Sentences with phrase «examples of the phenomenon of»

One of the most fascinating examples of the phenomenon of mean reversion was identified by Werner F.M. DeBondt and Richard H. Thaler in Further Evidence on Investor Overreaction and Stock Market Se...

One of the most fascinating examples of the phenomenon of mean reversion was identified by Werner F.M. DeBondt and Richard H. Thaler in Further Evidence on Investor Overreaction and Stock Market Seasonality.

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That's just one example of a phenomenon known as griefing.

Twenty years later, the company is the perfect example of a phenomenon that Tapscott detailed in his book: the disappearance of the «agent» class.

Social media offers a great example of this phenomenon.

Auto execs understand this phenomenon well, rattling off examples of vehicle features that the public initially resisted: seatbelts, airbags, antilock brakes, cruise control, even automatic transmission.

«The psychiatrist sees symptoms of diagnosable conditions in everyone from the grocery checkout cashier to his spouse; the economist views the simple buying of a cup of coffee as an example of a macroeconomic phenomenon.»

It's yet another example of companies excusing or overlooking bad behaviour when it's done by star performers — a too - pervasive phenomenon that we Canadians will remember from the CBC's inaction on complaints against disgraced radio host Jian Ghomeshi.

Google's search - related ads are the most common example of programmatic advertising, but the phenomenon has been growing rapidly over the past several years.

The answer would seem to be that anti-Jewish prejudice is the classic example of that dislike and fear of strangers which the Greeks knew as xenophobia and which appears as a familiar phenomenon among primitive peoples and peoples reverting to primitivism.

Perhaps one of the most extreme examples of the phenomenon is the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, which has a 707 - horsepower engine, essentially the same engine found in the Dodge Challenger and Charger Hellcat muscle car models.

Recent examples of this phenomenon include:

Your financing provider may be an excellent example of this phenomenon.

One example of this phenomenon can be found at the beginning of a business venture, acquiring capital.

Automated teller machines are a perfect example of this phenomenon.

Fallacy of Hasty Generalization: is the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.

Any non-linear system (e.g. most chemical systems) in an environment with a flow of energy (earth is a great example) will generate emergent phenomena both mathematically and physically.

Schubert Ogden, for example, says that the principle from which process philosophy and theology begin «requires that we take as the experiential basis of all our most fundamental concepts the primal phenomenon of our own existence as experiencing subjects or selves» (HG 57).

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

It does mean, however, that, as this example from the Old Testament indicates, the Easter appearances were not dissimilar in kind from other phenomena in the history of religious experience.

Not even in the examples you cited: «quantum phenomena... Radioactive decay, formation of particle pairs in a vacuum, etc.» can be described as «having the quality of being within themselves.»

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

[39] An example of this phenomenon is the 2006 release of The Secret, a popular DVD and book touting the power of mind (creative thought) to attain one's desires through the Law of Attraction.

The Rolling Stones tried to contrast their authenticity and their R+B music against «pop,» of which the Beatles were the most obvious example, but in truth, they were part of the same phenomenon: Stones - fandom was marketed as an alternative identity to Beatles - fandom.

18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that rock can be thought of as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for rock and roll» is said not by a musician to a musician, but by a groupie to a rock writer), that is as fame - focused as it is music - focused.

We might, for example, take a little out of the cultural imperialism bag and put it into the social - service category, and ascribe both phenomena to Western cultural conditioning.

It is the human endeavor to apply the tests of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity of certain phenomena — that, for example, axheads do not float on water and the sun does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that corpses do not rise from graves.

In the books of the Old Testament there are many examples of this same phenomenon.

Fox's News» profoundly repulsive and spiritually retarded Megyn is a great example of the phenomenon.

Is the whole phenomenon of regeneration, even in these startling instantaneous examples, possibly a strictly natural process?

Chua is just an extreme example of a phenomenon I continue to encounter both online and in conversations with friends — the fundamentalizing of parenting.

But the Pope's remarks about condoms to Peter Seewald for his book The Light of the World - naughtily leaked out of context and without commentary by the Osservatore Romano - surely produced the most dramatic example of this phenomenon for many years.

Or, on the contrary, may the whole phenomenon of regeneration; even in these startling instantaneous examples, possibly be a strictly natural process, divine in its fruits, of course, but in one case more and in another less so, and neither more nor less divine in its mere causation and mechanism than any other process, high or low, of man's interior life?

These are but two examples of a phenomenon that has spread like wildfire in recent years.

Here we have a phenomenon not without parallel in the history of other religions, as Lohmeyer notes — for example in Islam and in Mormonism — namely a shift from a first center to a second within the first generation of believers; and it is all the more striking that the evidence is preserved in Acts, whose whole interest and orientation centers in Jerusalem, not in Galilee, and whose earliest traditions are almost exclusively those of the capital city.

Perhaps a few contemporary examples of this phenomenon will illustrate the point.

Suppose, for example, that the whole universe of material things — the furniture of earth and choir of heaven — should turn out to be a mere surface - veil of phenomena, hiding and keeping back the world of genuine realities.

The Model United Nations movement, for example, has become something of an international phenomenon and yet, despite the Vatican's presence with permanent observer status at the UN, it is virtually unheard of for students to assume the role of the Vatican at such conferences.

For example, the phenomenon of «love» is used to justify arguments in favour of abortion (p41), contraception (p76) and homosexual sex (p76).

For example, it's unusual to find an atheist that believes in ghosts or any type of paranormal «phenomena», Sasquatch, visitation by aliens, witchcraft, crystal healing, homeopathy, etc..

The smart and eloquent student who framed the whole TEA PARTY phenomenon for the audience was perfectly right that these people are a largely admirable example of democracy in action, of genuine «civic engagement» at the local level.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

This is to say, then, that a Christian world view does not, except within the broadest limits, dictate any particular understanding of phenomena; indeed, it can properly be said that there is no such thing as a Christian approach to any field of inquiry — no Christian astronomy or anthropology, for example — just as there is no such thing as a Marxist, or a democratic humanist, approach to phenomenological inquiry.

As a figure of a much more general phenomenon and as an example of its most extreme form let us consider Carlo Levi's description of the religious life of a village in southern Italy in which he lived for a year, a life so alien that he considers it not only pre-Christian but in a sense pre-religious.

The Deists characteristically claimed Jesus as an example of rational humanity and understood the gospels as historical, availing themselves of all kinds of rationalistic explanations of the various phenomena, such as apparent miracle, in them.

The simplest example of contrast under identity is the phenomenon of vibration that characterizes subatomic occasions (wave - particles).

Earthquakes and hurricanes are only two examples of a plethora of physical phenomena that are well understood by science today, and which had religious / supernatural explanations in ages past.

For example, the historical and theological areas may be combined into an area described as «Interpretation of Christianity» while the older «practical» field is divided into two, one dealing with «Church and Culture» (sociological, psychological, and philosophical studies of church phenomena in American culture) and the other dealing with the practice of ministry construed as the application of social scientific and psychological theory to clergy responsibilities.

The worst phenomena of racial hatred, for example, have been merely postponed.

Darrius Heyward - Bey and Stephen Hill are two prominent examples of this phenomenon.