Sentences with phrase «by one's wits»

His insight into market psychology is matched only by his wit.

I have worked with him extensively over the last decade and continue to be struck by his wit, intelligence, charm and insight.

Two Germans, lost, homeless and penniless, forced to live by their wits in the urban wilderness of Tokyo makes for an interesting stop along the path to enlightenment in Doris Dorrie's film ENLIGHTENMENT GUARANTEED.

As Geary explains, individuals who would not have been able to survive by their wits alone could scrape by with the help of others — supported, as it were, by the first social safety nets.

As complex societies emerged, brains shrank because those previously unable to survive by wits alone could now scrape by with the help of others.

In the film, she plays a homeless heroin - addict who falls in love with an African immigrant [Anthony Mackie] also surviving by his wits on the streets of New York City.

Heatstroke (Unrated) Crime thriller about the girlfriend (Svetlana Metkina) and daughter (Maisie Williams) of a research scientist (Stephen Dorff) who are forced to survive by their wits after he is murdered in an African desert by ruthless arms dealers.

The movie takes a refreshingly low - key, observational approach to storytelling that will remind audiences not only of Loach, but of Francois Truffaut, the Belgian Dardenne brothers and countless other movies about scrappy, streetwise kids, living by their wits in a cold, indifferent world.

A team led by Wits post-graduate student Ashadee Kay - Miller investigated this question by training a team of dogs, and meerkats — from the Monte Casino Bird Gardens — to scent - match and test if they could detect the scent of puff adders.

The purpose of the work - product doctrine overlaps with that of the privilege but also encourages efficient law practice so that lawyers can make notes and collect facts relevant to litigation strategies without fear that adversaries would «live by the wits of an adversary.»

Powered by both wit and compassion, and in characteristically vivid prose, Martin Amis's unforgettable new novel excavates the depths and contradictions of the human soul.

When he revisited this rarefied world in the 1990s, he discovered a new breed of hustlers, led by men who made their millions by their wits, not their genes.

They're creative and articulate, accustomed to living literally by their wits.

When talented atheists die (like Christopher Hitchens), millions of us touched by his wit and intellect remember him warmly.

By its witting participation in its own stories the congregation becomes a mediating structure by which individuals ally themselves with the people of the world.

A moving, contemporary version of the incarnation, enlivened by wit and charm appropriate for a divine comedy about children, Hail Mary testifies to a mystery.

I am a Lutheran pastor in northern Ontario and am refreshed each day by your wit and wonderful insight.

wow «Amy» I'm so impressed by your wit and your persuasive argument.

His experiments seem to show that a trader's success may be determined not by his wits but by the hormones that course through his brain.

Wits University and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) released a new study, led by Wits academics, showing rates of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD)-- including cases caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria — have fallen substantially in South Africa following the introduction of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) in 2009.

You're mesmerized by his wit, charm, good looks, and intelligence.

Each airplane had its own personality and a pilot flew by his wits, instinct and luck.

Portal 2 also features a brand - new co-op multiplayer mode where players control two robots in a team - building exercise to solve lethal test chamber puzzles peppered by the wit of Aperture Science's AI overseer.

Hardy's novel introduces a powerful female lead who was not defined by her male suitors, but more by her wits, intelligence and business acumen.

In a series of escapades he is as likely to best his adversaries by wit as by sword.

In this sf novel marked by wit, violence, and hope, war refugee Ariel is sent to a camp affiliated with the Alex division, an arm of his adoptive father's company focused on resurrection science and biodrone development.

Its trainability is rivaled by its wit only: they are very attentive, can distinguish similar objects.

Unfortunately things like this can't be settled by wits alone, so Double Fine will need a legal team that's just as sharp!

Galerie Lelong will present new works by Jane Hammond that merge traditional photography and collage, fused by the wit, meticulousness, and subtle audacity that are the artist's hallmarks.

Characterised by wit and an often ironic sensibility, Bruce McLean's work has employed a range of media since the late 1960s.

It is sponsored by WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, the International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning and the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics.

A friend put me onto it a little while ago and seeing as tho I have just gone back to full time work it is an absolute relief, joy, distraction to be reading your antics, being amused by your wit, and reveling in fact that it is not just me in a lot of instances!!!

Land of the Lost (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, crude humor and a drug reference) Sci - fi comedy abut a trio of explorers (Will Ferrell, Danny McBride and Anna Friel) forced to survive by their wits after being sucked though a space - time vortex into a parallel universe filled with dinosaurs and other strange creatures.

This time, it's Rizka, an orphan girl who lives by her wits.

The WIT 2015 Conference includes the WIT Bootcamp on Oct 19, the main Conference on Oct 20 & 21 and the ITB Asia Clinics, powered by WIT, on Oct 22 - 23.

Since then, Jyn has survived by her wits on the street and in jail.

There's a real sense that people of the Mojave live at the fringes of a derelict society, surviving by wits alone and barely doing so at that.

Gringo (R for sexuality, violence and pervasive profanity) Action comedy set south of the border where a medical Marijuana salesman (David Oyelowo) is forced to survive by his wits after being kidnapped by a ruthless, Mexican drug cartel.

For the CEO and president of Executive Presentations Inc. (EPI), a $ 15 - million integrated - marketing company based in Rockville, Md., living by his wits has become a necessity.

The genuine frontiersman was the hunter who broke the paths into the wilderness and lived by his wits, his rifle, and his brawn.

As Lady Susan, the actress Kate Beckinsale is as witty and entertaining as Austen's protagonist, but considerably more appealing — not so much a mesmerizing villain in the mold of Milton's Satan as a woman cast adrift and living by her wits.

Malcolm described himself as «one of the most depraved parasitical hustlers» in New York — «nervy and cunning enough to live by my wits, exploiting any prey that presented itself.»

As I wrote some years ago, «The only leadership left in Russia by the terrible adverse selection process of the communist system was the former secret guardians of the state, men whose unique position required them to live by their wits.»

Can she meet the needs of congregants who make a living by their wits and come no closer than the local supermarket to the ultimate sources of sustenance?)