Sentences with phrase «terms of points which»

lens brings the concept of point out in our minds in sharp relief, and encourages us to suppose that ultimately the whole of reality can be analyzed in terms of points which are to be regarded as, in some basic sense, separately existent.

Not exact matches

That means interleaving not only produces better short - term results, it also results in much greater long - term retention — which is incredibly important in the real world where the point of learning isn't to simply remember something long enough to pass a test.

The shareholder points to a number of self - inflicted wounds: poor disclosure, abruptly firing the CEO in April, and taking on financing at egregious terms, all of which gives short sellers more ammunition to sow doubt.

AgileHealthInsurance.com, which sells short - term health insurance plans that are allowed to exclude benefits guaranteed under the ACA, expects the law to allow more choice so that insurers can design cheaper plans to hit a certain price point of $ 100 per month or $ 200 per month, as they did before the ACA, according to executive director Sam Gibbs.

Earlier in the month, the Federal Reserve raised the funds rate by 25 basis points, its fifth increase since December 2015, which impacts some of the terms by which you borrow money and access credit.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

Asked what it does to monitor foreign propaganda or prevent the buying of illegal political ads, Facebook merely pointed out its terms of service, which require advertisers to comply with «all applicable laws and regulations.»

Mortgage rates, which track the movements of long - term Treasury yields, rose by about a percentage point during the summer.

The company also markets DPNCheck ®, a rapid point - of - care test for diabetic neuropathy, which is the most common long - term complication of Type 2 diabetes.

The figure shows clearly that the cash cost of a residential property in terms of weeks of labour time remained roughly constant all the way from 1970 to 1986, at which point housing prices in Canada (and in particular in the Toronto area) rose drastically during the next three years.

Other potentially suitable spots exist here, such as the Tradepoint development at Sparrows Point and some potential redevelopment sites in the city, but none can match Port Covington in terms of both the speed with which Amazon could move forward and the attractiveness it presents for potential employees.

Pollster Frank Graves of Ekos Research points out that Jean Chrétien's 1993 win wasn't followed by any «post-election swoon,» while Paul Martin after 2004 and Stephen Harper after 2011 suffered declines which, far from being short - term slumps, proved irreversible.

And I think the example of that, which you point out in your book, is what's happened in terms of large corporations with stock dividends and buybacks.

According to a 10 - Q filed by Bank of America earlier this year, a 100 - basis - point increase in both long - term and short - term lending rates would boost its interest income by $ 6 billion, which is essentially double (if not more) what its closest peers, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase, would see in interest income increases.

This week is proving to be a critical turning point for the financial services industry, which is described in the terms of reference for the Hayne royal commission as systemically strong with the world's best prudential regulation and oversight.

And without dimensionalizing that too much, it's a substantial change in terms of the balance of items on the menu are $ 15 or below, which we've determined to be sort of a threshold point for affordability for high - quality seafood in casual dining.

Links couldn't be evaluated in terms of quality, which meant that any link on the web passed roughly the same proportionate value to whatever site it pointed to.

With the exception of 1986, and the 1987, 1990 and 2009 lows, which were moderately but not severely below longer - term historical norms, every point in this chart is «above average» from the standpoint the longer historical record.

Most experts suggest trying a combination of both fundamental and technical analysis, with which you can make long - term projections and also determine entry and exit points.

The study also found that long - term annual returns of the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, which comprises firms scoring highly on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, outperformed the S&P 500, a benchmark of the broader US stock market, by 45 basis points, since its inception in 1990.

In VFC's case, that basic estimate is based on reference point price - to - earnings ratio (P / E) of 15, which is the long - term average P / E of the stock market as a whole.

Whilst media reports have suggested a sale price potential of up to $ 1 billion, the value of the TAB will ultimately be driven by the licence term and tax rate, which at this point is unknown.

I agree with your points against muni's and corporate bonds for ladders though — in terms of expense and risk, which is why I avoid them.

Thirty percent of Panasonic's 2017 battery sales were to Tesla, which has become a major focal point for the company's long term growth strategy.

Market behavior clearly signaled that a secular inflection point was approaching and our Secular Trend Score (STS), which analyzes a large basket of fundamental, internal, technical and sentiment data, issued a long - term sell signal in December 1999.

This strong growth - driven by both occupancy and rate improvement and which was even stronger at upper upscale, urban, and luxury properties - comes at a time when economic data points have called into question the near - term sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery and would appear to demonstrate that as yet no reigns have been placed on corporate travel.

Market expectations of a tightening had been building since the previous Statement and were reflected in short - term market yields, which rose by around 30 basis points between early February and early March (Graph 41).

But even if you are able to qualify based on better than average credit, you could reduce your credit card rate by two to three points, which would result in significant interest cost savings over the term of the loan.

But as several Facebook's executives have pointed out, all of this is clearly stated in the terms and conditions which every user is presented with before they join Facebook.

First, the «returns on equities» here are typically taken to be earnings yields, which as we've frequently noted, are affected by cyclical variations in profit margins that make them notoriously poor indicators of long - term prospective returns (see Two Point Three Sigmas Above the Norm and Margins, Multiples and the Iron Law of Valuation).

If this bull market has a long future ahead of it — which I strongly doubt, but which we do have to allow — there will likely be several appropriate points to establish a speculative position at controlled risk (speculative, because my view is that the long - term investment merit of stocks is quite weak here).

This crime marks the culminating point of the cultural ethos which shapes the male psyche in terms of winner - loser.

William Lad Sessions, who summarized and analyzed Hartshorne's doctoral work writes: «The concepts, or «ideas» of philosophy, Hartshorne insists, are communicable (or «transferable» to use his term which points to the experiential basis of conception) but only partially so, because... obscurity is directly proportional to concreteness, and good philosophy plunges thought into the concrete....

Commenting on Whitehead's doctrine of structured societies at the cellular level, John Cobb remarks: «Whitehead at that point was forced to explain the order in the cell in terms of its molecular structure, to which spontaneity was denied, and to explain the life of the cell in terms of the events in its empty space, which he depicted as radically unordered.

Instead of being seen in terms of person - to - person relationship and the love of Christ, the problem is posed in global and sociological terms (which proves that the point of departure was humanist and social).

Fr Gavin points out that the hypothetical terms in which Scotus» thesis is often expressed can be a distraction from the gritty reality of redemption under the present dispensation marred by sin.

Though I have no desire to deprive experts of their pleasures and I do understand the joys of fluency in a another tongue, in terms of expediting interpersonal contactual points in time, the aspects of which appear on first examination to be of a nature so non-effective as to be thought hardly worth facilitating, hopefully, the sum of these co-optations, possibility-wise, are thought to be so negligible, that while on the surface appearing deep, in terms of clarity what I have said is not.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

Those who propose just revolution always represent violence as the «point of no return,» with which, consequently, history is obliged to come to terms.

p. 265f) seems to me to arise from a failure to appreciate Collingwood's point — viz., that the ontological argument makes explicit a presupposition of thought which understands in terms, inter alia, of the concept of the greatest conceivable.

The uninformed thought the [partial - birth] procedure gratuitously cruel, akin to infanticide; they didn't realize that the only difference between it and the methods of late - term abortion that are conceded all round to be constitutionally privileged is which way the fetus» feet are pointing.»

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

I would also limit the term «shepherding» to those situations in which it is possible for the minister to concentrate on the healing, sustaining, or guiding of the person or persons, rather than having primarily, at that point, to protect the interest of the group or the institution as perhaps against that of the person.

The term «Big Bang» is probably a misnomer, becuase it makes you think of a simple explosion, but the Big Bang was much more than an explosion, it was a rapid expansion in time and dimensionality in which the entire contents of the current universe was released from being a 0 dimensional point

The word Messiah, which means literally «anointed one,» points strictly, of course, to an individual; but in the psychology of Israel with its facile and often unconscious transitions from individual to corporate personality, we are hardly wrong in allowing a broader definition to the term Messianism, in which emphasis is placed upon the redemptive function of the human entity, whether group or individual.

the point made about free will [albeit not in those terms] made by Doug [while misusing a word and placing it in incorrect context... which goes to show, a small amount of dross doesn't ruin the whole] is accurate.

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

It is the central point in terms of which all other doctrines about God are formulated.

Whitehead's account of the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy, as he explicitly states, is dependent upon a definition of straight lines in terms which make no appeal to measurement (unlike the definition, «the shortest distance between two points»): «It is to be noted that this doctrine of presentational immediacy and of the strain - locus entirely depends...