Sentences with phrase «lack of detail at»

Lack of detail at the outset cost hundreds if not thousands of hours of misery for the poor civil servants who dealt with it.

I do not give five stars for the lack of details at first time.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The Fed first adopted press conferences in response to reports that its lack of transparency was giving some investors with contacts at the central bank an upper hand in the form of early access to key details of the Fed's highly - market moving deliberations.

As is frequently detailed on this blog, stocks and ETFs trading at new 52 - week or all - time highs typically repeat the «base, breakout, base, breakout» cycle several times before eventually entering into a substantial correction, as there is a complete lack of overhead supply (no technical price resistance).

Lack of experience at the time meant Bannon made serious mistakes at Amicus which almost killed the company, mistakes he later published in detail before anyone else.

If yes, you seem to be using the lack of detailed instructions about how to take up serpents to mean people should not take up snakes at will.

It was not for a lack of interest at the kids and high school levels, which has seen a significant increase over the last several decades, but due to the implementation of Title IX (more specifically proportionality) and other factors that I rather not go into detail in this article.

Ironically, when it comes to detail at the moment, it is often the Lords which settles the matters and does a rather good job at it because the lack of one overall party majority forces people to persuade rather than cajole.

Their report concluded that it was «inconceivable» that no one, other than Goodman, knew about the extent of phone hacking at the paper, and that the Committee had «repeatedly encountered an unwillingness to provide the detailed information that we sought, claims of ignorance or lack of recall and deliberate obfuscation».

«I see this as a situation that invovles probably some sloppiness and some lack of attention to detail, which a lot of elected of have done because they travel all over the country, they're away form their homes three or four days a week and they're out at night,» Paterson told WOR's John Gambling this morning.

De Blasio, who has said his administration continues to put plans in place to decrease the population in Rikers Island and install several reforms at the jail, said the speaker's plan, first laid out during her State of the City address last week, lacked detail and reasonable options for housing the approximately 10,000 inmates currently detained at the troubled jail.

A detailed look at the impact (some say lack of impact) federal stimulus money has had on creating jobs for Bronxites.

Madam Djaba said the Ministry refused to respond as soon the incident occurred because of the lack of details available at the time.

«The fact that they think they can test fly in the next 2 years is remarkable,» says Roger Launius at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, who was concerned by the lack of technical details.

Hearings could be contentious, as the budget documents presented yesterday are «somewhat opaque»: lacking details on expenditures that budget documents in previous years normally contained, says Dinesh Abrol, coordinator of the Sustainability Program at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.

«As for barley, the dehydrin genes seem to be very plastic, some of them changing at a high frequency over generations, and we intend to look into this plasticity in more detail now that we have the genome knowledge that we lacked before.

Finding a weight loss program based on daily intermittent fasting is hard enough at the best of times, but many programs complicate the process, are incomplete, or lack detail.

When the price of cotton mega-multiplied, crunching quality at so many labels — everything needed to be tighter, shorter, and pricier, with lower quality staple that pills, plasticy poly blends, and lack of tailor - able seams and details — they came up with fab viscoses that convincingly fake high - quality cotton, and explored modals, expanded merinos.

Outfit Details: Lack of Color Fader Hat (I found mine at Swirl Boutique) Rag & Bone Capri Skinnies Target faux Leather Top Michael Kors Moto Jacket Steve Madden Booties Lovestrength Belt (also a Swirl Boutique find)

This top has a base of black, Upon which you'll find needlepoint trim, A little bit of ric rac, That seems to be placed at a whim, And a lack of fit details anywhere on the back.

Finding for a potential match, users delve into other user's profiles and communicate with them but, with the lack of needed details which are important are lost or none at all.

When I look at Land of Dead, the game really just seems like a pretty lousy looking game, with some minor frame rate issues and a total lack of detail and originality.

Graphically the game does run at a respectable 60 frames per second however as me mentioned, it is lacking that polish of bigger developers as cars are quite detailed but the backgrounds are a little lacklustre.

The 2.35:1, 16x9 - enhanced transfer looks a little overfiltered; between its lack of fine detail and overcast appearance, the image can be eye - straining at times, but there's a depth to it that simultaneously impresses.

At times I felt the film lacked a bit of detail on everyday life in the trenches, because the vast majority of it is set in the comparatively cosy officers» quarters, where food and drink is regularly available courtesy of Toby Jones» comic - relief cook Mason, whose ingredients are regularly called into question.

Regardless that this is a prequel so we know that Leatherface is going to survive and therefore lacks any suspense at all, as a movie Leatherface is all over the place with references to what comes later shoehorned in — like the blink - and - you'll - miss - it appearance of Grandpa in the opening scenes and the character of Hartman (the unscrupulous Mayor in Texas Chainsaw 3D was called Hartman, in case you'd forgotten)-- and details that just don't make sense, such as Drayton being portrayed as a psychopathic killer but yet in Tobe Hooper's original movie he «takes no pleasure in killing», and three people climbing into a cow's carcass to hide from the police which looks as dumb as it sounds.

Look too closely at any of the detail on a map and you will notice right away that this game lacks much visual polish.

Lurking behind this lack of telling detail seems to be an incuriosity about how the world actually works: Would a State Department employee theoretically stationed in Vienna (a character played listlessly by the usually excellent Peter Sarsgaard) really be able to spend all his time at his bayside mansion in Marin County — and would he genuinely imagine that serving as a European diplomat would be the ideal building block for a congressional run?

The lack of details can be distracting at time (it takes a while to learn why James and Mary aren't happy), but the story incorporates enough emotional scenes to help overlook these flaws.

While it's fascinating to see the French judicial system at work, shown with some of the same engrossing detail as Lumet's great films and Dick Wolf's «Law & Order,» the trial scenes lack the crackling tension that would have completely hooked us voyeurs.

In the book he detailed the deplorable conditions of the school and the utter lack of support for student learning, and I realized that some of the inmates with whom I was working likely would have been in that school at that very same time.

So as you can see, the single story represents a lack of truth, and here at HGSE, whether it has been through classes, forums with influential guest speakers such as Temple Grandin and Beverly Tatum, or just over a drink at UNOs, our students, faculty, and staff are challenging the single story by continually unearthing and teasing out those details and experiences that make a story true.

Indianapolis Public Schools has set a Thursday deadline for applications to the district's magnet schools, and until now, a lack of details about academic and extracurricular offerings at the four schools subject to takeover has left families in limbo.

Before tackling those three ideas in greater detail, I must say I have great sympathy for parents who might be looking for greater input in their children's schools, and who might be frustrated at the lack of options.

But a panel of three teachers and a school district administrator told the Assembly Education Committee at a hearing in Sacramento earlier this month that they couldn't get a clear picture of students» progress because the reports they received on how students did on the interim assessments lacked enough detail to be useful.

I'm sorry for the lack of detail on the nipple: I went back to look at it and it doesn't have any kind of hole in it - so no air can escape / enter.

Some of the stages lack detail, so the closed - in headlight - lit view out the front of your car is definitely where Dirt is at its best.

Perhaps owing to the fact that we were driving pre-production versions of the ATS Coupe at the vehicle launch in Morris, Connecticut, the interior on the test version ATS Coupe, although outfitted with luxurious details such as carbon fibre and wood trim, did lack an overall high - end finish to compete with the likes of the BMW 4 Series and Audi A5.

Wagener told Autocar UK that the EQ concept displayed at the Paris show is about «90 %» similar to the production model with only details like the lack of door mirrors and door handles changed for production.

There are also a frustrating lack of details touches; there's no number or marker to tell what speed the cruise control is set at and the touchscreen is pretty small.

Bass is distorted at any volume approaching halfway, and lack of fine detail means that XM's classical channels are best avoided.

We don't have any stats for the engines, and there's a general lack of technical detail from Toyota at this stage - probably because the car won't go on sale until early 2019.

I had a bit of mud on my face with this video because the completely useless «spec» sheet that Bell Canada has on their site lacked any real detail, so I didn't realize the sync / charge port I was looking at was really a microUSB port - I've never had a device that uses that type of connector.

While no exact details have emerged as to what exactly Lite means at the time of this writing, we suspect it simply leaves out some of the functionality that's associated with the hardware specs of the new devices - the new Curve lacks the touchscreen and sensors (magnetometer, accelerometer, proximity) that its more upscale sibling the Bold Touch will possess.

With over 20 years of history designing slate and tablet PCs, Fujitsu could bring smome innovation to the tablet space, but so far we're disappointed at the lack of further details about the 10 - inch slate.

But if you start looking at them on your PC, you will notice a distinct lack of fine detail in many cases even in natural lighting conditions.

Because of lack of documentation & specific detailed reports from the veterinarian in the records at the time she was being treated I ended up only getting back like $ 20 for over $ 500 worth of veterinary bills!

I actually wrote an initial draft detailing our dining experiences here, including order an overpriced hot chocolate that seems like Milo with lumps of powdered milk and lack of service water (or offered alternative such as mineral bottles) in at least two of these.

United Airlines announced details of its Basic Economy fares at an investor event on Tuesday and the proposed offerings (or lack of offerings) may well surprise a few people....