Sentences with phrase «effect follows its cause»

Oh, all that my pitiful earthly Euclidean mind can grasp is that suffering exists, that no one is to blame, that effect follows cause, simply and directly, that everything flows and finds its level — but then this is only Euclidean nonsense.

Given that faith, as it is expressed, say, in the letters of Paul, the historian can account plausibly for all that follows, and show how effect followed cause in a sequence as «natural» as such sequences ever are.

So, I don't think they are going to complain about the fine because they know that they have violated Nigeria's laws and they know that effect follows cause.

You say: «Hypothesis A is more obvious simply because we usually assume that effect follows cause»

Hypothesis A is more obvious simply because we usually assume that effect follows cause — hardly «sleight of hand».

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

We are, after all, used to seeing situations unfold linearly, with one event leading to another, following the standard pattern of cause and effect.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

«It's not linear or a matter of just following the logical argument; it's seeing the cloud of interconnections and influences, beyond just cause and effect thinking.»

If there was no «first cause» then there would be no effects to follow that cause, and thereby create a causal chain.

At that time, it seemed that advocates of the neopositivist «deductive - law» model of explanation, following the lead of Carl Hempel, had shown how ineptly historians went about the task of formulating cause - effect hypotheses in their accounts of the past.

I pointed out to him that he does not have a cause effect relationship, no chain to follow, he just wanted it to be true, so declared it to himself (and others) that it was true.

The development of science since Hume has followed the premise that cause and effect still work as reliably as ever.

It's why things make sense — the reason cause follows effect — the law of noncontradiction — the creative mind that accounts for why there is something rather than nothing.

What comfort is (it) to me that there are none guilty and that cause follows effect simply and directly, and that I know it — I must have justice, or I will destroy myself.

Then he says,»... all I know is that there is suffering and that there are none guilty; that cause follows effect, simply and directly; that everything flows and finds its level — but that's only Euclidean nonsense, I know that, and I can't consent to live by it!

Causal determinism follows naturally enough, to be sure, from our ordinary notion that the cause produces its effect.

To all this you may remark as follows: «Very well; Jet us agree that the combined effect of phyletic intertwining and mechanical progress causes life to boil over.

7 Newton concludes this «Scholium,» PNP 12: «But how we are to obtain the true motions from their causes, effects, and apparent differences, and the converse, shall be explained more at large in the following treatise.

how we are to obtain the true motion from their causes, effects, and apparent differences, and the converse, shall be explained more at large in the following treatise [i.e., the Principia].

Secular man finds it hard to be convinced that there is a chain of cause and effect which follows a channel leading from the believer to God, and from God to the physical context to which the believer directed his prayer.

But they were also deeply impressed by the dependability of the universe, by the fact that this is a reliable universe with a pattern and a plan in it, in which all things follow in their appointed order and in which a cause always produces the same effect.

The disciples, of course, saw the calm follow upon his prayer and interpreted coincidence as cause and effect.

Without a God your mind has no choice but to follow the same laws as everything else in the Universe... cause and effect.

The author is stating the following cause - effect relationship:

If all is determined and follows precise mathematical laws, if effects invariably follow causes, then how can we continue to believe that God guides our lives and responds to our prayers?

But how can a cause follow its effect?

The following tools and guides are for anyone attempting to quantify and reduce their own food loss and waste, as well as reading materials providing additional background on the causes, extent, and effects of lost or wasted food.

I was reading an article this week suggesting that the El Niño effect in the Pacific would definitely cause a hard winter in Europe, followed by a late and wet spring.

The following resources contain tools and guides for anyone attempting to quantify and reduce their own food loss and waste, as well as reading materials providing additional background on the causes, extent, and effects of food loss and waste.

Wonderful article and I hope that more young mothers will try to follow your example... as long as children are aware that there are consequences for every action, there is no need to be cruel or to hit the child... but you do have to be consistent because children don't even begin to have abstract thought (cause and effect) until they reach 13 or 14 and, even then, it's sketchy... I think the illusion that because a woman has a child that automatically makes her a good mother has been dangerous for our children... I know a woman who used to say, ``... if you don't have power when you're a mother, when do you get power?»

Greaves» hypothesis, 7 the Infective Agent Theory, outlines a 2 - stage oncogenic process for childhood leukemia — an in - utero genetic mutation causing a genetic predisposition to cancer followed by a delayed exposure (known also as the Hygiene Hypothesis) to an infective agent that brings into effect the genetic tendency.7

I have also seen how the effects of well meaning but misguided parents who have either over-indulged and caused attachment problems or have read a book and followed some sort of baby training to the letter.

bubbles: You'll still need to blow the bubbles, but this simple activity encourages visual tracking (following the bubbles as they move through the air), cause and effect (pop!)

I'll leave to readers whether the IDA sanctions that swiftly followed were coincidence or cause and effect.

Disney said the precise binding of Targapremir - 18a to microRNA - 18a means a cancer drug that follows this strategy would be likely to kill prostate cancer cells without causing the broader side effects seen with many other cancer therapies.

And if a singularity follows no rules, it could leak lawlessness into the universe, destroying any concept of cause and effect.

From mass extinctions, to the collapse of the stock market, to the rise and fall of civilisations, events are seen to follow anything but a simple cause - and - effect relationship.

Even the U.S. Public Health Service, which maintains that dental amalgams cause no harm, notes in a consumer update that ongoing studies «will require several years of follow - up in order to detect any subtle and long - range health effects.»

They also published findings from an animal study showing that the effect of stem cell therapy following heart attack is indirect — the stem cells themselves do not survive long after being placed in the heart, but they cause enduring effects by stimulating the rapid growth of surviving heart tissue and attracting stem cells already in the heart, which mature into functional heart cells.

If time moves in circles, and an observer can return to his own past, it seems to follow that effects might be their own causes.

This is one of the first long term follow - up studies of aircraft noise so it's not possible to draw conclusions about cause and effect at this stage until more evidence / studies become available, say the researchers.

«We suggest studies that follow users over time and seek to answer the cause - and - effect questions surrounding social media use and risk for eating and body image concerns.»

The effect follows a principle of «all or nothing»: small quantities of protein are already enough to cause defined lattice distortions.

We report a variety of biallelic effects on organismal phenotype attributable to combinations of recessive Xpd alleles, including the following: (i) the ability of homozygous lethal Xpd alleles to ameliorate a variety of disease symptoms when their essential basal transcription function is supplied by a different disease - causing allele, (ii) differential developmental and tissue - specific functions of distinct Xpd allele products, and (iii) interallelic complementation, a phenomenon rarely reported at clinically relevant loci in mammals.

In the following chapters, we will refer to the impacts and effects of climate change as a result of both natural variability and human - caused climate change.

The degree of air pollution in China exceeded that in most of the world, yet assessments of total health effects must also include other fossil fuel caused air and water pollutants, as discussed in the following section on ecology and the environment.

During the initial and follow - up consultations, I used 12 strategies with Sandi to help reduce or eliminate many side effects of early menopause while we worked on the root cause.

While this new study didn't prove cause and effect, it «found a direct relationship of sodium intake with later mortality over 20 years of follow - up,» she said.

While it can be hard to prove cause and effect (people with dementia may cut back on activities), the study enrolled people without dementia and followed them over time.