Sentences with phrase «as straight lines of»

Not exact matches

Comments: «The path to our 2013 year - end S&P 500 target of 1600 is not a straight line, and we remain somewhat cautious on US equities in the near term, as the US Fiscal Cliff and the growth outlook for Europe and China remain overhangs.

The bulk of any extra business went straight to the bottom line, showing up as profit improvement.

We're particularly keen on the line's straight and double - breasted suits, as well as its three - button jackets in tones of grey, navy, chrome green and black, perfect for the boardroom look.

As a public speaker, Meg demystifies today's fast - paced world of brand establishment, social media, marketing and PR to show how companies can take advantage of powerful digital tools to boost their bottom line through proven strategies and straight talking.

The leases include certain lease incentives, payment escalations and rent holidays, the net effect of which is being recognized as a reduction to rent expense such that rent expense is recognized on a straight - line basis over the term of occupancy.

With the empirical evidence of the universe evolving, it is possible to accept the Thomistic argument from finitude and contingency as recast in evolutionary categories.5 Without the evolutionary category of birth, it would be impossible for us to argue that the universe had a Creator - Ground, for we would have to imagine process as a horizontal straight line that extends in either direction indefinitely and infinitely.

The attitude of Western man to linear time is, generally speaking, naive; time is seen as an infinitely long straight line on which the individual can mark such past and future events as he can ascertain.

The reason for our failure to see that time could evolve from contingency to non-contingency without being destroyed is perhaps due to the popular image we have of time as a straight line that goes on and on.

Regarding the popular view of time as a straight line stretching backward and forward, it should be observed that it is not only naive as Von Rad has mentioned, 32 but also quite unreal and non-evolutionary.

The analogy of that possibly is How we listen to Gods voice / Instruction / by the influence of the Spirit of God as you describe here, which determines how straight the line is but then, maybe that is how God intended it to be.

Once heterosexual and homosexual people can stop dividing along the lines of «gay vs. straight» and see each other as members of Christ's body who are «one in Christ,» only then can we begin to come along side each other in love to help each other follow Jesus more faithfully.

Sometimes ba is the same thing as ab, sometimes it isn't; a + a may be 2a or a according to circumstances; straight lines in a plane may be produced to an infinite distance without meeting, yet not be parallel: and the sum of the angles of a triangle appears to be capable of assuming any value that suits the author's convenience (N58: 385 - 6).

C.S. Song, an Asian theologian speaks of the western God as a straight line God who operates in a certain logical order.

For complex, zig - zag polygons, such as illustrated in FIGURE 1,1 the general condition is rather that such a connecting straight line cuts the boundary an odd number of times.

Whitehead's account of the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy, as he explicitly states, is dependent upon a definition of straight lines in terms which make no appeal to measurement (unlike the definition, «the shortest distance between two points»): «It is to be noted that this doctrine of presentational immediacy and of the strain - locus entirely depends...

... it seems a subordinate falsification of the facts to say, as Bergson apparently does, that the whole «distortion» effected by the intellect in its attempts to deal with time arises from the dependence of all measurement on the primary measurement of segments of straight lines.

He designed the Mercator Projection in 1569 strictly to help navigators; his is the only projection that shows rhumbs as straight lines: a navigator could connect two ports with a straight line on Mercator's map and then proceed along a constant course based on the direction of this line.

Consequently, Whitehead's philosophy of nature does not demand that gravity is propagated along the straight lines of a prior geometry, and hence the value of the gravitational constant is not a function of the prior geometry as Will and Ariel claim.

In light of the definition of «a straight line,» however, this would mean that in diverse regions of the space - time continuum under consideration the measuring rod, under prevailing standard conditions or the introduction of correction factors, is not deformed in its length as it is moved from point to point or in differing directions in the space - time continuum.

Nonetheless, there is an expectation on the part of society that the law will speak from on high as well as in the people's midst, and that it will make straight what would otherwise remain twisted, crooked lines; it will establish order in the stead of anarchy and chaos; it will retain a semblance of purity amid vile motives and human deceits; it will speak with godlike authority and power in a godless age.

Therefore, I feel I must overcome my resistance and resentment, must dismiss the feeling of engaging in an unwilling exercise in apologetics, and try earnestly, if not to supply straight and simple answers, at least to clarify and line up some of the evasive arguments that I have harbored for a long time, and to articulate them as well as I can.

Sometimes you catch sight of a turn leading off into the distance, a dirt track or a county road at right angles to the highway you're on, as you drive along those straight, miles - long lines you find only in the West.

It was far better and far wiser in God to be content with a Faith that was quite amazingly right about the basic precepts of God, morals, and creation as good, and of its nature allowed for developmental growth in a straight line as time and culture called it forth.

The final human opinion may, in short, in some manner now impossible to foresee, revert to the more personal style, just as any path of progress may follow a spiral rather than a straight line.

Ever beware of holding above the strength of your line, and as far as possible do not let the fish come out on your line's end straight from you, but keep him always under the rod and hold him always straight; so that your line may sustain and bear his leaps and plunges with the help of your crop, and of your hand.

Now some receiver needy teams will believe they too will have an opportunity to select a wide receiver of average height who has excellent straight line speed as well as elite athleticism outside of the top - 10.

The fullback initially looks the same, also, because he goes straight ahead for a step as if he is once again kicking out the end man on the line of scrimmage.

its ridiculous and embarrassing and goes to show that the real agenda from both wenger and the board is keeping the books straight its the continual party line of «in the summer, we'll do this» then the player is unavailable there used to be a time not that long ago when you knew that whoever they brought in was going to be class, now you know that whoever they bring in will be cheap and wont do much of a job, Sanchez has been the only real good bit of transfer business and I mean really good bit since we were supposed to be free of financial restraints makes you wonder if we ever really had any as its still not changed.

I can see Jembuts» point as he writes comments based on his opinion to which the Anti Wenger group are straight on his case and the old lines just roll of the tongue to criticise him.......

Former Arsenal goalkeeper Vito Mannone was, undoubtedly, left exposed as his teammates downed tools in the second half at St. Mary's — but the Italian also has to shoulder his portion of the blame for allowing Jack Cork's weak shot to cross the line and passing the ball straight to Dusan Tadic for a goal.

It remains to be seen if either is brought straight back into the starting line - up though as that could put them at risk of suffering a setback.

Wenger brought in Lucas Perez in the summer, but instead of throwing him straight in as our main striker Le Prof decided instead to make Alexis Sanchez our main centre - forward but also to tinker with the rest of th front line on occasion.

I don't think Sczny is all that bad of a goal keeper, we will all agree that he is not as good as tubut, degea etc but I think is father is spot on with his anology Mert is like a big over grown turtle and equally as slow every defender in the league knows that if your keeper advance you should go straight on the goal line debuchy did it in the closing moments of that game that's what Mert should have done.

The Arsenal and Wales midfield star has returned from his hamstring injury just in time to be available for the first north London derby of the current season, although it remains to be seen whether Arsene Wenger puts him straight into the starting line up for the visit of Tottenham in the Premier League on Sunday, as the midweek Champions League clash with Ludogorets was his first start since the opening day of the season.

Our player saves it and clears it off the line straight off the pitch — you will see at least 10 times in a weekend of football that a player shoots and is then connected with by the opposition — these are not fouls because the advantage is the shot and once it has been taken as long as the ball is out of playing distance of the fouled player then the foul is irrelevant.

I always thought of a slot receiver as being quicker than fast with great hands, and that is almost the opposite of Fuller V. Fuller V, at least to me, seems like straight line speed and average hands.

The videos are slapstick mini-masterpieces for softball aficionados, with Butler and Woodward giving famed comedy duos through history a run for their money as a pair of buffoons — Butler the boisterous, over-the-top funny man; Woodward the perfectly droll, hyper - vocal straight man, filling in dead air with improvised lines — desperately trying to get into a bat to juice it up.

He tried to take off running straight ahead, but Ngakoue, who had gone as far as the left A gap before changing directions, took off like a shot and got to Brissett before he could make it past the line of scrimmage.

Arsenal get rid of whomever they can and trim the wage bill, sit happily and enjoy as the savings trickle straight to the bottom line.

he can tun fast in a straight line... does not have clinical finishing or a strikers instinct... Constantly offside even against slow defences... With everyone around us underperforming if we had bought the striking options we needed in summer we would be comfortably ahead of pack by now as it is we are 5 ahead of a very average spurs team

As a result of these straight lines, the number of passing options is limited and, in some cases, the attackers simply get in the way of their teammates.

As Tottenham have powered down this season's final straight, at first chasing Chelsea and then, via an emotional farewell to White Hart Lane, striding out towards the line, one aspect of their charge has been overshadowed.

The now 29 - year - old early became associated with a flat - footedness on the turn and inability to hold a straight defensive line with his centre - halves as a consequence of some high - profile errors through the course of his first 12 months at the club.

This is a very easy thing to do as long as you can sew a straight line with a sewing machine, and many parents and caregivers have found that it helps them have the best of both worlds and enjoy the benefits of durable woven fabric with the ease of using a ring sling.

Around 1910, after the site had become the home of the Boston State Hospital, the brook was moved north along much of its length, alongside a sewer line (the straight line) that had been constructed a few years previously, as shown in this 1924 Bromley atlas of West Roxbury.

I thought I would have a quick look on - line and that is where I came across your system - its looked very practical for a busy family and could be used by all the family (also the price seemed very good - same as two months supply of wet wipes in this house)- and ordered a pack straight away.

The link between the Lib Dems» victory in Ribble Valley and the abolition of the poll tax is not a straight line - after all, John Major had already promised change - but it is widely viewed as one of the key catalysts for the abrupt about - face.

As policymakers use the term «resilience» to further convey stronger infrastructure or more efficient food delivery systems, that road is becoming more of a zigzag than a straight line.

«The result is almost certainly correct, as predicting the nearly straight - line motion of nearby stars is a well - understood calculation,» says astronomer Adam Burgasser of the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study.

In some cases, a curvy feeding trail abruptly transitions into a straight line, which Narbonne interprets as potential evidence of the grazer evading a predator.