Sentences with phrase «by random things»

Perhaps just to make sure other people aren't blocked by random things.

And I really want to win this, so forget the whole choosing by random thing and PICK ME!!

Not exact matches

I used confirmation bias to view everything and was deceived by my «faith» into thinking random things were «God's» messages to me.

It was just by «random chance» that the sun is the perfect distance from the earth so we don't get baked or frozen, that the moon is the right distance and size so the tides don't flood us, that the earth rotates so we are evenly heated, that water - which is absent on other planets and vital to our life - is present here, that there is a balance of living things to keep each other in check.

He goes on to comment: «if we wish to explain the observed world in terms of Matter without reference to Mind, then it must be explained by things material, ultimate and simple all at the same time — by indivisible, notional «atoms» and a chance «swerve» that sets them in random motion.

If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material.

Nevertheless, the first and even the subsequent early councils were not called at random but because there were people ---- like Arius, Sabellius, the Nestorians (though not Nestorius), and others ---- who were teaching things about Jesus, the Father, or the Holy Spirit that, so far as our evidence can tell us, were not being taught by the majority of the Church.

Atheists say «that looks like a random act of horrific violence, congruent with a godless universe» and Christians say «hmm, that does look like a random act of horrific violence congruent with a godless universe... I guess that kind of thing just happens sometimes in a universe ruled by God.»

Now, first things first -LCB- hissy fit warning -RCB- inevitably somebody is gonna pop by here from a random hit on the interwebs and lecture me that ribs are not supposed to be «fall off the bone» and that if they are it's just wrong.

Well this weekend Panathinaikos fans were angered by a recent bout of poor form and decided to go on the offensive but their actions seemed to primarily involve picking up things and throwing them in random directions or simply kicking the odd football very hard.

When we're looking at hand coordination, again, early on it's very random movements by the time they're three months, actually even, one of my favourite things about the hand movement is around the two month age when nursing.

As for the square root thing, the reason is that, if voters are considered as independent random Bernoulli variables, the probability of an exact tie (which can be broken by a single voter) is O (1 / √ n), where n is population.

But since both colonoscopy and appendicitis are common things, the question became: is there a real correlation here, or are these two random events that were just occurring together by chance?»

Couples were encouraged through a series of lectures and exercises to approach their relationships with more compassion and empathy by doing things like listening as a friend, practicing random acts of kindness and affection, and using the language of acceptance.

If you're bothered by constantly having to scratch things off your list, Trello is a fairly straightforward mobile and desktop program that allows you to make color - coded lists, prioritize and categorize items on those lists, capture random thoughts, and easily rearrange them.

Put it on a list with many other random things: blowing glass, spinning pottery, learning to hula dance, and singing in front of a crowd, by myself.

«I have always been inspired by the most random things, but mostly high fashion and creating a more urban way to do it.

A Los Angeles, California resident and a marketing professional by day, Rhea started her blog in January 2013 as a creative outlet for the things she is passionate about: fashion, food, and random travels.

Friday seems to be a huge link party day, probably because by the end of the week we're all exhausted and want to write about random things.

Choosing color scheme the year before is a great idea — I usually find random things I love on sale and not really by any color scheme.

Hi I'm Mike i'm 28, I enjoy going out and doing random things, I like to live life day by day and live it to the fullest because you should enjoy life to the fullest.

Brownsugar: to view a sugar baby's account by profile #: open a random sugar babies profile and in the webaddress, delete the lat 5 - 6 # s and put in the desired profile # TO view a sugardaddy's account do the same, but open up a random sugar daddy profile The nutritionist I asked said they were the same thing..

[To date, there are an increasing number of scientists who have long since departed from that scientific philosophy — and are seeking another more adequate explanation for the lack of transitional life forms in the fossil record or the increasing irreducible complexity of living things at the cellular level which appear to be by design rather than random modification.]

Pitiful mixture of ghost story and slasher at a sorority populated by random grisly visions and gross effects, when the only thing scary about this production is the wretched writing.

It's a satisfying, addictive loop that feels rewarding thanks to A) varied layers of progression both based on how much money you earn and how accomplished you are at each job; B) the overabundance of Things to collect and use; C) tons and tons of fetch quests given to you not only by your Life teacher, but by random NPCs (all of whom have their own names and personalities, in true Animal Crossing style).

«The New Guy,» apparently, is following the new school of film comedy established by «The Sweetest Thing» in which continuity is discarded for random gags.

It's a good thing, too — Flynn's casual performance is helped by Curtiz's ability to keep his star under constant threat from well - drawn villains (big heavy Bruce Cabot is square jawed and smug; character actor / sidekick Victor Jory is the epitome of dumb, single - minded badness) and from civilization run amok (random gunfights popping up all over; children getting dragged through the street tied to horses).

After the setup, in which the Robinson family — father John (William Hurt, looking and sounding as spaced out as he does in interviews), mother Maureen (Rogers, wasted), daughters Judy (Heather Graham, ditto) and Penny (a heavily made - up Chabert, looking like a junior version of Neve Campbell in Wild Things), and son Will (young newcomer Johnson, making the best of it)-- and pilot Don West (LeBlanc, doing a bad Han Solo impression) find themselves lost in space after their ship is sabotaged by evil stowaway Dr. Smith (a watered - down but still - lively Oldman, cashing a paycheck and loving every minute), the script's «stream» of events becomes so fragmented and random that it seems to be made up as it goes along — and Hopkins does little to make what does go on the slightest bit interesting.

It's just that there are so many other things to get distracted by: side missions, random enemy checkpoints, roaming animals, building Mother Base and collecting resources.

But then a random dude walking by glared at the LaSpRa's bulbous rear end and asked, «Ew, is Mitsubishi actually going to try to sell that thing?»

Some people like creating prompts by doing things like picking up a newspaper or magazine, picking a few stories at random, and investing a back - story behind the headline.

All this reading - books - without - paper thing is just getting started, there are too few of us doing it, and it won't help us if we are divided by random manufacturers standards, on top of everything else.

We really hope that it's a term that will only be used by folks who care about those things and NOT by random Joe Schmo who decided a collection of grocery lists was interesting and self published them without even a modicum of editing.

Everything typed by the moderator and featured guests shows up on the chat screen so anyone logged in can view it (but it's not all mucked up by everyone typing random things, which is nice).

Chances are — Amazon thought long and hard about how to set things up so that the free kindle books offered by authors turn into a random reward situation and also get people visiting Amazon more and more.

A review is usually triggered either at random (about 0.01 % of all returns get a random audit to have a human verify the computers are doing things correctly), or because your return was flagged by the computer because of some irregularity — usually something that might need to be changed like a math error, or underreported income.

I found that if I read some random passage from a «super text» (e.g. some page from Poor Charlie's Almanack, or some passage from the letters of Warren Buffett or Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher) just before I sleep, then while I slept what I had read does things inside my brain.

If that's the case, we're at what can be considered a local max for Apple but it's more likely that as time goes by — and random events pile on — things will never to the mean (this is quasi-mean reversion).

You should mix things up by playing fetch, then tug, then a short burst of a few training commands, a little jog... be random, and exciting.

As you go you'll have «encounters» at these various locales, all of which are again controlled by decks of cards that feature small snippets of text written in Lovecraftian style that nevertheless tell a completely disjointed, random tale where things frequently happen for no reason, and even more frequently involve the player getting smacked around through little fault of their own.

There are loads of other random stuff, too, such as how the Chaos faction feature mutations that can suddenly ruin your hard work by doing things like an archer suddenly growing a third arm that makes him unable to use a bow.

Hall of Meat returns and takes on an even more arcadey feel along with the ability to hit random passers by, and certain things are now more over the top which has given the game a very slight Tony Hawks feeling.

Getting killed by a random missile or other such thing completely out of your control feels a little too like being annihilated by one of Call of Duty's Killstreak rewards.

Because this is obviously just a thread to vent about random things, i will note that a peron who buys MKX day one is not only a moron but actively helps killing videogames by supporting WB's shit DLC practices.

I guess maybe the writers were aware that most of the changes don't occur until well into the game, so they wanted to assure the player that they were in fact playing a different game by changing random, insignificant things early in the game.

The frustrating thing about flowers is it's very «all or nothing» — between Animals planting random flowers and the X's showing up (which are very hard to see when surrounded by flowers), it's something you really should take care of in a day.

The problem is further exacerbated by Akira's special ability, which allows him to read people's minds when you press the Y button — meaning that not only do you have to go around and do random things and talk to random people to advance the plot, but you sometimes have to semi-randomly read their minds as well.

One of the things that has stuck out to me is that so many successful artists find their luck by grabbing a fleeting idea or a random fan request and just hanging on.

She looked outside of the areas of fashion and pop culture for impulses, «exploring the city by foot, finding inspiration in the smallest and most random of things.»

The broad range of vision engages one with its formal and narrative authority — from elegant self - contained cerebral works like On Kawara's «Today» series, in which the artist paints only a date of the year against a background of color, and Roni Horn's wall - sized photographic series composed of 36 progressive clown portraits of perceptual ambiguity, both artists neatly isolating individual permutations of life's sequential narrative, to Peter Fischli and David Weiss» collaborative film, «Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go),» in which the unconstructed imagery is punctuated by bursts of random narrative that addresses life's impermanence.