Sentences with phrase «rather as an error»

I would not characterize his conduct as dishonest but rather as an error in judgment fueled by an aggressively optimistic view that had significant financial consequences, or at least could have.

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These 3 errors can lead to employees losing retirement savings rather than being as prepared as they'd planned.

And the 22nd Amendment was also a rather obvious error, inventing, as it did, the second - term swoon that has undermined presidential effectiveness rather routinely.

But there were some major flaws in the book, not only with some logical errors, but also with some misunderstandings of Scripture, and a misunderstanding of how and why the early church began to meet on Sunday rather than on Saturday as had been the custom among Jesus and His disciples.

Why would you as a believer listen to a atheist or someone in error rather that ask God yourself?

Finally, the credibility of science itself has been shown — once again, and as if we needed a reminder — to be subject to such ordinary human failings as ego defense, the willingness to bend the truth rather than admit error, and the temptation to disparage and insult one's opponents.

Harold Lindsell, former editor of Christianity Today, has made the point clearly: «No one should succumb to the error of viewing prayers as a means of changing the individual and his attitudes rather than changing events, circumstances, and history itself Certainly «prayer changes me» — my outlook, orientation and my attitudes.

Honestly, I would rather believe that the Bible is full of errors than believe that the Old Testament depicts a blood - thirsty, vengeful, God of war and carnage that is the same as the God revealed in Jesus Christ.

And as for the Syllabus of Errors, not one article of it mentions democracy, workers» unions or newspapers, and if it rejects «pluralism» (not a concept anyone at the time was familiar with) it is mostly in the sense that any religion which claims to be true, rather than a matter of opinion, rejects it.

Rather it is to say that it is a mistake to think, as Muray appears to think, that it is possible to identify them as moral errors from some abstract point of view such as «fundamental reality itself» (91), or «whatever contributes to the enhancement of relationality and creativity» (92) of this reality or even such a pseudo-concretization as «the challenges of today» (92).

Szczesny is as good as any keeper in this league, his errors are most noticeable because he plays for ARSENAL, i actually think he is a better keeper than ospina and this competition for a place in the team will only improve him, so i think it would be rather foolish for us to sell him.

In this case, Wijnaldum joins the attack, but the only error he makes is to not tell Mané to leave the ball, as he shanks wide, leans back and opens his foot, rather than keeping his head down and striking the ball against the way it comes at him — which is easier to direct, than trying to glance a sideward moving ball.

With the size of the error, he and even Sir Alex should be somewhat thankful that the Glazers seem to be loyal and decent people, as if the same mistake was made at the noisy neighbors, those directors might not be so lucky, and find themselves sat behind the goal rather than the comforts of the directors» box.

As usual Mourinho blamed the match officials for the defeat but they were second best in what was an exciting yet error prone contest; where spirit and determination dominated rather than the quality of the football — not one for the purists you might say.

Feyenoord were keen on making a strong start in the match, but it was PSV that managed to grab the first goal as a defensive error allowed Jeremain Lens scoring a rather easy opener.

As you go about treating all staff as assets instead of liabilities, try to maintain the spirit of «we are all in this together» rather than «staff are to be seen and not heard» as this type of thinking would allow you to form a strong Ministry with less errors and inefficiencieAs you go about treating all staff as assets instead of liabilities, try to maintain the spirit of «we are all in this together» rather than «staff are to be seen and not heard» as this type of thinking would allow you to form a strong Ministry with less errors and inefficiencieas assets instead of liabilities, try to maintain the spirit of «we are all in this together» rather than «staff are to be seen and not heard» as this type of thinking would allow you to form a strong Ministry with less errors and inefficiencieas this type of thinking would allow you to form a strong Ministry with less errors and inefficiencies.

And yet it was received into a strange political silence, as if it were an administrative error that needed correcting, rather than a systematic crisis of a financial model within which greed, fantasy and recklessness had combined in lethal combination.

Rather than viewing this gift as an error of nature, «a puzzle to be solved and eliminated», it should be seen as incredibly valuable.

Robyn Dawes, a professor Krueger had studied under, countered that the students who predicted that their opinions would be in the majority were not making an error at all but rather were taking their own opinion as a legitimate piece of data.

Just as all scientists must live with the ever - present possibility of experimental error, so too mathematicians, like our judicial system, may sometimes have to settle not for absolute proof but rather proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

Are you referring to the fact you've proofread, edited, published and repeated your comment, seeing as you made an error by writing «proofread» as two words rather than one?

The student who found the error, we assume, drew on his intuitive sense of geometric shapes rather than what he, as well as the test - makers, had been taught in the classroom.

All of that said, most breaches and attacks arise not because criminals are doing a crack job, but rather as a result of ignorance and human error.

But, as I advise new teachers, I would rather error on the side of optimism than caution.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

True enough, as Thrun posits, most fatal accidents occur due to driver error rather than mechanical failure.

Less gloriously, though, its summary of British history is rather selective, and the work as a whole is riddled with inaccuracies and typographical errors.

On Disruption The error Baldur makes in looking at ebooks as the disruptive innovation rather than considering ebooks as part of a wider context.

Consistent with this, we primarily view risk as not meeting this objective, rather than measures of volatility (or tracking error).

As you know from reading, I love cheap stocks, and many of them are unloved cheap stocks with temporary problems, but I'd rather own a business that can grow its intrinsic value over time, because my margin of safety increases over time and gives me more room for error in my analysis work.

However, it can be sympathetic to innocent errors, for example, if you booked a Ryanair flight under the name Matt, rather than Matthew, as shown on your passport.

All of these airlines can be searched on delta.com for award availability, however, results for China Eastern and China Southern frequently display award availability that isn't there (it will have an error if you try to purchase) and connecting itineraries often incorrectly price each segment additively rather than as a single one - way.

She tried to make it our problem to resolve rather than accepting it as an error at the booking end, and she was quite rude to us.

It's technically possible in video games, but as a consumer, I'd rather they fix all the errors before I read it, if you know what I mean.

In fact, Ubisoft have had a rather chequered history with DRM, seeing as a printing error forced them to redact Driver: San Francisco online passes, Anno 2070's draconian anti-piracy software requires new installs for hardware upgrades and most games end up being cracked regardless.

These «cut scenes» are quite enjoyable, and despite occasional translation errors (again, more or less severe depending on version), tell the story rather well, as the player guides Ryu through forests, cities, Mount Fuji and finally the Shogun's castle.

This is part of what fans love about the series — the trial and error aspect — so dying should not be seen as failure, but rather, a chance to learn from your mistakes so that you can succeed next time.

As we reported earlier, the first edition was completely in error, and led to some rather bizarre claims about the amount of ice loss in Greenland.

Finally, Montford asks the question as to why the scientists and the IPCC promoted the hockey stick at such a high confidence level so prematurely, and why such extraordinary efforts were made to defend it when it arguably isn't a critical piece of the climate puzzle, rather than to learn from outside statisticians and do a credible error analysis on the data and the inferences.

PHEaston: as a scientist, why are you picking ANY arbitrary start and end dates in noisy data sets, rather than fitting trend lines (preferably with error ranges)?

I do think it wholly regrettable that the original paper and press release spun this as «less than» rather than «more than» — it's a simple sign error, and we know how long that kind of confusion persists.

Sadly he'd rather twist and spin than admit an error and as a result he backs himself into indefensible positions.

rather than depending on stochastic approaches with all the errors they reproduce, it's better to discover the low dimensional determinism that describes the climatic system, as I have done in my research, and the underlying physics that drive the system evolution.

Lovely little anecdotes, but if an ATC system crashes on a busy day, people's lives are at risk whereas if a climate model crashes (due to a system or process error rather than a numerical error), it can be re-run — as long as the error doesn't cause different results to occur, ie.

Since there are only about 15 decades in 146 years, they «conservatively» used a critical value of.34 based on only 13 DOF rather than 144 DOF as would be appropriate for serially independent errors.

Its supplemental online interview of the late IPCC scientist Dr Stephen Schneider quoted his opinion about the Global Climate Coalition as being «a coalition of liars and spin doctors to reposition the debate onto the issue of uncertainty, way beyond [what] the scientific community agreed with» (he probably meant to say it was the Western Fuels Association, out to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact», an error I note at item 17 here).

I initially had the impression that he was saying that Harry was not included in the AWS reconstruction and now from his rather imprecise language it seems he is saying that the IR reconstruction was the important reconstruction (for the papers conclusions) and therefore errors in the AWS are not important because it was only used as a check on the IR reconstruction.

The effect of that shift, I have shown, should not be ignored in climate change modelling, as it has been: in part because climatologists have made a rather basic astronomical error.

As noted already, this work has already been peer - reviewed by several (about ten, from memory) people who have expert knowledge in the area (e.g. 20 + years experience post-PhD), and none has found any error; indeed, most are astonished by the rather silly mistake I have identified in various climate change papers where the authors have assumed that they can subtract the insolation at a certain ecliptic longitude in one epoch from that in another and that the result gives them the insolation change.

I know how tempting it is to assert (or rather, hope) that an average might cancel some of the errors made by each of the three methods, but as long as they share data they are in no sense independent, as long as the are based on differing methodology the are in no sense identically distributed, and there is no theorem or sound argument I can imagine that errors in methodology are unbiased, zero sum white noise drawn from some trendless distribution.