Sentences with phrase «interesting was the distinction»

One debate that I found interesting was the distinction between «information» and «knowledge».

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Save for the prestige of the New York Times, which must rank on any basis of real distinction as the leading American newspaper, the interest of Jews is small.

This set of monetary policies affects financial asset prices in a different way compared to changes in short - term interest rates, and we should be humble about what we claim about understanding the importance of this distinction.

Despite that distinction, President Barack Obama is one of her biggest fans: In his speech last year pushing the Department of Labor to press on with its fiduciary standard rule, he pointed out Garrett by name as an FA who puts the best interests of her clients first.

In his response, Austin made an interesting point: although there is certainly a distinction to be made between investments from private companies and SOEs, there is also one to be made between the different kinds of SOEs.

The distinction between the emphases that have been characteristic of liberation theology and process theology respectively can be indicated with the words «interests» and «perspectives.»

Whitehead nowhere in Process and Reality argues explicitly for such intermediate entities, but it is interesting that he maintains a gradation of enduring objects, from the one extreme of the atomic material body to the opposite extreme of the presiding thread: «But just as the difference between living and non-living occasions is not sharp, but more or less, so the distinction between an enduring object which is an atomic material body and one which is not, is again more or less.»

This distinction is made on the basis of our attention, and our attention is guided by practical interest.

There is here an implicit distinction between the apparent self - interest of the slaveholder and the real self - interest of the slaveholder which allowed Douglass to maintain that it was genuinely in the best interest of the slaveholder that slavery be abolished.

The essential idea is that a distinction must be drawn between values based on interest or desire and values based on objective worth.

Remove practical interest, and it becomes quite possible that our normal distinction between the past and present would cease to be a psychic fact.

The distinction corresponds to some degree to that between soul and body Agape is disinterested and impartial, without regard to persons, while eros is interested love, concerned with this person rather than that and desirous of the body of the other.

My Lutheran friends were interested in what for them was a new distinction.

There he develops a distinction between ordinary language («It was very cold») and two other kinds of language, each of which transforms ordinary language in the interest of certain purposes.

This seems so evident, that I continue to find it surprising that economists on the whole are so little interested in the distinction.

There is also an interesting subject / object distinction engaged here.

«1 Niebuhr said that he had been frequently challenged to prove that his interests were theological rather than practical, but, he said, «I have always refused to enter a defense, partly because I thought the point was well taken and partly because the distinction did not interest me.

Eric, your distinction between torment and destruction was interesting so I went looking to find verses to support.

The main thrust of his attack is to propose a distinction between «true» liberation theology (which, of course, the church has always affirmed), and «false» or «errant» liberation theology (which, of course, the church in the interests of truth must denounce).

The continuity between the order of creation and the order of redemption, rather than their distinction and difference, should be the focus of our interest.

It is one thing to recall Schlegel's spurious distinction between aesthetic and religious interest, yet quite another to pass it along without comment.

It is especially interesting that Luther with his sense of the persistence of sin in the redeemed, and his absolute reliance on justification by faith, still makes a rather neat distinction between those who are truly Christian and those who are not.

There is one other point of interesting distinction among the three codes.

Of particular interest to us here is the distinction of primary qualities such as mass, momentum, shape, and position from the secondary qualities (such as color, taste, sound, smell, and texture).

Since the various facets of our policy — economic, psychological, military and political — are all grounded in the same objective considerations of national interest and seldom susceptible for long to the whimsy or good will of a President or Secretary of State, this distinction is likewise defective.

In his reply (May 8, 1939) Hartshorne writes, «I understand better now why you are so interested in maintaining a distinction between what is necessary to and what is part of a thing.»

There is an important distinction between positional and interest - based bargaining.

Whether you have achieved the distinction of Master Sommelier or are just beginning to explore your interest in wine, the Court of Master Sommeliers offers unmatched educational opportunities and a camaraderie that supports our shared passion.

As soon as I was able to recognize the distinction between the two cultures in my life I became interested in how others celebrated, specifically with music and food.

Whilst we are a child care organisation, we don't think a useful distinction can be made between the interests of children and their parents, unless a child faces serious harm from one or both parents, when it is clearly our duty to refer the matter to local authorities or the police for an investigation.

An interesting question to discuss here would have been whether callous targeting that brings about multiple civilian casualties may blur this distinction.

This is at the root of our current problems, although the distinctions between National Interest and Nationalism are again becoming dangerously blurred.

I was interested to see in your last issue (TP, July) that Colin Moynihan has what must be the unique distinction of winning gold as a cox in the Home Countries International in 1958 - when just three - years - old.

The distinctions between the interests of business and of the state are blurred, since many of the key figures in government are also the key figures in major Russian enterprises.

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

Ministers are aware that the Bank must remain constitutional independent in setting interest rates, but believe the invention of quantitative easing as a means of stimulating the economy has broken down the distinctions between the Bank and government.

A few months ago J. G. Ballard was described as a «science fiction writer and novelist», an interesting distinction that set me wondering.

I was interested in your discussion of our biological clocks, and particularly the distinction you make between «insight» tasks and «analytical» tasks.

Their lack of interest is a signal that your personal requirements for a partner and relationship are not going to be met, and that is an important distinction to not take lightly.

Gong Li holds the fascinating distinction of being the only Chinese cinema star that Oscar has ever been consistently interested in.

Jones, in just two films, has revealed the possibility for a real artistic identity: someone interested in proximate realities and the maybe - arbitrary distinctions we draw between what is «real» and what's a perceptual reproduction of reality.

Candice Bergen and Mariel Hemingway were first - time Oscar players in 1979, but they shared the interesting distinction of being previous Globe nominees in the long since cancelled category of «Promising Newcomer / Acting Debut» in 1966 (The Sand Pebbles) and 1976 (Lipstick) respectively.

A solid supporting cast lends credibility and enough distinction to give their relatively small roles some memorability, which is especially important given the amount of Vanger family that viewers will have to keep track of (the novel had a genealogical table to supply readers a ready reference), as well as their interests and loyalties.

But here the director has attained the rare distinction of yielding a feature - length film which, from start to finish, is absolutely and unequivocally devoid of interest; that Salles was able to do so with Kerouac's landmark novel is a truly astonishing feat of mundanity.

A distinction has to be made between national identity building legitimate under international human rights law and a propagandistic ideology formation serving limited interests of people in power.

Number and place value So when we are looking at the structure and order of learning activities, we must now talk about what the connections between the mathematical concepts are, and how to make them, or as Professor John Mason talks about «working through» and «working on» an interesting distinction.

Because - and especially in their assessments - they tend to reflect familiar categories: The sharp and often distorting distinctions among and between «subjects»; age grading; the value placed on quick recall; the dumbing down of the quality and grace of expository prose to make it fit into some sort of rating scheme; the overload of material to be covered, usually the inevitable result of intracommittee ideological logrolling, which leads to a bit of this and a dollop of that; the almost absolute denial of a value placed on individual ingenuity, craggy but provocative thinking, sustained work, and desirable variety; the lack of interest, signaled by the assessment apparatus, of the virtues of fairness, good character, and imagination.

Ohio and Utah have vied for the distinction of having the most troubled charter sector, along with Arizona, where there are no laws against conflicts of interest and for - profit charters do not have to open their books to the public.

What's really interesting to me in this new publishing economy is that we're still drawing a distinction between «self - published» indie authors and those who are traditionally published.

One of the most interesting aspects of the new terms of service is the distinction between between direct purchases and membership.