Sentences with phrase «on irrational»

These «mis - priced» REITs have simply fallen out of favor based on their irrational trading attributes.

The Court's reasoning was that the requirement, in absence of any rational basis for believing that the home would pose a special threat to the City's legitimate interests, appeared to rest on an irrational prejudice against the mentally retarded.

The Louisiana Attorney General's office already had issued an opinion advising that the statute and the regulation were unconstitutional, because they violated the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the U.S. Constitution, and because the reciprocity requirement created two classes of nonresidents who were subject to different licensing requirements on an irrational basis.

They must not be arbitrary, unfair or based on irrational considerations.

Kulik says he is being sued «on irrational basis,» and notes he and the other lawyers are now initiating a vexatious litigant application against Tupper.

They must not be arbitrary, unfair or based on irrational considerations; the means used to impair the right or freedom must be no more than is necessary to accomplish the legitimate objective - the more severe the detrimental effects of a measure, the more important the objective must be if the measure is to be justified in a democratic society.»

Pink slime's temporary market collapse might very well have been based on irrational consumer reactions.

I strongly oppose those who block nuclear power on irrational or ideological grounds.

It borders on irrational exuberance but not as much as IPCC borders on irrational alarmism.

Western countries do not have trillions of extra tax payer funds to spend on irrational policy schemes that will damage the environment and will result in starvation and malnutrition in the third world countries.

No wonder we've wasted over 100 billion on irrational climate control policies so far and the rate of waste is escalating.

You pick a poor example because modelling stock market behaviour is notoriously difficult because its chaotic and based on irrational human psychology.

Bringing together Oursler's ongoing interest in mysticism, psychedelia, popular culture, and media history, the work employs macabre humor and theatrical surrealism to reflect on the irrational relationship between belief systems and the authenticity of images.

Spanish version Around the world, young people of both sexes look to the future, and question current socio - economic models that are based on the irrational exploitation of natural resources.

Virtually all parents, including most whose actions border on irrational, will cooperate if they really believe you care about their child, have their child's interests at heart and respect them.

Really, the only thing Maniac has going for it isn't any kind of Freudian interest, nor any potential conversation about how it indicts its audience in its violence by wishing punishment on its irrational victims, nor any real originality of concept or execution.

«I do think we need to do a better job in communicating a balanced view of interracial dating (the good, the bad, the ugly) without piling on irrational paranoia about that one time, somebody's uncle's cousin's sister's son - in - law thought he heard his neighbor's white husband call their black puppy the n - word.»

Mathematicians often depend on irrational numbers like, e (the basis of natural logarithms), and 2 to give them an unpredictable stream of digits.

On the campaign trail, Labour activists face anger they say borders on the irrational, with even campaign leader Douglas Alexander likely to lose his seat

Can we rely on the irrational interpretations by our primitive ancestors to pass judgments on the thoughts of others?

Or is it a reasonable conclusion based on irrational actions?

Religionists need to spend more time in therapy, working on their irrational beliefs in the supernatural.

If these topics are also based on irrational beliefs in mythical beings, yes.

When Judge Vaughn Walker voided Proposition 8, which restricted marriage in California to a man and a woman, he said in so many words that such a view was based on an irrational prejudice against homosexuals that could find support only in sectarian religious ideologies.

And it is Jung, with his awareness that the logical ego - consciousness rests on an irrational and unconscious fundament, who has taken over from Heraclitus the knowledge that reality itself is of the nature of a strife of opposites.

«It sometimes borders on the irrational.

Of course I know reason and logic are entirely lost on irrational zealots like yourself, but other people who aren't quite so deluded should read this sort of thing...

«Faith is a device of self - delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up.

Teachings of love based on irrational nonsense like angels = Two millenia and counting of Christian oppression.

But paying attention to the prophets in this season reminds us that the sort of waiting and preparing that God calls us to as citizens of this upside - down Kingdom is the active kind that demolishes obstructions and levels the playing field, that binds the brokenhearted and liberates the imprisoned, that beat swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks, and bets it all by going all in on this irrational and seemingly impossible vision of peace on earth.

Until this is accepted, the Abrahamic religions are going to have an increasingly difficult time, as fewer an fewer people will accept arbitrary rules based on irrational principles.

High - frequency traders have closed this difference to two - tenths of a penny today through competition among themselves to capitalize on irrational price differences.

«Many small investors still typically sell at the bottom and buy in during periods that border on irrational exuberance.»

Not exact matches

«The Chinese market has been perhaps the most virulently exuberant in terms of its irrational excesses and across the world regulators are looking to gradually turn up the regulatory heat on this ICO phenomenon,» he added.

«It's not too difficult to portray the policy as just being flat - out irrational,» Temple University law professor Peter Spiro told CNN on Monday.

Intended as a cute way to promote the mainstream adoption of Ethereum — a digital and decentralized ledger which records the game's smart contracts — CryptoKitties caught on with an irrational vengeance.

«As Robert Shiller's new 2009 preface to his prescient classic on behavioral economics and market volatility asserts, the irrational exuberance of the stock and housing markets «has been ended by an economic crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

«Looking at recent frenzy over virtual currencies worldwide, I worry whether there is some dose of irrational exuberance there,» Bank of Korea Governor Lee Ju - yeol said over a year - end event with reporters on Wednesday night.

South Korea's central bank chief on Wednesday warned of «irrational exuberance» in trading of virtual coins, which have risen dramatically in value this year amid frenzied speculation.

«This is irrational exuberance,» Royal Bank of Scotland Chairman Howard John Davies said in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday.

In this scenario, it's irrational for a trader to do anything except make ultra-risky bets — even on securities he knows will eventually tank at some point.

Monthly savings differ and stock prices love irrational ups and downs, but dividends from established businesses are something you can count on — month after month.

«We find it unfair that the Chinese government imposes irrational sanctions on us, but there's nothing we can do, so we're just waiting for everything to calm down,» a Lotte spokesman said.

I come to these conversations based on what I read from the author and only contribute my own voice to counter what I feel is a diatribe of irrational and fantasy charmed people with letters after their names who have no idea of what they write about.

Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill.

Another bias is mental accounting where an investor divides wealth into arbitrary categories and makes irrational decisions based on the category, such as a stock purchase or sale tied to an emotional attachment to the company.

Specifically, Finance Minister Kim Dong - yeon had told a local radio station that the government would be coming up with a set of measures to clamp down on the «irrational» cryptocurrency investment craze.

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

He is not trying to be smarter than his fellow investors but simply trying to be less irrational than the mass of speculators who insist on buying after the market advances and selling after it goes down.

That's why religions, and the beliefs they are built on are, by definition, irrational.