If
by definition most people are «middle of the road», then if follows that the organizations employing them will be mediocre as well.
``... a consensus is
by definition the most credible view.»
But
by definition most don't, which leaves a lot of jaded thirty - somethings looking forward to the Sunday papers and ready to be supplanted.
What are the average returns for a global stock market index (
by definition the most «neutral» stock index) over the past century?
If your book wound up on the midlist (which
by definition most did) then low volume and a small cut of the books total sales price made it financially impossible for authors to write full time as their sole source of income.
Unfortunately, this statement is not an obvious truism; the simplest - looking terms are almost
by definition the most complex in meaning.
Not exact matches
But focus,
by definition, narrows the scope of our thinking, and given how complex and fast moving
most business problems are, we should relearn the skill of simply opening our mind and giving ourselves half an hour to think, in an unstructured, creative way, about whatever pops up.
By many
definitions, these environments are the
most biodiverse places on the planet.
Most kids are,
by definition, around average.
First, while
most deals stipulate that participants be accredited investors, who
by regulators»
definition earn at least $ 200,000 per year, or $ 300,000 if they are married, the ideal participant will earn more than $ 500,000, according to Breen.
The guideline aimed to combat this problem
by asserting that «
Most workers are employees under the FLSA's broad
definitions,» and encouraging businesses to more qualitatively assess who are categorically employees as opposed to contractors.
By definition,
most of us are not in the top 1 percent of the 1 percent.
For one thing, 3 Mbps is slow
by today's standards and doesn't qualify under
most definitions of broadband, which generally start at 4 Mbps (the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission is aiming for a minimum of 5 Mbps
by 2015).
As discussed above,
most firms affected
by this final rule meet the SBA's
definition of a small business.
And
most importantly, can it outweigh the impact its benefactors have,
by definition, already made on global society, simply
by amassing huge amounts of wealth, information and power through an inherently long - biased economic system?
Needless to say, outside financing,
by definition, requires an «exit,» and for
most businesses, that means a sale to a larger company.
As part of its
most recent review in April 2016 the original
definition in 1992
by the Cadbury Committee was reiterated that:
Access for Non-U.S. Citizens —
Most P2RE sites exclude non-U.S. citizens, but PoL is happy to allow investors from around the world as long as they have a U.S. bank account and are accredited
by the
definition of their country of origin.
You missed out the important part of my quote, which was «
by definition»» — I wrote: «
most investors will never manage to get out before a stock market plunge,
by definition».
«Money being reinvested into a business is,
by definition, not immediately accreting to shareholders, which we think may be a problem given high consensus earnings growth expectations,» says Castagno, adding that the companies
most at risk, based on elevated expectations and likelihood of reinvestment, are those in Consumer Staples, Financials, Health Care, and Industrials.
Since the vast majority of money managers underperform their benchmarks over the long - term after costs, you will
by definition do better than
most money managers.
Well, why do you think that as investors age, you know, they become a little more pessimistic, that
by definition means
most of them are probably gonna tilt away from stocks?
have you considered that
by the priest's own
definition, refusing communion was possibly the
most compassionate thing he could do?
Ben, How you've decribed your position is the
definition used
by most atheists.
And one that I personally wouldn't feel impunged
by, but would be taken personally
by many, is your last assertion that
most fundamentalists are a) not Christian (
by what
definition is unclear) and b) either jerks or desiring «a society that revolves around a dictatorial, patriarchal system».
In ANY group, the loudest and
most aggressive ones are the ones that,
by definition, get heard from disproportionately.
I consider that men DID create and write the bible, but both Christ and satan are metaphors... christ is the metaphor for the potential good in a person, satan the metaphor for the potential of bad or evil... given that this is MY
definition, and makes much more sense that
most other beleifs, then the bible WAS written
by satan, or rather it was inspired
by the bad / evil side of the minds of the writers.
Miracles are,
by definition, highly improbable, and history is duty bound to deliver us the
most probable explanations.
For
most feminists, this means no strict gender roles or a hierarchy that demands a man be the authority over a woman just because he's a man and that a woman be submissive and quiet just because she's a woman.Feminism means allowing both women and men to be themselves as God created them to be — as individuals, not defined
by their reproductive system but rather
by their personalities, their relationships, their
definitions of themselves.
«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience,
by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and
definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is
most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.
The
definition suggests that it is best for theological thinking to concentrate on the
most important matters as judged
by an individual or
by a group collectively.
By the way, I am not a Calvinist, and I don't think
most Calvinists would agree with my
definition of grace above.
The recognition of water as being of common ownership
by humanity is the
most immediate and evident symbol of this new
definition.
For example, after trying a number of
definitions of mathematics, Whitehead settled in that article on Russell's
definition of mathematics as the «science concerned with the logical deduction of consequences from the general premises of all reasoning» (MAT 291), In fact, the article «Mathematics» is the
most accessible,
most approving and best summary of Principia Mathematica ever done
by Whitehead.
Um...
by definition the Pope is one of the
most conservative people in the world, and religion is the epitome of «conservative».
It was that
by the
definition of conservative and liberals today Jesus was a liberal, even though
most conservatives say it is the other way around.
And now that so many deeds that once were thought to place a soul in the balance have become matters of moral indifference,
most of the choices we make are
by definition unimportant, and the heroism or antiheroism of moral choice is all but impossible.
This is not merely a philosopher who, after a long career, still represents a work in progress (for that alone is true,
by definition, of
most of us).
An Emergent
definition of relevance, modulated
by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself
by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are
most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).
In The American Evangelical Story, Douglas A. Sweeney writes, «
Most black Christians, though evangelical
by many
definitions, resist identifying closely with the evangelical movement.
Well the one study was only revealed in the 90s
by your own admission and this study is questionable so really there is only one that you coudl even call a study in the
most loosely worded
definitions of the terms study.
By very
definition, our own embodiment is literally one of the
most personal topics that we can think of.
For example,
most animal protectionists will argue that the mere death of the animal (unless to end suffering not induced
by humans) is
by definition cruel, as the animal will have lost its expectation of life.
It met in the Vatican in 1869 - 1870, and its
most notable decrees, later promulgated
by the Pope, declared «that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of pastor and doctor of all Christians,
by virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine of faith and morals to be held
by the universal Church,
by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, is possessed of that infallibility with which the Divine Redeemer willed that His Church should be possessed for defining doctrine regarding faith or morals; and that therefore such
definitions of the Roman Pontiff are irreformable of themselves, and not from the consent of the Church»; and that the Roman Pontiff has «full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the universal Church, not only in things which belong to faith and morals, but also in those which relate to the discipline and government of the Church spread throughout the world.»
By most, but not all
definitions of «religious,» both can be characterized as religious.
I am amazed how feebly multitudes of persons have imagined what it means for God to be ideally perceptive and retentive of worldly happenings, as
by most definitions God is said to be!
As a side note you list fish oil which is fine if you're a pescatarian but not on the acceptable food for a vegetarian and equally egg is still being debated
by the vegetarian society as they're attempting to gain a legal
definition and
most consider eggs to still be an animal product albeit unfertilised.
So
by definition, MANY if not
most of Elanas dessert recipes are NOT Paleo and should not be named so.
It is a finite piece of terrain that has always been considered,
by virtue of the
definition of an AVA, one of
most the «distinguished» places to grow grapes in Califorina.
Crodino in Italy is the non-alcoholic aperitif
by definition, the
most consumed and the
most famous.