Sentences with phrase «practical value of»

In Women on Wheels I considered bike sharing to be city cycling's «gateway goodness,» i.e. a super effective method that eases the biking uninitiated into the pleasures and practical value of biking in cities.

(JD Ohio has often commented on the practical value of showing a judge what kind of person your opponent is, when you have a proper vehicle for doing so.

• Game Developers Conference (Rapid - Fire Indies): Spoke on the practical value of design constraints

To prove the practical value of the skills you have picked up in this guide, let's take a look at the two examples below.

Apart from the practical value of providing your kid with an alternative to cash, if only for emergencies, a credit card in their name will allow them to begin building a credit record that could eventually facilitate getting student and car loans, a mortgage, and more.

Not everyone at the AAAS meeting, however, was impressed by the practical value of a human rights approach.

The practical value of finding dark matter would probably be minimal, he admits.

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.

The practical value of this philosophy of personhood and of therapy depends, of course, on how it is implemented in actually doing therapy.

But such conviction being a mere casual offshoot of the faith - state, it is a gross error to imagine that the chief practical value of the faith - state is its power to stamp with the seal of reality certain particular theological conceptions.

Accompanied — almost drowned out — by the kids» rock band, the words point out the practical value of the recommended behavior, rather than exhorting.

I suspect that there is a mathematical model that can be used to demonstrate the practical value of belief... of faith.

Not exact matches

They are Social Currency (e.g., sharing things that make people look good), Triggers (acknowledging that we talk about things that are top - of - mind), Emotion, Public (imitating what we see others do), Practical Value (news people can use) and Stories (information passed along under the guise of idle chitchat).

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.

While thought provoking, the real value of the book comes from the practical, templated framework the authors provide for designing your own category that includes a clear articulation of the problem at hand, creating a memorable name for a category, and developing a unique point of view about the current and future of the category.

Sure, the school of hard knocks has value, and there are those who can gain a lot through more practical learning.

Do you think these sorts of personality systems are actually useful or are you skeptical that they have much practical value?

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.

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.

Here you can find a number of useful and interesting articles about practical and ecological values of Rubbermaid products.

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.

Showcasing dozens of practical examples of successful companies doing well by doing good ranging from solo entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 global corporations) anyone with the responsibility for any manner of commerce can learn how to heal the world while gaining the practical marketing savvy to turn ethical and moral values into business success.

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

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.

Over and against the excessive value that modern thought places on the practical and the useful, Schall defends the importance of leisure.

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.

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.

Not only does this have practical value at a time when family members may not have the time or energy to fix meals but it also has a profound symbolic meaning on the level of feeding and nurturing.

But practical partnership does not require endorsing all of the goals or values of those with whom we partner.

The practical challenge faced by those who wish to evangelise contemporary culture through the way of beauty is to envision how it might effectively challenge and transform secular values and ways of understanding.

Firstly, we understand our actions to have absolute moral value, above and beyond their practical usefulness, and irrespective of whether we get found out!

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):

Practical partnership does not require endorsing all of the goals or values of those with whom we partner.

This, however, is to impoverish attempts to bring spiritual and moral values to bear on both national and world society, because practical action needs to flow from the life of the spirit.

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.

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.

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.

It is a mistake of tactics because the protections of the Act are of immediate practical importance to the traditional values movement.

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.

This conclusion also leads to a more general point about the nature of culture that is consistent with the previously mentioned criticism leveled by Zaret against the idea of abstract values legitimating practical ethics.

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.