Sentences with phrase «beyond other attempts»

Crisp, efficient prose and well - rounded characterizations (at least of the guys in the white hats) raise this beyond other attempts to translate the pulse - pounding feel of the Die Hard films into prose.

«Crisp, efficient prose and well - rounded characterizations... raise this beyond other attempts to translate the pulse - pounding feel of the Die Hard films into prose.»

Not exact matches

ACAT invites pastors, theologians, human rights activists, and those with ties to specific problem areas of the world to join in the attempt to discern the theological foundations of right and wrong and to persuade themselves and others what it is that may be true and just beyond preferences and national interests, beyond our limited contexts and confessions.

So in I Corinthians, having asked how the dead are raised, he attempts to answer the question by saying, on the one hand, that there is some kind of real, though indefinable, continuity between our present bodily mode of existence and the life beyond death, and, on the other, that there is discontinuity also.

It is clear that the BEM document was an attempt to consciously, creatively, sincerely and prayerfully to face up to the challenges of the time and to offer to the churches a document, which while not being in a position to satisfy everyone and reflect every shade of opinion, nevertheless, optimistically looked forward to a time of greater ecumenical interaction, moving beyond «the false ecumenical solution of a comfortable denominationalism in which the churches each tend their own gardens, careful not to bother or insult others, but in no way living out or even seeking a truly common life.»

this necessity of one gender attempting, they think, of bridging a gap with the other, has gone way overboard... equality, within the workforce, is sufficient... beyond that, is ridiculous...

In case you may feel I'm attempting to sound wiser after the event I said it before, as well as others like Tony etc, before the match that I would take a draw as it would put third place beyond doubt, and that's exactly what happened.

By attempting to set a ceiling that prohibits advertising for unhealthy foods, the USDA may set a floor that opens the floodgates for many other types of marketing in schools, setting a dangerous precedent that goes far beyond food.

In an attempt to polish coal's tarnished image, the industry has launched a series of ads and other PR efforts (to the tune of «Jingle Bells»): Frosty the coal man is a jolly happy soul He's abundant here in America and he helps our economy roll Frosty the coal man's getting cleaner every day He's affordable and adorable and helps workers keep their pay Beyond caroling coal available online (isn't a lump of coal at Christmas traditionally a bad thing?)

This is the first study to show that the benefits of resistance training go beyond preventing non-consensual, penetrative sex to other non-consensual sexual acts and attempts.

Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.

And, says Mike, since other dangerous bacteria make their own unique siderophores, the approach could be attempted beyond UPEC and Salmonella.

Beyond that, Connie crosses paths with an array of other fully - formed and utterly believable characters, all in varying degrees of desperation - Jennifer Jason Leigh's hopelessly naïve Corey who will seemingly do anything to try and please Connie, Barkhad Abdi's deeply unfortunate security guard and Duress» rough, ragged, tortured Ray, who ends up playing a big role in Connie's attempts to free his brother.

5] I am happy to read some positive news on attempts to make people at least geographically hold on to the view beyond their ethnocentric pride and xenophobic aversion that life could be or possibly is better in other places as well as from people belonging to other cultures too.

There is no attempt at a deeper narrative beyond «there are bad things here and we need them dead», there are no convoluted mechanics other than «point your gun at these things and shoot them».

At the same time, LucasArts has been relentless in its attempts to push Star Wars games beyond shooters and into every other genre, with mixed results.

Beyond the focus on the pathological and therapeutic aspects of art, this exhibition attempts to reflect the depth of her trajectory and also her contemporaneity, by showing recent installations, such asI'm Here, but Nothing (2000), as well as others created specifically for the occasion, such as Infinity Mirrored Room — Filled with the Brilliance of Life (2011).

Long, on the other hand, makes external considerations central to his project, attempting to move beyond the technical and philosophical constrictions of his medium.

Similarly, attempts to restrict Redstone to a single art - historical trajectory — beyond acknowledging that her painting was (like much other work made at the time) a reaction to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism — are misguided.

Why Victor thinks hiatuses cast any doubt on the effect of CO2 to warming is beyond comprehension, other than he is attempting to deflect.

I'm not well up on the state of the research today, other than the facts that there is a lot of it, and that there are competing effects in play which researchers are attempting to pin down; but the risk is clearly well beyond «assumption.»

The issue with the Mauritsen and Stevens piece is that it tries to go well beyond a «what if» modeling experiment, and attempts to make contact with a lot of other issues related to historical climate change (the hiatus, changes in the hydrologic cycle, observed tropical lapse rate «hotspot» stuff, changes in the atmsopheric circulation, etc) by means of what the «iris» should look like in other climate signals.

I have tried to convince others that what you write is in error, that the issue is uniquely resolved beyond reasonable doubt, and that I feel frustrated, when I fail in my attempt to get that more widely accepted.

By the way, all of the other summary data they present on other sections of their website cover only the measurement period and make no attempt to go beyond the present measured data.

BEYOND FOSSIL FUELS: Coal Flows to Growing Asia Articles in this series examine innovative attempts to reduce the world's dependence on coal, oil and other carbon - intensive fuels, and the challenges faced.

However, the Court of Appeal in this case seems to have gone beyond prior jurisprudence in its attempt to limit the rights granted to ICBC, drawing conclusions that appear out of line with other jurisprudence from the Federal Court.

The point is that we all trespass on the feelings of others; those feelings are critical to our connection with one another; our connection with one another is fundamental to our individual well - being and our survival as a species; the urge toward reconciliation is therefore natural, as are our desire to be forgiven, our spontaneous expressions of remorse, our attempt to explain and normalize our bad behavior (we are all fallible and we have all suffered harm) and our fellows» willingness to forgive, particularly when we bare ourselves and our histories to one another in the course of our effort to re-establish what joins us and to move beyond that which divides us.

A number of well - written articles chronicle at least some of the history of legal writing in the law school curriculum.1 However, those articles were written with a different purpose in mind: the authors sought to employ history to show the pedigree of legal writing and argue for an equal place in the curriculum with doctrinal courses and an equal position for its teachers with other «case - book» faculty.2 Because of this purpose, they understandably focused a large part of their historical narrative on legal writing in the «modern law - school,» an entity that has existed only since the late 1800s.3 The articles paid considerably less attention to the era that preceded it, beyond brief mentions of the Inns of Court in England, apprenticeship in America, and the private law schools and early attempts at law teaching that preceded Langdell's introduction of the case method.4

In the Scottish EAT Lady Smith said in Highland Council v TGWU [2008] IRLR 272 that the claimant had to go beyond stating the nature of her case and actually specify the comparators to be used (with the strong implied threat that any later attempt to use other comparators would be struck out).

Huawei's also a step behind on smartwatches — this is its first attempt where many other smartwatch makers are working on (or have already released) version two dot zero and beyond.

The report cites sources familiar with the discussion held between the two companies and claims that the move was seen as an attempt by Tencent to expand its music business to other territories beyond Asia, though there were no guarantees that Spotify would have gained access to customers in China in return had the deal moved on.

NAR and others supported the Supreme Court decisions to reject federal agency attempts to assert jurisdiction beyond navigable waters to all waters based on theories like the presence of migratory birds.