Sentences with phrase «for arbitrary goals»

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But at some point, the government started to mistake arbitrary thresholds for actual goals.

I get what you're saying if, for example, you're expressing frustration about how churches will have self - appointed visioneers who afflict their congregations with goals that are often arbitrary, subject to change, and ultimately self - serving.

For Merleau - Ponty, the self's spontaneous interpretative abilities are not capricious or arbitrary; rather, they are teleologically governed by the goal of achieving a certain equilibrium with the world.

Many liberal educators hold that the primary goal for education is for children to become autonomous, to develop fully who they are in the classroom setting without having arbitrary, outside standards forced upon them.

Goal setting based on individuals» relative capacities, then measuring success through change quotient vs an arbitrary general standard is a proven method for adults in a business setting.

Next I looked at my goals, made arbitrary decisions as to anticipated page counts (Young Adult = 180 pages, Single Title = 375 pages... your mileage may vary) and tried to anticipate how much time would be required for revision and polishing drafts.

Others take a similar approach but instead of setting an arbitrary income requirement for their retirement (whether traditional or early), instead they have a goal of retiring without reduction in their current level of income.

The bottomline for an investor is to earn enough returns to achieve their financial goals — not some arbitrary score of how many indices they beat over their investing career.

For example, say you set your arbitrary savings goal at $ 2,000,000 — and the day comes when your assets reach that $ 2,000,000 goal.

The legislative backfire gallery — laws intended to achieve an admirable goal such as reducing neighborhood nuisances, stray cats or discarded dogs but which often achieve the opposite effect — include arbitrary pet limit laws, bans against specific breeds, penalties against feeding neighborhood cats, outlawing elective veterinary procedures like debarking and declawing or charging exorbitant licensing fees for intact animals.

Having a downloadable title like Contrast ready for the PlayStation 4's launch was a meaningless, arbitrary goal for a multiplatform release, and it appears to have hobbled something beautiful.

The experiments have at times been extreme — wearing a uniform for months on end, exploring limitations of living space, and living without measured time — yet one of the most important goals of this work is to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary such a choice can be.

So you're just pushing back the goal - posts and inventing some arbitrary criteria for this topic.

To have a chance of solving things, the whole system needs to change, starting with the economic fallacies on which policies are based (for instance, the arbitrary number that represents GNP growth is the ultimate goal of society and must therefore eternally grow bigger and bigger and bigger, faster).

And the reason why your daily step goals are constantly changing, rather than striving for «10K» every day, is because Pebble wants people to use their own personal bests as guideposts rather than an arbitrary number.

Systems are much more effective than just having arbitrary goals to aim for.

I use the LLCs for liability protection so my goal is to minimize my exposure in each LLC, not some arbitrary number such as the number of properties.