Sentences with phrase «very good analogies»

«There aren't very good analogies,» University of Maryland arms - control expert John Steinbruner told me.

Crystal, music is a very good analogy that makes sense to me..

Oh, very good analogy.

Stealing a physical book or piece of clothing deprives the seller of that item for any future sales, but digital copy theft does not — it's not a very good analogy.

Dating advice from Van der Sloot very good analogy.

This article is a very good analogy for many of us, amateurs.

That is a very good analogy.

In point of fact, The Devils Cartel (TDC from now on to save my poor fingers) is a very good analogy for EA's copy and paste attitude to franchise gaming.

willi, I doubt that seasonal (and urban) snowbanks are a very good analogy for a melting ice sheet.

Not exact matches

«A baseball team entirely composed of catchers could have high esprit de corps,» Ellison offered as an analogy, «but it would not perform very well on the field.»

The cupboard - making analogy was very clever, and is a good approximation of how many people see the Bible.

The analogy would work very well if we could encapsulate the spectrum of human experience within similar discrete probabilities, but I'm not sure that's actually possible.

The tank analogy is very good David.

Since this analogy gives Cobb's defense of the Hartshornian interpretation of God a good deal of the persuasiveness that it has, it is very important to recognize that the analogy is highly suspect since it is based upon a questionable reading of the Whiteheadian texts.

I also purchased a very good workbook, Analogies for Beginners, for him to play in as he wants or as I direct him.

To use your health analogy, if I decide I want to live a healthy lifestyle, but have no knowledge of what healthy is or the history of health science, I could easily come to the conclusion that chocolate cake is very good for me and should be the basis of my diet.

We know that people do very well morally and emotionally without religion, so what is the needle in your compass analogy pointing to?

But he rarely demonstrated any very keen awareness of the ways in which, for instance, Plato's understanding of the Form of the Good, or certain Christian understandings of the analogy between transcendent and created being (and so on), open up paths that certainly can not terminate in nihilism.

Back to our sports analogy: not only am I to invoke the very best for those who are pursuing me in order to take me out of the game, I am with equal tenacity to pursue them with love.

«It was very useful to revise other people's abstracts because it made me realize how important it is to have a good analogy when you need to explain fairly complicated research in plain language,» said Cath Gilchrist, a 32 - year - old biology / medical research postdoctoral fellow from Australia.

Physical analogies and computer experiments are all very well, but mathematicians prefer proofs.

Valeri Lantz - Gefroh was very good at not saying, «this is what you should do,» but just trying to get me to explain my work in different ways, by using analogies....

Replace «lemons» with «pants» and... well, my analogy breaks down, but my point is that when the thrift store throws premium denim at you, you say thank you very much, and you buy it.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are v

I think your last response is certainly better than your first, as the ballroom dancing analogy (as most readers here will interpret) was very poorly constructed.

The analogy is very good in fact as what we write are our thoughts, which are normally of course politely and extremely well hidden from public -LSB-...]

Dr. Jackman said that a heart murmur sounds like a washing machine as opposed to a lub - dub, this analogy would help me identify murmurs very well in the future.

The implication of that response, though, was that she wasn't a tough painter, yet as Helen knew very well, the analogy between being a tough artist and making works that look tough is obviously a misleading one, although it's easy to fall into.

Ray's analogy of the sunshade as well as other geo - technical solutions, as a lifeboat is very effective.

That is all very well but I should go on to examine the practical implications of such an analogy by trying to describe the types of climatic changes it should be able to generate.

Arthur Smith, while that is a very good paper that you linked (thank you for finding one that everyone can access), it only had a very short section on ergodic theory, and you're back to the same hand - waving analogy about statistical mechanics and turbulent flows.

As to your response on chemistry and spectroscopy over at WUWT (no idea what happened to your comment here, it must have been a browser problem, it's not in the comments database here at all)- you cite «valence bond theory, -LSB-...] molecular orbital theory, -LSB-...] crystal field theory, ligand field theory, self - consistent field and X-alpha method» - none of those are based on fundamental physics, they are all phenomenological theories that work quite well for chemists, but they are not directly derived from underlying physical theory except through very rough approximations and analogies.

The analogy between Indulgences and Carbon Credits is very good, but especially as both create a source of income for those who identify and define the problem, exploit the guilt, and offer a solution.

I pointed out the Goddard / Marcott analogy on the 24th, twice, and was roundly attacked for it since my name isn't McIntyre, attacked for my nefarious motives that are merely to strongly shun mistakes, outlandish conspiracy theories and outspoken crackpot comments on mainstream skeptical blogs that afford the usual hockey stick team members newfound media attention with very lasting damage to skepticism and also strongly hinder my ability to reach out to reasonable people who are strongly averse to extremism as nearly all normal people happen to be for very good reason.

Nice post, but I think a better physical analogy for CO2's atmospheric warming ability is as «a very thin, gaseous mirror.»

If anybody can suggest a better analogy that gets around the metabolism problem, though, I'd be very grateful.

For your analogy to hold, you are arguing that a hypothetical Star Trek near - instantaneous scanning will take place on the complete assembled structure, of complete depth at a very fine resolution, from which your definitive calculation can be made with the complete and precise understanding of the exact physical properties of such an assembly and everything in it... With the result being only good for when it was scanned.

Our calculations for the simpler Sun system are very good, therefore as specified we can do very good calculations for maximum load for a more - complex bridge system, thus the analogy holds.

Well, your Moneyball analogy is very apt.

Morgan Westlake, Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto): «Engaging, effective communication, extremely knowledgeable and very good at relating stories / analogies to useful context / applicable setting.»

Is there an analogy to a political lobbyist's seeking a change in the law for his / her client, by providing: (1) campaign funds to the politicians in power; and, (2) very good paying executive jobs when those politicians retire?

If I were to use the analogy of eating, I would say Seven Principles is like sitting down to a platter of delicious fruits and vegetables, nutritious, yummy, and easy to digest, a very good start.