Sentences with phrase «in subjective decisions»

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«The Commission will not take adverse action on a license renewal application based upon the subjective determination of a listener or group of listeners that the station has broadcast purportedly inappropriate programming,» the FCC commissioners wrote in a recent decision challenging a local radio station license.

The Ellsberg paradox is a paradox in decision theory in which people's choices violate the postulates of subjective expected utility.

When an occasion has appeared, when it has fully come to be, it loses its subjective immediacy, its process of decision, its feeling of self - possession; for the feeling of self - possession consists precisely in deciding on the appearance of one's own reality.

Such actual entities are organisms that undergo growth; they are subjects and have feelings with more or less subjective intensity; they engage in a self - creation that is an integration; they make decisions; they have aims; they may or may not accept persuasions; they may entertain propositions; they form societies; they enjoy satisfactions; and some of them are even conscious.

Since his interest lies in the intrinsic value of each occasion as it might contribute to his own multiplicity, and not in the reduction of that value so that it might provide him with a novel decision, God in no way violates the subjective unity of the satisfaction he prehends.

For God engages in no temporal decisions of his own, as these would undermine the subjective unity of his own nontemporal, primordial decision.

For Merleau - Ponty, all the elements in an environment influence a person in some way, but a person's subjective attitude toward the elements conditions those elements, and the person's decision about his environment feeds back into the environment in such a way that the surrounding world would not be the world it is without the conditioning subjectivity of the surrounded decider.

If we ask how this difference arises, and if we press our question fully, we find that the answer is that in each occasion of human experience there is a decision determining the subjective aim of the occasion which may deviate from the full ideal offered the occasion in its initial phase.

Compatibility for integration, if placed in the initial phase, entails integration sooner or later, for the way the data are compatible dictates the outcome, it is in no wise dependent upon free subjective decision of the occasion.

It is not just a subjective or arbitrary decision, but needs to be grounded in the reality of our existence.

It is one of those subjective decisions which are based purely on the opinion of the officials, and in particular the referee.

phcraniometer looks a lot like the protractors we all used in elementary school for drawing circles and measuring angles, and depends on subjective decisions by your baby's practitioner.

Are there international procedures, perhaps through the UN, to attempt to assess this in a sort - of independent way, or is this completely a subjective / political bilateral decision?

Choosing what's in a dataset or what's not in it, adjusting parameters in algorithms and so on are all subjective decisions.

In contrast, feelers (Fs) make decisions that tend to be subjective, based on their value system, and take account of their decision's impact on others.

Such subjective performance assessments are already used to evaluate untenured teachers, and they play a large role in promotion and compensation decisions in other occupations.

We fear decisions will frequently be subjective and arbitrary, as they have been in other parts of the public sector — notably the civil service — where performance pay has been introduced.

The vast majority of decisions that we make in life are concerned with subjective problems.

Teacher and principal decisions were based on intangible, subjective perceptions about the children's history of behavioral problems, perceived family support or lack thereof, and the children's achievement in other academic subjects.

No person is reading reviews as they come in and making a subjective decision.

But to say, in any realist sense, that this is the «best» book of the year is pretty ridiculous, as even the best read critics in a particular genre or form have read only a fraction of those written, and even then the decision process is hugely subjective.

A subjective factor in the decision may be how long you've had a renters insurance policy.

True risk is not reaching your financial goals in your given investment horizon (much too subjective for generalized mathematical models)- this is the basis for my asset allocation decisions.

So the emphasis in the book will be on making nearly no subjective decisions.

We use no subjective stock selection or weighting decisions in their construction, and the portfolios are not fine - tuned in any way.

EBSA was at least open to the first two (though not commenting directly, since they are currently in the process of recrafting those regulations), though it resisted the last as being a «very complicated and subjective undertaking which could affect a plan sponsor's decision to offer any target date fund option (s),» according to EBSA's response to the GAO report.

The Ellsberg paradox is a paradox in decision theory in which people's choices violate the postulates of subjective expected utility.

Don't forget to factor in the costs of unexpected vet care, and other subjective decisions such as travel and boarding, pet sitters, training.

In their recent decision in favor of the HSUS and Missourians, the Supreme Court, noting the history of more than a decade of repeat USDA violations at Smith's Kennel, said that the advocacy group's statements were «subjective assessments not provable as false», therefore were not seen as a defamatioIn their recent decision in favor of the HSUS and Missourians, the Supreme Court, noting the history of more than a decade of repeat USDA violations at Smith's Kennel, said that the advocacy group's statements were «subjective assessments not provable as false», therefore were not seen as a defamatioin favor of the HSUS and Missourians, the Supreme Court, noting the history of more than a decade of repeat USDA violations at Smith's Kennel, said that the advocacy group's statements were «subjective assessments not provable as false», therefore were not seen as a defamation.

In 2010 in an appeal from a hearing officer's decision, the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami - Dade County, ruled that the subjective identification of a dog as a «pit bull» by an animal control officer violated the dog's owner's right to due procesIn 2010 in an appeal from a hearing officer's decision, the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami - Dade County, ruled that the subjective identification of a dog as a «pit bull» by an animal control officer violated the dog's owner's right to due procesin an appeal from a hearing officer's decision, the Circuit Court for the 11th Judicial Circuit, Miami - Dade County, ruled that the subjective identification of a dog as a «pit bull» by an animal control officer violated the dog's owner's right to due process.

I reveal some part of the complex objective through a variety of important subjective decisions such as composition, positioning of the subject, and what to include in and exclude from the frame.

Inspired by Pan Yuliang and her decision to open the 1977 exhibition to others, this May in Paris, the exhibition Pan Yuliang: A Journey to Silence invited artists Hu Yun, Huang Jing Yuan, Wang Zhibo and art historian Mia Yu to form a research group functions as a collective subjective agency.

In his distinctive approach to painting, Sullivan proposes new relationships between image and object as he negotiates his own subjective decision making with the radical agency of his medium.

Normally,» he says, «you're making a subjective decision about it, but there is nothing subjective in that laughter.»

I'm not so hostile to subjective Bayesian methods if used in a specific manner that actually helps make Nic's points concrete and clear to decision makers.

The observations in his REStat paper are artefacts of a specific theory of decision under risk (Subjective Expected Utility) and (to boot) a specific functional form for one of the great universe of underlying functions possible in the SEU framework (logarithmic utility of outcomes, which is unbounded both below and above... a very special case in the universe of possible utilities of outcomes).

But as with all decision making approaches, the a challenge for MCA and methods like it is the subjective choices that have to be made about what weights to attach to all the relevant criteria that go into the analysis, including how the adaptation measure being studied impacts poor or vulnerable populations, or how fair it is in the distribution of who pays compared to who benefits.

-- Judgmental subjective decisions, e.g. deselecting series that are judged «wet», or the wrong direction are quite absurd; when other substantive growth factors are ignored in some devotional belief that only temperature drives tree ring width.

The Court further reminded that the Qualification Directive (Directive 2011 / 95 / EU) requires the Member States to grant the refugee status when a third country national or a stateless person meets the relevant conditions under that Directive, and then pointed out that «after the application for international protection is submitted in accordance with Chapter II of Directive 2011/95, any third - country national or stateless person who fulfils the material conditions laid down by Chapter III of that directive has a subjective right to be recognised as having refugee status, and that is so even before the formal decision is adopted in that regard».

It is a subjective decision and prosecutors often elevate the charges to a felony in the hopes of getting a plea agreement on a lesser misdemeanor charge.

The Court of Appeal declined to reverse the trial judge's decision, holding that contra proferentem was inapplicable where ambiguity can be resolved with reference to the objective factual matrix, and further, that Talius's reliance on the subjective understanding of its representative did not assist in interpreting the contract:

«I was pleased with the decision on the standing issue, because the Crown had taken the position throughout, from trial on, that the accused had to testify in order to establish a subjective expectation of privacy in the text messages, and that any expectation of privacy could not relate to text messages found on somebody else's account,» he says.

The decision of the Court of Appeal in Bultitudee stood as binding authority that the test to be applied in the context of solicitors» disciplinary proceedings was the Twinsectra test as it was widely understood before Barlow Clowes, that was a test that included the separate subjective element.

The problem is that the breach notification regime sketched out in Clause 11 of Bill C - 12 is designed in a manner that will impose on subjective organization decision - making so minimally as to be almost counterproductive.

Partnership decisions (who's in and who's not) are often shrouded in mystery, a tabulation of «points,» subjective opinions and a great deal of internal politicking in closed - door meetings.

In a 3 - 2 decision the Supreme Court reversed the family court finding that Garcia's «subjective fear for her safety does not warrant issuance of the order of protection, particularly given the facts that it was more than one month between the incident and the final hearing, Saski had moved out of the house, and the parties had had absolutely no contact in the interim.&raquIn a 3 - 2 decision the Supreme Court reversed the family court finding that Garcia's «subjective fear for her safety does not warrant issuance of the order of protection, particularly given the facts that it was more than one month between the incident and the final hearing, Saski had moved out of the house, and the parties had had absolutely no contact in the interim.&raquin the interim.»

The Court of Appeal affirmed, following the Federal Court of Appeal's decision in Apotex Inc. v. Allergan Inc., 2016 FCA 155, that «Evidence of the actual state of mind or subjective intention of the parties is irrelevant to the existence of a valid contract and its terms» (See para. 35).

Placing an onus on the applicant to substantiate the general importance of their issues in the context of their particular claim seems like a lot to ask of them, and moreover the assessment by a justice in chambers on what constitutes a question of general importance or one with a reasonable prospect of success seems like a very subjective assessment from my review of decisions in this area.

The Court of Appeal's recent decision in Victory Motors provides important clarification to not only the assessment of contaminated properties for property tax purposes, but also to the consideration of objective value versus subjective value in assessment more broadly.

[T] he Governor in Council's discretionary decision was based on the widest considerations of policy and public interest assessed on the basis of polycentric, subjective or indistinct criteria and shaped by its view of economics, cultural considerations, environmental considerations, and the broader public interest (at para 154).