Sentences with phrase «generalise about»

As this Chapter highlights, it is unhelpful to generalise about understandings of what constitutes «Indigenous land».

But it is extremely difficult to generalise about the overall impact on plant growth.

Craig Bennett, director of policy and campaigns at Friends of the Earth, said: «I think every year it becomes harder to generalise about environmentalism.

I don't think you can generalise about the two of them.

For this reason we do not detail every dive centre we work with but will generalise about the diving services available on the island.

The flexibility of the cat's social structure makes it difficult to generalise about the grieving process but from the information gleaned as part of surveys and in other anecdotal reporting, if the remaining cat shows a reaction, there appear to be three stages commonly described.

Similar concept can be used for dividing by 10, which should help pupils then generalise about multiply by 100 and 1000.

However, it is extremely difficult to generalise about the overall impact of the fertilisation effect on plant growth.

It is not always Munich 1938, nor is it always Vietnam, or Suez 1956, or Rwanda 1994, or Iraq 2003 - though many people do generalise about every issue from whatever their preferred analogy is.

The effect that a continued gender gap has on party policy is subtle but important, and there are other clear delineators of gender - specific behaviour that we can generalise about and that are instructive to election planning.

«We often speak about the region and generalise about the region but it's a very diverse region and very important destination for our export and investment.

The Church of England went from a stern position on contraception, to a stern position that refused to generalise about the vast variety of situations, to having nothing to say about the morality of contraception.

But it's very hard for me to generalise about the concept of Christianity, because it means such wildly divergent things to so many people.

Having been quick to moan when people have generalised about atheists, I sincerely apologise for having committed the same crime.

More often than not, when people talk about the «[Catholic] Church», they often seem refer either to the Vatican — the centre of authority in the Catholic Church — or else are generalising about the entire world - wide Church.

Having seen how sharply any two African countries can contrast, we had learnt to distrust the habit of generalising about the continent from one incident in a single country.

This sets pupils up to go on to create their own interesting shapes with the same area, by generalising about the necessary conditions for this to happen, and ways to achieve this (without counting all the squares!)

He wrote of a retrospective exhibition in Buffalo in 1988: «his full maturity came after the abstract expressionist «period» — in fact, after 1960 — and his career illustrates the perils of generalising about decades, groups or movements.

As Professor Dame Hazel Genn pointed out, in the context of the Jackson data, caution is required when looking at the true cost of litigation: «using these figures to make assumptions about average costs is rather like generalising about war from the most bloody and hard fought battles».

Not exact matches

You must have a very good reason for thinking what you do about SOME Christians but please avoid generalising this to ALL Christians because it's actually insulting to the majority of christians.

Not least because when people make such generalising, sweeping statements, they are talking about the top tier of football.

That's why I've been telling you guys I'm not Resource.Resource always says LACALEMAR.I don't do that.Why is there a need for me to have two accounts just to share transfer info?I've been correct about everything except Neymar.Please I've been very consistent in my updates.Read them very well.Insider sources don't generalise for the day.They give minute by minute info so one moment it could be here and the other moment there.They've broken many deals about so many clubs ahead of time with them making a mistake in the Neymar one.

Little is known about the processes by which resources are allocated within the police and generalised public expenditure procedures aren't specific enough to allow us to understand financial decision - making within police forces.

A curve that goes through all the points but wiggles about between them has generalised badly.

«To go beyond this we use modern machine - learning methods where you don't necessarily know how a computer has made a decision about a particular sound, but by training it, which means showing it lots of previous examples, we can encourage a computer algorithm to generalise from those.»

This drops behind all of the focus on cinema and becomes a more generalised tale about living through fantasy akin to the likes of THE MATRIX.

The criteria are so generalised that they tell you little about what works and doesn't work within a given curriculum or approach.

I was hoping to get an answer from someone who knows what they are talking about... not someone generalising me and making assumptions on my past actions with no proof whatsoever.

If possible also try not to generalise, so be specific and exacting, and precise about how it relates to the Topic of agw / cc science at RC.

Will the cultural view change from worry about a certain catastrophe to a generalised feeling that nothing happened today, or yesterday and it is all too dreadful and uncertain to worry about.

Other than a generalised argument about the validity of any mathematical modelling at all, I struggle to see the relevance?

Skepticism about global warming comes in many forms so I hesitate to generalise and tag people with certain responses.

ii) we do not have enough information about the present to predict local phenomena in great detail (even daily weather forecasts are quite generalised)

It's all about the mimic, and its model - in this case a generalised stingless bee.

Life insurance needs differ from person to person and so it won't be possible to make a generalised assumption about the amount of term insurance an individual needs.

Generalised Anxiety Disorder is diagnosed when children have excessive and unrealistic worries about a broad range of possibilities.

This already provides some information about our hypotheses c and d; nevertheless, we tested both hypotheses utilizing Generalised Estimating Equation (GEE) analyses with conduct problems at time 2 as the dependent variable, CU traits as a between - groups factor, and conduct problems at time 1, change in Emotional Distance, and change in Family Disorganization, and the interactions between CU traits and change in emotional distance and family disorganisation, as covariates.

The study tells us about how this particular group behaves and can not be generalised to the wider population and other cultures.

Generalised anxiety causes children to worry about a wide range of problems.

Generalised estimating equations were used to analyse the data to ensure that statistical assumptions about equal group sizes would not be violated.