Sentences with phrase «but cogs in a machine»

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The Levi's initiative — «Improving Worker Well - Being,» officially — is about getting an industry to recognize that workers aren't faceless cogs in giant profit machines, but people with feelings and needs.

Perhaps this is too much information sometimes, but our employees see each other as unique people, not just cogs in the machine, and work more creatively and collaboratively together.

In a way that's classic Amazon, Amazon Go is actually a machine designed for throughput, but the mechanisms that make customers the cogs are hidden.

Much of that time is wasted, but they are an important cog in the machine that is our economy.

What is more, it enables him to serve the good not as a cog in a machine but as a free and creative being.

The myth about matter is built on the fiction that the universe consists of nothing but a collection of inert particles, pulling and pushing each other like cogs in a deterministic machine.

But when I view the place objectively, I can see that Haverford is a well - appointed cog in the existing social system in America, feeding talented young people into the meritocratic machine.

To say, as some do, that God's universe is a giant machine in which every cog and wheel moves directly under the control of God means not only that every leaf falls and every butterfly flaps its wings at the direct command of God, but also that Adam and Eve sinned at the direct command of God along with every sin, rape, and murder committed since.

Couldn't quite find the killer ball today, but still one of the most important cogs in the machine.

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.

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.

Not only was I failing my classes but I felt like a little cog in a big machine My boyfriend and I have been dating for over 2 years.

Mackay's naivety perhaps isn't particularly convincing, but in a way that makes his creeping transformation into another cog in the political machine all the more persuasive.

Lizzy Caplan, Collette Wolfe and Lyndsy Fonseca all have their moments in the sun — and each makes the most of her opportunity — but it's clear that they are just cogs in the time travel machine.

The Riverside of this film might seem like a nice community to live in, but as depicted here, they are raving fanatics with no tolerance for anyone who might decide to do something as individuals, instead of being just another cog in the machine that drives the phony smiles and saccharine contentment.

The sequels, «Into Darkness» and «Beyond», have both divided critics and fans alike, but it'd be unfair to discount this reboot as just another money - making cog in the Hollywood machine.

When you're filing, the whole world files with you Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowry, an unexceptional everyman who dreams big but lives as a tiny cog in a bewildering machine in Terry Gilliam's farcical but biting dystopian nightmare — a film he originally struggled to get to screen when executives bristled at its length and bleak ending.

The MCU made the post-credits scene commonplace — it's no longer a cheeky Ferris Bueller trademark, but a cog in the Marvel machine that usually has one of two purposes.

«We are all cogs in the great education machine, we may form different shapes, we may have different roles, but we must fit together harmoniously, providing the engine room and mechanics which enable our students» success.»

But Born on a Mountaintop also gives us a look at fame and image in pre-Facebook America and finds that, while the cogs moved more slowly, the machine itself was much the same as the one we know today.

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.

Much of that time is wasted, but they are an important cog in the machine that is our economy.

At first glance it might not seem sinister, but strip back the glamour and Las Vegas paints a sad picture - its denizens cogs in a billion - dollar machine fuelled by potentially addictive gaming.

If it survives, it may eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.

You might seem like a small cog in a huge machine, but you do control your reaction to what is going on around you.

You can think of any and every job as a small but important cog in this complex moneymaking machine.

As a leader, you are not hired as a «cog in the wheel» but to re-invent, fix, or upgrade the machine!