Sentences with phrase «viewed as contributions»

Another way of looking at gross margin is to view it as a contribution to overhead and profit.

Just as we make charitable contributions to charities such as the Heart Association or to our local food bank or to our alma mater to support their activities, the payment of TAOLI membership dues can be viewed as a contribution to The Institute's activities and support our mission of empowering individuals to achieve emotional, physical and financial well - being.

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Plainly, then, the negative view of entrepreneurship's contributions to the economy has as little credibility as early bumblebee aerodynamics.

Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).

He stated that the bitcoins, which can be viewed as in - kind contributions, could be immediately converted into US dollars.

As faithful readers of this blog will know, I make only very sporadic contributions to this blog but a substantial fraction of those contributions have made reference to modern monetary theory (MMT), the view (crudely put) that, based on a detailed understanding of the institutional mechanisms behind monetary operations, calls into question our obsession with -LSB-...]

The extent of her contributions as producer - writer - director, for which she's gained respect within the industry, is still unknown to the general public — not to mention her talent for sketch comedy, which is on view in her movies.

As for Westcoast's $ 20,500 donation to Ms. Clark's campaign on March 1, Weilinger stated that's «something we can't really comment on other than to say we try to take a non-partisan view of our contributions and donations and we like to make sure the democratic system is working and effective.»

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People who view retirement as something that is just around the corner can help themselves stay on top of their retirement contributions so that they don't fall behind.

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

Unfortunately, as long as economic theory views the natural world only in terms of its contribution to the market, Christian repentance will do little to end policies that are systematically destructive.

Similarly he does not present his own views as in contrast with theirs but rather as a contribution to working out and further developing the persuasive ideas he adopts from them.

This quiet but compulsively readable column is about the spiritual life, written from the point of view of a working Parish Priest; it is, for me, the most unmissable regular contribution to the Catholic Press (I have an interest to declare here: it was I who in my days as editor of The Catholic Herald installed it as a weekly event).

Viewed in retrospect, the contribution of Protestant ministers to this kind of at - home Bible study and instruction is probably as significant historically as their work in founding schools at many levels.

It turns out, of course, that morality also contributes to the intrinsic value of the occasion in which consideration is given to the future, but the morality as such does not have this contribution in view.

241) In contrast to the customary view that it is monotheism which is the contribution of Judaism to the religions of the world, Buber regards the dialogue with God as the centre and significance of the Jewish religion.

As a Jew and a subscriber to First Things since the first issue, I have looked for contributions to the debate from other than Christian and secular points of view.

An over-arching reason for experimenting with process philosophy as a contribution to feminist construction of a new view of relations is that it provides a cosmology radically different from dominant mechanistic and patriarchal world views.

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

When the level of religiosity and other factors are held constant, religious television viewing does not seem to be associated with lower levels of church attendance, volunteer work, or church contribution in the sample as a whole.

Local congregations, viewed collectively, represent a sleeping giant of influence and help to the burdened, so far as their potential contributions in this area are concerned.

If we view economic development in terms of its contribution to the health and well being of human communities and natural ecosystems, we will not seek increased production as such as the good in itself.

«A denomination does not deserve to be taken seriously,» he insists, «if it does not have a commitment to serious publishing as a contribution to a broader, corporate religious view.»

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Since their return from injury i have tried to give Welbeck and Wilshire the benefit of the doubt when others have slagged them off for some pretty average displays.Regrettably I am now of the opinion that they will never reach the standards required to make a meaningful contribution towards the revival of Arsenal and along with 3/4 others in the current squad they should be moved on.Their performances against Stoke was the last straw as far as I am concerned.It will be interesting to see if Gareth Southgate shares my views and does not include them in his World Cup squad.

He should view this season, as his tenth anniversary season, as a fantastic opportunity to become one by making a serious contribution to a title win.

The thing that has helped me most of all, though, is viewing my public actions as my own contribution towards establishing a positive parenting culture.

As presidential candidates make the high - visibility pilgrimage to the «Googleplex» in Mountain View, contributions from Google employees quietly help boost the campaigns of congressional candidates.

A feminist analysis of women's roles enables us to view women's contributions during and post-conflict as active agents.

An example was Climate Dialogue, which published contributions from scientists with differing views on topics such as climate sensitivity.

Political experts view the level of unitemized contributions as an indicator of grass roots support.

The Women's Wing said although it recognises the efforts and contributions of Mr Ashitey towards the NDC and Ghana as a whole, it is nevertheless of the view that the former Greater Accra regional Minister «should accept the results in good faith, since the right procedures through which he was elected to represent the party were the same channels through which Dr [Rawlings] has been duly elected».

He then invited Ed Miliband to give his personal views on those issues and invited him to confirm as a matter of fact that «the Labour party does not solicit votes or membership of financial contributions on religious grounds and that it does not offer any kind of privileged access or dialogue to faith groups of any kind».

She repeatedly mentions that the Ulster and Putnam committees didn't have a history of receiving large contributions from their donors in the fall of 2014 or getting involved in Senate races, which she views as signals that they were used as straw donors to evade contribution limits.

When news of Zimet's campaign contributions broke last week, she addressed the concerns that accepting money from Plesser during the review of Wildberry Lodge could be viewed as unseemly.

My contributions to his campaign is in no way an endorsement of his views on the LGBT community and should not be viewed as such,» Blake said.

I'm as much a fan of Mr. E = mc2 as anybody, but consider this: I'd be willing to bet that, when viewed from centuries hence, Einstein's most significant contribution to civilization will not be as arguably the greatest physicist of the modern world but rather as an inspirational role model whose life and work ignited the lives of countless other great young thinkers.

Specialists undeniably make valuable contributions to science in the Arctic, whereas I view interdisciplinary scientists as developing a science of the Arctic.

Postdocs view their compensation as low in light of their contribution to the research enterprise.

His characterisation is especially unfair in view of Israel's seminal contributions to the science and practice of water conservation, as exemplified in the development of drip irrigation and water recycling methods.

So it's a serious entrant, and from my potentially biased point of view in the nuclear fission category, I don't know many other entrants that you look and say, «Okay, if you go from paper to real then this is a meaningful contribution to cheap energy / global warming as an incredible problem.»

In my view, these insights are the greatest ongoing contribution of feminist critics such as Longino.

The view that science can be supported as a contribution to the intellectual richness of the world has a distinguished list of adherents.

As the graph below from Spracklen's News and Views article shows, the balance between warming (red shading) and cooling (blue shading) have kept the country's contribution to human - caused climate change pegged at about 10 % in recent decades, despite soaring fossil fuel emissions.

As a contribution to illustrated history from a black point of view, Still I Rise is a unique achievement, one that will be valued by students, educators, collectors and general readers for a long time to come.»

If Green's new book takes us further down the road of viewing teaching as a craft and changing the conversation from teacher quality to quality teaching, it will be an important contribution.

Don't essentialize Black Panther, but instead, view it as both a complex representation of Black people in film and as one contribution to broadening the film industry.

«Using art and humor, I hope to engage readers with some of Gardner's ideas that I view as essential contributions to the dialogue around education.»

There is a lot that still needs to be learned, Wolf acknowledges, and views his contribution as one step in a research agenda.