Sentences with phrase «on an analogy used»

To explain the meaning of suicides in communities, Professor Dudgeon draws on an analogy used by Professor Michael Chandler, who has worked with First Nation Peoples in Canada to understand youth suicide and self harm — that «suicide is like the miner's canary».

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Hastings brought the idea of focus back again in his second use of the analogy, on stage at the Code Conference.

To paraphrase Dr. Milton Friedman's analogy, «There are four ways of spending money, you can spend your money on yourself, you can spend money on someone else, you can use other people's money to spend (Like a T&E account), and other people can spend other people's money.»

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

I've always used the analogy that being in business is like surfing; you are never on solid ground, you have to move with agility, and be highly flexible and alert to catch the next waves.

Learn the language of the wealthy — Consult this primer of basic definitions and analogies to help you attain a better grasp on the terms and phrases commonly used in the financial world.

Think about it — using the analogy of an open house — why leave your trash on the front lawn, not fix the fence, and neglect a new paint job?

Ben Bernanke's False Analogy Global Research On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Analogy Global Research On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech.

[7] The federal corporate income tax code's limits on the deductibility of corporate charitable giving are often used by analogy by courts seeking guidance on whether a gift was reasonable in amount.

On the March 15 CBS show «60 Minutes», Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a false analogy already popularized by President Obama in his quasi-State of the Union Speech.

It is not a perfect analogy but — except, of course, for the part in which analyses that use the number of bookshops as a proxy for literacy are widely ridiculed — it is nonetheless similar to what happens when the health of the Chinese economy is measured by the reported GDP data, or when second - order measures, such as the dependence of Chinese growth on debt, is estimated by looking at credit growth in relation to GDP growth.

Left dismissed a bullish argument for ether — that its price will grow because entrepreneurs can issue tokens and build decentralized applications on top of the ethereum blockchain — using the analogy that Oracle doesn't own part of the businesses that run on its own servers.

He describes the actions of rational agents in a market using an analogy based on a fictional newspaper contest, in which entrants are asked to choose the six prettiest women from a hundred photographs.

I like the bars on the crib being at one time a place of safety and I just might use that analogy in my article.

The Church of course uses a number of different images or analogies to describe herself or different aspects of herself; a mother, a bride or spouse, a home, a human body and so on.

He uses the analogy of ink on the printed page.

He used an analogy to describe this stage — that of sitting on a riverbank preaching» «helpful» sermons to the swimmers struggling in the current.

The late Howard Thurman once described the necessary aspect of the struggle for liberation by using an analogy from nature.7 Thurman recalled that on one occasion during his childhood in Daytona Beach, he happened upon a tiny green snake crawling along a dirt path.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

He might have offended his critics less if he had more often used the analogy he gave James G. Blaine when explaining his course on Reconstruction: â $ ˜The pilots on our Western rivers steer from point to point as they call itâ $» setting the course of the boat no further than they can see; and that is all I propose to myself in this great problem.â $ ™ â $ œBoth statements suggest Lincolnâ $ ™ s reluctance to take the initiative and make bold plans; he preferred to respond to the actions of others.

He used the analogy of white oak trees, which hold on to their leaves through the winter and shed the vestige of their former life only when spring arrives and new life flows through the branches.

These issues are not the whole content of the Catholic faith but, to use a military analogy, they take on a strategic value.

Therefore, God evolves or undergoes transformation.3 We have already argued that the Catholic understanding and use of analogy can not be put in service of Dr. Altizer's position because he miscalculates the Catholic stance on analogy.

But is it possible to avoid critical reflection on the use of analogy in this transposition of the human you to the divine Thou?

(1) Hare and Madden use the analogy of a parent and child and argue that just as a parent is morally required to use enough extrinsic motivation on his child to protect the child and society so God should use coercive power to prevent excess evil.

For Anselm, who made extensive use of it, this model was based on a profound experience of guilt interpreted by means of legal analogies.9 Second, the sacrificial victim model uses the images of the temple sacrifice.

Whitehead's argument against it depends on the assumption that Plato was no wiser in his use of this analogy than Plotinus and the other neo-platoni5ts.

You know, I don't really mind the lamb analogy being used on us.

He used the analogy of someone on a boat: «If anyone is in a moving ship and imagines that he is at rest, then should he see another ship, which is truly at rest, it will appear to him that the other ship is moved....

Must we, then, go on forever, using the analogy of bloody animal sacrifice to express our interpretation of Christ's death?

I preordered through Amazon but am too tech dense to figure out how to photo the receipt, so here is a cut & paste: Items Ordered Price 1 of: Gluten - Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: (Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More), Hunn, Nicole Condition: New Sold by: Amazon.com LLC $ 14.78 So many bread memories, no wonder bread has been used as an analogy for human love and nurturing for centuries.

To be fair because these players flopped in their respective clubs does not necessarily mean Te would have flopped at Arsenal because if you want to use such harebrained and short - sighted analogy then you can blame Wenger for the many many players hw could have signed who later turned out world class later, CR7, Zlatan just to mention 2...... like it or lump it Wenger is overcautious and indecisive in the transfer market nowadays...... you win some and lose some, no manager in the world can boast a 100 % success rate when buying players...... I know the jury is still out on Martial but personally I respect LVG's courage, conviction and decisiveness in identifying him and going al out to get him, Wenger need to show such attributes more!!!!

Cars against professional football player analogy??? Come on man... At least use fine - tuned formula 1 cars as part of it.

The guy was a head coach who QUIT on his new owner that he retroactively had signed a contract with, then intervewed for the Jets head job where I guess he brought a little too much Buffalo to the interview since he was eliminated from contention in just a couple of weeks, and now hes in Jacksonville where his main job is protecting Blake Bortles, which to use a Jacksonville analogy - is like being a strip mall rent - a-cop where your anchor store is a Big Lots that has been over run by opossoms.

After a Jan. 27 win at Granada, LeQuesne used an NBA analogy by pointing out that it would be similar to putting all of the Golden State Warriors» current success on All - Stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson.

When a baby latches on poorly, it is, using an analogy easily understood in our bottle feeding society, similar to giving him a bottle with a nipple hole that is too small.

I like to use the airplane analogy in this situation: Yes, it's nicer to be on an airplane with more legroom, a better in flight entertainment system, and bigger overhead bins.

Character develops later and depends on a child's environment, their experiences and the way in which they have been parented (or «baked» to use the cake analogy).

To use a possibly clunky analogy: when a baby or toddler eats on demand at Mama's Milk Diner, they're not forced to wait an hour or more to eat after ordering, and they won't have their food abruptly snatched from their mouths or their plates cleared away before they're done eating.

The amount of force that we use when we are adjusting an infant, I use the analogy it's the amount of force you put on your eyeball if you were pushing on your eyeball with your finger.

On the housing segregation by income and class, I would much prefer to use analogies with the Parisian suburbs, gated communities, and (perhaps over-dramatically) the social stratification of Dickensian London, or (most accurately) the electoral gerrymandering of Shirley Porter.

He used his lame horse - jockey analogy to explain his point and to clear the distortions, misinterpretations and twists put on that clarion call (analogy).

Further riffing on the Reddit - as - government analogy, The Verge's T.C. Sottek suggests instead that it is «a failed state,» adding that «Reddit wants to be a techno - libertarian's wet dream, but in practice its a weak feudal system that's actually run by a small group of angry warlords who use «free speech» as a weapon.

As for the use of an analogy in an otherwise dry answer, this depends on your familiarity with the influence of social status and its material trappings upon survival and food allocation within paleolithic tribal structures.

Speaking at an Open Britain event at Bloomberg in London on Friday, Blair says the people voted without knowledge of what the alternative was, using the analogy of a bad house swap.

In the piano keyboard analogy, that's like using one key to make a note early on, but a different key to make the same note later.»

This can be described by using the analogy of a person standing on the edge of a diving board.

The team uses an analogy to the primary care doctor conducting a check - up on a patient: A doctor may be able to detect early warning signs of an illness by running a quick exam, like bloodwork or blood pressure tests.

For each major vertebrate group, ancient and modern (and with no particular emphasis on ours), Bonnan examines the skeleton to see how structure relates to function using plain analogies: basic body plan is likened to a car chassis, jaws to scissors or nutcrackers, eyes to camera lenses.

The paper's senior author, professor Sankar Mitra, has his own analogy for the role of NEIL1: he calls it a «cowcatcher» enzyme, comparing it to the structure on the front of an early steam locomotive used to clear animals or debris off the track.