Sentences with phrase «other practical value»

Ideas of God which give pleasant inner experiences but have no other practical value are dangerous because they either soothe us to negligent passivity or else divert our energies into unprofitable channels» (CC46: 226).

Not exact matches

They are Social Currency (e.g., sharing things that make people look good), Triggers (acknowledging that we talk about things that are top - of - mind), Emotion, Public (imitating what we see others do), Practical Value (news people can use) and Stories (information passed along under the guise of idle chitchat).

Deep Value is a practical guide that reveals little - known valuation metrics that activist investors and other contrarians use to identify attractive, asymmetric investment opportunities with limited downside and enormous upside.

We value management experience in our directors as it provides a practical understanding of organizations, processes, strategies, risk management and the methods to drive change and growth that permit the Board to, among other things, identify and recommend improvements to our business operations, sales and marketing approaches and product strategy.

In other words, he could not avoid practical judgments of greater and lesser value.

Christians must offer practical, workable guidelines for the value of some lives over others.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The Pragmatist version of this tends to see no other intelligibility in such objects than their practical potentialities for us, famously collapsing the «fact — value» distinction.

This «practical» realization was blocked, some suggested, by a theological outlook that could not grant positive value to other religions.

«It's hard to find those moments when you can get really practical core values explicitly shared by people who care about each other,» Bowen said.

• The need to exercising self - compassion as you process emotions • Emotional purging in a conscious way to move to an easier parenting journey • Moving passed mindfulness and consciousness to peacefulness • Functioning as a peaceful human being • Moving from «doing» to «being» • The value of peaceful presence, free of emotional trigger, for your kids • Modelling ownership of behavior for your kids • Peacefulness as a practice that takes time • Parenting as an extension of nature: gradually forging new pathways in your relationships and being expansive, not staying «stuck» • The healing power of authenticity with your kids • Aiming for perseverance and presence, not perfection • Exercising compassion for others and recognizing we don't know their struggles • Learning how not to try to control others and focus on self to remain peaceful • Journalling as a practice to release emotions • Finding opportunities for stillness • Releasing others from the responsibility for reading your mind • Shifting to a solution focus to create momentum • Fear: being curious about it to avoid being driven by it • Showing up in your own home to make a difference in the world • Practical ways to nourish yourself • Unconditional love — what does that look like?

The U.S. Education Department's research chief last week urged education researchers to focus on studies with «practical value» and seek broad support from other educators to secure more federal funding.

While completing their professional practical experience, the majority of respondents reported being exposed to schools that did not value the arts, instead placing greater emphasis on other academic subjects.

ASCD and other members of the Learning First Alliance (LFA)-- a permanent partnership of 12 leading U.S. - based education associations — have developed A Practical Guide to Promoting America's Public Schools, a new communications tool to help educators promote the value of public education in the United States.

When you are doing «900 shows a year,» an issue Stuart Polansky addresses in a book with that same title, questions of why and other philosophical questions get very short shrift for very practical reasons, most of which relate to school system structure and community value systems.

However, the practical values remain untouched and identical to the previous edition and other siblings.

He is eager to find nonfiction writers who will excite big and midsize houses: how - to's, self - help, business, personal finance, popular culture, biography, current affairs, history, health, medicine, spirituality, inspirational books, trends, technology, the future, and other books with enduring social, practical or literary value.

Mike is eager to find nonfiction books that will excite big and midsize houses: how - to's, self - help, business, personal finance, popular culture, biography, current affairs, history, health, medicine, spirituality, inspirational books, trends, technology, the future, and other books with practical, social, or literary value.

By unconditionally supporting the MediciNova proposal on December 29, 2008, and encouraging the Board to bring the proposal to «a shareholder vote as soon as practical,» BVF may have overlooked other elements of the proposal that did not fully value all of Avigen's assets.

That's why I'm convinced (at least for all practical reasons) that value will continue to «work» — it's simply not the case that everyone (individual or institutional for other reasons) could stick with this.

You need a policy with replacement cost, because actual cash value coverage for electronics and other expensive items simply isn't practical.

Deep Value is also a practical guide that reveals little - known valuation metrics that activist investors and other contrarians use to identify attractive, asymmetric investment opportunities with limited downside and enormous upside — undervaluation, large cash holdings, and low payout ratios.

The problem I have with it is its usefulness, as the speaker basically said that if the answer didn't match observations then that just meant the constraints were wrong (or possibly the prior - he did not insist on a uniform one) which implies it doesn't have any practical predictive value, as there seems no way of knowing which constraints are the right ones other than by checking if the answer looks good... Rumour has it that one of the later speakers may be going to say it is not useful for our sort of climate research for some reason... it will all be on video at some later date for those who are interested.

Students argued the moot court questions before the professor, but Harvard also involved legal writing, in that students drew up the pleadings, bills of exceptions, demurrers to evidence, special verdicts, and motions with the professor's help.100 In his report to Harvard's Board of Overseers, Professor Stearns touted the value of these practical skills exercises, writing that «no other exercise is so powerful an excitement to industry and emulation or so strongly interests the student in their professional pursuits.»

Darrick Hooker of Jenner & Block gave a poised and professional parry to the attacks and challenges that threatened our program, Sonia gave a passionate and oh so practical values oriented focus on the importance of culture and teamwork, and Tonio did a rapier efficient dissection of a key point to the programs of the other three teams, not unlike Zorro removing a trouser button to his adversary, that left us standing with confidence while they had trousers around their ankles.

Insurance companies, self - insured businesses, and other corporate clients with litigation challenges are laser - focused on achieving practical solutions that demonstrably deliver value for money.

[2] Advice couched in narrow legal terms may be of little value to a client, especially where practical considerations, such as cost or effects on other people, are predominant.

It contains content that I do not believe is offered in any other publication and is of real practical value to corporate counsel, such as investment treaty planning and drafting arbitration clauses in master agreements, to give only a few examples.

There is a strong practical focus enrichening our approach using some perspectives and techniques from other therapeutic approaches like mindfulness, acceptance, functional contextualism and the role of values.

The parties believe that by working together, they can achieve additional, practical outcomes on issues which affect the lives and values of the native title parties and other Indigenous people in the local community.44

That is why the Commission is delivering community engagement and education programs which help to translate human rights values into practical reality, using social media and other tools to reach the breadth of the population.

Many parties prefer to base their settlement decisions on other, non-legal factors, such as the needs of children or extended family, faith - based values, practical economics and / or unique personal goals and interests.

The other key element in Combs» 2007 plan is to convey to NAR members the practical value in answering calls to action on federal issues that would benefit their bottom line and the industry as a whole.