Sentences with phrase «by constituents of»

In examining the subparts of the S&P 500 ® Bond Index, we can take a deeper look at how credit spreads have changed for AA - and BB - rated corporate bonds issued by constituents of the S&P 500.

Market value - weighted, the index seeks to measure the performance of U.S. corporate debt issued by constituents of the S&P 500.

The S&P 500 ® Bond Index is designed to measure the performance of U.S. corporate bonds issued by the constituents of the iconic S&P 500, and it rose 6.05 % last year, compared with the 0.58 % gain in the S&P China Corporate Bond Index (see Exhibit 2).

«I started on this little odyssey about two - and - a-half years ago, prompted by constituents of mine,» she said.

«Although laboratory tests can predict effects in the field, care should be taken when using the lab data for 303 (d) listing if alternative field data indicate that the organisms of concern are not affected by the constituent of concern, such as pyrethroids,» said Stephen Clark, lead author of the Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry study.

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Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who also attended the meeting, said afterwards that she had urged the President to reconsider negotiating the TPP because of concerns by constituents about the tariffs.

Being favoured by both groups of investors might lower the cost of capital for index constituents, giving corporate leaders the incentive to try to meet its criteria.

Despite a years - long political and economic deterioration and months of violence, Maduro has maintained about 20 % support among Venezuelans, but his constituent assembly has been rejected by an overwhelming majority of the country and drawn international rebuke.

The message is sure to resonate with corners of the Liberal caucus, particularly those from Quebec, who have been pressed by constituents about their party's opposition to forcing companies like Netflix to collect and remit federal sales tax.

Apple, Amazon and Google followed closely behind: A slight majority of this constituent said they'd use Apple, followed by 49 % and 48 % for Amazon and Google, respectively.

It's tempting to cast Clement's attendance at every graduation and rubber duck race in his riding as the labours of a man who knows what it feels like to be unloved by constituents, but he's always been that kind of politician.

By Monday, a few angry, constituent - rousing tweets had snowballed into the kind of itemized list of questions that comes with a due date.

GDX has around $ 6 billion in assets under management and a very weak yield of 0.60 %, driven partly by the extremely frail balance sheets of the constituents of its underlying index.

``... changing the entrepreneurial environment by altering the sociological and psychological attributes of its constituent»

Based on our sector - by - sector analysis of current S&P 500 constituents (see Figure 3), we estimate that of the S&P 500's ~ 30 % increase in enterprise value since the end of 2013, only 2 % was attributable to the change in after - tax profits (NOPAT) while 27 % was attributable to change in the aggregate EV / NOPAT multiple.

I am writing as one of your constituents to express my concern about the tax proposals put forth by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

The number of constituents in CRIX is always a number evenly dividable by 5.

Each constituent in an index is weighted by its market - capitalization, as determined by multiplying its price by the number of shares outstanding after float adjustment.

He, and backbenchers on the opposition side, would be free to stand up every so often and ask a question of the government about some matter of particular concern to him or his constituents — a question that had not been vetted by anyone with any authority over him.

Volatility traders on a dispersion desk will explicitly short correlations by selling the variance of an index and going long the weighted variance of its constituents.

Not counting this form of compensation as an expense was a ridiculous accounting practice, and one that was supported by ridiculous arguments by lobbyists and the lawmakers who wanted to protect their corporate constituents who were getting rich.

I myself would further argue that the spatio - temporal continuum is itself divided into a myriad number of regions or subflelds of activity, each of which is governed by laws characteristic of the interrelated activity of its constituent occasions from moment to moment.

In this passage the deductive argument, which treats each element of the situation as a separate event, has been overshadowed by a fabric of subjective relationships among elements treated as constituents of one complex process.

This agency, of course, is a derivative or strictly collective agency since it is exercised not directly by the society itself but indirectly through the agency of its constituent occasions.

Thus, by describing the antecedent field we can provide a reasonable basis for logical analysis, but we also demonstrate the need for a narrative explanation of the creative process through which the Indeterminate conditions of the antecedent world are transformed into constituent elements of some novel occasion.

Whereas Leclerc argued that the ultimate constituents of material reality are mini-substances which act on each other reciprocally and by their interaction co-constitute the new reality of a compound substance (NPE, 309 - 10), Ford argues that such natural compounds are instead to be understood as «single strands of personally ordered actual occasions, potentially divisible into structured societies but not actually so divided» (109).

Similarly, the fields are not simply physical energy - fields but fields of psychic activity, characterized by relations of intersubjectivity among their constituents.

The fable reminds us that the sum total can not be changed simply by shifting its constituent parts, and that the work of a collective does not always lead to success.

We habitually think of persons, one by one, as the constituent elements of society, and we regard the social whole as made up of their enforced or voluntary blending.

The Objectives Resolution of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, passed in 1368 (March, A.D. 1949), stated that all sovereignty belongs to God and that the Constitution of Pakistan would be framed in accordance with the principles of democracy as enunciated by Islam.

See, for example, the analysis of «act» of God by Gordon Kaufman, in which he distinguishes between «master» act (the entire evolutionary process) and «subordinate» acts such as Jesus» march to the cross as an essential constituent of the master act (Kaufman 1979, 140 ff.).

The properly biological questions initially raised by our personal, empathetic encounter with the performances of whole living entities are edged out by preoccupation with the molecular constituents of life.

I have proposed that fragmentation in a theological course of study could be overcome if each of its constituent courses were unified by a controlling interest in one of the three questions Christian congregations invite about their construals of the Christian thing (What is it?

«3 Whereas John Cobb recalled Whitehead's identification of molecules as «historic routes of actual occasions,» Donald Sherburne prefers the designation as «structured societies» — which leaves open the question of whether both a molecule and its constituent can be «enduring objects» (like a personal society).4 Enthused by Leclerc's reliance upon the Aristotelian distinction between actual and potential, Ford offered an option which might preserve the choice, in Whiteheadian terms.

It also serves as a warning to us that the tension between organism and atomism, between our appreciation of the physical existence of constituents and of complex bodies, is not likely to be resolved simply by attending more closely to the details in Process and Reality, chapter and verse.

It should be pointed out, perhaps, that for the first fifty years or so of quantum chemistry, the results of theoretical calculations were uniformly poor and unhelpful; but this tended to be put off to the enormous complexity of the mathematical techniques — if only these could be overcome, it was thought, it would become obvious how wonderfully we could depict the results of chemical reactivity and bonding simply by applying calculations to the known constituents.

Again Hartshorne, having conceded that, relatively speaking, molecules are mindless, denies that they (or their constituents) are totally lacking in experience and continues: «the panpsychist... further will not admit that the lower degrees of awareness are due to the dilution of mind by its mixture with increasing doses of another something, matter» (BH 170).

The Given, however, is discovered by analysis as an aspect or constituent of every given experience.

But each item in the universe of an actual entity becomes a constituent of that entity by being repeated in it.

And in any such case, it then becomes the interactions which experience has shown will have an impact on the molecule which controls the shape it takes and not anything intrinsic to the molecule considered in itself, or explained simply by the quantum mechanics of its constituents.

As is well known, the basis for the positivists» attack was the so - called «verifiability criterion of meaningfulness,» the requirement that for a sentence to be meaningful it must be either true by definition of its constituent terms, i.e., analytic, or be a synthetic sentence which is empirically testable.

Many of our constituents, who have built emotional attachments through years of building relationships with these kids, are devastated by this wrenching cutoff.

We never objectify an object except in an interpreted form, and this is because we objectify objects only by making them constituents of our own processes in which they must be selectively harmonized with other constituents.

In the prefatory remarks to the long quotation from Hume about the missing shade of blue, Whitehead calls attention to eternal objects, «unrealized in the datum and yet constituent of an «objective lure» by proximity to the datum» (PR 86C +).

Thus the datum for physical feeling by a new occasion consists of some of the constituent feelings of every occasion in its «actual world.»

I have repeatedly related the story of how the Constituent Assembly came to accept the inclusion of freedom of religious propagation in the clause on fundamental rights of religious freedom in response to the Indian Christian community voluntarily giving up the communal representation proposed by Britain as safeguard for the Christian minority.

People take part in temple religion because it is encouraged by, and is a constituent part of, their realm religion.

The American people are still angry and the politicians know it, I am told by friends on the Hill that their mail runs very heavy indeed from constituents strongly protesting the continuing excesses of executive compensation.

By systematic we mean not that some traditional set of problems has been covered, but rather that the philosophical product is the deliberate and methodic interrelation of its constituents, viz., its concepts, categories, and principles in a structure...

A perfectly simple psychological investigation of what offense is will explain this, and at the same time it will show how infinitely silly their behavior has been who defended Christianity by taking away the offense, how stupidly or impudently they have ignored Christ's own instruction, who often and with such deep concern warns against the offense, that is, intimates that the possibility of the offense is present, and must be ever - present, for if it is not present, if it is not an eternally essential constituent of Christianity.