Sentences with phrase «practical value as»

This is doubly effective if the cost of purchases in the game is constantly increasing; this sort of inflation can cause a purchase of premium currency to seem like a great deal initially, only for it to rapidly decrease in practical value as the game proceeds.

My wife and I are flying Singapore early next year, so this review has practical value as well.

While this is all interesting, it is of no practical value as it does not describe how the plants are to be used.

June 16, 2017 - Along with its aesthetic function of helping create the glorious Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, the powerful magnetic field surrounding our planet has a fairly important practical value as well: It makes life possible.

The fact is that most chaotic motion is not, on limited average, utterly unlike regular or nearly regular behavior, and while this qualitative judgment is very difficult if not impossible to make into mathematically rigorous conclusions, its practical value as a perception is an important starting point for constructive results in the theory.

So taking care winsomely to underscore one's ecumenical bona fides has practical value as well as theological justification.

Not exact matches

For example, «honesty» as a value doesn't necessarily help employees make the most practical, day - to - day decisions.

People understand transactions as being a fair trade of value: Something costs me a certain amount of time, money or hassle, and I get some kind of practical or emotional value in return.

Think of Bitcoin, they say, as digital gold — a so - called «store of value» that, like the precious metal itself, doesn't need to have a lot of practical uses to be worth a lot of money.

Both the findings from the poll and a series of anecdotal interviews conducted with Vancouver - area youth alongside the survey reveal that younger millennials in particular take a very pragmatic approach to engaging Asia, which may mean taking a step back from the values - driven foreign policy of previous eras and toward a recognition of the practical economic necessity of trading with countries such as China.

But as useful an exercise creating buyer personas might be, it's something that has always felt a little nebulous — still once removed from yielding any practical value.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

Good old - fashioned practical value is also described as we love to share those genuine life hacks with our friends and family.

As a prerequisite, the disproportion between singular value (internal value from the item) and foreign value (value practical from an outward party) should be mentioned to be a becloud line.

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 contrast, today's guns, particularly handguns, have little practical value except as a weapon (their sporting use is the only exception).

Or indeed should we concentrate on teaching personal prayer, spirituality and devotion, or perhaps on practical Christianity through charitable works and the transformation of society with Catholic values, such as pro-life issues.

He was willing to settle for what he called «practical absolutes, «27 that is, visions of the mind or idealizations which, at any given time, had the value of an ultimate directive in decision or action, but which were clearly to be understood as being a piece with man's own nature and experience.

The values and imitative practices described in The Underside, inspiring as they may be to his character, Godefroid, are supported by only a tiny secret society whose practical effect on the marketplace of ideas of 19th - century Paris is nil.

Religion is envisioned not as a set of internalized values that influences an individual's moods and motivations but rather as a codified set of concepts and categories that is evident in discourse, reinforced by practical commitments, and advanced in institutional settings.

Singer speaks approvingly of Hans Vaihinger, who argued that ideas recognized as being theoretically untrue might nevertheless have practical value.

Their beauty, their contribution to the human spirit, as well as their more practical value for human needs are neglected if we speak only of their intrinsic value.

There are many beautiful thoughts and applications here as he sketches a Christian cosmology whose principles and values are at once scientific, practical, moral, aesthetic, and theological.

Referrals were usually from clergyman to mental health facility, and the information accompanying such referrals tended to flow one way, as if the clergymen bad little to offer of practical value to the mental health professional.

The consensus that will emerge embraces both practical education and general education, with the goals of the latter characterized as giving the student «the values, attitudes, and skills that will equip him to live rightly and well in a free society.»

Despite Hall's appeal to the Whiteheadian separation of «practical» and «speculative» reason, 11 I think that on a more fundamental level Whitehead too regards knowing (or more broadly the relation of any actual occasion to its «environment») as an active process in which the aim of the subject at its own attainment of value partially determines how it will respond to the objects of which it is aware.

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.

He views the metaphysical use of theistic models as important but subordinate to their practical use in focusing values and influencing life styles.

The practical value of this approach is that it readily appropriates and recontexualizes early Jesus groups to make them relevant as models for today's church.

Coles refers to these statistics as the «wallpaper factor» — religious leaders are «present, but decorative»; significant at a distance, but not of much practical value.

Judging people who indulge in (booze, food, or sex) as immoral has very little practical value.

• 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?

This will help them realise the practical monetary value of the toy, as opposed to a vague idea that it's just something mom or dad will replace in a flash if broken or misused.

These are good products, but we think the Graco Pack N Play with bassinet feature is more practical and offers better value, since it can be used later as a full size sleep solution and play yard!

The overarching question of the book therefore is: «Does the R2P norm as well as its founding values and practical applications, have resonance and grounding within diverse cultures and within societies that have been torn apart by mass atrocity crimes?»

Finally — there is very little credence in the political opinions of someone such as yourself who apparently reveres a «Machiavellian» political philosophy that focuses on «practical success by any means, even at the expense of traditional moral values» and is synonymous with deceit and manipulation.

At first most physicists regarded the Casimir force as a quantum oddity, something of no practical value.

Even then, the practical value could be less, as the estimate was based on extracting every bit of the metals.

In an era when research funding is scarce, these 11 ideas serve as a timely reminder of the value of pure science not only in terms of satisfying our curiosity, but ultimately for its endless practical uses.

There is an elegance to Dwork's approach that is almost as appealing as its practical value: After years of humans wasting time deleting spam from their in - boxes, the ultimate spam - blocking solution may turn out to be wasting the computer's time — on purpose.

Kiper and Martin agree that their research does not have immediate practical value but note that it seeks an improved understanding of the brain — a foundation, they say, that is essential for tackling clinical conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

«Everyone — Europeans and the rest of the world alike — will rightly see this decision as the European Commission downgrading both the practical and the symbolic value of science in Europe,» said Imran Khan, chief executive of the British Science Association.

Surreal indeed, but so general as to be of little practical value.

An idea is judged as good by virtue of its contribution to the collective, whether it adds practical, artistic or intellectual value to our experience.

Rudder dismissed the idea as «of little practical value.»

The winners in the product categories, who will be announced on 21 March, can be seen as exemplary companies with practical products that are fit for purpose and provide real value for money.»

Finally, as with all written documentation, it must be reviewed regularly to ensure that it is still practical and fit for purpose, taking into account: the ethos of the school, its values and the boundaries of acceptable behaviour; the school's moral code; positive and constructive rules of conduct, and the rewards and punishments, which must be fairly and consistently applied.

Additionally, UKAD will run termly workshops for both students and boarding house parents to promote better engagement with clean sport values and existing practical support for young athletes in areas such as nutrition, physiotherapy and strength and conditioning.

Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise, through pupils moving around the room, are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they'll easily remember when they're thinking about graphs and gradients.

This stretching of the cognitive envelope means that we must value creative thinking and practical problem solving and interpersonal skill as on par with math and reading.