Sentences with phrase «by oblivious»

The entire treaty was designed to cripple America and force it into being a European like State by those oblivious to the threats posed by Islam, Russia and China.

Getting noticed amidst the huge volumes of authors and ebook titles might seem as though you're walking around the streets of Shanghai wearing a sandwich board, marching by an oblivious crowd.

Unfortunately, in addition to the challenges of doing research with undergraduates while teaching four or more courses per year, they find themselves faced with obstacles strewn in their paths by oblivious administrators.

With Dacey on my back, we navigated parking lots, grocery stores, farmers markets, festivals, shopping malls, just about any venue you can imagine, all without me giving a single second of thought or worry to my now - mobile child escaping from me or being trampled by an oblivious passer - by.

Oh, pilgrims walking by oblivious, your minds, it seems, on something not at hand, can you have come from such a distant land» the way you look suggests as much to us» that you're not weeping, even as you pass right through the suffering city, like that band of people who, it seems, don't understand a thing about the measure of its loss?

Oh, pilgrims walking by oblivious, your minds, it seems, on something not at hand, can you have come from such a distant land» the way you look suggests as much to us» that you're not weeping, even as you pass right through the suffering city, like that band of people who, it....

Not exact matches

While a man (played by Jason Statham) and a woman (played by Gal Gadot) seem to be causing havoc in the restaurant, the owner, Felix, is completely oblivious because he's too focused on putting together his Wix website.

All the benefits of tighter monetary and looser fiscal policy have been threatened by the actions of a president who seems oblivious to the potential outcome of the blunder he has made.

Put another way, the bigger problem for bulls is that the share price seems blinded by the EPS performance and oblivious to the negative economic performance of Expedia's business.

He seems to be oblivious of the fact that all the gold sitting in the SGE's inventory is owned by someone, so in order for Trader Wong to satisfy an increase in his demand for physical gold by taking delivery, Trader Chang, the current owner of the gold held in the SGE inventory, must reduce his demand for physical gold by exactly the same amount.

Just as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of....

Just as I was oblivious for much of my life to the problems posed by bearing and rearing children, so humankind was blissfully undisturbed for most of its history by the conundrums this book addresses.

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

We do not know whether persons in this group, while moved by the presence and claims of individuals with whom they are in face - to - face relations, may, on another level, be oblivious to and unmoved by more impersonal social structures and practices that consistently put and keep persons in situations of oppression and deprivation.

The sad part it, these numbers you trot out, which you are oblivious to the statistical problems inherent in them, were obviously put together by someone with a knowledge of statistics and manipulated so gullible people like yourself would use them to argue a cause which the true evidence does not support.

As they prayed, the worshipers could hear cars passing by outside, travelers in a secular age oblivious to the ancient hopes being spoken in the little chapel.

At any moment in the story, a paladin might find himself confronted by a giant Saracen astride a galloping giraffe, or trapped in an enchanted castle oblivious of his own name, or beset by an army of demons, or challenged by an ogre, or lost in a fairy otherworld full of the most exquisite enchantments, or at the mercy of a sorcerer.

The Mexicans, quite oblivious to what their idol had told them, namely that this place was merely an imitation and pattern of the land they were to be given, stayed in this delightful place (a long time) and began to feel that it was quite satisfactory, some even saying that they desired to stay there permanently, and that this was really the place selected by their god Huitzilopochtli; that it was from that place that they were all to follow their desires, being the rulers of the four parts of the world, etc..

Scholars are indignant at the perversion of their art by such publications oblivious to the fact that their own efforts often serve the same purpose — among the educated elite!

Sucking happily away, Hugh Ambrose remained oblivious to the rapid changes in pressure and was almost asleep by the time we touched down.

They seemed oblivious to the major issues I raised in the article, preferring instead to bask in the warm buzz and bucks generated by buying into the BS.

The picture includes the family's attempt to adjust to a person who lies and is least responsible when he most needs to be, who is unbearably irritable and egocentric, who embarrasses them in front of friends and spoils their holidays by being on a binge, who spends money they need for necessities on whiskey, and who seems completely oblivious to their welfare or their pleadings.

These are places we drive by in our cars every day, oblivious to the abundance of food and experiences that are right there for the taking.

Living on the road + s» mores in Yellowstone = best birthday ever (although Scott would say feeling as if your life was constantly threatened by grizzly bears lurking around sucks the fun out of it — I wouldn't know what he was talking about because I am contently oblivious to all negative possibilities and danger).

Those that want their team to win every game and as many trophies as possible to impress their mates down the pub and assume the bragging rights, probably never seen the inside of a football stadium, but whine and resort to conspiracy theories and abuse when their team isn't doing so well, rely on instant gratification to get by each day and imagine that they are on some self - righteous mission to cure all the non-believers whilst simultaneously sitting on their arses banging away on their keyboards, doing zilch to help their noble cause other than shout, and are totally oblivious to the energy they are wasting and the delusional futility of it all.

In the locker room McMichael can be seen stomping around wearing nothing but his game shoes, oblivious to everything but his attempts to break in his cleats by game day.

More generally, the «quenelle» has been introduced to a British audience, as has its creator Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, and both have been debated by voices ranging from the well - informed to the entirely oblivious.

Genuinely baffled by this, Wenger can't be that oblivious to our weaknesses, or maybe he» l surprise i seriously hope he does.

They also tend to be oblivious totheir surroundings, whether they're at a Sacramento city council meeting tonegotiate funds for a new arena or by a pool of nearly naked women — againstwhom they stand out like incarnations of Jake and Ellwood.

I might have been oblivious to my former husband's former affair if it weren't for what might have been an innocent comment made by a mutual friend — that he heard he'd been hanging around so - and - so bar.

By contrast, for decades, the left was seen as merely interested in a fairer distribution of growth, while largely oblivious to expanding the frontiers of production.

And oblivious to how fossil - fuel get more government handouts than any clean energy by miles.

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere Darko has expressed his disappointment in claims by the party's General Secretary, Kwabena Agyepong that he was oblivious of Nana Addo's schedule for the «Rise and Build» tour, especially in the Volta Region

«We are not oblivious of what the Saudi Crown prince divulge of recent in an interview with Times magazine, where he claimed that Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army was part of a grand design by his regime to curb the influence of Iran in Africa; even though the Saudi Authorities we know acted on the behest of its foreign sponsors namely USA, Britain and Israel.

«Sadly, he seems oblivious to the state of affairs evidenced by his cynical efforts to give away even more tax payer dollars hobnobbing in Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood.»

Labour Members will almost certainly be spending the next few years in hysterical opposition, attacking the Government for fixing the mess they created, completely oblivious to the reality that we can not help the most vulnerable in society by basing the economy on debt.

«We are not oblivious of the plans by some would - be trouble makers who would want to cause disaffection amongst people.

Often than not, we tend to be oblivious of certain realities around us till self - reflection and assessment set in then we are stung by eureka.

We'd be absolutely oblivious to all the wonderful changes and all the modern - day plagues of society that must be dealt with in the courts, and by our government.

She was, and by all measures the event seems to have been a success, but I am livid — about the gender dynamics, and that the organizers, who are supposedly carving out spaces for women in science, seem oblivious to those dynamics.

But most of the Tactical Ops players happily stayed in the machine for at least an hour, oblivious to the discomfort and noise because they were so entranced by the game.

One of the most spectacular demonstrations of how oblivious we can be was carried out by psychologists Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois and Christopher Chabris at Harvard University.

Senior scientists working away in their labs, applying for new research grants, writing new papers, hiring new postdocs, remain as oblivious as ever, and as unlikely to note the problems faced by today's young scientists.

Between the coral columns, reef sharks and shovel - nosed rays lie on the sandy bottom, seemingly oblivious to the shadows cast by the gaudier fish flitting about in the water above.

In the Mahale Mountains in East Africa, chimpanzees walk right by those nuts, oblivious to their nutritious meats.

The glacier sped up by about 10 percent during that time, showing that the glacier's long - term movement is fairly oblivious to trickles at its underside.

Perhaps there'll be plenty to say about them when some oblivious pedestrian gets maimed or killed by a flying Tour de France - wannabe on a roadie, if it hasn't happened already.

i am labeled all of these by others, consider myself to be none of them, and all of them... i am altruistic in nature, introspective and oblivious by turns, drawn by darkness and retracted by light, fundamentally eccentric...

Now these men in almost all cases are older than the women by quite, as much as 10 - 20 years and yet the women seem to be oblivious of the age difference.

I really like the idea of Roger's character: it is sharply written by Dylan Kidd, and Campbell Scott plays the oblivious yet confident player to perfection.