Sentences with phrase «at extreme cases»

First, as in Parker, avoid looking at extreme cases that would give the game away — instead, divide the stations into just two groups, which is even better than terciles for blurring the picture.

As we've argued before here on C - R, you can look at extreme cases of religion in two ways.

Graham and Zweig look at extreme cases of companies, bankers, and investors making monumental mistakes that should have been recognized and avoided.

Not exact matches

Those disturbing financial cases are no longer the extreme end of the spectrum that they were at one time.

At its most extreme, reputation can literally keep you in business, as is the case with many companies, such as IBM and WalMart, whose well - developed reputations have tided them over in hard times.

«We must look at all the new media being produced and ensure that, in every case, we are able, in extremes and on the signature of a warrant, to get to the bottom of what is going on,» the British Prime Minister has said.

In extreme cases, liquidity risk can cause you to take huge losses because you have to mark down your property at fire sale prices to attract buyers.

But in the unlikely case that investors are willing to send this market into a renewed bubble in the face of extreme valuations, the S&P would only have to advance another 4 % or so on a weekly closing basis to induce us to participate at least moderately.

This article makes me feel that it isn't such a foolish idea to hold at least SOME physical gold coins (in the extreme case where extricating one's cash etc. from banks / platforms starts to look too precarious).

It is very likely that, at least in some cases, Hartshorne first takes a position on a given problem, and then he interprets the other solutions as extreme.

But at the end of the day, and especially evident in the hardestand most extreme cases, those other versions of physics will fail to give an accurate description of the truth.

Similarly, if we examine the curricula of our seminaries, we find this discussion still at the extreme periphery in most cases.

It is not even to be assumed that case one, at the opposite extreme seemingly from atheism, is really in every sense «farther» from it than is case two.

The original is in French, and though the subject was evidently in a bad nervous condition at the time of which he writes, his case has otherwise the merit of extreme simplicity.

Indeed, when compared with my situation at most times, this is an extreme case of conscious effort and control.

Although this is an extreme case, Catholic parents have become increasingly concerned at the content of sex education in many of our schools.

Gerrish, if I understand him right, would even in that extreme case be willing to say, «But look at how the gospel story of the Jesus who taught love has transformed your life and the lives of Christians down the centuries.

The extreme hypothetical cases are of interest only insofar as they provoke the theological question: Is faith really at the mercy of the latest report on the quest for the historical Jesus?

Whereas the Harvard group would respond to particular extreme cases of environmental problems, the WCC group would ask for a fundamental change in the way human beings look at nature.

Hutchinson also reveals how Cromwell pandered to Henry's imperial desires - the Pope was branded by the king «a usurpator of all princes» - arguing that the protection of the «body politic» justified extreme measures, including the innocent - sounding Statute of Proclamations which, in cases of necessity, did away with the need to consult Parliament at all.

Of course in extreme cases God will probably forgive you for your sins if you repent for them even at the last minute of your life.

In any case, Welty and Sharp aren't in the least interested in such restrictions: if Augustine's rigid definition of friendship is at one end of the scale, and Lewis» not much closer to the center, Welty and Sharp stand at the opposite extreme.

Although it is still useful to employ the «Pentecostal» and «historic» terminology, these should be seen not as two watertight compartments but as ideal types at the two extremes of a continuum on which most real cases are a highly variable and creative mix.

How many cases of extreme cruelty must we uncover before the industry acknowledges that there's something rotten at some considerable number of industrial pig farms throughout the nation?

Additionally, in cases of extreme weather conditions (i.e., heat and / or cold), the Thornton Winery reserves the right to delay the release of shipments to ensure the highest quality of products at the time of arrival.

In the extreme, this model could create a de facto market share cap, leading to a perverse outcome in which firms with substantial market power are prevented from innovating or achieving economies of scale, or in some cases, merging at all.

Animals are exported to countries where laws do not protect them from extreme cruelty and in some cases, where no animal protection laws exist at all.

At 4.5 months you are dealing with an extreme case of gatekeeping.

Homebirth midwives, since they aren't under any legal requirement to keep complete records [or any records at all, really] in the US, would probably fudge or omit such extreme outcomes except that most of these cases wind up in hospitals and can't be hidden.

In such cases, having the baby in a hospital provides the kind of safety net that provides for extreme situations where either the life of the mother or the baby is at great risk.

One reviewer calls this rocker a «life saver,» particularly if you have a baby with colic: «We are foster parents to a little one that has an extreme case of reflux and colic - he hasn't gone more than a half an hour sleeping at a time, but last night slept for a whole 3 hours straight because of the Rockin» Play Auto and then and additional 2 1/2!!

In extreme cases, families are forced to leave their homes, but, at a minimum, a disruption in normal routines is to be expected.

They rocketed under the coalition and peaked at around 90,000 in October 2013, as the government introduced sanctions of up to three years in the supposedly most extreme cases.

But if you did look at Weimar you would see what an extreme case it was, Germany having lost WWI and been saddled with huge reparations by the Treaty of Versailles, and the US is nowhere near that situation.

An extreme case might arise, for example, if Congress gave absolute discretion to the President to start a war at his or her will.

After coming under pressure from Labour and Liberal Democrats, he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions last week that he was ready to consider taking in refugees in cases of extreme hardship.

Hyperopia, also known as hypermetropia or colloquially as farsightedness or longsightedness, is a defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye (often when the eyeball is too short or when the lens can not become round enough), causing inability to focus on near objects, and in extreme cases causing a sufferer to be unable to focus on objects at any distance.

Efficiency efforts, she said, are «an extreme case of how you can get [to state carbon - reduction goals] at the lowest possible cost.»

At KI, «[w] e were allowed to do this type of transplantation only in extreme cases,» he told Science in 2013.

«This is a remarkable case of extreme degeneration of an animal body plan,» said Paulyn Cartwright, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU and principal investigator on the research project.

«We are considering extreme cases,» said Ning Lin, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

The above example was an extreme case, but I always remind myself to follow up with at least a second — and if it's really important, a third — e-mail spread over the course of a month.

According to Kirmayer, Yezidis serve as an extreme case study of the psychological challenges that refugees face at every stage of forced migration, from the initial trauma of violent upheaval to the stress of uncertain asylum status and eventual resettlement.

In extreme conditions — in this case, magma - heated water at an ocean depth of nearly 10,000 feet — things work a little differently.

Other experts are more extreme in their criticism: «At the moment ASR does not have a theoretical basis strong enough to justify its use in real - life cases,» states Sylvia Moosmuller, an acoustic scientist at the Austrian Academy of ScienceAt the moment ASR does not have a theoretical basis strong enough to justify its use in real - life cases,» states Sylvia Moosmuller, an acoustic scientist at the Austrian Academy of Scienceat the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Giuseppe Longobardi, a researcher at IBM in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy, recently patented a device that would allow a disaster victim to press a button on a remote control and safely shatter a window several feet away, or engineers could install a sensor to the window that would make it break automatically in case of smoke or extreme heat.

Prior to this discovery, using chick and mouse embryos where movement could be altered, the scientists had previously shown that when movement is reduced the articular cells at the joint do not form properly, and that in extreme cases the bones can fuse at the joint, but they didn't know why.

«Our investigation leads us to conclude that exceptional and extreme cases of convergence exist at the subcellular level,» stresses Prof. Holstein.

In extreme cases, we may even think we remember something that never happened at all.

The mathematical expression of the law at the seismic moment, proposed by Serra and Corral, meets all the conditions needed to determine both the probability of smaller earthquakes and of large ones, by adjusting itself to the most recent and extreme cases of Tohoku, in Japan (2011) and Sumatra, in Indonesia (2004); as well as to determine negligible probabilities for earthquakes of disproportionate magnitudes.