Sentences with phrase «of alternative choices»

The Huawei Watch 2 is the first of those alternative choices — a follow - up model to the well - received Huawei Watch, and another choice for those who want a new watch built for Android Wear 2.0.

Now however, it's just two different devices in a sea of alternative choices, and not the novelty it once was.

Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of alternative choices for getting clean drinking water, other than purchasing bottled water.

Below we will illustrate the effect of alternative choices for base period.

There are several contenders for the Best Pooper Scooper for grass, and here are some of the alternative choices from Four Paws.

Many of our customers come to us in search of alternative choices for health and wellness.

Which spares the frustration and inefficiencies of the alternative choice: a trial - and - error based approach.

Not exact matches

In the textbook world of binary choices, companies would face the alternative of either providing comprehensive health insurance to their employees or paying a penalty.

One of the most important and applicable economic ideas is opportunity cost, or the cost of foregoing the alternatives once you've made a choice.

«And one of the ways that these large retailers can create that strength is limiting choice to a top brand and the alternative.»

They not only rely on analytical processes (those that produce either / or choices) but also exhibit the ability to see all of the salient — and sometimes contradictory — aspects of a confounding problem and create novel solutions that go beyond and dramatically improve on existing alternatives.

Maybe we're just seeing a whole bunch of alternatives pop up, some of which are driven by this consumerization piece and that's causing choice, and people are opting into it.

The strategies derive from three choices: (1) length of the rolling window used to calculate stock and market index betas (one, three, six or 12 months of daily returns); (2) portfolio holding period (12 months or three months); and, (3) portfolio tilt method (four alternatives).

Deriving from «People's Alternative Choice,» $ PAC is a rising phoenix — a blockchain - powered coin that has been developed on the ashes of an outdated analog referred to as PACcoin.

With an IRA, thousands of investment choices are available to you: stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, REITs, alternative investments.

With a debt - riddled and a larger «explosion» than the one that hit in 2008 percolating throughout the U.S. financial system, it seems that Washington's policy alternative of choice is, «when all else fails, start a war.»

«The choice of rebalancing as an investment discipline as compared with an alternative such as buy - and - hold is simply a risk - return trade - off — though one that is a little more subtle than most.

Consequently, a theory of politics requires an ordering principle of final causation, i.e., a principle of value, which alone allows one to describe the relations among choices.6 Perhaps enough has been said, then, to indicate a line of argument through which the liberal view of happiness may be challenged and attention to an alternative provoked.

4 I use the term «matter of preference» to mean a situation of human choice in which there is finally no rational basis for an ethical distinction between the alternatives.

But all men, including the conservatives as well as the progressives in the Church, are always tempted to recommend the decision of their own choice by proclaiming it to be the only right and sensible one, and by completely denigrating the other alternative.

Through his work on the concept of God he has also shown that the choice between them may be a genuine one since it is possible to meet those objections to the theistic alternative which claim that it is not a genuine option because of internal incoherence in the concept of the reality of that than which a greater can not be conceived.

@ hawaiiguest: 1) no, field was probably a poor choice of word, but i was searching for an alternative way to say philosophy / system of thought / etc., without being redundant.

The trail is called prophetic because of its linkages to those great prophets; it is called an alternative because it offers a clear choice.

A priori (by «dichotomic» analysis of the various outlets theoretically offered to our freedom of action) as well as a posteriori (by classification of the various human attitudes in fact observable around us), three alternatives, together forming a logically connected sequence, seem to express and exhaust all the possibilities open to our assessment and choice as we contemplate the future of Mankind: a) pessimism or optimism; b) the optimism of withdrawal or the optimism of evolution; c) evolution in terms of the many or of the unit.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

This meant that he must understand himself as transcending his will in the sense of his power of choice among practicable alternatives in a given situation.

Population planning for «development,» it seems, is easiest to envision under the assumptions of total technological stasis, absence of social change, and rigid restriction of social choices and alternatives.

Modesty, Shalit wants to suggest, offers a different and better choice for women who are tired of these alternatives.

The teleological or, perhaps better, the eschatological dimension of a dream may lead to wise choices, like that of» the wise men in Matthew, or to the choosing of an alternative future, as in the case of Jacob.

It is not a choice between presented alternatives but the creation of something new.30

Rather the aim is to sketch «alternative futures,» that is, the consequences of various choices so that policies can be shaped rationally and realistically in the light of the probable outcomes that flow from available options.

One difficulty grows out of the presence of something in Jesus» teaching, namely, a certain strenuous and uncompromising quality; the other difficulty grows out of the lack of something, namely, light on what particular choices should be made between available alternatives in many concrete situations.

Ford, by contrast, has focused on a genetic analysis, similar in impact to the introduction of German «higher criticism,» in which we are to recognize early or preliminary formulations, superseded by later revisions and insertions in the text; forcing choices among alternative and incompatible doctrines, and producing a theory of Whitehead's own historical development of his «final» ideas or positions (in which, for example, concrescence gradually supersedes transition, and the power of causal efficacy is reduced to the status of the past as material cause, with the future or «final» cause dominating the process of concrescence).

You are not given Free Will as a choice of yours to make but rather you have no choice in his Will but to be free for in Christ death all debts are paid in full or only alternative is death.

Most importantly, church assemblies should reclaim their role as representative assemblies chosen to deliberate thoughtfully on significant matters of Christian faith and life, rather than continuing to act as legislatures that reduce everything to stark alternatives and then make hurried decisions by forced choice majority voting.

The reason is not, I take it, that the facts must be known if one is to understand the author's choice between alternatives, but rather that the resolution is in fact the retention of both the conflicting aspects, 2 and therefore exemplifies the truly paradoxical quality Brooks is seeking to establish as the generic characteristic of poetry faithful to reality.

One condition of a morally responsible choice is consciousness of better or worse alternatives (AI 21; CNT 92, 97).

If in the course of a synthesis there were consciousness of better or worse alternatives and the ability to choose either, that aspect of the choice would be a morally responsible free choice.

If we abstract from the vicissitudes of life, which often require that we make choices between alternatives none of which exemplify query, what recurrently signifies the best, humanly speaking, is query.

Definition of False Dilemma: A false dilemma (also called false dichotomy, the either - or fallacy, fallacy of false choice, black - and - white thinking, or the fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses) is a type of logical fallacy that involves a situation in which only two alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option.

Here the divine wisdom based on the integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God should be invaluable in assisting the individual occasion to make an appropriate choice among many alternatives.

The role of chance and indeterminacy, the specific choices of the natural selection process, and even possible alternative sets of physical laws would have caused a quite different world to evolve.

Predestination is incompatible with the existence of genuine alternatives in human choice; no subtleties in distinguishing foreknowledge from foreordination seem to be able to circumvent this basic contradiction.

Time is not the unrolling of a scroll on which everything is already recorded; alternative possibilities are open until choices are made at many centers of responsibility.

Only where consciousness eventuates in self - awareness and self - awareness comes to include awareness of a choosing among alternatives do we arrive at clear instances of moral choice.

The «temerity» of the book is furthered by the editorial choice to mimic the structure and genres of Scripture, including the chapter - and - verse format, and so provide a «secular alternative to the King James Bible.»

Prudence will make us ponder these alternatives of growth or shrinkage in our different choices.

But noughts and crosses offers only a few alternative choices, guided by relatively simple strategies, which can even be codified to form a secondary set of non-statutory constraints, as it were.

To this I would reply that for a long time now many biologists have readily accepted the possibility, if not the virtual certainty, that purposes in the form of the making of choices between alternative situations may indeed have played an important function as canalising in certain directions the selective forces acting on the stock in question.

The formulas are by now well known: In an age of sound bites and spin doctors, we are unable to make real choices between policy alternatives.