Sentences with phrase «of substantial fact»

The term had its origin in the study of historical sources, chiefly the lives of the saints; and instead of emphasizing the unreliable or questionable character of the stories, it really suggests that a kernel of substantial fact is contained in them.

We may not be sure, in every case, what is the «kernel of substantial fact» in Mark's legends, but we are certain that they were not spun out of thin air.

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So to them the fact that you're 5 minutes old and already in 50 countries seems like a substantial and valuable accomplishment (which they do know would cost them a bundle in their own organization to duplicate) whereas, to your team, it's just a fact of digital life.

In fact, said Wolt, substantial equivalence is merely the first step of a longer process, and simply establishes a baseline for safety.

And despite the fact that American companies are reshaping their lineups, sedans will still form a substantial portion of the vehicles sold in the U.S. for the foreseeable future.

In fact, tech has already undergone a substantial geographical shift from the core of Silicon Valley to San Francisco and beyond.

The league would have to prove this in court with evidence, not just state it as a fact — and it's not clear at all that watching a couple of tweeted highlight GIFs is going to make substantial numbers of people refuse to pay money to watch an NFL game.

In fact, there is a substantial housing need here — a need for any kind of new affordable housing.

The effect on Amazon has been equally significant: I detailed last year how the revelation of AWS» financial results was effectively a Facebook - level IPO, and subsequent earnings reports in which AWS has demonstrated the power of scale — increased revenue plus increased margins — have only solidified the fact that AWS will be a substantial driver of Amazon's revenue and (eventual!)

In determining the size of the requested increase in the authorized share pool, we considered the level of overhang and took into account the fact that a substantial portion of the current outstanding equity awards are held by our CEO and had been granted to him prior to our initial public offering in 2006 (the «IPO»).

Many analysts argue that total debt in China in fact exceeds TSF, and believe that the true debt level is closer to 250 % of GDP, and perhaps even more if we include the substantial number of corporate receivables that have surged in recent years.

Many businesses do indeed require a substantial amount of capital to get off the ground, and this fact often deters people with the entrepreneurial spirit from ever getting to the point where they can become their own bosses.

Despite the fact that the HUI suffered a substantial percentage decline during this 2.5 - month period, it still managed to gain about 200 % over the course of the bear market's first 20 months.

The Ninth Circuit took a similar approach in Berson v. Applied Signal Technology, Inc., and ultimately fashioned a standard for loss causation in Nuveen v. City of Alameda when it held that a plaintiff can establish loss causation «by showing that the defendant misrepresented or omitted the very facts that were a substantial factor in causing the plaintiff's economic loss.»

Social Security represents a substantial share of income for the bottom quintile but is less important for higher - earners — reflecting the progressive nature of the benefit formula and the fact that higher - earners have many other sources of income — whereas private retirement income is less important at the low end but is more important for middle and upper - income groups (those at the very top mostly rely on investment or business income).

The tax - location portfolio attempts to capitalize on the fact that large - cap stocks generate a substantial part of their return from capital appreciation in the taxable account.

«The fact remains that a substantial portion of the project must be constructed through British Columbia, and since the change in government in June, 2017 that government has been clear and public in its intention to use «every tool in the toolbox» to stop the Project,» Kean said.

But if he does in fact impose strict ones, and Cohn does in fact resign because of it, the America First team will have scored a substantial victory.

They used to remember thinking but now it's no longer necessary and with the enriched water it is no longer possible after the cataclysmic campaigns of the last decade when it was decided that facts no longer mattered so therefore truth no longer existed so therefore thinking was no longer necessary but in fact futile so therefore not only sterile but dangerous and therefore behavior alone was substantial and adherence to action alone was useful.

Grondin has done substantial archival work to settle what the book's jacket calls «the facts of Gadamer's life»: upbringing, schooling, teachers, degrees, appointments, major publications, and other signal events (Gadamer's early illness, his two marriages, his arrest by East German police).

It follows from this fact and the two senses in which creativity is substantial, that it might best be conceived as being itself or the power of being.

In fact, substantial majorities of white Protestants (76 %), black Protestants (65 %) and white Catholics (63 %) say the ruling should not be over turned, the survey found.

In other words, the very fact that such a large proportion of the Yale ministers had worked with a substantial number of alcoholics is ipso facto evidence that they were doing an effective job with them.

And they're a little more weighty and substantial than the fact that some of us won an «honorable mention» ribbon for coming in last place sometime in fourth grade.

Does the fact that this is now a different act, and that there is no substantial underlying agent of both acts, mean that the present act is morally free to ignore what happened in the previous act?

Process 26), or an «ultimate individual fact» which he says «must be describable as process» (Modes 120, Adventures 199, emphasis added), or the self that determines itself (Modes 131), or the «substantial activity of individualization» (Science 123), or when he also says «the subject of the feeling is causa sui» and any feeling is impossible to understand «without recourse to the whole subject» (Process 221, emphasis added).

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

It functions in the nature of the Buddhist middle way, attaching to nothing either substantial or non-substantial and involving in its train the dharmadhatu, which is at once the content of experiential fact in the microscopic as well as macroscopic processes.

I insisted that there is a genuine personal identity; but it has been assumed that this identity is made possible by the fact that there is just this kind of substantial self.

To do that we have to establish a way to prove an assumption by: 1) asserting a hypothesis and its components 2) testing the components for substantial supporting evidence, unsupported components go back to be refined 3) either agree after successful testing that in our shared reality the hypothesis is now supported, or that overall unsupported components may mean the hypothesis fails 4) for sake of ease many people call these tested and supported hypotheses «facts», but again that's just so that we can get on with progress.

But I think it is true to say that nowhere have I made any substantial addition to or alteration of the author's insights and ideas; and to a great extent, especially in the latter part of the book, it was in fact possible to cling closely not only to the sense but also to the wording of the French.

Despite the fact that leading process theists have devoted a substantial part of their writings to the discussion of evil, we find publication after publication by philosophers on the problem of...

Mention of that great saint brings to mind what he said about change: he sharply cautioned against changing law — any law — even when some improvement is possible, unless there is some «urgent necessity or substantial and obvious benefit», since «the mere fact of change in law itself can be adverse to the public welfare and lessen the restraining power of the law».

In fact, in Newtonian physics we would expect that the image of a single substantial object would be identifiable not only by the continuity of its first three factors as an implicit function of the fourth, but also by the constancy of the fifth.

to see that the body of remembered fact and impression was throughout the first century substantial enough to prevent the wild growth of the tradition.

The fact of substantial immediate impact, unrivalled among Jewish contemporaries who can be put forward for comparison, is undeniable....

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

Substantial activity seems to be thought of as an explanation of the universe in a way that would participate in efficiency as well as in passive materiality, but in fact the Aristotelian categories of causality do not apply to Spinoza's vision of infinite substance.

I want to believe that you are really the author of this article, but before I would accept it as fact and teach it to my child, I'm going to require something a little more substantial than my «want» for it to be true or the «possibility» of it being true.

When faced with a substantial issue such as media and violence, therefore, the first step has been for policy - makers to try to establish a clear, empirical and «objective» body of «facts» as the basis for their decision - making.

Considering the substantial amoutn of witness throughout history concerning miracles, both from those within christianity and without, to state as fact they do nt exist is.I do nt know... I do nt agree with that.

«Anthropological reflection, in fact, leads to the recognition that, by virtue of the substantial unity of body and spirit, the human genome not only has a biological significance, but also possesses anthropological dignity, which has its basis in the spiritual soul that pervades it and gives it life.»

«The fact is that the financial impact of these tariffs will be felt even before they are implemented because the targets of these retaliatory tariffs will begin to experience a substantial drop in export sales almost immediately due to supply chain disruptions.»

This is my type of salad; I love the rich colors and the fact that it is made of substantial ingredients, producing something that can actually be filling and have substantial nutritional value.

However, carob contains a substantial amount of sugar (sucrose, in fact).

The fact remain concurrent in every part of the consumers» society, which is why frozen foods are set to gain substantial importance.

They'd rather wait for the one time it fails so they can bash You blame the manager for being favourist yet a fellow blogger praising a player he previously bashed is called being two faced You kill Ramsey for a blind pass attempting to enter the opposition final third yet you won't blame Sanchez for turning over the ball in a pointless dribble with three free team mates You kill metersacker for deflecting a shot into his own net but won't touch kos for getting out of the way of a shot he could have sufficiency blocked You claim with no substantial proof that arteta, mert, Ramsey, can not lead arsenal anywhere substantial yet they have each at a point been a massive cause for stability and progress when called upon Even after reading this comment, you will ignore the fact that kos was awful until partnerd with mert, our defensive mid with song leaked more goals than the one with arteta and we've struggled to win without him at least until late last season.

The evidence that the list is genuine is supported by the fact that a substantial portion of the rule changes have already gone into effect.

Allardyce has rejected this analysis, however, believing that the fact that replacement Juan Mata was also worth a substantial fee meant that there was no impact on the quality of the United team and that the players should take more of the blame for their East Midlands capitulation:

Another major reason was due to the fact that we would be able to save a substantial amount of money if I expressed my milk.