Sentences with phrase «worked against this theory»

Not exact matches

All told, the facts of the case that prosecutors appear to be building around Cohen's work and those «privileged communications» between Cohen and his clients could, in theory, prompt those prosecutors to call Cohen to testify against his own clients.

In fact, they're cash payouts from governments to production companies, in theory credited against the income and sales taxes paid by the individuals and service companies the shows put to work.

Admittedly the short - termism inherent in most businesses works, in theory, against the Fifty Years model.

The second principle of the chaos theory is that while God originally created a beautiful and orderly universe that functioned in beautiful symmetry, once free agents used their freedom to rebel against God, many elements of God's creation spun out of control, that is, they no longer work in coordination with all the other parts of God's creation.

The influence of these older evolutionary cosmologies on Whitehead's thought, moreover, is never carefully examined so much as it is presupposed.1 Against such presuppositions, I shall argue here that evolution and evolutionist theories play no significant role in Whitehead's metaphysics, and that there is no evidence in his major works of any significant influence from earlier process - oriented «evolutionary cosmologies.»

Against the uncritical implication of such conventional associations, I claim that there is a remarkable absence of reference in Whitehead's work to «evolution,» to specific evolutionist theories, or to specific evolutionary cosmologies or cosmologists.

There are some conspiracy theories working against me and only Haywill can help me decipher them.

The antisemitism to which he was referring is not only a racist prejudice against Jewish people - it's also a theory about how the world works.

Anyone who has read Marx would know this isn't possible and goes against Marxist theory as Marx pointed out «the emancipation of the working class, must be the work of the workers themselves» and the last words in the «Communist Manifesto» are @workers of the world unite» (source)

The structure argues against existing theories of prion conversion and suggests how the process might actually work.

An environmental modeler presents how the science works, but a decision scientist uses decision theory to take into account both the scientific information in a model and its uncertainty, and to help policymakers weigh that information against other factors, Crawford - Brown says.

Although the scientists can't assume hospitalization is directly causing suicide, they say their work backs up a hot theory that inflammation — one of the body's main defenses against infection — influences depression by generating a chemical that interferes with brain signaling.

David Coppedge - a former lead systems administrator on the Cassini Mission to Saturn who worked at JPL for 15 years - filed a lawsuit in 2009 against the agency claiming he was demoted, and then eventually fired, because of his Christian beliefs and in retaliation for discussing the theory of intelligent design at the NASA facility in La Cañada Flintridge.

Twelve trillion words into this entry and I still haven't gotten to my big theory of why it works so well to have Jeff Bridges play what feels like a Tommy Lee Jones role in Hell or High Water, or Molly Shannon working beautifully against type as a dying mom in Chris Kelly's Other People and reminding us that tragedy often feels like an interruption of comedy.

My working theory is that they packed so much material in there that it forced the flap / damper open, and material was pushed down into the ductwork where it lodged against the cabin air filter.

We explored this theory by pitting big U.S. cities against each other to see which ones offer the best potential for stronger support networks, decent salaries for those moms who work outside the home, and opportunities for relaxation.

She worked all her long life: against the prevailing theory of what it was to be a woman, that it was not becoming for a woman to be an artist, to have a public life, that women were framed for the interior.

There are examples of Minimalist theory as early as the 1920s in Europe, but the movement at the time of its birth was defined by new young artists who were often reacting against the gestural excesses of Abstract Expressionism, challenging the conventional boundaries between various mediums, subordinating authorship, and calling attention to the materiality of their works.

Mason, now 86, is still making new work the way she always has — by intuition, without any need for theories, without measuring herself against others.

Developing Nicolai's previous projects univrs / uniscope version (2010) and unidisplay (2012), unicolour will unfold against a mirrored wall to give the impression of infinity, drawing inspiration from a huge range of influences from Goethe's Theory Of Colour to the work of artists Josef Albers and Johannes Itten.

«AIDS, A Community in Crisis,» Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, 1991 «Language: Body and Dream,» PS 122, New York, NY, 1991 «1991 Biennial Exhibition,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1991; catalogue «We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming,» White Columns, New York, NY, 1991 «Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center,» New York, NY 1991; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Madison Art Center, WI; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; catalogue «Positions of Authority,» Art in General, New York, NY, 1991 «Color Theory,» Amelie A Wallace Gallery, State University of New York at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY, 1991 «Text Out of Context,» SoHo Center, New York, NY, 1991 «New Work,» PS 122, New York, NY, 1991 «Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit,» The New Museum of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY, 1991 «Works on Paper,» Selena Art Gallery,» Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, 1991 «Rutgers National «90: Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery,» Camden, NJ, 1991; brochure «Art of Resistance,» El Bohio, New York Public Mirror, Art against Racism, The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, 1991

However, in the West, history painting came to require an extensive landscape background where appropriate, so the theory did not entirely work against the development of landscape painting — for several centuries landscapes were regularly promoted to the status of history painting by the addition of small figures to make a narrative scene, typically religious or mythological.

G&T managed to get their work out there; publishing it in Nature or Science would not have changed the fact that they're arguments just don't hold any water (they didn't do any new science, they just took what was already known, and then tried to use that to argue against what is already known — a search for logical inconsistency, which might have been worthwhile if they'd known what they were doing and if they'd gone after contrarian «theory»)-- unless it were edited, removing all the errors and non-sequitors, after which it would be no different than a physics book such as the kind a climate scientist would use...

But since they're actually aware of the real evidence for and against the theories, not only is their work useful, they also know that the other theories aren't obviously wrong at all.

Hulburt's work should have put the controversy on the CO2 theory to an end, since «objections which have been raised against it by some physicists are not valid».

«confirm» and «disconfirm» captures the way evidence and theory work together, or in your parlance «counts for» and «counts against»

She showed that American scientists, at least geologists and other Earth scientists, prefer multiple working hypotheses because they were suspicious of «grand theories» and wished to guard against deductive approaches to Earth science, preferring inductive methods.

Drawing on his experience working with experts in a broad range of technical fields, Mr. Fatheree's background allows him to simplify sophisticated issues quickly and defend his clients against damage claims involving complex theories.

2) Working with assumptions or a theory that goes against what science is showing us about the nature of adult romantic love (see, Love Sense, The Revolutionary Science of Romantic Love, by Dr. Sue Johnson, for an engaging review of this emerging science).

Beth Luwandi Lofstrom has developed her own theory and methodology for working with couples who have experienced an affair and it may go against the usual grain.

While feminists worked to enact laws that would help women retain their share of some of the economic security they had «in partnership» helped accumulate, along came joint custody theory and joint custody laws — once again, using feminists» own words about equality against them, and in a weird way, rendering children yet another possession for equitable division.