Sentences with phrase «bore little relation»

It also showed me very clearly that I needed to move because my current environment at the time bore little relation to my ideal, but now I could understand precisely why I felt unsettled.»

As Hugh no doubt saw over the years he spent at bookstores, there were frequent instances in which the books shipped bore little relation to what was selling or likely to sell in that store.

Needless to say, my scores often bore little relation to the actual results.

The benchmarks the industry relies on, such as the published average wholesale price, are built on antiquated data and bear little relation to real costs.

The sliver of pop culture we've slid under the media microscope bears little relation to what's sampled by the rest of the country.

But employers increasingly find that in a continually disrupted business environment, what you'll be doing next bears little relation to anything you've done before.

China's stock market bears little relation to the general economy, so its frenzied moves this week don't confirm anything notable about the greater economy, nor should its nearly 2 % gain today.

The emerging system bears little relation to what academic textbooks describe, to say nothing of what politicians are promising.

This includes disagreements over judgment calls made by lenders or their agents; changes in circumstances occurring after the underwriting process has been completed; small mistakes that bear little relation to either the credit risk or the subsequent default; and inconsistent interpretations of the rules.

To say that all religious communities recognize the right of people not to be tortured, or that all religious communities support the self - determination of indigenous peoples is not very exciting: even if these claims are true (and I suspect that they are not), they bear little relation to any claim that a faithful member of any religious community would recognize as his own.

As such, the rules bear little relation to modern concerns such as fulfillment in family life or even the quality of family life.

First, the pictures of «judgement» have been drawn so often from law - courts and the like that they bear little relation to the Christian insistence on God as love.

Frankl's paradoxical intention methods seem to bear little relation to his existential philosophy; his description of how he does therapy with particular persons gives the impression of being manipulative and highly authority - centered.

The mayhem that takes place on Saturdays in Gainesville bears little relation to the autumn rituals of college football in much of the rest of the country.

I think we can all safely say that today's Arsenal team will bear little relation to the motley crew that began Tuesday's League Cup defeat at Sheffield Wednesday, and we all know that our excellent First XI are looking for a fifth Premier League win in a row and can surely cope without The Ox and Theo Walcott for a few games.

On the whole, however, I would strongly recommend home education as the best way of encouraging gifted children to develop in the way that suits them best — which often bears little relation to the «average» classroom approach.

However, it looks as though the parliamentary strength of these parties will bear little relation to their relative popularity.

Some 18 bills lumped together under headings that sometimes bear little relation to their contents.

This is something which forensic psychologists do on a daily basis, though in practice it bears little relation to the glamorised Silence of the Lambs fantasy that motivates most applicants to psychology courses.

Clearly, people's votes bear little relation to the number of seats won.

«votes bear little relation to the number of seats won» #GE2015 was further proof of the need for #ElectoralReform http://t.co/upDBkri5FL

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

The term was a misnomer because BPD bears little relation to most psychotic disorders.

It's a romantic view, but it bears little relation to the creative process behind the technologies that are shaping our world.

The paleo «diet» is not really a diet, nor is it a fad as many like to accuse it of being, but rather a lifestyle / eating choice, and those of us who follow it, feel it is at the moment the most corrective eating choice one can make in today's world of processed, GMO'd, irradiated, cross-bred, bio-engineered foods, the bulk of which are fruits and grains that bear little relation to their distant cousins as recent as a 100 years ago.

The flat hammerblows of The Wolverine bear little relation to the zing and pop of Matthew Vaughn's colourful treatment.

Shared acronym aside, the two awards ceremonies bear little relation to each other.

The film may bear little relation to Gerald Kersh's far nastier (and more grimly believable) source novel, but Jules Dassin's stark, unforgiving direction, Max Greene's oppressive monochrome cinematography and Richard Widmark's twitchy central performance give the movie a paranoid power all of its own.

For their part, the general media mostly gave the budget limited coverage, noting that even Hill Republicans were saying that it will bear little relation to what Congress ultimately does.

«The strategy of a quick tour in high school through all the major areas covered by college physics courses bears little relation to future success,» Sadler noted.

The caricature of university providers bears little relation to reality.

In other words, Microsoft's share value bears little relation to its book value.

So instead Obama is forced to construct an argument for reducing those emissions that bears little relation to the actual merits:

So, believe the polls all you want; they bear little relation to potential actions.

It seems to bear little relation to the stories that appear on the NLJ's web front page.

Why is it, then, that citation systems for law — whether the Harvard Bluebook, the Chicago Maroon Book, the Canadian McGill Guide, the British OSCOLA: Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities or the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC)-- are so idiosyncratic and radically different from these other citation systems, offering a system of citation that bears little relation to these others, at once more complex and detailed while less comprehensive in scope?

It'll take a while, but eventually students will figure that out (not for nothing, but in the US, where tuition fees are exgregious and bear little relation to the quality of education, weaker schools are having to cut tuition fees, or indeed, shut down programs, as would - be students have figured out that the degree isn't worth what they're being asked to pay for.

Not exact matches

He taught, and his teaching is as difficult to follow now as it was then, that what is apparently happening may bear little or no relation to what is really happening.

So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our [ab] use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation.159

The child was born with a very prominent nose that was very large in size, in relation to the little baby's face.

A modern tomato — heirloom, organic, process, vine - ripened, or otherwise — bears little resemblance to its puny, sour, undomesticated relations that sprout in the Peruvian Andes.

But it's frustrating that so many of the competition entries bear so little apparent relation to the criteria.

Why does the number of teachers hired in New York City seem to bear so little relation to the number of students enrolled?

The Syndicate of 1993 was an isometric action game with strategic elements and, whilst 2012's version bears the same name, it has little relation to Bullfrog's well loved game however, and is instead an FPS, which is why, upon its announcement, it was met by so much ire by those with fond memories of the original game.

Minor elements of the game, such as the automated turrets in some levels, mean you could argue for Portal 2 to be categorised as a first - person shooter, but the content bears so little relation to a game like Call of Duty it shows how essentially meaningless the definition is.

The gameplay has seemingly reached its peak and the plot bears very little relation to the previous entries.

The down side is that it appears this exposure to nature and conservation via film bears very little correlation with a more complex and deep understanding of the natural world and its protection, or actions relation to personal lifestyle and responsibility.

I know there are militant anti-AGW campaigners out there because they're clogging up the internet, but the reasonable people I meet on a daily basis bear absolutely no relation to your little rant against «the science».

Sir james Munby (President of the family courts) also said at the Family Justice Council debate «The only thing I am confident about is that adoption as we will understand it and practise it in 30 years» time will bear very little relation to adoption as we practise it today.»

Many of these billion - dollar fees (which bore little or no relation to the value of the work performed) are being strategically reinvested into the political process, and into still more litigation.