Sentences with phrase «finite terms»

If the brokerage system were to be set up in finite terms initially, many would find themselves in a different position than that of the Alberta subject in the REM article in recent months, and the Newfoundland article also.

Or mortgaging details were explained in absolute, finite terms in an offer.

(10) «Finite terms of license... We will no longer buy your book forever.

WORLD: Sorry once again, but science does not know everything or the quantum part would be figured out in finite terms rather than probabilities that's sound like we spent millions of dollars to get answers like «but teacher I was almost right, let me try some more»... and pre-big bang theories would be figured out and not quite as fantastical and humorous as they sound to average person.

All reality is experienced in finite terms.

How can we understand the infinite in finite terms?

First of all, using a HELOC means you tend to have a fixed interest rate and a finite term of repayment (in other words, a HELOC can't hang around for 40 years like a student loan could).

He was looking for the value of one finite term in that of another, and the whole result could only be one of those indeterminate equations in mathematics which end with 0 = 0.

The appeal for authors to sell rights only for finite term duration, another Howey recommendation, are likely to increase.

The predictability of fixed monthly payments and a finite term make home equity loans easier when it comes to budgeting.

First of all, using a HELOC means you tend to have a fixed interest rate and a finite term of repayment (in other words, a HELOC can't hang around for 40 years like a student loan could).

For ebooks, the publisher in its contract shall replace the traditional «out of print» clause that triggers a rights reversion with a sales volume clause and / or a finite term of license.

The conversion to a whole - life policy transforms the finite term protection into lifetime protection.

The only difference is that these plans do not have a finite term.

As noted earlier, there are variations in the availability of post-release programs provided by government depending on the reasons why a person was imprisoned (eg, depending on whether they were on remand, community service orders or sentenced to a finite term of imprisonment).

Not exact matches

It is different than a credit card in that the interest rates are usually lower, and it has a finite payoff term.

On the one hand, we could assert that the meaning of terms as applied to the finite and to God is univocal.

Since the meaning of life and love as we use these terms is necessarily derived from the finite sphere, we would be forced to acknowledge that our use of these terms with respect to God could only be ejaculatory — in no way cognitive.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

At the level of assumption, the historical consciousness is the awareness that every event or entity (including persons or religious traditions) possesses its own finite, historical context and can be explained exhaustively in terms of that context.

Just as infinitude and finitude -LRB--RRB-[The limitless / the finite — important terms in Plato's philosophy, especially in his Philebus, 30.]

Radhakrishnan holds that we can apply personal terms since the personal is the highest category we know in finite experience.

Finite individuals perceive or feel the past in terms of perspectives or abstractions.

It is in coming to terms with the death of Jesus that we find an answer to our search for meaning, in face of the complex nature of finite existence and the problems raised by evil, suffering and death.

Nor is it possible, for reasons which must be dealt with in a moment, to try to separate the orienting term from the tendency as if it were purely external and merely as a matter of fact the goal to which the tendency moves, but only in virtue of an independent impulse in the latter not intrinsically dependent on the term but simply belonging objectively speaking to finite spirit as such.

It would no longer be clear in that case how the finite cause could still be termed a cause.

If nothing else, religion is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who fear death so much that they can't come to terms with the possibility that we are simply finite creatures who are not meant to exist for eternity.

Mysticism, as we are using the term here, perceives more explicitly than sacramentalism the presence of an ultimate unity of mystery beyond finite realities and seeks to enter into this unity immediately and intensely, at times with little apparent need for sacramental mediation.

11 More precisely, Whitehead specifies the two different terms as follows: the phrase «actual entity» includes both the infinite entity which is God and also finite entities, while the phrase «actual occasion» is only used when statements about God are excluded.

Second, therefore, such ideas as are not accountable for in terms of the agency of finite minds must be accounted for theologically.

There need be no fixed, finite duration for any event, no matter how small, if its being can equally well be accounted for in terms of a series of several acts of becoming.

I argue that God exists in all three time - dimensions simultaneously: as a determinate past actuality in virtue of the divine consequent nature, as an indeterminate future reality in virtue of the divine primordial nature, and as a concrescing present reality in virtue of the ongoing integration of the divine primordial and consequent natures.1 Yet, while I agree with Ford that there is no way for finite actual occasions objectively to prehend that integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God even in terms of their own self - constitution here and now, I would also contend that finite actual occasions still feel the feelings of God toward themselves as a result of that integration of the primordial and consequent natures within the divine being.

In recent issues of Process Studies there has been a spirited discussion among several contributors about whether or not God can be prehended by finite actual entities either in terms of the divine consequent nature or in virtue of a somewhat revised understanding of the divine primordial nature.

Yet, given the logical problems connected with the notion of a finite actual entity somehow prehending the objective integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God (as indicated above), it makes sense to think of God's influence on the concrescing actual occasion simply in terms of divine feelings vis - à - vis objective possibilities already present in the world as a common field of activity for God and all finite actual occasions.

Talking about finite time also does not help as an eternal being sees time in infinite terms.

In note 5 on page 58 I partially guarded against it by saying that the «mother sea» from which the finite mind is supposed to be strained by the brain, need not be conceived of in pantheistic terms exclusively.

We will need to replace terms such as «growth», «development» and «wealth creation», which sound positive and progressive, with terms that more accurately describe the consumption of our finite resources.

-LSB-...] While hydrocarbon resources are finite, nonetheless issues of access to reserves, prevailing investment regime and availability of upstream infrastructure and capital seem greater barriers to medium - term growth than limits to the resource base itself.»

«People think of a shuttle launch as a short - term, finite event, but each launch expels a huge amount of debris into the atmosphere with the potential for long - term effects on the surrounding ecosystem,» said John Bowden, an environmental chemist at Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C.

«The genome gives finite boundaries to what we have to learn [in terms of complex diseases] and the comparison between two genomes makes the search more refined,» says Robert H. Waterston of the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis and a leader of the consortium.

The edge of the Universe, in astronomical terms, is actually the beginning of the Universe because the further away we look, since the speed of light is finite, the more back in time we look; and so looking at the edge of the Universe is a strange expression to be used in astronomy but I take it to mean going backward as much as possible - as far away from us as we can.

But according to research, willpower is not only a finite resource that can be depleted — it could also have a potentially harmful long - term impact on our health.

Given the finite nature of both marketing budgets and available theater screens, the only long - term solution for delays is for those movies to open everywhere, simultaneously, on streaming services or video on demand.

Due to the finite commitment established at the start of these programs (i.e. 1 year of associate teaching, 2 years of teacher - in - residence, etc.), Yale graduates often have an opportunity to move on from the field of education once their term expires.

The fact is that most people have a finite, short (ish)- term need for life insurance, and they are interested in getting the maximum life insurance possible for the lowest cost possible (term life is substantially less expensive than permanent life when you are younger).

The long - term picture is that demand for energy is slated to increase, and there is a finite supply.

[53] The notion of an artistic project's (lack of) «finality» being a particular prerogative and difficulty for arts institutions accustomed to dealing and thinking in terms finite, discrete objects, even where these might have a time - based element, a point stressed recently by Sarah Cook, postdoctoral curator and researcher at the University of Sunderland, Gateshead, UK, at the one - day conference British New Media Art, Tate Britain, April 3, 2004.

Given finite resources, free tuition is not something that can ever scale: Cooper Union was always going to have to be relatively modest both in terms of size and in terms of budget.

# 298 — «I find it interesting that the thing you can least imagine happening is a commitment to degrowth, even though that essentially is just a commitment to words (rather than massive infrastructure buildouts required for a major ramp up of alternatives); and to imagining an economy that can actually be potentially sustained long term on a finite planet.»

By all means we must be cautious in extrapolating from long - term, global averages to regional consequences over finite intervals.