Sentences with phrase «seeking explanations for»

Fact: «Research seeking explanations for the links between divorce and the adverse outcomes experienced by some children has found that: financial hardship and other family circumstances that pre-date, as well as follow, separation play an important part inlimiting children's educational achievement; family conflict before, during and after separation is stressful for children who may respond by becoming anxious, aggressive or withdrawn; the ability of parents to recover from the distress associated with separation is important for children's own ability to adjust.»

As a start toward specifications of accuracy, recall that the consensus group are earnestly and energetically seeking explanations for the lack of accuracy over the past 15 + years.

Voluntary self - imposed degradation has been overlooked in seeking explanations for the rapid demise of print journalism.

By comparing the genes of blacks and whites, scientists are seeking explanations for the high incidence of heart disease among African Americans.

Thus the research question has shifted from asking whether there is an effect from viewing violence to seeking explanations for the effects now demonstrated, and to identifying remedial actions.

A few exceptions aside religions are the product of people seeking explanations for the unexplained.

Appreciate your further explanation, but I'm not aware if any question that I posed conveys any objection other seeks your explanation for what you believe.

I had come in seeking an explanation for why I was suddenly seeing double out of my right eye, and she didn't even do a check on me before she was telling me that the best thing I should do was to visit the emergency room.

Thus, we must seek explanations for the rising problems of that period in the cultural realm.

Jung sought an explanation for the human psyche that went beyond what he once called «the curse of pathology.»

As polling has become more prominent and as a response to the polling misses, academic literature on the topic has increased, seeking an explanation for the errors that were made.

Fasullo, who was trying to balance out the Earth's «water budget,» sought an explanation for where that water, normally ocean bound, might have ended up.

Researchers led by Van Allen and Choueiri sought an explanation for why some patients with a form of metastatic kidney cancer called clear cell renal cell cancer (ccRCC) gain clinical benefit — sometimes durable — from treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors that block the PD - 1 checkpoint, while other patients don't.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder» sNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

New York, New York — March 7, 2018 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

It could be expected that the ATO would scrutinise such arrangements closely and seek explanations for any actions that involve the exchange of assets between classes.

We only seek an explanation for the records but our officers will not reject your applications over how you intend to spend the money.

For those who seek the explanation for more bureaucratic terms, both the EU and the UNFCCC provide glossaries that may be useful.

Mr Orenge whose office Mr. Okemwa often worked from has also tried to contact him to seek an explanation for his behaviour and unethical conduct.

After the Bipartisan Policy Center event, PolluterWatch activists asked Jeff Holmstead about his consistent opposition to policies and regulations that would require his clients to spend money to reduce their pollution, seeking an explanation for Holmstead's recognition of climate change as contrasted with his denial of proposed solutions.

At the same event, Gabe Elsner of the now - defunct Checks and Balances Project approached Holmstead on camera to seek an explanation for Holmstead's role in delaying mercury pollution controls for U.S. coal plants.

It is a natural human endeavor for people to seek an explanation for their negativeaffective states and for their positive affective states.

On Sunday he wrote to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch seeking an explanation for how the provision came to be included in the final bill after being asked about it by a reporter.

Not exact matches

Behavioral finance is a relatively new field that seeks to combine behavioral and cognitive psychological theory with conventional economics and finance to provide explanations for why people make irrational financial decisions.

To paraphrase (read the report itself for fuller explanations), sprinters are looking for a quick path to exit, often through re-financings, and their added value lies in their ability to extricate themselves rapidly from complex situations; marathon runners are (unsurprisingly) in it for the long run, seeking to convert debt to equity, taking control of borrowers and turning them around private equity - style; the milers have the ability to target either a quick exit or an extended process depending on the circumstances.

Those who favor naturalism had long sought to find the simplest explanation for the universe, hoping to avoid any evidence for design.

No different than my rambling post agreeing with him and providing even more real life human scenarios that can evoke strong emotions, that can easily cause someone to either A: Seek out religion, even if it's only for some semblance of accepttion and / or explanation of the unknown, or B: If they already have a religion, re-embracing it with new enthusiasm.

But an even more crucial premise is Swinburne's version of the principle of sufficient reason: «The human quest for explanation inevitably and rightly seeks for the ultimate explanation of everything observable.»

Lay Church - goers seeking consolation rather than understanding from their religion often form «lord of the flies» packs to silence they fellow lay persons who refuse to drink the KoolAid without an explanation for why they should do so.

Invariably, I would be referred to Gleason Archer's massive Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, a heavy volume that seeks to provide the reader with explanations for every conceivable puzzle found in the Bible — from whether God approved of Rahab's lie to where Cain got his wife.

Explanation for subjective experience is sought in brain activity.

Oh, you sufferer, whoever you may be, if your suffering was not hidden because you wished to hide it (for then you can manage; your action calls for a different comment) but if it is because of misunderstandings then you, too, have gone among men, listened carefully to their explanations, sought out their instruction, taken part in their meeting.

But to return to Whitehead's explicit position, we should observe that he believed that the great virtue of Christianity has been that it is not so much a metaphysic seeking some historical grounding as it is an historical fact and focus (found in Jesus) seeking for metaphysical explanation.

One aspect of God - talk, for example, which is overdue for elimination is that which tries to look for evidence of God in the areas of human ignorance, and which seeks to use him as the explanation of all we do not understand.

Russell sought to construct scientific objects from the immediate sense objects of direct experience, whereas Whitehead begins with scientific objects and seeks to provide an explanation for the character of our direct experience.

If we seek an explanation of that motive's power we must start with the fact that when anything is sacrificed for, from a battle - flag to a boy, it gains sacredness.

And I sought for an explanation in all the branches of knowledge acquired by men.

A paradigm, such as Newton's work in mechanics, implicitly defines for a given scientific community the types of question that may legitimately be asked, the types of explanation that are to be sought, and the types of solution that are acceptable.

People like this think that their religion is above criticism, especially in situations like this where people seek to manipulate those who have fallen on hard times and are desperate for ANY explanation that there's a reason for it.

We're not satisfied with consciousness, we need to attribute that to a connection with higher being and create a convoluted explanation to justify our tenacity to seek validation that indeed we can not just be a mass of molecules... there's got to be more for our insatiable egos!

Taylor is careful to say that he is not attempting to provide an historical explanation for the rise of this modem self, an account of the causes that gave rise to it; rather he seeks, by means of a long and complicated narrative, to elucidate its appeal and its «spiritual power.»

Those seeking a purely physical explanation for all that exists are often drawn by the idea of a «multiverse» consisting of all possible universes, including our own.

Whilst neo-Darwinism seeks to replace God with a wholly materialist and naturalist explanation for life on earth, ID, in stark contrast, is an attempt to demonstrate that God is an essential pre-requisite for life.

I wonder if «spiritual but not religious» is a bit of a cultural transitional stage in which it is becoming clear that formal religious dogma is at best intellectually unsatisfying, and at worst not only false but dangerous; and yet we don't really know what to do with that part of our brain that seeks magical explanations for what we can not easily understand.

loc, B. Lohmeyer, Das Evangelium des Markus [1937], ad loc., seek in vain to avoid this conclusion, which is supported by the strong Greek expressions for «tremble and shrink», by giving explanations which do not fit the situation, in which Jesus already knows that He must suffer for the sins of His people [Last Supper].

In other words, Ogden's analysis of various descriptions of experience is informed by two distinctions, both of which apply to the noetic pole of experience: a twofold distinction between nonsensuous and sensory modes of experience and a threefold distinction of what Whitehead calls «the feeling of the ego, the others, the totality,» that is, of self, other, and whole (PP 84).8 This comprehensive hermeneutical grid then permits an explanation of what he claims is a «sense of ourselves and others as of transcendent worth,» as precisely an «awareness of ourselves and the world as of worth to God» (PP 86f) Y Ogden notes that such an evidently theistic explanation is not open to empirical or experiential confirmation on either of the two more restrictive descriptions which, as he observes, must either «refer the word God» to some merely creaturely reality or process of interaction, or else., must deny it all reference whatever by construing its meaning as wholly noncognitive,» if they seek experiential illustration for such a sense at all (PP 80) 10

Thus, the motion of the pendulum is taken as the standard, as a more suitable «approximation» to the uniform time flow of absolute time, and some physical explanation is then sought to account for the seasonal variation of the solar day relative to this standard.18 Were standards other than the pendulum chosen as operating «more uniformly,» then the pendulum would be abandoned in favor of a «more uniform approximation» to absolute time.

It teaches them to start with the assumption that there is no God and then seek to come with explanations for things built on the premise, regardless of how far fetched and absurd.

They are unable to consider and seek out alternate explanations for some of their findings, etc..

Consequently one must not seek to find the excuse for the witty expressions of pain and of sorrow in the fact that the person who uttered them was a superior person, well educated, intelligent, and witty withal, for the passions make all men again equal — but the explanation is to be found in the fact that in all probability everyone would have said the same thing in the same situation.