Sentences with phrase «by immediate past»

The statement signed by the immediate past Deputy Chief of Staff, Johnny Osei Kofi, described the new government's claims as «false, baseless and without merit.»

Wike had claimed that the money belonged to the Rivers State Government and was part of the funds allegedly looted by his immediate past predecessor, Rt..

Over 8, 000 copies of the book «Law on Prevention and Detection of Crimes by the Police in Nigeria» written by the immediate past Inspector General of Police, Dr. Solomon Arase (rtd) were sold out at the launching of the book at the Congress Hall of Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja on Tuesday.

The indoor Sport hall Chairman said, the stadium was awarded by the immediate past administration and has been under construction for over two years.

Nigeria Politics Online had earlier reported that the Rivers state government has claimed that its investigations revealed that the money was the proceed from the sale of gas turbines by the immediate past Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

He said, «Some months back when regular payment of workers salary by the state government became difficult due to the obnoxious economic policies of the Buhari administration and plundering of the state by the immediate past APC — led government, this particular civil servant did not hang himself then.

A driver in the employ of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nasiru Isa, has been arrested for allegedly breaking into one of the sealed mansions owned by the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh (retd.).

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has said N13bn ($ 43.4 m, N23m and # 27,000) found by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at the Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, belongs to the Rivers state government claiming that investigations by the government revealed that the money was the proceed from the sale of gas turbines by the immediate past Governor Rotimi Amaechi.

Speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Friday night, Wike said the $ 43m was part of the proceeds from the sale of a gas turbine by the immediate past administration, adding that the gas turbine was initially built by the Peter Odili administration.

Ali Modu Sheriff was yesterday appointed as the acting chairman of the major opposition party filling the vacuum left by immediate past acting chairman, Uche Secundus.

Ibe who was reacting to the advice given by the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, said the former Vice President, who he described as a master of consensus building, would not discountenance the importance of carrying everyone along.

In the letter with a Reference No EFCC / EC / SGF / 03/56 (dated March 5, 2015) and personally signed by the immediate past Executive Chairman of EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, the complainant in the bribery saga, Mr. Rasheed Taiwo, a retired Deputy Comptroller General of Customs was said to have failed to produce the alleged telephone conversations and text messages exchanged by him and Justice Umar.

On the flipside however, a motion calling for the probe of the utilisation of Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE - P) funds by the immediate past administration was adopted by the senators.

He said after the July 28, 2015, consultative meeting in Abuja chaired by the immediate past Head of Service, Danladi Kifasi, the federal government was yet to release any fund to kick start the process.

The deal, which was signed by the immediate past minister of petroleum, Diezani Alison - Madueke, gave Atlantic Energy Limited a controlling 55 percent stake in the oil block.

These include; • The Marrakesh Maternity Convention which was approved by the immediate past cabinet and;

The President failed to acknowledge the high growth projections for this year by the IMF, World Bank and a host of other international bodies based on the gains made by the immediate past NDC administration.

The phrase «specious present» was William James»; its importance in the Whiteheadian view is that it marks the general character of primitive sense - awareness, and can be the character of the sense - awareness of what Whitehead calls «low grade organisms,» affected by their immediate past and directed to how they are going to act in the immediate future.

We are also carried on by our immediate past of personal experiences; we finish a sentence because we have begun it....

The inhibition of symbolic reference frees the conceptual element as exemplified in presentational immediacy from its exemplification in causal efficacy and thus frees the symbol to carry meanings other than those conveyed by the immediate past (ME 80; S 6, 83f).

Not exact matches

After falling from Bowser's airship, Mario lands in a world ruled by hat - obsessed ghosts — a convenient twist given his immediate past.

The Ninth Circuit wrote that «in light of the Government's shifting interpretations of the Executive Order, we can not say that the current interpretation by White House counsel, even if authoritative and binding, will persist past the immediate stage of these proceedings.»

During their discussion on Canada-U.S. relations, Premiers were joined by Christine Gregoire, Governor of Washington and immediate past chair of the National Governors Association, and Gary Doer, Ambassador of Canada to the United States.

Hence, a neuronal occasion in the human brain prehends the very minute disturbances of the electromagnetic field occasioned by other neuronal occasions in its immediate past, since these «minor» disturbances are absolutely essential for its own reaction (self - constitution).

The tension I have in mind is generated by (i) this process of temporally ordered actual occasions articulating his vision of the metaphysical ultimatum — atomism — and (ii) the complex product of this process which he so obviously cherished as an organic interconnectedness — the web of interrelations which comprise a world so badly misunderstood by the science Whitehead himself prehended from out of his immediate past.

As a result of the process of concrete relationality, qualities emerge as bridges linking this event to that; relating individuals to each other by way of sympathetic social feeling; binding the values of the past to the exigencies of the present; connecting through action what is ideal to what is immediate and actual.

My own approach has been to turn to a naturalistic development of the scheme and suggest that by distinguishing between the remote past and the immediate past (a distinction other commentators, surprisingly, have not insisted upon) and dealing with each separately, a coherent account can be obtained.

Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 345 - 346 and 435 imply clearly that (b) is the alternative Whitehead had in mind, for in each passage he presents a situation where a given occasion, X, inherits from another occasion, Y, in its past, which in turn inherits from Z, which is in its past — the point of each passage is to say that X inherits doubly from Z, both immediately and as mediated by Y. Z is not in the immediate past of X, and yet X is exhibited as prehending Z directly.

In Adventures of Ideas 233 he writes: «The present moment is constituted by the influx of the other into that self - identity which is the continued life of the immediate past within the immediacy of the present.»

In this process the original physical feelings of causal efficacy are submerged (not eliminated) by an inrush of conceptual feelings, so that the throbbing causal world of the immediate past now appears as a passive display of qualities «presented» to our senses.

In this world, gratitude to the past and obligations to the future are replaced by a near - universal pursuit of immediate gratification: Culture, rather than imparting the wisdom and experience of the past toward the end of cultivating virtues of self - restraint and civility, instead becomes synonymous with hedonic titillation, visceral crudeness, and distraction, all oriented toward promoting a culture of consumption, appetite, and detachment.

For when an old man relives his life, he lives it only by dwelling upon his memories; and when wisdom in an old man has outgrown the immediate impressions of life, the past viewed from the quiet of memory is something different from the present in all its bustle.

If God as concrete is constituted by all of the past, both immediate and remote, then it might be argued that God preserves all values (although some would deny the empirical and logical validity of this implication).

In the relational viewpoint the individual begins life as an effect produced by the many others in the world of his immediate past; But he is not simply a function of these relations.

Christian focuses his attention on the simplest case in which one actual entity prehends only one other actual entity in its immediate past by a simple physical feeling.

But the phenomenological description offered makes it clear that presentational immediacy is consequent upon a particular type of bodily amplification and selection of sense data derived from the stream of consciousness comprising the immediate past actual world, further abstracted and focused in the human situation through selective conscious attention to some, but not all, of the features of the immediate external world recorded and amplified by the body.

Rather, it is a projection by a percipient subject onto a (fictitious) contemporaneous spatiotemporal manifold of certain highly refined and analyzed features of entities directly (but more vaguely and dimly) encountered in the percipient's immediate past through the mode of causal efficacy.8 The important distinction between true perception — what we might now in Rortyan jargon call nonmentalistic «unanalyzed raw feels» — and this second - order symbolic projection of select percepta characteristic only of higher - order conscious organisms is somewhat blurred by terming both equally «modes of perception.»

The other variable has to do with the response of the concrescing occasion to this aim at its satisfaction by the occasion in its immediate past.

His hypothesis is that, in addition to the past actual world, there are also possibilities not realized by that world and yet relevant to the occasion of experience as it constitutes itself in the immediate present.

For our immediate purposes, it may be helpful to oversimplify a great deal by reducing to just three broad categories the ideological contenders for the soul of the American university over the past century and a quarter.

The direct perception whereby the datum in the immediate subject is inherited from the past can thus, under an abstraction, be conceived as the transference of throbs of emotional energy, clothed in the specific forms provided by sensa.

Whitehead redefined past and present by designating what others regard as the objective component of our immediate awareness of the present as the «immediate past» (because fully determinate).

The immediate past attained by the concrescence in its satisfaction, is not part of the concrescence (Whitehead, Process 85), and should be regarded as later than it.

It is clear from the context, moreover, that Whitehead is concerned primarily with the «emergence of novel features in immediate occasions of experience, beyond that indicated by the constraints of the immediate past on such experience.

The most recent of these has been Love, the Dynamic of Wesleyanism (Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1972), by Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, immediate past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society.

First, there is the view of «prehensions,» of causation as not so much a transmission from the past as a picking up of a character, and in the later works, a «feeling» of an immediate predecessor by an actual entity in the present, when the predecessor has perished.

This immediate experience of the person is connected to past and future by memory and anticipation.

Each momentary experience is what it is by virtue of the way others have been in the immediate past.

It must be emphasized that the past and future from which each occasion was thus dissociated was not only the relatively remote past and future, temporally separated from the present by minutes, but also the immediate past and future, only a second or less away.

As reported by the Mirror, Barton believes that his past misdemeanours have cost him the chance of securing an immediate return to the EPL.