Sentences with phrase «of other constructs»

Not exact matches

Major consumer products companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year constructing, assigning and fielding market research projects and then summarily reviewing and incorporating the survey and research results into proposals, pitches, and other internal presentations to a variety of audiences.

It's the same basic construct as the others — a dollar per patty, with onions, pickles, and cheese — so the presence of bacon feels like a freebie.

There have been a number of attempts to construct Reddit - style communities that reward users with Bitcoin or other virtual currencies, including services like Voat.

Many of these nonbank institutions have financed risky infrastructure operations, like copper and coal mines or other poorly constructed buildings, by using a variety of unusual financial instruments, said Louis Lau, director of Brandes Investment Partners» investments group.

This ever - changing construct represents a way of communicating for people who like to inform each other about their daily activities and share common points of interest, according to Wikipedia authors Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, and Susan F. Henssonow.

The company offers more than 45 styles, priced from $ 55 to $ 126 and constructed of European linen and other fine fabrics.

Wozniak says he doesn't like the growing Silicon Valley trend of «engineers as rock stars,» a construct that didn't exist at the time he was helping build Apple: «Mostly it's because of how much money they have — and I went the other way.

The Economic Policy Institute has constructed more comprehensive estimates and finds that the 60 - day delay would cost retirement savers» IRAs $ 181 million this year and $ 3.7 billion over the next 30 years — and this estimate is still an undercount because it does not include other subjects of potential conflicted advice, like 401 (k) s.

Overall our default perspective probably ought to be against mergers - we should require abundant and specific evidence of large potential gains to convince us that a particular merger is in the best interest of anyone other than management and the investment bankers constructing the deal.

Among other things, S&P is engaged in the business of developing, constructing, compiling, computing and maintaining various equity indices that are recognized worldwide as benchmarks for U.S. stock market performance.

It is constructed of durable fabric and even incorporates a little pocket up front for your change, chap stick or other small necessities.

As we make this transition, some of the promotions used in the new construct are going to meet or exceed expectations and others are going to fall short, and we certainly saw that in fiscal 2012.

It's a great thing that an individual can sit down and construct something and share it with millions of people around the world; almost nothing else other than code and technology gives you that ability to do that.

Tokens have the flexibility of being restricted in other ways, as they can conceivably be constructed without BitPay, if signed by their creator.

However, by diversifying into other assets and employing a combination of hedging and alternative investment strategies, an optimal portfolio can be constructed.

Once the backbone of the portfolio is constructed, it's about finding other excellent companies that are selling at value prices.

Others, such as the chapter on «objections» to the claim that we can be certain of at least some moral knowledge, are written in dialogue form, opening the way for hostile critics to suggest that Budziszewski constructs and demolishes his own straw men.

On this foundation one can then construct a fuller cultural edifice of other authors who are worth reading, a house of intellect that is wide, diverse, and generously pluralistic.

In order to construct a house, bricks and other building materials are necessary; so are the builders who put the materials into place; and so is the architectural plan which determines the form of the house.

In other parts of the world, exile is both a legal construct and a way of life.

Can the «communicative» mode sustain creative conversations and «survive the drastic experience of immersion in other ways of constructing and construing the world» (Williams)?

Robert P. Scharlemann uses this phrase to describe the kind of theology that constructs theological models, and he sees it as an alternative to other kinds of theology, confessional, metaphysical, biblicistic, religious thought.

Jesus erases the boundaries that we so quickly surround ourselves with — breaks down walls of division, deconstructs our false constructs — forcing us to face our own anger and intolerance — freeing us to face and receive the other — replacing barriers of exclusion with doors and pathways of acceptance and inclusion.

While it is true that knowledge is learned and therefore a child is not aware of the construct of God, atheism is a belief that is learned or taught just like any other belief.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

In other words, civil marriage is not a purely human construct, which we can change at will, as we might the traffic laws; it is not a matter of positive law.

This article by Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away January 8, 2009, was published in the February 1999 issue of First Things, and is reprinted below in honor of the feast day of Mother Teresa.A couple of years ago physicist Alan Sokal published an article in Social Text arguing in the most abstruse postmodernistic jargon that gravity, among other things, is a social construct.

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.

He is a mish - mash of other mythological constructs.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

Little has been accomplished, it appears, other than demonstrating that individuals generally do have an interest in the topic of meaning and that they draw on a variety of thematic traditions in their attempts to construct meaning.

Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and women, rich and poor, black and white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued than love, justice, and human life itself.

«A former man who became a woman and is now a lesbian, Ms. Bornstein has constructed a series of mystically connected monologues in which she embodies a host of characters on different levels in the twilight zone of sexual identity: a male impersonator, a «she - male» drag queen, and five others who have, through surgery and sartorial camouflage, crossed the gender line from both directions.»

You are chasing a myth created by early church fathers who constructed this story to attain some power and control of others chief.

Lowe goes on in this context to make the following statement: «Whitehead comes to metaphysics as a Plato - loving theorist who wishes to construct an all - inclusive cosmological scheme; Bergson as a half - Cartesian intuitionist cleanly and systematically setting off his own meditation from other types and areas of thought.

Selman, on the other hand, seeks to subvert this same trend by constructing an extended argument in favour of the immortality of the soul (chapter 10).

On the other hand, attempts to construct a picture of the historical Jesus have been fraught with personal biases to the extent that Jesus the first century Palestinian often comes out resembling nothing so much as the ideal nineteenth century European liberal or twentieth century American conservative or twenty - first century third world radical, depending upon who is constructing this «historical» picture.

But we must not make the mistake of approaching the one phenomenon with a criterion constructed from the other one and thus of wanting to judge it on the basis of an ideal which is wholly different from its own.

... blah, blah, blah.I'm not suggesting the questions, as stated, shld never be asked, but I do have a problem with them becoming «non-negotiable, or in other words, when human constructed traditions become dogma, theology fails to be a pursuit of truth.

Why do we fail to see that when we assume an identification through these constructs, that we only choose to separate ourselves from other beings and the whole of existence.

In this sense, man's culture is a sort of shadow - world which he has constructed and used as his way of coping with others of his own kind and with his physical environment.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

In a world where other nations constructed the machinery of war in an attempt to achieve their own security, it was Israel's trust in Yahweh as warrior that freed the community of faith from taking part in arms races and saber - rattling.

However, I am more spiritual than religions, as Spirituality is a relationship with a higher power, whereas Religion is a man made construct to tell others how to worship a specific version of God

Both are instances of Platonic «othering»; in the case of predicate denials the othering takes place between a term and its complement; in the case of denial in the subject the othering takes place between the world and a mental construct.

For that matter, there's no assurance to the believer receiving such instructions that those commands are not constructs of his own mind (or even that they weren't planted there by some other «god» that's just deceiving him).

The belief that our liberties and capabilities are the gift of a personal God has faded almost into insignificance, but now we have a new foundation — in a way both natural and socially constructed — for personal responsibility to other persons.

But when Christians and churches construct harsh divisions within the faith and tarnish the humanity of other believers with different views, they send the opposite message.

This faculty has given birth to a host of new attributes in men — freedom of choice, foresight, the ability to plan and to construct, and many others.

Some of these constructs have been liberating, but many others have been oppressive, patriarchal and provincial.