Sentences with phrase «by making observations»

Science proceeds by making observations of nature (experiments).

Those who choose to get a dog from a shelter can increase their chances of a successful adoption by making some observations and asking some questions.

He began by making observations, and where possible, he made observations that could control for the different variables he was looking at.

By making observations for a second Mars year and during different parts of the solar cycle, the scientists will be better able to distinguish among these effects.

Begin by making observations and asking colleagues how they've approached teaching challenges.

If you are not yet comfortable with your baby's nurses, you might begin by making observations and asking questions: «My baby looks uncomfortable.

Nolan, a CIA Graduate Fellow in sociology, produced the ethnography by making observations and interviewing 20 analysts in NCTC's Directorate of Intelligence (DI) while also working full time as a counterterrorism analyst at Nation Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) from January 2010 to January 2011.

By making observation and advice a part of the teacher's normal routine, particularly through the use of reading teacher trainers, the district has made it easier to target the use of ineffective teaching practices and to help struggling teachers improve.

It's not my intent to register even a tiny criticism of him by making that observation.

In reviewing the case, the Supreme Court started by making the observation that the dissolution of a marriage — especially a long - term one — is uniquely emotionally charged and results in the potential for one or the other spouse to be particularly vulnerable.

Not exact matches

That last point touches upon another observation made by BAML — that while stocks certainly look pricey, certain areas of the market are actually attractively priced, at least compared with recent months.

The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

Led by Canadian researchers under what's called the ALPHA Collaboration, the first detailed observation of «home made» anti-hydrogen's structure has shown its spectral lines are virtually identical to those of hydrogen.

From their observations, they think the mutual friendship helps the wolves hunt, by making rodents easier to spot and catch.

Great innovators create new ideas by making connections between seemingly unrelated experiences and observations to uncover surprising, unique insights.

This is an observation made by the IMF last fall when they recommended that the Go commit to a global infrastructure strategy.

I thought it might be useful to set the scene by making some broad observations about our markets, sketching trends and exploring briefly the underlying influences on them.

Among widely followed indicators, we can see some of this in the declining number of individual stocks achieving new 52 - week highs when the major market indices push higher, by the tendency for trading volume to become dull on advances and expand on declines (or what is a similar observation, the tendency for the market to make little progress on heavy up - volume and substantial downside progress on light down - volume), and in the recent explosion of insider selling.

Faith that the sun will rise is more of a resonable expectation than a belief despite evidence — there is a precedent set based on long observation by not only the person making the belief statement, but also by everybody else in the world (except maybe the Inuit).

It's to the point with some Christian posters here that any criticism of their actions and religious beliefs garners the immediate judgment that the person doing so is being hateful when, in reality, they are only fulfilling that very same Bible observation made by Jesus.

It makes predictions and is confirmed by observation.

Penn Jillette makes this observation about god, claiming to be moral, doing things that would be considered highly immoral if done by people.

In the next - to - last sentence of the Narrative, Equiano asks, «After all, what makes any event important, unless by its observation we become better and wiser, and learn «to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God!

Lewis Mumford, who specifically disclaims being a theologian, has made observations like those made by Einstein and comes to the conclusion that the church is humanity's hope.

In response, pro-life made the (accurate) observation that it is a mere technicality that separates the legal termination of late - term pregnancies from the illegal termination of late - term pregnancies so gruesomely exposed by the photos from Gosnell's clinic.

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

Of course these are false contradictions, but a case can be made to support the observation that in the aftermath of Vatican II the Church was driven by competing factions, each emphasing an aspect of Christian formation at the expense of others.

This observation that we live forward but think backward was first made by Kierkegaard, and quoted by Harold Hoffding in an article in The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods., II (1905), 85 - 92.

In a droll observation, he calls excuse - making the «second sin» of both Adam and Eve ¯ Original Sin immediately followed, so to speak, by Original Excuse.

That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»

This idea comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.»

You'll have to offer a scientific explanation, not some crazy observation made by senile old men 3000 yrs ago.

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

Hawaii — I must have misunderstood then because I didn't realize that mathematics could be applied to the statement made by Romans which was an observation on his part that there seems to be a strong link among atheists, human secularism and polical left leanings.

Randal Balmer has made a fool of himself by issuing a political statement about Bill Graham's observation concerning the state of our culture.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

To demand that what we say about God be verifiable by direct observation or by an airtight process of logical deduction makes no more sense than to demand this of statements about Millard Fillmore.

On the other hand, the wave lengths of light corresponding to various colors are admissible scientific data because they are confirmable by observations that anyone can make.

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational observation» (PR 5/7).

Yet, fundamental Christianity has adopted as axiomatic truths certain statements and observations made by fallible «church authorities» in the first few centuries after Jesus» ministry.

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight into the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

This observation from Ethics and Politics makes clear his view that a natural morality is forged by people over time through trial and error.

One headmaster proudly reported an observation made by a visiting committee during his school's ten - year accreditation evaluation.

One should not in this connection let himself be deceived by the observation that the abstract thinking of the Greeks made it possible for them to understand in its purity the essence of the spiritual, and that therefore mythological, anthropomorphic ideas of God were abandoned by the Greeks, while in Judaism naïve mythological and anthropomorphic expressions about God, although they decrease, do not by any means disappear.

Nor is this requirement altered by the observation, which Cobb seems to me to make rather more of than he should, that the philosopher, too, always stands in a special tradition which shapes his vision.

Here I will make an observation by which I say more than was said at any point in the foregoing discussion.

As a final example, consider another observation made by Husserl about the fulfillment structure which obtains between and among various experiences.2 We are all aware of the difference between the mere representing of an object to consciousness by thinking about it, and the direct intuition of the object itself which is the fulfillment of the former.

Without seeming to «grill» the person, which would make him defensive, a few of these questions can be sprinkled into the discussion, followed by the observation that these are some of the typical early symptoms of problem drinking or alcoholism.

it starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.»

This is particularly valuable since the observations are made during a time when the children are not influenced by reacting toward parents.