Sentences with phrase «in at least some instances»

They may be surprised to learn that Canada's relationship with Cuba has been, in at least some instances, surprisingly co-operative, even cordial, since Harper took office in 2006.

Investor sentiment in emerging markets was at a 20 - year low at year - end, and an index of emerging market stocks was the cheapest ever on trend - earnings multiples, suggesting that, in at least some instances, concerns may be adequately discounted.

In at least some instances, those letters have stated an employee would be working for the agency or authority — when the intention was for them to work for Cuomo's office, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

Indeed, in at least some instances, a true commitment to deference and restraint in intervention would seem to necessitate it.

Not exact matches

This year, the sector is on track to raise $ 2 billion in funding, with average deal sizes higher than ever, suggesting companies, at least in more instances, are attracting the capital they need to not just innovate, but scale.

By parallel, if you forbid a company from competing for government contracts for 10 years, those are 10 years during which they will engage in precisely zero instances of attempted bribery or other acts of corruption, at least with regard to bribery or corruption of Canadian officials.

In at least one such instance, the FBI reportedly paid the Geek Squad employee $ 500 for turning over the material and proceeded to use him as an informant.

They found that these «sprinters» did indeed report similar stories, and three factors in particular jumped out, starting with at least one instance of making a lateral or even «backward» move that became a defining opportunity:

At least 20 videos have surfaced showing YPG forces targeting, and in many instances destroying, invading Turkish tanks and armored vehicles with anti-tank guided missile systems.

In a conference call with reporters on Friday, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said there have been at least four other independent instances of mosquito - borne Zika transmission in Miami - Dade countIn a conference call with reporters on Friday, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said there have been at least four other independent instances of mosquito - borne Zika transmission in Miami - Dade countin Miami - Dade county.

While the merits of building a subway line over a light - rail one are, in this instance, contentious, the move at least bucks a trend in Toronto, a city where subway plans are often scrapped — not formed on short notice (not to mention at a higher cost).

In at least one instance, though, the system failed.

Secretary Perry, for instance, who presided over the greatest expansion of wind capacity in the country during his 14 years as governor of Texas, acknowledged in his confirmation hearing that climate change is real, and that «man - made activity» is at least partly to blame.

In at least one instance, he put some of his employees on temporary layoff when he had no work for them, rather than lend them to other divisions.

In at least one instance, an accuser said Moore had forced her into unwanted sexual conduct.

Zillow has invested heavily in its industry development team to entice MLSs to send the portal direct listing feeds and the effort seems to have paid off, at least in this instance.

LendingClub, for instance, has greater time in business and credit requirements than OnDeck, requiring businesses to be at least two years old and borrowers to have credit scores of at least 620.

Kabbage, for instance, requires businesses be at least one year old with $ 50,000 in annual revenue to qualify for a line of credit up to $ 100,000.

For instance, in a similar step - transaction - doctrine issue with partial 1035 annuity exchanges and subsequent liquidations (which allowed annuity owners to get more favorable treatment in the multi-step process than could have been obtained if treated as a whole), the IRS ultimately declared in Revenue Procedure 2008 - 24 that as long as the taxpayer waited at least 12 months between the 1035 exchange and the subsequent liquidation, it would be allowed.

Because it just so happens that we can now restrict market extremes matching the present instance to seven instances in history: 1929 (at least on the basis of imputed sentiment data), 1972, 1987, 2000, 2007, 2011, and today.

For instance, Fannie Mae says that you may qualify with 12 months of self - employment if you have previous experience in that field, and your income is at least as much as you earned in that field before becoming self - employed.

For instance, Arch Coal (ACI) and Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) are both currently operating in the red, and the losses are likely to extend at least through 2013.

«Although published academic research overwhelmingly supports passive management and finds that trading frequency is inversely correlated with performance, there are indeed instances where at least some degree of intervention may be warranted,» says John H. Robinson, founder of Financial Planning Hawaii in Honolulu.

Filings with the Labor Department show at least two dozen instances during the last two years in which former IBM (IBM) employees applied for federal aid because the tech giant moved their jobs to other countries.

For instance, in a colorful case involving a city ordinance restricting the practice of animal sacrifice, the Court severely criticized officials for acting out of animosity towards the Santeria religion, which engages in the ritualistic slaughter of pigeons, goats, and turtles (among other animals) and at least sometimes leaves the carcasses along roadsides and in other public places.

The «theos» in question need not, at least in the first instance, speak of the One whom Christians call God.

As a matter of fact it is obvious that at least in some instances — one need think only of the Gospel of John — the kerygma was put into the mouth of Jesus by the evangelists.

The accounts of expulsions or discipline, the colleges say, are few in number; in at least one instance, the basis for the dismissal is in dispute; and the colleges have policies for giving students notice of their standards of conduct and for ensuring fair treatment.

In previous eras sexual prohibition was decreed for «maiden lades,» at least for proper maiden ladies, and they endured it frequently by becoming the paradigms of rigid virtue with ramrod backbones and judgmental airs, in many instances, enough to create a recognizable caricaturIn previous eras sexual prohibition was decreed for «maiden lades,» at least for proper maiden ladies, and they endured it frequently by becoming the paradigms of rigid virtue with ramrod backbones and judgmental airs, in many instances, enough to create a recognizable caricaturin many instances, enough to create a recognizable caricature.

The present setting of this saying is editorial, as are all settings in the tradition, and in this instance the setting is at least as old as Q, since both Matthew and Luke use the saying and its setting in different ways: Matthew to interpret the exorcisms of Jesus as a present manifestation of the eschatological future, «spirit» being «in primitive Christianity, like the «first - fruits» (Rom.

We need to say that it is possible for an individual to have faithful reasons for hanging on to substantial wealth: if, for instance, that person uses ownership in a business to pursue policies with important benefits to society, or is able to provide jobs for people that no one else would hire, or is able because of keeping their wealth to accomplish some unique and valuable good that at least equals the good that could be realized if this wealth were wisely given away.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

The truth is that, as, for instance, in Rawls» A Theory of Justice, contract thinking engages ideas of promise and obligation that take on at least the appearance of being covenantal.

Also, in at least two instances, Brightman mentions in print that he thought there may be sub-human persons,» and this suggests that perhaps he is at least open to discussing what I have been calling the «monadic level.»

Here Whitehead seeks to articulate the ultimate creative purpose towards novelty whereby there can be some effective contrast with that which is, at least in some instances.

Even Paul, in at least one instance, claimed his rights as a Roman citizen against the abuses of officials.

The conclusion from this examination of the texts is that the analogy between molecules and electrons on the one hand and God and actual occasions on the other is without foundation and very misleading, since it lulls the unwary reader into feeling that since Whitehead at least implicitly acknowledges overlapping regional standpoints in the first instance (which we have seen to be false) then to say that God is omnipresent, meaning that the standpoint of God includes the regions which constitute the standpoints of all actual occasions, is merely an extension of a general principle which Whitehead at least implicitly endorses.

The Book and the Brotherhood, for instance runs to more than 600 pages; it has at least eight major characters; and its themes include love and the failures of love, death, belief and disbelief in God, friendship, Marxism, and the social condition of contemporary...

Thus, for instance, Paul's apparent support of slavery lost its authority for us only after eighteen centuries and seventy or so generations, as the full implications of Jesus» message of the worth of each human being finally sank in and became authoritative instead (at least with regard to slavery).

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

In both instances at least temporarily, the irretrievable past puts under bondage the inescapable present

Heidegger, for instance, certainly aims at working out a pure existentialist analysis, but in practice certain anterior existential decisions work themselves out all along the line, or at least they are suggested and are not far below the surface.

The Book and the Brotherhood, for instance runs to more than 600 pages; it has at least eight major characters; and its themes include love and the failures of love, death, belief and disbelief in God, friendship, Marxism, and the social condition of contemporary Britain.

Nor should we belittle the possibility that theological dialogue with these movements might one day be the more fruitful because their self - understanding is not, at least in most instances, defined by the longstanding Protestant - Catholic antitheses of the Northern Hemisphere.

Update (Feb. 26): Morning Star News reports another rare instance in which a Christian accused of blasphemy in Pakistan has escaped sentencing on charges of blasphemy — at least for now.

The difference between answering a question someone asked and answering one they did not is that the person, in our experience, is at least a thousand times more likely to hear our answer in the former instance.

At least in the instance of the living cell, Whitehead believed that the constitutive entities are not all physical in the usual sense.

Although in most instances the leader is the only person who says anything on his own initiative, members of the congregation usually have a chance to sing, to read the Bible responsively, to repeat in unison at least the Lord's Prayer, and sometimes other prayers and the creed.

For another instance, in Italy in 1988 30 % of adults claimed to attend church at least once a week, but 50 % of CD voters and 75 % of delegates to the party's congress did so.

By considering the simplest instance of the physical ingression of eternal objects as in the case of two sensa (PR 115 / 176f), we see that the physical ingression of any eternal object requires the concurrent ingression of at least two other nonidentical eternal objects so that an actual contrast obtains.