Sentences with phrase «singular events»

Two singular events in the world energy economy will occur during the first half of the twenty - first century.

Clustered disasters hold our attention in ways that singular events can not — they open our minds to the possibility that these aren't just accidents or natural phenomena to be painfully endured.

Large - scale singular events are abrupt or irreversible changes within the climate system.

On the scale of just one or two decades, and sometimes in less time than that, technological revolutions, political movements, or singular events can shape the course of history in unpredictable ways.

From singular events, to six - week durational pieces, the exhibition site will be an ever - changing series of moments, drawing on the precarity of liveness and the difficulty of capturing the moment.

The single - player «Olympic Mode» allows free play for singular events or a medley of events compiled into one (which can then be shared with other players).

While the career mode starts off being composed of singular events with the goal being to gain enough medals to move on, it eventually has players racing in full fledged championships — well, if they can progress that far.

Because Hare's script grapples with serious themes and singular events whose ramifications are still being felt, it is effective when it counts.

He includes a brief discussion of the significance of quantum theory for assessing the possibility of singular events.

To the two questions that follow the first one I would say that, yes, under this dispensation, in this act of the divine drama of redemption, innocence until proven guilty is an important value, but it should not be construed as the absolute, universally valid ethic to be used as a lens for looking at specific, singular events in the biblically recorded past.

you uncritically assume a strict continuity (ethical, theological) between those blood filled, singular events and a universally valid and binding ethics today.

Or in turn: only singular events have universal meaning.11

In order to interpret this core - principle of revelation, we must understand its essential presupposition; namely, that events are present «in» other events - present not just abstractly (through «eternal objects»), i.e., mediated by the «general,» but as singular events that effect their further history by their unique concreteness (PR 338).12 Whitehead recognizes precisely this constellation when he says:» [T] he truism that we can only conceive in terms of universals has been stretched to mean that we can only feel in terms of universals.

Since «universality» does no longer justify itself by «exemplary instantiations» of laws and rules, but proceeds as the universal effectiveness of the unique, this structure enables us to understand how singular events can become reasons of universal revealing.

The fact that a company with just 50 employees can successfully land on the moon is something Jain excitedly calls a «singular event.»

I don't think life as we know it on Earth is a singular event.»

It is difficult to think of another singular event left up to a public voting population that received this much unified direction and expertise from such a varied group of prominent international actors.

While I do believe in the Big Bang, I do not believe it was an isolated or singular event.

The current scientific consensus informs us that cosmic evolution began in a singular event, known today as the «big bang,» occurring fifteen or so billion years ago.

Based on this, scientists are considering the increased possibilty of the big bang being a singular event.

He caused the singular event and then stepped out of the picture?

French tennis was in the midst of a boom, one spurred by a singular event.

Was this a singular event thousands of years ago or can it happen again?

No further bursts were seen in 90 hours of additional observations, which implies that it was a singular event such as a supernova or coalescence of relativistic objects.

You traveled there one time in your life, a singular event; it shouldn't decide the parameters of a relationship.

Those genius blockbuster architects behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe have spent a decade and 18 films building to one, singular event: the Infinity War.

If Ridley Scott and Danny Boyle wind up facing off against each other for awards this season, it may present a singular event in Oscar history.

Sometimes the narrative either covers too much territory leading to a generic wash over their life and accomplishments like Get On Up or they can excel when they focus on a singular event in their life like Selma.

Stage theory conceptualizes leadership succession as a process with distinct phases and demands, rather than a singular event.212 Patterns in the process have been identified, and the ways in which each phase of the succession process shapes and influences the outcome of subsequent phases have been described.213 Most stage models predict that it takes at least five to seven years to build relationships of trust that can serve as a foundation for movement to later stages of the succession process — «consolidation and refinement,» in Gabarro «s (1987) terms.

Service learning is not just used as a singular event, but a means of discovering the world and helping to preserve, protect, and support it.

[return][return] A few of the big plot twists at the end were predictable far in advance if you have any knowledge of history, especially the singular event in Siberia in 1908.

Stop looking to a singular event that's going to transform the Xbox.

I've been thinking about that a lot the last few weeks after opening my first solo show — I'm trying to look at it as a stepping stone to the next thing and think about what's ahead, instead of just viewing it as a singular event.

Innovation in art is often characterized as a singular event that happens once and forever changes the course of what follows.

«Innovation in art is often characterized as a singular event — a bolt of lightning that strikes once and forever changes the course of what follows.

I can not recall the singular event, but perhaps there's never a single event.

It's important to note that some of these cities have multiple small events occur around the same time which drives demand, rather than a singular event.

This will be the first screening of vom Gröller's films in London outside of a singular event in 2012 at the South London Gallery.

The Frick Collection in Manhattan is sadly the sole American venue for «Michelangelo to Picasso: Master Drawings From the Albertina, Vienna,» a singular event in that the Austrian institution seldom lends its holdings.

If the anomaly is a singular event then the 2nd term gets replaced by something else (an impulse function or...) but that doesn't change the argument.

I don't want to trivialize the problem of abiogenesis, but it's my suspicion that because matter self - organizes in the presence of energy, the phase of matter we call «life» will appear everywhere it's possible, not as a singular event, but continuously across the galaxies.

While there was no singular event, you are suffering from physical pain from repetitive work - related tasks performed over a lengthy amount of time.

Unlike the Bitfinex hack, which occurred as a singular event and was over, a hard fork would represent ongoing uncertainty into uncharted territory.

Secondly, mediation is typically a singular event.

Perpetual Problems aren't just about one singular event: they are tied to deeply held beliefs or values (e.g, gender roles, parenting responsibilities, work ethic).

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Other members of the family say, too, that there were incidents in their own lives — in some cases the usual growing pains, and in others what they considered singular, traumatic events — that L'Engle appropriated and used in her novels or revealed in «The Crosswicks Journal.»

The self - transcendence of any event, which makes it immanent for others, does not, however, only signify a process of «objectification,» loss, and what Whitehead called «objective immortality,» but it highlights the «repetition» of the singular as singular.

«Universalization» of singular revealing events names the «repetition of the unrepeatable.»

The notion of «Christian theology,» then, means that a singular revealing event, i.e., the Christ - event, dwells as the focal point of Christian religious intuition.

In the memory of the singular revealing event and in contrast to the movement of «rationalization,» it happens an «actualization» of the uniqueness of the original event.