The custodians of the theocratic state may engage in atrocities, but they are doing so to advance history's cause, to realize a certain sublime ideal.
Sorry, guys.' It's not until you look back that you realize a certain chapter was ending — the time when we were just hanging out with our friends and having all the time in the world — and another is starting.
Block is right, however, to point out that functionalist theories, as well other kinds of theory in this area, run the peculiar risk of being either too "liberal," ascribing mentality to just about anything that happens to realize a certain functional structure, or too "chauvinistic," limiting mentality to some arbitrary set of realizations (e.g., to human beings).
Some natural processes realize a certain form of low-degree normativity.
When the bricks and mortar realize a certain shape, they manifest the function definitive of houses, namely that of providing shelter.
The authors construe the intentional component quite narrowly, though: it just refers to the artefact's function, its being a means to realize a certain practical end.
Prior research has shown evidence for a positive impact of strategic consistency on firm performance, especially by avoiding conflicts between multiple strategic goals or multiple measures to realize a certain strategic advantage (Lamberg et al. 2009; Milgrom and Roberts 1990, 1992; Porter 1980 , 1996 Robinson et al. 1988).
According to Milgrom and Roberts (1992) strategic consistency avoids conflicts between multiple strategic goals or multiple measures to realize a certain strategic advantage, or that "doing more of any activity increases (or at least does not decrease) the marginal profitability of each other activity in the group" (Milgrom and Roberts 1992: 108).
We realize a certain constitutional chaos bedevils Krisha, and with that in mind, the 82-minute film becomes an exercise in self-imposed distress.
Additionally, more plastic work has to be spent for realizing a certain strain when the sample is deformed by simple shear instead of rolling, and so one could expect even a smaller grain size for cold-rolling [33].
