Sentences with phrase «calling attention to things»

Other times I'm calling attention to things occurring naturally or highlighted by natural light.

Or do they mostly call attention to the things you sell?

I was finally rejected by pastors and members (friends) when I tried to call attention to the things I saw as harmful.

Call attention to the things your students are doing that meet your expectations.

Not exact matches

The digital currency, which first began to gain attention in 2009, has been called both a fad and the next big thing to happen to money and finance.

Call attention to yourself in the best way possible: by showcasing the intelligent, thoughtful things going on inside that head of yours.

We find that as long as the negative information about a product is minor, your pitch [to a consumer] might be more persuasive when it calls attention to that negative, especially if consumers have already learned some positive things,» — Baba Shiv

Pay attention to these so called «little things»: How he treats the waitress when she's having a busy night and your food gets there late.

Maybe another day I'll link all of these, but for now I'd call your attention to the SEARCH FIRST THINGS box over on the upper right - hand corner.

Unlike the work of bulldozers, which Berry calls «a powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care of things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known.

In particular, the denial that epistemology is wholly prior to ontology; the denial that we can have an absolutely certain starting point; the idea that those elements of experience thought by most people to be primitive givens are in fact physiologically, personally, and socially constructed; the idea that all of our descriptions of our observations involve culturally conditioned interpretations; the idea that our interpretations, and the focus of our conscious attention, are conditioned by our purposes; the idea that the so - called scientific method does not guarantee neutral, purely objective, truths; and the idea that most of our ideas do not correspond to things beyond ourselves in any simple, straightforward way (for example, red as we see it does not exist in the «red brick» itself).

Maybe another day I'll link all of these, but for now I'd call your attention to the SEARCH FIRST THINGS box over on the upper....

For anyone who is not already predisposed to believing that the imaginary is real, if his attention is called to the distinction between reality and imagination and he is explicitly reminded that the imaginary is not real, he's not likely to accept claims about imaginary things as truth.

Whitehead's concept of Society thus explicitly calls attention to the essential orderliness of social relations; that is, groups of existing things are related socially because those things share a particular order among themselves.

certainly does do for those of us who take the program seriously is to call attention to our «sinful» characteristics, behavior, harms, and wrongs — things that most assuredly need substantial change and correction.

My only concern is to call attention to the fact that things are now out of balance.

Just would like to call attention to 1 Corinthians 1:10 — «Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.»

I take notice when someone breaks a tradition and calls attention, in a negative way, to the very thing that supposedly saved their life.

By speaking of «theory - laden» practices, Browning also calls attention to value orientations and beliefs about the nature of things that already reside in practice.

I do nt unsually comment on these grab attention stories but this one I got to let go of something... I do nt care if it's Muslim, Catholic, Methodist, Bhuddist, or whatever fly by night belief you want to have in OUR great country (thats right it's all ours) you have that right but get one thing straight... if you come on MY property and steal something thats mine, imma shoot and call the police... you bring something to MY property thats not mine imma shoot and call the police... you set whatever it is on fire on MY property imma shoot, call the police and the fire department and I promise you you will get a chance to bask in the glory of your religion.

«Romney called on them to release the whole thing but obviously that never happened» Apparently you've not been paying attention.

When it comes to Boulud's attention to the details of his empire, there appears to be no hierarchy of importance: The invite list to the upcoming soft opening in Vegas; the amount of cream in the pâté grand - mère used in a banh mi at the Épicerie; a visit to actor Bryan Cranston lunching at Bar Boulud; a call to a high - profile pediatrician on behalf of two married employees with a constipated infant; what to do with a shipment of fresh herring; the placement of speakers in a corner of the dining room at DBGB; the lighting of a photo shoot for a cookbook he's contributed to — all things big and small are apparently in Boulud's portfolio, and everything receives an equal share of energy and time.

«You're a member of a very large club «filled with a lot of very competent people «who don't happen to read very well,» or «a club called ADHD where you have a lot «of competent people who aren't able «to focus and sustain their attention «when they want to, and there are things «we can do about this.

If you don't have these things handy, you can call attention to sensory things in the area, once you've first taken them to a new location.

«At this age, babies are starting to look at things and will call your attention to items of interest — this is called shared or joint attention,» Bingham says.

Once things are done in a particular way, unless something is clearly dysfunctional, intense time pressure and the multiple concerns always calling for the attention of the candidate and senior staff generally mean they continue to be done that way.

The only thing moving is the gutter rats as I prefer to call them and they ain't paying attention to nuttin.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

With the center now running, Lewin has turned his attention back to Slowinski and what he calls «the biggest gap in field treatments for 10 things that can kill you quickly.»

That amount is called virtual water (pdf), and it's the kind of thing you don't really consider until someone brings it to your attention: «Do you know how much water it took to make this?»

They have called attention to more or less «evenly distributed errors» across Lomborgs treatment of population, food, forests, air pollution, acid rain, climate change, and biodiversity loss, among other topics errors including all of the types I identified in his energy chapter, and more even while acknowledging, as I did, that in this potpourri Lomborg manages to get a few things right.

In particular, younger brains seemed short on prefrontal cortex, the seat of so - called executive functions that, among other things, enable us to switch our attention from what we are learning now to something we learned earlier.

When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

But for many of us, a little too much of this good thing is actually causing a neurological phenomenon that psychiatrist Edward Hallowell, MD, author of Driven to Distraction, has called «attention deficit trait,» marked by distractibility and impatience.

«Give her permission to call to your attention whenever you start up again about the same old thing.»

Though many things call themselves meditation, only one act is truly meditation: anchoring the mind's full attention, no matter its complaints, to the this present moment.

The kind of excitement that causes you rush home and get right to work on that project in spite of all the other things around the house that are calling out for attention?

If you want the most efficient way of gaining rank in Call of Duty: WW2, there are a few things you'll need to pay attention to.

Beside Dorval, the best thing about the film is probably the cinematography, even though it sometimes calls a bit too much attention to itself, what with all the off - center close - ups, slow - motion tracking shots à la Wong Kar - Wai, B&W shots of Hubert talking to the camera, colourful fantasy cutaways... Still, you can tell that the kid has seen a lot of movies and instinctively knows how to recreate the things he likes in others» work through his own.

With 3 - D, mixers are faced with an image that calls attention to itself, so why can't sound do the same thing?

And studies of «best practices» may simply call attention to a smattering of things observed at successful schools, without asking whether the same things might also be going on in less successful schools.

Other than that constant complaint, though, the best thing you can say about the Escape is that it does its job without ever calling a lot of attention to itself.

That's a great thing, though, as it never interrupted the experience or called attention to itself.

One of these was an amazing red DMC Edizione GT Aventador LP988 - 4, the closest thing on the open road to the extremely rare Lamborghini Veneno, at a fraction of the cost... but that matte orange metallic Huracan in Geneva took all the attention... the DMC Omaggio also called their Stage 2, which is a limited edition by the way.

A system called Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children is supposed to make things easier by standardizing attachment hardware, but a new study shows that many automakers aren't paying attention to the key factors that make LATCH work.

The body style is the thing that first called my attention to this car.

The template for cold - calling reviewers in my genre made things a breeze, and within 10 days, my book started to get the attention from readers I felt it deserved.

A hardcover books is one of those things where it is obvious that one is reading the hip tome of the moment, and can call attention to that fact.

One of the mistakes that people made in 2008, and this is one of the other things that I pay a lot attention to particularly in more recent editions of the book, is so called «behavioral finance.»