Sentences with phrase «sort of equation»

While every case is different, courts and insurance companies both must use some sort of equation to determine how much a personal injury claim payout should be.

And it was then that there was this sort of equation between these lightly painted pictures and her being a woman (though neither Mitchell nor Hartigan painted in this way).

«I think about my work like a sort of equation: you start with nothing and try to make something, and at the same time try not to make anything, to get back to zero» - Martin Creed, 1999 (M. Creed, quoted by J. Jones, «What's so minimal about 15,000 balloons?

The reasons for using this sort of equation is twofold: first, by using dollar figures rather than earnings per share and book value per share, large companies are given their proper weight versus smaller companies.

I would like to see some sort of equation that includes median income of area, number of years of education of pastor, number of years of experience, all in comparison with people in the area with similar numbers, and then base pastoral salary on that.

I know Ebay has all sorts of equations for pricing a listing of cars, toys, etc. - and some of them are value based.

Not exact matches

The U.S. federal sentencing process is a point - based system, where the nature of the offences, mitigating factors and other elements are plugged into a sort of mathematical equation to arrive at a numerical «offence level» score.

1 in 5 SaaS companies were removing some sort of expense from the equation; 2 in 5 were including trialing or free users in some manner; and a majority were incorrectly breaking down their annual or quarterly payments.

Granted, writing commentary does sort of change the equation and, in that sense, I'm certainly not shy about making my opinions known.

And then, go home with the thought that because this love is a chemical construct of some sort (as thoughts involve chemistry) that this bond between you and your loved ones is as meaningless and hollow in the whole scheme of things as is the statement of a chemical equation.

And then John 1:12 has this sort of this faith equation: Believe plus receive equals become.

That said, Blackpool are the sort of team which boast a great deal of resilience, so this should be a fixture which either goes one or the other, as stalemate really doesn't come into the equation with the teams in question.

I used to think that doing X + Y would always = Z; that children were some sort of math equation to be solved.

Our culture has moved away from that type of food economics into industrial food, which brings all sorts of bacteria and chemicals into the equation.

Turning the Latin words into modern equations, McLeish's team modelled the process Grosseteste described and found that it yields exactly the sort of nested - spheres universe the philosopher envisioned.

«When you can't fall back on the equations,... you really sort of force yourself to look at things through a different eye,» she says.

The irony of relativity's abolition of absolute time is that this sort of time keeps our other basic physical theories ticking — from Newton's laws of dynamics to the equations governing the evolution of the quantum world.

I mean, if there is existing literature studies looking at those plants where they found active compound [s], I definitely will use that, but first I am trying to show that there is a pattern — that if you do some math and try to synthesize all this information about the different plants being used in different cultures for different diseases, and using the evolutionary relationships of the plants, the cultures and the diseases to sort of merge it all together and have these equations spit out a sort of potential efficacy — our best guess of what the efficacy of this plant is.

Yet young Einstein's equations indicated that, without a force to counterbalance gravitation, the natural attraction of everything in the universe to everything else would set the universe into some sort of systematic motion — either contraction or an ever - slowing expansion.

Sort of... I mean, you already know that weight loss is a simple equation of burning more calories than you are eating.

As you all know, we designed the original TheEverygirl.com ourselves, meaning any sort of expertise in user experience was completely lacking from the equation.

The same sort of openness comes through from the other side of the dating equation as well, with gorgeous girls going the extra mile to make sure their potential suitors are well aware of their best assets.

As a long - time fan of the genre, this sort of false difficulty takes a lot of enjoyment out of the equation.

In 2007, Oliver Hirschbiegel directed the least interesting version, subject to extensive reshoots and rewrites that never quite nailed it; and yet even this one is fascinating and often terrifying, attempting a sort of «A Clockwork Orange» message about what happens to humanity when you remove pesky emotions from the equation.

After all, with Hulk and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) now an item (sort of), there's not much room for Betty in the equation.

Solving equations card sort with 3 levels of difficulty.

Linear Equations: Introduction to Linear Equations Notes and Card Sort for INBs is a set of step - by - step directions for interactive notebooks.

Students then practice these steps with a card sort of linear and non-linear equations.

This is a pre-algebra task that can introduce students to the sort of manipulations that can be used to solve simultaneous equations.

The 2015 Ford Edge is totally redesigned and boasts a ton of options for engines and trim levels, letting buyers sort out the form and function equation for themselves.

But there is this sort of core metaphysical concept [like Dante's Equation], kind of like The Matrix.»

The other half of this equation, the half that pushes me away, is the lack of any sort of real single - player option worth caring about.

The block movement isn't a 100 % safe option, and you do some amount of health, but then an uppercut and a dash combo can sort out the equation for you.

It's not possible to assemble a full board of all chess pieces without preordering all over town, and then there's the unstated implication that buying the game off the shelf without a preorder only allows access to the king, knights, and pawns, and I bet that buying the game used takes the knights out of the equation assuming that they're tied to an Online Pass system of some sort (since they are bonus content, after all).

For that sort of leverage, the art market has no equation.

I would say an optimal sort of level might be a better word.I think it you looked back at historical data and trends you might be able to derive an equation or something.

The problem here is that the «forcings» are in fact some other inherent variables of the very same climate - bearing system, but there is no clear separation of time scales that allow for any sort of coherent theories like «averaging of fast motion» that results in Landau - Ginzburg - type equations for «slow envelopes».

Gavin's response to Eli's comment sort of relates to my comment about the error propagation equation in the post.

I was sort of overwhelmed by all the mathematical equations and some of the other stuff but did manage to get my model to work...........

The search for extra-terrestrial life is a religion rather than a science, because we are not able to fill in any terms in the Drake equation (a famous attempt to quantify, sort of, the possibility that intelligent life exists in our galaxy).

I assume the circulation cells and thunderstorms would just sort of drop out of the well - constructed point - equation model.

But let's make a qualitative analysis of this statement: «40,000 times more probable» is not based on any sort of real statistical analysis (let alone a scientific one, where probability does not enter the equation anyway).

But certain policies do make less sense if we take AGW out of the equation — rapidly moving off coal (or enacting some sort of carbon capture scheme) is a good example.

Having done various sorts of modeling (simulation, population models, stability analyses, fractal models, statistical models) and having seen people who just throw any old equation in to make something work, I don't believe anything about a «model» unless there is a clear explication of it and unless it works well.

Appendix A: 1) Yes, this is a bit odd sort of thing to give to Congress, unless a surprising fondness for equations has been discovered.

What I am reading here are all sorts of a) rationalizations that «it can't be correct because I do not agree with...», b) arguments that it «violates basic physics» or c) other theoretical objections to equations used or suggested, but these are all utterly meaningless, unless the authors of the paper concede that these arguments have invalidated their conclusions (which has not occurred as yet.)

Working with thousands of sites and then using innumerable equations and all sorts of work arounds may be inherently inferior to ensuring that a few sites are spot on and reflect a better record of historical temperatures.

As I have explained, those sorts of things explain the slope of the line (how temperature varies with height... or at least a limit on how steeply temperature can fall with height) but it does not determine the constant «b» in the equation «y = m * x + b».

Given the importance of coal in the climate action equation, some sort of fast - tracking may be necessary by the next US administration.

Why would you jump to the conclusion that the physics textbooks are wrong on a very fundamental and basic matter of physics and that the scientific consensus is wrong in using equations that have been tested by scientists and engineers and used to build all sorts of technology rather than acknowledge that your own knowledge may be what is limited here?