Sentences with phrase «known as a background»

Too many of those mimics, known as background, could limit the ability to see the decays, or to prove that they don't occur.

The discovery comes from observations by a small but sophisticated telescope at the South Pole dedicated to a project known as the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP).

Fred, I agree that one should know as background what's in AR4 ch 8 - 9.

Employment screening, also known as background screening or background checks, are performed by employers or consumer reporting agencies to gain information and insight about an employee or job candidate in order to make predictive decisions about how the individual will perform in a given role.

Not exact matches

Briefly known as «Suspect 2,» the man in the white baseball hat in the background was then -19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American college student from Cambridge.

As a startup executive with an engineering background, I know firsthand what it's like to have holes in my knowledge base.

Though little known in the Canadian industry, her elevation to country CEO made sense because of her background: 17 years in supermarkets prepared her well to guide Walmart's food expansion, as did her Sam's experience with so - called combination stores that stock both food and general merchandise.

You'll know you're in your work profile by the purple background (your personal one is blue), as well as by the absence of any frivolous apps, like Angry Birds.

While Apple is known primarily for its focus on music, the fact that Schusser also has a background in tech acquisitions — such as Shazam — and will work part of the time in Culver City suggests that Shazam and movies could become a serious part of Apple's ambitions, as opposed to just bonus content for music lovers.

A government official speaking on background told The Canadian Press last week, that on the environment side, Canada will be looking to the free trade agreement recently signed with Europe, known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, as a template.

Larsen, a man in his late 50s, has a background in financial startups, and Ripple's other now - departed cofounder Jed McCaleb is known for p2p software like eDonkey as well as being the original owner of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox.

Throughout the day, many speakers from different companies and backgrounds gathered to talk about their love of Digg, how to best use del.icio.us and what tips we needed to know to best utilize StumbleUpon as a marketing tool.

Kelly, White House counsel Don McGahn, and others knew about the allegations well before they were surfaced by the media because of an FBI background check as part of Porter's hiring process.

«My background in the law really drove my desire to do this, and once I saw all the confusing and inaccurate advice people were getting about Social Security, and realized the extent of the growing retirement crisis, I knew it was important to ensure that my system be as comprehensive as possible.

The members are called Jesuits and are also known colloquially as «God's Marines», [2] these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and members» willingness to accept orders anywhere in the world and live in extreme conditions.

These questions are, as you know, at the heart of many problems in our society today, and it is against the background of such questions that I want to reflect upon the significance of human cloning.

He appeared as a Jew among Jews; and the Fourth Gospel rightly asserts, «salvation is of the Jews» in the sense that it is only against that background and in that context that the gospel of Christ can be known and understood.

Overall, for every Christian convert from a non-religious background, there are 26 raised as Christians who are no longer believers.

In these words he disingenuously glides over the fact (known to himself) that the earliest of those «other works,» Shakespeare's Religious Background, was published as early as 1973, when Eamon Duffy was presumably merely a student and when he might even have been influenced by my book» in which I devote a whole chapter to the «English Jesuits.»

Many atheists came from religious backgrounds and wished to know then due to the knowledge found, left the belief in god behind... Yes, there are some agnostic religious people, but they still believe and therefore would side with religion, as the non believers either agnostic or not would side with the atheists.

On the other hand, I can testify from personal experience that to be raised in the Christian church as we know it makes loss of basic elements of one's Judaic background virtually inevitable, including elements that the church desperately needs for its own renewal.

Students of old school, hard news, print journalism learn a writing method known as the «inverted pyramid,» in which the raw facts are presented up front, and are given the most real estate, with all the other information and background details trailing off behind them.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

Hutten compares such highly attenuated analogies with the lingering grin of the Cheshire cat: «The picture of the cat has receded into the background, but, knowing that there once was a cat, we understand that the residual phenomenon may be interpreted as a grin.»

As for the Santa we know and love, before we thank Coca - Cola, let's acknowledge cartoonist Thomas Nast: a passionate Protestant of Bavarian background, who drew hundreds of caricatures of Santa Claus across the 19th century.

So it seems all the more difficult to accept the Bible as authoritative just because somebody — tradition or the early Church — says so, when in fact these somebodies did not know as much about the Bible's history and background and diverse elements as we do today.

It's been my, albeit limited, experience that as the Calvinist believers that I've associated with these past four decades have come to know the Lord Jesus closely in their walk, they have either abandoned their belief in predestination or it has faded far into the background in importance in their theology.

As we begin to know others of different backgrounds, our abstract labels tend to fade in the presence of our real, flesh and blood presence with one another, and we become less inclined to demonize the other.

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

Sooner or later, the entire civil and criminal codes of law, known as the Sharia, were built solidly upon a Koranic background.

For «law - abiding citizens» this does not generally require the penalties of the law to be invoked, though one need only to ask himself how far his driving is affected by known traffic regulations, or his income - tax filing by fear of penalties, to realize the degree to which the law is in the background as a restraint to his self - centeredness.

Yet we in the West should strive for humane borders in which travelers and immigrants of all backgrounds are treated with respect by state authorities, and valued as human beings with great potential, rather than dismissed as faceless hordes — or, in Hitchens's words, «countless persons from who - knows - where.»

One of my goals as a pastor is to make sure the people in the pews, no matter what their background, can relate to my sermon.

Since I am not a scientist, I am not always sure what I am looking at, nor do I have the theoretical background to discern all the implications of a particular phenomenon, but as a preacher — that is, someone who lives on stories — I find the stories rolling in from the frontiers of the new science as rich in meaning as any stories I know.

With my background in marriage and family therapy, I know too well the history of research that supports this fear, with early statistics for divorce among bereaved parents as high as 90 percent.

Rupert can be asked whether The Concept of Nature can be used to provide a philosophic background for his notion of «morphic resonance,» and I want to see whether the concept of a bare sensory awareness in a passage of nature couched in terms of durations can sufficiently produce boundaries so as to yield breath groups in spoken speech and semantic reiterations in paragraphs and language; and Chris wants to know whether Whitehead's starting point can be used, though not in Whitehead's manner, to develop a realistic conception of space and time.

As is well known, it presupposes that the background of experience, the fundamental reality, consists of «actual entities or «actual occasions» (the terms are used synonymously).

IT is too hard for people, especially family members, to see or comprehend mental illness as it is spiralling our to control unless you get help from someone who does know... The deal is a normal person, any age, any education or background can become» unglued» for no apparent outward reason... except they seem to be acting off or weird or troubled, confused, saying or doing strange stuff... and a lot of times these people are getting drugs coming into our nation from Mexico and points south by illegal aliens who purport to be «just looking for a job»...

It then goes on to sketch the background, so far as we now know it, of that life before the coming of Him from Whom Christianity takes its name.

Against a background of these events and actions, in which more than fifty congregations are now involved and in which hundreds of people have gained experience in dealing with elected and appointed authorities, the story of the Nehemiah Project can he understood As Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouAs Saul Alinsky said: «The relevant skill in modern urban life is that of knowing how to hold public officials accountable» — and that, as we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all abouas we shall see, is what EBC and the Nehemiah Project have been all about.

So, for example, T. W. Manson claimed that `... if God did in fact speak to us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus it is vitally important to know as fully and as accurately as possible what sort of life and death and resurrection became the medium of divine revelation», (T. W. Manson, «The Life of Jesus: Some Tendencies in Present - day Research», The Background of the New Testament and its Eschatology, ed.

I like this place because: it is multicultural; the music is excellent (they played with the Houston Symphony a few months ago); there is lots of laughter; everyone from every conceivable background is accepted; there is never judgment or shame spoken from the pulpit; the preaching / teaching is generally inspirational with the main theme being the hope of Godâ $ ™ s kingdom breaking through the shit barrier most people know as life.

Music no longer takes a background role but has become just as important as the actual merchandise itself.

(Those of you with Swedish backgrounds will know them as semlor.)

«They don't need any specific previous business background, as we will teach them everything they need to know about running their very own Menchie's store.

I think people hesitate to pay «that much» for toast as bread is no longer seen as a staff of life but just some kind of background, even «good» bread such as artisan baguettes.

Mr Clarke, who has a background in fast moving consumer goods working for companies such as Kraft and Reebok, also said he was committed to the strategy laid down by his predecessors to shift Treasury Wine's production focus up the price curve to more expensive wines, also known as a «premiumisation» in the industry.

Ground cumin (also known as jeera, geerah, kamoon), crushed red chili, and red paprika powder, with some frozen cilantro on the background.

«They don't need any specific previous business background, as we will teach them everything they need to know about running their very own Menchie's store.

I believe in a real life, fad - free approach to nutrition, and draw on my background as nutritionist to help people know what they're eating.