Sentences with phrase «become cogs»

Advantaged parents (the ones with political power) also hate it as they see the the schools and teachers they love lose their autonomy and become cogs in a centralized machine unresponsive to the particular needs and interests of those advantaged parents.

Others have become cogs in other franchises, like Alan Taylor (who went from Thor: The Dark World to the poorly received Terminator Genisys and is now back with Game of Thrones) or Joss Whedon (who made two Avengers movies and is now part of the DC Comics universe).

The fear is that in a technocracy persons may be dehumanized as they become cogs in the machinery in ways in which freedom, spontaneity, and feeling are sacrificed to the efficient operation of the system (The literature is immense.

Although I am not religious, the condescending nature of your Professors tone is exactly the reason why when I was trudging through med school, I came to the conclusion upon entering the workforce — I would politely decline invitations to become a cog in the domesticated medical system and instead take my knowledge elsewhere — medical missionary work overseas.

There, he became a cog for the championship Miami team that won back - to - back NBA Finals in 2012 and 2013.

It may accomplish some of its goals in some cities, but the initiative has also become another cog in the public relations machine of the governor's office.

Gears of War: Judgment has just taken your favourite Gears games and turned up the heat — if you're a Gears fan already then you have no excuses, for those sitting on the fence you best start wondering what it's like to become a COG Soldier and get out there and own this!

I'm thinking it's either a prequel that tells how Marcus ended up in prison and became a COG, or it's some wild spin - off with all - new characters.

But how did Soon become a cog in the machinery of climate anti-science?

From quite early onward, Willie Soon was well - positioned to become a cog in the machinery of climate anti-science.

Unfortunately, many are unaware of this and end up passing these emails on, unknowingly becoming a cog in the insurance and big business tort reform machine.

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General education is concerned with what a person needs to know and to become as a human being, not merely as a cog in the corporate mechanism.

Even if they become sick, they grind on like cogs in a machine, year after year.

Giant pumps can now reverse the flow of rivers and move water uphill to arid land farms that have become key cogs in our nation's not - so - local industrial food system.

The problem is that Alexis Sanchez has become such a vital cog in the Arsenal side that it is hard for the manager to leave him out for one game, never mind a couple of weeks.

Without his accuracy, control and vision in the middle, the Gunners struggle to play the style of football that we have become used to and has got us into this good position, so is he the most important player and a vital cog in the success or failure of Arsenal?

The winger has been reinvented as a wing - back and become a vital cog in Antonio Conte's team.

The talented midfielder has become a crucial cog for both club and country and has the ability to set forth attacks and can dictate the speed and pattern of a game and although he didn't start all the World Cup qualifiers he will nonetheless surely be a player that Vicente Del Bosque hopes to see at his best.

Year after year after year NFL teams spend draft picks on lemons while simultaneously finding late round and UDFAs who become critical cogs on their teams.

It is amazing that Coquelin has become such an important cog in the team, long may his development continue.

Despite the mass of information at their disposal, it's only natural that EA Sports will get players» ratings wrong; take last season when both Harry Kane and Francis Coquelin came out of nowhere to become vital cogs in their sides.

The 24 - year - old joined Eddie Howe's Bournemouth in the last few days of the summer transfer window and hasn't looked back since becoming a key cog in the Cherries midfield.

I felt he Can would become an important member of the Liverpool team this season, little did I imagine he would become integral, a vital cog almost irreplaceable when absent.

In 2015, Okazaki joined Leicester City, where he became a a key cog in the club's title - winning campaign, scoring the first of his 12 goals for the season against Sunderland on the opening day.

I totally agree with everything said he will surely be missed while away and we hope he comes back uninjured as he has now become a very important cog in our gearbox

Based on the accounts of operatives arrested so far, the Emni has become the crucial cog in the group's terrorism machinery, and its trainees led the Paris attacks and built the suitcase bombs used in a Brussels airport terminal and subway station.

But as the science progresses, it becomes professionalized, and there are all kinds of structures, and the administration grows, and I think a lot of young people don't like to be a cog in a big machine.

Renee becomes an integral cog in the PMC wheel.

It is a bold move, as The Black List goes from championing well written scripts to becoming an active cog in getting them turned into feature films.

Kevin Hart was the cool kid in high school, Johnson was the bullied kid, and they meet up years later at a reunion, where it turns out Johnson became an international super-spy and Hart became a milquetoast corporate cog.

The climax includes one of Black Mirror's best monologues, which, like the episode's denouement, demands we take a hard look at the cogs we've all become in modern - day society.

At the center of the storyline is Sonny (Alan Tudyk), a robot who possesses a desire to overcome his rigid programming and become more than just another cog in a very large machine.

While her job is to make a multinational company more efficient by cutting jobs, Winfried is on a subversive mission to save her from becoming an icy corporate cog in the machine of capitalism.

eLearning has become a major cog in this wheel; it is a viable solution that allows global companies and organizations to reach learners all over the world in the most efficient and cost - effective way possible.

Rather than be a cog in the big machine, you can become an integral part of the S63's progress.

The automatic transmission in this model is the Hydra - Matic 6L45 six - speed, and it does its job well even without the extra two or three cogs that are now becoming the industry standard.

But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys — from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine.

Alyssa Noble, the seemingly small cog in what becomes a much larger wheel of inconceivable circumstances, is drawn so effectively in the narrative she seems to almost stand upright on the pages before the reader's very eyes.

Remember, unlike becoming a partner or even a venture capital investor who's contributing a large investment, you're a small cog in the wheel.

Survival mode plays out sort of like OverRun — Working together the COG players (the class system from OverRun is present here) need to defend E-Hole covers against just ten waves of enemies, rather than the 50 that we've become accustomed to from past iterations of Horde.

Kait Diaz is someone who grew up outside of those walls and is thus largely unfamiliar with how the COG work, but she becomes fast friends with JD and JD's best friend Delmont «Del» Walker.

Early in the game the puzzles involve actions such as flicking a switch or pulling an object, but the more you progress the more complex they become and change the environment around you - for instance, the turn of a cog will turn your whole world upside down and timing is very much of the essence!

This gave me a real incentive to complete each challenge mode and gain the maximum amount of cogs to progress a lot faster; the quicker I gained more destructive equipment, the more open my tactics could become.

For drivers who are supposedly Uber's «partners,» the experience has to be a little disheartening: it's becoming more and more clear that Uber drivers are merely cogs in an algorithmic machine, test pilots for a system that would run even more smoothly if they didn't have to worry about human drivers at all.

Augmented reality is likely to become a key cog in digital transformation efforts.