Sop

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"Sop" in a Sentence (26 examples)

It's a sop to Congress.

It's a sop to Cerberus.

He gave me the sop.

The bounded Waters, / Should lift their boſomes higher then the Shores, / And make a ſoppe of all this ſolid Globe:

[…]Hee it is to whom I ſhall giue a ſoppe, when I haue dipped it.

[…]Sops in Wine, (Quantitie for Quantitie,) inebriate more, than Wine of it ſelfe.

Ill Nature, in fine, is not to be Cur’d with a Sop; but on the contrary, Quarrelſome Men, as well as Quarrelſome Currs are worſe for fair Uſage.

The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.

That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing.

Conservatives have long had it out for Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, whose appointment they viewed as a sop to progressive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

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Here, in Barcelona, your streets are alive at night, you walk, you eat for hours, you interact, you share your minds. Americans watch their 91 channels of superficial satellite sop. The whole country and everything you've ever believed about it really functions only on the surface.

A messe of milke sopt with white bread.

When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land.

So again let me say that sopping bread into gravy can be done properly merely by putting a piece down on the gravy and then soaking it with the help of a knife and fork as though it were any other food. But taking a soft piece of bread and pushing it under the sauce with your fingers, submerging them as well as the bread, or even wiping the plate with it would be very bad manners indeed.

As Lockie and Kitto (2000: 5) note, this important dimension is recognized by the SOP approach but they argue that it is “poorly developed in both theorisation and operationalisation.” Furthermore, production activities are privileged in SOP analysis as “determinants of consumption practices” and the “role of agency is marginalised” by giving primacy to structural tendencies in the shaping of SOPs (ibid.: 5).

The chapter then explores new directions for conceptualizing the relationship between production and consumption, including proposals to modify the GVC approach or to develop entirely different frameworks, as advanced by proponents of the system of provision (SOP) and global poverty chain (GPC) approaches.

An in-depth political economy analysis using, for example, the system of provision (SOP) approach could reveal the magnitude of this potential block to phasing out coal.

In like manner, the "not-SOP/ROP" complement of a system (SOP + ROP) is called the nature of the whole, or the organizing essence of a systemic whole. […] And it is there as an aspect of the whole which differs from the sum of parts (SOP) .

a stock analyst might refer to a DCF (discounted cash flow), DDM (dividend discount model), EVA (economic value added), NAV (net asset value) or SOP (sum of parts) calculation. Comparisons can be made against the stock's historic[…]

2002; Lamont and Polk 2002; Vilalonga 2004). They are therefore keen to establish that “sum of parts” (SOP) valuation gives a more realistic firm value. Acquirers which may buy the target and then unbundle it to divest some of the acquired[…]

In retrospect, it is worth mentioning that, going into the 1990s, the range of SoP applications expanded from private commodity consumption to public consumption—especially as the neoliberal drive to denationalize was peaking but being augmented by an accelerating pressure for privatization through new forms of state/private partnerships.

The SoP analysis seeks to connect the financing, funding, governance, production, and use of public services and allows for a comprehensive analysis of broader distributional implications of particular formations across the financing, funding, governance, production, and consumption nexus.

The SoP approach could help identify barriers, misconceptions, and societal attitudes toward nuclear power, which can impact the acceptance and adoption of SMRs.

WiG-SoP? / [ECOSYSTEM (science)] Yes (unequivocal) emergent hierarchical / SCALE / [MANAGEMENT (governance)] No (< SoP?) reductionist sectoral […] WiG-SoP = Whole is Greater than Sum of Parts; […]

All my price-targets are a blend between DCF and Sum of the Parts (SoP). So for all of our stocks, we have one DCF value and one SoP value and the price target is between these two.

Of the different measures, the unadjusted or “clean” market-consistent values best reflected both the analysts’ Sum of Parts (SoP) valuation (−50%) and the actual average share price development (−45.5%) for the firms from year-end 2007 to 2008. […] It was also substantially much, much more flattering than the average decline in analyst SoP valuations (−64.4%) and the actual average share price decline (−57.7%) for the companies in this group.

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