Sentences with phrase «as a chain link»

Cain's uninhibited use of pigment and found materials such as chain link, sunglasses, pinwheels, and prisms reveal her confrontation and challenge of the traditional tenets of painting.

Not exact matches

Simply link up all the paperclips in someone's drawer and watch on as they proceed to pull out a whole chain of clips rather than just the one they intended to.

And when it comes to helping a customer, the chain of assistance is only as strong as its weakest link.

As these examples show, what occurs at one link in the supply chain may go undetected in another part, but could create huge problems for all.

As an importer or exporter, you need to know how each link in the shipping chain functions.

But with a complex supply chain comes multiple parties, any one of which could be a weak link that causes a widespread breakdown, such as around claims about product composition, quality, and safety.

Creighton has a habit of dismissing rival storage players as antiquated «sheds in a field — single - storey, garage doors, chain - link fences, along the major 400 - series highways in Toronto.»

At the other end of the spectrum, Mail Boxes Etc. uses a scale of minus 2 to 2 for each of 20 criteria, which are weighted to arrive at a total score; Jinwoong, the sporting - goods marketer, uses an «eight - link chain» model for managing decisions about potential new products; the links detail the company's strengths in eight areas, such as distribution and in - store merchandising.

If you want to see similar success, remember: You are only as strong as the weakest link in your chain.

Ward says the chain - link fence that serves as a flag stand and the concrete edging at Thomasville Speedway were pulled directly from North Wilkesboro.

And as with avocados, the price gets marked up at each link of the delivery chain (see «The Cocaine Trail to Chicago»).

Premium Fence Company performs Strata builds for Aluminum Fencing & Gates, and Chain Link Fencing as well as Custom Retaining Walls.

The logo actually is a stylish linked chain, but in a way that it can also be seen as a (slightly tilted) «W».

As an increasing amount of links in the oil & gas supply chain become digitized, the threat of a catastrophic cyberattack grows by the day

As the amount of short - term borrowing and lending among financial institutions expanded, markets for repurchase agreements and commercial paper became primary funding sources, forging a chain that linked the fortunes of many institutions and various financial sectors to the performance of a few of the largest and exacerbated systemic vulnerability.»

Throughout 2015 and 2016, PoP providers were pushing hard to carve out a permanent niche for themselves as an extra link in the credit intermediation chain.

More than an uptake of entrepreneurism as a notion, Canada must focus on adopting entrepreneurship with rigor — which means fixing the broken links on the long chain of startup activity.

When it comes to exposing users» data to any third party apps, arguably, he should have employed more screening and rigid processes, since the chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

How and why do certain links along these commodity chains become flashpoints of intense political struggle, as we have seen particularly with pipeline projects?

5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not exist — let's suppose for the sake of argument that the chain of causation has to stop somewhere; it is just as legitimate to suppose that it stops with the Universe, or that your supernatural being is not the final link in the chain

As it happened, what I told him about the links in the Calvinistic chain turned out to be true — at least for me.

It isn't as though we can afford to drop any of the links in the chain.

Everything indicates that Paul himself interpreted the lightning - struck encounter with the resurrected Lord on the way to Damascus as an appearance which links his experience to the chain of eyewitness testimonies of the life of Jesus and of the resurrection (Acts 22:14, 15; 26:15 - 20).

That these moments occur in the course of the rough and tumble of his pastoral career and not, as a rule, as calculated links in a chain of argument makes them the more startling.

Accepting the causal account, one can come to see the perceived datum as only the final link in a long causal chain, only that part of the iceberg which is visible above the surface of the water.

And then there is world around us: the hungry bellies, the dirty water, the vicious war, the waiting and lonely children silent behind chain link fences in refugee camps, the women caught in sex trafficking, our culture's exploitation and violence masquerading as entertainment, and Lord have mercy.

If the organization exists just to keep the church running as usual, there is no point to creating an additional link in the chain, and this option should be ignored.

Let us look in turn at the separate links in this chain of theorems, each of which, as we shall see, represents a test whereby we may better know and measure, m the scale of spiritual values, the worth and position of others.

Abraham appears in the Qur» an as an important link in a chain of Muslim prophets that culminates with Muhammad.

If, on the other hand, we start with the idea of God as a «serial society,» leaving out the phases of indeterminateness in every link (so that it would become a continuous chain of satisfactions only), it might appear that we had arrived at the same view as above.

A familiar model of a causal sequence which is often associated with science pictures each event as a link in a chain — a separate thing distinctly located in space.

By promoting sustainable changes among not just agriculture but its entire supply chain and itself, McDonald's is living by its belief that sustainability is «inextricably linked to its business growth,» and that the world's sustainability is tied to McDonald's sustainability, as well.

Once coffees have been graded and certified as «Q,» the Q Certificate can be linked directly to the Rainforest Alliance online Marketplace, where users can trace coffee through the supply chain, from exporter to importer to roaster.

With Lidl Deutschland as the latest member, retail is now also represented as a link in this supply chain.

The company says it accomplishes this by: > «Taking pride in our immense devotion to customer service; > «Making every effort to fulfill customer requests; > «Delivering quality products accurately and timely in accordance with customers» orders; > «Working together in a synergistic environment to ensure the satisfaction of all customers; > «Recognizing and supporting our commitment to our employees as valuable links in our chain of success; and > «Conducting business according to the highest ethical standards and serving as an outstanding corporate citizen in the community.»

As part of our USDA accreditation, QAI ensures ongoing compliance at every link in the organic production chain by actively updating programs and policies to National Organic Program guidelines.

Gastronomy can be understood as another link in the food chain, and as a change factor that offers a different perspective to the conventional outlook, and seeks solutions to social problems which, after all, affect all of us.»

Recognizing and supporting our commitment to our employees as valuable links in our chain of success

Because of its critical position in the quality chain linking plantation to chocolate production, the Barry Callebaut Group identified this fermentation more than a decade ago as one of the key steps that required optimization in order to close the quality chain and provide the purest, most intense, natural chocolate experience up to now.

Filling his hole in the lineup would be one benefit of demoting him, but I think you also have to bear in mind the old adage that a chain is as strong as its weakest link, and his influence on the chemistry of the team — particularly on the cumulative confidence that they're a winning team — can't be beneficial.

The success of this American - bred horse is another link in the ever - growing chain of international racing, as Smirke rode Worden 2nd to victory last fall in Laurel's International.

These passing webs are fantastic because they not only show who had the lion's share of touches, but in which direction and with whom they connected most often, and as we can see, Emerson was the pivotal link in the chain, serving as a back - to - front outlet for Federico Fazio, while teaming with Radja Nainggolan to spread play out wide, before finally pushing it ahead to Diego Perotti.

It was a night where many of the ostensible weaker links in Arsenal's chain came to the fore, which was just as well, as most of the side's better players like Samir Nasri and Johan Djourou were below par.

For example, if you want to get your teen daughter a memorable piece of jewelry as a keepsake to wear at graduation, go with a string of pearls or a pretty linked gold chain instead of a statement necklace.

Next, my daughter was playing with the chain links holding the curtains as my son attempted to slip down his chair onto the floor.

The 3 - acre park — which has a double-gated entrance and is surrounded by a chain - link fence — offers such dog - friendly amenities as a drinking fountain that accommodates both dog and owner and strategically placed fire hydrants.

I had the little twinge of anxiety that I always get when I have to scale a fence - remembering the time a jagged end of chain link ripped my hand open as a child.

A Freedom of Information request to the Food and Drug Administration in the US by the Cornucopia Institute found similar reactions logged in some babies fed on formula with Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (such as DHA and ARA), which it was suggested may be linked to the production process.

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They are working with impossibly tight funding; they may face high turnover of labor; they may be at the bottom of the food chain within their school district, viewed as little more than an annoying adjunct department vaguely linked with mystery meat, ladies in hairnets, and the persistent complaint that «school food sucks.»