Sentences with phrase «at best a background»

For it opened a path out of the cramped world of my parents, for whom books were appreciated only for the information contained in them, and music was at best a background to other and more useful pursuits.

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Because of Northway's and Smith's backgrounds, the Of Mercer cofounders understand the needs of their customer better (most designers at mass - market brands have never set foot in a corporate environment), and their designs reflect that.

That valuable background includes an explanation for why R2 - D2 wakes up at the end, as well as a brief history of the galactic government now in place 30 years after «Return of the Jedi» and the Resistance's relationship to political powers.

If you look at the composition of our board, the members are very well - informed people, with backgrounds in everything from IT to insurance.

To analyze foot traffic patterns to the dozens of Trump - branded hotels, casinos and golf courses in this study, Foursquare looked at explicit check - ins as well as implicit visits from Foursquare and Swarm app users who enable background location and visit these locations in the U.S.

Investors look for aspiring entrepreneurs, young or young at heart, who can sell themselves well, have good negotiating skills, are problem - solvers and have a broad educational background.

It works better than most speakers at hearing when there is background noise.

While the concept of the semantic tree may only be familiar to those with a computer science background (here's a pretty good basic explainer from Quora, if you're interested), the gist of Musk's advice should be clear to anyone: don't wade into the weeds of a subject before you have a conceptual framework — the main ideas and debates at the heart of the discipline — mastered.

The poll results suggest that people want more officers conducting background checks; they want the same standards applied to those who buy a gun from a person at a gun show or online or at a physical store; they want to remove the background check work - around of buying a gun through a trust or corporation; and they want the feds to do a better job of notifying local law enforcement when people in their communities who are prohibited from purchasing a gun attempt to buy one.

But, as Bain pointed out, City Year must establish itself as the best at what it does (community service helping young people of diverse backgrounds).

Well, his wife, Kib, who has no formal position at the company and no formal financial background, designed the form from scratch because, as Tom Buschman says, «most financial statements are designed just to give accountants what they need to fill out IRS or SEC reports.»

It seems like the good folks over at Pocket Casts listen to those, too, because they've included a volume - boost feature, which increases the volume on voices, whilst simultaneously reducing background noise.

Co-founders lacking technology - heavy backgrounds tend be better at seeing the forest for the trees in today's online jungle.

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

They have different reasons for wanting a remote or flexible job, they are often at different stages in their careers, and they have many different backgrounds and skills, but they all share one thing in common: they wanted a better way to find a better job for a better life... and FlexJobs was able to help!

«Beginning with my first day at Uber, I have been committed to building a diverse Business Team that would be widely recognized as the best in the technology world: one that is welcoming to people of all genders, sexual orientations, national origins and educational backgrounds,» he wrote, according to Recode, which obtained a copy of his email.

«He provided good background information, but he doesn't see a need for us to engage with Kraft at this time, it was more of an FYI.»

«So in many cases,» says Doug Gurian - Sherman, a plant pathologist and director of sustainable agriculture at the Center for Food Safety, «the particular genes used will only work well in certain genetic backgrounds and environments.»

Foursquare's data scientists examined the foot traffic of a panel of U.S. users who have been active on the Foursquare City Guide or Foursquare Swarm apps (as well as partner apps) for at least the past year, have opted - in to provide background location awareness, and have visited at least one of the analyzed chains within the research time frame (January 2017 - December 2017).

His background includes positions in shipping, refining, marketing, distribution, oil trading and gas as well as finance and strategic planning at the corporate executive level.

A Chartered Accountant, he was recognised in the 35 Chartered Accountants under 35, as well as Forbes 30 Under 30, whilst having a technical background as a Developer in Residence at Playfair Capital - an early stage venture capital firm in London.

However, despite the differences in the backgrounds and approaches of top VCs, there does seem to be at least one commonality: they tend to be exceptionally well - read.

AG: Given that people with your background and talents are present in cryptocurrency markets, would amateurs be better off not trying to trade at all?

Beginning with my first day at Uber, I have been committed to building a diverse Business Team that would be widely recognized as the best in the technology world: one that is welcoming to people of all genders, sexual orientations, national origins and educational backgrounds.

It's good that you added your background here to note your theological distance from Tony despite close working proximity at times.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

I use it for want of a better term, intentionally implying an ultimate mythological background for much of the material in Gen.1 - 11, but recognizing at the same time the thoroughgoing way in which Israel «historicized» all of her myths.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

Let sanguine healthy - mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

That is why you will find all sorts of ethnic backgrounds in the majority of mosques, as well as the biggest and most diverse human gathering in the world every year at Hajj in Mecca.

A thought on Paul: Considering the record of Paul's background and personality, as well as the content of some letters, it is possible and understandable that he struggled with his temper at times.

This has long been expected from Muslim Leaders who had been timid at best to denounce terrorists of Islamic backgrounds.

That is why in every movie theater there shall be established a well functioning alarm system, with cameras outside the door, and sound which immidiately would alert, an adequate number of well trained, armed and background checked security guards to arrive ready to apprehend the perpotrator and provide for the safety for all the innocent individuals who spent their money to have a good time not to get shot at (enterprises cut corners and then we complain about security and unemployment, charge what you charge for the concession if you have to without serving the soda and the pop - corn, I rather stay lean, healthy, intact and alive).

I stared at the heads of the crowd chatting in the background, guessing what they would be like to talk to, guessing what was being said, wishing I could speak French so I could hear their voices better.

I always look at «Inner Health» and am very good at making change «simple, doable» for people of All lifestyles, backgrounds, geography, and even serious Clinical Conditions with my Functional Lab Analysis where I possess the skills even 98 % of Clinical Practitioners / Physicians lack by «connecting the dots» of Clinical Health History, Anthropometric, Biochemical Labs (Blood Tests), & Dietary» components together along with gift that I've had Doctors acknowledge I have in Psychological Assessment.

The Cacao nibs rolled on top at the end just add to their chocolate background and make them positively super good for you.

You are too nice As for the background, you can get yourself one at Rona for the good price of $ 12!

Dave Owens, Bissinger's chief chocolatier, has a background in food science and was a former chef at two well - known St. Louis restaurants.

Food Editor Andy Baraghani also put his California background to work: His root - to - stalk ethos shines through in cranberries laced with beets and their greens (see the recipe), and a super fresh salad of chicories, orange and toasted walnuts (see the recipe) is West Coast simplicity at its best.

Mark brings his highly accomplished background in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling as well as technical systems evaluation and analyses to his role at Tavistock Restaurant Collection.

Regardless of your background or experience, you can succeed at Chipotle if you have a passion for making the people around you better.

I have a background in winemaking and first worked at BridgePort Brewing in 1986 as well as four years at Portland Brewing.

CookFight is the delicious result of their brinksmanship, a chronicle of their skirmishes over the course of twelve months and a look at how two very different people — best friends from wildly divergent backgrounds — approach the kitchen.

I know that things didn't turn out very well at South Florida, but he seems to have a great developmental background and even has some experience coaching on the international level with the Dominican Republic.

Kenny Dalglish and the club's Director of Football Damien Comolli are looking at cost effective options in the transfer window that adhere to Fenway Sports Groups long term plans and as such they are looking for good up and coming talent, preferable of English background due to the home - grown ruling and in that respect these two fit the bill very nicely.

San Clemente, Calif. (JSerra Catholic) 10/23/1995 (age 22.5) # 8 BACKGROUND: A three - star athlete recruit out of high school, Dante Pettis was a four - sport star at Junipero Serra Catholic, spending his time balancing baseball, basketball, football and track — set the Orange County record in the long - jump (24» 07»), running a personal - best 21.84 in the 200 - meters.

With Hazell's background as a Jim Tressel guy (he was an Ohio State assistant from 2004 - 10), it stands to reason that a Hazell defense would favor fundamentals, and at its best, Purdue's defense was a bend - don «t - break unit, one that limited explosive plays (169 plays of at least 10 yards, 46th in the country) and kept you out of the end zone in scoring opportunities.

You must know that 3 or 4 years ago I was extremely anti-Wenger on this forum, but then I had a look at the bigger picture and realized there were a lot of other constraints and things going on in the background — the stadium, all our best players leaving etc etc and Wenger managed to pull us through on a shoe string budget cutting top 4 in the process.

Bould is a coward who is a yes man trying to keep his well paid job of no pressure at all, what a job, he is paid to coach our defenders but ain't done anything but still sneaking / hiding in the background picking up his massive wages not worrying about his job..