But our understanding of the purpose of the meritocratic system is badly warped.
LEO V. SELIGSOHN Bradenton, Fla., Nov. 4, 2007 Your conundrum regarding how to regulate online readers' comments suggests that The Times holds a radically outdated understanding of the purpose of the news media today.
Monitor will be remote, unaccountable and with no evident understanding of the purpose and value of integrated care – although the King's Fund and Nuffield Trust have been commissioned (again) to support it in this task.
Scientists have unpicked the regions of the brain involved in dreaming, in a study with significant implications for our understanding of the purpose of dreams and of consciousness itself.
It should be a well-defined process that builds on an encompassing and detailed understanding of the purpose, elements, and contexts of the system.
Nevertheless, his understanding of the purpose, meaning, intentions, and context of The Federalist and its relationship to the US Constitution is so inaccurate, and so skewed to reflect presentist right-wing sentiments, as to be positively misleading.
The husband of one woman featured in the story has subsequently called to say that the article had a positive impact on his wife, who though her short-term memory is impaired does have an understanding of the purpose of the article and is proud of her role in it.
But that is what has happened in Israel after it was revealed in a report by a women's rights organisation that Ethiopian women have been given injections of Depo-Provera without sufficient understanding of the purpose or side effects of the drug.
A number of issues emerged relating to awareness, trust, understanding of the purpose, visibility, incentives, regressivity, levels of taxation, terminology, communication about ETR and the use of alternative instruments.
However, how the elderly and human caregiver perceive and interact with such system as an integral part of it, can greatly influence their understanding of the purpose and usefulness of the system.
The judge wanted to know about his training (most of it took place online, Mr. DiPietro said), the level of communication among officers assigned to the detail that carried out the traffic stop (there was a quick briefing before it got started, he said), and his understanding of the purpose of the action.
