Sentences with phrase «for an observation from»

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By focusing on the various skills — everything from observation and data gathering to analysis and reflection — Newnham and his colleagues developed a framework for teachers to use in their science classes, beginning as early as kindergarten.

She trades in observation comedy, sometimes about situations she's far removed from («Types of Kids at School,» for example).

He does what is vital for living with zest and vigor: he gets at observation of what happens, learns from it, makes adjustments and moves on.

The phrase «the first mile» is based on my observation that there are a lot of possibilities for failure the moment you go from a business plan to a reality.

In the most literal terms, Wolff, from 1998 until he decamped for Vanity Fair this winter, wrote the weekly «This Media Life» column for New York magazine, spinning out stylish, pointed observations on everything from Viacom's power struggles to Rupert Murdoch's love life.

The first observation is that the average return for the entire 120 years has dropped from 6.12 % to 3.06 %.

Through my own experiences and observations, I've seen employees let go from different companies for a variety of justified and arbitrary reasons.

Few of the top ten participants in the new horizontal computer industry rose from the ranks of the old vertical computer industry, bearing testimony to the observation that it is truly difficult for a successful industry participant to adapt to a completely different industry structure.

As for my sources, all of my textbooks from 1st - 6th grade and 9th - this yr (11 grade) have only strengthened my observations that America prospers when she is «one nation under God».

Facing the unfolding of Russia's all - too - non-fictional Soviet Calamity, Vorotyntsev was not pondering grand vistas of doom from a «palantir - wired» tower of observation like Denethor, but wading out into society in search of any and all allies and advices, standing for a fierce moderation ready to do battle and take radical actions for plausible hopes, in the manner expressed in this motto:

The point is you speak of things as FACT and then something changes by 14 BILLION YEARS in a distance of 347 miles from the Earth observation to Orbit, and you just say OH well that's science for ya.

You have a hate - on for Muslims... not that I totally blame you... just an observation but it does seem they are «history repeating itself» in a more extreme way and with a slight twist to the belief / extremism... unfortunately, it's hard to separate the good ones from the bad ones at times just due to extreme baffling effect that their holy books offer - how in the 21st century does one manage to stay so blind?

And even when there is substantial objective evidence to go with the subjective observations and interpretations of myself and others, I refrain from talking about it unless there is a * need * for me to say something specific.

Most Enlightening: David McRaney with «The Benjamin Franklin Effect» «For many things, your attitudes came from actions which led to observations which led to explanations which led to beliefs.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

Jewish people do tend to understand the sanctity of life for all people, but it does not seem (from my observation) that women and children are always shown the same respect as men.

So, JUST from observation, even the «lovely» human beings constantly do much more evil than good, or even just act in compliance with evil systems as opposed to fighting for good.

For example: Learning about molecular biology through observations... still wouldn't prevent someone from believing in reincarnation.

Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted observation and direct verification of theories by the «facts.»

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it takes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation» (PR 5/7).

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

Here are some observations from a Catholic young woman whose life «sucks» in the midst of prosperity: In my experience (I readily grant all of the problems with drawing inferences from individual and anecdotal observation), highly eligible men in my social set delay marriage for no good....

My point is not that this suggests the possibility of positive support for Whitehead's notion of a variety of cosmic epochs (on his own theory of perception, it must be impossible for us to make observations of another epoch); my point is the negative one that generalizations from available astronomical data to uniformity throughout the universe may be precarious.

If their elders remain aloof from civic affairs, at most engaging in detached observation and criticism of the politicians, it is hardly cause for wonder that the young should learn to leave the decisions of state to others and thus prepare the way for the loss of their liberties.

(The Quest for the Historical Jesus) That is a most revealing observation, and it comes from someone who had just reviewed the efforts by historical Jesus scholars...

From a finite set of particular observations one can not derive a universal generalization with certainty (the much debated logic of induction can provide no inferential grounds for making assertions about all cases when only a particular group of cases has been examined).

Yet the key point for Catholic thinkers to acknowledge is that the philosophy of science from Bacon right through to modernity has shown that the success of modern experimental observation does challenge Aristotelian - Scholastic «natures».

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational observation» (PR 5/7).

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight into the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

From the perspective of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for tradition and the flourishing of faith is not a glitch but a feature of a free society, which encourages the development of a variety of human types.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

It was appropriate, then, for early 20th - century Social Gospel theologians like Walter Rauschenbusch to observe how prejudice and social discrimination are passed from one generation to the next, and it is consistent for theologians today to incorporate observations about social inheritance — what liberation theologians and feminist theologians call «social location» or «systemic evil» — into our understanding of the human condition.

Of course, for practical purposes we regard the position from which we make an observation as a fixed point, but this is an arbitrary choice on our part.

Regardless, these sorts of things are in the Bible (The Song of Solomon, for example), and no, these are not the sorts of observations you usually hear from the pulpit.

The importance of auditory experiences for the interpretation of reality is proven through observation of deaf children... A world without sound is a dead world; when sound is eliminated from our experience, it becomes clear how inadequate and ambiguous is the visual experience if not accompanied by auditory interpretation... Vision alone without acoustic perceptions does not provide understanding.

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

What shall we deduce from these observations, in which for the most part we see both conservatism and revolutionary challenge being sanctioned by the gospel?

But when the reader begins to press the text for its underlying meaning, for the logic of its assertions, then he begins to move from his observation post to a listening post.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine (Wolgemuth & Hyatt) takes its title from Winston Churchill's observation that his public school was a place «where sham pearls were fed to real swine.»

it starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.»

There arise from these observations certain implications for those of us who are indeed «scribes,» members of that class which makes its living from producing and distributing what passes today for officially certified «wisdom.»

Although Schmidt derives his view from the SMW chapter «Abstraction,» he evidently finds the basis for his observation in statements Whitehead made about the relational essence of eternal objects, and this buttresses my own conclusions.

For our observations about the scandal of the gospel and the impossibility of proving it arise from this partial character of our knowledge.

I am reminded of Scot McKnight's observation in The Blue Parakeet that «anyone who thinks it is wrong for a woman to teach in church can be consistent with that point of view only if they refuse to read and learn from women scholars.

Second, the induction to the new set of laws is not a generalization from particulars; the role of prior theory in guiding observation (of data or selection of uniformities) is accounted for.

Physics, in particular, is noted for its ability to use inductive reasoning to posit universal laws such as Einstein's General Relativity, making the claim that experiments and observations on or from earth allow us to generalise a theory into universal law, i.e. a law of physics that we believe must hold everywhere in the universe because this is a law written into the fabric of the universe.

If a theology of work or paid employment can not be directly inferred from Jesus» casual observations on the economy of a peasant society, where can we turn for assistance?

Apparently he would argue for determinism from the observation that causal regularity is a contingent feature of human experience.

The archbishop's observation was echoed in recent comments from Sister Elizabeth Anne, O.P., who runs Aquinas College's Center for Catholic Education: «The values of our current culture are pressure points for us because our chief values are the Beatitudes.

There was no empirical observation of advancement of religion in this case for the simple reason that it was assumed from the outset.