Sentences with phrase «most of the observations»

Most of the observations bearing on this problem come from introspection rather than from controlled experiments.

«Most of the observations were dominated by who might be making moves against Jeremy, who had said stuff that may be unhelpful.»

The dispute has forced the facility to put most of its observations on hold as the management attempts to negotiate with ALMA's 195 - member union of administrative workers, technicians, and support staff members.

Before it went down, the instrument radioed in most of its observations.

A teddy bear and an inanimate toy robot named Robby accompanied QRIO during most of the observation period.

Most of the observations have been done by Russians and described in their literature.

And while I'll hold most of those observations until then, one of the things I've noticed is that, after an influx of teen comedies about 20 years ago, entries in that genre seem to have largely dropped off in the past few years.

High - scoring principals frequently observed classroom instruction for short periods of time, making 20 - 60 observations a week, and most of the observations were spontaneous.

However, my statistics experience would hesitate to call that a representative sample since most of the observations in my sample are Wesleyan students and would therefore have an element of bias.

Then you face a choice of doing this with fixed present - day conditions - where you have the best available observations of clouds, atmospheric circulation, etc - or with fixed conditions at 1860 - where most of the observations are missing.

But my real point is that, however the strong proponents argue against one another, both «programmes» seem to be flourishing, probably because both can explain most of the observations.

Most of the observations that follow are taken from the testimony of Mr. Justice Harry Slade, the chair of the Tribunal before the Commons Aboriginal Affairs Committee on March 3, 2011.

Not exact matches

To me, observation is the most important skill of an innovator.

Hudson's own research and observations are backed by similar work done by the University of North Carolina, which found that the most powerful factor in job satisfaction was how the employee felt about the effectiveness of the meetings he or she attends.

Least you think this observation smacks of chaos, McKinsey's most recent report finds that the presence of this cultural mindset actually doubles the chance of an organization's ability to sustain improvement after making a shift.

It's an intriguing similarity as it echoes observations of some of today's most impressive minds.

The researchers» most alarming observation, however, was the lack of any reliable connection to the illusive spark of creativity: «Despite the common assumption that arts education teaches creativity, we found little evidence for this hypothesis.»

With regard to the Fed's observation on oil prices, Yellen said it is «one of the most important developments shaping the global outlook.»

While young / first - steps content marketers can learn many things from their more mature peers, one of the most striking — and encouraging — observations about those in the early phase is that 71 % agree that their organization is focused more on building long - term relationships than on getting quick results from content marketing.

Unfortunately, one of my most consistent observations has been that AdWords is a great way to...

That's why Aristotle commented on it in one of his most well - known observations.

Indeed, in my observation, those priorities are ingrained in the cultures of both the Reserve Bank and the Treasury (and of their counterparts in most other countries).

The report presents a combination of observations on the development of those futures markets to date, as well as an examination of the issues Moody's believes, are most pressing in this context, including the volatile price of bitcoin.

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

As of last week, our estimates of prospective return / risk in the stock market remained in the most negative 1 % of historical observations.

Looking out beyond the very short - term, suffice it to say that we continue to estimate the market's expected return / risk profile to be among the most negative 0.5 % of historical observations.

This comes out to a 60 % growth rate, but the figure changes significantly based on the observation points: if the index experiences very slow growth for most of the term, only to see rapid growth late in the term, then the average appreciation will decrease, since 67,500 divided by 5 is 13,500, or 35 % growth.

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It is Kate, practiced in observing Binx at his own detached observation, who most nearly draws him into the world, by recognizing the nature of the «game» Binx is playing in his Kierkegaardian exercises of repetition and rotation.

The explosion of charismatic, Pentecostal, and indigenous communities, especially in Africa, poses all kinds of problems, but here, too, the observation applies that «the most significant — and most gratifying — result of ecumenism over the past few decades is not the various documents [of agreements and convergences] but the recovery of fraternity, the fact that we have rediscovered that we are brothers and sisters in Christ.»

Perhaps he was way ahead of his time, an observation that seems to have escaped most of his contemporaries.

Most importantly, though, my observations do not concern nature at all, which is inextinguishable and which, at some level, always longs for God; they concern culture, which has the power to purge itself of the natural in some considerable degree.

This idea comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.»

Lest this observation be dismissed as just a superficial matter of techniques, let me immediately say that such ignorance applies most emphatically on the level of sacramental theology and liturgical theology in general.

Leaning on Winnicott's observation that the human infant is born «an artist and a hedonist,» Dykstra believes that preaching has suffered from the rejection of these identities by most clergy.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

He then writes a book to inform others of his groundbreaking observations of the most significant kind, knowing that many will persecute him and reject his findings for hundreds of years based on their older religious beliefs.

When I get a chance I'll write a couple of posts — One about the homeless and Jesus (some dislike churches and Christians, others are Jesus followers, but most like Jesus), and one about observations the homeless make to us about the people who show up on their turf to «minister» to them (whose attitudes range from condescension, which is very common, to love, which is very uncommon).

Rather than ground their discussion in biblical reflection and careful observation of play itself, Christians have most often been content to allow Western culture to shape their understanding of the human at play.

If their elders remain aloof from civic affairs, at most engaging in detached observation and criticism of the politicians, it is hardly cause for wonder that the young should learn to leave the decisions of state to others and thus prepare the way for the loss of their liberties.

The most detailed observation of his life, of all that he said and did, would have been most meticulously kept.

Since the causal concept above explicated says nothing about the extent of the time difference between condition and its most immediate results, it is not clear how such observations or any others could show the invalidity of the concept.

A second observation is that it is precisely at the national headquarters levels of the typical western church that the Inertia of church organization and staff exerts Its most debilitating Influence on the capacity of the church to effect change in its own program or in the policies of the economic and political institutions In which It Is enmeshed.

Although his general observation is interesting at best, the problem though, is that all of his supporting arguments are nothing more than judgmental in the most narrow - minded way.

«Most of us realize that premarital sex is here to stay,» she writes — not a very profound observation, since it has been here to stay since Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of knowledge.

Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»

And I would for the immediate future ban all «relevant» liturgy, most of which all too blatantly verifies Raimer's observation that trinitarian faith has little role in Western pop Christianity — though he was of course too polite to use that last adjective.

While others were always ready to evoke the occult and supernatural in their efforts to explain the most difficult crimes, it was this balding and unassuming Catholic priest who invariably solved the mystery by means of the most everyday, commonplace observations.

Without assuming that every thinker associated with this movement presents an identical position, we may make some general observations concerning the possible psychological impact of the image of God which most of them somehow silently project.

As I point out in The Crescent Directive, for most people, their perceptions of a particular group are more of a function of their observations and interactions with individual members of that group, than they are a function of specific teachings of that faith.