Sentences with phrase «determined by context»

«The benefit of any kind of social behavior is determined by the context in which it occurs,» McKenna said.

The handshake is a social multitool: a proffered paw that will stretch to salutation, forgiveness, respect, acceptance, leave - taking, congratulation, agreement, solemnity, the benediction of peace upon a fellow worshipper, and the removal of stones from horses» hooves, as determined by context.

The meaning of language is often determined by context, and in a Denny's restaurant, a Grand Slam has a distinctly different meaning than in a ballpark.

Likewise, the meaning of a sermon is greatly determined by the context in which it is preached.

The selection, the supposedly unmediated «discovery» of «pure» facts is already, in a scarcely obvious way, dependent upon context and determined by context.

Its meaning must be determined by context.

The opposition to the correspondence theory of truth has been the opposition to the idea that correspondence could be anything more than the most suitable tale, with suitability determined by the context in which it is told.

The attractiveness of a certain color is determined by its context and not by a visitor's preference to specific color.

Not exact matches

I think this also probably applies to a much wider context than startups: I think your success might be determined by how willing you are to be inconsistent.

The strategic context of the business; the culture of the enterprise; and the character of a CEO's leadership must be assessed by objective board members to determine which departure style and time frame are appropriate.

It covers an automated food service ordering system comprising non-transitory computer - readable media storing executable instructions to obtain historical context data indicating past statuses associated with one or more customers; obtain historical menu item ordering data indicating past times during which customers ordered menu items from each of multiple food services; obtain context data from a personal electronic device that indicates current, recent or scheduled statuses of a user, including caloric intake or exercise activity; determining a future time for delivery of a menu item based on the obtained data; selecting a future food service from the multiple food services; determining a lead time for an order for the menu item; and initiating the order for the future food service by at least the lead time.

In the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.

I don't have formal training to back this up, but my understanding is that narcissism is a spectrum; that it's neither entirely inborn nor determined by upbringing (though influenced by both); and most certainly influenced by both long - term experience and short - term context.

We can only determine the meaning of sentences and words by examining them in context.

«Narly» seems virtually content - free, its meaning determined entirely by context.

(NB: In this context, «homosexual» means someone with dominantly same - sex desires, while «gay» refers to a person whose self - identity is determined by such desires.)

The assertions are true to the extent they carry over the achieved values of their subject matter into the interpretations as qualified by the selective elements iii the limited respects of interpretation, by the context and will - determined purposes guiding interpretation, and by the signs actually used to represent or objectify the subject matter.

Determining the kind of marriage and family life desired by the couple, and the beginning of thinking, feeling, and reacting in this context.

In any case, we can largely understand prophetic man in terms of two factors: the total physical, social, and historical context in which he lived and his personal will as that by which he transcended that context and determined the form his life would take within it.

Instead of believing with Hartshorne that man's convictions about the ultimate character of reality can and should be determined by allegedly neutral logical principles, the understanding here being argued is that man's thinking about God is and should be governed by a vision emerging in the context of faith, a vision that is itself decisively conditioned by its rootage in history and in the prereflective levels of consciousness.

That is, our size is determined by our ability to actualize our purposes in the context of others with their competing aims.

That is so because in the context of the politics of human liberation man encounters a God who remains open, who has not yet arrived, who is determined and helped by human activity.

Rather, it is determined by how well it depicts and describes a particular state of affairs in a given context from a given perspective.

In the previous sections I noted how in China different religious traditions could function in a complementary fashion, in a context that was determined by a more inclusive horizon, that of being Chinese.

More precisely, one should say that the meaning of a sermon is determined by the various contexts in which it is preached, for every act of preaching takes place in a series of contexts.

Only by examining the context in which a phrase like this is used can we determine which meaning is implied.

In the workplace context, federal agencies have issued guidelines stating that employees should be permitted to determine for themselves the most appropriate and safest restroom to use, and employers should refrain from requiring or deciding which restroom should be used by an employee.

This study was limited by reliance on the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, coding for diagnosis of uterine rupture and was unable to determine whether prostaglandin use itself or the context of its use (eg, an unfavorable cervix or need for multiple induction agents) was associated with uterine rupture.

La Follette, 450 U. S. 107, 124 (1981)(«A political party's choice among the various ways of determining the makeup of a State's delegation to the party's national convention is protected by the Constitution»); Cousins v. Wigoda, 419 U. S. 477, 491 (1975)(«Illinois» interest in protecting the integrity of its electoral process can not be deemed compelling in the context of the selection of delegates to the National Party Convention» (emphasis added)-RRB-.3 A political

These reforms are being effected in the context of our determined anti-corruption programme and this effort can not succeed without a competent and committed civil service corp led by your good selves.

A viral epitope inserted into the complementarity - determining region 3 (CDR3) loop of the heavy chain of a self immunoglobulin (Ig) molecule was generated from the Ig context and was presented by I - Ed class II molecules to virus - specific, CD4 + T cells.

We propose that the NR determines the specificity and generalization of memory attributes for a particular context by processing information from the medial prefrontal cortex en route to the hippocampus.

There are nine criteria used to determine a causal relationship in disease, developed in the context of smoking and lung cancer in 1965 by British epidemiologist Sir Austin Bradford Hill.

According to new research by Berkeley - Haas Assoc. Prof. Clayton Critcher, people evaluate others» moral character — being honest, principled, and virtuous — not simply by their deeds, but also by the context that determines how such decisions are made.

«It was remarkable that we could determine which fish became dominant by changing the range of genes expressed in this context,» he said.

To put these figures in context, this amount of health care spending represents one third of the total cost of obstetric care for preeclampsia pregnancies in the U.S. Much of the cost for infants was determined by gestational age, ranging from $ 282,570 at less than 28 weeks to as little as $ 6,013 at 37 or more weeks.

One avenue of our translational research aims to determine the impact of in utero HIV - 1 exposure on infant immunity to vaccinations and co-infections by dissecting the infant immune repertoire present at birth in the context of maternal HIV - 1 infection and how the infant T cell repertoire changes following early life exposures compared to infants born to the HIV - 1 uninfected women of similar socio - economic status.

By analysing retreat styles and rates of retreat around Antarctica, we can put more recent variations into context and determine their significance.

Our findings suggest that pluripotency is determined by the capacity of a mixed population of lineage - biased intermediates to commit to different cell fates in specific contexts.

The notion of family is seminal in human genetics for many reasons: the inheritance and genetic basis of traits is discerned from family patterns; arguments about heritability and nature versus nurture are derived from studies of family relationships; population genetic structure and social diversity are determined by patterns of mate choice; genetic information is typically delivered in the context of families.

By evaluating the context and extent of joint pain, and obtaining professional guidance as needed, individuals can determine the appropriateness of using cayenne pepper and related products for potential pain relief.

(By calling Terrence Malick's recent films «expansive,» one is really suggesting that through mise - en - scène, camera movement, and editing, they eschew easy signifiers for psychological interiority, placing characters in — literally — wider contexts that are both historically and culturally determined and philosophically inflected.)

In detailed guidelines, the report provides criteria to help educators determine the level of risk posed by a particular student threat, describes the risk factors in four different contexts that should signal a warning about a student, and suggests interventions.

Understanding school context is best done by analyzing school and student data to determine student learning needs and then determining how to enhance teacher capacity to meet these needs, being certain to align educator learning to accepted subject and curricular standards (Guskey, 2002; Learning Forward, 2011).

By combining evidence from multiple, similar studies, we could build an evidence base for numerous sets of materials in a variety of contexts, and perform analyses to determine what features of curriculum materials matter for promoting student achievement.

You can take your struggling students through the same vocabulary and context clue routines by having them work with the relevant words they don't know and also including sentences in which they are used contextually, so that you can determine if students can notice the relationships between the words and the rest of the sentences.

In the context of a district with strong authorizing practices, like Denver, the quality of district supports should be determined by the schools.

Nonsense words allow the evaluator to determine how the child recognizes words without using compensatory strategies (i.e., looking at pictures, guessing based upon context, or reading words by sight).

The item type used for a particular skill and context is determined by matching the evidence needed to the most appropriate method for acquiring that evidence.

Each of the worksheets in this link focuses on a snippet from a story or nonfiction article and is followed by multiple choice questions asking students to determine the meaning of the vocabulary word based on the context.