Sentences with phrase «more about these assumptions»

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Be careful about overvaluing your startup with faulty assumptions; it will only make your life more difficult - particularly if your investors have governance rights, such as positions on the company's board.

«It clearly sends the signal that they intend to apply their management principles of cost - cutting and meritocracy as they describe it — the youthful assumption that it can always be done better — which will now be applied to the much more profitable and successful acquired company, in a country they've never worked in before,» Danahy said about the prospective new owners.

Any attempt to assess the potential economic impact of a Syria mission depends on a key assumption about foreign policy: Should President Obama decide for intervention, will the mission look more like Iraq and Afghanistan or Libya?

The way Zuckerberg and Facebook may be thinking about user acquisition then has far less to do with simply adding more users, but rather giving communities the tools they need to build meaningful connections (under the assumption that they too will invite others to join the group, and subsequently Facebook as a platform).

He noted that «about two - thirds of the public pension funds that we follow have reduced their return assumptions since 2008, some more than once.»

The Teacher Retirement System in Texas, which manages about $ 132 billion for more than 1.4 million current employees and beneficiaries, reduced its inflation rate assumption last month while reviewing its current investment target rate.

We'll also need to make a few other assumptions, so let me tell you a bit more about a fictitious business so we can build a foundation.

My second biggest issue with it has more to do with the time in which it was written — it's now about 40 years old — and the fact that it seemed to be reflective of attitudes and assumptions that I no longer carry in today's world.

More on our fourth quarter assumptions in a few minutes let's talk first about this third quarter.

With two more rate hikes potentially on the horizon in 2017, we also believe now is a good time to clear up a few wrong assumptions some market watchers are making about rate normalization.

With two more Fed hikes potentially on the horizon in 2017, Rick clears up a few wrong assumptions some market watchers are making about rate normalization.

If that is so, then Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad might be more effective in getting modern secular viewers to rethink their assumptions about cosmic justice.

And as for, Sarah Palin, while I admit that she's not my favorite politician in the world, I might watch it, to «learn» a bit more about her, to see if my «assumptions» about her are correct, or wrong, or something else.

The only place where the Bible and science conflict at all is the science of origins (if science it could be called), and that is only an issue if one insists that 1) genesis is absolutely literal; 2) genesis is the whole story and there is nothing more; 3) traditional assumptions about genesis are the only ones and there is no other way to understand the book.

I don't know what's more amusing, your assumptions about all atheists, or your attempt to quote a book they don't believe in to make your point.

The assumption was on the part of the religious that what we do not understand must be the work of a god — except that over the last few centuries we understand more about creation — big bang, evolution, etc. which shows those creation stories to be incorrect.

An additional, and grossly mistaken, assumption of the activists was that the more people learned about gays and homosexuality the more approving they would become.

Paideia proved compatible both with the more social understanding of human personhood that marked medieval life and with the more individualistic assumptions about personhood that marked much Renaissance culture.

The theologian, on the other hand, confesses the special character of the perspective he shares and is therefore more likely to be critically reflective about his assumptions and about the kind of justification he can claim for them.

There can be no doubt that the author of these words also had in mind the purpose of a novel, perhaps one that would help break the spell of current assumptions in order to surprise us with the complicated truth about ourselves — with more dreams than we have dared to dream in what passes for our philosophy.

When my father died, shortly after I was ordained a priest, I discovered that I had many more questions than answers and that some very safe assumptions about the goodness and permanence of life had been shattered.

In his next of a series which looks at the challenges of change, culture and technology, Gerard Kelly asks whether our most basic assumptions about family... More

More particularly, our consideration of the fate or future of religious liberalism is skewed from the start by unproved and, in most cases, unprovable assumptions about the past effectuality of institutional Protestantism.

to direct my own assumptions and reactions to other people in a way that fuels my curiosity in them more than in how I am about to be understood.

If they think about their own tradition in the light of religious pluralism, the need to consider the basic assumptions of diverse traditions becomes even more important.

As women open up with each other about issues like dual callings, sexuality, gender, body image, and more, they have more freedom to make a statement and challenge assumptions than if they were tied to an organization.

This is, of course, but one more case of defining a discipline in such a way as to exclude reflection about its assumptions.

Either one accepts the basic Western ethical system of respecting other human beings as subjects and extends that respect to other creatures that are also recognized as subjects, or one asks much more fundamental questions about the assumptions of Western thought, rejects ethical thinking of this sort altogether, and develops a new sensibility more like the one Shepard finds among primal peoples.

This assumption is simpler and more economical than the Kantian assumption which believes that our certitude and symbolizations about God are of a different order than those referring to other relationships.

And beneath the surface are more crucial changes in the ways we find out about the world, create our assumptions, and make our decisions.

In this regard it is clear that moral education, even in its diversity and its oppositions, is more a story about the legitimation of American culture than it is about its transformation; as in every generation in America, the substance of moral education has reflected the central assumptions and ideals of the prevailing zeitgeist.

As one reader posted on the on «line bookstore, Amazon.com, «Ms. Walker is truly one of the most daring writers of the twentieth century... [but] I found the details of the lesbian lovemaking to be more than I ever wanted to know about lesbian relationships» and the assumption that my dead relatives spy on me in my bed quite revolting.

I brought a lifetime of bad ideas and bloated expectations to this enigmatic relationship, and the deeper we got into marriage, the more ridiculous some of my most basic assumptions about it proved to be.

it's no good saying he moves in mysterious ways or that he has purposes that are opaque to us because that kind of evasion is predicate on the assumption that the person espousing this knows more than I do about the supernatural but I haven't yet met anyone that does have a private line to the creator and neither have you.

I see the futility of making any assumptions about fertility, about wishing for any more than God has given, and I can shake my head in wonder at the audacity of the prayers of that first - time mother.

«We just make this assumption that if you're in San Francisco everyone knows everything about beans, and they're intrigued, but people are afraid to look at these ingredients because they don't want to look stupid,» Sando says «We approach them from a less pedantic aspect, and more like, «Look at this neat thing I found in Mexico!»»

Is that what today was about... on that assumption... for me Campbell showed enough to get more game time.

We can explore our assumptions about infants and parenting and become more aware of the family patterns or habits we are bringing to the daily care of our babies.

Centre manager Karen Keenan says assessments, including residential stays of an average of 12 weeks, make no assumptions about whether children are likely to be «better off» with mum, dad or both, but take a firm line that fathers are important: «We start from the point of view of the child, and over many years we've found that often it's the father, rather than the mother, who is the more competent or promising parent of the two.»

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

(I'm making a few assumptions about the age / grade of the school, assuming that the entire menu was planned with the proper components, which menu planning pattern they follow, if using offer vs served... with that specific example... ended up with a page and a half long reply when I tried to explain it more!)

It challenges existing assumptions about spoonfeeding and guides parents to a more developmentally appropriate approach to solids.

And I appreciate your reminder that even though some try to politicize this issue, I shouldn't make my own sweeping assumptions about which side of the spectrum is more likely to support healthier school food.

Rousseau's views about how a general will can be sustained may be unpalatable and we may need to re-think some of his assumptions and reject some of his claims to arrive at more satisfactory ones, but at least they are the confrontation of the right problem.

However, the idea that if society needs to bring resources to bear it is somehow not a fundamental human right is an argument that seems to make assumptions about being somehow valid more than any demonstration of validity having been made.

Setting up your question with the assumption that libetarians are «right» suggests that this question is more about pushing your point of view rather than seeking an answer.

As Theos director Elizabeth Hunter notes, this «turns upside down the assumption that the young will be idealistic and hopeful about public life, while the old tend to be more disappointed and cynical».

More specifically, it treats Tony Blair with kid gloves, and approaches the issue with a harmless, almost naïve, set of assumptions about the power players of the time.

New York State insurers selling plans on the individual market are asking the Cuomo administration to raise average premiums by more than 17 percent, a consequence of rising medical costs, decreasing federal funding and misplaced assumptions about the health of consumers.