Sentences with phrase «riddle at»

Moore spends the next 350 pages unfolding a gnawing riddle at a teasingly slow pace, but the story is saved by the completely outrageous characters and their seemingly unrelated antics.
Students use the left over letters to solve the riddle at the bottom: «What do you call a skeleton who doesn't like to work?
«The technology has become available now, and it's such an interesting scientific question, so it's not surprising that two groups were working on solving this riddle at once.»
Whatever the case, the false star should help guide further observation of the riddle at the center of our galaxy.

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One thing to know: The Cowboys had their playoff path crushed Sunday after falling apart at home against a Seahawks team that has been riddled with injuries — even the return of Ezekiel Elliott wasn't enough to spark the Dallas offense.
Amazon Description:» «Fleabag» is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry - witted, sexual, angry, grief - riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London.
At least that's the thinking at Microsoft, where hundreds of job seekers have been asked the bathroom question as part of the legendary «interview loop» — a rigorous ritual in which candidates are grilled by their future colleagues with a barrage of puzzles, riddles, and bizarre hypothetical questionAt least that's the thinking at Microsoft, where hundreds of job seekers have been asked the bathroom question as part of the legendary «interview loop» — a rigorous ritual in which candidates are grilled by their future colleagues with a barrage of puzzles, riddles, and bizarre hypothetical questionat Microsoft, where hundreds of job seekers have been asked the bathroom question as part of the legendary «interview loop» — a rigorous ritual in which candidates are grilled by their future colleagues with a barrage of puzzles, riddles, and bizarre hypothetical questions.
While larger sums of money are thrown around in San Francisco, New York, Boston and a handful of other major U.S. cities, Bott and Tammy Riddle, director of the IT cluster at the Cincinnati USA Partnership for Economic Development, say that what sets Cincinnati apart is its unusually supportive ecosystem for new companies.
In an economy riddled with layoffs, a smart insurance policy can go a long way toward helping you sleep at night
But in truth, there's a more powerful catalyst — one so gargantuan and infinitesimal at the same time that it sounds like the answer to a riddle.
As I said at the beginning, the economic situation we face is very complicated and riddled with uncertainty.
The recent move by Twitter to verify the students is yet another example of how big the current discussion around gun regulation has become, and an example of how the company hopes to add credibility to users who are at the center of a debate riddled with misinformation.
This riddle could be paraphrased as «It is almost worth the gold reserves of France (World # 5), it is what all want now at the price of 2016, you would be eager to have it as a gift last Christmas, it stands at 14 GDPs of Kyrgyz Republic (my motherland)».
But it becomes challenging to execute in a business environment riddled with incentives slanted toward short - term goals, which can often come at the cost of the customer.
The specific part of the market that I'm going to look at is the space of preferred stocks, a space riddled with inefficiencies.
The area where you feel most alive is actually riddled with discomfort yet, if you look at most people's «bucket lists,» nearly everything will fall in into that category... and almost no one will wish they'd spent more time «playing it safe.»
He is a lecturer on entrepreneurship at Stanford University and the author of the best - selling book The Monk and the Riddle, as well as several articles on leadership and entrepreneurship.
Riddled with anti-truth, anti-science, the inquisition, burning people at the stake, condemning loving couples, cant eat this or that... these people only know one thing and that's control in the name of an immutable source whom they claim to have a monopoly.
riddle his body unrecognizable with machine guns then kick him in the face for good measure.His burial at sea should have been done using a chum bucket.But he's now getting his..
She's also served as an Army officer and nonprofit CEO, studied at West Point, Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona State, and Oxford University, and earned degrees in physics and theology.
It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.
The riddle based on discontinuity properly applies to the first stage only: why is Whitehead's concept so minimal at this stage, rarely going beyond what can be inferred from the bland assertion that God is the nontemporal actual entity?
Is the church any less riddled with hypocrisy, avarice and power - drunkenness than society at large?
The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle [The Christian Century, November 28, 1934].
It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?
He is working with the Waodani tribe at the edge of the Amazon in Ecuador to help them solve a transportation riddle plaguing hard to reach regions all over the world: What do you do when the road ends?
And yet in the last resort it is a riddle how it understands itself; just at the instant when it seems to be nearest to having the fabric finished it can arbitrarily resolve the whole thing into nothing.
Perhaps the tree has at least realized that this relationship is entirely one - sided, not that of a parent to a child in a realistic and decent and loving relationship, but that of a fantasized maternal figure to a narcissistic child in a relationship that is riddled with plenty of passive - aggressive nonsense.
To give one specific example, it is surely impossible for us to conceive of what an electron's experience would be like, but we must conceive of it as some kind of experience or not conceive of it at all.1 Therefore, it is probably less misleading to state that human experience is the one keyhole through which man may catch a fleeting glimpse of the vast panorama of the universe instead of the clue that solves the riddles of the cosmos.
You're actually wrong on the whole «I have a better chance of believing in something rather than nothing», you actually have the same amount of chance at being right as I do, plus riddle me this, if your god values good deeds and good actions, then do I not have an equal opportunity of getting into heaven.
We need to revisit Jesus at this point to see what light our explorations in the Old Testament have shed on this central riddle.
But even when I can't, the one prayer I try conjure up at least once a day — no matter how depressed or doubt - riddled or frantic I may be — is the one Jesus taught his disciples to pray: the Lord's Prayer.
«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9
The other day here at First Thoughts, Matthew Schmitz commented on» Jay Michaelson's Error - Riddled Conspiracy Theory» about present - day campaigns to defend religious freedom.
Pope John Paul II seems, at least on some readings, to have put his authority behind what is being called «theistic evolution,» but this is simply not spiritually acceptable for many who wonder how they can reconcile a loving and benevolent Father God with the cruel, monstrous saga of evolution, riddled with waste and destructiveness.
Others see in the varied forms of religion man's search for the answers to the Unknown or partially Known which they believe or at least hope exists and in which is the solution of the riddle of their existence and of the world about them.
Fables, didactic poetry, songs, proverbs, riddles, autobiographical narratives (or confessions), onomastica, etc. are part and parcel of instruction at home as well as at school in India.
I understand that they have said that (in probably one of the greatest doctrinal about faces in history) but when you look at the official Catholic Catachism, it is still riddled with references to Adam and Eve, Noah and the other cast of mythical characters.
Investigate the evidence yourself, there is nothing at all that truly suggests that the Big Bang happened, the only thing they have used in order to come up with the theory is that in their observances, the Universe appears to be expanding from a central point, it doesn't prove that a Big bang occurred, we know so little about the universe, that we don't even know everything about our own world, and you really believe that our science has figured out the riddle to the beginning of the Universe?
This question itself shows us at once the source of the riddle of man.
Last year at this camp, she was riddled with guilt because another girl in the bunk was being bullied, it was being hidden well from the counselors, and Bailey (my daughter) couldn't put a stop to it (and was often afraid to try, lest she be next).
Now this riddle baffled us for a while, after a beer at the airport, we figured the whole thing out.
We drove, for 50 km, on dirt roads that were riddled with potholes, at about half the recommended speed because tiny wheels and giant potholes.
We have solved the riddle as to how to do it really well at a reasonably low price point.»
It would be riddled with so many comments aimed at a personal level, that I would have to be a saint not rise to the bait.
Jets get to build on the QB hype, Colts get more picks to fill their riddled roster and moving back 3 shouldn't affect their # 1 pick much if at all.
Out of the six players whose contracts are set to expire at the end of the campaign, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar is widely expected to hang up his gloves while injury riddled midfielder Owen Hargreaves is thought to be in line not to receive a new deal.
At least he can see and admit to the problems, whereas Mr Riddled with riddles Wenger doesn't see or acknowledge jack???
I'm reminded of the riddling debate Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have at the beginning of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
The Frogs were blown out three times and not really good at anything, despite a Gary Patterson defense that'd gotten reps during an injury - riddled 2015 and the addition of a former September Heisman - winning QB, Kenny Hill.
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