Sentences with phrase «make immediate sense»

If the chart seems a little wonky and does not make immediate sense to you, all the more reason to read the article.

This course is well laid out, simple to follow, the points make immediate sense, and the overall presentation is clear, concise, and informative.

It also explains why in America appeals like Hovey's or York's to the exemplary nature of the martyrs don't make immediate sense; in most people's minds, the only people who die for their faith are delusional and suicidal figures like Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, and more than 900 of his followers.

The Bible has a good enough track record, and mountains of striking agreement, to ease our worries about a few passages here and there that don't make immediate sense to our limited, and quite fallible, perception.

The first two of these habits can make immediate sense to the experienced Christian, but I have found that the third — fellowship — sometimes requires a little more explanation or cajoling.

«It made immediate sense,» because the flytrap draws its nutrition not from soil, but from its prey.

Unlike the EV and fuel cell Clarity variants, the PHEV makes immediate sense.

Not exact matches

Which is why I contend it makes more sense to think of an immediate annuity as part of a comprehensive retirement income plan that works as follows: Put a portion of your savings into the annuity and opt for the highest monthly payment.

Data in the public domain like tweets and social media video is increasingly relied on to make sense of the immediate aftermath of tragedies like mass shootings.

When an omnipotent, omniscient god could have dealt with the problem in a much more immediate way, does it really make sense to wait a couple of decades for the child to be born, grow up, and start a ministry?

Creativity, then, makes an adjustment to its immediate past in the sense that the nature and character of each new instance of self - creativity undergo modification in conformity with the nature and character of the past.

If what makes an isolated unit of time impossible is the presence of the past and if the remote past is present in the same sense that the immediate past is present (differing only in the degree of influence), what is to keep the enduring present from expanding not merely to 12 seconds, but to a lifetime, and beyond that to all time?

It makes no sense because the very primitive actual occasions constitutive of the piano and of its immediate physical environment have a capacity for novel adjustment of feeling which is virtually nil, which is, for all practical purposes, nil.

These action sequences include the responses of actors to stimuli in their immediate situations — specifically, responses that involve attempts to articulate ideas, to make sense of things, to offer interpretations acceptable to relevant constituencies.

These elements of covenant theology not only solved some of the immediate dilemmas of church polity that the clergy faced but also made sense to laypersons because of their similarity to contractarian ideas gaining prominence in the world of finance and trade.

«When the plain sense of scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths indicate clearly otherwise» (Dr. David L. Cooper)

But the phenomenological description offered makes it clear that presentational immediacy is consequent upon a particular type of bodily amplification and selection of sense data derived from the stream of consciousness comprising the immediate past actual world, further abstracted and focused in the human situation through selective conscious attention to some, but not all, of the features of the immediate external world recorded and amplified by the body.

This understanding of the word not only makes more sense in the immediate context, but also fits with the broader context of Scripture.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Lumen Fidei makes immediate appeal to the senses in exploration of the act of faith.

The Wizards have a need in the middle, but with a lack of available bigs in this range who can provide immediate help, it could make sense to focus elsewhere.

It makes perfect sense, of course: it brings immediate warmth to a newborn baby (who's usually pretty cold and also rather mad about it!)

Just remember that whatever method you choose should be specific, immediate, and make sense for the behavior, says Dr. Stavinoha.

You may want to tone it down a tad — one 2002 paper suggested that parents skip the time - outs, but that the technique's use of «predictable, immediate, and salient consequences «makes a whole lot of sense.

This was strategic development — a calculation that a strong solar sector would do more for the economy in the long term — whereas support for wind power made more immediate economic sense.

Such touching and immediate friendliness is not quite what I expected from my first meeting with the 29 - year - old, blind musical savant, but his obsession with reproducing sounds certainly makes sense, given his talent.

How would you start to make sense of the many objects in your immediate view?

«This makes sense substantively and can also send a positive signal that concrete international action in the immediate term is possible and can deliver results.»

«My passion right now is enabling smart cities — making smart cities a reality — and that means having much more immediate and detailed sense of the environment,» he said.

My past experience with other serums has always been that serums, when their effects are immediate, make my skin feel more stretched than tight, if that makes any sense, and it's uncomfortable.

This will make her feel an immediate sense of commonality with you.

If we take seriously the ways in which literacy skills drive academic success, focusing immediate reform plans on bolstering these skills makes good sense, and that tack has been widespread.

It makes sense that the educators at the two failing Florida schools, when subjected to clear and immediate sanctions, redoubled their efforts to improve students» performance on state tests.

Tapping Airhart makes sense as she's been with the Department for most of Huffman's tenure and she would have immediate credibility with educators.

This will either raise your monthly payments or lengthen your repayment schedule, but it may make sense if you have immediate cash needs.

Bottom line: If you would like to have a reliable source of lifetime income beyond what you'll get from Social Security, it makes sense to at least think about putting some (but not all) of your savings in an immediate annuity.

If you're convinced you'll die before your life expectancy, then a longevity annuity — or even an immediate annuity, for that matter — would make little sense.

But if you want more assured income than Social Security alone can provide, then putting a portion of your savings into an immediate annuity may make sense.

Assuming you've already determined that putting some of your nest egg into an immediate annuity makes sense, you're absolutely right to want to be sure you're dealing with an insurance company that's financially sound.

CD's paying 1 - 3 % just don't make sense when an immediate annuity will pay 8 % + +.

For example, if the market went down a lot one day you might not see the immediate bounce back that would make sense, given prices that are suddenly a bargain.

Instead of using checking and savings accounts to build wealth, it makes more sense to use them for more immediate needs.

But if you want more assured income than Social Security alone will provide, it makes sense to at least consider an immediate annuity.

In retirement, throwing an immediate annuity into the mix can even make sense if you want more assured income than Social Security alone will provide.

There are many kinds of annuities out there, but there are two types that I think make the most sense for retirees looking to convert a bit of savings into a lifetime income stream: immediate annuities, which as their name implies, begin making payments immediately; and longevity annuities, which start making payments in the future, sometimes 10 or 20 years down the road.

That said, it wouldn't make sense to buy a QLAC — or, for that matter, an immediate annuity — if you have good reason to believe you'll die at a relatively early age.

In the case of immediate annuities and longevity annuities, you can get a sense of whether one annuity's costs are higher than another's by comparing the size of the monthly lifetime payments each makes for a given investment (although you'll also want to consider an insurer's financial strength rating rather than just pick the one with the highest payout).

Otherwise, it doesn't make much financial sense for companies to demand immediate repayment of a loan that's being paid off on time.

Use the immediate sense of satisfaction a donor gets after making a donation to inspire them to go a step further and submit a matching gift request.

If you have business in the immediate area, and are flying into London City Airport (only a 15 - minute taxi ride away), Four Seasons Hotel London at Canary Wharf makes great sense.