Sentences with phrase «change of tack as»

Brett VandenHeuvel, Columbia Riverkeeper's executive director, dismissed the company's change of tack as a move to «try to fool the public and piecemeal this project.

Not exact matches

The NDP needs to regain the union vote as it tacks back to the left and will likely oppose much of the deal unless it is radically changed to protect Canadian jobs, something no one here has signalled.

But this new goal, coming «to share in the divine nature», is not tacked on to the end of our earthly existence as an afterthought; rather, this new goal changes the whole trajectory of our earthly lives.

Just as liberation theologians have shown that human liberation can not be considered simply as an additional topic tacked on to an otherwise unchanged theology, so also changing the way human beings relate to the natural world can not be simply an additional item on the already overcrowded agenda of the churches.

The Whiteheadian - Hartshornian neoclassical metaphysics takes precisely the opposite tack: it treats «becoming» and «change» as the absolutely fundamental categories and accounts for «being» as an aspect of or within becoming.

But then the waitress brings a plate of salami, his face lights up and he changes tack, telling me he's recently become a part - owner of a pig farm on the Yorke Peninsula («It's called Pork on the Yorke», he says, laughing — it's not), and that he's considering getting a piglet as a pet to follow him around at Seppeltsfield («fuck they're funny animals!»).

So much has changed since that fateful day, including the chances of Papelbon getting dealt: it turns out that the vesting option tacked on to the end of the deal is a problem for Milwaukee, and maybe everyone else in the league as well.

The former defence secretary, now viewed as a standard - bearer for right - wing Tories within the parliamentary party, will use a speech to business leaders in Birmingham to make the case for a change of tack, the Guardian reports.

As reports of chemical weapons use emerge from an escalating conflict, will our politicians change tack on Syria?

Some, such as pied flycatchers and sparrow hawks, even change tack as the availability of food changes.

Though he came into office as a centrist who sometimes referred to climate change as a debate, he has spent the last several years tacking to the left on a number of issues and has increasingly made environmental issues a priority.

Either way, several changes will have to be made to the game, as it was one of the only titles released for the Wii U that actually had a legitimate use for the GamePad that didn't feel tacked on.

Later, the rear - steer system's effectiveness is demonstrated on a slalom course where we are invited to drive F Sport and Luxury variants back - to - back, the Active rear steer of the F Sport sharpening the line and requiring less steering input to change tack, the end result being a more agile, responsive platform that aids the driver in avoiding obstacles, so long as you remain smooth with your inputs.

In 1967, Michael Fried amended Clement Greenberg's 1962 statement that a «stretched or tacked - up canvas already exists as a picture» with the caveat that «it is not conceivably one» because, even if «future circumstances might be such as to make it a successful painting... for that to happen, the enterprise of painting would have to change so drastically that nothing more than the name would remain.»

Since then there have been numerous documentaries about climate change, each taking different tacks to generate interest: The 11th Hour, which sexed up expert testimony with Leonardo DiCaprio's narration; Merchants of Doubt, which explained climate denial as a scurrilous corporate con game; and Chasing Ice, which took cues from nature documentaries in its quest to capture melting glaciers on film.

Those changes are apparently enough to convince Apple to go with the iPhone 8 naming convention instead of tacking on an «S» as it's done with previous updates to the iPhone 5 and 6 lineups.