Sentences with phrase «indivisible point»

It's what happens when the notion of risk is distorted — compressed from a spectrum to a single, indivisible point.

The principle of «infinitesimals» — the possibly infinite, hypothetical, indivisible points that populate a geometric line — underlies calculus and much of our modern technology, from airplanes to computers.

Not exact matches

In this sense every particle of reality, instead of constituting an approximate point in itself, extends from the previous fragment to the next in an indivisible thread running back into infinity.

Jim Chant, 57, an information technology manager from Bayport, said he hopes the Indivisible group he helped start in Blue Point - Bayport can apply political pressure on elected officials without developing close ties to particular political parties.

At one point, he tries to explain what «indivisible» means in the Pledge of Allegiance: «That we're all in this together.

They point out that dividing indivisible goods, like the marital property in a divorce, is harder, adding, «Unlike more demanding fair - division algorithms, which ask players to give more detailed information or make more difficult comparisons, our algorithms are easy to apply and, therefore, eminently practicable.»

Point them to the compelling poetry gathered by Gail Bush and Randy Meyer in Indivisible: Poems for Social Justice or to additional, related titles by J. Patrick Lewis, including Freedom like Sunlight: Praisesongs for Black Americans; Heroes and She - roes: Poems of Amazing and Everyday Heroes; Vherses: A Celebration of Outstanding Women; and When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders.

Bastarache J. pointed out that there was one indivisible pension fund applicable to several different employee groups with nine different collective agreements.

And, in the successive incident situation, it's stretching a point to claim that the negligence of a later wrongdoer destroyed the plaintiff's ability to prove causation in respect of an earlier wrongdoing, unless one means that because the the injuries are «indivisible» it's impossible for the court to make a valid conclusion as to who caused what.