Sentences with phrase «of simple events»

Like Crews, Nordan's stories and novels introduce us to ragged characters that make their own happiness out of simple events and objects, such as fishing for chickens or making up stories about the men and women in the Sears Roebuck catalog.

defining and using basic concepts of probability which include finding probabilities of simple events and their complements and using tree diagrams

Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games is a mostly enjoyable collection of simple events set in a colourful world.

By combining several simple events and extrapolating based on the probabilities of simple events transitioning from incomplete to complete, the discrete - event observer can assess whether delayed delivery is likely.

I have been in court rooms where I have had eight people witness a traffic accident and each raise their hands and swear that what they saw was the true recollection of a simple event of two cars running into each other.

Not exact matches

As Vijay Chittoor, a marketing thought leader and the founder and CEO of Blueshift wrote:» «Marketing Automation 1.0» was all about reacting to simple «events» in a user's journey with a brand, with simple rules set up by marketers.

When you create an event via your Facebook Page, there's no way to invite all your fans and friends with a simple click of a button.

But planning for a one - off event like the birth of a royal heir is hardly simple.

The site recently presented storytelling guru David Crabb's simple five - beat plan to turn any meandering series of events into a tight and compelling story.

The principles of investment are simple, says Bernstein, so he takes a long view of the financial industry, dedicating half the book to investment history and theory (in a manner accessible to the math - challenged among us) in the hopes of giving his readers «the ability to coolly observe extraordinary current events and say «I've seen this movie before, and I know how it ends.»»

But too many of my fellow entrepreneurs seem to think there's a simple chain of events that goes like this:

This rather simple exercise can easily be repeated for any other set of conditions, and it shows what it means to say that every adverse economic event and every set of policy choices Beijing might implement ultimately boils down to choosing among these three options.

The basic tenet was simple: a lot of companies will never get revenue scale to IPO, and a lot of those companies shareholders would welcome a liquidity event.

In the event of dissension among Council members, a simple plurality of votes is used.

Word counts and article tallies are not everything, but they represent two simple ways of measuring what even casual news consumers undoubtedly feel — that last week's shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High is not fading from headlines as rapidly as similar events have in the recent past.

Echo360 turns classrooms and events into collaborative communities of learning and success by combining an industry - leading video platform with engagement tools and analytics in a simple, mobile experience.

A variety of events have been hosted in the beautiful space, from simple cocktail hours to workshops, big scale conferences, product launch, and community events.

It's wise to protect your family with term life coverage if you'd like simple, guaranteed coverage for your family in the event of your death.

The event served up, as part of its speech, silence — simple silence.

Well, in any event, here are the «simple kind of rules» using Fidelity Select Sector funds:

random is a mathematically sound idea where as god is a simple creation of some MAN from long ago to explain the unexplainable of the day... chaos theory is quantum physics 101 and is also based solely on the notion of random events... not to mention quantum uncertainty which is one of my favorites.

Books, movies and plays were disseminated and discussed with offense taken only by the so - called «wingnuts» of the right who, though disgusted, understood that these extravagant fantasies were simple, immature venting: in truth, the left knew that such a horrific event would martyr Bush, place Dick Cheney in the Oval Office and solidify, not weaken, Republican power.

If you decide to read the newspaper as a simple report of an event, that is an interpretive decision.

One should realize, of course, that Leibniz's monads are «simple substances or enduing things; they are not momentary energy - events like Whitehead's actual occasions.

For the God of classical theology is timeless, unchanging, simple, unaffected by events in the world, and absolutely independent of other, nondivine realities.

Thus far I have talked about metamorphosis only in the simple case of a single antecedent appearing as an element in the constitution of a single novel event.

And yet he is persuaded by the most simple of arguments which amounts to no more than this: «You can do this at all events.

Nevertheless, it is possible to identify characteristics that all events share and to imagine how more complex events evolved out of simpler ones.

There are, of course, simple linear narratives in which only one event takes place at a time.

The event, a simple talk based on the book, rounded off with a Q&A, was mainly populated by younger Christians who gave Bell a long round of applause at the end of the night.

Simple physical feelings are but «the transmission of a form of energy from event to event in the physical world» (PW 123/131).

From Whitehead's point of view, at least, evolutionary thought requires that there be continuity from the simplest subatomic event to the most complex human experience.

«God is Love», says the first letter of St. John, summing up in that simple three - word phrase the conviction to which the primitive Christian community had come when it thought about, meditated upon, responded to, and in profound acceptance came to grasp what indeed God was «up to» in that crucial event which took place at a given moment in history.

Even complex phenomena, such as the emergence of the human eye, can be explained by studying simpler versions of the same structure and positing some evolutionary succession of events.

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.

He read some Bible passages in Urdu, gave a long prayer in impossible Panjabi, and then made a little speech, in simpler Panjabi, illuminating the significance of the day's event.

They are especially susceptible to legendary development, and they seem to be used in the tradition for theological purposes rather than as simple accounts of specific events.

For a summary of some of the scientific research which supports the view that the fetus is not a prepackaged human being (e.g., even something so relatively simple as a fingerprint arises at least in part due to chance events not present in a fertilized egg) see Charles Gardner, «Is an Embryo a Person?

In any event, in a closely parallel discussion of the very same question, of how problematic terms like «know» or «love» as applied to God are to be classified, he in no way appeals to psychicalism, but argues instead that, although they are «in such application not literal in the simple sense in which «relative» can be,» they nevertheless «may be literal if or in so far as we have religious intuition» (1970a, 155).

The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life.

Yes, because it is relatively simple reconciling the peaceful, loving person of Jesus with the god of the old testament that orders the massacre of entire towns including women and children OR, the Israelites back in the day were using god (once again, just as recent events are showing...) as an excuse for mayhem and territorial takeover.

Process thought does, of course, attempt to describe how such feelings arise out of previous ones, but it resists the temptation to claim that human feelings can be explained exclusively by reducing them to simpler lower level events.

Here the question arises as to the grounds for distinguishing between simple occasions and complex groups of occasions (nexuses, societies, events, etc.), particularly insofar as these form the data for a novel occasion.

Gordon Kaufman, for example, pointed out some years ago that existentialist theology remarkably overlooks the simple fact that every mental or historical event is also an occurrence within nature, not outside of it.10 And yet the assumptions of dualism and materialism continue to infect our theologies, including some of those that have begun to turn their attention to environmental issues.

Whitehead is prepared to have a view of the passage of nature as an actively patterning process, not simple as succession in time, which is why the analysis of it as sliced into events by itself is insufficient as leaving out this active patterning aspect.

This point of view, which certainly seems to take dynamism as intrinsic to all our experience such that we have simple ideas of relational events, of change, is in keeping with the intent of Whitehead's belief in the primacy of process.

In the description of this simple human experience I have used the relatively neutral term» events» to characterize the other occurrences on which the human occasion of experience depends for most of its content.

There is an absence of any cloying sentimentality in the writing style: it is simple and direct, has no clichés, and manages to bring the extraordinary events of several hundred years ago into our reach.

And she explains the life of St. Francis very well - revealing, for example, that the process of change was a gradual thing and that it began with simple gifts to the poor and a real commitment to prayer, and the more dramatic events such as the encounter with the Crucifix at San Damiano came only after this preparation.

In doing science we have, on the one hand, to try to formulate simple objects which express the most important causal relations between events, but at the same time we have to ensure that these objects include (as sub-objects) as many as possible of all those involved in the event.