Sentences with phrase «for purposes of this question»

For the purpose of this question we will ascribe to your preferred definition of «zeal to protect what beliongs to him» or per the Oxford Dictionary «Fiercely protective or vigilant of one's rights or possessions».

For the purpose of this question, I consider any election where the person did not hold office before, but did hold office after the election.

But for the purpose of the question, this point is an excellent one as well.

For the purpose of this question, I would define labor as working for someone else, who is not a customer.

N.B. I do not necessarily hold that opinion myself, but for the purposes of my question I would like to assume that it is correct...

For the purposes of this question, we can assume the Chief Executive is a judge or lawyer and ostensibly qualified to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

For purposes of this question, a «contested election» must be an election with multiple candidates.

For the purposes of this question, we will ignore the issues of presence or absence of competitive markets, or density of capital accumulation.

The sugar tax petition ultimately failed, so for the purposes of this question I wouldn't count it.

He said there is no need to make individuals available to those federal agencies solely for the purposes of questioning them about their immigration status.

Let's assume, for the purposes of this question, that there's no mercury: pure sugar, versus pure high - fructose corn syrup.

For the purposes of this question, the impact of gasoline vs ethanol will be felt as a change in effective working pressure.

For the purposes of this question, let's assume the following: Inflation is and will be a steady 2 % I am in the 30 % tax bracket and there is a home mortgage interest deduction I have a 30 - year fixed...

For the purposes of this question, I've got no plans or desire to move - obviously, anything could happen but there's nothing on the horizon that I can see that would make me want to move out before paying off the mortgage.

If you care about dogs you need to use your power as a constituent for the purpose of questioning incumbents and candidates alike as to their position on the Puppy Mill Bills and you won't hesitate to ask your family, friends and colleagues to do the same.Â

Not to say that time exclusively equates to value for money, but for the purposes of this question... Dana Jan: It's funny, we were talking about this at lunch.

Morals and ethics can be ignored for the purpose of this question.

There has been a bit of discussion on a couple of Canadian lists lately of the appropriateness of commissioning an affidavit (or declaration or affirmation) by video link or by Skype (which is just another form of video, at least for the purposes of this question, is it not?).

@Circero an adversarial hearing in an administrative court, even if there is a prosecutor, is actually civil for the purposes of this question, so I'll consider it that way.

For the purposes of this question, I'm excluding cases where the newer document directly repeals older documents, or parts of them.

Now, it seems like the ethical thing to do is not to read illegally copied material, even if there's no law to stop you (especially as they might accuse you of being the one to have copied them — however, for the purposes of the question, if possible, try not to turn this into a matter of getting prosecuted because someone thinks you copied the material that you didn't copy; for the purposes of this question, assume everyone in the world knows, believes and acts like you're not the one who copied it, impractical as that might seem).

Not exact matches

This is useful for two reasons: First, you explain the purpose of the meeting to anyone who didn't take the time to read your preparatory messages, and second, you open the floor to any questions or concerns about the meeting's topic.

As business leaders answer that question, they are redefining the role of business in society and reassessing the notion that the primary purpose of a company is to deliver profits for its shareholders.

But before we get into classification of employees for employment tax purposes, I want to address your question about compliance checks.

Instead, Coinbase says it will release the Bitcoin Cash to customer accounts in January — raising the question of whether, for tax purposes, the distribution takes place in 2017 or 2018.

Voogd advises to have a series of questions or criteria for the things you do to make sure they have a purpose and are worth your time.

(Barron's) • In Search of the Perfect Recession Indicator (Philosophical Economics) • A Fireside Chat With Charlie Munger (MoneyBeat) • Complexity theory and financial regulation (Science) • Five Pieces of Conventional Wisdom That Make Smart Investors Look Dumb (CFA Institute) • This Lawyer Is Hollywood's Complete Divorce Solution (Bloomberg) • Curiosity update, sols 1218 - 1249: Digging in the sand at Mar's Bagnold Dunes (Planetary Society) • The Plot to Take Down a Fox News Analyst (NYT) • Ask the aged: Who better to answer questions about the purpose of life than someone who has been living theirs for a long time?

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

Inserting additional questions on demographics which will likely result in invalid population totals must be avoided to preserve the fundamental purpose for the exercise — obtaining an accurate count and geographical distribution of individuals living in the U.S.

However, on the back of recent survey work by Credit Karma, which reported 59 % of 2,000 people questioned regarding crypto - related profits admitting they hadn't declared them for tax purposes, it does seem to indicate a desire to keep gains made in Bitcoin et al to themselves.

I will not answer this question in a quantitative way, which may disappoint those who want numerical forecasts; in fact, I will be making a few criticisms of the simple models that are often employed for this purpose.

The Conservatives would argue that this was a question about government business — you see, even when rules are applied, there are ways of getting around them for your partisan purposes.

McDonald called out the questions the ARF and its members should be asking: «What ethical guidelines guide the use of «secondary data» collected for some other purpose, but now used for research?

I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a single deity who seems to have intentions of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?

Discussion of animals in a theological context, when it does arise, has tended to be limited to moral questions: Can we experiment on animals, and if so, for what purpose?

The ideal of human conduct constructed on the basis of this concept of God's will was necessarily moralistic and — the important point for our purposes — static; change was out of the question.

The question is still a subject of controversy among Muslim jurists, but there is general agreement that more than one wife is not permitted for the purpose of satisfying one's lust.

But part of the attraction of Whitehead for me is that he clarifies questions of value and their relation to fact, and strongly supports the subordination of economic values to larger purposes.

The Psalm does not question the relationship of David and Mount Zion to all Israel3 In its moods of deepest despair, the Old Testament story finds hope for the future of all Israel in the certainty that God would realize his purpose in the David - Zion covenant with the re-establishment of that rule in some form.

Perhaps pursuit of the maximal human creativity should be constrained by the following principle of environmental respect: A purpose that reduces natural creativity relative to some alternative for the decision in question is a violation of the maximal divine good unless the purpose is required in order to maximize human creativity in the long run.8 All implications considered, I expect that maximizing human creativity itself includes adherence to this principle.

For instance, there are the hermeneutical questions of whether the image of Christ emerging through the glasses of Islamic mysticism is what the Bible or Biblical authors «intended»; If the purpose of the crystallization of the supposed authorial intention or purpose is to connect the ancient and the present «viewpoints» or the worldviews, one may ask if such a possibility of a pure state of intention possible to extract at all, or is it not that the reader often always creates» at least some elements of the supposed «intentions».

«Prayer,» as The Westminster Shorter Catechism puts it in matchless simplicity, «is an offering up of our desires unto God, for things agreeable to his will...» (Question 98) It is the attempt to become consciously aware of God's presence, to discover his will for our lives, to surrender our vagrant thoughts and self - centered desires to his controlling purpose, and to find in him power for living.

For some twenty - somethings, this is also a time when the questioning of purpose begins.

These are all important questions for determining the view of freedom and necessity, the power of the gods, and so on in the world of the Iliad, but it is not my purpose to enter into them here.

But the system is not the purpose for his doing so» and it is on the question of purpose that Pollock's Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy goes so wrong.

The why in one instance refers to cause, in the other to purpose; and an answer to one of these questions will not do for the other.

He considers it entirely appropriate for biologists to be concerned not only with how biological traits came about but also with what specific organic features are for, even though most scientists and philosophers of science place questions of purpose outside the realm of research.

The apparent purpose of this series of questions was to trap Jesus into a premature and public avowal of his messiahship, and thus into an act of blasphemy for which he could be arrested.

It follows that a theology of God's activity in history is inadequate if it denies or slights the question of his purposes for nations and institutions.

I do take issue, however, with Hancock when he states that the natural sciences are «for the most part... safely insulated from the questions of ultimate purpose that condition our understanding of the meaning of education.»