Sentences with phrase «upon their interests rather»

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True, applying the lyrics this way would rather crudely suggest that WWII was also at bottom caused by economic interests as well, but hey, we've still got WWI to bank upon.

«Rather than rational self interest being the basis upon which your micro-economical decisions were made, start to say, «What if the golden rule was the basis for our microeconomic decisions?

Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.

Karl Ludwig Schmidt demonstrated that the order of events in the Gospels is not based upon a memory of the order of Jesus» public ministry inherent in the material, but rather is largely the contribution of the redactional process, which assembled unrelated stories, sayings, and small individual collections for devotional purposes, and then arranged them topically or theologically without any serious interest in chronology or geography.

I've always found it rather interesting that the US Military openly discriminates against its own population, but during war - time, calls upon ally nations that have openly gay soldiers serving in their militiaries.

Its course of action upon learning of the grave threat was not to protect the public interest, but rather to minimize the impact of the threat to their image as a company, and the status of its case before the Supreme Court.

It is based upon published sources and would not claim to have discovered new, original ones, but rather has an interesting assessment which makes the reader think.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

«We're hoping to impress upon the scientific community the notion that for those of us who might be interested in predicting an outcome of interest, possibly with rather complex or high dimensional data, we might gain by reconsidering the question as one of how to search for highly predictive variables (or variable sets) and using statistics that measure predictivity to help us identify those variables to then predict well,» Lo said.

Taking the Yahoo Personals Premier test is not onerous or difficult, rather you just answer some interesting and fun questions, look at different relationship scenarios and decide upon the best outcome.

Its also one of his most interesting, as the plotting is rather ambitious, touching upon concepts such as hypnotism, meta - fiction, and illusions.

Are you more interested in a romance novel that's Based Upon a True Story — is truth stranger (or rather, steamier) than fiction?

With the indexed account, your money is not directly invested in the market, but rather the indexed account is credited interest based upon a formula that tracks the performance of underlying major indices, such as the S&P 500.

Bondholders do not get a share of company's profits but rather collect interest at an agreed upon rate.

Rather than chasing yield, or relying exclusively upon coupon interest and dividend payments for future income, many market participants could better prepare themselves for retirement by developing prudent withdrawal plans funded by accumulated savings.

Rather than dozens upon dozens of copy and paste events we've got actual side - quests with interesting characters.

Upon arrival, I spent a good half hour wandering around, not because Limsa Lominsa is such an impressive looking city filled with guilds, market places and other points of interest, but mainly because the map provided is rather difficult to follow.

The atmosphere of the planet I was intruding upon was rather gorgeous, making excellent use of a wide and interesting color palette in various shades and hues.

In doing so, I stumbled across the Starfall Tactics Kickstarter that at first glance looked rather interesting and then upon -LSB-...]

Many commentators to ClimateEthics argue that since people are self - interested beings, it is more important to make arguments in support of climate change based upon self - interest rather than ethical arguments.

The extent to which nations make ghg emissions reductions commitments based upon «equity» rather than national interest alone.

In responding this way, proponents of climate change policy action are implicitly confirming the ethically dubious notion that public policy must be based upon economic self - interest rather than responsibilities to those who will be most harmed by inaction.

Because the amount of reductions that nations should achieve should be based upon principles of distributive justice and not - self interest, nations will continue to make commitments to reduce their emissions based upon self - interest rather than what is their fair share of safe global emissions.

Because many of the justifications for national ghg emissions commitments are based upon economic self - interest, rather than ethical duty to others, these justifications fail to satisfy minimum ethical scrutiny.

Yet, some countries have distinguished themselves by their positions that are obviously based upon national economic interest rather than a fulfillment of global responsibilities.

In the interests of remaining on topic, I'll just note (as many others have) that public policy decisions are driven by the information available, that on complex subjects we depend upon expert opinion, and that due to some rather serious efforts by «skeptics» there is a gap between the expert opinion and the public perception of the same.

Merit (based upon a combination of objective and subjective factors): Associates in more firms are interested in seeing their increases tied to their performance, rather than in lockstep progression.

Rather than rely upon the delegation of consultation duties and a patchwork of impact - benefit agreements (no two being the same), focus should now shift toward the need to deal with these complex and sometimes competing interests in a comprehensive manner.

It's interesting that the practice of affording witnesses the opportunity of concealing their identity at trial is one borne of judicial ingenuity or a sense of pragmatism, rather than based upon any legislative intervention.

Your money is not directly invested in the market, but rather the indexed account is credited interest based upon a formula that tracks the performance of underlying major indices, such as the NASDAQ 100, Russell 2000, S&P 500, etc..

With the indexed account, your money is not directly invested in the market, but rather the indexed account is credited interest based upon a formula that tracks the performance of underlying major indices, such as the S&P 500.

The purpose of the insurance is no longer to make someone whole upon a loss, but rather to enrich someone with no other interest in the insured other than investment and profit.

Rather the RDA is concerned with the effect that the creation of an interest in land has upon native title when compared with the effect it has on other titleholders.