Sentences with phrase «back on an analogy»

To sum up what I felt while opening up the SBX I'm going to fall back on an analogy of the car I got when I turned 18, an Audi A4.

Not exact matches

Hastings brought the idea of focus back again in his second use of the analogy, on stage at the Code Conference.

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

By way of another analogy, they may never hit the jackpot, but the repetitive pulling on the one - armed bandit creates the ching - ching sound of payoff coins hitting metal, and the buzz comes back.

But he concedes that perhaps the more apt analogy comes from the Wizard of Oz, where the curtain is pulled back on the operations of a powerful figure.

Getting back to your checkbook analogy, when you have to resort to relying on adrenaline and cortisol (stress hormones) to maintain your blood sugar, it's like assuming «thyroid debt».

Sometimes 5AM and they go to the coffee to get them up but in reality, if you don't need as much time in the morning, say you can push your schedule back a little bit and try to wake up closer to 7AM or closer to the actual sun up time, if you're getting up before the sun and you can change that to — to getting up at sunrise, you're basically — I'm gonna use my analogy that I mentioned to you — if you're getting up at 4AM to get ready for work, you're only going halfway up the hill on your favorite rollercoaster before you start going back down the hill.

A villain is proffered in childhood boyfriend Bobby Sharp (Jeremy Renner), who, as he's pushed to spill some rancid beans with the classic attack of «you're a homo» (backed with a string of sports analogies from Harrelson's jock character, woefully underutilized in a film taking place in hockey - mad Minnesota), to pass time until it's crystal clear that even though Josie is crying rape on the stand as explanation of her first child's conception, the evil defense team is incapable of making the leap that this is the perfect opportunity to impeach this witness for maybe always crying rape.

Going back to the analogy of driver's education, if people want to operate automobiles on the roads, they have to prove competency via courses and licensing.

Rosado - Seijo went on to create a series of sculptures from books relating to art theory and history, then mounting used skateboard wheels to the back covers echoing a theoretical and visual analogy between art, knowledge and skateboarding's history.

There was a great analogy on Fred Wilson's blog a week or so back.

The public should at least be able to see some of what's on the table — more accurately, to push the analogy, what's been sent back from the table to the kitchen.

Arthur Smith, while that is a very good paper that you linked (thank you for finding one that everyone can access), it only had a very short section on ergodic theory, and you're back to the same hand - waving analogy about statistical mechanics and turbulent flows.

But what with evidence somewhat lacking on positive CO2 feed backs, the present temperature plateau continuing, model projections of warming way out with observation, the analogy appears a bit, well, Ehrlichean, seems to me.And then there's the bleeding of economies by costs of CO2 reduction measures and subsidizing ineffectual, (evidence indicates even un-environmental) renewable energy policies, no gain for lotsa» pain.

Back at Gristmill, Andrew Dessler stands by his cancer / doctor analogy in the in - whom - do - we - trust war, after some comments on his blog:

The mirrors on two sides of the bulb has some merits as an analogy, you wouldn't doubt that the total flux of photons going back and forth between the mirrors sums to more than the 100 watts being input, but at equilibrium, only 100 watts escapes.

Going back to our plane analogy, say I ask you whether we have enough fuel to reach the airstrip, and you reply that based on your projections, yes we do (even though you have poor data available re.

Let me go back to the analogy of the plane low on fuel, because this is the issue.

Going back to our stock market analogy, it's a bit like showing the recent daily fluctuations of the Dow on a scale from 16,300 to 16,350.

Going back to the soccer analogy, where are we on the field?

I like to use the analogy that when a woman goes to the hair dresser she still gets a cut & color on the back of her head... even though she can not see it.