Sentences with phrase «preconditions which»

The preconditions which gave rise to rapid temperature changes during the last ice age do not exist today, but sudden climate changes can not be excluded in future.»

«I will do everything I can to stop my party becoming essentially a cheerleader, a vanguard for a sort of angry intolerant pacifism which sets a myriad of preconditions which they know will never be met and and will ultimately say no to any military intervention.

Wieman (1929) considers there to be three preconditions which must be met before effective worship is possible.

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Which doesn't mean there are absolutely no preconditions for successfully getting started with a meditation practice.

For Lasch, true populism is rooted in mutual respect, which demands that we hold ourselves and our fellow citizens to shared standards of conduct and discourse — a necessary precondition for both civil disagreement and a healthy body politic.

If the work of creation is seen as an evolutionary process, then existence of matter is the necessary precondition for the appearance, on earth, of spirit: elsewhere Pere Teilhard de Chardin speaks of matter in more exact language as the «matrix of spirit»: that in which life emerges and is supported, not the active principle from which it takes its rise.

If it is the interaction between man and man which makes possible authentic human existence, it follows that the precondition of such authentic existence is that each overcomes the tendency toward appearance, that each means the other in his personal existence and makes him present as such, and that neither attempts to impose his own truth or view on the other.

He is an independent cause, because he embodies those common elements which are the precondition for any world whatever.

When Hartshorne speaks of the absolute pole of the divine being, his intent is not to isolate God from process, but to identify one of his aspects with those factors which are the precondition for there being anything whatever.

This enlarged freedom is the precondition for the emergence of the greatest possible good which is neither preconceived nor controllable.

Contrast is the precondition of complexity without which the creation of a larger integrity is not possible.

It has been the irritating grain of sand in the oyster, around which the Catholic ages deposited the priceless pearl of supernatural, otherworldly piety; but for the modern church it has remained an impossible ideal of asceticism, an ideal whose very first precondition of fulfillment is lacking, namely, the eschatological outlook upon the world, the belief in the impending Judgment and the Age to Come.

Second, as Whitehead explains elsewhere in his criticism, the meaning of simultaneity is actually contained in the preconditions by which such operations are made possible.

Yet, only the Church, in which the Holy Spirit dwells, should apply sacramental baptism, because only the Spirit can cause faith, which is the precondition for baptism.

Depending upon the individual's preconditioning, it may be that at times the listener perceives and retains only one trait upon which he becomes almost fixated.

Such is the relationship which characterizes dialogue and is the precondition to dialogical communication.

Their «summons to disobedience», Pope Benedict preached, went «even to the point of disregarding definitive decisions of the Church's Magisterium, such as the question of women's ordination... Do we sense here anything of that configuration to Christ which is the precondition for all true renewal, or do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the Church in accordance with one's own preferences and ideas?»

And that precondition, which is also the governing principle of all of Fish's writings about the Culture Wars, must be that interpretation always precedes evidence.

In trying to close the gap, one finds additional preconditions of which one had previously been unaware, and, looking in the other direction, one tries out new axioms, for example concerning symmetry conditions suggested by the local analyses.

What is clear is that to address political inequality — which is a precondition to achieving the broader goals raised by the Great Charter Convention — we must restore substantive democratic power over how our political and economic institutions are organised, thereby better enabling individuals to come together to make collective decisions that shape their lives, communities and workplaces.

The First Lady said that experts have assured the programme is highly cost - effective and the benefits far outweigh the costs noting that «when we invest in adolescent nutrition now, they will stay in school longer, perform better in school and ultimately we will create a more productive labor force which is a crucial precondition for economic development.»

Now, what the paper completely fails to address is how that precondition, that essential public trust, could possibly survive a system under which the security services were empowered by law to routinely trawl through the private communications data of vast numbers of citizens suspected of no crime, simply in order, as Sir David Omand puts it, «to identify patterns of interest for further investigation».

Although the coalition parties legislated to secure fixed - term parliaments of five years - a precondition of entering into government together - there are two ways in which a general election could take place before 2015.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, however, was a supporter of the project — seeing it as a test case for his new mandatory inclusionary zoning policy, which requires developers to insert affordable units into new developments as a precondition for construction.

«Our experiments are among the first to provide reliable data that properly preconditions the sample and reports the full physiological parameters that affect flow behavior — all of which are conducted using state - of - the - art rheological equipment,» noted Horner.

Key aspects of ischemia - reperfusion can be modeled by a Caenorhabditis elegans behavior, the O2 - ON response, which is suppressed by hypoxic preconditioning or inactivation of the O2 - sensing HIF (hypoxia - inducible factor) hydroxylase EGL - 9.

Despite the great pleasure I took in chemistry, I decided not to undertake a Ph.D., which, at that time, was a precondition for a job in research.

MNA is able to generate ROS in transient manner which inducing antioxidant mechanisms in a preconditioning fashion depending on SKN - 1 / NRF2 and FOXO / DAF16 activation pathways 17.

The team currently is exploring the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying ischemic preconditioning using mice in which HIF - 1 activity has been knocked out in specific cell types within the heart.

The main hypothesis includes a stress preconditioning response mechanism, in which it is believed that periods of nutrient deprivation displays a beneficial mild stress that results in molecular adaptive changes in various tissues, which increases the organism's resistance to bigger stressors such as excitotoxic and oxidative injury, including ischemia (33,71).

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

The irony is that business leaders are calling with greater urgency for improvements in schooling, which they see as a precondition to rejuvenating our sputtering economy.

Without that focus, we will leave principals unprepared and unsupported in their primary role of elevating instruction in every classroom, which is a precondition for ensuring that all students receive an outstanding education that prepares them for success in college, careers, and life.

The Italians are currently laying the finishing touches on state - of - the - art electrically assisted power steering, which is a precondition for a number of increasingly popular driver assistance systems.

The Preconditioning Settings allow you to set the temperature of the interior prior to starting your journey, which is a useful gadget to have on those blisteringly hot or bitterly cold days.

All of these measures lead to high thermodynamic efficiency, which is a precondition for high fuel efficiency and low exhaust emissions.

The Drug - Free Workplace Act of 1988 (41 U.S.C. 81) is an act of the United States which requires some Federal contractors and all Federal grantees to agree that they will provide drug - free workplaces as a precondition of receiving a contract or grant from a Federal agency.

Once you have paid off all outstanding debts, which are a precondition set by many lenders, you need to stay debt free for at least two years.

Once an industry of dog seizers and killers have been assembled, so in Nils Christie's terms, an industry is formed which has a vested in creating the preconditions for its own employment.

«These are just some examples clearly proving Finland's devotion to the Chinese travel market, which is a perfect precondition to being ITB China's Partner Destination,» said David Axiotis, general manager ITB China.

four main ways in which in - game environmental storytelling «creates the preconditions for an immersive narrative experience,» three of which are heavily used by Punchdrunk:

Henry Jenkins describes four main ways in which in - game environmental storytelling «creates the preconditions for an immersive narrative experience,» three of which are heavily used by Punchdrunk:

All of that preconditioning goes away with a little bit of practice which enhances the fluid parkour experience even more.

Kerr moderated the discussion, during which Sanchez and Episalla relayed their personal stories of acting as caregivers to friends, while Joseph offered a more clinical presentation about the importance of «self care» as a necessary precondition to rendering service to others.

Emerging from a society in which the preconditions for the production of video art, namely the possession of television sets and home video cameras, could not be taken for granted until the end of the 1980s, Zhang Peili satirizes the dominance of the state in the construction and communication of meaning.

Together these institutions create, maintain and guard a noetic milieu (a globalized intuitive, non-rational consciousness) in which any values that challenge the two fundamental preconditions to modern civilization are seen as incomprehensible, self - evidently absurd, dangerous or even insane.

In an interconnected and constrained world, in which we have a symbiotic relationship with the planet, environmental sustainability is a precondition for poverty eradication, economic development, and social justice.

Campaigners that Ethical Consumer spoke to suggested that, for reasons not unconnected to the political clout of the shooting establishment, at least two types of subsidy could be going to shooting estates which break the law, because providing evidence that no persecution is taking place has not been a precondition of receiving these subsidies.

In this case the thinning and resultant structural weaknesses preconditioned the ice to rapid breakup, which proceeded to lose only the preconditioned portion of the ice shelf.

Rigor et al.; 4.2 million square kilometers; Statistical — age estimates In comparison to 2007 and 2008, there is much more first year (FY) ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in 2009, which we expect to precondition this area for a more extensive retreat than in 2007 and 2008.