Sentences with phrase «by superior beings»

Moreover, the greek philosopher Plato, in regard to perfect lands inhabited by superior beings, and located above the earth on which his feet rested, argued that the ether had the shape of a dodecahedron, in other words of a Platonic solid composed by twelve faces whose numerological meaning also implied a correspondence with the twelve signs of the zodiac.

Francis was vindicated when one of two priests (the other has since died), who had supposedly been sold out, publicly defended Francis, saying that charges that he and his fellow Jesuit were betrayed by their superior are «baseless.»

What some people mean by superior is that it looks nice and proper, the words are spelled right, and the watermark isn't upside down or backwards.

Not exact matches

These power centers are starting to have an impact, both through their investments and by convincing others that companies led by women are an undervalued asset class — one that will deliver superior returns.

Narvekar, who previously racked up superior returns at Columbia University, is a devotee of the «endowment model» pioneered by David Swensen of Yale.

It's not the first smartwatch to market by any stretch, but like the iPhone, Apple's effort looks superior to all those that have come before.

By the end of October, things were verging on the comic: In a superior display of pettiness on both sides, a Google Ventures partner explained why the firm didn't invest in Theranos, and Theranos responded with a full - on he - didn «t - reject - us - we - rejected - him.

He was already considered by many to «own» the Goldberg Variations, which some have described as the «Gouldbergs,» and not everyone agrees his second attempt is superior — including, possibly, Steve Jobs.

«By making it known that they are using these technologies they are fundamentally undermining confidence among civilian populaces that our technologically - superior governments can effectively manage threats posed by this terrorist group,» Michael S. Smith, the founder of security firm Kronos Advisory who has advised Congress on terror - related issues, told Business Insider via emaiBy making it known that they are using these technologies they are fundamentally undermining confidence among civilian populaces that our technologically - superior governments can effectively manage threats posed by this terrorist group,» Michael S. Smith, the founder of security firm Kronos Advisory who has advised Congress on terror - related issues, told Business Insider via emaiby this terrorist group,» Michael S. Smith, the founder of security firm Kronos Advisory who has advised Congress on terror - related issues, told Business Insider via email.

In business, we have a terrible tradition going back at least as far as Frederick Taylor (yes, the «Taylorism» Taylor) that jobs are things done by employees, but designed by their so - called superiors.

Qualification as a Green Giant: A line of products ranging from diesel locomotives to electric vehicle charging stations that are certified against a set of criteria and verified by a third party as delivering superior environmental and financial performance to customers.

JSOC had superior technology and resources compared to al - Qaida, but «by the summer of 2004, we were also losing,» said McChrystal during a presentation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Your entire business is threatened by a very similar, and possibly superior, alternate version.

According to Kuo, whose note was earlier reported on by AppleInsider, Apple believes its Face ID is superior to competing face scanners and wants to use it as a «competitive advantage» in the smartphone market.

For example, does your company have some type of superior, new technology that totally blows all your competitors completely out of the water and is this technology super secret and protected by an impenetrable wall of patents?

A study done by the American Psychological Association suggests that»... the attractiveness of a superior person is enhanced if he commits a clumsy blunder; the same blunder tends to decrease the attractiveness of a mediocre person.

If their respective products aren't superior by this point, they certainly are «good enough,» which leaves BlackBerry up the proverbial creek.

Emails from Iksil to superiors that were later made public in conjunction with the Senate report show he tried to exit the positions he had taken once he realized he was being squeezed by traders taking the opposing positions in the small, illiquid market.

America's road network, which includes its bridges, was ranked third among the largest advanced economies by company executives, behind Japan and France but superior to those of Germany, Britain, Canada and Italy, according to the World Economic Forum's latest global competitiveness report.

Windgap Medical, a Boston - based firm which is trying to release an alternative epinephrine auto - injector with what it says is a superior shelf life to the EpiPen by 2018, for instance.

By offering what he regards as a superior product, Fernandes thinks that goal is within reach.

If you are planning on asking your superior for more money, come prepared for your meeting by doing your research.

«Although we agree with some of the concerns raised by the [TMX] board, we still believe that Maple's bid is superior,» Boland wrote in a recent note.

The transition from a radical regime guided by a utopian ideology to a pragmatic one with a laser - like focus on maintaining power by delivering superior economic performance is one of the main drivers for how China has managed to engineer an economic revolution since the late 1970s.

Actually free services: I'm a little hard pressed to think of Internet features that still fall into this category, other than Wikipedia, personal blogs and piracy, which is ultimately going to be countered either by copyright cops on the down side or superior, paid legal services on the upside.

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

A Harvard Business School case study of one of these «hangings» includes a video of a meeting that involves a «Maoist - like struggle session where a young male employee was berated by a group of peers and superiors for not being good enough.»

And I strongly believe the only way to make long - term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.

Each employee working in an organization likes to feel that the work that they put in is being recognized by both their peers and superiors.

The view in designing and using OSUs was that they struck a balance between stock options and RSUs; they are performance - based and present significant upside potential for superior stock price performance while sharing some attributes of traditional RSUs by offering some value to the recipient, even if the stock price declines over the three - year measurement period.

Ultimately, revenue generation driven by market adoption of a superior product is what will drive a given company's success.

Our goal is to produce superior returns defined by the unique needs of each client.

Ventures should demonstrate that they are unique and superior as compared to competitors — often by replacing or improving current offerings.

Below are the members listed by tenure: Founding Members: Dividend Growth Stocks -[March / 2008]: My site is dedicated to identifying superior dividend investments using a value - based approach.

This is expressed most directly in paragraph 156 of the complaint which argues that a «two percent annual flat fee on assets under management [as charged by an actively managed hedge fund seeking superior returns]... is not justified in the defined contribution plan context.»

The most excited evangelists for the new paradigm (let's call it «craft beer» for the ease of discussion) were confident that a lot of the values they held were shared by the wider population — that craft beer was objectively higher quality, that these little breweries, because they were local, weresomehow morally superior, that the movement was animated by values and ethics and was not merely the evolution of a consumer category.

Another way to characterize Netflix's increasing power is Aggregation Theory: Netflix started out by delivering a superior user experience of an existing product (DVDs) to a dedicated set of customers, leveraged that customer base to gain new kinds of supply (streaming content), gaining more customers and more supply, and ultimately leveraged those customers to modularize supply such that the streaming service now makes an increasing amount of its content directly.

The Trans Mountain Expansion Project is still before the National Energy Board (NEB)(see the comment by Kirk Lambrecht QC here) and all the while spawning lots of litigation, some in the Federal Court of Appeal and some in the provincial superior courts.

This robust sales growth was driven by annual blended same - restaurant sales growth of 4.6 %, building on an already competitively superior average unit volumes of $ 6.4 million for the group.

The key to avoiding disruption is by providing a superior user experience; that, though, requires focus and execution.

Worse is when they believe that on account of their success, they are superior and thus have a moral duty to impose their views on others, including by government coercion.

A valid criticism made by Chinese businesses of their Western counterparts is that they sometimes appear hard - wired into thinking that everything they do is automatically superior to the local competition.

The report reveals that a large number of employees in North America and the United Kingdom (U.K.) are unhappy at work, disenchanted with the company's mission and demotivated by lack of positive feedback from superiors.

(VFINX)-RRB- I believe the trust's long - term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors — whether pension funds, institutions, or individuals — who employ high - fee managers.

Public exchanges provide incentives to high - frequency trading activity by providing superior data packages, and thus the timing advantage that is essential to HFT success.

The reasons are simple: Investors try to outsmart the markets by practicing frequent buying and selling in an attempt to make superior gains.

While it doesn't deliver superior interest rates or operate many brick - and - mortar locations, J.G. Wentworth offers a flexible application experience that is supported by reliable guidance from loan officers you can reach by phone.

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

By compiling a list of qualitatively superior companies first, and limiting valuation work to these, a small - cap manager prevents being drawn into seductively cheap subpar ideas.

In late 2006, Ms. Fleischman saw that loan officers were being pressured by their superiors to package loans that were not creditworthy and to lie to their prospective customers about the quality of these loans.