Sentences with phrase «system structures which»

Dr. Earley compares process philosophy with the science of chemistry — both open - system structures which exist in an antecedent world.

Not exact matches

The report suggests that Canada should seek to emulate the US regulatory structure, which has a more ad - hoc system without broad data protection law.

A former Downtown Project employee told Business Insider that it was easy to game the system of Holacracy, using its project - driven circle structure to essentially create a layer of middle management, which Holacracy is meant to replace.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

A second lens for evaluating the operational framework is the extent to which it avoids creating incentives that might result in undesirable changes in the structure of the financial system.

Successful franchises run on proven and structured systems, and members of the military are used to executing systems, following procedures and striving for operational excellence, which leads to victory in franchising.

Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.

And my liberal friends look at that and they say, «If we had not created this halfway measure of health security, we would have what every other country has,» which seems to work well in other places, which is a government - run system where health protection insurance is guaranteed in some way or another, the exact structures differ, but by the state.

It defines pure capitalism as a system that grows among a group of completely free individuals and discusses why it is the only logical system upon which to structure a society.

Apple decided that its new offshore tax structure should use Appleby's office in Jersey, which is one of the Channel Islands and has strong links to the British banking system.

The one that they missed, perhaps the most important, was the structure of our housing and mortgage market which was a major contributor to the strength of our system.

Our home cell system is a funtional structure which has helped with building stronger relationships and works well among the yout who are highly relational at this stage of their human development, but I still feel we are missing it somewhere.

«The Fundamental Failure - Mode Theorem (F.F.T.): Complex systems usually operate in failure mode» «The mode of failure of a complex system can not ordinarily be predicted from its structure» «The larger the system, the greater the probability of unexpected failure» ««Success» or «Function» in any system, may be «Failure» in the larger or smaller systems to which the system is connected»

In the past the Church has appeared to many Catholics as an absolutely monolithic structure, a system of doctrine and life which had to be either accepted or rejected as a whole, without degrees or nuances of importance in its various components.

For in a material sense nothing has yet been decided negatively about a democratic structure of the Church, just as little as in the case of a secular constitution which forbids the destruction of the democratic system and thus limits the possible will of the citizens.

However we may define value in its elementary form, it would seem that supreme value must be some system or structure which brings lesser values into relations of maximum mutual support and mutual enhancement....

3, centers directly upon the «structure of faith as trust in God» (6:91) and, in effect, «pierces [Paul's] own system of thought» (6:102) by allowing Abraham's faith actually to define the content of Christian faith; (3) Mt. 25:31 - 46, the description of the last judgment, in which humanistic actions of a general nature actually «interpret what the Christian confession really means (6:73).

Both offer large scale systematic accounts of the nature of reality in general, largely dismissing the suggestion that the only world we can know is one whose main structure is determined by the human cognitive system and which, therefore, only exists for us.

The Leninist Theory, in which the blame for war is put upon a structure, a system, or a «Machine,» rejects the corollary shared by pacifisms 1 and 2 that insists upon the cultivation of personal peacefulness.

That place is our human condition that is spelled out in Watergate; mangled bodies and land in Indochina; dry, dusty, suffering starvation in Africa; inconceivable poverty, oppression and torture in South America; humiliation and wretchedness in the slums here «at home»: and all this supported by economic structures and a system which we have supported and which destroys human beings and rapes the good earth.

Thirdly, the two - tier structure of African cosmology does not fit the Malayarayan's pre-existing belief system which was an integrated whole.

Firstly, the two - tier structure of African cosmology does not fit the Pulayas» pre-existing belief system which was multi-tiered, incorporating an hierarchy of gods.

It is generally believed that the laws, customs, and rituals by which the particular system is defined are written into the nature of things, and that the social structure is but a true reflection of the innate qualities of human nature in its several kinds.

The extreme form of tight and exclusive class structure is the system of caste, in which each person is permanently fixed from birth in a particular group.

Hegel and his followers felt intellectually secure in the logical structure which underlay the System.

The five so - called «World - wide» wire services upon which each nation's mass media (and to some extent government) depend for information about events outside its own border are arms of their respective national systems (American, English, French and Soviet) and mirror the interests of the power structure within their home countries in the selection and presentation of information from the outside world.

Though the particular structure and procedure of Process and Reality appear to be quite a divergence from most philosophic exposition, Whitehead here achieves a system which requires at least a moderate understanding of the mathematician's construction.

Brunner is right that there is a certain impersonality about a system of justice, a definiteness and a structured quality which is not dependent on attitudes of personal like or dislike.3 Yet justice within a family requires adaptation to individual need, and justice within an economic order requires some variation in income according to contribution as well as need.

A system of concepts, such as the equations of thermodynamics, is a complex theoretical and experimental structure to which many individuals contributed.

Anyone who looks with sensitivity at the suffering of the poor and powerless, suffering that most of us do not deliberately intend, has a sense that some kind of cunning evil that is too strong for us and dehumanizes us has captured and controls the systems and structures in which we live.

Finally, systems which we consider worthy candidates to be granted the name «living» differ from things like clay minerals in that they contain instructions, not only for copying, but for the elaboration of structures which can actively Operate on surrounding materials.

The structure of the morphogenetic fields themselves depends on the actual forms of previous similar systems, which act through a process called morphic resonance.

Neither Newton nor Whitehead ascribes to a purely relative theory of space and time structure, that is, a theory which would maintain that any selected system of material objects may serve as a suitable framework in terms of which to analyze physical reality.

In the case of chemical dissipative structures, there is a time - parameter which is characteristic of the structure as a whole19 (roughly, the time it takes for the system to traverse the limit cycle).

Limit cycle frequencies in oscillatory systems in biology may form templates in which forms can be fixed in structures which provide instructions for the next stage.

Such structures should clearly be distinguished from «equilibrium structures» which persist only in closed systems.

In a new dissipative structure (either a steady state or a limit cycle), concentrations of chemicals and rates of mass - transfer between the system and surroundings will not be those characteristic of the previous equilibrium state (or the nonequilibrium steady state that corresponds to it under conditions of instability) but rather they will be the (perhaps quite different) average values which pertain to the new structure.

The energy maintains the system by being channeled in a structure which limits its dissipation.

Unlike Mill, then, Hartshorne does not merely assert the fundamentality of happiness for motivation; rather, he derives this conclusion from a metaphysical system in which the concept of experience figures prominently in the basic structure of reality.

Now if there is an unconscious meaning system or structure which generates various related narratives — I have been especially interested in the New Testament narratives — where does this structure reside?

In place of the prevailingly rural economy to which, through the parish system, the Church had adapted itself, mining and manufacturing towns were rapidly emerging and the populations of existing cities were mounting and were outgrowing or making anachronistic the ecclesiastical structures of earlier days.

This idea depends on developments in general systems theory, which views «all of nature and all of human activity as a hierarchically arranged structure of levels of interlocked subset systems in which the process of any particular subset system affects and is affected by other subset systems at its own level, as well as below or above it.»

I need not elaborate the detailed description Turner developed of the way in which rites of passages afford the formal structuring that, he claimed, maintains the ordered value system of a group and provides a cathartic experience of «communitas.»

each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

Justice is not an abstract concept, but the perspective from which to judge the total system and structure of political and social relationship - the perspective of the poor and the weak.

Socialists doubt that this can be accomplished within the system and project a transformation of the economic - social structure within which persons exist.

Snyder's - Lance believes the IO structure will drive better returns than the company - owned DSD system, and will strengthen its relationships with customers, which will lead to accelerated growth.

The competition is open to products which are either made from aluminium foil or contain aluminium foil as part of a laminate, structure or packaging system, as well as aluminium closures.

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