Sentences with phrase «points of confusion in»

Probably one of the greatest points of confusion in credit scoring is all the different models that exist.

During their research — which involved careful study of the skulls and skins of related flying fox species in 8 different museums on 3 different continents — the researchers straightened out a second point of confusion in the scientific literature regarding these animals.

Not exact matches

Four years after Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation was enacted, the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has pledged to change it, in response to a parliamentary committee, which pointed to glaring flaws that were creating confusion for those trying to comply with the law.

The article quotes David E. Teitelbaum, Partner at Sidley Austin, as saying that the guidance will be «challenging» and Angela Angelovska - Wilson, Counsel at Latham & Watkins in Washington D.C. and a Member of the Finance Department and the Financial Regulatory Group, as explaining as others have how the guidance creates more confusion than it clarifies: the new definitions introduce ambiguities and where it seems to target Bitcoin it isn't clear if it affects programs offering «miles» or «points,» etc..

Assemblies decide little and often leave the churches in some confusion, but they are always taken as milestone events, reference points for organized «Ecumenism» and the cause of Christian unity.

As was pointed out in the Introduction, there is no confusion here between transubstantiation in the strict sense and the universal presence of the Word: as the author states explicitly in Le Pretre, «The central mystery of transubstantiation is aureoled by a divinization, real though attenuated, of all the universe.»

It seems to me that, though there is some confusion about it, the case of Camilo Torres is in point here.

Here's the confusion: Arkes proposes and defends the notion that natural law best accounts for our intuitions of equality and justice; Prof. Smolin responds by pointing out that people have believed evil things in the name of natural law.

Our confusion then may be caused, as the good Bishop Berkeley put it regarding another matter, that we «raise a dust and then complain we can not see»; yet it is also due at points to a real lack of consistency in what the records tell us Jesus taught.

Amidst the post-modern confusions, however, Australia is like the rest of the West in that the proponents of «marriage equality» are at the forefront of efforts to impose the dictatorship of relativism, in this instance from Perth to Sydney and at all points in between.

If there is confusion in the conception of the ministry today, whether only among those who once held to the ideal of the preacher or also among those who have maintained the ideal of the priest, that confusion appears at both points — in inability to define what the most important activity of the ministry is and in uncertainty about the proximate end toward which all its activities are directed.

Niebuhr summed up the sin of sensuality by pointing out three of its invariable characteristics: a self - defeating self - love, an attempt to escape the self by finding a god outside the self (in a person or process), and an attempt to escape from the confusion caused by sin into some form of subconscious existence.

The point here is that there still seems to be some confusion regarding where we should locate the study of Mary in Catholic theology.

My point in calling attention to use of the term «values» in Notre Dame documents is not to criticize the anonymous author of a public relations brochure, but rather to point out the depth of the confusion concerning ethics at Notre Dame today.

Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary, New York, in another article in the Christian Century entitled, «What Stanley Jones Missed at Madras» tried to answer the criticism of Jones.38 Van Dusen pointed out that Stanley Jones was guilty of an «elementary confusion of thought» in his discussion of Kingdom and Church.

But even if we do not forget that in the geometrical diagram «the t - line» is perpetually being extended by the continual forward motion of its terminal point, representing the present moment, the risk of serious confusions is hardly lessened.

I find he's a charming guy, who speaks his mind, and even though I think he misses the point of faith in Jesus (possibly because of all the confusion there is abou it).

Nevertheless, he does make a very valid point and he will get support from many who aren't in favour of it as it does lead to a great deal of confusion with the way it is currently used.

They've created a point of consumer confusion in an effort to drive profitability and sales.

Her hormones would have been creating a cocktail of self doubt, elation, panic and confusion at this point, and I'm assuming being casually told in passing that... View Post

At the same time, as Alexis de Tocqueville pointed out in the 19th century, democracies always look weaker than they really are: they are all confusion on the surface but have lots of hidden strengths.

«The purpose of the motion tonight is not only to make the point that this Chamber should be considered first and foremost in the minds of Ministers, but to be helpful to the Government so that the coalition sets a precedent by putting in place a set of procedures that will avoid the confusion that has obtained down the ages and, worryingly, has already been seen in the present Session.

Aside from minor technical issues and the point of confusion over identification, no police complaints or disruptions in the voting process were reported as of Tuesday afternoon.

«This finger - pointing, this confusion, can't be allowed to happen again,» Borge told the panel, reading from a statement that outlined his community's two - year struggle following the discovery of PFOA, or perfluorooctanoic acid, in the village's well system.

But exactly how the rocks move has puzzled geologists for half a century, and in recent years tourists have added to the confusion by placing additional rocks at the starting points of existing tracks.

Casti's claim that complexity is subjective is, therefore, beside the point, although he is right to point to the confusion that arises with the use of the same word «complex» in anecdotal and formalistic contexts.

You make an excellent point there is alot of confusion in the various terms.

I've not seen any type of «point / counterpoint» style posts by Dr. Greger and agree it would be nice to see the confusion addressed point by point as Dr. Hyman and some others have come out in a very Weston Price style support for saturated fats which flies in the face of all we've read about the dangers of animal fats.

This is a potential point of confusion, because if lauric acid is included we would say that coconut oil is 60 percent medium - chain fatty acids, when only 15 percent of its fatty acids would behave similarly to those found in MCT oil.

We run down some of our favourite abilities to give you some idea of what to aim for the first time you arrive at it clutching your ability points and blinking in confusion.

Level design has been adjusted slightly to help reduce confusion and in a major improvement you can now use healing wells to warp between various points of the map.

There are a few action sequences of shocking coherence in «Transformers: The Last Knight,» the fifth of Michael Bay's clang - clang - clang - went - the - robot adventures, but fear not, fans of the franchise: if you're here for the director's trademark chaos editing (where fights go from points A to D to Q), toxic masculinity (and female objectification), comedy scenes rendered tragic (and vice versa), and general full - volume confusion, you'll get all those things in abundance.

At one point Poirot abruptly reveals a fact that comes from so far out of left field that it destroys any fun the audience might have in playing along with clues — and confusion lingers throughout the rest of the film.

Monster presents something of a (poetically) flaccid, scattershot exclamation point for the calendar year 2003 that saw its best and worst films stricken by ennui, personal confusion, and a collective bedrock hopelessly in flux.

Although all teachers participated in workshops on creating and scoring portfolios, surveys of teachers and analysis of the portfolios and accompanying scores pointed to considerable confusion and inconsistencies in the way the portfolios were implemented.

In a telephone survey conducted during the summer of 2003, public school parents routinely expressed confusion over basic points of fact.

One of the biggest points of confusion I've seen evolve in recent years is how people use the word «responsive» when speaking about device - independent eLearning.

«In spite of my confidence in the Common Core as a starting point for an important conversation for what we expect of our students, the implementation has created confusion in many classrooms and in homes across New York State,» said Nick Lawrence, an 8th Grade Social Studies teacher and member of the paneIn spite of my confidence in the Common Core as a starting point for an important conversation for what we expect of our students, the implementation has created confusion in many classrooms and in homes across New York State,» said Nick Lawrence, an 8th Grade Social Studies teacher and member of the panein the Common Core as a starting point for an important conversation for what we expect of our students, the implementation has created confusion in many classrooms and in homes across New York State,» said Nick Lawrence, an 8th Grade Social Studies teacher and member of the panein many classrooms and in homes across New York State,» said Nick Lawrence, an 8th Grade Social Studies teacher and member of the panein homes across New York State,» said Nick Lawrence, an 8th Grade Social Studies teacher and member of the panel.

3 -2-1 is a catchy way to prompt students to express something they've learned: It can be used in many ways, such as asking students to define three new vocabulary words, use two of those words in sentences, and identify one lingering point of confusion.

Despite confusion over how much New York students are improving, New York City's small gains in proficiency (almost 5 percentage points in math and 1 percentage point in reading) appear to be real progress, experts say, because they mirror similar improvements on national tests (specifically the Trial Urban District Assessment portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RRB-.

Sorry to disillusion you again in your ongoing moment of confusion and lack of ESL skills but the fact is you hit all seven points on the head with each and every comment and reply you post proving you are nothing more than a vapid little troll with a less than meaningless life attempting to gain credibility by lying.

At this point, you're either shaking your head in agreement or scratching your head in confusion, so let's get into the nuts and bolts of what's happening underneath the Volt's sheet metal.

Bryn is on point in her description of the confusion and survival instincts of being a child in a chaotic, dysfunctional family, one has to wonder how much of it she personally survived.

That at least strikes me as the point of Christian publishing — you know, as opposed to using the Bible to speculate about the end times, sowing fear and confusion, and then cashing in by playing to the fears American culture attempts to medicate through entertainment and sleeping pills.

In a way, the hurt feelings and confusion caused by the two rooms situation might be a testament to the conviviality of the con up to that point.

Mike's right, there is sometimes a point of confusion for new authors when the «size» of their manuscript changes in physical size from the original word processor trim size of 8.5 x 11 to the more common book size of 8 × 5 or 6 × 9, and this change in size results in a greater number of pages for the final book (which affects the book's pricing).

Among other points, Rennison relates a confusion as to whether or not Americans wear knickers and an oddly impossible interpretation of the British title of the fifth book,... And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand.

And in her discussion of the options (and confusions), Friedman points up one of my favorite points of evolutionary energy in publishing today, the agent's role:

This adds one more level of confusion in the accounting process, especially since Bookscan numbers are supposed to be point of sale numbers.

I already wrote an in - depth post to help clear up some of the confusion, but I wanted to write a follow up post to specifically address this mortgage broker's points.