Sentences with phrase «systems on the assumption»

In Canada, our tax system tries to integrate our personal and corporate tax systems on the assumption that distributions from firms, such as income - trust payments and dividends, will be taxed when they are paid to individuals — but those distributions are increasingly untaxed.

Not exact matches

Forced to question his assumptions, he rethought his approach to bringing on customers and built a better system.

The hypothetical failure of the natural fee market depends on all these assumptions combining into an unfavorable outcome, as well as the inability of the system to adjust itself favorably using any of these factors.

We despair at Italy's persistent tinkering with electoral laws, an obsession based on the false assumption that other systems would produce fundamentally different outcomes.

Mr. Anglin also filed a complaint with the Calgary Police reporting he'd received an anonymous death threat after refusing to step aside for Mr. Nixon, and accused what the Red Deer Advocate called «a senior Wildrose Party player» of offering him «in essence a bribe» in return for stepping down — a job with the Alberta Electric System Operator, Alberta Energy Regulator or the Alberta Surface Rights Board, presumably on the assumption the party wins the next election.

In addition to the basic assumption that the god or gods on which a religion is based exist, every system of religious beliefs raises a number of questions.

There is NO WAY that a single belief system is correct, particularly if said religion was made up tens of thousands of years after modern man arrived on the earth, and the assumption is that this religion is the only way man can be «saved».

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

However, I state and restate the obvious because we have collectively acquiesced in a system that is based on the opposite assumptions, one that endlessly destroys human community and degrades the natural environment on the grounds that this increases total wealth.

The assumption is that strong involvement in the educational system on the part of parents gains more than is lost in this process.

This strategy, which will be recognized by many of us in developed countries, is based on the assumption that land, labor and capital are all there is, that the real world is a closed - end system.

First, such an interpretation rests on the incorrect assumption that Calvin's theology is a system logically deduced from a central idea.

On the one hand his assumption that his problem is essentially one of willpower, and on the other hand, the fact that he is caught by a compulsion, make it increasingly necessary for his defensive rationalization system to work overtimOn the one hand his assumption that his problem is essentially one of willpower, and on the other hand, the fact that he is caught by a compulsion, make it increasingly necessary for his defensive rationalization system to work overtimon the other hand, the fact that he is caught by a compulsion, make it increasingly necessary for his defensive rationalization system to work overtime.

It proceeds on the assumption that the world is a closed system in which causes and effects are connected by strict necessity.

But even here the emphasis falls on becoming aware of hidden assumptions, learning how to live with people whose «value systems» differ, and acquiring the critical detachment necessary for students to «choose for themselves what principles will guide them.»

Our present system is based on the assumption that current growth contributes to future wellbeing.

Conversely, the metaphysical system adopted may lead to emphasis on particular features of the model (e.g. Platonic and Aristotelian assumptions lead to emphasis on God's changelessness, self - sufficiency and omnipotence, whereas Whiteheadian thought minimizes each of these aspects).

Thus some may wish to argue that one can not assume that a certain set of spin - values would have been obtained no matter which of conditions a and conditions b are met — on the grounds that the provisions for novelty in Whitehead's system preclude such an assumption.

These assumptions operate on a still more primitive level in the system of Buddhist - Lamaist prayer mills.

That and our «third - rate educational system, our third - rate morality, our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong lest we «impose» our morality on others and thus invite others to «impose» their morality onus, our reluctance to judge or be judged, our indifference to the needs of future generations as evidenced by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our inhospitable attitude to the newcomers born in our midst, our unstated assumption which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.»

I always tried to teach my juniors to «be a knife, but keep your head up», run system 1 so that you can cut through complexity, but stay aware so that when you're confronted with something that «doesn't fit» you fire up system 2 and carefully re-examine all your assumptions lest you find yourself at the lectern for a painful M&M or worse, on the stand.

Your belief / faith system is different from mine, and somewhere in there I made assumptions, or focused on the differences, and while I didn't comment regarding those, I dismissed this blog as a source.

For decades, our parental leave system has been based on the assumption that it's dad who goes out to work while mum cares for the kids — giving fathers 2 weeks off when your baby is first born and mothers up to a year.

There is also a tendency towards hubristic behavior in any system that is built on the assumption that one person has all the answers.

We could get a different kind of tactical voting, where people try to send messages through the voting system by voting for single - issue candidates first, then the candidate they want second, on the assumption that the single - issue candidate will be knocked out before the candidate they want.

We must instead insist on and develop a new style of engagement that is not couched in easy anti-politics motifs, but builds from the grassroots upwards and seeks to challenge dominant assumptions — speaking to and connecting with the diverse and rich communities of the North, and insisting that a regional democracy which develops new forms of governance for better regional and local systems is possible.

Desirability of specific outcomes may be quite dependent on ones subjective assumptions and value system chosen.

As noticed by Satterthwaite, the original theorem immediately implies that, on the subset of configurations where all voters have strict preferences, the system is dictatorial (given the usual assumptions, i.e. non-manipulability and at least 3 eligible candidates).

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a system of medical treatment for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, based on the assumption that it may prevent discomfort and health problems caused by diminished circulating estrogen hormones.

However, the first method does not provide spatial information, and the latter is based on assumptions due to the size of the system.

With this single, slight change the researchers elicited 32 different simulations — built on all the same assumptions — that represented some of the different ways the same climate system could evolve.

These are based on the assumption that the two faults are independent systems, and that the maximum quake on the Hayward Fault would be between magnitudes 6.9 and 7.0.

Most of the non-model estimates of climate sensitivity are based on the analyses using other forcings such as solar and aerosols, and the assumption that sensitivity to CO2 will be the same, despite the differences in way these forcings couple to the climate system.

The presence of «Oumuamua in the Solar System suggests that previous estimates of the number density of interstellar objects, based on the assumption that all such objects were cometary, were pessimistically low.

During my 20 + years as a competitive endurance athlete, I logged tens of thousands of training miles running and on the bike with the assumption that, in addition to becoming fit enough to race successfully at a national class level, I was also doing my cardiovascular system and the rest of my body a big healthy favor.

Jackbox Party Pack 3 is already available on the system, and Jackbox Party Pack 4 appears to be an unquestionable assumption at this point, but now you'll be able to get a hold of the whole set — once we get some release dates, of course.

School systems casually operate on the implicit assumption that most teachers are similarly adept at everything.

The «parallel system» approach to chartering's future rests on two mistaken assumptions: first, that by simply creating new schools and not purposely antagonizing the traditional system, chartering wouldn't attract the ire of defenders of the status quo; and second, that if chartering proved successful and popular, the sky was the limit on growth.

Using the pension plan's own interest assumptions (often 8 percent), in half of states teachers need to stay in a single system for at least 24 years to simply break even on their contributions plus interest.

As my colleagues and I discuss in a recent Brown Center report, states seriously underestimate the underfunding of their defined - benefit pension systems due to overly optimistic assumptions about the rate of return they will earn on their pension funds.

Under present systems for evaluating teachers in New York State and elsewhere, unsupported assumptions about teaching and learning often result in unfair judgments, concludes James A. Gross in Teachers on Trial: Values, Standards, and Equity in Judging Conduct and Competence.

Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.

Yet schools and school systems casually waste scarce talent by operating on the implicit assumption that most teachers will be similarly adept at everything.

Depending on the size of the system, this exported electricity is either measured or simply assumed (deemed) using an assumption of 50 per cent self ‑ consumption.

Traditional funding systems based on fixed assumptions about staffing, cost reimbursement, and other inputs constrain decisions for rural communities.

Welner takes issue with one of these, arguing that Florida's OPPAGA study is based on questionable assumptions regarding the number of students who were induced to leave the public school system because of the STC program.

He in essence suggested that because the curriculum wars have been decided more or less empirically, that people bent on disrupting the classroom and the factory - model education system were doing so under faulty assumptions about how students learn.

Initially, in stage one, the emphasis was mainly directed toward establishing and re-establishing standards, on the assumption that students needed to conform to a competent school system.

Our response to Secretary Duncan expresses other concerns as well, stressing the importance of evidence - based policy making, and explaining why pilot evaluation studies are preferable to the large - scale adoption of unproven state - mandated evaluation systems based on untested assumptions.