Sentences with phrase «more objective means»

(I suspect that they measure their success by the amount of overt gratitude received rather than by more objective means.)

Not exact matches

Because banks held few excess reserves, it took only modest adjustments to the size of the Fed's balance sheet, achieved by means of open - market purchases or sales of short - term Treasury securities, to make credit more or less scarce, and thereby achieve the Fed's immediate policy objectives.

A more moving portrayal of the meaning of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead of his son.»

Whitehead had an earlier (unfamiliar) meaning for «objective datum» besides the later, more usual one.

To them the examination of the esoteric meaning of the law was a more worthy objective than the study of the law in its esoteric sense.

Questions such as whether the language of «faith» has any authority in a scientific age, or whether mind and life are reducible to atoms and molecules, whether only the tangible is real, whether the human person is anything more than a complex physico - chemical mechanism, whether we are free or determined, whether there is any «objective» truth to the symbols and myths of religion — all of these questions are asked at all only because what is fundamentally at issue is whether there is an ultimate context that gives meaning to cosmic process and significance to our lives in this process.

In his view, religious meaning grows out of, comes in and through, the other, more «objective» dimensions of human experience, while being neither exhaustible in terms of them nor separable from them.

Rather, belief in God and the afterlife are human ideals that give meaning to our lives, and as such they exist in our minds more than in the objective world.

If you are honest and look at the situation the constant over the past 12 plus years is the willingness of the Board to accept 4th place as the goal and objective each year because it meant CL football (and more money in their pockets for quarter finals without having to really buy new players) and the ability to constantly offer meaningless public interviews stating that they want to win the league each year.

Rather the point is that their dominating the game (according to pretty much any objective metric you want to use, but big chances will do) means that focusing on Lacazette's misses right at the end is overlooking the more fundamental problems that led to our being in the position we were in with 89 minutes on, and indeed «deserving» to be down a lot more, if only they had finished the numerous eminently finish - able chances they had.

My advice to my dear younger brother is that being courageous, candid, objective and staying focus will mean more to his admirers than he'll ever think of; and these will avert his journalistic credibility from crumbling.

The group in a statement by its Country Director, Patriot Sunday Attah, said these attacks are deliberate attempts to not only test the strength of our security personnel but also ostensibly as a means of testing the waters for a more sinister objective.

Overall, 34 percent of patients showed an objective response, meaning that their tumors shrank by more than 30 percent, and did not re-grow.

The objective was not only to understand sentence structure but also the meanings of individual words, what words often get used together with these words, and what words might be semantically more important.

NSF believes that the PI / PD, operating within the established policies of the grantee organization, should feel free to pursue interesting and important leads that may arise during the conduct of a research (or other grant - supported) project or to adopt an alternative approach which appears to be a more promising means of achieving the objectives of the project.

«In education, a section that I think is more interesting is to know what content is meeting the educational objectives to be met, because when we edited paper, we only knew what teachers, students told us, but when digitizing the content, if we endow of «traceability», we will know what content is most viewed, what exercises are done, which are not, which are repeated, which are not made, what content are viewed... I mean, it gives us a timely real and immediate feedback», says David.

This means that students are free to race ahead once they've mastered an objective, so sixth graders may be learning some seventh - grade content and may not have studied material on the sixth - grade exam in a year or more.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

Second, it could help the make the sense of a sustainable way of life more transparent, in which there are individual meanings which can be derived from these objectives and bring a sustainable way of living also in practice.

As a result, Texans had no objective means of knowing whether students in Webb County, which has a significant number of children living in poverty, were doing as well in reading and math as students in more prosperous places like Collin County.

This means much more than posting an objective in a classroom.

The method is meant to make observations more useful, uniform and objective, using evidence rather than opinions.

To learn more about what bond swapping may mean to you, consider your objectives and discuss them your financial consultant.

That means this is a list of games that clicked with me on a personal level after I had taken off my slightly more objective reviewing helmet (+10 to pretentiousness.)

In this entry, you are required to get down in the dirt and reach your objective amongst the patrolling enemies, which means a lot more close quarters action; an odd proposition for those that want to snipe.

This means more bugs than a derelict motel, be it clipping through objects, NPC's still being dumber than a headless shop dummy full of egg mayonnaise, objectives not updating and slow loading times to name a few.

This is something that has a stronger balance, so throughout the game there are objectives you go to and there are things you can see that mean you know a player is * over there * because there's more information.

This is, actually, a really well - balanced game — you purchase upgraded weapons and buy new planes with cash you earn during missions, and different missions have main objectives and secondary objectives that earn you more cash to spend on upgrades; the secondary objectives are based on both skill (destroying additional targets) and speed (making it through a level in a certain amount of time), meaning you really can customize the way you play the game.

These optional objectives increase the skill ceiling of the game and provide a means for keeping advanced players more engaged, if indeed they choose to pursue such objectives.

Having two fewer players on your team and an opposing force with only one objective means team comp matters more than ever.

From that point onwards they can not be, and art not meant to be, objective any more — nor are they meant to document anything whatever, whether reality or a view of reality.

«Its going,» wrote Franz Schulze for Art News, «will remove one of the more provocative idiosyncrasies in Chicago art -LSB-...] The Wells Street shows itself, which means the work of singularly devoted group of young painters -LSB-...] bound together in idiom and attitude -LSB-...] Wells Street will be missed; not because its members have as yet arrived at coherent realization of objectiveness, but because the objectives are worthy and unique in the local scene.»

First I should clarify that I am not a car expert, nor have I been following Tesla's development over the years, which means that my interaction with the Model S was, in a way, more objective than someone who knows a lot about electric cars and may already love it; hence the «non-gearhead's review.»

Simplicity of living means meeting life face - to - face... The objective is not dogmatically to live with less, but is a more demanding intention of living with balance in order to find a life of greater purpose, fulfillment, and satisfaction...

Among many issues, «cultural cognition,» as Yale's Dan Kahan and others have shown, means your cultural identity matters more than an objective assessment of «facts.»

In contrast, an adaptation limit is more restrictive in that it means there are no adaptation options that can be implemented over a given time horizon to achieve one or more management objectives, maintain values, or sustain natural systems.

TSA - Friendly means that the bag has been designed to go through airport security checkpoints more efficiently: «A design that meets this objective will enable TSA to allow laptops to remain in bags for screening.»

I should clarify that I am not a car expert, nor have I been following Tesla's development over the years, which means that my interaction with the Model S was, in a way, more objective than someone who knows a lot about electric cars and may already love it; hence the «non-gearhead's review.»

With all the immediate measures in place, Juncker outlines the foreign policy objectives of the EU as an effective means to «address the root causes» of the present crisis and suggests a more sustained and «assertive» presence in the EU's neighboring countries, beset with war and instability.

The introduction into the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) rules of the «overriding objective... to deal with cases justly» does not mean that the EAT must adopt a more relaxed approach to the extension of the 42 - day time limit for appealing than that set out by the EAT in United Arab Emirates v Abdelghafar [1995] ICR 65, [1995] IRLR 243.

They must not be arbitrary, unfair or based on irrational considerations; the means used to impair the right or freedom must be no more than is necessary to accomplish the legitimate objective - the more severe the detrimental effects of a measure, the more important the objective must be if the measure is to be justified in a democratic society.»

The context and objectives of the AFMP gave no indication that the notion of a self - employed activity should be read more broadly than its «ordinary meaning», namely an activity pursued by a person outside a relationship of subordination with regard to conditions of work and remuneration and under the person's personal responsibility (AG conclusions, para 69).

Those recommendations include «The Court should form a standing committee to maintain accountability for closing the justice gap and to monitor the effectiveness of reform initiatives,» «The Court should encourage the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Access to Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.»

And to the extent dishonour has meaning, that meaning seems likely to be more specific and subjective than general and objective.

This means you may have more than one resume - one for each objective.

This means that you can not use the same resume objective to apply... Read More»

More and more recruiters consider resume objectives so out - of - date that it seems like such headings lose their meanMore and more recruiters consider resume objectives so out - of - date that it seems like such headings lose their meanmore recruiters consider resume objectives so out - of - date that it seems like such headings lose their meaning.

This means that more than any other section, the objective of your resume must be tailored to suit the employer's demands.

Entry level objective statements are usually meant to instill more passion to showcase the candidate's potential and usually these statements mention less of competencies.

If your resume would otherwise be a barren landscape with little more than your name and contact information, by all means write up the course work most relevant to your objective.