Sentences with phrase «artificial construct»

Painting is a highly artificial construct that lags far behind reality.

Because they are just artificial constructs that reflect nothing inherent in the natural world, they become unnecessary under the PhyloCode.

Drawing on his personal interactions with Community District # 2 in New York City, Elmore promotes the idea that school reform can not be imposed through artificial constructs developed by outside policymakers, but must begin from the inside with a commitment by educators to develop the knowledge, structures, and practices at the heart of instruction.

Instead, you'll be lying both to yourself and your audience while living a life of unsatisfying artificial constructs.

Nobody wants reality intruding into their comfortable artificial construct bolstered by a compliant media that's little more than a PR arm for the government these days.

His claim to diplomatic immunity was rejected by the High Court who described it «an entirely artificial construct.»

Whitehead writes that the isolated impression is an artificial construct: «In fact we can never isolate such ultimate irrationalities» (PR 479).

Otherwise, it will be an artificial construct which lends itself to domination of alien thought patterns.

My conclusion, then, about the doctrine of the Trinity is that it is an artificial construct.

The belief that one should be allowed a different standard of reason simply because they claim to represent God is an artificial construct.

The doctrine of the Trinity is an artificial construct.

The Lorax wrote: «I find this incredibly romantic because it is way more dedicated to living with conscious commitment to each other every day than any artificial construct created by the wedding industrial complex.»

It's an artificial construct.

It claims to be the mechanism by which power will be returned to people at community level, yet is the ultimate example of a top - down, artificial construct.

Similarly, the Alternative Vote places an artificial construct on voter's intentions, forcing them to make second preference choices - before they actually know the result, which inevitably would disproportionately favour the Liberal Democrats as being the «centre» party.

The experts are arguing about the future of the leap second, an extra second added to the world's clocks every year or so to keep the artificial constructs of hours and minutes in lockstep with the actual length of the day.

The only way to get lower would be to eat 100 % fat — which is largely an artificial construct.

She's an artificial construct waiting around for me to enter the proper chain of inputs and «win.»

This is not a new or especially interesting dramatic thesis, and not even Moverman's ability to find nuance in the cracks of a familiar story can quite offset the sense that we are watching an artificial construct, a cleverly rigged parlor game that fancies itself a moral lament.

(Like almost all comparisons when dealing with an artificial construct like Copyright)

Do you believe writer's block is an artificial construct and a discipline issue?

KU is an artificial construct designed to strip pricing power away from authors so Amazon can offer ever - lower prices to its customers.

Video game death stands apart from real death, not only because it's an artificial concept within the artificial construct of a video game world, but because it represents a fresh start rather than the end of the road.

It's the way I view culture — it's an artificial construct.»

The apparent unanimity of the conclusions in the IPCC reports is an artificial construct.

It's an artificial construct of our society, a cultural decision, to make pets out of dogs and meat out of pigs.

It is vital not only for Alex Salmond, but for Artur Mas and for Bart de Wever; and its raises wider important questions about the legal structures of artificial constructs (such as Belgium) and states with perennially recalcitrant provinces, such as Catalonia, the Basque Provinces and even Corsica.

The claims were described as «an elaborate and artificial construct».

The information provided by the commercial publishers regarding usage for the purpose of charge backs to clients is an artificial construct, developed to reinforce the idea that online information is analogous to photocopies and all of the other petty items which lawyers now charge their clients.

In fact, these aren't even really dreams; they're artificial constructs that have clear rules and complex labyrinths that must be explored in order to progress.