Sentences with phrase «value judgments as»

I think if anything, if I'd rerun it, I'd have looked much more closely at these bigger risks and been a bit more sensitive in the analysis to various ranges of value judgments as well as to changing risks.

Black carbon may be the second most important contributor to global warming based on some accounting methods, but defining «important» turns out to be as much a value judgment as a mathematical calculation.

Whatever the automatically generated bill looks like will then have to be checked against budgets and considered to see whether all of the items contained in it are actually chargeable as per whatever costs order has been made, let alone making a value judgment as to whether the costs are proportionate and reasonable.

Not exact matches

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

Our accounting for acquisitions involves significant judgments and estimates, including the fair value of certain forms of consideration such as our common stock, preferred stock or warrants, the fair value of acquired intangible assets, which involve projections of future revenues, cash flows and terminal value which are then discounted at an estimated discount rate, the fair value of other acquired assets and assumed liabilities, including potential contingencies, and the useful lives of the assets.

«At this time, the general judgment is that their volatile valuations, and inadequate investor and consumer protection, make them unsafe to rely on as a common means of payment, a stable store of value or a unit of account,» the report said.

If you select the right companies, and buy them at a time when they are good value relative to the market conditions at the time, then you shouldn't have to trouble yourself with judgments on the market as a whole.

Paul Samuelson argued in a 1983 paper Foundations of Economic Analysis published by Harvard University that giving equilibrium markets what he described as a «normative meaning» or a value judgment was a misstep.

If you are concerned that I spend time everyday in prayer or encouraging some poor soul as a waste that is a value judgment no different than a believer that looks down on what gays do in their bedrooms.

Atheist morality is without any objective basis and, if followed with integrity, doesn't allow them to act against others who act contrary to their moral system (as they insist that each subjective moral judgment is equal in value, all being based purely on individual feelings).

But if God does not exist, then neither do absolute values, and one should not issue moral judgments as though they do.

As a result, the judgments to which that theory gives rise place no value on community.

Thus in either case the judgment is pronounced upon man not from the human standpoint, as if man» s value were somehow immanent and securely possessed by him, but from without — according to Jesus, of course, God is the only Judge.

The Justices write as if this question can be ignored or constitutes merely a «value judgment» about which reasonable people can disagree.

While his judgment about the value of the accord for the preservation of catholic life in Europe may be seriously questioned, he did not support the agreement simply to enhance his own power, as Cornwall implies, but because he felt it was in the best interest of the church at the time.

Furthermore, the particular experiences interpreted as religious on the basis of the categoreal feelings and subjective forms considered in this essay will differ accordingly from those expounded on the basis of an alternative value judgment.

Since the judgment stands, and is no doubt explicitly represented in the thoughts of many of us as it is implicitly represented in the value standards of the great dominant majority of Americans, of American Christians and of American intellectuals, we must ask by what right, with what rightness can we honor Jonathan Edwards today?

Therefore alluding that the Bible has the same value as fairy tales is also a meaningless moral judgment.

Since it is more important for a proposition to be interesting than true, the traditional regard for propositions as the matter for judgments and the bias towards truth (even the expression «truth - value» is prejudiced against false propositions) has nearly dealt a fatal blow to the understanding of propositions» dynamic role in the universe.

There are two steps here: first, to ascertain what Millard Fillmore did as president, which is not nearly so easy as ascertaining the size, shape and color of a bird; and second, to decide what it means to have been a good president in the early 1850s, which involves not only historical knowledge but also some interesting value judgments.

In stating in summary fashion the Christian conception of the Kingdom of God we are not pretending that we can see perfectly what this means, nor are we saying that we can arrive at a formal principle which can act as a rule by which all Christian value judgments can be simply made.

But as I urged above, it would be wrong (in my judgment) to try to interpret all this too literally and logically; Prof. Hartshorne was right, I said, in saying that the symbol of the divine Triunity, like the «incarnation» and «atonement» as symbols, is much more appropriately retained as a symbol, as imaginative proclamation; it can then retain its indicative and suggestive value without our seeking to phrase it in the idiom of some particular philosophy or world view.

The fact is that most chaotic motion is not, on limited average, utterly unlike regular or nearly regular behavior, and while this qualitative judgment is very difficult if not impossible to make into mathematically rigorous conclusions, its practical value as a perception is an important starting point for constructive results in the theory.

The editors of Time are not in the business of making, as they say, value judgments.

Their value can only be ascertained by spiritual judgments directly passed upon them, judgments based on our own immediate feeling primarily; and secondarily on what we can ascertain of their experiential relations to our moral needs and to the rest of what we hold as true.

With the same conclusions of fact before them, some take one view, and some another, of the Bible's value as a revelation, according as their spiritual judgment as to the foundation of values differs.

This would not be true if we went only so far as the «objective» historian can go and stopped with a recognition of the distinctiveness of the Christian community and of the historical ground of that distinctiveness in Christ, without any judgment of value or truth.

Even if you agree with our basic judgments, you might come to somewhat different conclusions as to just what values to assign to the various items.

Science can not deal effectively with the appreciation of beauty, the enjoyment of personal relationships, judgments of value as to good and bad; its leaders nowadays are modest in their claims, unlike their ancestors in the last century and the early days of this one.

Since a proposition is not a verbal statement (nor some other linguistic entity), nor a judgment, propositional truth value is entertained in the feeling of propositions that may issue in linguistic entities or judgments, but as distinct from the proposition as such.

If propositions were identical with judgments and their linguistic expressions and had truth value as a conceptual constituent, Whitehead's notion of the «locus» of a proposition would not be possible.

They form judgments through past exposures more or less dimly related to the dispute, but which live on as half - remembrances and vague impressions that nonetheless have shaped values and steered beliefs.

My own judgment is that the modern world, so far as political economy is concerned, is the economized world, that is, the world in which economic values dominated over all others.

As thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be madAs thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be madas Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be made.

Thus judgments of value have a personal component, as do all judgments.

In this setting many questions are inevitably asked, such as whether or not the history of religions teaches religion, whether religions of the world can be or should be taught without value judgment, and finally whether the history of religions is to provide intellectual understanding about religions or contribute to the religious growth of students.

If non-Jews choose to hear me out, they will receive what I say in light of their own personal judgment, their own system of values, and their own identity as religious, agnostic, or atheist.

We may wish to suspend judgment on the ultimate meaning of human existence, but in actual fact we find ourselves compelled to act as if certain things were true and certain values more important than others.

O.K. Foods is very active in First Tee, which «provides young people of all backgrounds an opportunity to develop life - enhancing values such as confidence, perseverance and judgment through golf and character education,» the organization says.

as making a subjective judgment about the true value of the contribution beyond what may be legally relevant.

It's a judgment call as to the value of breast milk and the things that it accomplishes in prevention and so forth.

This allows your children to experience things through their own eyes as opposed to coloring it with our value judgments.

We are confident that the judgment - free support you'll receive will leave you feeling honored, respected, and valued as you make the birth and postpartum choices that are best for you and your family.

Just as it is with teachers, social workers or store managers, midwives have to keep themselves from inserting their own personal opinions — or value judgments.

Authoritarian parenting is characterized by strict rules adhering to an external judgment of what is the «correct» way to behave, such as social values, religious values, family traditions or preconceived notions about what makes the perfect parent.

«As he faces the judgment on the value of his life, my hope is that all the good work that he did will outweigh the unfortunate way in which his career ended.»

Dr. Ambomaje, in a recent article on the internet reminded me of the character testimonial that then Vice-President Mills who had been a personal friend of mine for over 30 years at the time gave me on 5th September 2000 when he introduced me to the public at the NDC Headquarters thus: «Prof. Mills described Mr. Amidu as someone who shared his personal values, adding that his nominee has character, integrity, experience and sound judgment.

«As he faces the judgment on the value of his life, my hope is that all the good work that he did will outweigh the unfortunate way in which his career ended,» said Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Frank Seddio, who succeeded Mr. Lopez in 2012.

She excavates the hidden beliefs people hold by measuring how fast they make value judgments when shown a rapid - fire succession of stimuli, such as photographs of faces.