Sentences with phrase «in observing practices»

These include artificial changes in the record due to the replacement of thermometers or changes in observing practices, such as the change from imperial to decimal units in the middle of last century.
Considering all of these factors in creating long, continuous temperature records for individual locations, there is only one ACORN - SAT site that requires no subsequent adjustment for factors such as site moves, changes in observing practices, instruments and instrument exposures: Learmonth, which opened in 1975, the shortest record in the ACORN - SAT dataset.
In it, they documented how a change in observing practices before and after World War II produced a cold bias in the sea surface temperatures that were incorporated into the compilations of global average temperatures (see here and here for more details).
In observed practice, a % that appears very high is Christians who are fearful of death: The % for atheists seems rather low.
Though it can not be denied that these are real trends, Morita suspects that these are artifacts due to changes in observing practice.

Not exact matches

To spark new levels of creativity in your work, you need to observe things around you, practice mindfulness, and step outside your comfort zone.
«The window has closed to a certain degree,» observes John Canepa, a partner in the high - tech practice of Arthur Andersen in Boston.
For example, in 1921, Duncan Campbell Scott, the official responsible for the system, sent a letter urging a crackdown: «It is observed with alarm that the holding of dances by the Indians on their reserves is on the increase, and that these practices tend to disorganize the efforts which the Department is putting forth to make them self - supporting.»
While this is straight - forward at an intuitive level, it may be more difficult to observe in practice.
We have observed three business practices, among many other best practices covered in -LSB-...]
A great way to practice this motivational sales speaker tip is to suggest a few common challenges you've observed in the marketplace, and then ask, «Do any of these ring true to you?»
HMEPS relies in part on a whistleblower complaint filed by a JPMorgan employee who observed «questionable accounting and management practices» at the Fund.
As Miller observes, it is easier to believe in God than to practice religion.
Larry, a widely experience overseer of a denominational region, for example, has frequently observed the tendency of leaders to allow their practice of ministry to become their identity over time, meaning that their call to ministry becomes so intertwined with doing ministry in a certain mode that they lost the ability to see the difference.
It is Kate, practiced in observing Binx at his own detached observation, who most nearly draws him into the world, by recognizing the nature of the «game» Binx is playing in his Kierkegaardian exercises of repetition and rotation.
For example, the practice, still observed in many churches, of wearing a red flower in honor of living mothers and a white flower in memory of deceased mothers originated in a florist jingle, promoted tirelessly by the industry in hopes of widening the variety of flowers associated with the day and thus enlarging Jarvis's own emphasis on white carnations.
In it, Bion, who practiced group therapy, observed how his patients would unconsciously coordinate their actions to defeat the purpose of therapy.
Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»
Alyssa Lyra Pitstick Hans Urs von Balthasar once keenly observed what makes someone an ecclesial theologian: «It is quite clear that anyone who practices theology as a member of the Church must profess the Church's Creed (and the theology implicit in it), both formally and materially.
The nineteenth century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche shrewdly observed that in his day the bourgeois elites of Europe wanted the fruit of Christianity (i.e., moral culture) without the tree itself (i.e., the actual doctrine and practice).
Calling the Web app eScapegoat is a play on a practice observed during biblical times when the Temple still stood in Jerusalem and sacrifices were offered for atonement.
Second, the extraordinary passion of Jefferson and Madison on this point was bitterly resisted by many in Virginia, as well as in other states, and in practice it proved nearly impossible to observe completely.
Observing the practice of a cultic group, the outsider may be inclined to compare the «control» exercised by a religious leader to that in political or economic organizations without realizing that obedience may in each case be very differently motivated, and that it hence may not be really the same thing.
Orwin goes on to say that Liberal Democracy doesn't work like that in practice because it actually assumes a particular conception of the good: «For so long as you observe prevailing liberal democratic norms on all fundamental social questions, you're free in merely secondary matters to continue in the ways of your ancestors.»
And of course things are not so comfortably arranged that the theoretician can find the higher speculations and more sophisticated practice existing exclusively in the circles of the highest spirituality — among scholars, for example — and then observe the masses abiding in the simple spirit worship of their fathers.
For mathematical theory, as Michael Polanyi observes, can be learned only by practicing its application: its true knowledge lies in our ability to use it.
In the Gospels, there is no instruction from Jesus that the church should continue to practice and observe this meal.
In the beginning the Chinese Muslims were very serious about practicing the five daily prayers, but in recent years, due to the influence of materialism, unsettled conditions, difficulties of obtaining a livelihood, and the distance from mosques, only the Ahunds and country people of strong faith observe the five daily prayerIn the beginning the Chinese Muslims were very serious about practicing the five daily prayers, but in recent years, due to the influence of materialism, unsettled conditions, difficulties of obtaining a livelihood, and the distance from mosques, only the Ahunds and country people of strong faith observe the five daily prayerin recent years, due to the influence of materialism, unsettled conditions, difficulties of obtaining a livelihood, and the distance from mosques, only the Ahunds and country people of strong faith observe the five daily prayers.
Though we pay liturgical lip - service to the old dialectic, and still nominally observe Lent, in practice all our time now has become «ordinary time,» and there is nothing in this respect to distinguish Catholics from anyone else.
John Charlot observes in Chanting the Universe: Hawaiian Religious Culture that sacred chants were traditionally practiced on the beach so as to reproduce the modulations of wind and waves.
Even if there were, throughout Islamic history, it has been observed in its breach rather than in practice.
I have regularly attended a couple of very conservative, fundamental (baptistic in doctrin and practice) churches aver tha last 33 years, and have observed some of what nakedpastor refers to here — the apparent judging and expecting of some behavior.
One can observe the priority of practice, as a hermeneutical principle, in his sermons, essays, and books.
This way of speaking about scripture is rooted in the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches, Childs observes, not «the way the Bible actually functions within the church» — apparently meaning, in this case, the nonliturgical churches.
11 and 12) In chapter 15, he violates the explicit commandment of Samuel, which is tantamount to the commandment of Yahweh: he fails to observe the ancient practice known among the Hebrews as the herem, by which the defeated enemy is totally destroyed on the spot as an act of devotion to the deity.
The instructor taught the students to practice certain postures, to observe certain rituals as they entered or left a room, and to address the sensai, or teacher, in a prescribed way.
The Colossian Christians apparently believed that although Jesus was the Savior, these cosmic powers needed to be dealt with in traditional ways — by observing special days and seasons and by practicing rites to show one was free from their control.
However, I was repeatedly surprised by how difficult it is in practice to observe this rule.
In other words, if you took an outsider and asked them to observe the communion practices of a Baptist church and those of a Lutheran church, they would be hard pressed to discern any real outward difference.
When practicing scientists think about science, they generally have in mind this understanding of science: theories that predict and explain observed phenomena by appeal to lawlike generalizations.
Before change in sexual behavior and family structure challenged the moral commitments of «the family pew,» anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner had observed that beliefs and practices in the church and in the family were so intertwined that, «Should the present form of the family disappear, the Christian church would necessarily undergo revolutionary changes.
It is also interesting to note that where customary law — adat — deviates from religious law and can not be reconciled to it even in a formal way, it is often customary law which is observed, and such observation is not derogatory to religious sentiment nor to the conscientious observance of the religious obligations and practices of Islam.
There are two points in that brief sentence, and the failure of the medieval Church to observe them or to reform its practice in conformity with them, is highly typical of the general failure to reform itself, with which Luther was so radically concerned.
More formally, it is recorded of George Home, who became Bishop of Norwich in 1790, that he was accustomed to read over the solemn words of the service for the Ordering of Priests on the first Sunday of every month, on which practice his biographer observes that «the imitation of this example may be practiced with ease, and will be attended with advantage.
Christian Lalive d'Epinay has observed that in the time of Allende's Chile, Pentecostalism suffered the mutilation of its practices and doctrine.
As Sherry Ortner has observed in a useful survey of the literature, anthropologists mainly understood Geertz as having argued for a stronger connection between culture and practice.5 They considered Geertz's critical contribution to be his departure from the Parsonian framework, especially his rejection of the Kluckhohns» emphasis on value - orientations, which Parsons himself had appropriated.
In each case, The HSUS found unacceptable and systemic abuses, revealing that these companies do not always observe even minimal best practices when it comes to animal welfare.
The recipient of several national accolades, including selection as America's Next Top Restaurant Franchise, as well as recognition among Entrepreneur Magazine's Top 500 Franchises of 2018 and Full Service Restaurant magazine's Top 50 Emerging Restaurant Chains, Arooga's Grille House & Sports Bar continues to charm the industry with its commitment to utilizing the latest technology in enhancing the guest experience and improving operational practices, creating unique and delicious menu items with fresh natural, ingredients, and observing environmentally responsible operation methods in their restaurants as part of their certification by the Green Restaurant Association.
The food borne illness, botulism, is a risk if food safety practices are not observed, so extra precautions are taken in this recipe.
Over 1200 farmers have since been brought in to observe the benefits of organic agriculture and to learn some simple organic agriculture practices.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z