Sentences with phrase «not as an explanation»

Let me hasten to say that I am using here the physicist's term «complementary» as a very vague analogy, and not as an explanation.

«I would think of them as an extension of the work, another mark, but not as an explanation,» she says.

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But beyond issues of lexis and grammar, there is another intriguing explanation as to why translators can find it so difficult to translate Trump's discourse: they often do not agree with him.

One explanation offered by officials suggests that Russia could just be infiltrating systems as leverage in a coordinated attack down the road — that is, theft may not be the main goal, according to the Times.

For reasons that should be clear from the explanation of that meeting I have provided, I did not remember the meeting and certainly did not remember it as one with anyone who had to be included on an SF - 86.

Jobs made it clear that the same thing wouldn't happen to Apple, as he said in his explanation of why it needed to embrace cloud computing:

As a student of human behavior who tries to understand why we do the things that we do (often to no avail), I've had to accept that sometimes there just isn't any explanation for why that person just did that really weird thing.

For starters, here's an overly simplified explanation of Bitcoin: It's a digital currency (there are more than 800 now) that isn't controlled by a central authority such as a government or bank.

«Although the Government points to the fact that Congress and the Executive identified the seven countries named in the Executive Order as countries of concern in 2015 and 2016, the Government has not offered any evidence or even an explanation of how the national security concerns that justified those designations, which triggered visa requirements, can be extrapolated to justify an urgent need for the Executive Order to be immediately reinstated,» the judges wrote.

Not as an excuse but as an explanation, we don't typically sell cases of water.

Leptophilic dark matter was proposed as a viable explanation for this discrepancy since exclusions from other experiments would not directly apply.

Berger cites a toxic culture as the primary explanation for why women are do not embrace these valuable majors.

The day after the Company filed its proxy statement, Chairman D. Boone Wayson, a childhood friend and former business partner of Mr. Wynn, communicated the board's outright rejection of my request to reopen the nomination window as neither «appropriate [n] or justified,» without any further explanation.

We're also left without an explanation as to why some parents don't feel it, or do so in different ways or to a different extent.

As a young employee, I was in a meeting with my superiors and that was the explanation I was given for why things were getting done a certain way, when it was obvious the status quo wasn't working.

His explanation indicated the live stream interruption was not due to a technical difficulty, but that doesn't rule out glitches as the cause of at least one other interruption.

However, this year, there has so far been no explanation as to who can order a Pumpkin Spice Latte on Friday and who can not.

The explanation of how to become obsessed is basic: force yourself, learn as much as you can, don't make excuses.

In the most detailed explanation of the 2016 payment made to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, Mr. Cohen, who worked as a counsel to the Trump Organization for more than a decade, said he was not reimbursed by the Trump Organization or the campaign for the payment.

As you can imagine, that's not the answer — or the explanation — that Kevin wanted.

«The IRS offers no explanation as to how the IRS can legitimately use most of these millions of records on hundreds of thousands of users; instead, it claims that as long as it has submitted a declaration from an IRS agent that the IRS «is conducting an investigation to determine the identity and correct federal income tax liabilities of United States persons who conducted transactions in a virtual currency during 2013 - 2015» the Court must find that the Summons does not involve an abuse of process.

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As a result, shareholders did not get a vote on his Nissan pay, or even an explanation of how it was earned; all that Renault disclosed was the total, $ 8 million.

Why don't you take a few hours and try to think of another explanation, such as, we're just here, the whole universe, as one.

His further explanation of this cryptic principle would alienate many who couldn't grasp what they saw as madness: a man calling upon them to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Intelligent design as well as other religious explanations for scientific questions are simply a fail - over for, «I don't know».

If you don't believe in evolution / the scientific understandings of the beginnings of the universe then the only reasonable explanations as to why your computer and so on works are that its witchcraft and wizardry.

You said, «Of the possible explanations, I chose this existence of God as best (as I see it) fitting the facts,» Why not the Tooth Fairy?

is not the same as verifiable evidence), intelligence design doesn't hold any water as a scientific explanation of the world's origin, you see?

I think @myweightinwords is on the right track, however, I would also suggest that a possible in - myth explanation is that the Moon actually doesn't reflect the UV spectrum as well as the visible.

For me I see evolution the same as you see God not enough proof to say I believe it and see God as how all things started, in my view evolution of man can be true just that it has not been proven where God I can see because there is no other logical explanation for how the matter in the universe came to be from nothing, a higher power for now can be the only possible answer if science was to prove the creation of the universe in some other way I would not deny that truth.

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

You have chosen to believe it's not possible for God to exist a priori so any possible indication that he may, you simply reject as not possible even when there is no other scientific explanation for credible miraculous events (ones that can not be mere coincidences) other than supernatural.

The aim of work is to impress some temporary human purpose upon some component of the world; the aim of explanation is to reveal the world as it is and not merely in respect of its potential to satisfy human wants.

I'm very liberal and even I see no reason why this shouldn't be displayed, as long as there is a clear explanation as to why it is.

Not being able to disprove evolution does not mean you have faith in it, since there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows the viability of evolution as an explanation for the lives we live nNot being able to disprove evolution does not mean you have faith in it, since there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows the viability of evolution as an explanation for the lives we live nnot mean you have faith in it, since there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that shows the viability of evolution as an explanation for the lives we live now.

«Naturally, some in the church will try to polarize or interpret this, but as the rest of us aren't pope, we still have to get further explanation,» Palmo added.

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

According to the logic you used in «cause and effect» you should reject «supernatural» as an explanation... but you don't and that is why you are being intellectually dishonest.

As you don't understand from the explanation I have given then me explaining further is probably not going to result in it being achieved.

Now the explanations («I want to remember him as he was»; «Funerals give me the creeps»; «I hate to write letters»; «People should do things just because they want to not because they expect to be thanked») imply that there is virtue in the act of refusing to let the expectations of etiquette prevail over personal disinclinations.

@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs

(For example, given Wright's understanding of what the Reformers meant by «literal,» I wonder if they wouldn't be open to scholarship that interprets Genesis 1 as an ancient Near Eastern temple text — see John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One — rather than a scientific explanation for origins.)

While we may believe in the Holy Spirit as a manifestation of God's presence in the world, we sometimes wonder if the church's early theologians invented this connection as an explanation of the continuity between Jesus and themselves, and if this invention didn't in turn and inadvertently lead to orthodox formulations about the Trinity that belied the Spirit's reality, much as the Kinsey Report misleads readers about the real joy and meaning of sex.

The Whole Story series of the classics are the ones I always check out of the library, as their sidebar definitions, explanations of seldom used words, illustrations and interesting tidbits, not only intrigue, but make a classic story accessible to children who might otherwise become confused by the terminology of a different time era.

If the requisite disjunctive synthesis can not be explained by appeal to the doctrine that God values all possible worlds, this is not so much because evaluation is logically dependent upon gradations of importance, but because (accepting Christian's explanation of the absence of such gradations in the primordial nature) the logic of the doctrine itself entails that God be inextricably involved in the formation of actual worlds as «circles of convergence,» i.e., in «the orderings effected by individuals in the course of nature.»

It assumes that human life is fundamentally practical; hence, knowledge is not most basically the correspondence of some understanding of reality with «reality - as - it - is,» but it is a continual process of analysis, explanation, conversation, and application with both theoretical and practical aspects.

But the real explanation of our ineffectual preaching lies much deeper: far too many of us, far too much of the time, do not recognize the terrible truth that as preachers we are engaged in nothing other than the task of confronting our listeners with the very Word of God.

That doesn't mean we just insert «god» as a blanket explanation for what we do not know.