Sentences with phrase «by current understandings»

They also discuss how the roles of men, as active agents, and women, as passive victims, in war have been buttressed by current understandings of the use of rape in conflict zones and how this gendered understanding of conflict roles has negative consequences for the movement towards gender equality and the goal of eradicating rape in war.

Certainly by our current understanding there is very little chance of circumventing the enormous problems of energy, distance and time involved in interstellar travel, as Geraint Lewis writes (26 November 2016, p 20).

Certainly by our current understanding there is very little chance of circumventing the enormous problems of energy, distance and time...

Sensitivity of 82.6 % is limited by current understanding of genetic mechanisms.

Ground Counseling works with teens and adults in body - centered, present - moment approach that is firmly based in modern attachment theory, and mindfulness - based practices that are informed by current understanding of who we are as human beings.

Not exact matches

By getting your financials communicated openly, the entire company will have a better overview and understanding of the current state.

Start by gaining a deep understanding of the current state.

«Now, in this special edition of the classic investment book, The Alchemy of Finance, Soros presents a theoretical and practical account of current financial trends and a new paradigm by which to understand the financial market today.

The various areas in which entrepreneurs are susceptible to the confirmation bias include: 1) identifying who the real competitors of the start - up are, 2) methodically and rigorously analyzing what the competition is doing and how it may affect the start - up, 3) understanding what the company's current and prospective customers need and want (it is usually not what one originally thinks), and 4) estimating the resources needed by the company to achieve its stated goals.

Fair value is a tool used by investors to understand the relationship between the value of futures contracts and the current price of a stock.

By definition any country with both high investment and a current account surplus must have a high savings rate, but I don't understand why having high savings explains China's high debt levels.

Nikolay spent years as a currency trader with Credit Suisse so he understands the absurd level of fees charged by the current system.

The discussion of inflation in the minutes also mirrored much of the recent public discussion by Chair Yellen, who acknowledged the difficulties the committee has in understanding current inflation dynamics and why inflation continues to remain below target, despite very accommodative policies.

Lesson # 4: «What is clear and critical for understanding the current situation is that a balanced budget was (NOT) achieved almost entirely through reductions in spending» (NOT) added by authors.

I understand the cap - weight asset classes are substantially correlated, but I would still be curious to see if current trends in the S+P 500 are being supported by corresponding drops in the S+P Small Cap or DJ Wilshire5000.

In summary, the key to understanding the current market environment is to explicitly make a distinction between 1) the long - term and full - cycle market outlook, which is primarily driven by valuations, and 2) the near - term outlook for the current «segment» of the market cycle, which is primarily driven by the risk preferences of investors.

To return to our example, we want to understand what will happen if China runs a $ 22 billion trade surplus and exports the full amount to the United States, which causes the U.S. capital account surplus and the US current account deficit both to rise by $ 19 billion.

Now, my understanding of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has failed to deal with.

This implies that by shifting from analyzing the current account to understanding the capital account in the balance of payments, we can judge much more accurately the impact of different policies and conditions on trade.

Understanding your current customers by analyzing existing data will help you make the right decisions, so you can improve your productivity and strengthen your business performance and relationships.

To make sense of the current wave of corporate scandal, you need to understand how the man in the gray flannel suit has been replaced by the imperial C.E.O..

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

His basic weakness is that he has ignored the intervening fifty years, whereas real progress in scholarship, precisely when progress means a shift in direction, comes by means of profound understanding of the valid reasons behind the current position, including the valid reasons it had for rejecting an older view to which we must now in some legitimate sense return.

It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.

Many scholars, as noted by Podles, understand the term to apply to a certain current of medieval devotion.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

What seems to be excluded by the nature of the current debate is the possibility of trying to understand the intentions (however clumsily implemented) of public educators on the one hand, or the concerns of religiously conservative parents (however clumsily expressed) on the other.

If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made on them by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.

Salero seems very hung up on some very simple concepts, and yet it gets into trouble so easily by attempting to understand current scientific research.

He and later researchers showed that, when confronted with challenging new information, most people seek to preserve their current understanding of the world by rejecting, explaining away, or avoiding the new information or by convincing themselves that no conflict really exists.

Would they improve the ability of parents to control the education of their children (a right once said by the Supreme Court «to override the desire of the legislature to foster a homogeneous people with American ideals prepared readily to understand current discussions of civic matters»)?

Now, almost a decade later, I can testify of events and occurences absolutely inexplicable by the current state of scientific and technological human prowess, things that are physically impossible according to our understanding, and yet, they were.

Hunter's book presents a strong case for understanding the current state of public discourse as a «culture war,» shaped by ideological extremes.

I'll try to add my own slant, which from my personal perspective is confirmed for me by what I understand of current scientific knowledge.

Our understanding of how the current soul of the American universities has been shaped by these forces can then provide a foundation for considering where Christians and other religious people should go from here with regard to mainstream American higher education.

Understanding how evolution works has nothing to do with the existence of God, * unless * you believe that everything currently on earth was placed there in it's current form by God 6,000 years ago.

And as I look at the current turmoil in Iraq and remember my conversations with Muslim scholars, I have a better understanding of the popular appeal of theocracy in Muslim - majority countries that have been ruled by brutal and repressive secular rulers.

Our current understanding of physics seems to imply that we only see a small «slice» of our own universe, and by looking into other «slices» of our universe (QM) it seems likely that our universe is itself a «slice» of a larger construct..

Sadly our current understanding in the «Christian» teachings falls miserably short of anything close to a supernatural manifestation by a Living God.

All we really mean by that expression is that we tend see the world according to the limits of our current understanding.

Luther may well turn out to have backed the right horse in the end, to judge by current Roman Catholic theology, veering as it is towards Reformed theology on this point, but what he said was a contradiction of official Roman Catholic theology, and put him outside traditional understanding, teaching and practice.

6 His understanding is that the way God who is love empowers us is by opening us up to future possibilities beyond our current comprehending.

Still another series guided by the conviction that a return to the sources will revitalize our current understanding of Scripture is Reformation Texts with Translation (1350 «1650), for whom the general editor is Kenneth Hagen.

«I don't think we've been as diligent as we could be to understand that our marketing efforts are not seen just by current and potential customers, but current and potential employees,» Saccaro says.

Edited by Anne Fox and Mike MacAvoy and prepared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies and DrinkWise Australia, this book seeks to advance current understanding of the individual and collective meanings, purposes, and functions of drunkenness.

The event aims to stimulate innovative thinking around the future of agriculture as well as flavor -, quality - and diversity - driven menu R&D, connecting leaders within the volume foodservice and American agriculture industries to foster better understanding of current challenges and opportunities faced by each sector.

The Conference will give attending beverage import, wholesale and retail executives and owners a clear understanding of the industry by showcasing current data, successful stratagem and recent innovation being used by leading figures in the business.

We are at a point where no f00ks are being given, those fans who attend the matches are biggest idiots in london i say, you must be some kind of special stupid to not understand, that to hurt the current board is by not attending the matches ---- Arsenal fc, The club with most moronic fans the world has ever seen

Incoming Blues boss Antonio Conte has been offered the international attacker by his current employers, with the Chinese side understood to be keen to get Gyan, who reportedly earns over # 6 million per year in the Far East, off the wage bill.

JUST IN: News making rounds is that David Ornstein is reporting that the Lemar deal is less likely.This news was reported to be bad news by my source last week so it shouldn't scare any of you.The reports from Ornstein is not from the meeting held this week but it's old news though true.The current meeting which was held was the meeting held to save the deal and I'm told everything is positive though what really transpired is yet to be known.The Lemar deal is still very much on and I must say it's Arsenal's fault for making it take this long though people might not understand me clearly.The only deal one of my sources had wrong is the Neymar one but they've been spot on about every other deal involving other clubs revealing them many days before time.