Sentences with phrase «by cobbling»

We are not going to supply the world with 68 TW of power by cobbling together a patchwork of 34 different technologies.

Similarly, he often created art by cobbling together found objects.

It takes years and years to learn how to draw, but now you could get along fairly easily for four years in art school just by cobbling things together.

Somehow by cobbling together a bunch of different genre staples, City of Brass creates something totally new.

For instance you can strengthen the limbs of your bow for more damage, increase the clip sizes for your guns by cobbling stuff together and create napalm arrows for some added enemy misery.

Instead, by cobbling together an overall strategy using all the tools at your disposal, you'll likely end up in far better shape than you would if you simply chose a single option and hoped for the best.

There are times when this method — of creating panorama by cobbling together a whole series of short vignettes — feels much too tidy and convenient a ruse.

But with no chance of an overall majority, can he reach the magic number by cobbling together the right assortment of partners?

Lindsay won a three - way race in 1969 against two conservative candidates by cobbling together a coalition of liberal, moderate Jewish and emerging minority voters.

Was an overeager writer showing how powerful Jesus is by cobbling various little events into one dramatic miracle?

A group of parents gathered by the Cobble Hill school's principal defended Ms. Dial and said the video did not reflect their experience of the school.

This is characterised by cobbled streets lined with lovely neoclassical mansions which act as a reminder of the city's illustrious past.

The city is characterised by its cobbled streets, timber balconies and ancient buildings and is just a short stroll from the holiday resort of Los Cancajos.

Whilst in Porto, benefit from our mooring point beside the picturesque Vila Nova de Gaia, a UNESCO World Heritage site where the quayside is overlooked by cobbled streets that twist past colourful merchants» houses and modern cafés.

In the heart of the city, on the Royal Route, surrounded by the cobbled streets of the Old Town and luxury boutiques; 106 timelessly elegant suites will come alive mixing bespoke furniture, oak floors, a corner library and a carefully curated Polish art by Anda Rottenberg and Barbara Piwowarska.

Set in a dieselpunk world besieged by cobbled together, oddly chitinous alien robots, the Steel Rats biker gang are the only ones left that are able to fight back in Coastal City.

Hidden at the top of a hill and surrounded by cobbled streets in Gloria neighborhood, this lovely bed and breakfast offers a very different Rio de Janeiro experience than the city's main tourist hub, Copacabana.

Not exact matches

That means cobbling together a 20 per cent down payment by any means necessary — whether it be relying on parents for assistance or taking out a loan.

Magnadyne's new flashlight looks like something cobbled together by some crazed garage tinkerer, but it could very well save lives.

We cobbled together a workaround, but we still had to ration our water, and by extension our dehydrated food, for the rest of the trip.

The merger between Mittal Steel, the upstart steel conglomerate cobbled together by Indian entrepreneur Lakshmi Mittal, and Arcelor, the pan-European steel firm that was the world's largest steel company at the time, was troubled from the very start.

The Aldrich plan, ostensibly the fruit of the National Monetary Commission's extensive deliberations, but really a scheme secretly cobbled together by Aldrich and his banker friends at Jekyll Island, was (according to Paolo Coletta) «particularly anathema to Bryan... because it called for a single, privately controlled central bank located in New York.»

Editor's Note: This article is an editorial by singer / songwriter Tara Leigh Cobble.

All you have is a book that was cobbled together from old myths and edited by men who had a personal stake in what was included in that book.

Christan beliefs are based on nothing more than a collection of Bronze and Iron Age Middle Eastern mythology, much of it discredited, that was cobbled together into a book called the «Bible» by people we know virtually nothing about, before the Dark Ages.

Ah, so things exist, which clearly indicates a Transgendered Frankengod cobbled together from the corpses of dead Gods by Bronze Age simpletons created it all?

By freeing them from slavery to a book of fairy tales that was cobbled together by a bunch of mentally ill morons over a period of hundreds of yearBy freeing them from slavery to a book of fairy tales that was cobbled together by a bunch of mentally ill morons over a period of hundreds of yearby a bunch of mentally ill morons over a period of hundreds of years.

It is a collection of writings that was cobbled together by the Council of Nicea, written by multiple authors, containing collections of parables, stories, fables, myths, rules, laws, petty bigotry, tribal rivalries, lessons in life, morals, etc. that tell a story of a few small bands of nomadic middle easterners.

But try as I might, I just can't believe that the Five Books of Moses were written by J, E, P and D — the four main authors whose oral traditions, biblical scholars say, were cobbled together to make the Torah.

Roof claims that we have adopted a «reflexive spirituality» by necessity — deliberately cobbling together our own responses to the need for wholeness and encouraging others in similar efforts.

«More than 2,600 sharp - edged flakes, flake fragments, and cores (cobbles from which flakes have been removed), found in the fine - grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia, have been dated to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago, pushing back by more than 150,000 years the known date at which humans were making stone tools.»

Here's the problem — your version of a god was cobbled together from various minor deities worshipped by various tribes in the Middle East 6,000 years ago.

The above beliefs are based on nothing more than a collection of Bronze and Iron Age Middle Eastern mythology, much of it discredited, that was cobbled together into a book called the «Bible» by people we know virtually nothing about, before the Dark Ages.

The above beliefs are based on nothing more than a collection of Bronze Age and Greco - Roman Middle Eastern mythology, much of it discredited, that was cobbled together into a book called the «Bible» by people we know virtually nothing about, before the Dark Ages.

By the end of the week, I might cobble together all the remnants for a take - away lunch.

The ice at the bar is either frozen in - glass or cobbled to improve efficiency, and the bar program, spearheaded by Jennifer Colliau, tries to use only liquors from distillers like Richmond's Falcon Spirits who know how to reuse their waste solids and grey waters (leftover liquid from the distilling process).

I can't wait to go back to the old country, lie on the beach, or hike the mountains, stroll the cobbled streets, lined up with boutiques, and cafes, and ice cream carts, and sit for hours at an outdoor cafe, lazily watching people walk by, and chatting with my friends over a cup of espresso.

And by that I mean that likely 90 % + of the people who feel their work has been stolen are actually thieves themselves, having — at best — cobbled together a few disparate recipes into something that seems unique; more likely it's a close match to something that's out there dozens of times over.

That the Hurricanes finished so strongly last fall is a testament to coach Butch Davis and his staff, who somehow cobbled together an eight - win season with a roster that was decimated by injuries.

The answer, it seems, is when an unsatisfactory compromise is cobbled together by the Premier League, Football Association and the Football League.

My maternal Grandfather was a coalman and used to deliver around the cobbled streets of Highbury by horse and cart.

Research on IGT (also called breast hypoplasia and tuberous breasts) and its effect on lactation is almost nonexistent, with the most widely quoted study cobbled together in 2000 by enterprising nurses and lactation consultants who assembled 33 breast - feeding women with breast characteristics that they suspected were linked to low milk production.

Defined by a picturesque water tank that stands right in the middle, highlights of this patch of green include its proximity to the upscale City Walk, a cobbled walkway, a picnic area, a children's play area... [Read more...]

I thought I had seen another comment identical to the cobbling together above by «Ginni» now, on another necromanced post, but I may be mistaken about that.

Cobbling your nursery together piece by piece?

«It therefore appears that this was not properly drawn up by civil servants in order to avoid conflicts of interest in government, but hastily cobbled together after Mr Crosby had become a political embarrassment to the Conservative party,» Trickett wrote in a reply to Heywood's letter.

In the overwhelmingly liberal district that spans Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope, Ms. Simon helped cement her progressive credentials by repeatedly challenging the Brooklyn Democratic Party when Vito Lopez, a former assemblyman who resigned in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal, led the machine.

The resolution, sponsored by Councilmen Brad Lander and Stephen Levin, calls on the State University of New York and the State Department of Health to work with stakeholders to find another owner for the Cobble Hill hospital.

If Amedore is able to win, Republicans could cobble together 32 votes by just co-opting Felder, avoiding the need for them to convince the I.D.C. to complete their break with the regular Democrats by formally supporting them.

The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.