Sentences with word «lodestar»

With full individuality and full happiness as the sometimes competing, sometimes complementary lodestars of our moral life (points of orientation, not telic achievements), there's often little room for the effective use of sexual stigma.

The CAPE is a kind of unchanging lodestar for the markets.

The declarations stated that class counsel worked a total of 4,263.5 hours on the case (and anticipated working 200 hours on the appeal) and, using the hourly rate for each attorney, calculated that the total lodestar amount was $ 2,968,620 ($ 3,118,620 including the appeal).

In light of the circumstances and the amount of discovery required, the Court concludes that the rates charged and hours spent by Black Letter are reasonable and, thus, finds the resulting lodestar amount of $ 391,928.91 to be reasonable as well.

Although the Saturday business issue resulted in a prior published decision, it was not that complex of a statutory interpretation issue, the requested hourly rates were found too high for Contra Costa County, and proper lodestar calculation methodology was followed.

There is little talk of tax cuts and balanced budgets, items which form the economic lodestar of the Official Opposition; think tanks such as the Fraser Institute, the Macdonald - Laurier Institute, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council; and almost everyone who writes a column for the Financial Post, including former finance minister Joe Oliver.

The report's predictions — far from definitive — are worthwhile lodestars.

Can a regime, no matter how powerful, become the world's lodestar if it is morally corrupted by an utter disregard for the dignity and sanctity of human life?

In this sense, God is the natural lodestar of the human intellect, the most universal truth the human mind can aspire to, because God is the cause of all that is.

To answer these questions, Cavanaugh uses Christian luminaries» Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and John Paul II» to critique capitalist lodestars, Adam Smith and Milton Friedman.

But some kind of binding international agreement still remains the political lodestar for many, and the ADP's 2015 deadline is now the date that looms on the horizon.

His own personal lodestar is William James, the great Harvard psychologist, who understood that the key to individual success is effort: the student who strives and persists in the face of challenge will succeed.

The joy in the hearts of the readers has been my primary motivation and lodestar when writing this book.

Using Raymond Chandler as her literary lodestar, the Czech author, who died in 2010, weaves a plot of political corruption and oppression, murder and deadly secrets in 1950s Prague.

In this, the exhibition's absent lodestar, jostling angular frames push up against the picture plane.

Now a critical lodestar of digital - era painting who shows with blue - chip gallery Mitchell - Innes & Nash, Keltie Ferris had a major debut with Sean Horton at the Ice Palace in 2008.

But «Black President» is less about Fela himself than about how more than 30 contemporary artists, most of them African or African - American, respond to his blazing, goading lodestar presence.

In medicine, we hold up «autonomy» as a professional lodestar, a principle that stands in direct opposition to discipline...

That brought the total lodestar down to $ 687,61.10.

Rather, there's a strong and positive reason why profit should be your new lodestar.

The so - called Pickering - Connick balancing test served as the legal lodestar for several decades until the U.S. Supreme Court introduced a categorical threshold test.

One of the things they require but may not have is a moral lodestar.

The lower court, based on Civil Code section 3426.4 (allowing fee - shifting to a prevailing party if a trade secret claim of misappropriation is made in bad faith), awarded $ 735,781.27 in fees to defendants — comprised of a $ 535,215 lodestar augmented by a 1.3 positive enhancement for excellent defense work.

Brennan argues that, in connection with the court's lodestar calculations, class counsel did not submit detailed attorney time records.

Since we know little of how things work in the Upside Down, I have a lodestar.

Over at Breitbart News, the lodestar of the Trump administration, readers variously dubbed it «Ryancare,» «Obamacare 2.0,» «Soroscare» or, for the wonks, «unEarned Income Tax Credit II.»

Casting the conservative debate in terms of puerility vs. effeminacy — something I see happening not just at Takimag — will lead Republicans away from that lodestar and into the ditch.

The consequences of this change are considerable, for, in the absence of a serious alternative, the New York Times is still taken to be the lodestar for the news business in this country.

As pernicious as that philosophy has proven to be, it is not the lodestar for young....

My own work is in the realm of imagination, and I found that here my authorial voice was also the voice of conscience, warning me of the path I might follow without the lodestar of the Catholic faith.

As pernicious as that philosophy has proven to be, it is not the lodestar for young adults that Barron seems to think.

In the latter setting, however, Lidstrom is fast gaining acclaim as the Red Wings» lodestar.

And it should be remembered that those countries seen as the lodestar for a successful existence outside the EU — Norway and Switzerland — both allow free movement.

But they are also material: they take immediate sources of national military and economic strength as their lodestars, and they rely on calculated assessments of potential outcomes, taking risk (including the risk of being wrong) into account.

«He was the lodestar for those of us aspiring to serve in...

James Purnell remains the lodestar for liberal modernisers - but I am biased since he is a colleague at Demos.

The lodestar has been Norsk Titanium, the Norwegian aerospace firm which produces 3 - D titanium parts using proprietary technology.

No one disputes that a code of values, secular or religious, is the lodestar of any functioning society.

But amid all the scandals and silliness that has bedeviled David Cameron's ministers, Vince stands alone as a lodestar of sanity.

His graduate advisor, Margaret Goodell, who became something of a lodestar to him, glimpsed in her protégé the glimmering mix of intellect and virtuosity common to promising scientists.

Under Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), still the lodestar for school discipline cases, schools can punish student speech only if it will cause a substantial disruption or violate the rights of others.

Despite its relatively small size, Cincinnati, with roughly 30,000 students, has become a lodestar for big - city school systems across the country.

With the marque's traditional — and expected — performance as a lodestar, the engineers strapped together a 4.0 - liter V8 gas engine with a high - power electric motor.

Yet if electric performance is your lodestar, there's plenty to love about an existing Tesla that will cost you a fraction of what the Roadster will eat from your bank account.