Sentences with phrase «anything even approaching»

Well, it's very unlikely that they're going to pay someone currently in an entry - level role anything even approaching $ 70K more.

And even though Zuckerberg said that his company plans to do a full investigation into third - party app developers who acted «suspiciously,» and even though Facebook will ostensibly threaten to ban any of them from using Facebook again if they don't comply, there's a slim chance these investigations could be anything even approaching comprehensive.

It really starts to get at the deep cultural value shifts that need to take place if we are going to create anything even approaching an environmentally sustainable civilization.

That is if we still hold on to the notion that there should be anything even approaching equality of development, equality of standard of living, as the ideal.

Actually the uninformative prior does not exist, and in a problem like this one, there isn't anything even approaching that ideal.

It also doesn't tread any new ground or offer anything even approaching a moving story moment.

Even then I'd be willing to support intervention if we had a strategy for supporting the rebels, stopping Gaddafi from committing massacres and some sort of vision for what success looks like, but we don't have anything even approaching that either.

Not exact matches

First, it's almost impossible to imagine that a U.S. Congress and President whose ideological makeup looked even remotely like the current crop would seriously consider anything approaching Ryan's Path to Prosperity budget proposal.

i think that's a very good question — but i don't believe there's enough room on all the forums of all the websites to even approach the subject with anything meaningful.

And even at later stages there is seldom anything approaching a conclusive proof of the superiority of one paradigm over another.22 This question of criteria for choice of paradigms is perhaps the most important issue in the controversy over Kuhn's book.

As an uneducated Bedouin shepherd leading a nomadic lifestyle in a vast desert, who is completely ignorant of anything even remotely approaching modern enlightenment, science, logic, reason, etc., I was very disappointed when I finally got around to reading the Bible.

Surely a man who possesses even a little erectioris ingenii has not become entirely a cold and clammy mollusk, and when he approaches what is great it can never escape his mind that from the creation of the world it has been customary for the result to come last, and that, if one would truly learn anything from great actions, one must pay attention precisely to the beginning.

This is unheard of, before buffalo chicken sliders he wouldn't eat anything that even approached the sandwich category.

This is just a make weight article there are NO talks between Icardi and Wenger, Theres nothing going on between Higuian and Wenger, there was never anything being talked about between Morata and Wenger, the last person Arsenal were serious about talking to was Vardy and that was ONLY because he was the striker who's name was on everybodys lips at that point, and even vardy (as dense as he appears) realised that the whole thing was just an approach to make it seem like Wenger vwas making an effort to sighn someone.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

I'm not, in any way, shape or form, even approaching the territory of judging anyone's child - rearing choices or styles or anything of the sort; I am simply admitting that I personally maybe did attachment parenting wrong.

Most people who would object or say anything to you are a minority, and you might be surprised by how many people approach you just to congratulate you on your baby, or even on your choice to publicly feed.

But, even after decades of trying, «beat - tracking» algorithms can't approach anything like the automaticity and flexibility that humans show to feel the beat across different speeds, genres, and instruments.»

Anything approaching «a certain inevitability» would mean millions or even billions of humanoid life - forms in the universe, simply because the number of available planets is so huge.

Even though at the beginning of the club?s development we tried to follow a kind of master plan, it was very often simply a thrilling trial - and - error evolutionary approach, as no one involved in it had ever done anything similar before.

According to a recent ESPN article, Brady takes a very «zen» approach to living, even citing his favorite book, Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements, as the reason he doesn't take anything personally.

Even if you are confident on the rope, slow down when you approach it; take a couple breaths, wipe off hands of anything that might impede you and select a rope that doesn't look too muddy from previous racers.

For one, we're never quite sure if the woman we're thinking about approaching is single, or if they even find us attractive enough to pursue anything romantic.

Haneke's camera is scrupulously avoidant of anything remotely approaching exploitation or cruelty, but it doesn't flinch for a moment from the harsh physical and emotional realities of the dreadful situation, its confusion and loss and humiliation; that kind of unremitting honesty, however — that kind of acknowledgment of the painful, irremediable fact of death — makes for the most stirring, principled, and meaningful illustration possible of the truest meaning of love, the kind that goes much deeper and wider, and endures longer, than romance or joy or even togetherness.

I'm not even of the school that thinks the Zimmer approach is fundamentally wrong for a film like this — it's just that in this instance, he (assuming he actually had anything to do with it) certainly did get it wrong.

Dreading anything having to do with numbers and understanding myself more as a «big picture» guy, Honan's systematic, clear, engaging and fun - loving approach to teaching exactly how to be a strategic school leader, with your mission in one hand and your financial statement in the other, not only dissipated my lifelong fear of «financial books,» but just as importantly gave me a skills set I was very confident using (and even, God help me, enjoyed) when dealing with all issues involved in leading a school.

This monster is almost totally unusable on public roads at anything approaching even a fraction of its capabilities.

Outside of that approach I've yet to see anything magical or stupendous and I admit I get frustrated when a whole lot of bankruptcy attorneys overlook the advantage of their solution even though the student loans might not be dischargeable.

Major players in the field are struggling to adopt anything even remotely approaching online quoting and binding of coverage in NC, but Effective Coverage has the entire process nailed down to just one minute!

With the right approach, you can return almost anything to the store and get your money back — even if you've lost the receipt.

After 9/11, the whole fixed income market was closed for five days, and even once it re-opened, it took two weeks to approach anything near normal.

If these are truly risks (and, as I've pointed out previously, the public health threat argument is scaremongering more than anything else), they are risks that (1) are already present, (2) have been allowed to persist — even worsen — due to the admitted ineffectiveness of the trap - and - kill approach (where's the accountability for that, by the way?)

This wouldn't change my approach to applying, and if anything, would make me even more likely to apply.

When he told a woman that she was «c *** fused,» she had not said anything even close to approaching that insult beforehand.

He did nt Reveal any big secrets about any gameplay aspects or anything or even which of Nintendo's platforms it would be on but he did say «I can tell you, though, that we've already started approaching our next challenge.»

The individual girlfriend requests themselves can be anything from the usual drifting or passing traffic, to breaking through «lines» that join two approaching vehicles, hitting funny «ghosts» whose eyes pop out on impact, dribbling a large beach ball along the road, deliberately hitting traffic, and even avoiding a shower of meteors or a cluster of UFOs ready to «abduct» you for a few seconds.

Even though I have a lot of respect of people (and stated such in my thread before I read this and saw your videos) who can produce videos of these games, especially anything approaching a full playthrough of niche releases fast for an English speaking audience, here any person who wants to grasp what this update offers in full may think they have to watch 42 minutes + 36 minutes + 32 minutes + 35 minutes + 25 minutes + 22 minutes of video.

I am not sure, however, that any of these works really presented anything new about sculpture, but rather echoed methodologies and approaches found in the work of others (whether it be the soft sculptures of Claes Oldenburg and Patty Mucha; the sound suits of Nick Cave; the eerie paper constructions of Thomas Demand; or hell, even the earlier cubes of Larry Bell to name just a few that came to mind as I roamed the Whitney).

You can not find anything significant from this approach, it's even more hopeless than the ideas related to gravitational effects.

If you do not fully understand a system, which for climate we're not even close, you can not make any predictions / claims on it's manipulations, natural or not, with anything approaching the levels of certainty that the IPCC et al suggest without reams of evidence to back it up.

«On global cooling,» he writes, «there was never anything even remotely approaching the current scientific consensus that the world is growing warmer because of the emission of greenhouse gases.»

Also, though it's not directly relevant to the issue of the most productive approach in terms of our own long term interests (which I think if people really understood this problem would involve a lot more fealty to moving off of FF now, and the idea of building even more coal plants — which are also responsible for most of the excess that allows bio accumulation of the serious neurological toxin mercury in our food supply, damages watersheds, mountain tops, sometimes whole communities and ecosystems, and, CC aside, is also very polluting — would be more apt to be seen as the idiocy it is), in some sense, no one has a full inherent right to anything really we as a world have built up: It has been a collective effort and you can only drive a Ferrari for instance, because of the hard work of countless others before you and along side you.

If anything, I think this approach will fail even more spectacularly when you have fewer means to derail questions that are inconvenient to answer.

For its part, the IPCC failed to correct the record even though it was fully aware Pachauri lacked anything approaching that kind of expertise.

The Labour, Lib Dem, and Green manifestos are, if anything, even more encouraging for the green economy, promising a faster pace of decarbonisation, generally higher levels of investment in clean technologies, and a more responsible approach to curbing fossil fuel investment, most notably through a ban on fracking.

When you couple that requirement to the poll results in # 233, where about half the American respondents don't even EXPRESS the most minimal commitment to ameliorating climate change, WORRYING about it, then there is infinitesimal chance we will even approach anything near 2 C.

Even now, given the nature of proxies — for which the word «independence» must often seem like the concept of a crazed idealist — I doubt that it is possible to say with anything approaching certainty that the current «divergence» phenomenon has never happened before during the last millenium.

Even an approach like flexible working arrangements does not have anything approaching universal support.

Major players in the field are struggling to adopt anything even remotely approaching online quoting and binding of coverage in NC, but Effective Coverage has the entire process nailed down to just one minute!

I get that Samsung wants to make its own content and services more accessible than other Android features, but Samsung doesn't offer anything that even approaches Google Now in terms of utility or reliability.