Sentences with phrase «against the history of»

But if you look at a lot of this abstract painting and you put it against the history of abstraction, or you look at this figurative painting and you put it against the history of straight - up, Modernist figurative painting, a lot of these artists are not really offering anything that adds much.

1 «At Black Mountain College everyone was always rebelling, both in their lives and in their work, and it struck me at the time that it was only Cy and I who were not rebelling against the history of art.

Students» family stories are set against a history of migration and the fight for human rights.

Her identity as a mixed - race, Thai - American woman is an important part of the work she makes, working against a history of colonialism, otherness, and patriarchy in documentary tradition.

They used data from the past 8,000 years, particularly studying the climate and water changes in the Sierra Nevada mountains and cross-referencing it against the history of Pacific through marine sediment.

Not exact matches

«Against modest economic growth of 2 percent, we had one of the strongest quarters in our history,» said Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said.

When Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced he will run against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson Monday, he set off a race that experts say will likely become one of the most expensive campaigns in U.S. history

The tide of history — and sound ethical reasoning — is against Snyder on this one.

While the company amassed an army of fanboy followers over much of its history as the underdog in the epic struggle against the «evil empire» (Microsoft), it's perhaps understandable that haters are now popping out of the woodwork.

But he said CUP owes most of its identity to Catalonia's own history of workers and leftist movements, including 1930s radicals from pre-dictatorship Catalonia — when anarchists, communists and militant workers unions were among those who fought a losing 1936 - 39 war against Francisco Franco's fascist forces.

But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.

To develop your credit score, FICO analyzes your debts against your limits, your history of on - time and late payments, the number of accounts you have, the various types of accounts you have (such as revolving, installment and so on), the length of your overall credit history and the amount of new credit you've been applying or.

Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers.

Neither Check Point nor Qihoo is certain what the attacker's intentions may be, but if history provides any insight, it's not unreasonable to expect that the botnet could unleash overwhelming barrages of distributed denial of service attacks against targets of its botmaster's choosing.

The PRI's somewhat sordid history, both recent and historical, of patronage and links to the criminal underworld makes it possible for critics to raise uncomfortable questions about its fulmination against the Venezuelan government.

What's more, Cards Against Humanity co-founder Max Temkin threatened to publish the Web browsing history of members of Congress if they voted to allow internet service providers to sell customers» data without asking for permission.

In the history of a murderous regime, this was a period of exceptional state violence perpetrated against its own people.

And B.C. has a history of successful, though often illegal, road blockades against resource development, like the one that halted logging in Clayoquot Sound in 1993.

«Building on prior actions against BP and its subsidiaries by the Department of Justice, this historic resolution is a strong and fitting response to the worst environmental disaster in American history,» U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.

By anti-Semitism is here intended not the latent prejudice against Jews which is a common phenomenon in history and which, as Rabbi Joel Blau put it, «dates back to the beginnings of the Jewish people.»

The list of companies terminating their partnerships with the National Rifle Association is growing as public outcry against the gun group escalates following the deadliest mass shooting at a public high school in U.S. history.

Prejudice against Jews is at least as old as 1654 in North America and its negative evidences may be found in the histories of most of the clubs and colleges and residential districts of the country.

And yet, there's a long history of strident push back against such proposals and wrongheaded doomsday predictions about the damage they will do to business.

Even with boatloads of pre-launch buzz, Jet is still going up against Amazon, one of the most cutthroat competitors in the history of American capitalism.

If one has the wisdom to question their beliefs by actually testing them against data, thinking carefully about valuations, and studying the course of market cycles across history, none of these points should be surprising.

But Charlie Spies, who served as counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, said Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Trump's history of aggressively protecting his corporate and personal reputation.

«For us who are long - term investors, we tend to look at the group of people who are gathering in Vienna and say «they're fighting against history... The cost of producing crude, largely due to fracking technology, has dramatically changed the marginal economics of oil,» Hunt told Bloomberg Television.

Argentina's history of serial bankruptcies weighs against it, though its diversified economy, human capital and natural resources point to a brighter future.

At a meeting of the Financial Literacy and Education Commission, held at the Treasury building in Washington, Perez noted that while «lawsuits have been filed» against the conflict of interest rule, «we will continue to fight those vigorously,» adding that he believes DOL is «on the right side of the law and history.»

He is currently working on a history of commercial fraud in the United States, and especially organizational fraud against consumers and investors, from the early nineteenth century to the present.

The presence of a cosigner with a strong credit and income history is a safety net for the lender — with a cosigner, lenders have an extra layer of protection against borrower default.

If you have a good VantageScore ®, you're likely to have a good FICO ® Score, because both consider the same factors: Payment history: your record of on - time payments and any «derogatory» marks, such as late payments, accounts sent to collections or judgments against you.

These vendors generally have a history outside of social media, usually helping their customers to detect and protect against compliance violations in communication channels such as instant messaging or email.

Also in the post is a pretty concise narrative of each mind - boggling event that led up to this sell - off as well as a graph showing where it ranks percentage-wise against other Dow Jones nosedives throughout history.

This is a talk I gave in December of 2009 at George Mason University in which I explore the history of banking in the US, the theoretical arguments against central banking, and then the free banking alternative.

History is against the holder of cash.

As the name implies, the dividend appreciation index fund seeks to track a benchmark against stocks that have a history of increasing dividends over time.

They are fighting against the lessons of history and psychology, which are both formidable adversaries.

«Our Steering Committee members had a challenging job of reviewing the hundreds of nominations against our Award criteria to arrive at the ballot of 166 Finalists, an unprecedented number in our 28 year history.»

Likewise, nearly all of our challenges during the advancing half - cycle since 2009 can be traced to my 2009 decision to stress - test our market return / risk classification methods against Depression - era data, which inadvertently led us to overemphasize «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes that had reliably warned of market losses in prior market cycles across history.

For the first time in the history of virtual currencies, bitcoin's total percentage of market capitalization against these other coins has dropped below 50 percent.

But Charlie Spies, who served as counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, said Mr Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Mr Trump's history of aggressively protecting his corporate and personal reputation.

The ensemble methods that came out of our stress - testing efforts performed better across history than any other approach we had ever tested (including against holdout validation data), but we missed a market rebound in the interim.

Anchoring data to Bitcoin network protects Exonum against history revisions by leveraging the tremendous security of the Bitcoin Blockchain.

Against this backdrop, fiscal 2014 is shaping up as one of the best years in the company's history.

But how, without history, can we understand these events, discriminate their significance, sift out the large from the small, see the basic currents underlying surface movements and changes, and foresee the result sufficiently to guard against fatal error or the souring of unreasonable hopes?

Both a century of history, and our own experience in full market cycles before the recent half - cycle advance, argue against complacency here.

Downloading names, home towns, work histories and «likes» of 50 million users was not against the rules — at least in 2014 — but Kogan should not have transferred the data to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook wrote.

@TorontoR, Islam has a 1400 + year history of violence against non-Muslims.

So our nonfoundationism is a decision against the progressive devotion to History; the point of life is to keep the people around right now as alive, free, and comfortable as possible, not to use them as fodder for some glorious future.