Sentences with phrase «upon a system which»

However, we do not know what stresses were exerted upon the system which reduced construction activity.

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And in order to accomplish this, he is working on a «reusable rocket» called the Mars Colonial Transporter, according to Aeon, which differs from traditional launch systems that expend upon deployment.

Mandiant was also called upon to investigate the last major attack to hit the health sector, which involved Community Health Systems, a Tennessee - based hospital operator, in August.

Apple described it as a «patent troll with no active business other than patent litigation», which had previously demanded payment from «everyone from truckers and farmers to roofers and dairies... Apple invents products that revolutionise industries, and relies upon the US patent system to protect our innovation.»

One of three trading systems: Classic which keeps all trade amounts the same; Martingale which raises the trade amount after a loss and then reverts back to the original trade amount; Fibonacci which raises and lowers trade amounts based upon a highly accurate mathematical sequence.

Businesses that don't understand the nature of ranking sometimes think that they can game the system and end up making bad decisions like dabbling in black hat SEO, which involves implementing tactics that are frowned upon by the search engines.

NEM, like Ethereum, is a «solution platform» — upon which, many things can be implemented, such as payment systems, encrypted messaging etc..

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.

It is important to know as you might have a system that is totally dependent upon fundamental company data which pays little to no attention to interest rate announcements of such like but when your stock falls in price you wonder why.

The new capability builds upon the company's mobile - order and pay system, which is called Starbucks Siren Order.

The expenditures upon which we seek a report are those that Congress has said to not warrant a deduction as an ordinary and necessary business expense, namely, lobbying, participation in the political system by supporting or opposing candidates for office, and trying to influence the general public or segment thereof as to elections, legislative matters or referenda.

Following my lead, Pike's diagrams naturally lead one to think of God as a power plant, upon which many autonomous systems draw their current.

Most significantly, Duddington argues against the charge that permitting an increasing role for religion in the legal and political (i.e., public) spheres would necessitate the imposition of one system of belief upon another, by re-emphasising the argument that Christianity does not serve to generate a moral code, but rather provides a vehicle through which it may be discovered.

The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

Although this essentially methodological affinity has been duly recorded and commented upon (most notably by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers2) there has, as yet, been no exploration of the extent to which Deleuze's metaphysics parallels that of Whitehead in terms of its content — the extent to which his own system of «descriptive notions» mirrors, departs from, or fractures, the categoreal scheme of Process and Reality.

The fragility of this — due, among other things, to exchange rate instability, market volatility, the development of derivatives, and to the structural deficiencies of the institutions (IMF and the World Bank) upon which the financial system rests — is now admitted by all.

The old dominance should be transformed into the firm foundations, upon which new feelings arise, drawing their intensities from delicacies of contrast between system and freshness» (PR 515).

Wooldridge characterizes the reticular system as the establisher of an optimal signal - to - noise ratio, so to speak, upon which higher levels of experience are staged:» «Volume - control» signals are generated in the reticular system to reduce our sensitivity to uninteresting or irrelevant stimuli and thereby permit us to achieve the peculiar but highly useful phenomenon of mental concentration» (4:143).

Mark Graves» book is an admirable attempt to answer these two questions, which he does largely by drawing upon his professional acquaintance with systems theory.

This may be partly because the moderns had some success in undermining confidence in the classic proofs by their criticism without winning any lasting confidence in their own, but the main cause is not any defect in the proofs for the existence of God, at least in the classic proofs, but the general discredit which has fallen upon all systems of thought which ante-date the last century.

If positive values tend to confirm relationships and negative values to fracture them, then the particular ways in which changes take place in the human scene will depend upon the systems of value which pertain.

[16] Although upholders of general relativity theory maintain the unintelligibility of such questions, the questions are unintelligible only within their system Riemannian space depends for basic concepts upon Euclidean geometry, which is then transcended.

The old dominance should be transformed into the firm foundations, upon which new feelings arise, drawing their intensities from delicacies of contrast between system and freshness.

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).

Instead of joining in a hue and cry against a churchman for engaging in this system in which every one of us is implicated, from which even the bishop's salary is derived, or hiding our Christian faces in shame because his hypocritical enemies hold him up as a «horrible example,» the clear call of Christ is that his followers should make a frontal attack upon the pagan system itself, and demand that our economic order shall give way to an economic order embodying the principles of the kingdom of God (July 17, 1929).

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.

This system, dependent on a small affluent minority using a disproportionate share of the World's natural resources, was fast depleting the base upon which it rested: nonrenewable resources.

There remains something, in the inertial thrust and reciprocal logic of the opposed weapons systems — and the configuration of material, political, ideological and security interests attendant upon them — which can not be explained within [our usual political] categories.

At least one of them, that suggested by Tillich, depends to a considerable degree upon the Tillichian «system» in which there is much talk about «existential» and «essential» manhood, not to mention the more general philosophical position which he adopts with its talk about «the ground of being», «the power of being», and «the new being in Christ» — the last of these constituting in fact what «restitution» is all about.

«Change comes, we suspect,» states Wallis, «more through the witness of creative and prophetic minorities who refuse to meet the system on its own terms but rather act out of an alternative social vision upon which they have based their lives.

Others among the Sufis held fast to shari`a, but understood it in ways which were much wider and more liberal than the interpretation of the orthodox, looking upon the law as either a system of self - discipline or as a set of symbols representing hidden religious meanings.

In the first century, some of the most advanced of Jewish teachers, faced with the growing complexity of the system of ethics contained in the so - called Law of Moses and its constantly proliferating interpretations and supplements, were attempting to bring out its central or overruling intention by giving prominence to one or another «great commandment» upon which the rest might be supposed to hang.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...

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.

Christianity is not an economic system, but it has a faith and ideal which puts upon any system the demand that it honor rather than exploit human personality, that it operate as a technique to provide for the material well - being of all the people and not for the exploitation of the weak by the strong.

The penultimate chapter of this book continues to challenge the reader to reflect upon the tensions found within the formalised education system which prevent true unity.

Although Whitehead is reacting primarily to the popularity of logical positivism during the early part of the century, he also takes to task the presupposition that the method of philosophy should lead to «premises which are severally clear, distinct, and certain; and to erect upon those premises a deductive system of thought» (PR 8).

When Jesus told his disciples, «Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth,» was he attacking the economic system upon which our material security depends?

«Philosophy has been haunted by the unfortunate notion that its method is dogmatically to indicate premises which are severally clear, distinct, and certain; and to erect upon those premises a deductive system of thought.»

In the world view we share we have all been made aware of the rather insignificant role played by the planet on which we live; we know something of the solar system, and we have had impressed upon us the unbelievably immense distances which separate us from most of the stars we see in the sky with our naked eyes.

You realize humans experience pain due to the nervous system, which begins disintegrating upon death.

In the case of a «speculative system» which fuses historically obsolete cosmologies, Whitehead's repeated and in fact passionate emphasis that the «elucidation of immediate experience is the sole justification for any thought» (PR 4/6) seems not at all able to be brought into some coherent association, Whitehead's reflection that we could ask ourselves «whether the type of thought involved [in his cosmology] be not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis» (PR xiii / viii) may hit not only upon the widespread skepticism with regard to the «main doctrines of Absolute Idealism» in general, but also, in particular, upon doubts concerning their ability to be transformed «onto a realistic basis.»

Furthermore, it has insisted — and rightly — that Christianity is a faith and not a philosophical or ethical system; it is a faith in which affirmations are made about an historical person in whom God is believed to be specially at work; it has insisted that we have to do with a tradition which has been nourished by the lives of holy men and women, by saints and scholars, but which is based upon the gospel, whose grounding is in the scriptural record and witness and which therefore can not exist without constant reference to that «deposit» of God's self - revelation.

Am on your side on that I all my life felt that GOD Allah was on my side in Good time and at the worst times, which makes me feel things would have been worse and deadly if it wasn't for GOD mercy whom I call upon in good and bad times... we ought to be spiritually sensitive to realize signs from GOD whether it was a sight or a over heard word or a dream... when ever feeling tight chested just pray thanking, glorifying GOD asking for pardon of our sins... Am sure many had remembered and prayed well at the moments of the Irene hurricane... towards which it contributed to it to slow down or go... although it is true that not any lives were lost thanks to GOD but many billions of US Dollars financially lost at hard economical times which means maybe to say that «Individuals are not being blamed but rather it is their governing system is...?!!

And a system which denies the existence of God, the possibility of touching extrahuman spiritual resources, and any dimension of human living except that which is lived upon this planet, seems to me to be a pathetically inadequate philosophy for the complex spirit of man.

Rather than relying upon regular cold and flu medication, which can weaken your immune system's ability to respond naturally to illness, try leaning towards natural ways to boost immunity and fight of colds and flu.

Spirulina is a sweet blue - green microalgue which is now known as a superfood, since it has a wide range of health benefits almost immediately upon ingestion: it's a boost to one's energy, it helps to improve the immune system and it is a natural detoxifier with powerful antioxidant properties.

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This is about a certain part of the system which needs attention and needs to be improved upon.