Sentences with phrase «seem predicated»

But Medicaid remained an active issue in the negotiations, much of which seemed predicated on resolving a $ 15 minimum wage opposed by many Republicans in the State Senate.

This model seems predicated on valuing individual success and stigmatizing failure.

Not exact matches

The deal, when announced last autumn, was predicated on a recovery in the oil price to $ 60 per barrel by 2019, an increase that now seems less likely with a glut of crude still circling the globe and keeping prices below $ 50.

«churches like that», being predicated upon the fraudulent activity as they seem to be, could be «banned» but that would not really change much of anything... other than repackaging the criminal activity under a loosely - defined label... meh.

A suitable reformation of logic involving a rejection of the subject - predicate paradigm could, Hegel seems to have thought, overcome the problem of externally related aggregates, while at the same time retrieving logic from the subjectivity into which it had fallen, and restoring it to its rightful place as the formal science of being.

Thus while the idea of the predicate has mass is sensible preprojectively as an attribution to be made at the periphery of the Quinian web, it seems to have no deep meaning — this is to say, no embedding into a network of concepts and actions that allows us to describe and circumscribe the phenomenal world — without recourse to mathematical abstraction.

It is in sorting among and sifting its predicates that we seem most worthy of signifying the divine, that we form a certain idea of it.

In the mysterious doctrine of the «receptacle,» or cosmic subject of changing predicates, Plato seems to lean toward monism; however, in his belief in individual human souls as immortal he seems inordinately pluralistic.

Even Craighead seems to accept William Reese's claim that «denial in the predicate» involves replacement of a trait by its «other» or complement, so that «Socrates is not ill» means «Socrates is well» (PS 1:19).

The subject - predicate dogma, the scholastic dualism Descartes seemed unable to reject, only obscures some of the truly important aspects of the cogito which inspired Whitehead's ontological principle.

Plus the Celtics offense is predicated on rapid ball movement so the traditional point guard you seem to say we need isn't how our offense runs.

You're right, this whole rebuild plan seems to be predicated on the belief Mahomes is a great QB.

It seemed that both of his fathers had predicated their love on tennis victories.

But the last few weeks seemed to demonstrate that the security of your job and the jobs of everyone else at BPI was predicated on the public not knowing about the product you sell, not knowing how it is made, and not knowing that it was in the vast majority of the ground beef sold in this country, up to 15 %.

«The whole model on which the privatisation was predicated has failed and the government is in such a state over it, the only option it seems to have at the minute is to plough more taxpayers» cash into it.»

It's hard not to feel that party president Tim Farron's rise is predicated on possessing an identifiable personality, something almost everyone else who gets in front of a microphone seems to have been surgically deprived of.

Jolie has a gangly inelegance that suggests a giraffe trying to hang wallpaper — but the entire movie is predicated on a spark between its prettier - than - thou stars that seems to have bypassed the screen and ignited in the tabloids instead.

The disjunction between the gravity of their plan and the casualness with which they discuss it is bleakly funny at first, but quickly becomes repetitive, and the film as a whole is so predicated on their blasé indifference to life that a corresponding indifference seems the only rational response.

Some seem to think Moonlight has a slim chance at victory, predicated not just on its near - universal acclaim but also on the more diverse voices welcomed into the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences (AMPAS) in the aftermath of last year's #OscarSoWhite controversy.

The audience is never in any doubt that they are witnessing a feature predicated on that premise, with each element crafted to accentuate the seeming insanity of ordinary folk procuring such an extraordinary setting.

The movie's existence seems to be predicated on the idea of seeing American soldiers charging into battle on horseback, and while it certainly makes for a cool visual, it's not enough to hang an entire film on.

Niccol seems to understand that what we see and how we think is all predicated on illusion, an illusion created in an industry built on making us believe that a work of fiction is really the truth and that the actors are really the characters they portray.

This article seems to be predicated on a willful ignorance of the role of turbos in long term disposability.

This adhesion may seem startling at first as one regarded Bollinger as a confirmed member of the geometric Minimalist team, a view predicated on the narrow extrusions which brought Bollinger into prominence around 1966.

The world that we know and perceive, as Moon and Jeon seem to insist, is, after all, predicated on intangible, metaphysical qualities — such as aesthetic wonder — that will always transcend humankind's reductive attempts to explain them.

But I remember that the forecast earlier this year (that 2007 would «likely» be the hottest, with 60 % probability) was predicated on a coming El Nino that seems to be weakening (again, based only on half - remembered press coverage — I've no special insight here).

That's because his rationale for his demand seems to be predicated on answers to these questions that I have so far not been able to ascertain based on what he has written to date.

If you are an adherent of sound scientific method, you must NECESSARILY be a skeptic in this as in all other areas of inquiry, and the «climate scientists» complicit in the push for the abrogation of scientific method are by definition NOT «doing science, gathering data, testing,» but rather presenting the seeming of scientific investigation while all the while using that masquerade to advance public policy measures predicated upon malicious nonsense.

I'd add that all the catastrophic events seem to be predicated on temperatures reaching the top end of the RCP8.5 scenario temperatures this century, those events are contained within the 0.2 % probability.

I tend to look at things through what I hope is a prisim of common sense, and it seems to me that the central issues is not whether the lack of warming is statistically significant, but that the models on which this whole thing is predicated have proven themselves to be so woefully wrong.

The other thing that strikes me on reflection about Jonathan's comment is that it seems to be predicated on the only way forward being to teach Graeme to (fairly) fully understand the complex system we're talking about.

In his post, Bernstein mentions (and seems to agree with) the conclusions of a study by Richard Sander that «is predicated on the idea that a student is better off flourishing at a lower - ranked school than floundering at a more elite institution.»

This seems to be predicated upon the assumption that bringing a grievance about a claim falling within the order will have the effect of extending time.

At first glance costs would appear to be on the increase as the reality of having to undertake e-disclosure would seem to predicate more specialist costs to be borne by each side.