Sentences with word «definitional»

Confidence is limited because of definitional issues regarding how to classify and measure a drought, a lack of observational data and the inability of models to include all the factors that influence droughts.

This technical document provides background on definitional issues related to reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries.

Knowing what services are «public» for this purpose raises definitional questions beyond the scope of this note.

The «un-caused cause» is special pleading; an argument by definitional fiat and a logical fallacy.

I understand the argument is straightforward, but it is: 1) based in definitional fiat (there is equally valid evidence to suggest that god is malevolent or simply apathetic); 2) actually embraces the god says so because it is good prong of the dilemma; and 3) attempts to constrain god by limiting god's possible range of choice.

Law is beset with definitional problems.

Subsequently, the authors carve out key definitional criteria for temperament (i.e., inclusion criteria) and the traits that qualify as temperamental according to the overview and defined criteria.

Any instructional activity that involves using experts can get bogged down in definitional arguments of who is an expert.

In any case my own concerns were not definitional or even theoretical so much as they were practical.

For this article's definitional purposes, long - term change is defined at those points where the HC4 30 - year global average shifted to a new level (up or down) by 0.1 °C, for at least 12 - months in a row.

Yet insofar as definitional opposition to Catholicism is constitutive of Protestant identity, to the extent that «Protestant» entails «of - another - Church - from - Catholic,» insofar as Protestants, whatever their theology, have acted as if they are members of a different Church from Roman Catholics and Orthodox, Jesus bids Protestantism to come and die.

Can we devise a merit pay system that overcomes the challenges of definitional clarity and valid measurement?

We have adopted the definition of «children with medical complexity» developed by Cohen2 which is based on a systematic review of definitions of childhood chronic conditions.4 Cohen's definitional framework includes four domains:

eg Such definitional assumptions and demarcations are not always clear in the academic literature, yet they are important, for they capture how transitions are framed and also propagated rhetorically to the public [162].

He was indeed begrudging your propensity to declare what you believe to be eternal, definitional truths to society, but on the grounds that have claimed that you don't hold such firm beliefs.

We'd be in some kind of definitional limbo, like someone forced to draw a square with no corners.

Fourth - graders in the study were randomly assigned to receive only definitional information about the words or to participate in the Frayer Model condition, using the concept webs.

Sure in an existential, but what about even a mere definitional sense?

Title: Definitional constructs of cyber-bullying and cyber-aggression from a triangulatory overview: a preliminary study into elements of cyber-bullying.

ors carve out key definitional criteria for temperament (i.e., inclusion criteria) and the traits that qualify as temperamental according to the overview and defined criteria.

From this heavily fortified definitional base George and Bradley reason that sexual acts of the reproductive type typically further the good of marriage, and persons (whether married or not) who engage in sexual acts of the nonreproductive type «necessarily treat their bodies and those of their sexual partners (if any) as means or instruments in ways that damage their personal (and interpersonal) integrity.»

Your claim of «God's unchanging nature» is simply definitional fiat with no support.

They make it clear that unless the preparation provided to teachers and the consultations we provide to parents are grounded in some form of definitional consensus, our field will undermine its ability to play a greater role at the table of school reform and policy development.

Sure, it can get definitional, but the broader question would be how are those definitions determined.

To tap into multiple modalities, Steven A. Stahl (1999) found that teachers must include definitional, contextual, and usage information when explicitly teaching words.

If you look at 1 through 4 youll see that one is definitional Related and the other three computational.

If the emerging - markets index excludes China, then that is just definitional: China is not an emerging market, but neither is the U.S., and your investing strategy can involve allocating to China and the U.S. and emerging markets, and measuring your performance separately against the Shanghai Composite and the S&P 500 and the emerging - market index, or whatever.

But if our unity is only to be found in our identity crisis commiseration, in our «definitional masturbation» (to use Patrol Mag's phrase), we most definitely lose.

There have been countless efforts in recent decades to draw a bright definitional line between proselytizing and evangelizing, and perhaps none of them is entirely successful.

Specifically, the cult destabilizes its theology by controlling its religious language - through ambiguity, definitional reversals, and deliberate imprecision.

The commonly offered alternative is self - limited omniscience, an argument of oxymoronic definitional fiat.

That is a knowledge which is deeply subversive and now definitional for covenant.

The Productivity Commission noted definitional difficulties with respect to «problem gamblers», but concluded that the concept relates to people experiencing a cluster of significant harms.

Describe what Attachment Parenting (AP) looks like in your home through this landmark, definitional survey designed to provide ground - breaking insights about AP families.

The field of political geography — including geopolitics — has witnessed lengthy definitional and procedural debates around the field of area studies.