Sentences with phrase «on historical experience»

In integrated assessment models it's usually assumed that something will come up based largely on historical experience of technology development, but again it's «something» rather than presently known solutions.

Fast forward to the present and the academic solution based on historical experience proffered for these now struggling economies is higher domestic interest rates.

Officials of the Department of Finance make an estimate of this potential under spending or «lapse» in preparing their projections of total expenses, based on historical experience.

Finally, based on historical experience, not all of the appropriated funds will be spent during the course of the fiscal year.

Companies that have high ratios of gold ownership per share will do much better than that, based on historical experience.

We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

When an insurance company writes a policy, it often bases the policy and premiums on its historical experience of losses in that area.

Although we believe the assumptions and estimates we have made in the past have been reasonable and appropriate, they are based in part on historical experience and information obtained from the management of the acquired companies and are inherently uncertain.

Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

In other words, the longer you are on online dating sites, the more likely potential matches will be overlooked because of your conditioned response based on historical experiences.

Not exact matches

These statements are based on current estimates and assumptions made by us in light of our experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that we believe are appropriate and reasonable under the circumstances, but there can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will prove to be correct.

On top of that, with stock prices already so high (even after this sell - off, they're still high by historical standards), returns going forward might not be as great as what we've experienced the past few years.

Our difficult experience in the recent half - cycle resulted from my insistence in 2009 on stress - testing our methods against Depression - era data, because the resulting methods of classifying market return / risk profiles picked up that historical regularity.

On that basis, the poor performance of the U.S. economy is not unusual — historical experience shows clearly that recoveries following financial crises typically are very slow and difficult.1

The Company continuously monitors customer payments and maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts based on its assessment of various factors including historical experience, age of the receivable balances, and other current economic conditions or other factors that may affect customers» ability to pay.

Forward - looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to the launch timing and success of products based on the BlackBerry 10 platform, general economic conditions, product pricing levels and competitive intensity, supply constraints, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, including its ability to implement meaningful changes to address its business challenges, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding the cash flow generation of its business.

We're quite aware of the quote of John Maynard Keynes that «the market can stay illogical longer than the investor can remain solvent» — which as an historical aside, was in reference to his experience trading foreign currencies on margin.

On balance, this performance has been largely as intended, and in the context of long - term historical tests and experience, has been neither extraordinary nor disappointing overall.

Valerie enjoys exploring and writing about historical sights, hill towns and cuisine, and puts her on - the - ground expat experience to work as International Living's Italy correspondent.

Finally, this is one piece of advice that is likely to do you well if you've chosen to build a long - term, conservative investment portfolio based upon dollar cost averaging, low - cost ownership methods such as a dividend reinvestment program (also known as a DRIP account), and do not expect to retire or need the funds for ten years or more, the best course of action based upon historical experience may be to go on autopilot.

Conclusion In general, the historical movement of inflation provides evidence that real rates of return on T - bills will revert closer to historical norms rather than what we experienced during the Great Bull Market.

Early indications are, however, that these effects may take a little longer to show up on this occasion than historical experience might suggest.

Historical experience suggests that cycles in construction activity (defined as housing together with non-residential construction) exert a strong influence on the manufacturing sector (Graph 7).

But now historical experience, tradition and critical exegesis, together with philosophical and theological reflection on their content and implications, became the privileged medium to discuss the reality of God.

I'm referring to historical facts about Jesus of Nazareth that scholars agree on - namely, that Jesus was crusified; he was buried in a tomb by a member of the Jewish sanhedrin; the tomb was found empty by some of his women followers; Jesus's deciples had experiences of Jesus alive from the dead; and the deciples began a movement that was so un-Jewish based on the belief that Jesus rose from the dead.

In too many Baptist churches, baptism is an afterthought to the real work of a prior conversion experience, an act justified on the purely historical grounds that «Jesus told us to do it» (though why and for what effect remain in doubt), a procedure mainly of value in entitling one to vote in future congregational squabbles.

Dr. King comments on the thoughts of Lorenzo Dow McCabe who attempted to challenge the metaphysical foundations of traditional Christian theology: If theological reconstruction is to meet the needs of philosophy, scriptural exegesis, and religious experience, thought McCabe, then theology must reassess its traditional theistic assumptions in such a way that it can speak of a God who is capable of relating fully to the contingencies of personal life and historical change.

Thus Lifton indicates that one characteristic distinguishing the rap groups from traditional therapy was «that of affinity, the coming together of people who share a particular... historical and personal experience, along with a basic perspective on that experience, in order to make some sense of it.»

But a study of history, on the contrary, demonstrates that religion is not a purely subjective phenomenon; it is rather a historical phenomenon that shapes and transcends individual experience.

Eliade interprets Christian experience on the basis of cross-cultural parallels irrespective of their historical contexts, which divide humanity on the basis of language, geography and religion.

In historiogenetic terms, the republic has moved so far toward the pragmatic that historical reality is experiencing a Hegelian distortion, exemplified by a «progressive» desire on the part of elements of the elite to move toward «empire» and the perverse influence of foreign ideologies.

Part of my initial response was, «It is how I see it based on the experiences of others (contemporary and historical) and my own experiences.

: An Essay in Whitehead's Metaphysics,» does not bring the Whiteheadian account of deity into direct contact with particular, concrete historical or individual experience.1 Williams affirms that the specific metaphysical functions ascribed to God by Whitehead «involve the assertion that God makes a specific and observable difference in the behavior of things» (page 178) and goes on to remark that «Verification [of God's specific causality] must take the form of observable results in cosmic history, in human history, and in personal experience» (page 179).

It is also necessary to insist that any pattern of development for the tribals and others who still have cultures and communities predominantly based on the primal vision of undifferentiated unity, world - as - nature and cosmic spirituality, should introduce differentiation and individuality, historical dynamism and secularism gradually and without violently tearing down but grafting on to the stabilities of traditional spirit and patterns of life and living followed by them In fact from my experience, I have found that modernized educated tribal leaders are the worst offenders in this respect.

From Enns: «As a biblical scholar who deals with the messy parts of the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament), I came away with one recurring impression, a confirmation of my experience in these matters: mainstream American evangelicalism, as codified in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, doesn't really know what to do with the Bible as a historical text.»

The Christian claim, however, is based on historical events and human experience, as I see my biblical onlook operating.

There's so much more to be said, from various different angles: the experience of the Bible coming alive, intellectual arguments, historical arguments and so on.

Fishon: an uncompromising or undiscriminating literalist «take» on the bible can be said to generate ongoing confusion over the temporal (historical) and eternal (a-historical) divided aspects of our experience, between what is humanly rational & logical (measurable, count - able) and what is beyond (irrational and illogical (if those terms can be used descriptively, not pejorative)-- but can only be represented in physical images.

However much the Gospel portraits may have to be scaled down to enable us to see the historical figure of Jesus, they still show us a man who made an impact of such magnitude on those who knew him best and who had left all to follow him, that no unexpected calamity, such as the crucifixion, could have erased this from their thoughts and their experience.

God's Revelation can in fact and in principle concern realities which themselves are accessible to secular experience of a scientific or historical kind, so that on the one hand what Revelation states about them is open to possible threat of an eventual at least apparently opposed discovery of secular science and on the other hand natural science must in principle always reckon on a possible veto on the part of theology (Cf. Denzinger 1947 ff., 2187).

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

Just as our physical bodies have evolved to suit the particular conditions on this planet and that of no other known to us, so our minds and spirits have been shaped by our experience to be at home in the particular historical period in which we live.

One has already been stated that we must get all the historical and literary light we can on the passage to decide what it meant to the original writer, why he said it, whether it expresses permanent truth or only a passing phase of his or his people's experience.

Any attempt to relate ourselves to the historical Jesus in a manner fundamentally alien to the experience of the New Testament church is based on a sophistical idea of history, and ultimately leads us away from the object of the quest.

The contributions on the one hand of Biblical, historical and systematic theology, of history, the sociology of religion and the theology of culture; and on the other, the practical experiments and experiences in ecumenical, national, municipal and parish organization of church life, will, one may hope, eventually be brought together in some kind of temporary historical synthesis.

On the other hand, scholars who were sensitive to the differences between the historical Jesus and the Christ of the gospel tradition tended to see their task as depicting the historical Jesus in such a way that they and their readers might enter into his experience and so share his confidence in God, (For example, B. Harvie Branscomb, The Teachings of Jesus [New York: Abingdon Press, 1931], p. 209: «This is the source and ground of Jesus» confidence and courage....

However Ritschlianism was already giving way to the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, whose philosophy of religion centred in a decided preference for cultic experience over ethical action, and whose historical reconstruction saw primitive Christianity orientated like other Hellenistic religions to the cult's dying and rising Lord, rather than to the Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

Throughout his life, he never altered his views on the basic structure of the discipline: its twin tasks (historical and theoretical); the centrality of religious experience and its threefold expressions (theoretical, practical, and sociological); and the crucial importance of hermeneutics.

The illustration suggests that he should study the theological resources of Scripture, history, and doctrine; and study also, with equal seriousness, what he knows of the related meanings from his own authority of both traditional and contemporary experience; and how to recognize the authenticity of the dialogue, both historical and contemporary, be - tween God and man and the dependence of each on the other.