Sentences with phrase «for obscure reasons»

However, there are times when it fluctuates for obscure reasons.

The only thing keeping them alive is the BBC feeding them ad revenue and a couple of deep pocketed philanthropists who seem to think the world needs a lefty newspaper that hates America and Britain for some obscure reasons.

With vague plans to glom onto his notoriety, these thirtysomething lowlifes offer their drummer slot to the novelist, Dries (played by Dries Van Hagen), and Dries, for obscure reasons of his own, accepts.

George Kirby was permitted to ascend to the Choir Invisible, but for obscure reasons the spirit of Marion was left behind.

For obscure reasons that I must have justified in my essay, I chose Leonardo da Vinci, Elie Wiesel, and Robin Williams.

The human rights activist accused President Buhari of gender injustice, saying: «For obscure reasons, President Buhari ceded only 15 per cent to women in his cabinet, without remorse or apologies.

We wanted to keep him (for obscure reasons), so now let's keep him and hope he develops a deadly combo with Laca (as naive as that sounds).

For some obscure reason they travel to Nigeria and oops!

For some obscure reason, people who failed at their first attempt to find a bride at a dating site begin to feel it's time to give up on that way of searching for their perfect match.

And we haven't even gotten to the most credulity - stretching part of the plot yet: not only has Cass been kept alive in captivity long past the time that Mika has lost sexual interest in her, she's been put to work luring in other children over the Internet, while also recording stories and reminiscences from her life for an obscure reason never fully explained.

We haven't even gotten to the most credulity - stretching part of the plot yet: not only has Cass been kept alive in captivity long past the time that Mika has lost sexual interest in her, she's been put to work luring in other children over the Internet, while also recording stories and reminiscences from her life for an obscure reason never fully explained.

OK, so in short the main specs for the HP Slate 7 VoiceTab Ultra 3900 - series are Android 4.2 (at shipping anyway), a 7 - inch display with Full HD 1920 x 1200 resolution, a 1.6 GHz quad - core HiSilicon Balong V9R1 processor, 2 GB DDR3 RAM, a 5MP front camera, a 13MP rear camera from Sony, and a weight of 239 gram, but for some obscure reason a short 6 hour battery life.

Deponia also features a neat trick that I've been wanting for point and click games since the dawn of freaking time, but that for some obscure reason developers never implemented: a button that shows interactable objects in the environment.

Not exact matches

For no explainable reason, the show ended with a young comic named Steve Fessler reciting aloud the script of an obscure Bela Lugosi movie, Bowery at Midnight.

There are times when it is obvious that those are precisely the conditions that create a Broadening Pattern in prices, and there are other times when the reasons for it are obscure or undiscoverable.

Modifications and foreclosures force a restatement of the asset on the balance sheet, and in the current environment, the ability to obscure valuations appears to be a primary reason for the growing gap between delinquencies and foreclosures, as well as the reluctance of banks to modify mortgages.

For that reason, Democrats say that they are also considering using the Congressional Review Act of 1996, an obscure and rarely used process that sets up fast - track procedures to overturn regulations.

For this reason the ancient writings often tend to obscure rather than to illuminate the religious dimensions of experience.

At first sight the reason for this next step may seem a little obscure.

It's good for all to learn both the reasons for certain Christians» questioning of Obama's faith as well as the idea that Obama's faith is tied to a larger tradition that has been obscured by the recent popularity of evangelical fundamentalism.

The reasons for that decay are obscure, but seem riot to have arisen from anything inherent in the Christian faith which these peoples professed.

There was no question but that, for those in this movement, what is revealed is real, although its reality remained obscure to reason.

To the animist the extrahuman powers were unaccountably capricious and whimsical — uncertain wills, whose reasons for acting were commonly obscure if not inscrutable.

It is neither merely an object of thought nor subject, and for the same reasons «its opacity and envelopment it is an obscure principle» (N 162).

Is it not incontestable, a matter of everyday experience, that each of these, to the extent that he believes (and sees the other believe) in the future of the world, feels a basic human sympathy for the other — not for any sentimental reason, but arising out of the obscure recognition that both are going the same way, and that despite all ideological differences they will eventually, in some manner, come together on the same summit?

For whatever reason, the flavor combo just seemed so obscure to me and just didn't mesh well.

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He spends big on Chambers and Perez yet neither has done much for us for obscure reasons.

For some very obscure reason, the Spanish transfer window doesn't close until late tonight so there could still be some crazy business still to be done.

Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt was due to travel with Mr Miliband but was denied entry for reasons he described as obscure and the Swedish have withdrawn their ambassador in protest of the decision.

For more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electiFor more than 30 years, New York City charged a reasonable, minuscule income tax — 0.45 % — on approximately 800,000 suburban workers who make daily use of our city's roads, subways, police and other services.Over the strenuous objections of then - mayor Rudy Giuliani, Silver strong - armed his own Democratic members and ended up making an alliance with Republican members to kill the tax — not for any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special electifor any rational reason, but simply to boost the political prospects of an obscure suburban Democrat who was trying to win a Senate seat in a special election.

Mike Murphy, a spokesperson for the Senate Democrats, said the only reason Senate Republicans would obscure the formula for allocating mail resources, would be to benefit the majority conference.

The «news» that a referendum with more options would be preferable is hardly news at all, and to a degree risks obscuring this reason for supporting AV.

Nevertheless, Cox and his colleagues press on, for the same reasons that researchers flocked to Guam in the 1950s: If BMAA exposure accounts for at least some of the most devastating neurological disorders, learning more about this obscure compound could have huge implications for understanding the underlying disease.

The reasons for these differences in swimming ability have remained obscure — until now.

For reasons yet obscure (but in some way related to Grace's diabetes), the tiny arteries, I supposed, must have become acutely occluded by an inflammation called arteritis, or vasculitis.

Disease is an evocative metaphor for alien species, but it obscures the real — and complicated — reasons why invasions occur and ecosystems change.

They shift for reasons that seem obscure and unnecessarily wonkish to people who simply want to use names to refer to a consistent, knowable taxon such as species, genus or family.

And yet, having lived through past pandemics, Mulembakani also believes that even a flicker of a chance to control an onrushing infection is reason enough for him and his dogged colleagues to push on, visiting obscure villages, unsanitary markets, and overcrowded hospitals, testing for the signature of worrisome pathogens.

There may be very real reasons you're not getting the dates you hoped for — some obvious, others more obscure.

Prey for Rock & Roll never gets much more clever than the homonym of its title: you want it, it eats you up — and through it all there's glaring musical evidence that Clam Dandy is obscure and unsuccessful for a reason.

For his part in the disc's patchwork commentary, an alarmingly hoarse Clive Barker laments that they had to skimp on the Cabrini - Green sets for budgetary reasons — perhaps, then, photographic measures were taken to obscure their relative cheapness that don't translate very smoothly to NTSC vidFor his part in the disc's patchwork commentary, an alarmingly hoarse Clive Barker laments that they had to skimp on the Cabrini - Green sets for budgetary reasons — perhaps, then, photographic measures were taken to obscure their relative cheapness that don't translate very smoothly to NTSC vidfor budgetary reasons — perhaps, then, photographic measures were taken to obscure their relative cheapness that don't translate very smoothly to NTSC video.

The conversations that Hedwig has are mostly with Casey (Anya Taylor - Joy of «The Witch»), who along with two other teenage girls (Haley Lu Richardson and Jessica Sula) has been abducted by Kevin — or, rather, by Dennis — and locked in a windowless bunker, for reasons that remain obscure until the film's modestly suspenseful, surprisingly gruesome and extravagantly ludicrous climax.

But, there are some movies which are obscure for one very specific reason: there really not worth searching out.

Pegg and Frost's characters are particularly strong, with the exact reason for their feuding obscured with references only to «the accident» that tore them apart.

Critics» standard, obligatory «Best» and «Worst» lists are a tad disingenuous in that regard, not to mention the fact that journalists don't have a great reason to select obscure barely released fare for either category.

Off - roading is the Tacoma TRD Off - Road's reason for being, which makes the long hood and obscured forward visibility such a shame.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them.

Now, that being said, if you're writing about an extremely obscure subject that you don't know much about and that there is much information available for, than having lots of words means you'll have a lot more «fluff» in the content than valuable content, which is another reason your word count is so important.

Amazed, and disappointed, I would go so far as to say appalled, for reasons that are obscure to me, since why should I desire change, I who have come back to live amidst the rubble of the past?