Sentences with phrase «avoiding hubris»

I think that the Supreme Court of Canada has got it just about right, independently contributing to justice and democracy, while avoiding hubris and exercising restraint.

Does great work and avoids the hubris.

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But RIM's downfall is the result of very human mistakes — complacency, hubris, arrogance — that the current crop of startups needs to avoid repeating in order to succeed.

What I find incredible about Thorp's example is not only that maximized his understanding and beat the market, but that he avoided the quackery and hubris that can so often bedevil people who have ventured so far from the average.

No raucous after - parties were advertised, the Prentice team avoided the typical hubris of this type of victory; as if everyone knew, «tonight proves nothing».

The awful moral choice forced on Senator Kerrey is a commonplace aspect of war, not understood at all by professors and editorial writers who imagine, with obscene hubris, that they could avoid the guilt feelings associated with combat.

As to the «obscene hubris» of professors who imagine that they can avoid feelings of guilt, I am not sure who Dr. Breen is referring to.

These voices, acting from a putative concern for the nation and even for the Republican Party, urge Republicans to avoid the mistake of Obama and the Democrats after 2008 of displaying hubris and overinterpreting their mandate.

By avoiding the claim that RGTs «play God» by «usurping God's prerogatives,» Christian debaters can caution against the hubris unleashed by some RGTs as a way of «caring for the creation drawn from God.»

Many personal projects by directors tend to fail due to the over-inflated hubris of the director, but The Dead avoids falling into this trap, and is in no way portentous, despite the reputation that both Huston and Joyce have in their respective fields.