Sentences with phrase «based upon things»

To start, such a mindset then raises the same question of much of our world, which is increasingly based upon things that have only digital representations and amass massive amounts of value.

The key thing to observe is that jury verdicts are almost always overturned, either based upon things that hypothetically could have caused them to reach an incorrect verdict (for the reasons I've labeled # 1, # 2 or # 3) whether or not those mistakes actually caused the jury to reach the wrong verdict, or because under the circumstances it was impossible for the jury to have reached the verdict that it did (for the reasons I've labeled as # 4 and # 5).

Commercial tenants and business landlords will dispute responsibility for the victim's injuries based upon things such as, the tenant contractually agreed to indemnify the commercial landlord for any liability, and the commercial landlord may argue that the tenant undertook all control of the premises and therefore the landlord had no ability to exercise care in order to prevent the accident.

It's wrong to tell people things that are not true and take money from them based upon those things.

«They will find themselves in mutual peril based upon some things that are happening [in Washington],» Paterson said.

The only difference is that ours is based upon things that have evidence to support it.

Not exact matches

«So many things are based upon the VIX, other products, that there's contagion really quickly,» he said.

Based upon the amazing work of folks like Martin Seligman (positive psychology) and Shawn Achor (The Happiness Advantage), we know a few things.

Here's the thing: Retirement income, whether from pensions, individual retirement accounts or annuities, is taxed based upon the state you reside in during retirement and not the state in which you worked and accumulated the benefits.

Bill Slawski of SEOByTheSea — «I'm a firm believer in creating a situation where not only are you focusing upon a permission - based approach, but that you also provide things of such value within your email marketing that people don't think twice about signing up, and wouldn't even consider unsubscribing.

The very fact that you feel compelled to say offensive things, simply based upon her physical appearance reveals your true nature.

In this community of freedom, are there such a thing as morals, ethics, and standards — and if yes, what are they based upon?

After all our commitment is based upon an intangible thing called «love».

The basic conclusion among those who study such things in a rigorous and controlled (intellectually responsible) way is that consciousness is based upon brains.

The Mormon church is based upon some very crazy things.

We present below some reflections upon faith and culture from New York based First Things magazine.

Otherwise, this text is too close for comfort, and Kierkegaard knew it: «In the magnificent cathedral the Honorable and Right Reverend Geheime - General - Ober - Hof - Pradikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: «God hath elected the base things of the world, and the things that are despised.»

However, I suspect that in many cases church relationships have become predominantly horizontal; that is, we no longer see our connection to the local church as based in Christ, but rather upon any number of extrinsic elements. The invisible, universal Church is one thing; the local church is quite another.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

Accept for the sake of argument the logic of intelligent design, based upon the premise that things which are complicated must result from design.

A mechanical engineer should understand that mechanical things come together based upon a plan.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

I also believe however that we arrive at many of the things we believe based upon what we have experienced in our lives (our memories).

So let us, then, upon the occasion of a time of Confession speak about this sentence: PURITY OF HEART IS TO WILL ONE THING as we base our meditation on the Apostle James» words in his Epistle, Chapter 4, verse 8:

Based upon the absolute belief in the primacy of the spirit, it taught that only spirit is truly real; consequently such things as evil and pain really do not exist.

Much of Western Culture is based upon and indeed built upon the teachings of Jesus Christ — Democracy and the Protestant Work Ethic are just two things that immediately come to mind.

In fact, he chose to call his philosophy the «philosophy of organism» because he based it upon a theory of the real relatedness of things.

If I'm wrong (which I seriously doubt) and I am subsequently punished for not believing things which my mind tells me are not true based upon everyhing I have observed and learned, then the game was rigged from the beginning.

It simply addresses the fact of fear imposed upon our youth based on things they know nothing about.

Calvinism and its pointy points is centered in a foundational ontology that is based upon defining things based upon their boundaries.

Gaudium et Spes, as the constitution is normally referred to, based many of its reflections upon the following insight: «The human race is passing from a rather static concept of the order of things to a more dynamic, evolutionary one» (n. 5) Its authors, as well as Ronald Knox 20 years earlier and to some degree Rene Descartes 350 years earlier, recognised that such an understanding was invited by the method of the new sciences.

«People do not wish to know that the whole human culture is based on the mythic process of conjuring away man's violence by endlessly projecting it upon new victims» (Girard, Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, 164).

People are free to accept things theorized about and they usually do based upon the evidence.

Assuming that this group's faith is actually based upon the Bible, it is a tragic thing for them that they are apparently unable to read it for themselves.

In part it was based upon the Hindu doctrine of Ahimsa, the non-injury of any living thing; but this was usually coupled with Christian motifs.

And for those going into the secondary teaching, or who'd just like to get a sense of how American teenagers really are when asked about serious things, I'm sure the book he wrote based upon his years of teaching, Meetings at the Metaphor Café, is very much worth reading.

Here is a short list of things that based upon the Atheist ideology, they must believe do not exist because the Atheist can't prove to anyone else that they do exist for them, personally.

This statement The Unity of the Church as Koinonia: Gift and Calling, [31] among other things, called upon all churches «to recognize each other's baptism on the basis of the BEM document....»

Note that the Lord said «I will destroy...» I believe that He did bring that destruction and that it is based upon His foreknowledge (Romans 8.28 - 30: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

Chances are you are fiscally conservative, and I may not totally agree with you on all things, but at least you are not trying to impose rules upon me based on a pre-scientific method story about how the world began.

There are NO absolutes, when it comes to these things, unless you begin to define a thing by basing it on a certain agreed upon standard or criteria.

In the place of sexual identity, which is considered a thing of the past, queer theory proposes the notion of a «sexual orientation» chosen by each individual based upon the gender that somehow defines his or her interior being.

When scientists weren't advanced enough to realize these things were based upon the rotation of the earth and solar system, they rationalized that someone powerful was orchestrating it.

First Things concludes that changing times call for «the bishops to reevaluate a program based upon the ideological certitudes of an earlier era.»

For one thing, children learn to eat based upon the foods they experience, so yes, the more we offer unhealthy foods as the option, the worse the obesity epidemic will become.

This is because support for democracy and self - determination were based in part upon the assumption that such things were an intrinsic part of their Western identity — to find this heritage denied by those they wished to join meant a loss of identity and corresponding political ideological crisis.

«The governor does things based upon the political benefit he is going to get,» DeFrancisco said.

«The workers of Electoral Commission, some of them took it upon themselves based on certain things that they learnt the woman has done together with the Commissioners, and petitioned the presidency.

«Based upon my experience as a developer, it is commonly understood and widely accepted that industrial development agency «endorsements» include PILOT agreements, among other things,» he said.

Juries are willing to put people to death based upon the variations in DNA, but they're not willing to understand the mechanism that creates that variation and shapes what makes humans different from other things.