Sentences with phrase «alien concept as»

2) They also view Usmanov as somewhat of a foreign and alien concept as he has a somewhat unsavoury reputation which was encouraged and fostered by the Hill woods who if I recall made David Deins situation untenable when jhe suggested a chelski like foreign investor the statement as I remember it from Peter Hill Wood was» we do not sell to foreign investors» lol what the hell is Kroenke??

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The concept of nature as evil and alien to humanity began basically in late apocalyptic and gnostic thought in the Christian era.

As a matter of fact, the concept is not really alien to Christian and ecclesiastical tradition.

Such a conception is in no sense, as compared with the viewpoint of these sayings of Jesus, further developed or more profound; rather it results from a wholly different premise, a wholly different conception of God and man; it is based on the concept of law, aesthetically applied, which is entirely alien to Judaism and to Jesus.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Had this been done, it would have led to the conclusion that the word logos did not embody a concept alien to Old Testament revelation but could be used to sum up the completion of revelation as understood by the Old Testament.

As a Midwesterner, the concept of the Power 5 as some dividing line between programs feels alien to mAs a Midwesterner, the concept of the Power 5 as some dividing line between programs feels alien to mas some dividing line between programs feels alien to me.

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

This led to a fundamental strategic change as the US and USSR accepted the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), which was, and is still, alien to the American historical strategic culture because it effectively embraces vulnerability.

Having taken a break you are in the enviable position of having time and space to think through the next phase of your career and find the right job — even though as a mother of two, time and space might sound like totally alien concepts at times!

The classic Nintendo franchise, Metroid, envisioned through the lens of 60s - 70s science fiction cinema such as 2001, Alien, and Solaris: this was the concept for Rainfallâ $ ™ s most recent production.

She was electrifying as an alien seductress in Jonathan Glazer's 2013 horror Under the Skin and is at her very best in Luc Besson's high - concept action thriller Lucy, which opened here yesterday, playing a women whose mind becomes explosively powerful after she's injected with a synthetic drug.

This is the lasting appeal of Jack Finney's novel, «The Body Snatchers» and why its concept has inspired countless science fiction movies throughout the years - from three versions of the novel itself (in 1956, 1978 and 1994 as Body Snatchers by director Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant fame) to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (finally in 1994) and the 1980s remake of The Thing - all of them dealing with people being surreptitiously taken over by alien presences.

In the world of Youtube and Soundcloud and Band Camp, the idea that an artist would buck the system and operate without a label behind her as she starts out being some shocking alien concept does not pass the smell test.

Central is a drug known as «soy sauce,» which causes the user to see outside the concept of linear time, existing at all times at once, similar to the alien beings from Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five.

Cinema audiences however never got the joke as the whole «grindhouse» experience was as alien to today's young teenaged audiences that frequent today's multiplexes as were the concept of a drive - in.

There will be retail - exclusive editions as well, featuring: Target (with a 36 - page book of concept art from the film), Walmart (with an Alien Day fan t - shirt), and Best Buy (with Steelbook packaging featuring the baby Xenomorph).

Most of the amazing and futuristic concept cars are so far on the other side of being a production possibility they might as well be alien.

I now offer the alien concept sketches my designer generated as free downloads for subscribers through my website.»

Rudimentary financial concepts such as «pay yourself first,» «build an emergency fund,» «automate your savings,» and «invest in low - cost index funds» were utterly alien.

alien concept - decide for self - determine possible link between multiple accounts & miscreants from Ohio referring to ps3 as «alien'tech 5 years after it crashed into desert near Roswell NM is slightly alarming.Backdrop for potential failure

But if nothing else, stick around long enough to see the 8 - bit prototype the team created, as well as footage of an early game concept that included an alien invasion of Hyrule straight out of Independence Day.

As much as I loved the initial premise and the concept of a mysterious, unexplored alien world waiting for me to document its inhabitants, lands and secrets, I found the impressive scale largely doesn't factor in an epic talAs much as I loved the initial premise and the concept of a mysterious, unexplored alien world waiting for me to document its inhabitants, lands and secrets, I found the impressive scale largely doesn't factor in an epic talas I loved the initial premise and the concept of a mysterious, unexplored alien world waiting for me to document its inhabitants, lands and secrets, I found the impressive scale largely doesn't factor in an epic tale.

Harrison, who is known for her bulbously weird sculptures made from Styrofoam and cement, all studded with bits of human detritus, has a new show at Regen that employs both the concept of the selfie (the framing of oneself, hence the title of the show) and the sticks (her alien forms bear selfie sticks as if they were some robotic prostheses).

Installations of Mona Hatoum's Measures of Distance, Keith Piper's Go West Young Man, and Harold Offeh's Alien at Large all expose the concept of «home» as a site continually under construction.

Particularly I'm interested in those historically greyed gradations between what the Greeks called «persuasion» («pathei» if I remember, though I'm probably wrong) and what became, via the Christian concept of «Truth», «honesty», a totally alien concept to the classical world (for no one was capable of «lieing», then)-- to «persuade», even in the 1300's, with «graphs» would have classed you as a mountebank and a charlatan.

Then, as if seamlessly, she segued into this next sentence: «In the 1980s and «90s, people all over the country filed scores of legal cases accusing parents, priests and day care workers of horrific sex crimes, which they claimed to have only just remembered with the help of a therapist... But as the claims grew more outlandish — alien abductions and secret satanic cults — support for the concept waned... Harvard psychologist Richard McNally called the idea of repressed memories «the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy `.»

It wasn't quite as good as I remembered, and the seven year old was totally confused by the concept of actors playing actors on a TV show who are mistaken for space warriors by aliens and co-opted into leading their race into war, but it was still quite fun (for me).