Sentences with phrase «at a distance as»

Fallows was put at a distance as a «fine young man» who «didn't express these concerns to me» — he left «with no insinuation there were things about which he was disappointed.»

This requires that we put ourselves at a distance as a first step in overcoming the alienated distance of objectivism.

First, have the kids sit quietly at a distance as you give your dog treats and pet him quietly.

Just point it at looters and they'll remain at a distance as you progress toward your objective.

There are problems with character animations at a distance as they lack fluidity - as if a several frames of animation were removed to make the game work.

«Among the different spectral peaks thus discriminated, the one at frequency 1.7 Hz has associated the greatest power, and under particular conditions it can be observed at distances as large as 11 km from the wind park.»

Hopefully someday we will be able to invest at a distance as our portfolio grows.

Not exact matches

She said «most of the founders we work with look at YC as the gold standard,» and that distancing the fund from YC could «hinder our chances of raising successor funds.»

Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

Followers do accept requests without complaint, and perform just as well as their counterparts, but the lack of independent thinking and leadership is a major fault when you look at your company from a distance.

While the country's two largest long - distance phone companies offer a variety of services that any business can sign up for, the third - and fourth - largest phone companies have taken aim at the low end — small companies with phone bills as slight as $ 100 a month.

«Upfront fares are calculated using the expected time and distance of the trip and local traffic, as well as how many riders and nearby drivers are using Uber at that moment.

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

But as she proved at last year's world championships when she became the first swimmer to win all four freestyle distances — 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m — distance isn't her only specialty.

Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it did then and the work being done is far more interdisciplinary and done at greater distances than in the past.

As a business leader, you will always be at the center of the problem, so you'll need to trick your brain into thinking you have more distance than you do.

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

While the new 4 - in - One's 10X lens suffers from the same key issue as before — the challenge of stabilization for a roughly postage stamp - sized focus area at a several - inch distance — the results we achieved were superior in contrast and apparently a little sharper, as well.

Since founding Hanover Legal he has competed in numerous marathons including New York City, Cape Cod, Salt Lake City, Alaska, Dublin (Ireland) and Tiberias (Israel), as well as triathlons including, at the Olympic distance, New York City, Sag Harbor («Mighty Hamptons»), Westchester, Maryland, Ceasaria and Gan Shmuel (Israel); at the half - Ironman distance, California (Oceanside), New Jersey («Devilman»), New Hampshire («Mooseman»), St. Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands), Pucon (Chile).

Marceau presented the economic road map at a critical time for the minority PQ, which is widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks as polls suggest Marois is within striking distance of a majority mandate.

: Expect a wave of attrition at Yahoo, as some of their most important employees are lured by forward - looking companies using cutting - edge technologies to build a close tribe across great distances.»

It's resulted in me distancing myself from the institution and as a result I am more at peace and able to have respect and compassion for myself and others.

Growing up, in the 40's and 50's, as a Roman Catholic, at least in our diocese, no politician was allowed to shake hands with people within a certain distance of the church.

Of the trillions of stars (most of which probably have some rocky planets orbiting it from the leftovers of its formation) there are probably plenty of planets orbiting their stars at the same distance as ours with varying conditions, ours just happened to be right for humans to evolve and be here today.

as an example consider that if the earth was not at this very distance from the sun, were not rotating at precisely the optimal speed, orbiting the sun at exactly the right velocity, etc. etc. etc..

ablunderingscot: «as an example consider that if the earth was not at this very distance from the sun, were not rotating at precisely the optimal speed, orbiting the sun at exactly the right velocity, etc. etc. etc..

So at the end of the day, even as a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ (the name Christian has been so stained, refuse to call myself one to distance myself from traitors to God like Bush and just about every Conservative American), I'd vote for an astheist with good ideas and was brave enough to push for the interests of people, not corporations, then I would vote for them.

Finite Universe — zero and one are equal (matter can be infinitely divided into nothing — God is Nothing that created everything out of emptiness) «At the Planck distance and the Planck time all physics, as we know it today collapses.

I know a huge number of them and as individuals they are usually good people, people are people after all, but they are as a religious organization to be watched and carefully kept at arms distance.

As an ordered set of such quasi-places, time comprises a field of peculiarly unbridgeable distances, and the account I have just given of Heidegger's notion of Dasein's «free past» will seem to require a metaphysically preposterous «action at a distance.»

As Jesus faced trial, and as the disciples began to fear that Jesus was just another man and their ministry with him just a waste of time, the Gospel reports that Peter «followed Him at a distance.&raquAs Jesus faced trial, and as the disciples began to fear that Jesus was just another man and their ministry with him just a waste of time, the Gospel reports that Peter «followed Him at a distance.&raquas the disciples began to fear that Jesus was just another man and their ministry with him just a waste of time, the Gospel reports that Peter «followed Him at a distance.»

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

Even if the empirical evidence for telepathy is sufficient to warrant its acceptance as a reality, that in itself does not necessitate the view of action at a distance.

Ten lepers, meeting Jesus as he was entering a village, stood at a distance and cried.

I am glad that I was at a Bible College that didn't teach distance, but encouraged long - term ministry so as to become family.

It was Mark who began this process of transvaluation, as far as we can make out at this distance, by insisting that Jesus became Messiah at his baptism — though perhaps the evangelic tradition had already received this interpretation in the Roman community, or even, earlier still, in Palestine or in the early Gentile church.

Since Aristotle and Whitehead are at one in distancing themselves critically from entity understood as substrate, since they both have in mind the existence of a «self» as the decisive characteristic of entity, and since moreover they both turn in the direction of organic unities and not of «things,» it becomes all the more urgent to ask just how the Whiteheadian concept of an «actual entity» is related to the Aristotelian concept of «entity.»

It was my fourth pregnancy but for the first time, it seemed that we were really going to bring home a baby this time so Brian and I were giddy and young and hopeful at our core as we drove with my sister and her husband and her dog through the mountains as they began to appear out of the distance.

But Einstein, 105f, sees that the infinite lines of force on any body would result in a field of infinite intensity, which is impossible; hence he argues that Newton had to postulate for his universe «a kind of centre in which the density of the stars is a maximum, and that as we proceed outwards from this centre the group - density of the stars would diminish, until finally, at great distances, it is succeeded by an infinite region of emptiness.»

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

Ours is a time of «ethical theology,» rather than ethics as an implication trailing at some distance after a presentation of beliefs established on other grounds.

Baptism asks parents to see their child at a disquieting, yet quieting, distance; that is, to accept it as a child of God.

Within the legal boundaries of a postwar suburb, by contrast, the elements of the «pizza» are physically separated and at some distance from one another — as if the crust is here, the sauce over there, the cheese someplace else and the pepperoni way out yonder.

I would find it difficult to accept that God wants us to stand back at a safe distance rather than getting as close as we possibly can.

In Eastern depictions of space, the area most distant from the viewer is spread out as the world expands in the distance, while the area close at hand is narrow and confined.

Wishful thinking of this sort is difficult to argue against, but it may be relevant to note briefly that the status of «action at a distance» is by no means so clear cut in contemporary philosophy of science as they seem to suppose.

One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.

For both this implies at the same time a certain distance and absence of emotional involvement — an experiencing of the feelings from the side of the client without an emotional identification that would cause the counsellor to experience these feelings himself, as counsellor.

After following several such dances, she would visit the new cavity and begin dancing about it, with the appropriate change in vigor as well as her indication of distance and direction» (AT 183).

Two years of work at a university in western Canada, where I studied with Wittgensteinian defenders of «ordinary language» as well as with Trotskyites and non-Marxist socialists, provided the necessary distance in terms of both ideologies and miles.