From its increased significance at the height of European colonialism to the foundations of Enlightenment - era pseudoscience, the concept of race has been used to categorize humans along the lines of
shared characteristics in order to understand human difference.
Not exact matches
The most accomplished people,
in any field,
share certain
characteristics that each of us can cultivate for our own journey.
It was also the first expression of the company's interest
in technological innovation as a way of gaining market
share, a
characteristic that became more striking
in the years ahead.
Melissa Carbone, winner of the largest Shark Tank deal
in the show's history and CEO of immersive - entertainment company TenThirtyOne Productions,
shared with me the key
characteristic of a true entrepreneur during a KCAA Money Talk interview last week:
We selected coats from across the price spectrum and
in a variety of different styles, but all
share one key
characteristic: They will keep you dry.
Consumers say the three most important
characteristics of a brand's social posts are (
in order): the brand
shares new content; the content is relevant to the brand; and the brand engages with followers.
And many nations
share the same
characteristics that are supposed to be holding discount rates so low
in America, aging populations obligated to accumulate savings (Japan and Germany), as well as low interest rates and smooth economic expansion, practically worldwide phenomena.
Discover some of the basic
characteristics shared by good mutual funds that investors can use to help them
in selecting funds.
Other
characteristics that are
shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes
in society's real resources (the latter being benefits
in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs
in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation
in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load
sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation
in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load
sharing),
in one market segment (IRA investments
in front - load mutual funds).
When your business or your website is new online, you do not immediately
share that
characteristic, so get your website information
in front of everyone you can,
in as many ways as you can, using even the most traditional of marketing communication — business cards, letterhead, email signatures, press releases and / or existing print materials.
In fact, long - term bonds and preferred shares have characteristics that make them a very useful asset class for retirement portfolios, as I explain in my essay Security of Income vs. Security of Principa
In fact, long - term bonds and preferred
shares have
characteristics that make them a very useful asset class for retirement portfolios, as I explain
in my essay Security of Income vs. Security of Principa
in my essay Security of Income vs. Security of Principal.
In aggregate,
shares of companies with these
characteristics offer the potential to outperform the broader market over the long term.
This conundrum
shares some
characteristics and common roots with the theory of secular stagnation;
in both scenarios, interest rates, growth, and inflation are persistently low (Summers 2015).
In the aggregate, our analysis indicates that convertible bonds currently
share many more risk
characteristics with equities than with fixed income.
Successful entrepreneurs
share a few key
characteristics, especially
in the technology business.
At the start of the book van Biema, the founder and chief investment officer of van Biema Value Partners, a value - focused fund of hedge funds based
in New York City, reveals how a light went off when he realized that the investors he admired most
shared one
characteristic: they were concentrated value investors.
William Thorndike's book, «The Outsider CEOs», finds that the leaders of America's most successful companies all
shared the
characteristic of humility
in common.
In this paper, I will describe the
characteristics of the US mortgage market, focusing on the sub-prime market and then compare it to the Australian mortgage market, where sub-prime comprises a very small
share.
In fact, unlike
shares of a corporation, at the time a coin is traded on the blockchain, it may have its intended utility and essentially lost any security
characteristic it initially had.
For many years, Apache was seen by its peers as a cost leader, but the company's statistics have been eroding meaningfully, which has limited its ability to grow intrinsic value per
share, a
characteristic that we demand
in our investments.
In my experience, those that achieve truly spectacular success usually
share a few common
characteristics about how they approach their work and their lives.
In order to offer greater insight into findings from the GIIN's 2017 Annual Impact Investor Survey, the figures below show how findings vary between different sub-groups of respondents that
share certain
characteristics.
A financing business is nothing else than an «
in - house bank»,
sharing much more
characteristics with a financial than a corporate business, for instance requirement of continuous capital market access, default risk etc..
They also
shared the opportunity to invest
in women as business leaders and entrepreneurs — with their leadership
characteristics and with the economic blind spot, particularly
in their own space of venture capital.
I believe
in nationality; not
in terms of race or of divine commissions for world conquest, but simply thus: mankind inevitably organizes itself
in communities according to its geographical distribution; these communities by
sharing a common history develop common
characteristics and inspire local loyalty; the individual family develops most happily and fully when it accepts these natural limits.
Every bizarre aspect of the fantasy world is treated with unflinching realism: Partners must
share a «defining
characteristic,» like beautiful hair or a limp, and so people mutilate themselves
in order to force a match.
The hint of an answer is provided a few lines later when he says: «Thus a set of entities is a society (i)
in virtue of a «defining
characteristic»
shared by its members, and (ii)
in virtue of the presence of the defining
characteristic being due to the environment provided by the society itself» (PR 89/137).
Rather, specifically human existence is,
in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which
share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining
characteristic that makes the man or woman
in question just this individual and not some other.
Browning does not disown the recent past, but without question he wants to go beyond the stance that he and Oden
shared then: «The preoccupation with therapeutic acceptance and Christian forgiveness
characteristic of the 1960s, especially of the work of Paul Tillich, Seward Hiltner, Daniel Day Williams, Thomas Oden and myself, was not so much wrong as one - sided
in its emphasis» (p. 104).
Both the message and the allegory have been sturdy traditions
in Christian literature and, as Lynch suggested
in his comments on the univocal imagination, they
share the
characteristic of tending to flatten out the complexities of historical life for the sake of the «idea.»
Not only
in the glory of creation» these mountains, this lake, this great night sky of the Alps» and not only
in his misericordia did God
share with us insight into the special
characteristics of his love, but also
in sending us a human model of it
in sending us his Son, who called us his friends, and sacrificed his life for us.
No matter what our friends are going through, we can relate to them because we
share the
characteristics of a broken people
in a broken world.
Indeed, if the past is infinite, it must
share certain abstract
characteristics, such as are embodied
in Whitrow's two criteria, by virtue of its infinitude, with any other infinite sequence.
Mays (RW 240) points Out the similarity between every world view's having an «essential relation» and Whitehead's opinion expressed
in Process and Reality that certain
characteristics are
shared by every cosmic epoch.
Moreover, our moral energies can themselves be nourished by
sharing in that reverence for life which, so I have argued elsewhere, is
characteristic of God's own consciousness (McDaniel 1989a, 1989b).
Thus Lifton indicates that one
characteristic distinguishing the rap groups from traditional therapy was «that of affinity, the coming together of people who
share a particular... historical and personal experience, along with a basic perspective on that experience,
in order to make some sense of it.»
Or, a washing machine and dryer could
share information about load
characteristics (gentle / normal, light / full), and synchronize their finish times so the wet laundry does not have to wait before being put
in the dryer.
Chilean Pentecostalism
shares the basic
characteristics of the Pentecostal identity: an emphasis on evangelization oriented to conversion, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church as a charismatic and healing community, the belief
in a spiritual world, and the anticipation of the Second Coming of Christ.
It was Judeo Christianity which spread to east Syria and it
shared in the general
characteristics of the Jewish Christianity
in Palestine.
Asian Christianity
shared in the general
characteristics of Jewish Christianity.
So far I have argued three points: that persons engage
in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being
in any way reducible to or explicable solely
in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole
in this interaction
shares with the individual as its opposite those
characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.
Like every part of the cosmos, only
in an eminent degree, it has its own distinctive
characteristics, not
shared by other cosmic events and processes; so it must be understood
in its own terms.
We need to be willing to examine ourselves to prune out these undesirable
characteristics so we can be more effective
in our mission of
sharing the Gospel and participating
in God's work of redemption
in the world around us.
Let me suggest, too, that Whitehead similarly insists on finite creativity, though
in different words, when he says that «all actual entities
share with God» and that they have the «
characteristic of self - causation» (PR 339).
The emphasis on wholeness, the interconnectedness of everything with everything else which is so
characteristic of Whiteheadian metaphysics, nourished Suchocki
in her own feminist aspirations toward integrity, i.e., a self - image which would be peculiarly her own and yet would be
in line with the legitimate expectations of others ~ she commented, «we women are weavers, weaving the intelligible pattern of our lives out of the fabric of intensely personal experiences of
sharing life with others.
One of my favorite
characteristics of narcissistic behavior is when a person
shares their opinions or beliefs and does so
in a way that implies that I'm already
in total agreement with them.
But if we are to seek that which is most
characteristic of Jesus, it will he found not
in the things which he
shares with his contemporaries, but
in the things wherein he differs from them.
This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary
in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject»
characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of human experience as
shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and linguistic expressions» (cited
in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.
Churches «most likely» to experience decline
shared three
characteristics: they were founded before 1900, they were located
in cities, and their membership was more than half female.
In order for small groups to be significant resources for growth, personal
sharing needs to he a chief
characteristic.