Sentences with phrase «basic point as»

I quite like Phil jones's work, in fact one of his books is on my Christmas present list (hint) The basic point as I understand it from Willis was that Jones deliberately avoided responding to a FOI request.

That is Collins» basic point as well — except he's talking about companies.

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The CEO reminded the international community of one very basic lesson: in today's global market, effective communication functions as the starting point for successful business growth.

Simple measures such as building on e-commerce supported platforms and protecting your hardware and software with regular updates and sufficient anti-virus and firewall protection are basic principles that can be easily implemented to close the loopholes that hackers use as points of entry.

As the leading psychologist on the topic Carol Dweck puts it, «In a growth mindset, people believe their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work — brains and talent are just the starting point,» whereas people with a fixed mindset believe «their basic qualities, like intelligence are fixed.»

Perceived by many as one of the truly successful social media social entrepreneurs, Harrison and charity: water views it with a basic mindset: you need to be everywhere your donors are, and provide them value at every touch point.

As MIT points out, that was categorized as «basic information,» which is most likely why so many people would grant permissioAs MIT points out, that was categorized as «basic information,» which is most likely why so many people would grant permissioas «basic information,» which is most likely why so many people would grant permission.

And J.D. as a child, a Marine, and a college student discovering the basic rules of life (wear a suit to a job interview, sparkling water is simply carbonated water) is so lovable that you find yourself wanting to hug this young boy and point him to the right path.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

All of which, as Salon blogger Andrew Leonard points out, sounds like basic big - government, tax - and - spend Democratic policy.

They have no specific expertise in the matter, and being a provider of these services puts the company in the awkward position of having a point of view on private personal matters as well as what defines basic well being.

In VFC's case, that basic estimate is based on reference point price - to - earnings ratio (P / E) of 15, which is the long - term average P / E of the stock market as a whole.

While floaters may be linked to almost any benchmark and pay interest based on a variety of formulas, the most basic type pays a coupon equal to some widely followed interest rate or a change in a given index over a defined time period, such as the year - over-year change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), plus a fixed spread in basis points (1bp = 1/100 of 1 % or.01 %).

Put it all into a spreadsheet in chronological order (our Inventors Guide has a monthly cash flow projection worksheet, or PlanWare offers a free basic cashflow planner you can use as a starting point).

Individuals living in Japan, the United States, or Germany don't worry about rampant inflation, a national infrastructure that is at the point of collapse, or the availability of basic necessities, such as food and medicine.

As a starting point, we would suggest a curriculum designed around six basic principles.

You seem to believe that you are aware of what everyone is thinking, as this is the second time you have made a sweeping blanket statement... but to answer your question: I can assure you if that woman did see an angel telling her to kill her children, it certainly would have been a fallen angel, or demon if you prefer and not from God... If you had even a basic understanding of angels and fallen angels and the protection of God, this would be a moot point... but it appears that you want to play the game of how ridiculous can I be...

When I have conversations with my kids (or anyone) about such things as sex, abuse, basic decisions... I try to approach it from a «pro-con» point of view.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

In 1864, Louis Pasteur proved that point in one case, showing that spontaneous generation (that life could originate from nonliving matter, also called abiogenesis), though accepted by some in the scientific community (such as Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont about 200 years earlier, who also believed that the basic elements of the universe was just air and water), was untrue.

Yet, as Mark points out, we all agree that love, etc. exist — primarily because we have a «shared experience» of them; i.e., we can «explain,» at least in basic terms that others can understand, what those things are.

This discussion masy be too simplistic; and yet it points to the basic problem of the Western epistemology as an act of rational domination.

My disagreements with the five points of both Calvinism and Arminianism iare not exactly with their theology or understanding of Biblical texts, but with something much more basic than that: their definition of certain biblical words and theological ideas, such as election, grace, salvation, atonement, justification, eternal life, forgiveness of sins, etc, etc..

There was one point which appeared on the surface as a basic difference between the English Presbyterians and the New England Puritans.

Strachan pointed to this scene as an example of how «the basic foundations of the Protestant worldview are under assault.»

Whitehead believes that Plato discovered those general ideas which are relevant to everything that happens: The Ideas, the Physical Elements, The Psyche, The Eros, The Harmony, The Mathematical Relations, The Receptacle.30 In adapting Plato's seven basic notions Whitehead takes «the notion of actuality as in its essence process «31 as his starting point.

I assume that the word «character» (also a problematic term) might also point to what is intended by the expression «inner being,» and that such words as unselfish and selfish, helpful and unhelpful, friendly and hostile, open and bigoted, would be more particularized variations of the more basic notions of loving and hating.

Abraham resists the suggestion, partly out of disbelief, partly out of his attachment to his firstborn; but the reader is given to understand that, to overstate the point, Abraham is here with Ishmael undergoing basic training, as it were, just practicing to become the father of Isaac.

Furthermore, a core point in the second sentence can be restated as follows: what is forbidden is the division of the basic region.

From this point of view I must start off with the 1 / 10th second A and the 1 / 10th second B as the basic realities.

4) you never said you were an atheist either, and yet you didn't mind arguing the point as one (whether devil's advocate or not) until i pointed out that you had not read others who shared that same basic presupposition.

As is well known, there are many significant points of divergence between the two philosophers, but we shall keep to our topic of human experience as manifested in its basic mode, primitive perceptioAs is well known, there are many significant points of divergence between the two philosophers, but we shall keep to our topic of human experience as manifested in its basic mode, primitive perceptioas manifested in its basic mode, primitive perception.

Now, if we accept «being opposed to war for any reason» as a working definition, I would say, I do agree with some of your points in your discussion with MarkR, but disagree with much of your basic premises.

It is the Thomistic conception, or the general ways of thinking about God given definitive shape by Thomas, that Hartshorne takes as his chief rival, and he takes one of the basic recommendations of his position to be that it succeeds at those points where Thomas fails.

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

As a starting point for our consideration of the Jewish conception of the divinity of Messiah we observe three definite, basic facts.

As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for aiAs Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for aias the major focus for aid.

As such, she adds, it «is a crucial issue for a metaphorical theology» against conservatives «who absolutize Scripture, refusing to admit its metaphorical quality,» and against «liberation theologies, especially radical feminist theologies» which «relativize Scripture to the point of undercutting the relevance of its basic images.»

I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.

I will show that Whiteheadian panexperientialism concurs with physicalism as portrayed by Kim on most of its basic points, although the two positions give somewhat different formulations of the various underlying intuitions.

The basic point of these humanist heroes is to assert the courage to be without regard to external odds, to symbolize the radical scope of human valuation, and to affirm human choice as the final arbiter of the true and the good for humankind.

In other words, the basic point of the biblical images of God as the living, active, loving, personalizing agent is guaranteed.

I noted in my book God as Author how it follows the contours of the Gospel, as I pointed out that the basic formula of balance - imbalance - restoration of balance is the framework of most stories (click on the link to page 181 for a more lengthy explanation).

As Hartshorne points out, the event - sequences leading to mentally dominant events are generally of two basic types, memory and perception.

This teaching is the basic rationale for war - tax resistance, which, as Karl Meyer points out (Catholic Worker, November - December, 1969), has had its place in history:

Accordingly, he correctly points out that the language of intimacy in love as applied to God, the love between father and son, between husband and wife, are basic in Hebraic speech about the love of God for Israel (SFL 19f).

Recognizing that their critique has rendered images of God no longer absolute, feminists have discovered that the religious power structure is reluctant to admit that patriarchal symbols for God are culturally influenced (as if God really were male) or contingent (as if use of a feminine symbol to point to a nonrepresentable God is more inadequate or idolatrous than use of a male symbol) To read Mary Daly or Naomi Goldenberg, to consider Rosemary Ruether's demasculinizing of the Gospel stories or to ponder the renewed attention to «goddess» theology and the development of a lesbian theology is to see the basic language of theological discourse upset and transformed.

Moreover, as John Paul II pointed out again and again, responsible human freedom is not possible outside a more basic loyalty to the commands that can come to us only in and through culture.

lens brings the concept of point out in our minds in sharp relief, and encourages us to suppose that ultimately the whole of reality can be analyzed in terms of points which are to be regarded as, in some basic sense, separately existent.

As Matthew points out, in the vast majority of cases, the word «abomination» (typically the Hebrew, toevah, which is used in Leviticus 18 and 20) refers to what the Israelites associated with the idolatrous practices of the Gentiles, leading Old Testament scholar Phyllis Bird to conclude that «it is not an ethical term, but a term for boundary making,» with «a basic sense of taboo.»