Sentences with phrase «practical value in»

The other key element in Combs» 2007 plan is to convey to NAR members the practical value in answering calls to action on federal issues that would benefit their bottom line and the industry as a whole.

Easy to read, each article offers practical value in an engaging manner.

At the report's launch Mr Justice Sullivan, who chaired the working group, said: «While the Administrative Court is capable of dealing effectively with environmental law challenges, that is of limited practical value in protecting the environment if only the very rich or the very poor can afford to use the court's procedures.»

(15) has great practical value in astrophysical applications.

I think the GCMs have some practical value in supporting weather forecasts where they can extrapolate and interpolate amongst real observations of existing features for a few days ahead.

Also, although there is no practical value in trying to ascertain the color of crows by virtue of seeing a red tulip, the principle involves Bayesian reasoning that has substantial practical applicability in science — i.e., the notion that probabilities change on the basis of observed data, even when the changes are too small to be obvious.

Easy to read, each article offers practical value in an engaging manner.

However, that will only provide you with enhanced visual appeal but has very little practical value in real world driving conditions.

There remains more practical value in his «taxonomy» of forty - nine teaching techniques than in four years of most ed schools.

It is very inspiring to see how learning Torah has a practical value in everyday living for people with their feet well planted on the ground, be they Ashes 2017: Pat Cummins set to borrow from Mitchell Johnson blueprint

It seems I was spending hours reading paper after paper reporting an endless stream of animal studies on this connection that, to me, have little or no practical value in terms of addressing the needs of patients suffering from behavioral or neurodegenerative disorders.

It seems to me that the reason he is neglected is that» even though he has many things of value to say that are radical in the sense of getting to the root of the matter» he often goes too far (is «radical») in the sense of reaching conclusions that are too extreme in fact and that lose their practical value in application.

Wieman believed that the consequent nature of God had been «added on like dome and spire» — lacking both empirical support and practical value in the search for the sources of human good.

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So let's be practical for a moment and discuss the sort of behavior we consistently value in our most cherished leaders.

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.

Satellite TV provider Dish said in a statement that it was not practical for it to submit a revised offer by the June 18 deadline imposed by Sprint even though it «continues to see strategic value in a merger with Sprint.»

So you can track mangoes from farm to the Walmart store, for example, a great, in my opinion, practical example of how blockchain added value.

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.

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.

He was, however, well aware of a Lemann maxim, one of 20 laid out in a document distributed to Garantia executives: «Innovations that create value are useful, but copying what works well is more practical.»

In this two - day event, you'll hear from successful IT executives about practical, real world strategies they have used to create business value.

In practical terms, arbitrage funds seek spreads between the current price of stocks and their forward value reflected in a futures contracIn practical terms, arbitrage funds seek spreads between the current price of stocks and their forward value reflected in a futures contracin a futures contract.

In addition to its practical value, it is also an interesting educational tool.

There is no practical tool that helps business people map, think through, discuss, test, and pivot their company's value proposition in relationship to their customers» needs.

This book is well worth reading by both financial industry insiders and potential clients since Chris Turnbull, a portfolio manager at TheIndexHouse uses the principles and approaches described in the book, showing a practical way to deliver the high value components of what clients need.

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.

A Christian was to glorify God and serve Him through participating in activities of practical value to his community.

With Christianity, although the reincarnation aspect seems to have purposefully removed so that people do not become «lazy» in search of God in this life time, the practical and strict rules governing functions in this life (hard work to lead a prosperous life, improving moral values, etc) are appealing.

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

In these letters, we explored our values and all the day - to - day practical concerns that, if left unresolved, could trigger domestic wars, potentially break a marriage, and kill the sparkle and warm blush of romantic love.

Recently, Singer repeated this assertion in an interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and cognitive disabilities have less value than animals with higher capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):

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.

From Peirce's claim that we can make our ideas clear by considering their conceivable practical effects, to James's notion of truth's cash value in experiential terms, to Dewey's own view of the practical character of reality, the message seems to be that philosophy has more to offer than a therapeutic stance toward social issues and a rhetorical presentation of new suggestions.

Even putting aside our deep - seated commitment to the principle of religious liberty in general, we believe that enactment of RFRA is of particular importance» practical, nonspeculative, immediate, legal importance» to the pro-life, traditional values movement.

Presentational immediacy, in addition to its practical value, has the aesthetic value of a vivid qualitative display.

Our day - to - day pragmatic so - called «value - neutral» decisions are ranked in importance by the practical needs of such a world.

In other words, he could not avoid practical judgments of greater and lesser value.

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.

For the practical realization of a world order based on such objectives it is necessary that there be a change in the values by which human beings are inspired and motivated and structures by which they are governed.

The Greeks knew they had something of value and kept asserting it in their declining circles, while they looked down the slopes at the practical, militant Romans who knew how to run the show.

From an early engrossment in practical ends it was compelled by force of circumstance to consider wider implications and values.

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.

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.»

Humane liberal arts and practical approaches might be in competition, with the pragmatic gaining ground, yet most American educators agreed that there ought to be an integrative consensus of democratic values.

It is urgent that these values are now translated into practical policies that will reduce the economic inequalities in our world, bring relief to the very poor, protect the environment and reduce the dangers of violence and terrorism.

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.

The remarkable ethical point about Wang Yang - ming was that in his vigorous and active life he continually kept his immediate practical concerns in contact with his metaphysical tradition concerning value.

Since part of the practical function of reason is to effect our survival, and since in employing the second survival strategy reason becomes «the emphasis upon novelty» (FR 20), it is easy to understand how someone in a basically conserving society would value up novelty and future - oriented behavior to the seeming exclusion of order and the preservation of the past via efficient causation (feelings of «causal efficacy»).

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.