Sentences with phrase «chaff at»

He also knows that lawyers facing bar prosecution chaff at the idea.

Although as designers we might chaff at the restrictions on typography, fonts, and overall design, we can do a creditable job with the tools we have now.

Professor Douglas Baird and his team discovered the presence of carbonised seeds and phytoliths of wheat chaff at Boncuklu, along with agricultural weeds commonly found in early farming sites, suggesting the cultivation of crops did take place.

It's especially tricky for Silver, who is the main champion of extending the so - called millionaire's tax, but also chaffed at my suggestion during a CapTon interview last Friday that the protestors might have brought new momentum to that cause.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

Assembly Democrats have increasingly chaffed at any efforts to expand or enhance charter schools in the state — a policy that in general is also backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

The comedy dances on the realization that the life she chaffs at isn't so bad.

Nicole Kidman plays Gertrude Bell, a real - life British adventurer, as a free spirit chaffing at restriction — an educated woman escaping low expectations.

If you take Briffa's comment above and the one that he had in climategate 1 below, you get a picture of someone who may be chaffing at the direction that Mann and Jones were moving the team.

With heaps of plastic choking the world's oceans and fishermen chaffing at new regulations meant to protect dwindling European fish stocks, a top EU official has proposed a clever idea

Not exact matches

Dataminr's Bailey says his company is getting better at separating wheat from chaff.

A look at what happens behind closed doors as the University of Toronto's Rotman School's separates the B - school applicant wheat from the chaff.

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

this is the time we separate the men from the boys, the chaff from the grain, the pretender from contender... no more excuses, we are playing at home, the pressure is on, Leicester might drop points at home because Liverpool will go for the jugular so its entirely up to us to lay a claim....

There are so many Arsenal transfer rumours popping up every single day that it is difficult to have any real idea of who our real transfer targets are, and everything just looks like smoke and mirrors to me at the moment as we try and sift our way through the chaff.

Look at falcao and see how chaff French league is

It also can be used to protect chafed skin; give it a try at the beach to prevent chaffing on thighs!

In a buzz of self - praise over a self - fulfilling prophecy, the newspaper even growled at the Osun government to junk its education reforms, simply because the chaffing, all - mighty Punch balks!

The skeptical scientists got a fair airing at the APS's symposium, where the attendees could separate the wheat from the chaff, Rosner said.

Through such evolutionary processes, a drug that targets telomerase could seem effective at first, only to be defeated by the cancer cell line if it can (for instance) more effectively break the drug down, or prevent the drug from entering its cells, or put out the biological equivalents of the «chaff» and flares that are used by fighter jets to ward off the targeting systems of hostile missiles.

These have a soft panel at the waist that gently supports the tummy keeping it firmly in place and avoiding chaffing or soreness.

Contrary to other reviewers, I did not find that this highlighted chapped / chaffing lips at all.

I found a pair of Chanel shorts the other day at a consignment score and they had little silk guards sewn into the crotch to prevent chaffing.

Worse is that unlike, say, Martin Scorsese, Crowe was not blessed with the gift to compile a naturalistic, or at least appropriate, soundtrack (as if Humble Pie would blissfully sing along to «Tiny Dancer»)-- he is a musical dilettante, culling the cream of alterna - cool as it rises without any sense of the chaff.

If I were a teacher on my planning period (or worse, sitting at home on Sunday night, and trying to figure out what to do on Monday), I wouldn't have the time to wade through the welter of materials, separate the wheat from the chaff, and try to sequence the new resources into my overall teaching plan.

There was plenty of chaff - cutting rock and roll at idle from the Evoque, and there was some turbo - lag evident, along with a constant rumble at freeway speeds.

At the moment no good way exists to separate the wheat from the chaff.

But that is at harvest time, when men and boys come to wash away the wheat chaff tickling their throats, or in high summer when they've spent the day thinning out the wild oats from hay.

In her piece in Forbes announcing the news, Suw Charman - Anderson states that «Most reviewers don't want to deal with self - published authors directly because they don't really want to deal with any authors directly...» (emphasis mine)... and that «reviewers depend on publishers acting as winnowers, sorting out the wheat from the chaff, and at least attempting to make sure that they are sent books they are actually interested in.»

At the very least, this should mean a lot more talented creators getting a shot, and a lot more great comics (and total chaff) for you to read.

It doesn't mean I'm not going to keep reading indies in hopes of finding another Zoe Winters or another Kerry Allen, but it's definitely a matter of separating the wheat from the chaff, and that means I wind up a lot more critical than perhaps I should be — looking at all the things that someone should have caught or simply straight up lacks in craft from an immature writer who still has a lot to learn.

So I'm not sure the «gatekeepers» are doing any better of a job at winnowing out the chaff.

These handpicked high - yielders can get you started on the right foot... To help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we asked some of your fellow investors here at The Motley Fool to highlight a few high - yielders that are in it to win it.

Horses with white legs are also at risk because un-pigmented skin is more susceptible to sun damage, chaffing and abrasions making it more at risk for infection.

For instance, G.I. Joe Mobat has a powerful, forward firing tank shell as its primary weapon, while chaff mines can be deployed to disrupt enemies that touch it by slowing their speed and preventing their weapons and abilities for a temporary period; a short burst of increased rapid fire, albeit at the cost of your vehicle's movement speed for the duration, alongside an air strike ultimate ability to damage enemies within range.

The reputation system will hopefully be put to good use and sort out the wheat from the chaff, of which there is unfortunately a lot which can make the Indie Games section very poor at a glance.

Over the past few months, the flip art market — turning around emerging art quickly at auction — has been slipping and sliding away as people begin to discern between the wheat and chaff, the good art and the instant money.

This geometric, starburst pattern refers back to previous works by Long, such as Paddy - Field Chaff Circle (2003), a temporary circle of radial lines made on Warli tribal land in the Maharastra district of India, while the sculpture's material relates to a recent flint and slate circle, North South East West (2017) made for his major exhibition at Houghton Hall last year.

[Updated, Aug. 19, 2015, 12:25 p.m. Along with some chaff, some very important reviews of the Hansen paper have been posted, particularly this one from Peter Thorne, a longtime climate scientist now at Ireland's Maynooth University.]

The skeptical scientists got a fair airing at the APS's symposium, where the attendees could separate the wheat from the chaff, Rosner said.

Well, at least, for me personally, I see some wheat being separated from the chaff.

Poorly - trained scientists might look at the field of climatology and fail to sort the wheat from the chaff, or worse still, convince themselves that they can do a better job than the climatologists.

You find too much chaff and not enough wheat at CA.

I think it's definitely too early to tell, US Electoral Law seems to have been broken or bent enough to matter at first glance, but at the moment it's difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff in regard to the information being published.

the bad effects of the inexperience of student editors and their failure to use peer review to separate the wheat from the chaff... [T] oo many articles are too long, too dull, and too heavily annotated, and... many interdisciplinary articles are published that have no merit at all.

We can throw a mess of disparate facts at students, and by the end of first year, they will almost certainly be able to wade through them and not just separate the grain from the chaff but also point out the legal issues and liabilities involved.

In his research paper, MDL Proceedings: Eliminating the Chaff, John Beisner, a Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, looks at the aggressive advertising plaintiffs» counsel uses to attract clients for MDL, regardless of claim merit, and the subsequent pressure placed on defendants.

If you haven't implanted the correct format — or save your resume as the preferred file type — the ATS will separate the wheat from the chaff, and your resume will end up in the No!

No problem with new program — a lot of chaff was being presented in the name of Continuing Education, as Ms Jeans says, That said, TREB and many providers vetted & associated w TREB provided many specific / obscure topics by EXPERTS in the field - these will be missed as CEU courses, but can still be offered by the providers, less often, for larger audiences and at same / smaller cost per person.