Sentences with phrase «by vagaries»

Certain courses were only offered at certain times and my goal of a winter graduation was destroyed by the vagaries of what classes I had to take to actually graduate.

First, a note about the style of cause, which is determined by the vagaries of court practices.

As an exiled artist living in New York whose ability to travel is restricted by the vagaries of contemporary geopolitics, Shahpour Pouyan knows all about this dichotomy, which is one of the factors, sadly, that makes this quiet and at times violent exhibition such a success.

No sooner had the «Situation» painters established themselves in the British mind than the art market was swept by the vagaries of Pop.

See the excellent first show by Brent Wadden, a young Canadian - born painter who has set aside his brushes and taken up weaving, making thick rug - like abstractions whose jagged, interlocking shapes have the wobble of Op Art except softened by vagaries of color, texture and edge.

Dove Bradshaw's imagery is rooted in a long abstract painting tradition, while at the same time depending on chemical reactions that are both planned and wrought by the vagaries of time and atmosphere.

Newer indie books are never in danger of being taken out of print by the vagaries of a traditional publisher.

Director and co-writer Noah Baumbach constructs the film from Frances» point of view, as though she is living in a bubble, pushed along hither and yon by the vagaries of life.

Some frames of the recollection are dropped on the mind's cutting - room floor, others are restored and enhanced, and others still are so deftly combined either by our wants or by the vagaries of chance that they create new scenes that were never shot.

The costly disaster follows on the heels of a record - breaking year for devastation wrought by the vagaries of the weather and longer - term climate conditions.

He railed against the «British curse of short - termism both in the corporate world and in government», referring to the problem of potential industrial and infrastructure investors being scared off by the vagaries of British politics and timidity towards infrastructure projects.

Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.

That it was ultimately compromised by the vagaries of the NBA (Barnes was signed by the Lakers — awkward) is neither here nor there.

That capacity, we can now see, has been severely impaired by urban growth in the Sunbelt since World War II, and is likely to be further impacted by the vagaries of weather shifts.»

He recognizes that «Israel's grammar was indeed impinged on by the vagaries of historical experience.Brueggemann also recognizes that old Testament theology exists in two historically and culturally distinct audiences.

The God of the biblical narrative is not an unmoved mover, majestic monarch or all - determining controller of history who is untouched by the vagaries of time and change.

We'll never know who advised the board its dividend program could continue uninterrupted by the vagaries of an $ 11.3 billion transaction.

Some of it is symptomatic of an experimentation controlled by no leading idea but only by vagary and the desire to please as many potential church visitors as possible.

Not exact matches

For many who remember what business was like pre-Internet, millennials seem an appallingly sensitive lot, having been protected from the vagaries of the world by helicopter parents, trigger warnings and — to especially cynical critics — sheer narcissism.

Financial pressures mounted, worsened by the Writers Guild strike in 2007 and 2008 and the vagaries of Ontario's studio tax - credit system, which put added strain on CORE's cash flow.

The vagaries of a banking system with many smaller participants relying heavily on a market - based system of funding could be mitigated by an evolution to fewer nationwide banks backed by FDIC charters - and therefore not be as affected by the whims and fluctuations of capital markets.

However, while the Fed's mandate does not extend to reacting to the vagaries of the currency market or the dynamics affecting other economies, recent US dollar strength and wobbles in risk assets caused by concerns over the state of the Chinese economy can not be entirely ignored.

While the forces at work here may smack of a Jungian «collective unconscious» shared by all humanity, Orlando's analysis depends on the vagaries of history.

In the course of controversy the reformers were led to go further than they had intended at first, and to claim for the whole Bible indiscriminately, in and by itself, exposed as it now was to the possible vagaries of private interpretation, an absolute authority displacing that of the Catholic Church.

When faced by demands that they «cash» their claims about God as active, theologians too easily fall into vagaries and generalities.

Another example of the vagaries of boycott is the campaign waged against 7 - Eleven Stores by the Rev. Donald Wildmon and his organization, in an attempt to get the chain to remove Playboy and Penthouse magazines from their shelves.

Nor can I see that a single test, least of all a simple reference to the Bible as understood by the recipient of the special revelation, is now or ever will be a sufficient safeguard against the vagaries to which intensely sincere minds are sometimes even more liable than those whose convictions are less fiercely one - sided.

Beguiled by this assumption, Western Christian theology has become an inadvertent effort to protect this «God» from the vagaries of finitude and surprise — in short, from the very things we ordinarily associate with the ability to have meaningful relationships with others.

I can't say I belong to the group that live in fear of yeast but I deal with the vagaries of living at altitude and that's always an extra consideration that can make any baking questionable as evidenced by the jar of yeast I just pitched that had expired... I don't do it a lot!

Throw in the vagaries of a supermarket duopoly and a raft of other issues faced most starkly by regional Australia and it's little surprise that SPC, which suffered a loss of $ 25m this year, is so candid about its desire for government assistance.

Seattle Sounders fans should be well - versed in all of this by now — few teams have been more active during the so - called «secondary» transfer window — but we wanted to put together a primer of sorts for the uninitiated or those who may have forgotten some of the vagaries.

As such, by making the lottery explicit, the vagaries of the USPS are factored out and made explicit by INS (excuse me, ICE) directly.

You find fellow Ghanaians standing in open places; some left to wait at street shoulders and roundabouts with no one caring about the associated risk posed by motorists; others are left at the mercy of the vagaries of the weather — to these embassies, they couldn't be bothered if the sun is scorching, if it's raining or even if there is a category five hurricane — they simply don't seem to care,» he noted.

Later on, the 1993 general election saw the New Zealand Labour Party's vote split by The Alliance, which has been attributed to the vagaries of the first past the post electoral system.

And unlike a public sector pension plan, which is protected by the state constitution and whose benefits can't be diminished even in an economic crisis, the retirement savings plan the city is proposing would be very much subject to the vagaries of the market.

A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours By John Allen Paulos

But, at the same time, you can only survive the vagaries and pitfalls of PhD life, and the appalling day - to - day hysterical politics within your research group / department by keeping a firm grip on reality.

The smaller groups stand a greater chance of being wiped out by food shortages or other vagaries of nature.

By being less reliant on imports, they would be partially insulated from climate vagaries, global resource shortages and distant military conflicts.

Another bright spot is «Heights,» a good movie powered by a grand performance by Glenn Close who plays a Shakespearean actress and master teacher dealing with the vagaries of professional and private life.

Director Steven Soderbergh has averaged a film a year since his acclaimed 1989 debut Sex, Lies & Videotape, an incredible work rate by modern filmmaking standards especially for one who frequently works within the political vagaries fof the studio system.

There are any number of readings available here, from Katniss and Peeta's relationship mirroring generations of Hollywood stars (closeted and otherwise) with fake publicity marriages, to the oppression of the working classes by the greedy 1 %, to the vagaries and dangers of instant fame, to bread and circuses, and «Catching Fire» allows viewers to dig into or avoid the metaphors as much as they want.

Fancher, who, by the way, is the screenwriter of the acclaimed classic, Blade Runner, makes an outstanding directorial debut with this nuanced and captivating examination of the vagaries of life and the random nature of fortune.

Where The Rider gives us a protagonist ensnared by his responsibility to a dream — Brady can no more shake the memory of being on horseback than he can abandon his town or his loved ones — The Black Stallion paints a picture of animal kinship as the ultimate escape: from the vagaries of the human world, from one's own tragic backstory, from the limitations of one's youth.

Years ago the Irish actor was on the verge of bigger stardom, then, by his own design and the vagaries of the business, his career got smaller.

This is the rarefied environment in which Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name is set, a world in which beautiful and / or flawlessly erudite people spend balmy summer days and nights, fall in love, ponder on the vagaries of life, in and around a stately Italian villa, while almost invisible domestics — at least, they're occasionally glimpsed, but have next to no dialogue — tend to their needs, cooking, gardening, or presenting them with handsome, freshly caught fish.

The families, offended by what they regarded as sartorial tyranny, have since given their children a two - year lesson in civil disobedience, the Bill of Rights, the American legal system, and the vagaries of iron - on patches.

In a recent survey by Public Agenda, more than 80 percent of teachers said that without unions, they would be vulnerable to the vagaries of school politics, and their salaries and working conditions would be much worse.

The director of San Diego State University's School of Teacher Education, Nancy Farnan, says the switch is intended to avoid «the vagaries of personnel changes that can get in the way of systemic, ongoing change» by transforming the entire culture, curriculum, and structure of a school.

MDM is giving the car some leeway through the third - gear curves, but when disturbed by a sequence of vagaries in the surface, it interferes momentarily through two 125 - mph - plus right - handers.