If «prediction» has
a precise meaning in science, then someone should explain it to Kevin Trenberth and the IPCC.
Activities focus on increase understanding of how Tier 1 and Tier 2 vocabulary are used to convey
precise meaning in speaking and writing.
Corruption is a great word, a political word with
a precise meaning in eighteenth - century discourse even though its use has become narrowed and debased with us.
If he insists on speaking of values, it is clear that he does so deliberately, with a most
precise meaning in mind.
Not exact matches
NameLab's team created the name Acura from «Acu,» a word segment that
means «
precise»
in many languages.
Central to this Court - led revolution is the idea that the Constitution is
in a state of more or less perpetual evolution, whence it follows that judges need not be bound by the
precise words of the document, or by prior precedent, or by settled historical
meaning.
Finally, I'm uncomfortable with your use of the term «chaos theory», but that's because it has a
precise mathematical
meaning in my household.
Hartshorne connects the ideas of relative and absolute
in the act of knowing: «Unrestricted or literal relativity; so far from being the mere de facto character of our inferior human knowledge, is rather the
precise ideal of knowledge
in its most absolute
meaning» (DR 10).
Marking the 75th anniversary of the infamous Buck v. Bell case endorsing forced sterilization,
in which Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. declared «three generations of imbeciles is enough,» the laboratory assures us that the new, more
precise science of genetics
means that «no human lineage is without hope.»
Hausman: That would be included
in what I
mean by «law» but a more generic notion of it — not a
precise repetition, necessarily, but regularity.
The way similar references are made
in contemporary documents leaves one wondering sometimes how far those who quoted prophetic texts
meant that the
precise fulfillments they saw or expected were intended by the prophets themselves.
However, this does not
mean that nothing can be said to clarify and render more
precise the particular way
in which one chooses to use these terms, for here one finds real and significant variety.
The word «see»
in these contexts has a
precise meaning: «he who sees me sees him who sent me» (Jn.
Such a phrase would lack
precise meaning, as each entity would comprise its own time - frame of reference and exist
in a forced «solipsism of the present moment,»
in Santayana's famous phrase.
Thus «x» is any propositional function with individuals for its arguments, «(x) x»
means «there exists some individual
in the universal domain that has the property».4 At the lowest level
in the theory of types there are individuals — a, b, c, d,... n, but the
precise identification of the individuals is left open since the system of logic was only to be used as a foundation for pure mathematics.
It is well - known that
in scholastic philosophy the
precise meaning of the concept of concursus (as physical and immediate) is disputed.
If this divine causality is insisted upon
in the official teaching of the Church
in the
precise case of the origin of the human soul, that does not of course
mean that a divine causality of that kind is found nowhere else.
Because the death of Jesus on the cross was the very fact that sparked off the development which led to the Easter message, it came to determine the more
precise meaning of the exaltation of Jesus
in a way that had no parallel
in the tradition of Elijah, for he was thought never to have died.
Consequently no statement can be made about anything
in him, about one component
in the plurality of his essential constitution, which can be quite without significance for the rest of him, nor could any statement be adequate even
in a limited way, unless its actual
precise meaning were drawn from its relation to the one human being
in his unity.
Essentially two dimensional, allegory moves without variation from the plane of the narrative to the plane of the allegorical
meaning in an interrelationship that must be patterned,
precise.
We tend to repeat customary actions unaware that when we do today what we did yesterday we actually do something different since
in the interval both we and our environment have changed; unaware also that we now do without conscious definition of purpose and method what was done yesterday with specific ends
in view and by relatively
precise means.
We may show, from extensions of Turing's proofs regarding the halting problem, that no effective well defined procedure, no
precise axiom system, no metaphysical system, or no clear
means whatsoever, can ever describe accurately and completely any individual thing or event
in the real world.
Persecution
in the early Church often
meant that Christian writings had to be kept short and
precise.
Buchler often uses language to evoke a rich texture of
meanings, rather than to offer a single
precise definition for any concept or idea.16 (This style is more prevalent
in the works on human process than
in MNC.)
Since none of them seems to have paid much attention to the strict and historically
precise technical description of what I (along with traditional economic historians)
mean by «capitalism,» and all seem to confuse the concept (
in good American libertarian fashion) with any sort of trade or barter
in general, I can only recommend that they return to the original article and read the passages they apparently skimmed over the first time.
To say that a symbol has a «history» can
mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a
precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered
in all the cultures where it is found.
The
precise meaning of the Kingdom is still being investigated by biblical scholars, but we can confidently say that its significance is at least partially grasped
in terms of two other prominent biblical themes: justice and liberation.
The
precise meaning of the rites is unclear, and we do not know that
in the first century of our era they were regarded as conferring immortality or as involving dying and rising with the god involved.
«
In food production, the «sorting and cleaning» stage for raw materials is by no
means a
precise science» explains Global Product Manager Inspection Michael Zabawski from Minebea Intec.
In the United States, most commercial habanero seeds are generic (meaning that their precise origin is not specified), although some varieties such as «Red Savina» are appearing in seed catalog
In the United States, most commercial habanero seeds are generic (
meaning that their
precise origin is not specified), although some varieties such as «Red Savina» are appearing
in seed catalog
in seed catalogs.
«
In food production, the «sorting and cleaning» stage for raw materials is by no
means a
precise science» explains Global Product Manager Michael Zabawski from Minebea Intec Aachen.
REALLY??? Am I
meant to keep track of the
precise quantities of every item of food or drink
in the entire house?
In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunc
In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students
in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunc
in this country — 51 percent, to be
precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff,
meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.
In York's «Evening Press» newspaper of 12 April 2005, Maroney claimed it was «for selling loony merchandise against Electoral Commission rules»: to be
precise the OMRLP's Financial Scheme as registered with the Electoral Commission, which
meant any Branch of the OMRLP taking money on the party's behalf would be breaching the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 Part 2.
The words
in themselves are not pointless as they have a
precise meaning but they may have become useless
in common usage as some people have never experienced these ideologies.
In an interview with The Alt in mid-November, Rensselaer County Undersheriff Ed Bly said that the office «isn't gonna enter into any agreement with anyone that's gonna cost us a lot of money,» though he did not provide more precise information when we asked about the meaning of «a lot.&raqu
In an interview with The Alt
in mid-November, Rensselaer County Undersheriff Ed Bly said that the office «isn't gonna enter into any agreement with anyone that's gonna cost us a lot of money,» though he did not provide more precise information when we asked about the meaning of «a lot.&raqu
in mid-November, Rensselaer County Undersheriff Ed Bly said that the office «isn't gonna enter into any agreement with anyone that's gonna cost us a lot of money,» though he did not provide more
precise information when we asked about the
meaning of «a lot.»
They then argue that «By creating a financial incentive for embryonic stem cell research — an incentive that by NIH's own admission involves investments of «hundreds of millions of dollars» — and by specifying the
precise means by which embryos must be destroyed
in order to qualify for federal funding, the NIH necessarily and knowingly subjects embryos to a substantial risk of injury or death.»
This
means many heart patients could end up getting less -
precise stress tests, or more invasive, riskier and more costly heart imaging instead, according to University of Michigan Medical School research recently published
in JAMA Cardiology.
Her lean has a
precise meaning, signaling that she wants to get
in an aside before finishing her tale.
Each strain of phage is highly targeted and has evolved to home
in on specific bacteria, which
means a
precise match between prey and predator is necessary for any phage - based treatment to be effective.
Usually, it takes a nose to smell, but now — for the first time — scientists have developed a convincing model able to measure odours from pig farms by
means of
precise measurements of the content of odorants
in the atmosphere.
From those perfect alignments researchers could identify the
precise location and function of the most conserved residues
in the alignment,
meaning the proteins that have stayed the same for the longest period of time.
Urban space is on the verge of an explosion
in its address types and locations:
precise GPS coordinates, RFID - triangulation beacons and even simple machine - readable numbers emblazoned on rooftops will
mean that one building might soon contain dozens of addresses and locations.
The nucleus accumbens is recognized as an integration centre for signals coming from many different brain regions, but the
precise role of the different connections, and the
means of their integration, resulting
in specific behaviours, was until recently impossible to dissect.
With our
precise measurement technology, there are fewer problems
in upscaling the volumes, which
means switching from small test reactors
in the laboratory to large ones
in the production hall.»
Advances
in brain imaging techniques
mean we are now able to pinpoint the
precise brain regions involved
in the near - miss effect and identify how they interact with people's vulnerability to problem gambling.»
Researchers created artificial spin ice as a
means to investigate complex magnetism and the related physics
in a material that could be tailored to
precise specifications and imaged directly.
Botstein and Davis» landmark conceptual breakthrough, published
in 1980, gave researchers the tools to trace and map out the genetic inheritance of disease
in humans, while Hogness» work provided the
means of identifying the
precise physical location of genes of interest on chromosomes.
I should have been more
precise when I
meant no increase of maximum lifespan
in elders but only young.
The glass has «zero expansion» properties,
meaning it retains its
precise figure irrespective of changes
in temperature.