Sentences with phrase «depends upon a point»

Purely formal evaluations of the meaning of an event or a person in the immediate historical sequence are of course necessary; but a judgment of value depends upon a point of view which the writer imports into the history and by which he measures the historica1 phenomena.

The «civil» settlement doesn't really shed any light on things either way, since depending upon your point of view, it could condemn either one.

The interpretation of Trump's comments can be based «depending upon your point of view and political persuasion.»

Depending upon your point - of - sale (POS) system, you may be able to pull sophisticated reports that track impulse sales and their impact on department or category sales.

I believe an experienced dog owner would have not had this unfortunate event, so this all depends upon your point of reference.

Not exact matches

Depending upon the price point of your product or service, you may actually create more revenue targeting this market segment.

As the economy continues its rocky recovery, policy - makers are quick to point out that core inflation, the key measure upon which the Bank of Canada depends to set monetary policy and stave off destabilizing devaluations of currency, remains in check.

Personal Advisor charges 30 basis points, which can go down depending upon the amount of many managed.

Many people in this space wonder whether the higher price points are sustainable, and I think it will depend upon the degree to which these vendors create value for their customers.

Dala, The point is — if you had any evidence to support what you say there would be little to no disagreement (depending upon how much actual evidence).

8 For the sake of clarity, I should point out that «maximally happy» refers to greatest possible happiness, and the happiness that is possible depends upon the importance of the world inherited.

I only pointed out that we all have some form of moral code that we rely upon or depend upon in some way.

4 The answer to this question will depend (as Deleuze clearly recognizes), not simply upon an analysis of the nature of monadic units, but on confronting the issue at its most sensitive point, namely, with respect to the difference between the Leibnizian God who «compares and chooses,» and the Whiteheadian God who «affirms incompossibles and passes them through.»

Whitehead points out that every proof depends for its force upon the self - evidence of its premises.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

Ogden mentions that every creature is to some extent God's act,» and that each creature has a certain freedom; 46 but he does not make use of this notion to point out that different creatures will be acts of God to different degrees depending upon how they actualize their freedom.

A precise statement of what the correspondence or the clash might be is not easy to produce and is not necessary here, since our main purpose in these remarks is merely to emphasize the point that value experiences depend for their character upon the kinds of relationships that exist between subject and object.

(A case in point is that of a publicly supported, church - related hospital which is the only hospital in town and which refuses to permit certain medically accepted surgical procedures — such as abortion or tubal ligation — which are objectionable to the church but not to the patients of other faiths or no faith who depend upon that hospital for health care, and whose tax dollars support it.)

Whitehead's account of the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy, as he explicitly states, is dependent upon a definition of straight lines in terms which make no appeal to measurement (unlike the definition, «the shortest distance between two points»): «It is to be noted that this doctrine of presentational immediacy and of the strain - locus entirely depends...

It is of some value to remember here the point made in Chapter 9 in which Elisha's reception of the spirit of Elijah depended upon his seeing the ascending Elijah.

As well as learning from the past about the importance of a healthy diet, we might also reflect upon a point made by one of the contributors to «Sunlight» (a journal of the 1920 - 30s concerned with promoting healthy living): that we have minds as well as bodies, and behaviour depends upon «whether one's mind is fed on treasure or on trash».

Since human existence is a direction taken, rather than a point at which we have already arrived, further movement (together with an awareness of our human identity) will depend largely upon how we respond both to the past and to the impact of the present upon us.

And this makes fully plain the importance of what I have already suggested, that it is upon its point (or superstructure) of spiritual concentration, and not on its basis (or infra - structure) of material arrangement, that the equilibrium of Mankind biologically depends.

In a world where cause and effect have been shown to operate at so many more points than was earlier imagined, we are forced to ask to what extent prayers of petition and intercession which plead with God for the speedy fulfillment of certain clear objectives, really depend upon a belief in the «God of the gaps».

Even this last statement is, until qualified, morally ambiguous for — and this is the essential point that has been long overlooked — everything depends upon what it is in social relationships that is considered valuable.

His point was that science can not accurately predict all possible scenarios of any situation, and that the natural order of the universe depends in many ways upon chaos.

Whitehead points out that the beauty of the idealism of the New Testament ethic depended in part upon the fact that those who affirmed it originally had no responsibility for the stability and preservation of the society to which they belonged.

As Paul says, when you hear the gospel not with Sunday - morning ears but with Monday - morning ears, it can sound foolish indeed — tragically foolish or comically foolish, depending upon one's point of view.

The point here is simply that since the richness of our individual experience depends upon the richness of the experience of others with whom we associate, the growth of our good is a function not primarily of competitive advantage but of communal well - being.

When it was revealed that rehabilitation efforts were also stopped with the decision to end the tube feedings and that even antibiotics were now considered «life support,» an editorial in the St. Louis Review (the archdiocesan newspaper) pointed out that «In a situation where the health of the patient depends not only upon food and water, but on other forms of care and treatment, the purpose of providing food and water should not be undermined by a neglect of the other forms of care.

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

But such significance will depend upon the establishment of some point of contact between that knowledge from the past and the situation of the man in the present.

It is at this point we are blessed with having someone or GOd upon which to depend for our welfare.

«Also, they have an option to redeem it much earlier depending upon the amount of points they have.

Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, «food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land.

It depends upon so many factors — the release point, the smoothness of the delivery, the stride — that it has to be a natural thing.

As an example, he pointed out that while the pyramid recommends 6 to 11 servings of grains, it doesn't explain that the number of servings isn't a matter of personal choice; rather, it depends upon the different caloric needs of individuals.

From my vantage point, it really depends upon the roll out.

Life at the Bottleneck by Ruth Müller, 26 October 2012 Upon realizing, as a scholar of science and technology studies, that success and failure in academia depend on more than personal effort, Ruth Müller made it a point to identify other potential interests and fields of occupation to increase her resilience to career anxieties.

In 1966, also in Physical Review Letters, H. Boersch, J. Geiger and W. Stickel published a demonstration of electron energy gain spectroscopy, at a larger length scale, and pointed out that the measurement should depend upon the temperature of the sample.

McCulloch and Pitts pointed out that no matter how many inputs their idealized neuron might receive, it would always be in one of only two possible states — activated or at rest, depending upon whether the threshold for excitement had been passed.

Princess Point was inhabited between AD 600 and 1000, and Shen believes that during this comparatively late era the Indians of Ontario no longer depended upon hunting for most of their food.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

NMR / MRI signals depend upon a majority of nuclear spins being polarized to point in one direction — the greater the polarization, the stronger the signal.

The leaky - gut opoid theory above depends upon the presence of a leaky gut, and there is evidence that points towards this being the case in many causes of autism.

If your diet is generally healthy and alcohol, sugar, or caffeine are not a big part of your life, then you usually feel okay throughout the Cleanse — it really depends upon your uniques biochemistry and your starting point.

Where cap sleeves hit on the arm depends upon the build of the person wearing the sleeves, but you'll notice I said, «near or at their widest point.»

There is no casting for Dickens at this point — Fiennes was possibly going to play the role himself, but now will evidently find another actor — but this could be a great role for Jones, and an excellent project overall depending upon who gets the nod to play Dickens.

Successful journalism, in our view, depends upon a competent editorial staff to oversee the newsworthiness of items, enforce common standards and practices and to seek to enhance the value of information by providing the reader with a point of view that is well - defended.

Trophy / Achievement of the recently released Resident Evil Revelations 2 will give you one Bronze trophy or 20 Gamerscore points depending upon your console.