Sentences with phrase «attempts at world»

The game was a good 50 % longer than the original, and there were more attempts at world - building and story - telling.

But Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad didn't just fail due to a lack of comedy smarts; they failed due to muddled storytelling and spectacularly clumsy attempts at world - building.

Emmerich has had several attempts at world - ending destruction, and although each of the aforementioned films was impressive in its time, 2012 sets a new standard for large - scale disaster porn.

Using fictional stories about my attempt to become the world's greatest fisherman, I reveal some of the flaws in the church's attempts at world evangelism.

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at world evangelism.

I didn't ask your opinion, I asked to be shown a century where a Tyranical government has not made an attempt at world domination.

Show me just 1 single century where a tyranical government does not make an attempt at world domination and I'll hand over my guns.

If you're feeling like a total goddess then a spoonful of spirulina is an amazing addition, but if this is your first attempt at the world of green drinks then maybe leave it out for a bit!

That is the key problem with Wenger's failed attempt to create a British core to serve the English attempt at a world cup.

When members of the Road Runners Club Milano ran through the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Milan, as part of a Martin Creed show there, the Gazzetta dello Sport gave Creed's work a respectful review, and compared the work to the attempt at the world record time for running through the Louvre museum in Jean - Luc Godard's 1964 movie Bande à Part.

If you are in Paris, stop by the gallery before Dec. 23 and witness the attempt at world domination yourself.

The child is very proud of his grandfather's attempt at world domination, and is very annoyed at Hargon's own attempts, seeing the effort as an upstaging of his family's legacy.

Not exact matches

They found those traits in an unlikely man — a cypherpunk, part - coder, part - activist, who boasts of holding a world record for the most failed attempts at building a business around peer - to - peer, decentralized file sharing.

We've always looked at professional sports, not because we want to model exactly what other sports do, but even when you're attempting to innovate, sometimes there are things that already exist in the world that work really well and work for a reason, and we shouldn't be afraid to use some of that.

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

Donald and Melania's hands are once again drawing eyes all over the world, after yet another botched attempt at a public display of affection.

The Church Committee exposed much of the program, with a full report from Congress stating: «The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.

Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross attacked the use of negative rates as an attempt to mask the symptoms of an unhealthy global economy, while Ray Dalio, the head of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has recently argued that negative rates will be ineffective at boosting growth.

At Mobile World Congress 2015, Samsung ditches distinctive features in an attempt to out - maneuver Apple's successful devices.

Mr Baumgartner, whose Red Bull Stratos mission was watched by more than seven million people around the world, also took aim at Sir Richard Branson after the Virgin boss hinted that his company could attempt to break the Austrian's record.

World leaders failed to agree a new deal at the last attempt, at the Copenhagen summit in 2009.

Attempts at capturing the essence of Steve Jobs, the temperamental genius who built one of the world's most valuable companies, have been made before and will likely be made many times more.

To recognize the traits of a great leader, and then attempt to personally embody them is similar to dining at a world - class restaurant and trying to duplicate that meal at home later.

In quick succession, Murdoch closed the 168 - year - old News of the World and abandoned his multibillion - pound attempt to take full control of the lucrative British Sky Broadcasting, while Prime Minister David Cameron appointed a judge to conduct a sweeping inquiry into criminal activity at the paper and in the British media.

«It has always saddened me that Canada is probably one of the only school systems in the world (or at least the world wealthy enough for full, functioning educational systems) that does not require at least an attempt to learn a second language.»

If this is true, by the way, it means that attempts at implementing liberalizing reforms are successful mainly during periods of great global liquidity, and this might have implications for China, especially if over the next few years global central banks begin to withdraw the huge liquidity injections that have underpinned asset bubbles around the world.

A gold - backed dollar would also head off China's not too subtle attempt at replacement of the Greenback with the Yuan as the world's reserve currency.

Having repeatedly prepared the world for an interest rate rise they suggested was around the corner, policymakers at the U.S. central bank are now bending over backwards to attempt another graceful about - face.

Centra Banks Holding Gold While China will attempt to add to its gold holdings without disrupting the global metals market, even a cursory look at the mathematics of the world market for the yellow metal underscores that Beijing faces a real challenge.

At least the USA is doing something worthy in this world - they are attempting to ensure that people like you don't rule the country and take them any further back into the bronze age of thinking.

Go bash away at your futile attempts to exert «authority» over any person on this world.

Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.

the sheikh is one of the new faces to world religion, they willfully attempt at being a martyr by saying things that the rest of world agrees with but the culture that bore the said creature doesn't!!

Just off the top of my head, but perhaps Bono should get modern day sainthood status, or at least a relevant prophet of - the - day award simply because his one statement â $ œI still havenâ $ ™ t found what Iâ $ ™ m looking forâ $... bets are heâ $ ™ s still searching even while heâ $ ™ s cranking out more great tunes and attempting to alleviate a bit of the third world debt.

On the other hand, a true - believing Gnostic, oriented to a transcendental state of being, would have to see the computer as the means the Demiurge uses to imprison humans more securely in the world of time and matter in which the rigged environment frustrates any attempt at transcendental relief.

In the Renaissance we witness a new attempt at the Cappadocian gambit: an appropriation of the cultural achievements of the Ancient world, of Platonism in particular, as well as a dramatically heightened presence of the Church in the world of culture.

The challenge to «horizontal enchantment» from people like Taylor and MacIntyre, if I may audaciously attempt to boil it down to one paragraph, is this: At the root of horizontal culture (the modern world of democratic republics and entrepreneurial economies) is the claim that people can and should Reform the world.

But if one is attempting instead to get at Paul's own orientation, then it would seem that for Paul the most basic sin of man is that he confuses God with the world, the Creator with the creation:

This early attempt to explain the real world is called animism and it has been almost universal at a particular stage in man's cultural development.

tf: Did you once consider that maybe the reason it appears we speak out more against your god than other gods is because it is your gods believers that seem to be at the center of so much in this world??? I don't see Pagan's standing on street corners or attempting to use their holy books to deny equal rights.

The bible is one of the many ways satan uses to mislead people... seriously look at the history of the world since the bible was written... Belief in the bible has led to wars, faster spread of disease, attempted genocide, and the chaos of trying to interpret it, 40, 000 versions of belief in the bible... definitely sounds like something satan would want... a source of unfounded belief leading to conflict, and silly people trying to perform «exorcisms»

And indeed the attempt which I have made to formulate the fundamental problems of metaphysics is an attempt which could have been made, in exactly that way, only at the present stage in the history of the world» (TNMS 14 - 15).

Collingwood's definition of the task of the metaphysician in The Elimination of Metaphysics must be understood against this background: «Metaphysics is primarily at any given time an attempt to discover what the people of that time believe about the world's general nature; such beliefs being the presuppositions of all their «physics,» that is, their inquiries into its detail.

The note sounded by both Chomsky and Roy is admittedly rather shrill, but we must consider that their dissent comes at a time when much of the world seems content with President Bush's view that this attack was simply an attempt by «evildoers» to snuff out «the beacon light of freedom» in the world.

The basic ontological problem is why there is anything at all and, since what does exist is a plurality, how the things that do exist are unified into a world.88 Neville understands Whitehead's principle of «creativity» (together with «one» and «many,» conjointly called the «Category of the Ultimate» by Whitehead) to be an attempted answer to the ontological question.

The world was suffering from Spider - Fatigue before this movie hit — landing just three years after the last attempt at a franchise went belly up.

Rejecting the pseudo-Lutheran view which attempted to justify existence in this world as only being on a pilgrimage, Bonhoeffer now declares that a man «takes up his position against the world in the world; the calling is the place at which the call of Christ is answered, the place at which a man lives responsibly.

According to Bultmann, any attempt at the present time to understand and express the Christian message must realize that the theological propositions of the New Testament are not understood by modern man because they reflect a mythological picture of the world that we today can not share.1

Religion; Early man's first and worst attempt at trying to explain the world around him.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.