Sentences with phrase «universal time measuring»

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But when we move out into celestial space the problem is magnified and the time we measure is clearly our time, not universal time or absolute time.

In addition, some Democrats have come to share the near - universal perception that measuring compassion by the appropriation of tax dollars is a truly dumb idea whose time came and went long ago.

It is true that there is, according to Aristotle, one privileged motion — the rotation of the sphere of the fixed stars — which measures accurately the objective flow of time; in its insistence on the close correlation of time with the universal celestial clock, Aristotle's theory of time remained relational.

So consistent are we in our beliefs that if you hew to the first narrative, I predict you read the New York Times, listen to progressive talk radio, watch CNN, are pro-choice and anti-gun, adhere to separation of church and state, are in favor of universal health care, and vote for measures to redistribute wealth and tax the rich.

Twice each day, about an hour before midnight and noon, Coordinated Universal Time, hundreds of meteorologists worldwide send balloons into the upper atmosphere to measure pressure, temperature, and relative humidity.

Felicitas Arias of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures suggests we stop adding leap seconds to coordinated universal time (UTC), which is based on atomic clocks, to compensate for its drift from astronomical time, mainly on the grounds that telecommunications systems do not work well with leap seconds (17 December 2011, p 27).

They submit their time signal measurements to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, France, which averages them and publishes a monthly newsletter that sets Coordinated Universal Time (Utime signal measurements to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris, France, which averages them and publishes a monthly newsletter that sets Coordinated Universal Time (UTime (UTC).

Since we are already required to assess our K - 5 students on universal screening measures three times a year in pre-reading, reading fluency and comprehension, math computation and mathematical concepts, why do we have to lose more valuable instruction time by putting our students through these redundant assessments?

But even when I am in other communities around the Bay Area, it is the San Francisco Bay Area I live in, measured by the proximity to that marvelous city, home to green building codes, to universal health care, to bans on plastic bags, to mandatory composting, to rainbow flags waving proudly in the Castro breeze, to dog walking on Ocean Beach, to watching a ballgame at AT&T park, to the guy you love and hate at the same time, the great Mayor himself, Mr. Gavin Newsom.

It is Coordinated Universal Time, the official measure of time in the world, which is independent from the time zoTime, the official measure of time in the world, which is independent from the time zotime in the world, which is independent from the time zotime zones.

While one might well reply that Ingres's Apotheosis of Homer is as irrevocably bound to the same historical moment as Courbet's Studio, even though it attempts to establish universal values and eternal verities, in the case of Ingres's work this is despite rather than because of the intentions of the artist; one might almost say that as far as Ingres was concerned, to be of one's time was a measure of failure rather than of achievement.

The resulting constructions of hanging marine rope and brass tubing provide abstracted 5 dimensional maps of France at the time of this endeavor to calculate a universal unit of measure dedicated to «all men and all times» and bring a transcendent humanity to this fact.

We already have a universal measure of mass and time, but what about temperture?

Further measures announced include # 400m of loan funding for estate regeneration; a further # 10bn towards the Help to Buy scheme to support another 135,000 people to buy new homes; # 200m to continue with the Right to Buy pilot scheme, this time in the Midlands; and revisions to the delivery of Universal Credit to eliminate the seven day waiting period.

The agreement, a copy of which was obtained by the newspaper El Universal, includes the use of Facebook's tools to measure civic participation, access to real - time data of voting results granted by INE, and the provision of a physical space in the Institute's office where, on election day, the company is expected to perform activities such as posting live videos.