Sentences with phrase «points of difference among»

Promoting the trademark and REALTORS ®» adherence to a Code of Ethics as points of difference among practitioners through national advertising campaign 10.

To this end we must first survey, necessarily briefly, the major codes of law in the Old Testament, their superficial characteristics, the general qualities which they hold in common particularly as against other extrabiblical codes, points of difference among the three major earlier codes, the ethical qualities and content of these three, and finally the central theological motivation of all Old Testament law.

A survey, necessarily brief, of the major codes of law in the Old Testament, their superficial characteristics, the general qualities which they hold in common particularly as against other extrabiblical codes, points of difference among the three major earlier codes, the ethical qualities and content of these three, and finally the central theological motivation of all Old Testament law.

Another point of difference among the proponents of globalization concerns whether the global materials are «integrated» into the presentation of domestic doctrine, or are treated as «supplemental» topics that are added to domestic coverage.31 Once again, there are arguments for both approaches.

Not exact matches

The various tendencies among the Sunnis have often led to differences in point of view, but not to the creation of new sects.

In regard to the comparatively minor moralities of life, there is a wide difference among men, but the thief who rejects Christ and the honest man who rejects Christ are alike condemned at the great point of what they do with God's Son, and this is the point that the Holy Spirit presses home.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The point is not to be arbitrary about definitions, however, but rather to reveal the following theoretical issue: All three kinds of ideologies in Table have been called civil religions, but there are obvious differences among them.

For example, among traditionalist evangelicals, men gave 85 percent of their vote to Dole, compared with 64 percent for women, a twenty - one point difference; comparable figures for traditionalist Catholics were 58 and 47 percent, respectively.

Nevertheless the main point, — the settlement in Malabar a considerable colony of Syrians - may well be true; and granted this, it is not unnatural that there should have been a difference of practice among the settlers in the matter of inter-marriage with Indians, leading to a permanent social distinction.

I will point out four topics upon which there are differences among the three men, and upon which one or more of them is in disagreement with Whitehead: (1) The use and meaning of «panpsychism»; (2) the mind - brain relation; (3) freedom and determinism; (4) philosophy and science.

They also rewrote a raft of other single - season top - flight records, among them the longest winning sequence in a season (14), the best start (eight wins), the most away wins (14 by early May), the longest spell without conceding a goal at the start of a season (495 minutes) and the biggest goal - difference (+76, with three games to go), not to mention the most points and the most wins.

Breastfeeding initiation rates were significantly lower among black infants in 23 states; in 14 of these states, the difference was at least 15 percentage points.

Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.

The Con - Lab lead among BES respondents in the four southern most regions of England was 6 points, but that in the northern three regions of England was -22, a difference of 28 points.

Similarly the Con - Lab lead among those over 65 was 4 points but -6 among those under 30; a difference of 10.

Areas of «natural dung accumulation,» where animals hung out, would have provided «patches of superfertile ground that early crops would have colonized,» she points out, adding that «subsistence farmers are extremely observant of small differences in growth and productivity among their plots.»

Tukey - Kramer's test was performed to examine the significant difference in the relative expression of Acks among the time points using JMP software (SAS, Cary, NC).

Strikingly the pattern of hotspot used varied among individuals, but seemed to be passed on from generation to generation — a heritable difference potentially pointing to differences in the recombination machinery among individuals.

Taking into account the small differences in the accrual of person - years among the three groups, the respective rates of the primary end point were 8.1, 8.0, and 11.2 per 1000 person - years (Table 3).

«The major differences in the incidence of cancers among different countries, between the sexes, among population groups within each country, and between migrant and native populations, as well as time trends, point to environmental factors as explaining such variances.»

Evaluations of any educational technology program often confront a number of methodological problems, including the need for measures other than standardized achievement tests, differences among students in the opportunity to learn, and differences in starting points and program implementation.

A larger difference of 20 percentage points separates the uninformed (51 %) and the informed respondents (31 %) among Republicans.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

The state does not hand out awards based on decimal - point differences among schools; officials reward a previously set percentage of top - ranking schools.

The differences in reported levels of satisfaction between charter and assigned - district schools are wider among Asian and white families, too: for assigned - district schools, the difference is 16 percentage points for Asian families and 9 for white families, compared to a statistically insignificant 6 percentage points and 5 percentage points for African American and Hispanic parents, respectively.

Among high school applicants, charter lottery winners are more likely to switch schools than losers, a marginally significant difference of 5 — 6 percentage points.

Regarding their second point of investigation, they found «stark differences in instructional practices across districts among teachers who received similar within - district value - added rankings» (p. 324).

It is not a conclusive writing on any one type of alternative; rather, it is intended to provide an initial window for seeing the similarities and differences among alternatives while pointing teachers and parents toward other resources for further exploration, making it possible to find (or create) educational alternatives in your own communities that best match your evolving beliefs and core values.

Where I can still picture and, more importantly, kind of understand the distinctions between a G, M, Q, JX and QX, etc., Infiniti's new nomenclature is utterly devoid of an anchoring point, a spot among all the alphanumeric mumbo - jumbo to plant your feet and mentally measure the relative physical and metaphysical, if you will, differences between segments.

The titles below are grouped in sets of three, by geographical area, so that teachers using them in classrooms can guide students to see points of similarity and difference among stories of children from one region of the world.

Assuming what people thinks makes any difference — I've seen estimates that this thing may have cost Amazon something like 5 - 10 % of book sales among certain demographics who don't like what Amazon is doing, which is not nothing, if not exactly crippling — if Hachette is standing on the «we care about authors» moral high ground, Amazon is pretty much duty bound to point out why they are the ones who should be viewed as the Author's Friend.

The Kitchen L.A.B. (its acronym stands for «language,» «art,» «bodies») invites artists to unpack such ambiguous vocabularies in contemporary art by responding to them both in conversation and artworks, creating hybrid events — and, over time, hybrid audiences — that underline not only points of commonality among disciplines but also, as important, real differences.

The one point that I see as unassailable is that a UK contribution, by itself, can not make much difference to global climate change mitigation, and must be considered in the context of a global strategy shared among all energy - consuming nations.

The differences between a relatively low perception of the climate challenge and public willingness to do something about it are even greater in other nations: in Israel (56 points) and Ukraine (48 points), countries which are not among the top 20 CO2 emitters, and in Poland (44 points) and South Korea (41 points), which are.

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

Brian Gover, the chair of the Advocates» Society task force on civil trials, says that although there were differences of opinion on minor points, there was strong agreement among the various parts of the bar on what needs to change.

Why is there no real difference among the graduates of schools at different points on the pedigree pole?

At a press event in New York City, Samsung officially launched its bright - screened Galaxy S smartphone among a whopping six US carriers, adding Cellular South to the list of known cellular service providers and pointing to similarities and differences between versions of the Android OS phone to be offered by Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T - Mobile.

Notable points asked of and addressed by the witnesses included the need for security and investor compliance for U.S. cryptocurrency exchanges; the need (or in Rosenblum's case, lack thereof) for regulators to distinguish the difference between cryptocurrencies that are considered digitally scarce commodities and securities tokens; the need to establish a harmonization among the «patchwork» of regulatory agencies dictating how to move forward; and the policing of cryptocurrencies, all in such a way that won't stifle domestic innovation by forcing investors and businesses to leave the country.

If it can achieve widespread adoption not only among the cryptocurrency community but also in mainstream society, there may be potential for growth, and it does offer a few key points of difference when compared to bitcoin.

«Staff splitting,» as mentioned earlier, is a much - discussed phenomenon in which professionals treating borderline patients begin arguing and fighting about a patient, the treatment plan, or the behavior of the other professionals with the patient... arguments among staff members and differences in points of view, traditionally associated with staff splitting, are seen as failures in synthesis and interpersonal process among the staff rather than as a patient's problem... Therapist disagreements over a patient are treated as potentially equally valid poles of a dialectic.