Sentences with phrase «upon assumptions which»

It also rests upon assumptions which have not been, and can not be, empirically established.

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Forward - looking statements contained in this press release include the intent, belief, or expectations of the Company and members of its management team with respect to the Company's future business operations and the assumptions upon which such statements are based.

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With respect to Awards granted to an Outside Director that are assumed or substituted for, if on the date of or following such assumption or substitution the Participant's status as a Director or a director of the successor corporation, as applicable, is terminated other than upon a voluntary resignation by the Participant (unless such resignation is at the request of the acquirer), then the Participant will fully vest in and have the right to exercise Options and / or Stock Appreciation Rights as to all of the Shares underlying such Award, including those Shares which would not otherwise be vested or exercisable, all restrictions on Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units will lapse, and, with respect to Awards with performance - based vesting, all performance goals or other vesting criteria will be deemed achieved at one hundred percent (100 %) of target levels and all other terms and conditions met.

If one doesn't believe it, however, he is in conflict not merely with the argument of To Empower People but with the assumption of self - governance upon which the American experiment in republican democracy is constituted.

Critical scrutiny shows beyond all doubt the untenability of the entire network of assumptions upon which racial discrimination rests, and reveals the true character of racial bias as a device for rationalizing injustices.

But it has hopefully strengthened his point and added this dimension to it: there can be little doubt that this «confrontation» between the Christian confession and humanistic acts of a general nature is, if not a programmatic Matthean theme, nevertheless based upon a tacit assumption which is quite integral to Matthew's total theological program.

The «assumption of simple location,» upon which classical physics was based, abstracts from an aspect of physical reality that must now be considered fundamental and not just accidental — time.

However, by the time he delivered his Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh in 1927 and 1928, upon which Process and Reality was based, Whitehead was already aware of insurmountable difficulties with many empiricist assumptions about the nature of the reality that we are supposed to observe in order to confirm those general laws of which Cohen wrote.

If it is indeed the case that absent theistic assumptions, the scientific enterprise can ultimately be called into question, then by embracing naturalism, these biologists are effectually sawing off the branch upon which they are currently sitting.

Indeed, many of the concepts with which he works are based upon the assumption of relativity.

Churches have used both these models and a close examination of the assumptions upon which they are built shows they are not appropriate for church communities.

If we try to Imagine that there must be something solid beneath the process, then this is because we are still being tricked by the assumptions of common sense and classical physics upon which materialism rests.

In certain respects they would differ from those which depend upon the assumption of limitlessness.

Revitalizing it could constitute a first step towards easing and limiting tensions and conflicts based upon assumptions of fundamental and irreconcilable difference by transcending a portrayal of the Arab - Islamic world as being peripheral or subordinate, or indeed antagonistic to the West, and instead providing a basis upon which the West and the Muslim world can more positively engage with one another.

President Buhari who was in the United Kingdom for the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference in London, British capital was speaking of the problems bedevilling the oil and gas sector of the economy which he said were part of the challenges he inherited upon an assumption of office.

The fact that the traveler's journey backward in time hits an impasse means that there's a problem, from a logical standpoint, with the assumption of an ever - expanding universe upon which this whole scenario is based.

Within 90 days [due approx January 2011] after the date of enactment of this Act, or upon completion of reference designs for the Space Launch System and Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle authorized by this Act, whichever occurs first, the Administrator shall provide a detailed report to the appropriate committees of Congress that provides an overall description of the reference vehicle design, the assumptions, description, data, and analysis of the systems trades and resolution process, justification of trade decisions, the design factors which implement the essential system and vehicle capability requirements established by this Act, the explanation and justification of any deviations from those requirements, the plan for utilization of existing contracts, civil service and contract workforce, supporting infrastructure utilization and modifications, and procurement strategy to expedite development activities through modification of existing contract vehicles, and the schedule of design and development milestones and related schedules leading to the accomplishment of operational goals established by this Act.

Additionally, they are all dependent upon the assumption that limiting factor for the speed at which cross-bridge cycling can occur is the speed at which the ATPase of the myosin head can hydrolyze ATP to power the process.

The Harvard Project on School Desegregation report examines both these findings and the assumptions upon which they rest using court documents, district and state - level data, and interviews.

The center was created this summer to «critically examine the assumptions upon which traditional schools have been based» and to assist aft locals engaged in reform initiatives.

Second, their analysis is intriguing, but it rests upon assumptions and data which deserve to be carefully scrutinized.

The assumption was that once students learned the mechanics of reading and writing (grades 1 - 3), they were equipped with the foundation upon which to build comprehension and critical thinking skills.

The APR calculation is based upon the assumption that you keep your loan for the entire period of the loan, say 30 years, which in reality may not be the true hold period for a borrower.

We express no opinion as to such Forecasts or the assumptions upon which they were based.

I think «the IPCC projections are not conditioned upon assumptions about policies being implemented related to emissions» is wrong, since there are a variety of projections, which are conditioned explicitly on the emission scenarios.

Worse (from the POV of deciding whether the assertion is «unequivocal»), quantifying benefit or harm involves assumptions based upon values, which can never be entirely objective.

But how do you determine that the emission rates are plausible, other than by considering the plausibility of the assumptions upon which they are based?

I advise military evaluators to RIGOROUSLY assess the assumptions of statistical models (not to be confused with physical processes) upon which climate scientists, solar scientists, etc. base estimates of uncertainty.

(C) ensure operational quality control of all Climate Service Program products including a transparent and open accounting of all the assumptions built into the global, national, regional, and local weather and climate computer models upon which such products are based;

Climate projections are distinguished from climate predictions in order to emphasize that climate projections depend upon the emission / concentration / radiative forcing scenario used, which are based on assumptions concerning, for example, future socioeconomic and technological developments that may or may not be realised and are therefore subject to substantial uncertainty.

Since the anthropogenic sources of CO2 almost wholly inject it into the troposphere, the assumption that it should take several years for the CO2 levels to equilibrate and upon which Tom Quirk based his analysis is not true.

Climate projections are distinguished from a href = «c.html #climate - predictions» > climate predictions in order to emphasize that climate projections depend upon the emission / concentration / radiative forcing scenario used, which are based on assumptions concerning, for example, future socioeconomic and technological developments that may or may not be realized and are therefore subject to substantial uncertainty.

So what may seem «logical» to you, that we are contributing «greatly» depends upon a uncertain assumption «only if there are no other sources of c12 increases which are not human caused»

But when debates are rehearsed simply for debate's sake, and when dogma, rather than reason, drives the conversation, it's necessary to re-examine the terms of our conflicts and the assumptions upon which they rest — such as the support of so many environmentalists for renewables over a zero - carbon energy source like nuclear, or the deep - seated resistance to biotechnology and machines when it comes to food production.

Because this is such a marked divergence from the widely held view that CO2 lagged rising temperatures at the end of the last ice age, careful scrutiny must be given to evidence and assumptions upon which this contention is based.

Even if this hypothesis was at first founded upon assumptions for the absorption of carbon dioxide which are not strictly correct, it is still an open question whether an examination of the «protecting» influence of the higher atmospheric layers upon lower ones may not show that a decrease of the carbon dioxide will have important consequences, owing to the resulting decrease in the radiation of the upper layers and the increased temperature gradient at the earth's surface.

Well, it seems to me you have yet to present a good reason why I should accept your assumption, upon which all of your arguments rest, that the climate is not deterministic albeit complex, on the timescales that humans care about, and therefore predictable given adequate information.

As for the economic impact of mitigating climate change, Stern's 1 percent of GDP calculation rests upon an assumption of stabilization of emissions in the next 10 to 20 years, which he says would make a temperature rise above 4 degrees Celsius unlikely.

Recent research in neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, economics and other related fields has undoubtedly taken a wrecking ball to the assumptions upon which the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason doctrines were built.

I am answering on the assumption that it is located in the United States, based upon your word usage in the question, and am providing an answer which would be the predominant rule in most U.S. jurisdictions, although it may not be the rule in absolutely every U.S. state.

This is because the death must invalidate the fundamental assumption upon which the order was made, and if a spouse's needs no longer exist, this test can be satisfied.

The Rules of Court in force at the time of this trial required an expert to state «the facts and assumptions upon which the opinion is based».

Hale J (as she then was) in Cornick v Cornick [1994] 2 FLR 530 indicated that mistake as to value fell within the Barder principle in that it would undermine the basis or fundamental assumption upon which the original order had been made.

... the digital revolution and the modern social and economic forces it has unleashed are creating new modes of delivery of traditional legal services, creating new demands and expectations for meaningful access to justice, and eroding the fundamental assumptions upon which the legal profession of the past was built.

HELD The court has to ask itself: «Has the basis upon which the order was made or a fundamental, albeit tacit, assumption which underpinned its making, been invalidated by subsequent events?»

While the Respondent argued that the decision to proceed by special case was a discretionary one to which deference was owed, the Appellants argued that the special case was not appropriate because: the questions posed in the special case rested on a hypothetical assumption that the agreements were valid; necessary facts were not included and not all the facts were agreed upon by the parties; and the parties did not sign the statement of special case as required by Rule 9 - 3 (3)(c).

And of what use would classic family therapy interventions be when the fundamental assumption upon which they were based the parents» central importance to the child's life hadn't been true for quite some time?

Unquestionably, Jimmy's parents needed help, but what use would classic family therapy interventions be when the fundamental assumption upon which they were based — the parents» central importance to the child's life — hadn't been true for quite some time?

CAMFT endorses the American Psychiatric Association's Position Statement on Psychiatric Treatment and Sexual Orientationvii, and opposes ``... any psychiatric treatment, such as reparative or conversion therapy which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon the a priori assumption that the patient should change his or her homosexual orientation.»