Sentences with phrase «long as they function»

For the open - minded among the social scientists, Girard's work can serve as a gateway for the introduction of Kierkegaardian insights into social scientific thinking, which will always remain woefully incomplete as long as it functions without reference to religious transcendence.

I don't really care about how games look as long as they function properly, but it would be cool to see my favorite resort town competing with other visually impressive locales.

It is my primary reader, and will remain so as long as it functions.

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Bunch said that he believes a fully functioning Holacracy will make Zappos employees happier and the company more innovative, but he's looking at it as a long - term project.

It's as if the immune system were a car that no longer functioned when a person got cancer.

They're «space qualified,» as NASA puts it, but they're a long way from being functioning space telescopes.

I've also set some goals: In the near term, I want to add staff, grow my audience and increase sales; in the long term, I want to open a brick - and - mortar space somewhere in the States, to function as a design studio, store and workshop venue.

She'd undergone a decade - long apprenticeship at Linamar, the auto - parts manufacturing company Frank founded in Guelph, Ont., in the 1960s, starting as a lathe operator and moving through accounting, quality control and factory management, among other functions.

[In our approach] a major portion of the electronics is simply consumed by the body, as their function in monitoring or healing is no longer needed.»

They are intended to provide many of the same functions as long - established currencies such as the U.S. dollar, euro or Japanese yen but do not have the backing of a government or other body.

In other words, one may trust that the US dollar will have value as long that the American state functions well, holds assets, and has the capacity to levy taxes to finance itself.

Long despised as a craft of the lazy and unproductive, spontaneous thought (including nostalgic trips down memory lane and fantasizing about the future) is now viewed by brain scientists as a critical aspect of healthy functioning.

He also would no longer need some non-investment functions, such as investor relations and marketing.

Unless your organization functions on rigid time structures — such as medical facilities, service industries, etc where service and success is dependent on having enough staff in the right places at the exact right times to service customers — then having «core hours» or expecting employees to work insane overtime is really not necessary — who cares as long as the work gets done and the customer is happy!

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

As long China pegs its currency, it's net capital account outflow is unlikely to change, because changes in reserves are simply a function of the net flows arising from the combination of the current account and the non-PBoC part of the capital account.

Not everyone see's the human population as two massive armies in oppostion (men versus women) but rather as unequal masses that function better as counter weights for each - other, just as you have found your own counter weight (closeted hubby or long haired wife).

This model generates the price of gold as a function of the global investment yield required to produce a constant real after - tax return equal to long - term real growth in global GDP per capita.

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As a function of this dynamic, we are seeing large movements in foreign exchange and global currencies, again creating tangible long - versus - short trading opportunities for relative value strategies.

Onavo sends anonymized data to Facebook on what apps consumers have installed, how frequently they open those apps, how long they linger inside them, and the sequence throughout the day of consumers» app usage — information that functions as an early - detection system on whether an app is gaining popularity, according to the people familiar with the company's activities.

With that said, T - bills today still handle the function of a short - term risk - free benchmark, while inflation - protected securities (IPS) are best used as a medium or long - term benchmark.

They simulate future bond yield as a linear function of current bond yield with noise, assuming a long - term average of 5 % and bounds of 1 % and 10 %.

In 2002, Milosz published a long poem that was meant to function as a testimonial, A Theological Treatise.

Which means as long as we adopt progressive, upper - middle - class attitudes that function well only if you're actually upper - middle - class.

If Jahi is not — or, perhaps better, no longer — brain dead, this may be an unprecedented event, as there are no known cases of a properly diagnosed brain - dead patient experiencing restored neurological function.

So long as the cultural revolution has the initiative, the social imagination of the masses overcomes even technical backwardness and transforms the function of the old media so that their structures are exploded.

There is no harm in trying to understand the forces that make our physical world function; as long as we keep in mind that we are studying the handiwork of our Creator.

So long as he discharges his functions within the framework of God's orders, the nation aids and obeys him — and it deposes him if he deviates from the right course.

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

Later the ephod, together with the Urim and Thummim, was sublimated and rationalized, becoming part of the priest's symbolical dress and no longer functioning as at first.

But if this seems unsuitable in the case of the Church (though it might be given some thought), the election of lay representatives beyond the small groups of the parish is a difficult question, especially as the Catholic associations no longer have a function similar to that of the political parties in appointing such represent - ative bodies.

We can now see how this view differs quite distinctly from that of Adam Bede himself: for Adam, the love of God and the love of others are mutually reinforcing, while for Marian Evans the love of God, or rather the whole notion of God, has a strictly instrumental function and can safely be abandoned when it is no longer needed as a stimulus to the love of one's fellow humans.

It no longer functions as an indicator of what that goal actually is.

In most cases, it does not last indefinitely, although it tends to endure for longer periods of time in those who believe themselves to be enlightened and / or who function as spiritual teachers.

The image of the fall now seems profoundly pertinent to the account of the shift from that existence to the archaic one, and «civilized» no longer functions for me as a term laden with positive valuation.

The particular facts function no longer as «factors,» but become «bare its,» that is, function as logical subjects with a hypothetical relevance to a predicative pattern now potentially determinate of these logical subjects.

The christians are indoctinated and can not function any longer as reasonable people.

The Church was there, but it was unable to perform its full function as long as it remained under the governor's control.

The body has died, because it can no longer function as an integrated whole; yet, with mechanical assistance some organs and tissues, taken by themselves, retain vitality.

As long as he fulfills this function I don't need to claim that he was born of a virgin or was specially chosen by God, that he healed the sick or was raised from the deaAs long as he fulfills this function I don't need to claim that he was born of a virgin or was specially chosen by God, that he healed the sick or was raised from the deaas he fulfills this function I don't need to claim that he was born of a virgin or was specially chosen by God, that he healed the sick or was raised from the dead.

It would be that the people of God from long ago understood (in God's great purpose) «function in being» far better than we; that men & women (and children) participate extensively with community life in Christ, doing so with some understood, intrinsic variation / rolls — Not because they must, but rather because doing so continues as God's ideal for His children.

When one or more of those systems has its balance disturbed and can no longer function (as, say, in diabetes) our health (literally, our «wholeness») suffers.

For a long time, opposition to Roman Catholicism functioned in the minds of many Protestants as a mark of identity of their faith.

Their function is no longer only to give pleasure but to give sustenance as well.

Personally, I think Mormons baptise the dead because they can't get people to pay attention to them as long as their brains are actually functioning.

This is of no small importance to an Orthodox Jew who functioned as a serious research scientist long before he emerged publicly as a religious thinker.

I believe that I exist at random, but I do not exist alone; and that as long as my quarks cohere, my entire function on this hurtling planet is to give what I can to the other extant things.

But be the value of metaphysical speculation of this sort what it may, when one sees activity characterized by reason and purpose and at the same time producing strains of living matter (no longer a word of materialism) which in turn has personality as a function, one has come in sight of God.