Sentences with phrase «many chance events»

Over a long enough time period such effects tend to cancel out (a phenomenon called «regression to the mean»), thus it is unlikely that a firm is consistently high performing just because of chance events.»

Or, as he is reported elsewhere to have said, «God is also the God of chance events.

For a summary of some of the scientific research which supports the view that the fetus is not a prepackaged human being (e.g., even something so relatively simple as a fingerprint arises at least in part due to chance events not present in a fertilized egg) see Charles Gardner, «Is an Embryo a Person?

Those who assert that God is «creator» and «ruler» of a world that comes about by chance events are in truth denying that God is really the cause of things as they are; and so, this makes the Benedicite utterly meaningless.

Each of us exists as the result of an almost infinite number of accidents or chance events.

Are instances of spontaneity no more than chance events?

Relativism runs through the whole of our modern world - view: the assessment of nature as a directionless flux of chance events, the erosion of the absolute value of human life, the dismissal of historic religious authority as «out of date», and the ever shifting sands of personal and social morality.

There is no role for God in a world completely dependent upon chance events.

The idea that the origin and evolution of plants and animals and all living creatures depends in part upon chance events is largely due to Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century.

It is shaped by chance events and accidents along the way.

A chance event five decades ago where David Frith saw someone dropping bundles of shoes in a puddle inspired him to investigate the process of shrink wrapping...

An implied probability (IP) is essentially the chance an event will happen according to betting odds.

Having a baby in your 30s and early 40s — and earlier, for that matter — is always a chance event.

But their interests, personalities, and chance events will probably set different courses in life for them.

Hackermüller: «This finding gave rise to a lively discussion as to whether this could be caused by chance events or mistakes in the regulation of cellular processes.

Said Dr. Martin Gilbert, Wildlife Health Cornell Carnivore Specialist with Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine: «As carnivore numbers decline, they face a greater risk from chance events like outbreaks of disease.

Siblings may have the same probability of dying in a given year, for example, but only one may be lost to, say, an accidental drowning or other chance event.

As populations decrease, they become more vulnerable to chance events that precipitate extinction.

Thus do normal anomalies become paranormal, natural phenomena become supernatural, unidentified flying objects become extraterrestrial spacecraft and chance events become conspiracies.

The occurrence is rare enough, says Goodell, that the fusion «is a chance event.»

Chance events like this can accumulate to produce substantial change over generations.

Do you ever marvel at how much that single, chance event changed things?

The mutation in this case can be compatible either with male or female development, presumably due to other genes or chance events.

For example, chance events early in development may trigger divergent behavior.

«Jump dispersal helps us remember that events that are rare on human timescales can be common over geological timescales, and that biodiversity might be structured largely by these rare chance events.»

Their hypothesis states that a series of chance events or situations, such as living in the habitable zone of the sun, having a Jupiter - type planet to clear away comet and asteroid debris and having few mass extinctions, has allowed life to develop on Earth and would be unlikely to happen elsewhere.

Single extreme events can not be simply and directly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, as there is always a finite chance the event in question might have occurred naturally.

«Stevenson and others are puzzling out how subtle differences in starting conditions such as distance from the sun, along with chance events like giant impacts early in the solar system history, can send planets down vastly different evolutionary paths.»

In other words, the vast majority of the differences in wealth had nothing to do with income, chance events or investment choices.

There is no certainty in life or in the markets, just chance events and random probabilities.

In 1986 a chance event changed Dusty's life.

There is a chance these events will return next year, giving players another chance to earn these items, but if so, the return of these items will probably bring the addition of new items, thus perpetuating the cycle.

Comprised of a printed log recording the chance events in the artist's studio, it is a banal yet humorous record.

Testing the paper through folds Pincis instinctively come up with rules and systems, but wanted to create a more natural, «biological» system, like a plant growing, where the system was responding to more chance events, hence laying down squares of colour fairly casually at first, to respond to and work with.

Mark Steinmetz has spent his career, beginning in the mid-1980s, relying on chance events to capture his photographs.

Chance events in paint weren't enough, however.

The results are both post-postmodernist and cussedly original - a sort of «back to the future» of painting that literally crumples the medium, then lays it wide open to certain chance events.

Jon Gitelson (b. 1975, Mount Kisco, NY) draws inspiration from chance events, ritual, and the archive.

Closely linked to the ideas of Existentialism philosophy, his paintings transmitted the essence of life, not only due to its explosive quality, but also to the chance events and the inclusion of numerous found objects, such as metal rods, kitchen tools, towels, sticks, and artist's cigarette buds.

Through my studio practice I collaborate with forces of nature, embrace chance events, and take in narratives of human oversight to look at the space of our existence.

blockquoteSingle extreme events can not be simply and directly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, as there is always a finite chance the event in question might have occurred naturally.

A number of chance events had to line up to make Hurricane Harvey as extreme as it was.

How far could the course of human affairs be diverted by a chance event, such as the beauty of one person, or even the weather, like the typhoon that sank Kublai Khan's attempted invasion of Japan?

«uncertainty with the RF of the gas» might be seized on by deniers who will wrongly interpret it as an admission of ignorance when it is really just a shorthand way of saying that a tonne of any gas has an atmospheric lifetime and impact which will depend on plenty of chance events such as where it was emitted, what the temperature was at the time, etc etc and we can compensate for imperfect information by using probability distributions.

Not exact matches

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There are numerous related events happening throughout the week that give attendees another chance to network and meet the right people.

Sometimes there's a great chance to meet a key influencer by simply attending a conference, networking event or book signing.

For me, it's a chance to learn from some of the best and make some personal connections in a more intimate setting than a BlogWorld - type event typically offers.

Every milestone event, like a divorce or career change, is a chance to repurpose your personal brand and update its course.

I had a chance to try the ThinQ AI camera at a demo event before LG's announcement, and was surprised to find that it did a great job.