Sentences with phrase «as paucity»

Yale has particular strengths in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy — as well as a university's inevitable gaps, such as a paucity of modern sculpture and a bias in Asian art toward Japan.

Clive feels this is in large part due to misunderstandings about the concept of dominance, as well as the paucity of scientific research done to study training issues.

The distributor is hoping to capitalize on what it sees as a paucity of action - adventure titles in the marketplace.

Though Paul Sarossy's cinematography is icily evocative, frequent Egoyan collaborator Mychael Danna's score suffers from what most politely could be described as a paucity of subtlety.

There are some defects, such as the paucity of maps, but this is a game that knows how to enjoy immensely.

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This includes «chronic, structural racial injustice — such as the persistent paucity of black faculty members and administrators at Yale, the common experience of being the only black student in some classes, and being disproportionately likely to be stopped and asked for ID — or worse — by campus police officers.»

The move comes as Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy — dubbed «Abenomics» after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — has resulted in a paucity of available...

While introducing his project of comparing Whitehead and Heidegger on time, Mason suggests that the paucity of previous efforts is «a function of the assumption that their modes of philosophizing are so different as to render the thought of the one completely irrelevant to that of the other» (p. 83).

Lowe is surely correct about the paucity of external evidence as to how Whitehead composed either SMW or PR but need we discount so completely internal evidence drawn from the published text itself?

But even when extra canonical writings are included, isn't the attempt to delineate Christian origins doomed to frustration because of the paucity of the sources, their fragmentariness and their reluctance to perform as historical sources?

In the light of modem scholarship, these are bound to fail not only because of the paucity of data but also because the Christians of the first century were not preoccupied with ministry as office.

This interpretation contends that empirical theology: (1) begins with a speculative view of life as a struggle, and (2) uses, moment to moment, a speculative tactic to generate piecemeal conclusions in the face of the paucity of reliable empirical knowledge.4

Given the paucity of evidence that the BFHI improves breastfeeding rates, the WHO has designated it as a «key» strategy, not the only strategy.

«Due to paucity of fund, INEC has always construed it to be periodic instead of continuous because as at now, we don't have the funding and the structure in place to support a CVR.

According to him, the notion behind calling the debt profile of the state as huge and a burden is practically mischievous and a reflection of paucity of governmental savvy, saying the debt profile of the state is insignificant in juxtaposition with degree of achievement of his administration in all ramifications.

Reading the letter on the floor of the House on Tuesday, the speaker, honourable Mathew Kolawole (APC Kabba Bunu) said the Governor cited paucity of funds in the state as some of the reasons why the state government could not conduct local government election.

Undeterred by the antics of pathological critics whose first instinct is to circumvent, not support, ideas, however innovative, he has to a large extent succeeded in replicating his feat as Commissioner for Works under Bola Tinubu in Osun and I'm sure he'd have done more, but for paucity of funds.

Indeed, in the southern counties, Labour has virtually disappeared as a political force - an eviction far more dramatic, though less remarked, than the paucity of Tories in Liverpool and Manchester.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

He argues that given the paucity of health data, current indoor smoking bans should apply to e-cigs as well.

The paucity of women in Research I institutions, and within most university science departments, leads the few who infiltrate the system to be viewed by some as tokens.

That paucity of observed bursts reflects the hardest part of the FRB puzzle: guessing where to point a telescope to catch them as they happen.

Investigators at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified that lack of time and a paucity of trained faculty are perceived as the most significant barriers to incorporating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and integrative medicine (IM) training into family medicine residency curricula and training programs.

Even as European regulators act, however, scientists are divided on whether pollinators are exposed to enough of the pesticides to pose a grave threat to their colonies, in part because of a paucity of data and the challenges of doing rigorous field trials.

Yet details of the transition from whales with large functional legs, such as Ambulocetus (right), to their streamlined descendants with only internal vestigial legs at most, have remained elusive, owing to a paucity of intermediate forms in the fossil record.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognized antibiotic resistance as one of the three major threats to global health, and is predicting a forthcoming disaster due to the rapid, unchecked increase in antimicrobial resistance largely as a consequence of the paucity of new classes of antibacterials in development.

The appeal of the film is manifold - its serenity as The American meticulously goes about his craft; the paucity of dialogue that heightens its few action sequences when they do occur; a superb ensemble of actors led by Clooney that also includes Violante Placido (Clara), Thekla Reuten (assassin), Johan Leysen (controller), and Paolo Bonacelli (as a local town priest); the artistic framing of the film by director Anton Corbijn both in its interiors and the long shots of the Italian settings; and simply the story's uncertainty that grips one from its very beginning.

It's just a shame that, as usual, there is a paucity of bonus features on the home video release (in stores this week).

Hyperbolic, epic, screeching disintegrations are the spine of this soppy melodrama, the winner of which is the eternally - slumming Tom Wilkinson, cast as a cold fish for being a grown - up in what used to be an adolescent coming - of - age set - up (Michael does everything short of lifting a boombox over his head to win back his lady fair): a grown - up with a normal speaking voice, a reluctance to feel sorry for himself, and a paucity of Byronic one - whiners.

The by - the - numbers nature of Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor's screenplay ensures that there's a paucity of sympathetic characters, and it is, as a result, almost easier to root for the dinosaurs than it is to root for the humans.

And although Mendoza has admittedly peppered the narrative with creepy images (eg a woman covered in boils makes a brief appearance), Sapi does, in the end, suffer from a paucity of compelling (or even competent) elements that ultimately cements its place as an aggressively worthless piece of work.

Paul, above its paucity of imagination, is otherwise listless, wandering around as it does looking for situations from which it can mine stupid send - ups of Meatballs humour with the impetus of a pot seed caught in a bong eddy.

So it comes as no surprise that Disney, dealing with a congenital paucity of imagination, has reached the point where it's actually making movies based on a portion of a movie.

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

Given the paucity of information on private schools, I asked my research teams to survey each major town in each of the counties designated as impoverished (more than 40 of them) and to visit as many of the outlying villages accessible to them as they could.

Statewide tenure laws remain largely intact, as do laws that require a specific set of education - school courses before a teacher can be certified, despite the paucity of evidence that such courses (or certification) yield benefits in the classroom.

Instead, teachers» jobs are too often treated as if their work only includes the hours they are interacting directly with students, and the paucity of time granted to teachers for their other responsibilities detrimentally affects their capacity to serve students.

And though there are some participants who want to press harder and some who do, I learned that the club's comparative paucity of maximum testosterone has led some to defect from the VSCCA to competing sanctioning bodies such as the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association or the Vintage Racing League or even the more well - known Sports Car Club of America.

As the article states: «So far the Japanese have failed to be moved by e-readers from home or abroad, mostly owing to a paucity of content,» says editor and publisher of Japan's E-book 2.0 magazine Hiroki Kamata.

Once beleaguered by frequent strikes, roadblocks, and a paucity of amenities, the backpacker haven of La Paz has emerged as a true culture capital.

Painting on canvas predominated, and sculpture abounded, but video material was scarce and, with such notable exceptions as a Mapplethorpe self - portrait, there was a paucity of photography, due, said one dealer, to the sun - washed tent's harsh light, but credited by collectors to the poor return of any but the rarest images, given that the cost of showing here is the highest of any fair — even Art Basel.

«Nature, which in all its forms is constantly against us, because it has no meaning no mercy, no sympathy, because it knows nothing... because it is the absolute opposite..., absolutely inhuman,» the artist is quoted in the catalogue, which adds that «it is the haunting melancholy of Baume — the paucity of «meaning,» mercy or sympathy,» as the artist says — that makes it so very unlike Lorraine's or Corot's, yet so uniquely a part of Richter's singular vision.

As a writer, and being conscious of the paucity of art historical material in the Caribbean, I have been careful to choose projects that allow for extensive cataloging.

Invented in secret in the privacy of Oiticica's New York loft in the early 1970s, they were not shown as works of art until 1992, twelve years after Oiticica's death, when the first and third in the series — CC1 Trashiscapes and CC3 Maileryn — were exhibited as part of the first traveling retrospective of the artist's work.3 Prior to that exhibition, Oiticica's New York sojourn was little analyzed due to the perceived paucity of his artistic production between the years 1970 and 1978.4 The 1992 presentation of the Cosmococas was revelatory in this regard: not only did these quasi-cinemas demonstrate the continuity and conceptual elaboration of key aesthetic concerns within Oiticica's work (the vertiginous passage from painterly to narcotic «pigment» in service of the sensorial is surely the most striking of these animating threads), they indicated the artist's pointed engagement with the avant - garde artistic culture of New York.

The paucity of photography is, as ever, a disappointment, though Wolfgang Tillmans» piece in the pink room is stunning (possibly in more ways than one).

Addressing inanities, profanities and vanities in the contemporary world of art, the first section is an «open letter to the art world»; the second a meditation on the art fair phenomenon; the third is about «naming things in the face of no names»; the final section addresses what the artist regards as «a paucity of poetics.

As our discussion so far indicates, this is a tricky problem, exacerbated by a paucity of data points.

But the same paucity of ice, which Arctic climate specialists say is driven increasingly by global greenhouse warming, has made it easy for an enormous bulk carrier, the MV Nordic Barents, to achieve a new feat of northern navigation — carrying more than 40,000 tons of concentrated iron ore from Kirkenes, Norway, along the Northern Sea Route over Russia and, as of yesterday, out of the Arctic Ocean on its way to a Chinese port.

There's important work to be done on this question but — as the oceanographer Carl Wunsch notes at the end of this post — the paucity of data on ocean heat makes it tough to get beyond «maybe» answers.

The example of millennial paleoclimate studies emphasises the paucity of this argument, as the expert list is very small.