Sentences with phrase «by case histories»

Early phase 1 research linking stress to health was dominated by case histories and relatively simplistic personality profiles.

There is absolutely no evidence to support such a concept either statistically or by case history.

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There has also been only one case in history in which a currency generally recognized as the dominant reserve currency was replaced by another, and this was the replacement of sterling with the dollar, some time in the 1930s or early 1940s, again depending on your read of history.

Because China begins the process with the highest investment level in history, the extent of the transformation must exceed that of any other case, and it must occur at a time when weak Chinese demand is compounded by weak global demand, thereby reducing productive investment opportunities for the private sector.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

If that's the case, and given what you've said about the zeitgeist created by Harper and AB's unique political history, the PCs may rise from the ashes in 2017.

From thousands and thousands of years of history, you are trying to make a case based on an incident that might have been little more than an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions.

If it were the case that the Jews acted wrongly by taking land from the Palistinians by force... it would be of course, one of the most understandable acts of aggression in History... after what was bestowed upon them in WWII what people wouldn't suffer a temporary loss of sanity?

Sometimes the clue to the reality of their individuality is given only by a phrase — a widow, a younger son; sometimes we see the ligaments and joints of the history, as in Peter's case.

depending on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.

Leslie Dewart8 criticizes both the Hegelian and Marxistic views of history in terms of his theory of the development of truth by saying that to reduce history to man or to reduce it to God would be nothing else but the self - actualization of an original potentiality: matter in the first case, Absolute Spirit in the second.

The taking of case histories in the form of listening to stories of faith journeys not only increases the capacity of the pastor to understand and serve the parishioner but also tends to stimulate maturing in the faithful by raising to consciousness the crucial factors in maturing.

Mantel's memoir, like the novels, is thick with smoldering grievances: against teachers («I don't know if there is a case on record of a child of seven murdering a schoolteacher, but I think there ought to be»); adults generally («In Hadfield, as everywhere in history of the world, violence without justification or apology was meted out by big people to small»); and above all, against the Catholic Church, which stood in judgment on her mother when Mantel was a child.

Such a beginning for a student of history is not unnatural, but if ever that boy is to become a real historian — as well may be the case — little by little the consciousness of what is excluded by his study will grow dim.

In any case, at least the fallacy of simple location, and in part the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, two of Whitehead's most important critical ideas, arise from and are explicitly attributed to Whitehead's reading of and engagement with Bergson's philosophy.17 Indeed, these two critical ideas about failings in the history of philosophy are addressed by both Bergson and Whitehead with the same twofold strategy: (1) a common method designed to minimize the distortion that enters into our metaphysical descriptions while allowing us still to generalize (extensive abstraction); and (2) a common descriptive postulate or tool (the epochal occasion).

Altizer's position represents his attempt to grasp the inner logic of the Incarnation, though he is fully conscious of the fact that the profanity of contemporary culture plays an essential role in his formulation of a radically immanental interpretation of Christ.31 He presents a telling case against attempts in Christian theology to conceive God as an immutable Absolute wholly unaffected by the contingencies of history.

The case par excellence is the faith of Israel which, at first, confessed Yahweh by relating the facts of deliverance which punctuate the history of its liberation.

The police treated the case as an «attempted suicide with suspicious circumstances,» in part because Ruth had attempted to prevent resuscitation by paramedics after she called 911, and also because of the family history.

The truth is, we will never really know the truth, because history is written by winners, and Judas, in this case, was a loser.

As a result, Nailah has been allowed by a California judge to present evidence that Jahi is alive as part of an ongoing medical malpractice suit, a case that could make bioethical and medical history.

By this time I'd earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice, my focus in this degree was case law and judiciary process, which of course included an extensive study of policing histories and practices.

The so - called Tridentine rite, of course, far from being «medieval» has roots deep in pre-medieval antiquity (it is in any case a strange view of history in which the Counter-Reformation took place in the middle ages), and is a living manifestation of the Newmanian principle of development, wherebya process of continuous change is inevitable if the essence of the Church's faith is to remain the same: for, as The Catholic Herald pointed out in its admirable leader, the reforms of Pope St Pius V, enshrined in the Missal of 1570, itself containing ancient elements, «were inspired by the Council of Trent.

If this had not been the case, then there could not have been the almost constant revolts against Rome led by messianic pretenders who began a war in the expectation that God would end it which are a feature of the history of this period.

The situation in Europe, including Britain, is more nuanced than that in North America, largely because Europe's Muslim populations have a longer and more established social and political history in nations where Muslims (of the theological left, right and center) are represented by sophisticated networks of» mosques and political NGOs that defend the rights of Muslims and shape their participation in civic life, including the introduction of Islamic law for civil cases.

In Kurzweil's case, this is the meta - historical vision of Jewish history advanced by Samson Raphael Hirsch and his grandson Isaac Breuer.

In any case, from the moment the people of Israel saw themselves as God's people, adopted by Yahweh not only for special favors but also for great demands, it made a difference that stamped their whole history.

We as Jews and Christians need in any case to work out our own self - understandings and understandings of God together, because we share the same name of God and largely the same canon of Scriptures, not to speak of subsequent history (although Jewish history in the world of Islam must be learned and not forgotten by Christians).

In that case, the history of the earth could be represented by a time line that stretches the length of a soccer field (1).

The irony is that, by knowingly, repeatedly resorting to lies, this would - be champion of a religious right version of history reveals his fears that the real facts fall short of making his case.

When they encounter the actuality of suffering and injustice, the impurity of even the best motives, and the mutual destructiveness even of a relatively virtuous people, and when they discover also the depths of sin which erupt on a massive scale in human history from time to time, they are overwhelmed by the incongruity between what is and what, at some deep level, they feel should be the case.

One would be very hard pressed to make a case against Ratzinger's interpretation of salvation history but his case is absolutely clinched by the words of Christ's priestly prayer in John's Gospel.

It seems to many thoughtful people, in any case, that a God endowed with traditional omnipotence could have made this a far better world, even for the purpose of soul - making, by preventing a wide range of evils that have destroyed or stunted billions of lives throughout human history.

With this in mind, we will utilize the list, supplemented by case - history material collected by the author, to follow the drinking history of «Mr. X,» a statistically average alcoholic.

The case against Tyson could be bolstered by allegations that he has a long history of making unwelcome advances to women.

In case you'd forgotten, Owen is currently employed by Liverpool, which is pretty hard to believe considering his history of moving to United and the hostility Reds fans still feel towards him.

Last week as a result, a governor of Massachusetts (in this case Governor Christian Herter) found himself reduced, for the first time in recorded history, to a state of deep political embarrassment by a sea worm.

This group of case histories was compiled by Laurie Moody, an ex-contact mom with GFI.

In most cases, a doctor diagnoses reflux by reviewing your baby's symptoms and medical history.

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However, one of my most enjoyable holiday reads was Case Histories by Kate Atkinson - at times very funny, with plenty of murders and villains to go round!

Although the phrase echoes statements made by Lincoln, and although versions of the sentiment have been advanced at various times in American history, the precise phrase «suicide pact» was first used by Justice Robert H. Jackson in his dissenting opinion in Terminiello v. Chicago, a 1949 free speech case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

«As this case clearly demonstrates, the commission has lost sight of its mission, and for the second time in its brief history has eviscerated its reputation by leaking information to the press and failing to safeguard the rights of those under its jurisdiction.»

The write - up titled, «The case for Biafra», credited to an American former government official, Bruce Fein, is most probably written by a young Igbo guy who never experienced the civil war and never read Nigerian pre-Independence history.

Affecting sexually active women, in 99.7 % of all cases cervical cancer results from a history of infection by a group of viruses called human papillomavirus - or HPV.

But cases in other regions of the world and previous periods in Pakistan's history suggest that political elites and institutions — especially in societies with strong patronage networks — are usually change - averse and bound by structural constraints.

Michigan State University has reached a $ 500 million settlement with hundreds of women and girls who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar in the worst sex - abuse case in sports history.

In any case, hard experience shows over and over that online tools don't care who uses them, and I suspect that those who don't remember the history of the Obama campaign are doomed to get repeatedly walloped by those who do.

Professor Connolly will address the history of the Clean Water Act, issues related to environmental case law, and how policy is shaped by those decisions.

California's history of infringing the fundamental right to bear arms has, since 1923, centered on the principles of local control, giving local elected politicians and city bureaucrats the power to decide, on a subjective, case - by - case basis, which law - abiding people can exercise their fundamental Second Amendment right to self - defense outside their home.

The editorial board made a single brief but pointed mention of the GOP candidate as the «worst nominee put forward by a major party in modern American history» before declaring that «the best case for Hillary Clinton can not be, and is not, that she isn't Donald Trump.»