Sentences with phrase «at least a perception in»

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But even among the best funds, few have topped the key threshold of 16 %, fueling a nagging perception that the rewards of investing in the Asia - Pacific region are not making up for the risks — at least not yet.

Tide's consumer perception has still not recovered several months after the «pod eating» fad sent it to its lowest consumer perception point in at least nine years.

Both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles are showing their best US consumer perception levels in at least two years while Nin...

I hope it is clear that, at least in my own perception, I am not falsifying the central message of the Bible or even exaggerating the importance within it of this motif.

I have suggested that the language of religion may be understood as representing in a mythic and symbolic way at least a portion of the qualitative data given to us in primary perception.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

Leibniz almost got the point in the very time of the first microscopic perceptions of micro-organisms, but he could not free himself from the mechanical model and so, though he held that every individual at least feels, he did not attribute even the least creativity, originative power, to any individual other than God, who thus had no proper place in the system.

Despite Whitehead's protestations against Greek conceptions of perception (and he obviously had Aristotle principally in mind), we seem to have here, so far at least, a theory of sensing in many respects quite similar to the Whiteheadian.

In at least two basic respects our experience of responsibility differs profoundly from Hume's «perceptions.»

At least in such moments Jesus» weighting of values — his perception of the relative importance of things and persons, of the self and others, of motives and actions, of past, present, and future — was from the perspective given in his prehension of God.

That imagination — fired, at least during the great middle years, by intense moral and religious perception — made Greene's fiction the best - realized portrayal in its time of the drama of the human soul.

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

Such symbols may for some of us at least partially express what we feel obscurely in our primary perception as a universal purposiveness.

People do very important things, they pursue matters of ultimate concern, in churches that offer «somewhat different ideals and practices than liberal society can... Indeed, this perception of difference is much of what attracts people to religion or, at least, to church and synagogue.»

It did look like it might take some time for him to settle into his new role though, and with Mertesacker, KOscielny and Gabriel in the squad and many expecting the boss to sign another centre back this summer, Chambers may have thought he would not be seeing much action this season, but pre-season has certainly changed that perception, for me at least.

«It feeds a public perception that legislators, at least some of them, are legislators so they can cash in on the contacts they make.»

The data reveal that one - year - old children, at least, do have a brain signature similar to that associated with conscious perception in adults.

In other words, older adults who did more moderate to vigorous physical activity perceived less facilitation of pain, while those who did at least some activity were better able to block pain perceptions.

A blurry heart seems to be more fickle than a heart in focus, at least when it comes to visual perception.

«However, a recent study by other researchers shows that this perception is false, at least in the context of online social networks.

Your map in Figure 3a (and the cover of Nature) gives the casual reader the perception that all of Antarctica has exhibited a warming trend from 1957 - 2006, when in fact, it seems that at least one location, direct, local observations indicate otherwise.

An emerging body of research on face perception suggests that getting to the top of the corporate ladder may depend, at least in part, on the structure of a person's face... More

Slow, deep and conscious breathing reduces stress, which in turn relieves pain (or at least the perception of it).

A representative of Revival, manufacturer of soy - based meal replacements, complained that «negative perceptions» about soy had cost the company at least one million dollars in sales last year, perhaps an early glimpse of a less - than - rosy future for soy.

That certainly didn't help his perception of the film at the time, but over the course of six years, it eventually became clear that there's at least some merit in the less than well - received comic book movie.

This should, in theory, be easier than the first two times, or at least that's the common perception of people who theorize about such matters without having experienced them.

Or, at least, that's the common perception of the staple of many a teenybopper magazine cover, a result of his appearances in popular youth - aimed films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer and Cruel Intentions.

A school was coded as systematically assessing pupil progress if at least two thirds of teachers on the survey perceived this to be an attribute of their school, and if comments in the case studies and / or interviews supported this perception.

The development of the Pennsylvania Core Standards signifies more of a political statement in response to perceptions of federal meddling in state issues (at least as according to news reports at the time).

This suggests that the achievement gap, at least the perception of the gap that exists both in the traditional environment and online environment may be minimized through the adaptation of synchronous technologies in online higher education.

It came with a black cloth convertible top, which rendered it inappropriate, at least in perception, in... Read more

It came with a black cloth convertible top, which rendered it inappropriate, at least in perception, in a climate of below - freezing wind - chill factors.

If you do not choose anything from this very list, at least, you will get a perception in which direction to walk while choosing narrative essay topic.

Further, whereas Surrealism focused on a perception of reality emphasizing the boundaries between (at least) two oppositional universes, in Magic Realism the sense is that the discrepancies between these perceptual dimensions are reconciled.

«In all of these, a sinister (or at the very least melancholic) world lies just beneath the surface of perception.

I'm willing to concede that a conceptual agenda could be as much at work here as in his earlier abstractions, but it has been eclipsed, in my perception at least, by his paint qua paint.

[3] However although the concept of change has come to consensus, and whether it is a post-modernist change, or a late modernist period, is undetermined, the consensus is that a profound change in the perception of works of art has occurred and a new era has been emerging on the world stage since at least the 1960s.

Note: We may well already have entered catastrophe mode, as noted in my earlier post: Black Swan Landing In The American Consciousness, but the perception that this is so is not widely shared — or, at least, poll designers have not yet properly asked the questioin my earlier post: Black Swan Landing In The American Consciousness, but the perception that this is so is not widely shared — or, at least, poll designers have not yet properly asked the questioIn The American Consciousness, but the perception that this is so is not widely shared — or, at least, poll designers have not yet properly asked the question.

Most importantly, we don't follow the weather news partly because the weather had never been severe and bad enough for us to follow and partly because the weather forecasts had never been reliably accurate (at least in our perception and memory).

Indeed, in their much — discussed research on «cultural cognition,» Dan Kahan and his colleagues suggest that public perceptions of climate change at least partly depend on the technological solutions proposed.

In my weblog of June 24, 2008, I addressed the limited perception that at least one other climate modeler appears to have,» Tennekes wrote.

But so far, the process of deciding where and how to build these projects has been flawed, and the perception, at least, is that objections have too often gone unheard in the rush to do a deal and lock in federal funding.

Consequently, for a judge not to allow defense voir dire / cross examination questioning of a prosecution witness before a damning exhibit is allowed into evidence, presents not only a Due Process issue but also a possible perception of pro-prosecutorial bias of the judge, whether or not that bias exists, at least in the eyes of laypeople watching the trial, when a critical element of a sufficiently functioning judicial system is for the public to perceive judges as following their oaths of office.

It can be a fast avenue to favorable decisions, and that's really tempting, but at least in connection with smartphones, there's also a high risk of the ITC's actions creating a perception of some patents or patent portfolios being less powerful than they actually are.

However, while the issue of immigration in the US (as in other countries) has traditionally been regarded as a political or economic issue, more recently there is a recognition — in some quarters at least — that there are social and human issues, such as the separation of families, the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, racial anxieties, national identity and perceptions that traditions are under threat.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding President of the Center for Talent Innovation (formerly Center for Work - Life Policy), describes in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article that a sponsor is someone who uses chips on behalf of protégés, advocates for promotions and does at least two of the following seven things for them: expands the protégés» perception of what they can do, connects them to senior leaders, promotes their visibility, connects them to career advancement opportunities, advises them on how to look and act the part, facilitates external contacts, and provides career advice.

It appears that a lack of knowledge, and perceptions of cost are the two key underlying barriers preventing the public from turning to a legal professional for assistance... More than two - thirds of British Columbians have experienced at least one serious and difficult to resolve problem in the past three years... Seven - in - ten British Columbians who faced a serious issue sought no assistance.

A quick approval in the EU signifies a shift in how Microsoft is viewed by regulators in the region, and perhaps how its dominance (or at least the perception of it) has significantly altered in the new technology landscape.

As long as Facebook must actively combat the perception that it's anti-Trump, it may have to act more pro-Trump, or at least neutral in the face of his incendiary actions.

Shifting to children's gender, in line with previous studies, this study confirmed that parents» perception of family functioning did not result to be affected by their children's gender, at least as it is measured by FAM - III (Tiffin et al., 2007).