Sentences with phrase «motivated by the question»

This is certainly true if the examination of history is no neutral orientation about objectively determined past events, but is motivated by the question how we ourselves, standing in the current of history, can succeed in comprehending our own existence, can gain clear insight into the contingencies and necessities of our own life purpose.

Sir Gilbert Walker (photo to the left) was motivated by the question why the South Asian Monsoon sometimes failed from one year to another.

This work will be motivated by the question «Why did life choose lipid membranes?»

Here we were motivated by questions about (1) district antecedents of school leaders «efficacy, and possible differences in the antecedents of individual as compared with collective leader efficacy, (2) consequences of school - leader efficacy for leader behavior, as well as school and classroom conditions, and (c) effects of leader efficacy on student learning.

Sir Gilbert Walker (photo to the left) was motivated by the question why the South Asian Monsoon sometimes failed from one year to another.

so much as motivated by the question «why not?»

Not exact matches

Anyone who questions whether Surace is motivated by celebrity should note his response: He said no.

At the time, Business Insider reported that the closing of the fund could «raise a few eyebrows» in the so - called «Startup Nation» and lead to questions about the calibre of the young tech companies that are coming out of the country but it turns out that the move may have been motivated by different reasons.

By asking two such simple questions, a manager can discover how best to motivate his employees, persuade his customers, and support its shareholders.

Leaving aside any potential issues with our hiring policies or company culture, what sort of questions / puzzles / brainteasers can I ask in our online application form or phone interview that can potentially screen those candidates who are motivated by providing great work and service, rather than those who want a «cool» name on their resume?

Others question whether the investigation is really motivated by security concerns, or whether it is a veiled effort to protect U.S. companies from foreign competition.

All of this work is motivated by one church's response to the question, «What does it mean to love our neighbors?»

The point that emerges from Anna Foa's researches, however, is that the question of access to this huge archive has quite wrongly dominated the whole controversy of what the pope did or didn't do for the Jews for many years, with frequent insinuations that the archive's inaccessibility was motivated by attempts to suppress the shameful secrets it supposedly contains.

But Abraham's leap to questioning the punishment of wholesale destruction may be motivated by something closer to home.

Brightman's reasoning is from the «inside out» (empirical) in both cases; in this regard he calls himself an «empiricist of consciousness, 48 which also explains his willingness, evidently motivated by a fondness for his method, to collapse epistemological and metaphysical questions.

If your question is motivated by concern and not just curiosity, then I'm glad.

That view, incidentally, has been thoughtfully contested by literary critics and legal scholars alike over the years, who have questioned whether Atticus's defense of Tom Robinson in the 1960 novel was motivated by a commitment to justice that transcended race, or by a commitment to professional rectitude.

Is this a genuine question motivated by curiosity, or a rhetorical trap?

It is motivated in part by a growing realization that the big religious question for many Jews is not whether to be Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform, but whether to abandon all of them.

Such questions are all the evidence we need that we too are motivated by a desire to know.

As to the question of the posting (wh / few comments answered), how much was he motivated by Christianity?

Economists, when they ponder that question, tend to reach a pretty straightforward conclusion: We motivate people by paying them or by offering some other material incentive.

We yank children away from their proper role as self - motivated scientists, testing their world by asking and answering their own questions, and instead force them to become test takers, occupying their brains with our stupid questions.

Because autonomous learning is so wonderful when it does work, it's easy when reading about families who follow this philosophy, to assume that it's the only way and that something's going wrong if the children aren't learning by osmosis, asking questions, and intrinsically motivated.

She's an appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo (approved by the Assembly and Senate) and the leak has raised questions over whether the investigation is motivated by the governor's rivarly with the mayor.

He questioned whether the governor may be motivated by a desire to redevelop the West Seneca campus.

A Cuomo spokesman Wednesday knocked by name Assemblyman James Skoufis, a sponsor of a free SUNY tuition bill in the chamber, for questioning the governor's tuition plan, and suggesting the lawmaker was motivated by the lack of a pay raise agreement last month.

The report also raised questions as to whether law enforcement officers were properly trained to ID and report crimes motivated by basis.

The question isn't what is true / scientific / rational / etc, but when / if followers of a specific belief should be expected to resist extremists who claim similar beliefs B) not all extremists are motivated by religious beliefs, and not all groups which claim a religious agenda are truly motivated by religion

In a hearing on Tuesday at the Appeals Court the administration claimed that the ban was motivated by terrorism fears, and questioned the argument that it unconstitutionally targeted Muslims.

The prosecution also tried to poke holes in defense efforts to portray Silver's official largesse to Taub as motivated only by friendship, revealing how Silver reacted after feds woke Taub to question him in his Upper East Side apartment in August 2014.

Such «big questions» motivate many scientists to study neuroscience or psychology, she says — but soon they realize that the ability to address such questions is limited by technology.

Though the verdict was based on a technicality related to the scope of the term «product of nature,» Plomer argues the verdict «calls into question patent policies which put the rights of organizations motivated by the pursuit of profit above the public interest and rights to equal and free access to open science.»

Our research is motivated by several questions: How have evolutionary processes produced the astonishing diversity of form and function present in the natural world?

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The film starts off with some awkward, painfully lame flashback scenes of Kyle's childhood and transitions into an opening act that is loaded with full - on patriotism that sees him go to war to get back at the people who brought suffering to our doorstep in the events of 9/11 (he was already enlisted, but if we believe the film that decision was also motivated by seeing news footage of American lives being taken), but one of the most interesting surprises is how balanced it eventually becomes and how we see the way that Kyle's actions negatively impact others and how even he begins to question his commitment to the cause, despite the fact that he would never vocalize it.

But even those who loathe Herbert Spencer and his theories on natural selection should question these characters and their motivations, whether motivated by guilt or a sort of perverse white supremacist ignorance.

Parker's motivating idea is its common, carefully focused and interconnected academic curriculum, which is shaped by «essential» questions in two major areas: Mathematics / Science / Technology, including Health, and Arts and Humanities, including Spanish.

Since 1995, three of the country's most renowned psychologists, motivated by a passion to understand how people are able to maintain ethical standards and produce good work in a time of turbulent change and increasing pressure for profit, have sought to answer these questions.

My second question was motivated by the evidence that schools face a shortage of teachers who have math and science skills (only 7 percent of teachers in the United States were math or science majors).

By rewarding learners with points when they pose questions, provide answers, share links, suggest further reading and collaborate on projects will gift learners a sense of community and «relatedness», thus intrinsically motivating them to continue these behaviours.

That's the question motivating Creating Innovators, and Wagner answers it by conversing with savvy employers and inspiring mentors, and by profiling eight millennial innovators whose examples point the way.

PRT motivates children with ASD to learn typical behaviors, such as fluid speaking or give - and - take conversations, by having parents and practitioners ask questions such as «Can I play with you?»

If they ask this question, show them that you are motivated and dedicated to your profession by discussing the courses, classes, seminars that you attended and the books that you've read recently.

The trick is to distinguish the hostile ones from the genuine but clumsy ones, because the clumsy question might really be the questioner's way of asking to get to know you better or could just be motivated by a mixture of anxiety and ignorance.

This approach is that ordinary run - of - the - mill online questions can evolve into learning interactions that are motivating and engaging by applying just a few very basic principles.

A document - based question exercise has students examine differing views on what motivates terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists.

Noting that the «parties devote a significant portion of their briefs discussing the question whether the constitutional provisions at issue in this case are so - called «Blaine amendments»» originally motivated by anti-Catholic nativist sentiment, the court found that «none of the parties has produced any authority suggesting we may disregard constitutional provisions merely because we suspect they may have been tainted by questionable motives.

The article offers a process for groups of educators to understand their own philosophical judgments by asking such questions as, What motivated me to go into teaching?

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush initially danced around the question of whether or not Roof was motivated by racial hatred.