Sentences with phrase «case of an amateur»

Allen came out a poor second in some polite verbal jousting — most likely a case of an amateur agnostic pitted against a professional religionist.

This story is a case of an amateur scientist actually having an impact on NASA decisions for its next big mission to Mars, the Mars 2020 rover, by suggesting a specific mineral to cache and return to Earth in the 2020's.

Not exact matches

A game is played, a picture is painted, or a garden is cultivated, and each activity is regarded by the amateur as a complete experience, rounded out within minutes, hours, or months, as the case may be, while for the worker — in the parallel cases of professional player, artist, or farmer — these achievements are but incidents within a continuous career.

Gazidis is a hack... he will never get another substantive job in this sport unless Kroenke is the owner... enough of dealing with the amateurs, anybody who believes that this man has any real say in the day - to - day operations of Arsene Inc. hasn't followed this club very closely... in fact I used to empathize with him; who would come out and make some of the statements he has, especially regarding our financial capabilities, unless he was instructed to do so under false pretenses... let's face it, if that wasn't the case, he would have been thrown to the wolves long ago... on the other hand, if he did know and public deception was well within his job description, he's truly a piece of shit

In case you live under a rock and haven't heard, Barstool Sports» Dave Portnoy is one step closer to owning the moon after acquiring Rough N Rowdy, the hottest amateur boxing league this side of the Mason - Dixon line.

I think campaigns will find they have less and less control of the message and the community, and that more and more amateurs will create upstart communities which, in many cases, they don't give over to the campaign.

However Dr Michael Farrell and colleagues have presented the first comprehensive case report of CTE in a former amateur rugby union player, who died six years after displaying the first symptoms of neurological decline at age 57.

In the case of the suspect vulture, a few weeks ago Leshem received word of the bird's capture by an amateur bird watcher in Saudi Arabia, who turned it over to local Saudi authorities.

It's case after case of that and right now there are thousands and thousands of people from the professional level to the amateur and volunteer level who have projects that they are working on to protect birds, save birds, to grow more birds and so there's a million ways to get involved.

Just in case you were wondering why «The Sunday Telegraph» has devoted two whole pages over the last couple of weeks to Monckton's amateur re-interpretation of the data, rather than inviting somebody with a track record in climate research to write about the issue, I think I might be able to shed some light on the issue.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

In this episode, an amateur sleuth seeks justice in the case of a young woman's mysterious death - only to discover that the accused killer is the real victim.

They have an innately flamboyant sartorial sense and a self - dramatizing flair that comes from a lifetime whiled away in amateur theatrics, and they are well - spoken to a degree that inadvertently makes a strong case for home - schooling — they may have the coiffure of Truffaut's feral Wild Child, but they're perfect gentlemen, all.

In this case it's an amateur production, a play within a play that we only get in glimpses of rehearsals interrupted by disagreements and digressions.

This is one of those cases for amateur Academy psychologists.

He explains that real - world reputations are made and broken on the basis of on - screen fight records, and consequently a respected fighter — Jean - Claude Van Damme, in the case of the Hyams film — can not lose to a relative amateur simply because a screenplay demands it.

With the help of a young amateur investigator whose website, Midwest Mysteries, is devoted to solving local cold cases, Arden tracks down the man who was the prime suspect in the kidnapping, though he was never convicted of the crime.

In the case of «Sex with Strangers» pornography masquerades as a sociological study and in so doing reveals a range of political, psychological, and comical implications; in the case of «The Celestial Handbook» an amateur's attempt at scientific astronomy ends up revealing the poetic inadequacy of depicting and describing the cosmos.

Using materials taken from amateur photographers» how - to manuals from the 1970s, Lipps make the case that the supposedly Internet - derived, algorithmic image culture so widespread today may actually find its roots in the feverish popularity of the low - cost Brownie camera of the 1950s and the ubiquitous Fujifilm disposable point - and - shoot of the»80s.

Which seems to be the case from my amateur analysis of what little observed thickness data I can find for the 2010/2011 period.

Just in case you were wondering why «The Sunday Telegraph» has devoted two whole pages over the last couple of weeks to Monckton's amateur re-interpretation of the data, rather than inviting somebody with a track record in climate research to write about the issue, I think I might be able to shed some light on the issue.

It's farmers, hunters and fishermen, amateur and professional, that take the brunt of the growing disruption, not us head - in - the - clouds (in the case of climate scientists, rather literally so!)

To me, an amateur reader, at the time, that engine - weight and fuel tank choice, as reported publicly, did seem like case of management - by - demand overruling design - with - reality.

In my case, I include a short article at the end of each issue of my monthly newsletter about my hobby, amateur mycology.

Bad Legal has no problem with the amateur sleuths on the case: «Occasionally I'll drop hints, like names of colleagues, references to cases I'm working on, my social insurance number.»

Mr. Cohen, who is a former amateur boxer, zealously pursues his cases and has won millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for his clients.

Lawyers quite reasonably prefer to have control over the course of a legal proceeding, but if they cede the bulk of that control to an amateur — specifically, you — with little or no litigation experience, the fear is that you might blame them in the event that you lose your court case, in effect, holding them responsible for errors of incompetence that were likely due to your own handling of the matter.

Mr. Cohen is a former amateur boxer who zealously pursues his cases and has won millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for his clients.

Mr. Cohen, who is a former amateur boxer, enthusiastically pursues his cases and has won millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for his clients.

Richard Hartley QC of Cobden House Chambers in Manchester says the ramifications of the judgment will be felt across all levels of football: «Clubs at both amateur and professional standing will need to examine carefully their third party insurance liability cover as cases like this will inevitably become more commonplace.»

This is morphing into a case whereby 100 percent of the 30 percent must care and act (100 percent) enough to overcome the effects of this top - heavy, unbalanced, inverted 70 - 30 money pyramid that is powering this well paid bureaucratic in - house amateur hour show by default.