara stripe reject conceptual devices as irrelevant in relating oneself to Nirvana or to the highest truths; Bergson in his early period did so also.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

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Jersey Standard executives are properly proud of their unique photographic venture as a public service, but sometimes they are not quite sure what the company is getting out of it, times when they wonder if «documentary» pictures of such subjects as tombstones in New Orleans or cockfights in Venezuela are not merely irrelevant.

Bill Siwicki of Internet Retailer references Goldman Sachs, saying, «Tablets will play an increasingly important role as worldwide consumer spending via mobile jumps from $ 204 billion in 2014 to $ 626 billion in 2018...» If you aren't building ecommerce businesses with mobile in mind, you may be irrelevant in three to five years.

The political rhetoric that floods our media and forces its ugly face in our lives daily becomes irrelevant as people work in teams to build products and services.

In an epic takedown titled «Miley Cyrus just torpedoed her own career, and MTV helped,» writer Emily Yoshida described the host as «the rich girl whose birthday party everyone's parents forced them to go to... as irrelevant as the post-credits bumper for whatever scripted MTV show is on tonight that you've already forgotten the name of.»

And Coulter pushed back against the vilification of Trump - boosters in the conservative press, characterizing many of those lobbing bombs as irrelevant players in the movement.

It trended in the top news on Weibo Wednesday, with most users dismissing nationality as irrelevant after news reports made it clear that Dao is Vietnamese, not Chinese, as originally reported — a factor that had fueled some of the early online backlash.

Furthermore, we found that in people who intentionally mind wander, two main brain networks broadly overlap each other: the default - mode network, which is active when focusing on information from memory, and the fronto - parietal network, which stabilizes our focus and inhibits irrelevant stimuli as part of our cognitive control system.»

As soon as content gets pushy, pitchy, disrespectful of the user experience, encroaching on privacy and poorly targeted (irrelevant), Facebook fatigue quickly sets in among users and they will unlike your page, hide your ads, hide your content and even report as spaAs soon as content gets pushy, pitchy, disrespectful of the user experience, encroaching on privacy and poorly targeted (irrelevant), Facebook fatigue quickly sets in among users and they will unlike your page, hide your ads, hide your content and even report as spaas content gets pushy, pitchy, disrespectful of the user experience, encroaching on privacy and poorly targeted (irrelevant), Facebook fatigue quickly sets in among users and they will unlike your page, hide your ads, hide your content and even report as spaas spam.

And, as a result, they waste money on irrelevant search phrases that are not part of the keywords listed in the account.

But Harris had no intention of allowing him to run out the clock with recycled, irrelevant statements, as he had many times in the previous hours.

A few of the directors in our study were clearly laggards, even going so far as to argue that innovation was irrelevant in their very mature industries.

In short, the criticism that data caps are blunt instruments with respect to congestion is correct but largely irrelevant, as is the criticism that they don't reflect the marginal cost of moving data.

Accessories and iPod — as part of Apple's move into television, we expect the introduction of an updated Apple TV microconsole (which will continue to service the massive install base of televisions offered by other OEMs), along with improvements to Beats headphones to drive growth far in excess of the decline in iPod which at our forecast $ 1.1 billion of revenues in FY2015 is largely irrelevant to Apple financially

Although there were controversies as to the actual founder, all that is irrelevant now as the digital currency has gained acceptance across boards and in different businesses.

In the first place, as the Fed scales back on ON - RRP and IOER, by allowing the rates paid through these arrangements to decline relative to short - term Treasury rates, its administered rates will become increasingly irrelevant.

The concerns over labour and environmental standards that dominated the NAFTA debate are largely irrelevant in the context of the EU, where such standards are generally as high as — if not higher than — those in North America.

In summary, I'll never post my net worth online as I fear providing an irrelevant figure could cause people to judge me and might cause negative consequences if my privacy was ever compromised.

But even though Trump attaches meaning to irrelevant metrics like bilateral trade deficits in a global economy, where two - thirds of trade flows are intermediate goods and only 3.6 % of the value of an Apple iPhone is Chinese (yet the entire $ 179 cost is chalked up as an import from China, exacerbating the bilateral deficit), the fact is that frictions in the relationship have been increasing since well before this president assumed office.

Now they're in the majority, they've proceeded to make most of them just as irrelevant as Parliament itself has become.

As security laws abroad are rehashed to be more conducive to equity crowdfunding — which I believe will happen in an accelerated, if not domino, fashion after the action unfolds in the U.S. — internationally geography will become increasingly irrelevant.

If you went long DIA in July (the year is irrelevant), you could have used the 0.382 and 0.50 retracement levels as targets to take profits on your long position.

Review the returned results for irrelevant keywords, and add them as negative keywords in the appropriate negative match type.

Even in After Virtue (1981), MacIntyre claims that «the barbarous despotism... which reigns in Moscow can be taken to be as irrelevant to the question of the moral substance of Marxism as the life of the Borgia Pope was to that of the moral substance of Christianity» (a view not likely to be shared by such as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn).

Your views on this subject should be irrelevant in your consideration for promotion, just as your views on any racial group should be irrelevant.

Otherwise, he wrote, it sounds comically irrelevant: «As well might the Mahdi write to us, saying, «I am the Expected One whom God has created in his effulgence.

As if the time and the significance of your stay in this world are irrelevant.

«Liberation theology is for the most part out of favor in Latin America because it has been largely deemed by indigenous people as increasingly irrelevant,» Raschke says.

These decisions gave Congress the power to contract or expand the category of «commerce» as it saw fit; to declare alcohol, traditionally considered a commodity, irrelevant to interstate commerce and thus a matter for the states to deal with; or, in Champion v. Ames, to deem lottery tickets, traditionally not considered a commodity, commercial items subject to regulation by the federal government.

To them, it is simply irrelevant that no federal judge (prior to Rothstein) had ever before found a right to die in the Due Process Clause, just as it is irrelevant that every state in the union, save one, forbids assisted suicide.

Yet, what you can't help but see as stagnant and irrelevant, I can't help but see as a cherished treasure which gives me hope until I can be held safe in His arms.

Setting aside my personal — and legally irrelevant — disgust at the idea (the «yuck factor,» as one evangelical leader infamously dubbed it, is really no sound basis for building our sexual ethics), it seems that the typical objection to such relationships is that they might lead to congenital problems in any offspring that result from the union.

Your post is irrelevant, in as much as it fails to address either the situation in the article or the post you are responding to.

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

Work on the media is possible for an individual only in so far as it remains socially and therefore aesthetically irrelevant.

And who now can say religion is irrelevant with those millions being poured into political ads, surely in part by those interested in promoting their religion, as we all admittedly are, wishing to share our values.

The alternate vision that marriage benefits are a right, and that the lifestyle choice under marriage is irrelevant compromises the inst - itution of marriage as I argued above, and puts us in a position where marriage benefits are arbitrary and may as well be abolished.

That is to say, any attempt to cover - up something about the situation would have seemed sort of irrelevant to me since I never really saw the success or failure of the emerging movement as particularly hinging on people like Tony in the first place.

There can be no doubt that God makes decisions a propos of the disjunctive multiplicity of eternal objects; the difficulty is to establish in precisely what sense these divine decisions are distinguishable from the choices and calculations made by the Leibnizian deity Whitehead's dilemma seems to be this: on the one hand, the principle of classification is to be challenged by positing the primordiality of a world of eternal objects that knows «no exclusions, expressive in logical terms»; on the other hand, positing pure potentiality as a «boundless and unstructured infinity» (IWM 252) lacking all logical order would seem to be precisely that conceptual move which renders it «inefficacious» or «irrelevant.»

In both cases their belief was as irrelevant to their fervid political ambitions as their shoe size.

Others like C. G. Jung in his Terry Lectures leave the way open to the religious interpretation «if we are so inclined,» but seem to regard the question as irrelevant to the healing process.

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lorin a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living LorIn both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lorin the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

Wooldridge characterizes the reticular system as the establisher of an optimal signal - to - noise ratio, so to speak, upon which higher levels of experience are staged:» «Volume - control» signals are generated in the reticular system to reduce our sensitivity to uninteresting or irrelevant stimuli and thereby permit us to achieve the peculiar but highly useful phenomenon of mental concentration» (4:143).

Sex education is currently taught in Guatemala schools but campaigners say it is often incomplete or irrelevant, as less than half the girls in Guatemala attend secondary schools.

If you are not in possession of a uterus, your thoughts are irrelevant as far as abortion is concerned.

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.