Sentences with phrase «backgrounds on which»

All the previous theories described space and time as fixed backgrounds on which things happen.

Yet, few teachers are immersed in the personal interactions with text that provide background on which to draw, or in the scholarly study of literature in preparation for supporting children's response and interpretation of the texts they read.

He subsequently refined his technique, using a white background on which he painted simple geometrical forms, most often a single line in color.

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«There were some animated videos they made about how the demolitions were necessary to stem further decline, which they characterised with a giant mosque in the background and satellite dishes on apartment buildings,» he says.

Another way to think of this is to utilize background, base and accent colors to create a hierarchy (as Josh from StudioPress showcases below) on your site that «coaches» customers on which color means take action:

Their goal is to build up Fasten's brand and ensure that more people recognize the app, which features a black, lowercase «e» on top of a neon green background.

«Read through Zhang's apology and it is quickly apparent that this is a mea culpa made under extreme political pressure, in which Zhang, an engineer by background, ticks the necessary ideological boxes to signal his intention to fall into line,» David Bandurski, co-director of the China Media Project, wrote on the site.

Now the company has gathered some 100,000 largely female subscribers, according to Drori, who has a marketing background to which she credits part of the company's success on social media platforms.

The new ad from the fast - food chain, which prides itself on never using frozen beef in its burgers, depicts an employee at a fictional rival using a hairdryer to thaw out frozen beef patties while Foreigner's 1977 rock anthem «Cold as Ice» plays in the background.

One company focusing on that area is Tableau Software, which specializes in building tools that let people without background in specialized data analysis search for big data trends.

He claimed Chime, on the other hand, makes it easy to set up calls, see which participants are on the line, and which of those people's connections are muddied by background noise.

Depending on your background and skills, you may feel limited about which area you decide to go into.

The memo also confirms news reports which said earlier this month that despite the Nunes memo's claims, the DOJ made the FISA court aware on multiple occasions of Steele's background and credibility, and the political motivations behind the dossier's funding.

Often that meant identifying potential allies among Iraqis, a mission which rested on learning more about the backgrounds of the people in the conflict's environment.

When the busy design was repealed, it was replaced with the «Texas Classic» plate, which comprises black lettering on a white background.

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.

Cummings said in the letter, which he wrote with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, that «it appears that General Flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip and these foreign contacts from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of the background check process.»

Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

A history statement, which provides background on the business with the aim of building trust and credibility.

Franchisors are required to supply a franchise disclosure document, which contains information on the backgrounds of the executives involved in the franchise company and other information.

However, the case hinges on issues the ride - hail company — which is no stranger to legal battles — has long fought across the globe: Background checks and being treated like other for - hire companies.

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But the best part is her background on how she formed a working relationship and friendship with a young Warren Buffett in the late - 1960s, made an investment in Berkshire shares (which she still owns) and became the editor of his annual shareholder letters for nearly 40 years.

Woods, whose background is in downstream activities, wants to emphasize this aspect of the company's business in part for the political benefits: The Trump Administration's focus on expanding U.S. exports and building American infrastructure in order to produce new jobs clearly factored into Woods» address, which emphasized the «thousands and thousands» of new manufacturing and highly - skilled jobs the initiative would produce.

After doing a bit of research and finding some YouTube videos which taught me what I needed to know about binary options trading, I realized that binary options trading was a great option for me because I'm home a lot and have always had the news running in the background to keep up on the happenings in the world.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get -LSB-...]

Essentially the pitch was that we were going to combine microtargeting, which had existed in politics — which was, you know, in part, my background — but bring on board... new constructs from psychology.

The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today — actually I can't find much in the way of background research on their web site — which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get workers to move to the supposedly available jobs.

Against this background, we think that the divergences in the monetary policies of the major economies are likely to become more apparent, which could increase pressure on some central banks and magnify market volatility.

If you're already a USAA member, pre-qualifying for a loan can take a few minutes — a process which could take days with a lender that has no prior information on your background.

«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» read the ad, which featured black text on a white background, with the Facebook logo at the bottom.

Based entirely on anecdotal evidence, however, I believe the press» credibility with senior citizens has taken a hit from which it is unlikely to recover, and it may be entirely due to the election of 2008, when the mainstream media utterly abandoned whatever responsibilities to the public trust to which it still felt obliged, tossed presumptive - nominee Hillary Clinton aside and» rejecting any - and - all discomfiting questions about his experience, background, past - operations, education, friendships or capabilities» hoisted candidate Barack Obama upon their shoulders and carried him into the White House in triumph.

But he is so «in the sense that I depend on my Southern background for the decor, the setting, the sense of place which any novelist must have.»

Hailemariam's rise to power relies on ethnic connections given his religious background in Oneness Pentecostalism, which is a barrier even to fellow Pentecostals who are Trinitarian.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

Dala has science background which allows him to communicate with all our science atheist on here.

The landscape is a silent, unobtrusive horizon or background which is forgotten or suppressed as we focus on the energetic stream of water itself.

With only three characters in the Old Testament are prayers like this associated — Moses, (Exodus 5:22 - 23; Numbers 11:11 - 15) Job, (Job 10:2 - 21; 13:24 - 14:6) and Jeremiah — and in each case not doubt but assurance of God is in the background, and the very intimacy with which the soul bares its complaints and carries on its struggle in prayer is testimony to the utter genuineness of the experience.

I think the reason why I asked the question of you is partly because of the fundamentalist background I came from which places value on women based upon their child rearing, homekeeping, and service roles, basically serving men.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

Besides, at that time I was already planning another book which would contain critical essays on Hartshorne's concept of God by philosophers and theologians from diverse backgrounds and different countries.

It is, as well, an antidote to Mississippi Burning, a dishonest, award - winning new film in which blacks wait patiently and fearfully in the background for deliverance by two white FBI agents, played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe, who zealously bend the law in the interest of justice — a film one fears will have a profound effect on the way many Americans view their nation in the King Years («The Dream Dafoed,» as the Village Voice put it).

, 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.)

The explicitly Christian language of Madison, and the background of divine - human relations on which it expressly draws, strongly suggest that Maritain, and not Walter Berns, is correct.

Again, the meaning of 1 Timothy2: 8 - 15, which places various restrictions on women's dress and speech, depends not on our context, but on the double background of Paul's Judaism (where women were exempted from learning) and the situation at Ephesus (where untrained women who had submitted to heretical teachers seem to have been seeking to spread their beliefs, perhaps like the hierodules in the service of the temple of Diana, cf. 2 Tim.

For example, the chapter on «The Historical Background of Paul's Letters» would have been a great chapter to provide details about the historical events, cultural issues, and sociological concerns of Paul's day which led to him writing what he did in his letters.

So may his stress on a background of «visceral feeling» of an external world of presences against which our sensations offer a fleeting conscious foreground.

So the church which exists on the African scene bears the marks of its people's backgrounds.

A much easier argument for a christian with background in these areas, which I have, but there is staunch refusal to admit to basic premises from non-christians on the most simple issues.