Sentences with phrase «defined as structured»

It might more accurately be defined as structured or focused parenting.

Self - instructional coursework is defined as structured study, provided by a Department approved sponsor, that is based on audio, audio - visual, written, on - line, and / or other media, and does not include live instruction, transmitted in person or otherwise, during which the student may communicate and interact with the instructor and other students.

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But as Johnston noted, the changing character of business structures and the marketplace are making it increasingly necessary for business owners and executives to pay greater attention to the human resource aspects of operation: «Tasks that were once neatly slotted into well - defined and narrow job descriptions have given way to broad job descriptions or role definitions.

The PSOE's party elders did not choose him for this role, but if Pedro Sánchez takes the lead, in Europe as much as in Spain, and reopens the debate about the euro, acknowledging that the current structure does not work and defining with the help of hindsight what vulnerabilities must be addressed in a reformed European Union, the party's new leader can halt the decline of the PSOE at home and reverse the ugly nationalism spreading through Europe.

«Accelerating competition from e-commerce channels and changing consumer preferences have challenged the business model of REITs that focus on owning and operating malls, which we define as enclosed structures with both department stores and inline tenants,» Thuy Nguyen, a Moody's Vice President says.

I define chart structure as a slow grinding up or down trend with low volatility and no chart gaps.

It defines pure capitalism as a system that grows among a group of completely free individuals and discusses why it is the only logical system upon which to structure a society.

After successful completion of the due diligence process, interested Members will present you with a Term Sheet that defines the structure of the investment deal - including the amount / type of equity, as well as rights relating to our representation on your board of directors, amongst other things.

Therefore, «an ultimate law «has a mathematical structure which is uniquely defined as the only logically consistent physical principle.

But within the context of people saying they are SBNR, I don't really see such people reacting against a loosely defined definition of religion as merely moral teachings administered with certain rituals and structures.

Induction is here defined as a movement of ascent and descent, from particulars to a universal principle and back again, which is accomplished by means of a structured use of the imagination.

3, centers directly upon the «structure of faith as trust in God» (6:91) and, in effect, «pierces [Paul's] own system of thought» (6:102) by allowing Abraham's faith actually to define the content of Christian faith; (3) Mt. 25:31 - 46, the description of the last judgment, in which humanistic actions of a general nature actually «interpret what the Christian confession really means (6:73).

Since A is an axiom, and B is an axiom, they are treated as true in the logical expression, in fact they are defined as true within that narrow mathematical / logical structure.

The distinction arises because in some instances a group of occasions, such as, for example, a particular enduring entity, could have retained the dominant features of its defining characteristic in the general environment, apart from the structured society.

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.

«49 Meland is convinced that intellectual and emotional sensitivity to culture, to its depth significance, to its transcendent qualities and felt reality can bring one to the realities of faith, to the meaning of realities which can not be contained within merely rational structures, to realities which have not so much to be defined as to be acknowledged.

The structure of existence actualized in Jesus is defined as «spiritual existence that expresses itself in love.

Although sanctification in the life of communities and social institutions is not so clearly defined an experience as it is in the individual, Niebuhr said that old forms and structures of life may be renewed rather than destroyed by the vicissitudes of history.

7 - If we defined growth as adding new material to our bodies, then DNA is living, because in the process of replication it add new sequences to its structure, but even in this case we have say it is non-living because DNA is not showing development which is the second part of growth, and simply development is the changes in structure living things undergo as it grow and age.

Clifford Geertz defines thick description as «an elaborate venture in» the «piled — up structures of inference and implication» in human events and structures.

This admixture appears based upon the conjunction of revealed religion with the natural law as set in creation by its Creator, at the head of which is the mind of man — law which defines nature's constitution from the physical to the structure of human society, including the general moral precepts by which it must be governed.

It could be argued that «gay rights» are but a side show and that the defining issue delineating the gulf between the Catholic Church and the modern world, or the «wider world» as Dr Rowan Williams calls it, is the acceptance or rejection of the Jesus of history, his Revelation and the structures he left for the transmission of that Revelation.

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.

Whitehead seems to mean by a systematic geometry that it is a geometry representing a structure of uniform curvature yet not a geometry identified as one of the particular uniform metric geometries.6 Further, this systematic geometry, exemplified within the presented duration, is taken to be a defining characteristic of the «geometrical» society, a basic member of a hierarchy of societies comprising the present cosmic epoch (PR 148 - 59K Thus Whitehead explains that the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy is of importance, for it exhibits a»... complex of systematic mathematical relations which participate in all the nexuses of our cosmic epoch, in the widest meaning of that term.»

Admittedly, I am here presupposing that the universe is indeed a universe, a single all - comprehensive structured society of subsocieties with their constituent actual entities and that this all - comprehensive structured society possesses as a result a defining characteristic or common element of form which is analogously reproduced in the self - constitution of the myriad number of actual entities concrescing in the universe at any given moment.

A massive investment in social criticism is needed in the American church, for it is the structures of our society and institutions, wittingly or not, that define people as beggars and that render them blind.

Granted, the outcome may not be a sharply defined «civil religion» — one that could be universally recognized as such — but at the least it can be anticipated that some kind of «political religion» will be more likely to emerge in societies where legal structures take on meaning - bestowal qualities.6 Obviously such political religion can emerge in «totalitarian» as well as «democratic» societies, but in either setting it will be the law and not mere coercion that facilitates social development.

This structure, however, is not limited to them but rather extends beyond the primitive world and also comprehends, for example, the Supreme Being as defined by Robespierre at the time of the French Revolution in opposition to the cult of Divine Reason.

So yes, Katie — as long as you and your best friend set out and mutually agree on the goals of your marriage and define its structure, you can happily marry.

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

The American Engineers» Council for Professional Development defines Engineering as: «The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.»

Initially the FDA tried to regulate them as drug - delivery devices, defined under federal law as items «intended to affect the structure or any function of the body.»

The agency defines a medical device as «an instrument that is... intended to affect the structure or any function of the body,» she says.

The conditions, in a nutshell, are that the group and its purpose must be clearly defined; costs and benefits must be equally shared; decision - making must be by consensus; misconduct should be monitored; sanctions should start out mild and escalate only as needed; conflict resolution should be fast and fair; the group must have the authority to manage its affairs; and the relationship of the group with others must be appropriately structured.

Severe CTE was defined as tau clusters and several other degenerative abnormalities affecting not only the cortex, but deeper brain structures including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the brain stem.

aims to increase our collective ability to anticipate the complex consequences of change; gain a better understanding of the dynamics of human and social behavior as well as the cognitive and social structures that create and define change; and help people and organizations better manage profound or rapid change.

Adversity is commonly defined as anything children perceive as a threat to their physical safety or that jeopardizes their family or social structure, including emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, bullying by peers, violence at home, parental divorce, separation or death, parental substance abuse, living in a neighborhood with high crime rates, homelessness, discrimination, poverty and the loss of a relative or another loved one.

Published by the Condensed Matter research group at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Organic Materials Database is intended as a data mining resource for research into the electric and magnetic properties of crystals, which are primarily defined by their electronic band structure — an energy spectrum of electrons motion which stem from their quantum - mechanical properties.

Manufacturers of these products have two determining factors with which they can define the properties: the yarns, as well as the structure via which the individual yarns are interconnected — such as special weave patterns or mesh variations.

Walking upright is one of the defining features of the human lineage, and as feet are the only structure that make contact with the ground in bipeds, they can tell us a lot about our ancient relatives» way of moving.

A Pacific Northwest organization has the defined an environmentally sound structure as one that generates its own energy, captures and treats all of its water, operates efficiently, and is aesthetically pleasing

They are defined as species with bony skeletal structures and have teeth that are well preserved in deep ocean mud.

«Galaxies such as this one are probably small clumps of matter that are starting to form stars and shine light, but they don't have a defined structure yet,» Zitrin said.

The Secretary shall ensure that the geographic areas included in the demonstration program include dwelling units on Indian lands (as such term is defined in section 2601 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3501), to the extent that dwelling units on Indian land have the type of residential structures that are the focus of the demonstration program.

Linguists define prosody as the intonation and rhythm of spoken language, features that help to highlight sentence structure and therefore make the message easier to understand.

Now as an Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Daniel uses membrane structure and function as a means to define B cell antigen recognition and inform vaccine design.

When overexpressed together in developing Xenopus embryos by RNA microinjection, these genes can induce eye - like structures as defined by the expression of markers for some retinal cell classes [7].

We define three dynamical regimes in terms of the dynamical quantities known as the Rossby deformation radius (the ratio of buoyancy to rotation) and the Rhines length (the maximum extent of turbulent structures).

SAR studies performed on FC131 analogues, such as modification of the amino acid residues as well as ring structures and backbones, indicated that a defined spatial arrangement of the functional groups on the side chain is necessary for the activity of such compounds.

The MoU will provide a structured framework for cooperation across a broad range of issues of common interest, with emphasis on consolidating and further developing the European Research Area and facilitating the implementation of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, as defined by the CERN Council.