Sentences with phrase «own historical experience»

«The historical experience is that if you conquer America, you can conquer the world,» he said.

These developments in the pricing of bank securities suggest a risk of a more disorderly period ahead, given the critical role financials play both in the economy and in the historical experience with credit cycles.

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.

Historical experience does not suggest that bubbles are very sensitive to the level of short - term interest rates.

Without historical experience and with an underdeveloped macroprudential framework, getting the calibration right is a difficult issue at this point.

Yet the fact that these 13 years have included three successive approaches (2000, 2007, and today) to valuation peaks - at the very extremes of historical experience - is evidence that investors don't appreciate the link between valuation and subsequent returns.

But it is still a little weaker than suggested by historical experience.

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

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.

It's difficult to get around this conclusion without making assumptions that are both implausible and inconsistent with all historical experience.

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.

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

«And the short end should be trading at around 2 1⁄2 % (these would be fairly normal historical experiences).»

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.

While we seek to outperform during all parts of the market cycle, our historical experience suggests that our strategy may lag during broad - based bull markets, such as was seen in 2017.

It's exactly because our approach is grounded in both theory and historical experience that we can maintain confidence and discipline during admittedly uncomfortable periods like this.

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

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.

In the light of historical experience, I very much doubt it.»

Follow - up posts described historical experiences and compared the relative stability of the US and Canadian 19th century branching systems: Canadian banks demonstrated a much higher level of financial resilience thanks to their ability to open branches nationwide, compared to the great instability and recurrent crises experienced by large US state banks — whose ability to open branches in other states or districts was severely constrained by law — and later «unit» banks, which were not allowed to open branches altogether.

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.

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).

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

Interest rates remain low across the yield curve; credit is freely available and is growing at a solid pace; and the exchange rate is near the low end of historical experience against most countries.

For black Americans the struggle for freedom and equality is the central theme in our historical experience.

It is as though those shaping the domestic agenda of the government do not see the explicitly racial character of this problem, as if they do not understand the historical experiences that link, symbolically and sociologically, the current urban underclass to our long, painful legacy of racial trauma.

the negation of ideology, the political secularization of the doctrine of original sin, the cautious sentiment tempered by prudence, the product of organic, local human organization observing and reforming its customs, the distaste for a priori principle disassociated from historical experience, the partaking of the mysteries of free will, divine guidance, and human agency by existing in but not of the confusions of modern society, no framework of action, no tenet, no theory, and no article of faith, a distrust of the systems and processes of the idol of self and of the lust for power and status, scorn to all approaches of ideology and meta - narrative.

The historical experience of the technocracy by the people is not esoteric and abstract knowledge, but it is concrete and bodily experience of the people, individually and collectively.

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.

The role of religion in the lives of individuals and societies depends greatly upon personal and historical experiences and developments.

Historical experience and clear thinking indicate that, in that turning, the key dynamic is religion.

We know from historical experience that, when these communities are weakened or destroyed, individuals become abstract instruments of collective power and the way is opened to tyranny and totalitarian control.

What mattered most was the historical experience of Jews — the way they lived, played, and practiced their Judaism.

Nor does it seem to matter that the same charges have been massively refuted by historical experience since the 1830s, when, in response to the «common school» movement, explicitly Catholic and Protestant schools were established, to a similar chorus of warnings.

Groups like the Family Research Council continue to characterize religious liberty and equality for LGBT Americans as an either / or proposition, willfully misrepresenting our nation's historical experience and ignoring the realities of a nation of many faiths and beliefs that has dealt with such questions for centuries.

In fact, the very power of the gospel is revealed in its ability to keep pace with ongoing historical experience.

theological construction needs further reconsideration in the light of the historical experience of Dalits.

the figure of the garden important precisely because it points to women's historical experience, and so allows women to speak not only about faith but about what Katie Cannon calls our «blighted» history.

Other traditions offer ways of generating explorations into facets of Christianity illuminated by their historical experience.

By civil religion I refer to that religious dimension, found I think in the life of every people, through which it interprets its historical experience in the light of transcendent reality.

The second question is that of systematic theology proper: What systematic model, informed by the criteria determined for fundamental theological discourse, will allow a specific historical community of faith to articulate its particular vision of reality in a manner that makes it available for the wider community without being wrenched from its own historical experience?

American students of religion in society, including growing numbers of «good society» researchers, are discovering that they have international colleagues who bring fresh historical experiences and philosophical assumptions...

But we are speaking of a realm of meaning which is not bound by the categories of historical experience.

Further, historical experience shows the value of an executive having some prerogative to act beyond his strict authorization, in times of immediate opportunity (the Louisiana Purchase) or immediate danger (the perilous position of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War).

Revelation is given not in a vacuum but within particular historical experiences and reflections.

Her books remind us that when we are engaged in abstract, theoretical reflection we occasionally need to ground our thought in the particular and historical, and by that grounding to find out if our theories work; likewise, when we are caught in the flow of particular events and historical experiences, we need to pause long enough to consider where we are going, what all these particulars add up to.

He has at times exulted excessively in the craftiness entailed in the craft of leadership, but his argument is that the morality of policy must be tied to historical experience and possibility.

It has its own integrity and its distinctive source of insight in a particular historical experience.