Sentences with phrase «once characterized»

The market challenges are acutely felt in Central Austin, where neighborhoods once characterized by single - story bungalow starter homes now boast median home prices near $ 1 million, according to recent housing data.

Toronto Mayor John Tory once characterized asking the province for help as «a little boy going up to Queen's Park in short pants.»

Scot R. Peterson, disgraced former Broward sheriff's deputy, once characterized himself to be a strong, proactive law enforcement officer who would not shrink in the face of danger.

The Massachusetts Sunday law involved in one of these appeals was once characterized by the Massachusetts court as merely a civil regulation providing for a «fixed period of rest.»

Once characterized by isolation, these unique ecosystems face increased connectivity as a result of human activities and natural geological shifts.

Once characterized by its instability and resourcefulness, the Beirut art community is now maturing and stabilizing, as a culture of philanthropy develops, and international interest grows.

The catalog tells us Mr. Lüpertz once characterized himself» das Volk, das malt,» the populace, who paint.

The 1990s was once characterized by The New York Times as the «grandest, most ambitious museum boom» in history.

The bold vitality that once characterized expressionist gesture goes dry on Prekop's brushes — its color remains, but is rendered stiff and flat.

Rewards credit cards are nothing new, but according to new research from Aite Group, 2017 saw rewards cards offering greater riches, and saw millennials — once characterized as credit - card - shy — embrace them.

It wasn't necessarily a bad thing, as it actually felt like it was part of the rough - and - ready feeling that once characterized Subaru's cars.

Take the Race to the Top, which one of us once characterized as «a carrot that feels like a stick.»

It seems unthinkable that our most prized Oscars punching bag, the man who tanked the ceremony in 2011, would not only return as a nominee, but would be welcomed back with open arms by the same group of critics who once characterized his work as «somewhere halfway between a graduate thesis and a video installation.»

CEO Ron Moelis, who founded the firm in 1984, once characterized L+M's mission as no home runs, no strikeouts.

Sociologist Daniel Bell once characterized himself as «a socialist in economics, a liberal in politics, and a conservative in culture.»

The New York Times once characterized him as a connoisseur of the obvious on the cliché matinee.

To avoid being mistaken for gay, these days many self - proclaimed straight people — men especially — settle for superficial associations with their comrades and reserve the sort of costly intimacy that once characterized such chaste same - sex relationships for their romantic partners alone.

Most parties to the discussion exhibit a terminological wavering of the sort that once characterized the discussion of culture among anthropologists.

The Davos meetings no longer have the confident spirit that once characterized them.

In order to recapture the robust sense of moral purpose that once characterized the Christian way, we must discard contemporary notions about self - fulfillment.

By turning John F. Kennedy» the embodiment of pragmatic, rationalist, results - oriented anticommunist liberalism» into a mythical figure whose idealism could never be recaptured, the hagiographers helped undermine the confidence in progress that had once characterized the liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Kennedy himself.

Displaying what Donald (now Dierdre) McCloskey once characterized as «the intellectual range from M to N,» there is no real comparison of the Fed's record with that of the system that preceded it; no mention of other monetary systems circa 1913 that had better records than the United States (most pertinently, that of Canada); not nearly enough acknowledgment of the great harm the Fed has caused more than once in its history; no discussion of why a few other central banks — though surprisingly, only a few — have performed better than the Fed; and no inkling that central banking may not be the best of all possible systems in the best of all possible worlds.

Elon once characterized patents as «a lottery ticket to a lawsuit».

Cornyn once characterized the number of records sent to the FBI as «staggeringly low.»

But VMware's decision to narrow the focus of vCloud Air from what was once characterized as a full - on competitor to Amazon Web Services to a more niche offering is what opened up this opportunity for IBM and other cloud players.

Once you characterize God as eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, not subject to or constrained by the laws of nature you can claim anything you want about him.

Not exact matches

The employees characterized the process as «the polls never close,» meaning once a decision seemed to be made, it could be changed by more «voting,» or discussion.

Although it once suffered the same decline characterizing many Rust Belt cities, Hartford has diversified into the insurance, healthcare, and tech industries and exhibited positive growth as of our latest jobs report.

It was the Best of Times / It was the Worst of Times Once again we begin our report commenting on the unusual divergences that characterized the most recent quarter's investing environment.

Noel once told me that he started his walk away from Christianity in that context; graduate school finalized that journey and when I came to know him, he was a massively articulate, Bible - steeped skeptic with little taste for the cultural Christianity that characterized all too much of the deep South.

Now the third aspect of this sameness that characterizes violence: once we consent to use violence ourselves, we have to consent to our adversary's using it, too.

I had once thought that I could employ a bipolar scale in characterizing belief, one that assumed that the views of persons might be located at some position between orthodoxy (or conservatism) and modernism (or liberalism).

But if the opposites, static and fluent, have once been so explained as separately to characterize diverse actualities, the interplay between the thing which is static and the things which are fluent involves contradiction at every step in its explanation.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

And this love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and Eternal Wisdom, gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort of necessity, but rather that you freely bestowed your love, out of the boundless flood of your loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»

It is at once clear that the original is characterized by rhyme and the whole Qur» an is either rhymed or assonance prose.

They may become once again islands of humanities and grace and style and learning in a new dark age that is characterized not by ignorance but by paralyzing and unassimilated information.

Aristotle ranked magnanimity among the virtues that characterize a man who is at once powerful and noble.

Once again, women are characterized as «deficient in intelligence.»

Added to the normal machinating, wrangling, gerrymandering and abstract sketching that characterizes this year's iteration of the once - a-decade process is the threat of a veto from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has said he will refuse to approve «lines that are not drawn by an independent commission that are partisan.»

It was a reminder that the old Ms. Mark - Viverito — the blunt outsider who was once thought too corrosive to be elected speaker — had not entirely disappeared, even though a lack of controversy has characterized her tenure so far.

Some speakers characterized the DEP deal as «another city land grab,» while others wondered why the county executive, who once described the agency as «an invading army,» wasn't paying more attention to flooding and debris issues in the Esopus Creek caused in part by his new DEP ally.

Williams again tried to get de Blasio to characterize his relationship with Cuomo — for whom he once worked at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Party noted that the last two years of Bello's administration had been characterized by inconsistencies in policy making, adding that the weekend drama, had proven once again that the governor was not in charge, and did not have a mind of his own to govern a complex state like Kogi.

«That's going to be really important once we start characterizing exoplanets with all of these new missions.»

Once people have characterized someone in a negative light, they tend to ignore evidence to the contrary.

That poorly understood material is found inside neutron stars — the collapsed remnants of once - mighty stars — and is now being mapped out, as scientists better characterize the weird matter.

Once the nematode signal is characterized, a new generation of natural compounds will be available that is able to induce defense responses in plants thus paving the way for safe and sustainable nematode control.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

«Once we identify and characterize these cases, we can begin to study different types of treatments, long - term outcomes and root causes of the illness,» says Debra Katzman, a pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an author of the recent paper.