The language itself, Dr. Alcabes argues, can sometimes transform the facts: once you call a disease an "epidemic," for instance, you immediately imply that it has a story line, with a beginning and an end, a certain moral tenor and a narrative flow that regular old illness lacks.
He embodies the tragedy into which contemporary society has transformed the fact of getting older".
Any remaining knowledge gap between required and available facts has to be closed primarily by rules and mash-ups to generate or transform the required facts automatically and keep everything up-to-date.
Enamored with the magical efficacy of counterinsurgency tactics, they bet wrong on the capacity of the U.S. government or its military to transform the chaotic, unmovable facts on the ground in Iraq.
They are midcourse corrections intended to make government work better for the people who elect their representatives; to -- in fact -- transform the government we have into the government the people wish they have.
In entrenching new social facts, agents transform the ideals themselves as well as their institutional form.
They believed that every feature of mortal human life materiality, suffering, temptation, death had been transformed by the fact that God had taken human form and undergone all those things himself.
At the same time, however, that which remains physical has been transformed by the fact that that is represented by highly liquid instruments that can circulate in global markets" (Sassen [2006], p.24).
Considering the assessment as an integral part of the learning process (Ehlers 2013), we can also transform this fact to learning systems and automated assessment.
These game-changing facts are about to transform the biggest game of all – politics.
