Sentences with phrase «by trivial»

North Dakota: Known by outsiders mostly as the setting for the movie Fargo, the state of North Dakota has a far more interesting history and culture than evidenced by this trivial fact.

I'm genuinely intrigued and perplexed by a trivial concern perhaps and seriously would like to seek an answer to it, i.e. how many children listed on Mensa International list (with impressive IQ) have actually won noble prizes, become genius mathematicians (like G.H.Hardy) or contributed exceptionally in other fields?

These attributes can be lost or undermined by trivial errors in presentation or by use of insult or sarcasm.

I also managed to identify the post-war spike by the trivial method of comparing colocated coastal land and SST measurements.

The trend is for the author of the post to present a sceptical essay backed up by numerous references, most from legitimate and respected journals, which are, within seconds countered by trivial, and reference — lacking comments from Seb.

Happer accepts the assumption — and it is only an assumption — that the rise in atmospheric CO2 is induced by the trivial anthropogenic emission of CO2.

You mean, except for the place where I derived the actual functional form, starting from the gradient required for neutral buoyancy, for the pressure (and by trivial extension, density) of an ideal gas in static, isothermal equilibrium?

Anonymous writes: It is actually amazing that the global temperature result of climate models can be replicated with forcing inputs manipulated by his trivial formula No it's not «amazing».

You may have missed his recent posting about this topic: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/21/model-climate-sensitivity-calculated-directly-from-model-results/#more-86761 It is actually amazing that the global temperature result of climate models can be replicated with forcing inputs manipulated by his trivial formula, resulting in an almost identical output (r value of about 0.99).

Add the fact that France's most prominent global warming sceptic is an eminent vulcanologist, who also happens to be a much - hated socialist ex-minister of education, and you can see how attitudes can be affected by trivial considerations of national politics.

In fact the GHGs will actually cool down by slightly heating the air by molecular collisions, and result in the energy - out flux slightly increasing by a trivial amount to exhaust this waste heat to space.

I agree completely that science is generally not determined by trivial errors.

By compromising the very principles of fairness, they've managed to upset even those set to gain by their trivial meddlings.

When informed that 75 percent of students graduated from high school, the public took that as neutral to mildly good news, as the percentage giving schools an «A» or «B» increased by a trivial 2 points and the percentage getting a «D» or «F» dropped by 1 point (both statistically insignificant changes).

Dr. Noakes is refusing to yield to persecution by the trivial charge that was brought against him, and is using his trial to bring the science of the LCHF diet into public view in South Africa and around the world.

I've been making these arguments for years: breastfeeding promotion campaigns like the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) violate women's autonomy, re-inscribe privilege and are not justified by the trivial benefits of breastfeeding.

They become tricked by the trivial.

Not exact matches

«If [R3's] only duty was to provide assistance, and it breached this duty in a significant way (the latter qualification is important since this duty could be breached in trivial ways), for example by doing nothing when it could have done something, then the breach looks material to me,» said Stephen Smith, a law professor at McGill University, in an email to Fortune.

At its helm is a skinny, contemplative student of the world who revels in asking questions and couldn't be bothered by so trivial a pursuit as warring with the company's rivals.

It seems like a trivial distinction between plans that are so similar (and similar as well to the proposals put forward by Sen. John Edwards and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson) that without the obligatory «Paid for by» ¦» at the bottom of the fact sheet you'd be hard - pressed to say which campaign issued which proposal.

Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter Nickolas Cruz, is being harassed by law enforcement — accused of terrorizing the community, arrested for a trivial infraction, held in jail after posting bond, and all but forced to take a conviction to avoid being unfairly jailed, according to his new lawyers.

Even when accounting for universities that have open IP policies, this is a trivial amount by global standards.

These nonverbal cues may seem trivial, but have tremendous impact by showing your interest, understanding and involvement in the conversation.»

This episode is a perfect example: an unintended casualty of this weekend's firestorm is the idea of data portability: I have argued that social networks like Facebook should make it trivial to export your network; it seems far more likely that most social networks will respond to this Cambridge Analytica scandal by locking down data even further.

But a large fraction of the Reserves has been «sterilized» by the device of this trivial interest rate paid on them.

This is not to say that it was not also tragic: He was still quite young, and his demise came unexpectedly for his family, and by an agonizingly trivial mischance.

No, I don't think rape is trivial but I think it is blown way out of proportion by women.

Please respect my religious beliefs by making a trivial compromise regarding work uniform.»

And she seldom gets angry at all about merely trivial offenses against her own person; the anger she does feel is much more often occasioned by real cases of significant injustice.

Decades later, Newton succeeded in explaining Kepler's laws — but he did not explain them down, if by down we mean reducing what we observe and experience to something more trivial or brutish.

If you wait 5 minutes, the secular world will increase the age of the earth by billions of years... and then the ice core dates will be trivial and likely moved as well.

William James concluded that human life is either a «real fight in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success» or it is a trivial game from which «one may withdraw at will.»

It must in all this discussion be understood that certain doubtful or trivial meanings of «perfect» or «unsurpassable» are excluded (merely to save time and energy), such as that a squirrel is perfect if it has all that is demanded by the concept (whose concept?)

These are not times in which comfort is easily come by; or, if it is, it may be insubstantial, or bought in a corrupt transaction of exchange of Word of God and word of earth for the obsessive word of the trivial, encapsulated world in which one is oneself the undisputed center.

By this test, a religion which is relevant only to a part of man's life would be relatively trivial.

Religion which disregards or opposes reason is, by the same token, in this respect trivial or harmful or both.

Calling yourself a Christian is one thing but the definition is purified by the walk and intention and do not impose the trivial aspects that riles those of other beliefs.

Certainly their conclusion «Every meaningful sentence is either analytic or empirical» is not true by definition, for if it were, it would be a trivial definition of the term «sentence».

And if it does not so happen that a man with the years sinks into the most trivial kind of despair, from this it does not by any means follow that despair might belong only to youth.

They are therefore trivial by most standards, indicating only the ease or difficulty persons have in grasping one or another ideological balloon by which to articulate their behavior.

The boy never tries to help the tree (by pruning it, feeding it, etc.), while the entire being of the tree is devoted to helping the boy meet his most recent need, whether trivial or essential.

But things are different in the case of actual entities: «An actual entity in the actual world of a subject must enter into the concrescence of that subject by some simple causal [i.e., physical] feeling, however vague, trivial, and submerged» (PR 239 / 366; italics in text).

(When you think about it that way it may not seem so surprising that such a search should lead to the Golden Rule and universal principles of right and wrong applying to everyone, like the Commandments — though the steps involved in getting to these results are by no means trivial.)

I has been presented as a TED talk, and was included in the collection of best writing of 2009 as edited by Dave Eggers, so I hardly think it can be dismissed as trivial.

People need to stop getting offended by such trivial nonsense.

But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.

One knows of schools where the important duties of governors are being concealed and they are being sidelined by being given most unsuitable, and essentially trivial, tasks such as superficial school visits.

The irony is that the central message of Christianity, treating others as you would like to be treated, is completely overshadowed by the obsession with the rules of the trivial behavior mentioned above.

And because the underlying commitment is philosophical, the flimsiest facts are counted as evidence - as when the president of the National Academy of Sciences recently published an article arguing that evolution is confirmed by differences in the size of finch beaks, as though the sprawling evolutionary drama from biochemicals to the human brain could rest on instances of trivial, limited variation.

If salvation is only by an intellectual belief, then it is bizarre that God would decide addmittance into the Kingdom based on something as trivial as what they know.