Sentences with phrase «upon systems for»
The interdependent parts of this economy include agreed - upon systems for testing product (a sector of a botnet to confirm the available bandwidth, a few credit cards from a batch to make sure they're real and to check the balances), money - back guarantees, nicely designed interfaces, partnership programs, and, charmingly, free champagne for closing a deal together.
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Upon visiting a Perka partner, consumers tap the «Check In» button or introduce themselves to the cashier to earn virtual stamps for each qualifying purchase; the clerk authenticates transactions via the store's point - of - sale system, and stamps are automatically deposited into customers» Perka accounts.
Dorsey says he conceived the concept for Twitter on a San Francisco playground, drawing upon his fascination with dispatch systems for taxis, bike messengers and emergency services.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published a patent filed by the mega-retailer for a «delivery management system» that aims to improve upon last mile shipping — the final stretch extending to consumers» homes — by using robotics, sensors, and yes, blockchains, also often referred to as distributed ledgers.
From there, teams should take it upon themselves to push for innovation and improvement by testing various workflows and finding a system that works for everyone.
CCI members expressed concern that changes to how passive income is treated under Canada's tax system could reduce the availability of risk capital in Canada that is relied upon for business investment.
The absence of a single agreed - upon pricing system for cryptocurrencies could pose a major challenge as investors and businesses try to comply with financial reporting requirements.
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.
The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.
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.
What religion offers: — The opportunity to avoid eternal punishment for not worshiping / believing in my god (not worried enough to care)-- An explanation for the universe and why we are here (I'll take the knowledge gained from the application of the scientific method, but thanks)-- Living forever in heavenly bliss (I am content with this life)-- The opportunity to divide humanity based upon different belief systems (There is enough dividing us already)-- Purpose, a code of ethics, and fulfillment (I have that already, without religion)-- Develop a personal relationship with god (I've never seen or heard from any gods nor have I seen any independantly verified scientifically collected peer reviewed proof.
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.
[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.
One reason for the highly abstract conceptual mapping of systems concepts is found in the procedural recommendations of the hypothetical - deductive method, with its emphasis upon the axiomatic approach.
(ii) Craig's argument from thermodynamics depends upon assuming that the natural universe is a closed system, and so it will have force only for those who make that assumption.
In this sense Whitehead is closer to a mathematical physicist than a pure mathematician (PW 47/43); the metaphysical system must be tested against experience and «depends for its truth upon its empirical verification, and not merely upon its logical criteria» (PW 51/47).
Today, admittedly, the vagueness of 2 and its ultimate basis upon inner - change has been dropped by many progressivist idealists in favor of 3a or 3b: a very - tight system of International Law, or an «EU for the world,» will save us.
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.
a man can not reasonably, and by himself he can not possibly, be regarded as merely a system of cells acting upon one another, for he is directly aware of «himself» as, at the given moment, a single unit of action, a single mind or will, exerting force upon his bodily parts and thence upon the world.
At this point Buddhism presents an instructive contrast to Christianity, for here [in Buddhism] one discovers unbelievably complex systems of meditation centering upon the image of death, but here death is a way to a dissolution of the human condition, and therefore to the abolition of pain and suffering.21
The point for emphasis is that these values may be realized only when the party system is predicated upon the objective reality of the good and loyalty to it, and not when parties are committed to a struggle for their own members» advantage.
If there is any public policy proposition that a pluralistic system must agree upon — for the protection of all its members — it is that human life must be immune from arbitrary violation by other humans.
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.
Many Third World leaders have a strong bias against free enterprise as the system to rely upon for maintenance of the communication process that undergirds their national destiny.
The apostle insists that if one is in the law system — that is, if one is relying upon obedience to God's commands for one's salvation — one's obedience must be complete.
The use of punishment as a deterrent, and the effect of the penal system upon persons and society as a whole, raise issues for moral judgment.
Clear boundaries must be imposed upon a system in order to allow for the processing and transmitting of information.
Professor Bracken relies upon the careful work done by Lucas in the concept of Spirit in Hegel's philosophy and the concept of society in Whitehead's thought to illuminate each another's potentialities for development in the direction of still another, more comprehensive process - oriented system of thought.
But they are the very ones least able to judge the matter, for they were selected and trained by the system so that they could be depended upon to operate within its assumptions and myths.
Not only has Santorum repeatedly injected religion and his definition of «Christianity» into the bid for the Presidency, he has become unhinged in expounding upon his own theology and its relevance in the American systems of government.
A delusional belief system can not be relied upon for sane decision - making nor for many other essential things.
whereby the system purely sustains itself by itself and for itself as the groundless ground that veils authenticity, thinking, and reflection upon deeper reasons for being and acting in the world.
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?
I found support for this way of interpreting the effects of social Systems upon people in this volume of Walter Wink.
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.»
These theses of the socially powerless Jesus, the compromise of the gospel ethic with world and other systems of thought, the centrality of the love commandments, the need for a viable social ethic utilizing social philosophies, and the understanding by all this in relationship to the history of social philosophies had a forceful impact upon both H. Richard Niebuhr and his older brother Reinhold Niebuhr.
Since we are all prisoners unto ourselves, have all created tight systems for our daily existence and placed bars and limitations upon our spirit, we rightly long for an escape into active engagement with life.
A Christian witness to God, then, is vital to every utopia, for it must shatter the complacent self - deception of those who would erect upon some preconceived human possibility an absolute system of values.
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...?!!
He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.
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.
MCT's are a great energy source for the brain and they are easy on the digestive system because they don't depend upon bile to be metabolized.
As a customer - centric discipline, marketing provides the tools that allow a business to perform an investigation into customer demand, then devise a system that acts upon these findings to create a key mutual benefit; firstly for the customers, and secondly for the company.
It builds upon other certification systems, such as the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, and tackles some of the most challenging issues facing the palm oil sector, such as the destruction of high carbon stock forests and the abuse of the most vulnerable workers,» said Matthias Diemer, Chair of the Palm Oil Innovation Group.
Upon meeting with the client and visiting the plant, the Fusion Tech team designed and fabricated a system to automate delivery of boxes and increase safety and ergonomics for their employees.
Under the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, a system has been established and agreed upon by most countries of the world that facilitates access to genetic diversity while ensuring appropriate sharing of the benefits that arise from its use.