We can be «so sure» that we're not just seeing warming because CO2 isn't the same as warmth, and the climate is a complex
system ruled by patterns of chaos on some timescales, but linearly predictive in other timescales on large enough regions for some effects.
OOO — SPIRITUAL BATTLE — spiritual warfare is the cosmic war of good versus evil: its battles are fought daily between God and Satan; between the Christian Church and the world
system ruled by our spiritual enemy; and within every child of God, between the Holy Spirit and the lusts of the carnal flesh.
But the Bible from beginning to end is complete and whole for what we need as humans to know what it is that God expects from us and what he will do to change this wicked old system into his glorious new
system ruled by Christ his son.
Not exact matches
The Supreme Court agreed with the provinces, but left Flaherty an opening
by ruling that Ottawa has a role in matters of national importance and scope, including preventing systemic risks in the financial
system.
By setting clear
rules for my bookkeeper and accountant, we can develop a
system for automatically tagging certain expenses and transactions each month, which minimizes the need for me to manually approve repeated transactions.
Jesus condemned the oppression and marginalization of his impoverished people
by the Romans and other
ruling elites who sought through their unjust
system of taxation to extract as much wealth as possible from the majority of people to benefit the rich, powerful,
ruling elites.
Harrison's CN,
by contrast, got lambasted for adopting a rigid
rules - based
system under which employees were more often suspended or fired for mistakes.
But Gates and his predecessors at least agreed to play
by certain
rules: not to take the money back if they changed their minds, not to use it to further increase their wealth, not to use it influence the political
system (although that
rule has some loopholes), and so on,» Kwak explains.
The commission that is setting up the
system in Massachusetts recently passed new
rules that bar anyone with a felony drug trafficking conviction from getting licensed
by the state to cultivate or sell legal marijuana.
Litle — active in direct marketing and financial services since the 1960s — is also responsible for credit card
rules that let customers buy on installment plans and the
system by which mass mailers get discounts if they presort their missives.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said its
ruling stemmed from a 2008 decision in which it held that Cablevision
Systems Corp. could offer a remote digital video recording service without paying additional licensing fees to broadcasters because each playback transmission was made to a single subscriber using a single unique copy produced
by that subscriber.
There's no time for deep analysis about whether a customer should be offered a discount at a certain time; the challenge is to employ new predictive technologies to push Reliance's
systems beyond the point where they're «still relying on
rules that had to be written
by programmers,» to address specific situations.
One is that some of the post-crisis efforts to overhaul the financial
system, such as Congress» massive Dodd - Frank bill of 2010, and the Basel III
rules, crafted
by global banking regulators, are finally starting to be implemented.
Capitalism is on its way out and troublesome
rule by big banks is becoming the dominant global economic
system, an analyst warns.
In his view the company also needs to create
systems to audit third party data collection and sharing «on an ongoing basis» — and thereby «hold third parties to their promises
by engineering controls and contractual lockups» — including «effective remedies when third parties break the
rules — including enforceable rights to audit, retrieve, delete and destroy data improperly acquired or used, and liquidated and actual damages for violations».
Last week, the company received a critical regulatory
ruling — worth untold millions — from Health Canada, allowing it to claim in advertising that COLD - fx reduces «the frequency, severity and duration of cold and flu symptoms
by boosting the immune
system.»
One consequence has been the establishment of a «certain dependency» on the constraining
rules of the commercial banks, «antagonistic and incompatible with the
system of financial solidarity of the community banks that promote different financial services, strengthened
by local power and guaranteeing an investment in the capacity of the most poor.»
Since February 25, we have been operating on a «sell» signal that was generated
by our
rule - based market timing
system (learn exactly what that means).
Employees covered
by the Civil Service Retirement
System (CSRS), CSRS - Offset, or the Federal Employees Retirement
System (FERS) who plan to retire under the voluntary age and service
rules should use the Federal Government Employees Ballpark Estimator.
Financial industry norms and academic theories — even popular beliefs — have always assumed assets saved for retirement would be systematically withdrawn — following the «4 %
rule» or some other
rule of thumb or
system —
by retirees in order to maintain a consistent standard of living.
This
rules - based
system is being challenged
by the return of economic nationalism and trade wars.
In our last blog post, Benefits of a
rules - based trading
system, we said the following: «On May 1 (Tuesday), the combination of heavy volume selling in the Nasdaq, bearish «stalling action» in the S&P 500, and a «distribution day» (higher volume selling) the prior day forced us to cut long exposure in our model swing trading portfolio from approximately 38 % down to 17 %
by the following day's open (May 2).
Security professionals can further extend this knowledge to other platforms, like SIEM and intrusion prevention
systems,
by writing custom
rules using information about injections shared on platforms like X-Force Exchange.
While I agree that the tax
system should be fair and equitable for all, I am very concerned that the proposed changes will negatively impact hardworking small and medium - sized business owners, lawyers, accountants and physicians who play
by the
rules, create jobs in our community and are also raising young families in Riverbend.
This means that they are bound
by the
rules and laws of the regulatory body so you can be sure that your trades will be safe if you chose to trade with this
system.
In a Private Letter
Ruling published on Friday, the IRS said that a battery added to a solar pv
system a full year after solar installation was completed is eligible for a the full 30 % ITC — as long as it is 100 % powered
by solar.
While the average working American might know enough to file and receive their Social Security benefits, the
system, thanks to the nearly 3,000 filing
rules, is wrought with traps and run
by a government agency that is prohibited from dispensing advice.
He could raise the GST, but the Prime Minister has
ruled that out; he could fulfill an election commitment
by undertaking a serious simplification of the income tax
system, which could yield substantial revenues (about $ 3 to $ 5 billion), but he seems reluctant to do that; or, he could take the easy way out and simply cut his fiscal prudence in half and «miraculously» free up $ 3billion annually for his cabinet colleagues.
While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending
system, we can't
rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created
by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking
system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.
Poloz said those
rules appear to be making the
system safer
by forcing weak borrowers to accept loans they can afford.
In this 2014 article we showed that better returns than those from the ETF could be obtained
by applying a ranking
system to the stock holding of USMV (the universe), and investing periodically only in the 12 highest ranked stocks, bought and sold according to certain
rules.
Maintaining such a
system ignores the institutional uncertainty brought about
by not having a credible monetary
rule.
This would represent a new Bitcoin blockchain which would essentially operate
by its own
rule system.
And you are quite right, which leads us to Banking
Rule # 2: The banking
system can expand
by a multiple of those original excess reserves.
«While Wang has lost his power, his position and his freedom, the real losers here are investors who play
by the
rules, and our nation's financial
system, which is diminished with every one of these schemes.»
The document criticizes «doctrinal or disciplinary security,» «an obsession with the law,» «punctilious concern for... doctrine,» «dogmatism,» «hiding behind
rules and regulations,» and «a rigid resistance to change,» while reprimanding those who «give excessive importance to certain
rules,» overemphasize «ecclesial
rules,» believe that «doctrine... is a closed
system,» «feel superior to others because they observe certain
rules,» have «an answer for every question,» wish to «exercise a strict supervision over others» lives,» «long for a monolithic body of doctrine guarded
by all and leaving no room for nuance,» believe that «we give glory to God... simply
by following certain ethical norms,» and «look down on others like heartless judges, lording it over them and always trying to teach them lessons.»
Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold
system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the
rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion
by reason rather than
by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.
These desires are not — or are not primarily — internalized
rules of the game as played
by the capitalist
system.
No such supremely individuated Being appears in the
system of Difference and Repetition; in fact, any form of monotheism is
ruled out in principle
by the operation referred to above as «pluralizing Spinozism.»
The U.S.
system of industry self - regulation is preferable to the English
system, but a voluntary regulation
system can survive only if its participants act in a responsible manner and abide
by the
rules they set for themselves.
The politicians
rule us, rather than represent us, and the justice
system has been replaced
by a legal
system wherein the judges and lawyers play games at the expense of the taxpayers.
Another pejorative term is «reductionistic» — again, said
by people that do not understand the complex beauty of
systems defined
by a minimal of simple
rules.
Victorianism means to us a rigid
system of oppressive
rules by which people pretended to live.
Now we are
ruled with impunity
by kleptocrats because Christianity made Africa the dumping ground for the feudal and infallible
systems that the European Enlightenment and American Revolution discarded.
It is important to note the political basis of an economic
system as one of our basic dichotomies because there is a very real difference in the foundation of a capitalism in which the
rules governing the
system are determined
by a few —
rules concerning wages, monopolies, taxation, use of natural resources, government benefits, etc. — and one in which these
rules are determined
by representatives who are chosen
by the general populace.
Or if, to take another example, you try to redistribute power within capitalism
by balancing managerial authority
by trade union privileges, you either choke the entrepreneurial spirit or you eliminate profits — the
system's lifeblood — or, as a
rule, you do both, and so again you end
by making everyone poorer.
A
system of local markets with many participants, playing
by rules established
by the community, does this better than a global market dominated
by a few players who set their own
rules.
Thus instead of trying to construct a philosophical
system which accords with the
rule of reason, as Hegel had done, Nietzsche begins
by turning reason against itself, uncovering in the process its «irrational» origins in nature («On the Genealogy & Morals,» BWN; Sections 2 and 16; WP, Sections 480 and 481).
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act includes specific safeguards to prevent tax avoidance and help ensure taxpayers of all income levels play
by the
rules under this new fairer, simpler tax
system.
A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which
by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict
rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste
system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).