Sentences with phrase «number of possibilities as»

At the time, Corvette expert and trusted source, Mike Furman, sent out an e-mail saying giving us a number of possibilities as to why the tours were being shut down.

This means that God can anticipate each and every one of a virtually infinite number of possibilities as though each and every one was an absolute certainty.

Not exact matches

In order to figure out why, the researchers ruled out a number of possibilities by controlling for variables such as family background and health.

It was always a possibility that the system would eventually be Balkanised, ie divided into a number of geographical or jurisdiction - determined subnets as societies such as China, Russia, Iran and other Islamic states decided that they needed to control how their citizens communicated.

Like many countries, Japan is examining the possibilities that blockchain technology can offer more efficient infrastructure in payments, real - time settlement and an increased number of financial actors as the Internet...

One possibility is broader legislation dealing with bots, perhaps modeled on the Better Online Ticket Sales Act (better known as the BOTS Act), a 2016 law meant to clamp down on ticket scalping and computer programs that sweep up large numbers of tickets in online sales.

On the other hand, if a brush is losing an excessive number of hairs, such as ten or more hairs per shave on a regular basis or clumps of hair are coming loose from the handle, then contact your retailer to discuss the possibility that the brush may be defective.

Both substantial activity and the realm of pure possibility are entirely neutral with respect to what kinds of actual entities shall occur: for example, as to the number of dimensions they shall have.

But... the infinite regress in question is an example of the «non-vicious» type of regress, since it concerns possibilities, and these not (on one view of potentiality) as a definite multitude, whose number is infinite, but as a continuum, which in the words of Peirce is «beyond all multitude,» as God was formerly described as being; and indeed, as we shall see, the continuum of possibilities is one aspect of God which may be truly so described.

But it does mean that we are entitled to posit an original Sitz im Leben Jesu for Kingdom sayings and to regard as real the possibility of recovering an original form in some limited number of instances.

As stated by a number of posters, this «new finding of gravity waves» also points to a strong possibility of the existence of multi-verse universes, in an infinite number.

But God, from among the countless number of possibilities, as it were selects one which is then a «given» for an event or particular occasion; this is what Whitehead would call an «initial aim» which the occasion may then adopt for its own and towards the actualizing of which, in concrete fashion, it may work.

This is an important qualification for a number of reasons, most obviously that if one of the justifications for engagement in interreligious polemics is that it is heuristically valuable (as are its analogues in other dimensions of the intellectual life), then obviously revision, alteration, and abandonment of passionately held religious views must be a possibility.

The essence of freedom is certainly not to be understood as the mere possibility of choosing between a number of objects, one of which is God.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

Yet God was conceived as a being which had an infinite number of prehensions of ideals, possibilities, and values, but did not experience the world in any sense.

However, if you're really determined, you can always think of yet another far - fetched factor or explanation, such as matter that comes into existence all by itself, an infinite number of universes in which every possibility has happened or will happen in its own universe, life and consciousness spontaneously arising out of inert matter, etc..

As the technological infrastructures remain very expensive to acquire and maintain, an important issue will be the possibility that only a limited number of actors will have access to the emerging global circuits.

That this translates into the possibility that my «call» is not divine, but a reflection of my own fears, needs, and wishes, as well as the product of a long history of numbers 1 - 7.

If that occurrence as a whole represents a special divine act in human life and history, how can the possibility of any number of miracles within it be ruled out?

Considering that mutations, to name one method of generating new DNA sequences, can be detrimental as well as beneficial and each to varying degrees of hurt or help, I seriously doubt that just the number of DNA changes would be such a measure, even if such a number could be known given possibility of overwrites and deletions.

Canon Redford touches upon a number of fascinating themes: his contention that John's description of Jesus as the «Word of God» is rooted more in rabbinic literature than in a Hellenistic culture is fascinating and opens a rich seam of possibilities.

As for all those African vocations, well, «the growing number of priests is a result not only of missionary power but also a result of the fact that the priesthood is one of the few possibilities for social security on the dark continent.»

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

Pulis will be looking to bring in a number of additions in January as he seeks to push his side away from the relegation zone and may well have to consider the possibility of selling Saido Berahino to help boost their transfer fund pot.

So the thing stands like - If we win at Galatasray (very possible) and if BvB lose at home (given the number of injuries, very possible) than we top the group and than have every chance of drawing (as it stands) Schalke 04, Basel, Zenit, but have also the possibility of drawing Barcelona or Juventus (they are second in their respective group) and given your luck we will somehow still draw Barca.

On the satellite trail, an inordinate number of players use oversized Prince rackets because, as with vitamins and religion, there is no evidence that they hurt you, and there remains the possibility they will help.

If Wenger's inaction in the transfer window somehow backfires in anyway during the season, an even bigger number of fans will turn on the team and the players morale could potentially suffer as a result - we've seen that this is very real possibility.

There are many uses for such a questionnaire, such as: a) helping place at - risk children (e.g., abused, neglected, diagnosed) with safe and nurturing parents, b) potentially reducing the number of failed adoption placements, c) protecting children from at - risk adults, and d) screening foster / adoptive families to reduce the possibility of abuse and / or neglect.

In meta - analyses with a large number of trials, as is the case in this review, there is a strong possibility that a large number of small and possibly poor quality trials will have a substantial influence on the result.

Now the group faces the possibility of imminent collapse after the European elections, as a number of its member parties are set to either leave the group or fail to be re-elected.

Whether it's farmers or fishers suddenly being able to call around and shop around for the best prices for their crop or catch, or the ability of a rural laborer to avoid walking miles in (often fruitless) searches for available jobs, or the possibility, in some countries, to actually use phones as mobile bank accounts, the devices have proved useful in an astonishing number of ways.

Trump signed legislation imposing sanctions on Russia and limiting his own authority to lift them, but asserted that the measure included «a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions» and left open the possibility that he might choose not to enforce them as lawmakers intended.

Though the administration touted last school year as the safest on record — with the de Blasio administration discussing the possibility of reducing the number of schools with metal detectors — the experience of students at Wildlife Conservation reveals a different story.

This could indeed happen, as there are a number of promising possibilities that could turn in our favor next year.

Combine a wider target list with the large number of Republican incumbents already heading into retirement (26 and counting) as well as the massive cash edge the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has over its GOP counterpart and a double - digit seat gain for Democrats starts to seem like a real possibility.

He further explained that due to the convenience of procuring an NHIS card as compared to a driver's licence and other means of national identification, there was the possibility that a huge number of people registered for the voter's identification card with an NHIS card.

Known as the Criminal Justice Reform Act, the package of bills that passed last year created a new civil system for handling minor offenses that in the past often resulted in open warrants and the possibility of arrests for a disproportionate number of minority New Yorkers.

A number of possibilities presented themselves as a result of this strategy, and in January 2003, based on a recommendation from a professor and good friend at Harvard, I accepted a position as postdoctoral research associate at the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics.

It has given rise to a number of very important ideas that have a good shot at being correct, such as higher dimensions, such as the possibility of forming mini-black holes at the LHC [Large Hadron Collider, a new particle accelerator that may be up and running next year], and thereby probing higher dimensions.

And just as with the jigsaw puzzle, it is the number of possibilities that causes trouble.

So the number of possible paths is limited by the connection possibilities to the points as they lie on a curve, and the zigzag nature of the paths joining them.

If the galaxies turn out to be very old, a distinct possibility, it may mean that astronomers will have to revise not only their count of the number of galaxies in the universe but the history of galaxies as well.

The other possibility is that only a small number of long - lived stem cells — known as holoclones — give rise to short - lived progenitor cells that are forerunners to mature skin cells.

In any event we should observe the maximum number of channels because of the possibility that the transmitting civilization is not broadcasting on one of the «natural» frequencies such as 1,420 megahertz.

One possibility, says Chao, is that high numbers of CNVs somehow cause DNA damage by making dads less able to protect themselves from environmental insults such as radiation.

However, the result is still tentative because of the small number of events seen and because of the possibility — considered rare — that muon neutrinos could be misidentified as electron neutrinos.

As a result, a mistrial is a very distinct possibility, and now Garcetti really is worried about his poll numbers, foreseeing a year's worth of work and $ 6 million of taxpayer money about to be flushed down the drain.

A lack of Italian entries could bode well for Andrea Pallaoro's The Whale (although Venice seems more likely), and a number of other outliers such as Sean Baker (The Florida Project), Lav Diaz (When the Waves are Gone), Anup Singh (The Song of Scorpions), Guillaume Galliene (Maryline), and Nobuhiro Suwa's The Lion is Dead Tonight would also be welcome possibilities to the Fortnight's announcement.

In that time, we're heard a crazy number of names tossed out as possibilities - but it turns out that none of those options wound up panning out.