Sentences with phrase «defined as force»

Pressure is force per unit area and work, which has units of energy is defined as force times distance.

Work is defined as the force times the distance moved under its influence.

Power is defined as Force / Time x Distance.

Just as our weight puts pressure on the ground beneath our feet, the weight of the atmosphere above us exerts pressure on the planet's surface and everything located on it (recall that pressure is defined as force per unit surface).

Obviously, sensitivity to radiative forcing of greenhouse gases (not water vapor, but CO2 and CH4) can't include feedbacks of those same gases — those are defined as forcings in such a sensitivity.

However, in all modelling experiments so far done (and with many different models), the effects of equivalent GHG and solar forcings (defined as the forcing at the tropopause) are very similar (within about 10 %).

Not exact matches

Conflict diamonds are defined as those which originate from areas under the control of forces in opposition to elected and internationally - recognised governments.

In July, the National Labor Relations Board defined McDonald's as a joint employer in lawsuits against the company, a designation that could force the franchisor to take responsibility for workers» wages.

Billed as the Trump administration's new strategy on Syria, the announcement will prolong the risks and redefine the mission for the U.S. military, which has for years sought to define its operations in Syria along more narrow lines of battling Islamic State and has about 2,000 U.S. ground forces in the country.

Instead, you have to put some effort into defining yourself as a unique force in the market.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

The Swiss Syndrome may be defined as a condition in which an autonomous capital inflow forces up a country's exchange rate to a point that threatens the competitiveness of its exports.

The online Oxford dictionary defines guerilla as: «A member of a small, independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger, regular forces.»

Note: A forced close - out is defined as a position closure resulting from account exposure exceeding the required maintenance margin and does NOT necessarily result in the loss of the entire account balance.

In his 1897 essay «The Will To Believe,» James explained why, even in an age of doubt, Christianity remained a real, active option, that is, as he defined it, the subject of a live, forced, and momentous decision.

Well, he obviously defines «religious liberty» as the right force others to adhere to HIS religious beliefs and NOT their OWN beliefs!

The «presumption against war» is sometimes expressed as a presumption against violence, with violence defined as any use of lethal force.

The neo-monetarist credo imposed by the United States since 1971, the complete adhesion to «market forces» (which George Soros defined as «market integration») and the consequent ripples, throughout the world, of liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation measures - have devastated politics, weakened the representative democratic institutions and colonised the state.

As long as everyone is forced to use words they keep repeating and those same words are defined by them they have the upper hand, or so they thinAs long as everyone is forced to use words they keep repeating and those same words are defined by them they have the upper hand, or so they thinas everyone is forced to use words they keep repeating and those same words are defined by them they have the upper hand, or so they think.

Although Powell quite accurately notes that «Protestants were distinctively cool to this method of expounding the doctrine of the Trinity,» such philosophers as G. W. Leibniz (1646 - 1716)(with his description of the Trinity as force, intellect, and will) and Gotthold Lessing (1729 - 1781)(who defined the Trinity as an eternal act of self - knowledge) did go this route.

But most importantly, observe that each point is built up from these lines (i.e., the intersection of several lines can be used to define a point), and, since these lines can be regarded as lines of force or influence, it would be but a small jump to say that each point is composed of the «influences» of other points.

When we get God (the personality of God as he is now defined by a majority, that is) out of it, it will force us to talk and reason with one another, responsibly.

His three conditions necessary for a just resort to force — sovereign authority, just cause, and right intention — correspond directly to the three goods of the political community as defined in Augustinian political theory: order, justice, and peace.

This latter tradition is the tradition that includes the Augustinian conception of good politics as a just, and thus peaceful, social order; an associated conception of international relations; and the idea of just war defining the instrumentality of the just use of force in the service of both.

But though Article 2 of the Charter sought to outlaw any use of armed force between or among states except in defense against aggression, it did not clearly define what counted as aggression — a matter that remains unsettled, as the recent debate over what counts as legitimate preemption testifies.

A decade ago humanitarian intervention, defined by Brian Lepard as «the use of military force to protect the victims of human rights violations,» seemed...

We can not escape from such passions; but we can submit them to brothers and sisters whose own history of distortion is very different from ours and as powerful in its defining force.

As to your comment here, I was defining «violent» force as force against peoplAs to your comment here, I was defining «violent» force as force against peoplas force against people.

In Just War Against Terror Elshtain argues «that true international justice is defined as the equal claim of all persons in the world to having coercive force deployed in their behalf if they are victims of one of the many horrors attendant upon radical political instability....

Deu 22:25 ¶ But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: ------- — R a p e is defined as 1.

According to the Einsteinian formulation of GTR, the physical magnitudes so represented define the metric structure of the space - time continuum, and fields of gravitational force are interpreted as inextricably intertwined with this structure.29 According to the Whiteheadian formulation of 0TH, the physical magnitudes so represented define a physical characteristic, the «impetus,» against the background of a uniform metric structure.30 In effect, Einstein incorporates fields of gravitational force into a theory about the metric structure of the space - time continuum, whereas Whitehead retains such fields as special physical factors constitutive of the physical field associated with an event.

Israeli forces will be present in territories that are defined partly as «enemy territory» and partly as «hostile territory,» which serve as a base for hostile actions and terrorism.

If we define the religious right broadly — as orthodox religious people who hold to conservative positions on the right to life, the definition of marriage, the goodness of tradition, and the freedom to believe and practice one's faith — then the religious right is alive and well, despite the mythology of an ever - secularizing, omni - progressivizing Hegelian spirit - force.

The status quo is defined as an alienation between ourselves and the life - giving forces of nature; the projected salvation consists in overcoming that alienation and returning to the divine forces that are immanent in nature.

It is significant that Vatican II (and also the Uppsala Assembly of the World Council of Churches) defines the church as the sacramental sign of the unity of all humanity, and also speaks of the presence of the Paschal Mystery among all peoples (see Decree on the Church, and the document on the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World) This approach assumes that in Christianity, acknowledgment of Salvation (understood as the transcendent ultimate destiny of human beings) finds expression and witness in the universal struggle for Humanization (understood as the penultimate human destiny) in world history which is shaped not only by the forces of goodness and life, but also by the forces of evil and death.

He was challenging my interpretation of Matthew 19 and asserted that if he was wrong and I was right, he would be forced to confess his error to God and to men, but that if he was right and I was wrong, I would not only have to confess my error to God and men, I would also have to revert to living as a man because, he argued, this verse defined me.

A decade ago humanitarian intervention, defined by Brian Lepard as «the use of military force to protect the victims of human rights violations,» seemed to be a policy whose time had come.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

They did not prioritize defense against armed attack, and certainly did not define just cause in terms of such self - defense, reflecting Augustine's conception of just war [as one in which] a Christian might justifiably use force to protect an innocent neighbor against harm.

In composing one of his preparatory texts for his forthcoming debate in Leipzig (his Resolution on the Thirteenth Proposition), Dr Luther was forced to thrash out what the Church must be if it can not be defined in terms simply of obedience to Rome, to Canon Law, to Pope and bishops as infallible interpreters of the gospel.

The French have a phrase, La Petite mort, or «the little death» which is roughly defined as «the period of melancholy resulting from having spent one's life force.»

What the metrics say: These are two of the 10 best defenses in Havoc Rate, defined as a team's total tackles for loss, passes defensed, and forced fumbles divided by total plays.

If we define labor in primiparous women over 12 hours as dystocia, we will invent another technology to force women to hurry up their labor to less than 12 hours.

Theorist Edgar Schein defined culture as an abstraction, yet noted that «the forces that are created in social and organizational situations that derive from culture are powerful.

''... he's going to decide, you know, how he defines himself and what his position is, you know I can say and I have said where I think Labour — that Labour would win as a modern progressive force fighting from the centre.

The broad strategy is now obvious: Democrats will attempt to portray Bernardo as the face of the legislature majority, forcing her running mates to defend her record (as defined by the minority), the one Donaldson recently «warned» them about.

Terrorism is defined in the Code of Federal Regulations as «the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives» (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).

Article 14 (1) Every person shall be entitled to his personal liberty and no person shall be deprived of his personal liberty except in the following cases and in accordance with procedure permitted by law; Article 19 (1) A person charged with a criminal offence shall be given a fair hearing within a reasonable time by a court; Article 19 (11) No person shall be convicted of a criminal offence unless the offence is defined and the penalty for it is prescribed in a written law; Article 19 (12) Clause (11) of this article shall not prevent a Superior Court from punishing a person for contempt of itself notwithstanding that the act or omission constitution the contempt is not defined in a written law and the penalty is not so prescribed; and Article 126 (2) The Superior Courts shall be superior courts of record and shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this constitution.

To define his oppo as a Westminster politician would be to add force to the perception that this is a Scotland v UK battle, rather than a tourney within Scotland to win the Scottish vote.

According to its website, the group defines mandates as laws passed by the state that force local municipalities to pay for something.