Sentences with phrase «fixed points of reference»

I also regret that the Court... missed the opportunity to analyse in more detail the concept of a plurality of legal systems, which is linked to that of legal pluralism and is well - established in ancient and modern legal theory and practice... This general remark also applies to the assessment to be made of sharia, the legal expression of a religion whose traditions go back more than a thousand years, and which has its fixed points of reference and its excesses, like any other complex system.

All theories which place «a subject,» as a fixed point of reference and a well determined entity, ahead of the process of experience have, in Whitehead's view, not clearly understood subjectivity.

Even though your eyes are open, you no longer see a fixed point of reference to tell you which way is up or which way you are moving.

There's no fixed point of reference.

Not exact matches

In my recent National Post column, I make reference to some back - of - envelope calculations to the effect that replacing the fiscal anchor of balanced budgets to one of a fixed debt - GDP ratio allows the federal government to increase spending by 1.2 percentage points of GDP, or by about $ 25 billion.

A streak of nature worship — sometimes mawkish and sentimental, sometimes neopagan in its intensity, and, toward the millenium, frequently Zen - like in its clarity and repose — runs through the imaginative, intellectual and moral history of California as a fixed reference point of social identity.

Lambton's crew would establish a fixed reference point by laborious observations of star positions over several months, then measure a fixed distance away from the point with the fantastically precise use of metal chains and rods supported by trestles.

The team also had to account for any drift by the bodies in the absence of a fixed reference point, a process that Ghez describes as «more subtle than I could have ever imagined.»

1a: the period of about 3651/4 solar days required for one revolution of the earth around the sunb: the time required for the apparent sun to return to an arbitrary fixed or moving reference point in the skyc: the time in which a planet completes a revolution about the sun two Mercury years.

A test that provides scores referenced to an established criterion (a fixed point), as opposed to an NRT or Norm Referenced Test that references scores to the average oreferenced to an established criterion (a fixed point), as opposed to an NRT or Norm Referenced Test that references scores to the average oReferenced Test that references scores to the average of a group.

Review of Tether for BlackBerry Smartphones [youtube video link for mobile viewing] Tether by definition is: (noun) a cord that anchors something movable to a reference point, which may be fixed or moving.

VA Mortgage rates referenced in any advertising are guidance and are based on the current FRM Primary Mortgage Market Survey and a sampling of available rates at 3 % (3.27 % APR) with 1 point in closing cost from our lender network as of 10-18-2012 for 30 year fixed rate for loan amounts up $ 417,000.

The basis point change presented in the preceding table, however, represents a fixed basis point change in reference obligation credit spreads across all credit quality rating categories and asset classes and, therefore, the actual impact of spread changes would vary from this presentation depending on the credit rating and distribution across asset classes, both of which will adjust over time depending on new business written and runoff of the existing portfolio.

The fact that you're staring at a fixed reference point in the foreground (your plane or cockpit) and open levels grants an exhilarating feeling of real depth, distance and speed, tricking your brain into effectively doubling its graphical prowess even at low intensity.

As can be deduced from this photographic series, Echo served as a kind of fixed reference point for its changing architectural environs.

1V — PRODUCED A point of reference slowly draws in semantic meaning to provide the world with a fixed border, fixed dimensions, fixed weight, 2016

Points of reference continually shift as the paintings» fixed references recede into an individually - held archive.

Who would like to program the various parameters that have to be accounted for, like the slow but persistent up and down of tides, the difficulty of fixing a reliable reference point, spherical geometry, Earth shapes, collisions with whales, the presence of inversions on comunications of test signals etc etc..

Primary fixed points were the temperatures of a mixture of common salt and ice and the temperature of the human body; with reference to these the freezing point of water was marked 32 degree and the boiling point of water was marked 212 degrees.

«Detecting ocean currents without fixed visual reference points is thought to be close to impossible and is not seen, for example, in lots of migrating vertebrates including birds and turtles,» says Graeme Hays of Deakin University.

(Although it's worth remembering in this context that affordable, reliable measurement of temperature was a relatively recent phenomenon in his day — Fahrenheit's scale, the first widely - accepted system to feature fixed reference points, dates to 1724.

But Mr McIntyre's last sentence is a valid point, especially when there are so many Mann hockey graphs out there, all with different dodgy fixes to prop up his flaccid stick (I was amused by Steve's reference an inch or two below to what he calls «the first generation of Hockey Stick issues»).

Fixes reference point for long - term development of commercial law in line with leading global common law courts