Sentences with phrase «point against which»

The novel suggestion was that the science of keeping the planet to 2 degrees created a new «baseline» reference point against which all future fossil fuel projects could be tested.

We partnered with AVA Direct to create the Exemplar Ultimate, our high - end VR hardware reference point against which we perform our tests and reviews.

Tests for pupils at the beginning of school, known as «baseline tests», were intended as a starting point against which to measure progress through primary school.

The test is intended to provide a starting point against which to measure future progress through primary schools.

First, they measured the activity of genes in young adults as a reference point against which to monitor the aging process.

Here is an important detail: The starting point against which those gains will be measured isn't the fund's actual net asset value on March 31, but rather the deeply discounted price the new buyers are paying..

Not exact matches

The S&P / TSX composite index was up 17.31 points to 12,757.81 as investors wondered if the United States will end up leading a military strike against Syria, which it accuses of using poison gas against its own civilian population.

Rivals have pointed out that Trump's clothing is manufactured in China and Mexico, for example, which seemingly goes against his pro-American rally call.

In the daily games, participants pay to compete for cash prizes against others in online leagues based on imaginary teams assembled from rosters of real players, which accumulate points based on how those players perform in actual games.

The co-founder and partner of Retail Advisors Network points out that Leon's desired market positioning pits it against furniture companies such as CB2 and EQ3, which already have proven track records of selling exquisite products that stoke envy among house guests.

But he implied that it would be patriotic for private Russian citizens to «start making contributions — which are right, from their point of view — to the fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

Spending and revenue targets set in the annual budget resolution are enforced by points of order, which any member of Congress may raise against legislation that is inconsistent with those targets.

The biggest tax cut was the two point cut in the GST, which every economist recommended against.

They pointed to President George W. Bush's tariffs on steel imports in 2002, which were rescinded after fewer than two years when the World Trade Organization came out against them.

There is also the crucial point that incomplete regulation which discriminates against banks in favor shadow banks may by undermine financial stability in two ways.

While oil prices are currently at a six - and - a-half-year low, Kazakhstan is also feeling the pinch from the tumbling Russian ruble, which has reached its lowest point against the dollar in six months.

And, while GDPR advocates have pointed to the lobbying Google and Facebook have done against the law as evidence that it will be effective, that is to completely miss the point: of course neither company wants to incur the costs entailed in such significant regulation, which will absolutely restrict the amount of information they can collect.

I agree with your points against muni's and corporate bonds for ladders though — in terms of expense and risk, which is why I avoid them.

I compared all the ESeries against the equivalent mututal index fund and the normal funds are all one point lower which makes since given the higher MER.

To help illustrate this point, I present the «Investment Opportunity Schedule» in Exhibit 1, which plots the number of investment opportunities against the level of potential return for each opportunity.

After reporters pointed it out, YouTube removed the video for violating its policy against harassment, which was updated last year to include «hoax videos that target the victims» of breaking news tragedies.

If you read this, I forgot to mention leverage in the above video as well which is another massive negative point against Forex.

The full truth is that I have nothing against trend lines, and yes I understand that there are «objective» methods out there detailing the «correct» method for choosing which two points to connect to draw a proper trend line (DeMark, Magee, I think Pring to name a few).

Business centres should point out to clients that they have certain assurances in place, which protects against any nasty surprises.

That was the whole point — that one could be driven to revolutionary action by standards of justice that are higher than the law, and against which the law is judged.

But that is neither here nor there with respect to Smith's main point, which is to propose, against the innumerable «spiritualities» with which we are culturally inundated, that ultimate wisdom and human flourishing are to be discovered in the historically grounded and communally normative religious traditions of the world.

Mason somewhat artificially narrows «the ordinary concept (or interpretation) of time» against which ecstatic - horizonal temporality is counterposed to the point - set interpretation of the time - continuum required by Newtonian mathematical mechanics.

On this properly ontological level of this originally Aristotelian treatment, which Mason does not seem to put in question, Heidegger would point out a naive and inexplicit» commitment to disclosedness against the horizon of ecstatic - temporal presence (Anwesenheit, parousia)-- which is something very different from believing in the «instantaneous now.»

In addition to his advice to the young ruler, there was his clear injunction to store up treasure not on earth but only in heaven, his rather pointed remarks on the impossibility of dual service to both God and Mammon, his parable about the rich man and Lazarus (which was not, I think we can grant, merely a warning against dissipation), and so on.

What we are pointing out is that every deep personal relationship is set in a context where each person is continually being moved to turn his attention to the reality which stands over against and between the persons.

All of them use the current values of secular society as the point of reference against which to present the moral teachings of the Catholic faith.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

I would also limit the term «shepherding» to those situations in which it is possible for the minister to concentrate on the healing, sustaining, or guiding of the person or persons, rather than having primarily, at that point, to protect the interest of the group or the institution as perhaps against that of the person.

From the Jewish point of view, the church's claim is one more example of the nations» protest against the election of the stock of Abraham, which Israel must repudiate as a rebellion against God's word.

Sherburne tends, in his argument against regional inclusion, to quote passages in which Whitehead is making the point that when the region of an actual occasion is divided the subregions correspond to its physical feelings but that these physical feelings are not actual occasions capable of independent existence.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

From the point of view which we have been developing it becomes apparent that the citizens of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. need each other in order to play out their despair; they need to have a scapegoat against which to battle in order to fortify their precarious sphere of existence.

The real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

And what point does James Barr score against the canonical method by telling us (in the text, not the notes) that Childs» indices are so poor that «the name of Karl Barth (or, indeed, my own) is cited in the text at numerous places which have been overlooked in the index»?

The real conflict for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the lived concrete — to the immediacy of real meeting with the beings over against one.

The Decade has pointed this out repeatedly to the churches - first that the veneer of silence with which violence against women is dealt with is a moral failure of the Church and secondly that outrageous biblical and theological legitimizations of violence, calling into question the authority and power of the church, as a moral community.

Over against the wide gate and easy way to destruction, followed by many, Jesus points to the narrow gate and hard way to life, which few find.

Case in point: The attempted assassination against Pope John Paul II a few decades ago, which is what prompted the Popemobile in the first place.

He rightly cautions against the excessive politicizing of religion, which has reached the point where people choose their church on the basis of their social or political views.

This was the point of Pope Pius XI's encyclical of 1928, Mortalium Animos, in which he warned against «pan-Christianity,» fearful that this would lead to a vapid faith, absent distinctively Catholic dimensions.

One of the reasons why I am so insistent on this point is that the Church is up against very powerful social influences which promote the «values» of the «sexual revolution», undermining the capacity for young Catholics, and young people generally, to hear and receive the teaching of the Church.

A rallying point for the fight against MTR has been Marsh Fork Elementary, which sits immediately below an enormous slurry impoundment.

The point is, our first glimpses into a patriarchal society, even one in which Yahweh is God, reveal inequity and violence against women.

Against sacralism, liberation theologians point to the many ideological distortions of Christian faith to legitimate dominative power - complexes and value - conflicts in which that faith is used to victimize the poor, women, non-European races, the environment, and the defenseless.