Sentences with phrase «narrow the bounds of»

This understanding of the practical meaning of our first freedom makes it easier to see why the practice it protects so easily outgrows the narrow bounds of the exercise of religion as envisioned by our legal system.
At best, some reference may be made to the issue in a pastoral counseling course — usually within the narrow bounds of crisis counseling or therapeutic intervention.
Both are celebrities who are famous beyond the narrow bounds of the art world, and both have enormous studios with small armies of assistants.
Or are you saying there are hints of research directions that could, in the long haul, narrow the bounds of the question a bit?
And the AGW hypothesis says that rise must happen because — according to that hypothesis — the factors that have kept climate within the narrow bounds of natural variability will be overwhelmed by AGW even if there were no increase to greenhouse gases emissions.
Remember that unlike here where all sorts of views are tolerated, Real Climate is heavily moderated to keep the discussion within very narrow bounds of True Belief.
Therefore (beyond some difficulties with their own statistic tools as Nic showed) this paper can't contribute to narrow the bounds of the sensivity of the real world vs. GHG IMO.
2017 has arrived, and already the year is looking like one of change outside the narrow bounds of the legal profession: The Cubs

Not exact matches

As for the plethora of other indicators over which many investors obsess — such as PMI, new orders and shipments, inventories, housing starts, etc. — they yo - yo from month to month, but typically within a narrow bound that excites one moment and disappoints the next.
Such shocks are probably best absorbed by changes in both prices and activity but if the authorities are bound to a narrow inflation target then virtually all of the shock has to impact on activity.
To the extent that the Puritan and early republican notions of «the good» and «virtue» were too narrow, too bound up with repressive social and psychological mechanisms, too easily subverted to the defense of particular social arrangements, the utilitarian critique has been genuinely liberating.
Thus, resentment shrinks existence into the narrowest possible bounds, negating every outlet for the release of energy, and condemning every source of movement and life.
Resentment progressively lowers the threshold of consciousness, reducing experience to ever narrower spheres, or freezing a given state of consciousness by binding it to a hatred of its immediate ground.
Having got himself so well launched, Whitehead now goes on to try and distinguish (actually not very well, since he is bound by his own work with Russell in writing Principia Mathematica) between what thought asserts that the world is like, and what sense - awareness shows it to be like, and I think he has far too narrow a notion of thought.
DE: I'd say that the bounding of a particular sense - awareness, when you are making it narrower and wider, will be in terms of some emphasis point — what attention fastens on and what becomes background.
Humbug is humbug, even though it bear the scientific name, and the total expression of human experience, as I view it objectively, invincibly urges me beyond the narrow «scientific» bounds.
Not for nothing, then, did Newman conclude his Apologia Pro Vita Sua with a stinging list of liberalism's errors, which to the liberal mind - set is bound to seem «dogmatic,» «closed - minded,» «narrow,» and «rigid»» all terms of abuse in the liberal catalogue of their version of the seven deadly sins.
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As Europe is forced to bind itself closer together in order to save the European dream, the possibility for further expansion only becomes narrower or confined to the option of a two - tiered Europe within which the periphery nations would continue to be outsiders.
The direct election of such leaders is almost bound to make that impossible, particularly where they are elected on the basis of some narrow agenda of their own.
FORT WADSWORTH — All Staten Island - bound express buses can now use the HOV lane along the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge to ease one of the longest commutes in the country.
Harris Safier of Westwood Metes & Bounds, just back from Florida, noted that, «I don't normally narrow my outlook down to the 28 corridor, but Ulster County in general is looking much more encouraging than last year.
It's a very rare lab that produces only science of high potential impact and broad relevance; even if you're focused on important problems, you're bound to produce some science that's just as good but of significance to a narrower audience.
Two weeks of continuous calculations on the supercomputer showed that the neuraminidase - binding site has a mostly negative charge (red); it is surrounded by positively charged regions (purple), with a narrow negative - charge pathway for the drug to follow.
Years of past analyses by Earth - bound scientists of gas bubbles trapped inside Martian meteorites had already narrowed the Martian argon ratio to between 3.6 and 4.5 (that is 3.6 to 4.5 atoms of Argon - 36 to every one Argon - 38) with the supposed Martian «atmospheric» value near four.
The receptor transmits other types of painful stimuli in addition to the chili's sting, and knowing where capsaicin binds narrows down the range of molecules that could prevent the receptor from sending pain impulses.
A good fit to the data is found by two distinct dust populations: (1) very small, hence unbound, hot dust grains confined in a narrow region at the sublimation rim of carbonaceous material; (2) bound grains at 2 AU that are protected from sublimation and have a higher mass despite their fainter flux level.
The red striped shirt was used for the large welt pockets, two narrow strips of lining, and the flange of the binding.
Piping is a trim or edging formed by sewing a thin strip of folded fabric — typically bias binding — into a narrow tube and attaching it to the edge of a piece of fabric.
If you are like me and prefer your interfacing on the public side of the yoke, you need to either turn under the hem edge of the waistband facing, or you can bind the raw edge with narrow bias binding.
That narrowing refers to a focus solely on academic goals, with the abandonment of civic goals — like fostering ties that bind Americans as «We the People.»
But as the average was edging upward, the range of the scale narrowed sharply, so much so that able young women were bound to take notice.
The Confusion of Languages is about collision — across boundaries and between cultures for sure, but it also showcases the clashes that can develop between people bound together by marriage, vocation or circumstance... It is a sharp and brilliant meditation on the steep costs of coloring outside the lines, especially in an environment where conforming to the norm demands the difficult task of walking between two very straight and narrow perimeters.
It's a very unusual book and I thought the writing was excellent, but I think my opinion of it was tainted, strangely enough, by the exuberance of its design: it was printed with purple ink on colored paper and bound in a narrow format.
Security futures contract — a legally binding agreement between two parties to purchase or sell in the future a specific quantify of shares of a security (such as common stock, an exchange - traded fund, or ADR) or a narrow - based security index, at a specified price.
Similarly, there are many areas of Bound where the player is simply running across grassy clifftops, shuffling along ledges, or delicately navigating narrow beams — no real interaction aside from the walking, but with just enough audiovisual stimulation to keep it refreshing.
The nostalgia beam is less narrow that the original release, pulling at a wider series of threads while attempting to shake up new signs of life with delightfully ridiculous sights along the way, and the result seems to be agreeing with my thumbs, even if it still feels far short of the leaps and bounds the series once grew by.
Now, the temperature of Earth is regulated in narrow bounds.
They'd be driven away by the abrasive sound of huge tar sands oil tankers bound for China coursing through the narrow channels of their pristine habitat several times a week.
The IPCC based the lowered bound on one narrow line of evidence: the slowing of surface warming during the past decade — yes, the faux pause.
The historical effects of increasing GHGs would be quantitatively established, within narrow bounds.
The future effects of increasing GHGs would be quantitatively predicted, within narrow bounds.
The estimates of warming since that time using some of the data, or all of the data, using multiple methods (CAM, RSM, Kriging, Least Squares, IDW) all fall within narrow bounds.
Even when updated by fnite Bayesian learning, uncertain structural parameters induce a critical ìtail fatteningî of posterior - predictive distributions, Such fattened tails have strong implications for situations, like climate change, where a catastrophe is theoretically possible because prior knowledge can not place su cents ciently narrow bounds on overall damages.
For me, as someone who has had to keep machines running at certain fixed speeds and who understands the difficulty of such tight regulation under greatly varying loads, this is clear evidence of the existence of regulatory mechanisms keeping the temperature within narrow bounds, despite volcanoes and the like.
Although technically not legally binding, the political repercussions of trying to do anything but follow the narrow vote means that the U.K. will be attempting to leave the E.U.
The lord chief justice Lord Judge has said that UK courts are not bound by rulings of Strasbourg - based court of human rights, while the President of the Supreme Court has admitted that his court is not always «supreme» because it has to follow the lead of the European court of human rights in Strasbourg, whose rulings are sometimes too narrow in scope.
39 Neither party can utilize the dispute clauses to limit, or to narrow, the scope of the Commission's review as set out under paragraph 13, or the binding effect of recommendations within its scope as set out under paragraphs 27 and 28.
Earlier this year, in Hinton Organics, Lord Justice Carnwath noted obiter that «certain aspects of [the Corner House] principles have proved controversial, particularly the requirement that the claimant should have no private interest in the outcome of the case», as well as suggesting that, although on a strict view Goodson remains binding authority, it is impossible to ignore the criticisms in subsequent cases of its narrow approach.
Concerns have also been raised about the absence of a system of binding precedent, inconsistencies in decision - making, the cost and time involved in investment arbitration, lack of transparency and the very narrow grounds on which arbitral awards can be challenged.
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