Sentences with phrase «attempt at limiting»

«I would hardly call participating in two televised debates — something never done before — an attempt at limiting the process to insiders.

An attempt at a limited electoral pact broke down in this constituency.

Not exact matches

«The only responses that have been provided thus far is the bank simply defending its compensation philosophy (with no attempt at compromise), as well as limiting who we can and can not email within the organization.

The fires, which incinerated at least 30 buildings in the core of Lac - Mégantic, a tourist town of 6,000 people about 150 miles east of Montreal, limited the work of accident investigators, as well as attempts to search for survivors and the remains of victims.

The average uneducated dolt stands up on its hind legs and spews venom at «socialists», labeling progressive attempts to limit pollution as top down intellectual dominance of their tiny minds, and by golly nobody is going to tell them how to behave or think!

But the lines that immediately follow attempt to explain why — at least within the terms of the Deleuzean chaosmos itself — this moment of attempting to «think the unthinkable» is, at the limit, ineliminable:

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

Work looks beyond immediate consumption It is man's effort at permanence and durability in a sense, an attempt at immortality — something beyond the limits of the biological process and the rhythms of nature.

They were introduced on a limited basis last month at Heathrow and Manchester airports in response to the alleged attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to blow up a jet over Detroit on Christmas Day using explosives concealed in his underpants.

No attempt to think ourselves into Abraham's world can be very successful, but even the most limited success at it should undermine the view that we get our moral concepts from religion.

At one point, Athanasius attempted to limit the books of the Bible which could be used in the debate.

When we are able to place our limited attempts at understanding and description in appropriate perspective, then it is more likely that we shall more truly open ourselves to the communal, the relational, the elemental, and the ambiguous resources in our lives together which serve as lures toward that ever fuller existence which we seek.

John specifically located this in Galilee, at Cana; (John 2:11) but there is no attempt to limit the manifestation to the Transfiguration, as we might expect — indeed Mark does not do so — nor is it limited to Galilee: Jesus performs miracles repeatedly in Jerusalem and elsewhere outside Galilee.

1 Whitehead produced no extended or systematic treatment of ethical theory, and his remarks on ethical topics are scattered throughout his later writings, especially RM, AI, and MT. Commentary on Whitehead's moral philosophy has been largely limited to attempts at description, clarification, and systematization: see, e.g., Paul A. Schilpp, «Whitehead's Moral Philosophy» in The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed.

If not for the attempted narrow ruling trying to limit this to «family owned» companies it would certainly set precedent for JW's employees denied blood tranfusions being paid for or Christian Scientists employees from paying for any health care at all and it's all based on theocratic laws.

I have carefully limited my observations and attempts at interpretation to my own personal Mexican - American experience, not because I am not interested in all the Hispanics, but precisely because I do not dare to have the arrogance to speak for the others.

Jax Arnold at In Competition has had fun with the ACCC's latest proceedings against Australian Egg Corporation Limited, discussing the «egg - citing» news out of the Federal Court relating to the ACCC's allegations of an «Eggsplosive» cartel attempt.

(Limited attempts at play - action passing were at least sporadically successful, as well: Rees was 2 - for - 3 for 41 yards but was picked off once and sacked once.)

Liverpool, with their limited capacity for any real flair and grace, or should I say Brendan Rodgers tactic is to come out of the traps at two hundred miles per hour and attempt to hunt the opposition down in packs of two's and three's forcing you to concede possession and then picking up the scraps.

They've instituted home run limits, and in some leagues - shudder the thought - a ball hit over the fence becomes an out; it also leads to more attempts at line drives, which puts everyone in danger.

As Arsenal poured more men forward the evidence was there as they tested / made more attempts on goal more than the hosts as they were limited by Arsenal's good defensive unit at the back.

California should probably be attempting to limit water exports at this point anyway.

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Current attempts at banning certain religious practices are not limited to just regulating dress, and are part and parcel of continental Europe's habit of ghettoizing people whom they consider to be beneath them.

If Miner wanted to seek a change in term limits, she could attempt to persuade at least five of the nine voting councilors to repeal or amend the law.

Council speaker Christine Quinn, usually a staunch Bloomberg ally, is furious at the administration's court attempt to knock down a city law limiting the size of homeless shelters to 200 beds.

Therefore, I provide my (limited) attempt at satisfying the query introduced:

«Queens Schools are to be Off - Limits to Federal Immigration Agents» QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about federal immigration agents showing up last Thursday at P.S. 58 in Maspeth and seeking a fourth - grader: «As a mother, I am deeply troubled and horrified at this attempt on the -LSB-...]

The decision to hold a referendum at all was an attempt to limit the endemic conflict within the party over Europe.

The Campaign for Democratic Socialism explicitly supported the unilateral renunciation of Britain's nuclear weapons, and the document «Policy for Peace», on which Gaitskell eventually won his battle at the 1961 Labour Conference, stated: «Britain should cease the attempt to remain an independent nuclear power, since that neither strengthens the alliance, nor is it now a sensible use of our limited resources.»

Michael Grimm, R - New York exceeded the allowable limits with a direct, personal, and overtly threatening attempt at intimidation.

It came two days after state lawmakers balked at his attempt to link a pay raise for them to a limit on the outside income they can earn.

Although n - type titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a promising substrate for photogeneration of hydrogen from water, most attempts at doping this material so that it absorbs light in the visible region of the solar spectrum have met with limited success.

The infinite expanse of pi also wedges the door open for another record attempt this year, but Yee, a computer scientist at University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, says he and Kondo have hit their limit.

According to the 6 April report in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, researchers at Guangzhou Medical University in China attempted — with limited success — to modify the CCR5 gene, which codes for a cell receptor that the HIV virus uses to enter T cells.

Little has so far been attempted to limit the propagation of earthworms in natural ecosystems, but one step aimed at anglers could easily be introduced.

Lockley and Meyer did their best with their limited funds, attempting to protect the face with clay, plastic, and even Gore - Tex - like webbing; nevertheless, a major section of Cal Orck» o collapsed in February, taking with it at least 200 footprints made by two titanosaurs, beasts that may have measured 40 feet long.

Brain Machines Hinton's early attempts at replicating the brain were limited.

While research consistently estimates that one in every four women in higher education will experience rape or attempted rape during their college careers, limited proactive approaches to address the issue are found on Texas college campuses, according to the Crime Victims» Institute at Sam Houston State University.

Similarly, many studies that attempt to examine the co-variability between Earth's energy budget and temperature (such as in many of the pieces here at RC concerning the Spencer and Lindzen literature) are only as good as the assumptions made about base state of the atmosphere relative to which changes are measured, the «forcing» that is supposedly driving the changes (which are often just things like ENSO, and are irrelevant to radiative - induced changes that will be important for the future), and are limited by short and discontinuous data records.

This study makes a commendable attempt at proposing an answer to this, though as with many early attempts it is limited by the data and techniques available.

Lifting weights is commonly recommended for those attempting to work their biceps, but there are also many exercises that you can perform at home with limited equipments.

For 4 years I lived in an Army barracks room, I had to make my bed a certain way (with an Army green blankent — my hot pink duvet was hidden in a drawer), arrange my clothes (uniforms) a certain way, I could not decorate my room (my sequined picture frame was my attempt to push the limits), I ate every meal at the mess hall (we didn't have kitchens), and I wore (and still wear) an unflattering uniform that matched the men... needless to say my brain was starved for some creativity and color!

Instead, Coffin Dodgers is an extremely limited and mediocre attempt at creating a Kart - racer that somehow manages to stutter along on hardware that should far exceed the requirements of this title.

Ever since winning big at the Emmys last year for American Crime, ABC has been investing a lot of energy in the development of limited - series events that tackle big social issues and its latest attempt, When We Rise, has now found its cast.

When: October 21st (limited) Why: Although it's technically been available on Video On Demand for a few weeks now, Kevin Smith's low - budget attempt at making a horror movie is getting a limited theatrical run towards the end of October in conjunction with its home video release.

The laughs aren't limited to Dave's well - meaning, but pathetic attempts at being a hero.

As a result, their «next - gen» model proved less efficient than their competition's; DEC's attempt at a 2.0 product was limited to the organizational structure and imagination of 1.0 teams.

«It is important to note that this research is not aimed at attempting to improve individual's ability to accurately assess academic performance from face alone, but rather emphasise how prevalent and limiting the attractiveness bias is.»

«Progress in science has come from solving one problem at a time, gaining a limited understanding at each step, rather than attempting to explain everything at once.