Sentences with phrase «observation points for»

During the Boer War, hydrogen gas balloons were used as observation points for the army for locating enemy camps and monitoring their enemy movements.

This island is also an excellent observation point for watching the migrations of humpback whales and whale sharks.

Not exact matches

In the post, Schranz lays out the lessons he thinks the film offers for developers and product managers (hat tip to Om Malik for leading the way to Schranz's observations and pointing out that «these learnings actually are applicable across the board at startups»), suggesting five takeaways for those pursuing excellence in entrepreneurship.

That said, as Coren himself points out, the column was based on observations and wasn't intended to have the same impact as a peer - reviewed study — the bare minimum for scientific evidence.

In the most literal terms, Wolff, from 1998 until he decamped for Vanity Fair this winter, wrote the weekly «This Media Life» column for New York magazine, spinning out stylish, pointed observations on everything from Viacom's power struggles to Rupert Murdoch's love life.

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.

But MacIntyre's observation also shows why, for non-emotivists, such surveys must always issue in a complete non sequitur: one does not abrogate the Ten Commandments by pointing to the number of murders in Detroit, or the divorce rate in Reno, or the decline in church attendance in Peoria.

Even if hindsight bias allows us to point out all the cases where it has turned out to be a mistake — a mistake that sometimes delayed paradigm shifts in science for years or decades — it's still usually best to start by attempting to explain anomalous observations within the theoretical framework we have.

Jeff, I agree with your initial observation... and I guess for me this is also kind of the point in that, at some stage (hopefully), we are able to evaluate in a different way because we also become aware of all (or at least some!)

The point is you speak of things as FACT and then something changes by 14 BILLION YEARS in a distance of 347 miles from the Earth observation to Orbit, and you just say OH well that's science for ya.

• Murasaki Shikibu, The Diary of Lady Murasaki: Needless to say, The Tale of Genji is the greatest literary achievement of the glorious Heian period of Japanese high culture, and one of the greatest novels ever written, and so I win no points for needless obscurity here, but having recommended Lady Sarashina's journal above, I would be remiss in failing to recommend Lady Murasaki's equally (but very differently) lovely collection of vignettes and meditations and acute observations (and gossip).

So Luke loses the point altogether, thinking it has something to do with the incompatibility of new and old, and Thomas simply summarizes the simile without concern for the original point of departure in observation of life.

Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early in the book that he can only speak for the mainline denominations with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only speak for his observations of the churches / leaders with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.

Now, you can present the existence of a deity responsible for the creation of the universe as a hypothesis for the observation that the universe exists, but the whole point of a hypothesis is that you test it to see if it's accurate.

At one point, in what appears a clever lawyerlike play, Pagels discredits Augustine's doctrine of the literal fall of Adam and Eve with the observation that it is hopelessly unscientific, and as a historian she feels compelled to add that Augustine's great foe, Pelagius, would also have had no use for science.

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).

More disturbing are the observations of Jenny McCartney who points to the problematic nature of using the Irish Troubles as the basis for «triumph of the underdog» narratives.

More to the point, for educators in these troubled times, is David Griffin's trenchant observation that those who seek to improve the human condition dare not ignore the transcultural proclivity to evil deep within the human heart and the strong element of competition in finite existence.

For a long time now the Christian understanding of man has been obscured by theories of his nature built on other dogmas than that of the sovereignty of God and constructed out of observations of his behavior made from other points of view than those of Christian faith.

My point is not that this suggests the possibility of positive support for Whitehead's notion of a variety of cosmic epochs (on his own theory of perception, it must be impossible for us to make observations of another epoch); my point is the negative one that generalizations from available astronomical data to uniformity throughout the universe may be precarious.

That said, these observations are not intended to highlight any sins of omission of Gaine's part, but to point to the considerable depth and value of how his findings might unfold for us today, if we are convinced by his resolute conviction that the Saviour did, indeed, see the Father.

To deny something without any basis in fact when simple observation points to root struggle for existence in every creature reflects more a heart of stone than a mind of intelligence.

Yet the key point for Catholic thinkers to acknowledge is that the philosophy of science from Bacon right through to modernity has shown that the success of modern experimental observation does challenge Aristotelian - Scholastic «natures».

Of course, for practical purposes we regard the position from which we make an observation as a fixed point, but this is an arbitrary choice on our part.

The reintegration of science, metaphysics and theology lies in the direction of showing that observation gives rise to questions that science answers, but that these themselves raise questions that call for metaphysical responses, and that these in turn point to a different kind of explanation which, though ultimate, is also personal.

Among his strongest points is that observations that demonstrate gradual evolutionary changes in specific characteristics (beak shape of finches, color of forest moths, for instance) do not establish how gradual changes could bring about major evolutionary transitions that require concerted functioning of many specialized organs — such as the change from arboreal mammals to night - flying bats, or the origin of life.

Moreover up to a point its progress becomes measurable: for, as observation shows, it is the nature of Matter, when raised corpuscularly to a very high degree of complexity, to become centrated and interiorized — that is to say, to endow itself with Consciousness.

Thus, when they point out that Trump had a smaller mall audience than Obama, then we expected President Trump to say,» Thank you for the observation.

For it is just at the point where telling how things really are in this world is obliged to forgo descriptions in terms of material relations and begin to deal with the «inward» spiritual dimension that Frye's observations become especially pertinent.

This observation in itself is interesting: it points to the fact that preachers should be interested in the resources that people develop for their living and learn to ask them the kinds of questions that encourage them to identify their resources.

I am reminded of Scot McKnight's observation in The Blue Parakeet that «anyone who thinks it is wrong for a woman to teach in church can be consistent with that point of view only if they refuse to read and learn from women scholars.

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.

The archbishop's observation was echoed in recent comments from Sister Elizabeth Anne, O.P., who runs Aquinas College's Center for Catholic Education: «The values of our current culture are pressure points for us because our chief values are the Beatitudes.

Santorum is merely pointing out an observation that any Christian can easily see for themselves, if they understand what it takes to actually be a Christian.

But because the book can not in itself be for the reader his encounter with history, but only information about any encounter with history, it does of course as a whole appear to him as a view, and I must define for him the point of observation.

Some observations from today: — Cazorla has got his groove back — Giroud's finishing has improved — Bellerin is FAST — Debuchy was a great buy — Alexis is one of the hardest workers I've ever seen in our team Points for improvement: — Mertesacker isn't playing well in my view.

observations, corner kick for arsenal means nothing, do nt think we will score from a corner all season, second observation - this is what this team looks like when alexi's goals go dry, girouds season average of 13 GPM wont cut it, point three should have let theo go, pedros style would have suited arsenal w giroud coming off the bench.

Minus some flashes from both Sead and Iwobi, and a workingman - like effort from Elneny, we learned very little... so here are a few of my observations from today's game, which highlight my concerns about this team moving forward... the fact that Mertz started this game, regardless of our injuries or those being «rested», should be a serious red flag for any true Arsenal fan... if Wenger is preparing to use Mertz with any regularity then the whole thing is a moot point because we are in deep shit... the fact is no quality team would ever have this tin soldier anywhere near there starting eleven except to groom their youthful players, who in turn should be playing in this type of game instead... I can only hope he was simply throwing him a bone for the FA appearance and for agreeing to stay on following the season, but I think the most likely answer is that Wenger's fragile relationship with the fan - base can't be ignored so he felt his experience was a safer bet... unfortunately not a positive choice for a team trying to move forward (same old, same old)

It's unfortunate that women were robbed of this for so many years when all women were strapped flat on their backs, drugged (to the point of unconsciousness) and had their babies literaly extracted from their birth canals, only to wake up and find their babies stuck in a nursery for observation for 24 (or whatever) hours.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

I think if one takes these two observations as starting points for a discussion they are thought provoking, depending of course on your interests.

As for the observation that SBJSA has «spent decades collecting dust,» the group points out that the bill attracted 32 Council sponsors in 2009.

«He has availed himself» of the opportunity for points of order to correct the record and surely his observations will be «winging their way to Leicester Mercury before too long».

«Radio observations point to likely explanation for neutron - star merger phenomena: Data distinguish between different theoretical models.»

The meters produce data for the estimation and development of calculated flow models, and the observations are also part of the Gulf of Finland 2014 research,» points out the tour leader, Riikka Hietala, Head of Group from the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

From the vantage point of developing predictive design and formation approaches for synthetic materials, the observations suggest how chemical energy stored across adjacent regions with unequal distributions of dissolved molecules can use processes derived from biology to drive structural reorganizations for advanced functions.

For direct evidence of endurance hunting, Bramble and Lieberman point to the observations of Louis Liebenberg, author of The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science, who has spent time on the traditional hunts of the Bushmen hunter - gatherers in the central Kalahari Desert in Botswana.

Box pointed to nearly ice - sheet - wide melting on Greenland, with extensive surface melting documented for first time at the highest elevations of ice sheet, and the longest melt season since satellite observations began in 1979.

In the 19th century, evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin pointed out that breeding led to striking differences between farm animals and plants and their wild counterparts, an observation that helped lay the foundation for his theory of evolution.

Maybe observations for another point of view eg.