Sentences with phrase «as critics thought»

(Subsequent work has shown that the temperature rise up to 1940 was, as his critics thought, mainly caused by some kind of natural cyclical effect, not by the still relatively low CO2 emissions...»

And I didn't believe that technology would threaten the company as fast as critics thought.

It might not have been as thoughtless as critics think, however.

Not exact matches

The issue that critics like to trot out is «merit,» and I think merit is a very convenient safety blanket to defend the status quo — especially if your board looks the same as it did 30 years ago.

Even if fully autonomous cars don't work out as planned (some critics think it's a distant pipe dream), autopilot tech that aids drivers and prevents accidents is available now on Tesla EVs and other cars.

Institutional investors aren't as reliant on proxy advisers to make voting decisions as some business groups and other critics might think, according to a new survey by consultancy Morrow Sodali Global LLC.

Blockstream raised $ 21 million at the end of 2014 — a round during which it again managed to attract the top tier of tech investors — and whatever its critics might think, it looks as though the company is going to play a critical role in the advancing of bitcoin and blockchain technology going forward.

Readers who have not been paying close attention to these controversies may think that critics such as Derr are excessively harsh or unfair.

Pannenberg has been an effective critic of process thought, as both Cobb and Ford acknowledge in their articles.

I think Hamill, Donoghue, and nearly every other of the American critics who praised Angela's Ashes have equally misread the book as a chronicle of a young man's liberation from a «smothering Irish parochialism.»

While most moralists and literary critics of this century have viewed comedy as frivolous, a hindrance to serious thinking, Auden used it in the service of morality.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

critics tended on the whole to say: strip off the interpretation so far as possible; it only tells us what some early Christians thought or believed; the residue will be plain matter of fact.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

(A fact conveniently ignored by Bush critics) And frankly I think they likely did have the weapons as most of the world's security analysts believed, but hell with as much lead time as we publicly gave them to remove them is it any wonder they were no longer there by the time action was taken?

Some change in my thinking on this as on other matters during the six years separating the two books can not be denied and perhaps is not to be apologized for; but critics have been mistaken if they have supposed that the authenticity and the unique quality of Jesus» humanity have ever become less precious to me than when I wrote the first book.

Some critics might think this fourth ideal is the same as a blanket acceptance of the gay identity.

In Hinduism, in Sufism, in Christian mysticism,... we find the same recurring note, so that there is about mystical utterances an eternal unanimity which ought to make a critic stop and think, and which brings it about that the mystical classics have, as has been said, neither birthday nor native land.

Can we not be persuaded to believe that specks of consciousness on this little planet can not, in all reasonableness, be thought of as accurate critics of the total purpose behind creation?

Jacob Arminius: Theologian of Grace is a helpful overview of Arminius» thought, though readers wanting to really grasp the heart of the difference between Arminius and his Reformed critics will need to look at other resources as well.

I do not think it is true that, as his critics charge, the Cardinal intentionally lied.

As music critic Porter Anderson put it, it is almost as if the singers «were in a dream, sometimes sitting bolt upright with the memory of a fine thought — King of Kings — then drifting again. .As music critic Porter Anderson put it, it is almost as if the singers «were in a dream, sometimes sitting bolt upright with the memory of a fine thought — King of Kings — then drifting again. .as if the singers «were in a dream, sometimes sitting bolt upright with the memory of a fine thought — King of Kings — then drifting again. . .

There is a more theological way to put this» a way suggested by the work of the French literary critic turned American theologian, René Girard, whose latest book, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, is as clear and systematic a primer to his thought as he has yet produced.

It's interesting that Driscoll writes a piece about how others are criticizing his book — as he is one of the most vocal critics of others who don't fall into his view of how he thinks people should act and be.

An easy target but it may amuse some of you: a writer in The Daily Telegraph pretends to be Dan Brown thinking about his critics as his book Inferno appeared.

(I think my son would be a great food critic; he told me tonight as we were watching Chopped that he'd be a good judge on that show.

More surprising, however, is the fact that the former Leicester City star and current football pundit Robbie Savage thinks the same about this possible transfer, as he has no love for Arsenal and has often come across as not really liking us, often being one of the harshest critics of Arsene Wenger, individual players or the whole team in general.

There was a lot of speculation about whether the Swedish striker would thrive in the English Premier League this season, with his age and supposed lack of mobility as well as the need to adapt to a different style of football all brought up as possible obstacles, but I think most Arsenal fans will have to agree that the 35 - year old has answered his critics emphatically.

While Ozil has had his critics during his time at Arsenal, he remains highly thought of as well as the Independent claim United are keen to snap him up alongside their move for Sanchez.

Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.

It's almost as though he listens to his critics, assesses their criticisms and responds when he thinks they are justified.

but I think it was just a waiste of time.I even think that we do have more passion for the name Arsenal than the players themself, they just do nt care and do nt even realize that its our money that they draw out there from the ATM to earn a comfortable living and to behave like POP Stars as they pretend to be.Sorry for my words guys as some of might be offended but I cant just stand the pain seeing Arsenal ended up like this and almost home of some Parfum stars not real pro-football player.We did nt really moan since we have lost those 5 games for the simple reason that we did nt want to put the pressure on the team as the media has already put some heavy critics and pressure on them.BUT THIS TIME, IT HAS GONE TOO FAR!!!!

I really sat with that thought all day, along with this critic's interpretation of ego as it pertains to expressing interest or a need to search deeper and why that makes someone vainglorious and self - important.

That change in course is seen by some critics (rightly, I think) as a desire to avoid conflict with Big Food — and its powerful lobbying arm — in the midst of a presidential election year.

After I thought about it, I explained to my partner that while there is so much new research / things discovered about breastmilk and its properties, I told her, that as a field, Breastfeeding Medicine is constantly battling critics and having to «prove» our medicine.

That change in course is seen by some critics (rightly, I think) as a desire to avoid conflict with Big Food — and its powerful lobbying arm — in the -LSB-...]

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

Having been on the receiving end of some of Paladino's less - pleasant tirades, and given his history as an outspoken critic of a whole host of things and people that piss him off royaly, I don't think it's going too far out on a limb to say that this tour will be well worth the price of admission.

Critics in the House of Lords savaged the policy, announced by the former chancellor George Osborne last year, as «ill - thought - out and unfair».

Currently writing Margaret Thatcher's official biography his writings demonstrate an independence of thought which stops him from being pigeon - holed as a Cameronista or a Cameron critic.

As a Democrat, someone who believes in the public sector, I think it's our obligation to be the harshest critics of corruption and waste.

I don't think him resigning his Tory party membership will make the slightest difference to any decision or recommendation he makes in his job as chairman of the BBC Trust, but by doing so his critics would have one fewer sticks to beat him with.

He said he doesn't think the governor's vetoes were targeted him as one of the governor's fiercest critics in the Senate.

Critics of the agreement, including many politicians and some astronomers in Brazil, thought the original pledge of funding was way above the pay grade of the national science budget, especially as the country's finances worsened.

Critics «think such basic research is not as important as applied research,» Martin says.

Some species, like the impressive cockroach, have gone so long unchanged that we tend to think of them as genetic masterpieces, as judged by the ultimate critic: unwavering stability in the context of evolution.

I get irritated by critics who seem to think that because psychiatry has elements of irrationality, there is essentially no such thing as mental illness.

I don't think I could possibly have breathed as much passion into it without the concerted efforts of the critics.

I like to think of my inner critic as my inner «mean girl» (or «bad boy» if you're a guy) that's taken up residence inside my head.

Think of your Inner Critic as a soldier whose sole purpose is to protect you.