Sentences with phrase «precise terms which»

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In a 1989 interview published in the same issue of the Hastings Center Report in which Kass's tribute appears, Jonas said that his purpose was to examine «in precise philosophical and metaphysical terms the ultimate bases of morality and human destiny.»

Aristotle works out in precise, technical terms the relationships I have just roughly sketched, and does it in terms of two careful definitions which he has already provided in Chapter 2.

We present it here not because it is mathematically precise, but because it addresses in simple terms the mathematics of An Introduction to Mathematics, which as we have said is that kind of mathematics contained in contemporary college calculus courses.

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.

So maybe if we want to communicate the message of Jesus we have to get away from archaic terms like gospel which have become traditional» buzz words «or theological jargon devoid of precise meaning and make anew the original intent which was about an announcement of the coming of God's Kingdom and all that that implies.

49 Both text and interpreter have been called into question in terms of the answer they have given to the questionableness of existence, which has been given precise form by the text and by our interest in the text.

«We don't just look at total soil organic carbon, but also the components of soil that have stable pools of carbon — humic substances, which gives us a much more accurate and precise view of the stable, long - term storage of carbon in the soils.»

With regard to its whisky bottles, Diageo already had a very precise idea in mind, which - in terms of implementation on IS machines - proved to be rather problematic.

The term 7 - footer is itself a kind of outer limit, a far - off threshold beyond which precise measurement seems superfluous.

Where previous estimates were drawn from a range of mostly long - run models that looked at century - long changes, we instead focused on a precise definition and current starting point, and other factors which matter far less in the long term, but a lot if the goal is much closer.

Kalnay and Cai developed a more precise measurement by comparing one set of long - term temperature data recorded from satellite and weather balloons, which detect the effects of warming from greenhouse gases, with another set recorded at ground level by 1,982 weather stations across the continent.

And since the late 1940s, chemists have been developing ways of describing molecular structures in precise mathematical terms, which makes comparing them much easier.

Notable French photographer Henri Cartier - Bresson coined the term «the decisive moment,» by which he meant the precise time when the shutter should be tripped to get the maximum visual effect.

In more precise terms, it is a payment or transfer by an insolvent debtor, made to a creditor on a preexisting debt which allows the preferred creditor to receive more than they would in a Chapter 7.

The Brooklyn - based artist duo Jennifer and Kevin McCoy acknowledge that Californians are living in a strange place, not in terms of the precise characteristics of our physical location, but in the moment in which we live, where one set of values and order is being upturned by another.

There is no precise definition of the term «Modern Art»: it remains an elastic term, which can accomodate a variety of meanings.

It is therefore necessary to define adaptation plans in more precise terms and develop specific baseline criteria by which to compare state plans.

This leaves us with the dictionary definitions of these terms, which are not necessarily precise and which are fluid.

The debate about the precise terms on which we leave the EU and our relationships with the rest of the world will rage for years, possibly decades.

He accepted that there is considerable uncertainty as to the precise definition and boundaries of «caste», and that some caste considerations involve no element of «descent», which was the subject of JFS and the term used in ICERD.

Sir John says: «Apart from No 10's response to the letter of 14 March, sent the following day, in terms that can only be described as perfunctory, no formal record was made of that decision and the precise grounds on which it was made remain unclear.»