Sentences with phrase «of objects of interest»

For survival, rodents need to identify the smells of objects of interest such as food, mates, and predators, across their recurring appearances in the surroundings, despite apparent variations in their features.

This water - resistant hunting rangefinder uses single - button operation: press once to measure the distance of an object of interest, or press and hold the button to scan an area.

They were once known as the «vermin of the skies» because they ruined astronomical photographs as they passed in front of the object of interest.

Not exact matches

They are stuck looking in one direction while the object of their interest is no longer interested.

The marriage between hardware and software can then be used by app developers to create all kinds of interesting apps, including those that place 3 - D objects in the real world.

Redstone's lawyers say Herzer wanted to obstruct any romantic interests because she «recognized that the object of Mr. Redstone's affections held the key to his pocketbook, and thus she became focused on keeping other women out of his life.»

At the center of his efforts is a Roosevelt - era law called the Antiquities Act which allows presidents to designate «objects of historic or scientific interest» as National Monuments.

If that's not possible, we can still scale the domestic figure up by a factor of (1 + rest of world X / domestic X) using some other variable X that's reasonably related to the object of our interest.

Meb: It's interesting, you've been managing money over a number of cycles and have seen lots of shiny objects.

The depths of one's inner life — one's loves, hates, strengths, and weaknesses, all the obstacles one encounters in that search — became an object of interest.

Indeed, those who have argued that the figure of the emperor is a sustained concern of any part of the New Testament have often found themselves the object of ridicule and their interest regarded as, at best, somewhat eccentric (an example of this can be seen in R. P. Martin's remarks about Karl Bornhäuser's Jesus imperator mundi in the former's Carmen Christi).

Even though interest has increased, it has not been the object of an extensive study since Stauffer's Christ and the Caesars in 1955 and has only played a significant part in a handful of other published works.

We believe that this type of communication is a legitimate interest of ours that also respects our supporters» rights and freedoms (see «Right to Object to Direct Marketing»).

Stengers rightly objects to the classification of Deleuze as a «post-structuralist,» on the grounds that this heading is an American importation of no interest for the French who were reading Deleuze since before 1968, and who recognized him as a «master,» meaning deserving of a heading by himself.

Whitehead nowhere in Process and Reality argues explicitly for such intermediate entities, but it is interesting that he maintains a gradation of enduring objects, from the one extreme of the atomic material body to the opposite extreme of the presiding thread: «But just as the difference between living and non-living occasions is not sharp, but more or less, so the distinction between an enduring object which is an atomic material body and one which is not, is again more or less.»

The notion of an enduring object becomes especially interesting when we raise the question of whether nonmaterial enduring objects other than the presiding route of occasions exists in the human subject.

But perhaps the most interesting idea to arise in this chapter is James's suggestion that the stream of thought is made up of bits of knowledge or, as James puts it, bits of «sciousness», which include knowledge of other objects only, not themselves.

I envisaged a society of friends for whom ideas are captured from the world of real experience, and brought to the place of dialogue, there to be the source and object of our shared interest.

He is the ruler of the church just as He had been the leader of His little band of followers: He is the head (or, we would say, the heart) of the church just as He had been the center of interest and unity among them; He is the object of devotion, even worship, in the church just as He had been the object of His disciples» loyalty.

Most of the ordinary objects of human interest — such as food, companionship, vitality, and security — are good.

Nor did the Church fully appreciate the role of the media in a free society, and soon» instead of a subject of inspiration or dialogue partner in the media» the Church became a curious object of marginal interest, occasional scandal, and, sometimes, a whipping boy.

Universal Algebra, in precisely this sense, is a poor framework for mathematics insofar as it unites spatial manifolds and symbolic logic by introducing the common notion of an algebraic manifold (Whitehead's terminology) or a semi-group (current standard terminology), an object with very little structure or intrinsic interest.9 In this case, generalization comes at the expense of abstract sterility.

Even though interest has increased, it has not been the object of an extensive study since Stauffer's Christ and the Caesars in 1955 and has only played a significant part in a handful of other...

Both old - line liberals and conservatives will object strongly to many of Patterson's claims, and few who are seriously interested in the problems he confronts will be entirely comfortable with what he says.

Galileo saw a swinging pendulum as an object with inertia, which almost repeats its oscillating motion; his predecessors, inheriting the Aristotelian interest in progress towards — final ends, had seen a pendulum as a constrained falling object, which slowly attains its final state of rest.

This entire relationship is born and lives by means of the common interest in the object of study.

Someone may object that, given the current weakness of our political parties, politicians necessarily have to turn to interest groups for their ready - made mailing lists and rely on «fat cat» contributors for large campaign donations.

«From indetermination accepted as a fact,» Bergson claims that he can «infer the necessity of a perception, that is to say, of a variable relation between a living being and the more or less distant influence of objects which interest it» (MM 24).

In addition to such practical distancing of objects, there is a more radical form in which the object is accorded its freedom also from the interests of the subject.

The gods were conceived as visual objects having excellence in themselves, an excellence that inspired interest and admiration rather than numinous terror or the expectation of interference in the practical affairs of life.

It is interested in individual events or objects only as repeatable instances of general laws.

(The following statements are somewhat characteristic of such schools: Bethany Theological Seminary affirms that its object is «to promote the spread and deepen the influence of Christianity by the thorough training of men and women for the various forms of Christian service, in harmony with the principles and practices of the Church of the Brethren»; Augustana Theological Seminary «prepares students for the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church with the special needs of the Augustana Church in view»; the charter of Berkeley Divinity School begins, «Whereas sundry inhabitants of this state of the denomination of Christians called the Protestant Episcopal Church have represented by their petition addressed to the General Assembly, that great advantages would accrue to said Church, and they hope and believe to the interests of religion and morals in general, by the incorporation of a Divinity School for the training and instructions of students for the sacred ministry in the Church aforementioned.»)

In Europe this is symbolized by the churches «having become empty shells, visited only as objects of architectual interest, and in the United States by the growing chasm between what churchgoers profess and how they act.

I was more interested in your personal story of what triggered your move towards atheism from contemplating the worshipping of objects.

But there is a Biblicism that is not theological because it does not make God so much as Scriptures the object of its interest, and which depends for law and grace not on Father, Son and Holy Spirit but on Bible.

For whoever so judges either sees in prayer merely a psychological phenomenon, which can become the object of interesting analysis, or he arrogates to himself God's own right.

To the extent that a connection exists between perplexing objects and objects of practical interest, a definite connection of this sort would have to be claimed for time as well.

Furthermore, it may be that the essence of time is subject to conditions which can never be associated with it a priori but rather remain extrinsic and even contradictory to it, even though they lend themselves to conceptualization and reveal time (in one of its essential aspects) as an object of practical interest.

We strongly object, however, to what we see as the misuse of the First Amendment, by commercial interests, as a cover for a quest for profit.

The answer is, that when things are separately and specifically noticed in acts which, though distinct, are unified and ordered by a characteristic enumerative interest or purpose, the primary contents (sensa) corresponding to the things are caught up in the overarching act to form a whole representation (in the sense of an intentional object) on the basis of which an objective, real, multiplicity intuitively appears.

But given their unification in this manner, along with the guiding interest in numbering the objects concerned, the totality of objects does in fact appear to us as one intuitive whole in which the unifying relations («collective combinations») may be seen to be exactly what they are.

The NCC objects to what they see as the misuse of the First Amendment, by commercial interests, as a cover for a quest for profit.

It may help Christians in many different situations with different experiences and interests to remain under a common judgment, to be open to each other in a common fellowship, and to recognize that they are objects of a common redemption.

As our mental fields succeed one another, each has its centre of interest, around which the objects of which we are less and less attentively conscious fade to a margin so faint that its limits are unassignable.

Because most of them found women to be the objects of their interest they identified themselves to the psychiatrists as lesbians.

It is interesting to me that the most intimate human experiences, namely tile object ot our worship ana the object or human love, provide the vocabulary of profanity.

In the case of «interest,» it is the limited, and therefore limiting, universe of societies as «enduring objects.»

Like all pure science, this theoretical work is disinterested in the sense of «seeking to put aside all extraneous, private and personal interests while it concentrates on its objects for their own sake only».

But, in the interests of consistency, we shall only invent new objects when we can not escape from doing so; usually, it is sufficient slightly to modify the description of our previous objects, e.g., when we modify the definition of the atom to accommodate it to new observations about radioactivity or atom - smashing, or new types of chemical combination.

If we get interested in some other aspect, e.g., if we change from considering the blood circulation of an animal to its nest - building, we have a perfect right to invent new appropriate objects.