Sentences with phrase «cog in this machine of»

Science as the only begetter of truth would shatter ethics as it did in Nuremberg, Bykivnia, and Shanghai, leaving a justice that reduces human beings to biological cogs in a machine of means.
While her job is to make a multinational company more efficient by cutting jobs, Winfried is on a subversive mission to save her from becoming an icy corporate cog in the machine of capitalism.

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It's a far different set of challenges from what he'd originally envisioned, as a cog in Intel's human machine.
Gascoigne said this choice was part of an effort to appreciate employees as people rather than just cogs in the machine.
You're just a cog in a machine who gets paid for number of hours worked.
It's far too easy to feel like a cog in a big machine, as opposed to someone directly accountable for delighting customers regardless of level or department.
Much of that time is wasted, but they are an important cog in the machine that is our economy.
He can not then be rightly treated as a cog in a machine, or a sample of a racial blood - stream, or one of the individual atoms that make up a nation.
I happened to be teaching at the University of California at the height of the youth revolt against what they believed was a society that wanted to turn them into cogs in a machine.
The myth about matter is built on the fiction that the universe consists of nothing but a collection of inert particles, pulling and pushing each other like cogs in a deterministic machine.
«From the stuff of the stars to the stuff of ourselves, From gyrating electrons to the genes in our cells, The truth is a beauty and should gain recognition, It's more mind than machine, less cog than cognition.»
And the issue between imperialist communism and the West is basically the problem of the nature of man: does the individual have rights and transcendent possibilities, such as the Bible taught, or is he a mere cog in a heartless machine?
Bertrand Russell (1968) warned against the dangers of encouraging people to see themselves and others as cogs in a machine - like world.
For some of us, it was our well - meaning churches or our religious training which fed us this lie, and we've confused discipleship with being a properly obedient cog - in - the - machine, keeping the institution afloat and substantial.
To say, as some do, that God's universe is a giant machine in which every cog and wheel moves directly under the control of God means not only that every leaf falls and every butterfly flaps its wings at the direct command of God, but also that Adam and Eve sinned at the direct command of God along with every sin, rape, and murder committed since.
I feel like we hit the right balance of attack and defence in the second half of the season since Coquelin emerged, he was a vital cog that was missing in Wenger's machine — that is why I'm optimistic of a positive result today.
For most of his career Harris was just another cog in a Steeler machine that seemed to win Super Bowls every week or so.
Has scored a couple of goals in each of his last two appearances, and should be a vital cog in the Arsenal machine, for the season in progress.
In the same way that Gini Wijnaldum was often the under - stated cog in the machine that made Liverpool tick last season, so too is Jean - Michael Seri the unseen, yet vital midfielder that world football seems to have only just taken notice oIn the same way that Gini Wijnaldum was often the under - stated cog in the machine that made Liverpool tick last season, so too is Jean - Michael Seri the unseen, yet vital midfielder that world football seems to have only just taken notice oin the machine that made Liverpool tick last season, so too is Jean - Michael Seri the unseen, yet vital midfielder that world football seems to have only just taken notice of.
The Ecuadorian ended the 2014 - 15 season as a seemingly trusted cog in Louis Van Gaal's United machine with a run of 13 consecutive Premier League appearances to see out the end of the campaign, helping secure that all - important Champions League berth.
Couldn't quite find the killer ball today, but still one of the most important cogs in the machine.
The worry is that, just like we did after a positive performance against Palace, we will simply regress back to the rigidity that has defined us this season, with creative players deprived of the right to free expression; artists reduced to cogs in an ugly, rusting machine.
It may accomplish some of its goals in some cities, but the initiative has also become another cog in the public relations machine of the governor's office.
Robert A. Kent, meanwhile, is another cog in the Cuomo bully machine, a general counsel paid $ 156,000 last year and a longtime state bureaucrat now working for the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.
But as the science progresses, it becomes professionalized, and there are all kinds of structures, and the administration grows, and I think a lot of young people don't like to be a cog in a big machine.
A third segment of the offspring won't be so lucky: They will be stuck trying to fit Species A's cogs in an otherwise Species B machine (or vice versa), like a square peg in a round hole.
Ordering that Davis not be executed, the court stated: «The defendant has met his burden of establishing his mental retardation... the cogs in the machine must come to a halt.»
Eric Kandel has focused on one tiny, little part of the puzzle and there have also been other pieces of research that explain one tiny, little cog in this giant machine that the brain represents.
Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.
Two of those books were published by Cato, while The Heated Debate was published by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), another cog in the climate denial machine.
It's when McDonagh takes it further than you dared expect that you start to notice the writing, and begin to see the delicate layers of dialogue and the tiny cogs in his machine.
Lizzy Caplan, Collette Wolfe and Lyndsy Fonseca all have their moments in the sun — and each makes the most of her opportunity — but it's clear that they are just cogs in the time travel machine.
The Riverside of this film might seem like a nice community to live in, but as depicted here, they are raving fanatics with no tolerance for anyone who might decide to do something as individuals, instead of being just another cog in the machine that drives the phony smiles and saccharine contentment.
The girls themselves, played by a who's who of up - and - comer starlets, have little more dimension than the ones who faded into the background of Gus Van Sant's Elephant; they're merely cogs in the movie's not - so - well - oiled machine.
At the center of the storyline is Sonny (Alan Tudyk), a robot who possesses a desire to overcome his rigid programming and become more than just another cog in a very large machine.
The MCU made the post-credits scene commonplace — it's no longer a cheeky Ferris Bueller trademark, but a cog in the Marvel machine that usually has one of two purposes.
Advantaged parents (the ones with political power) also hate it as they see the the schools and teachers they love lose their autonomy and become cogs in a centralized machine unresponsive to the particular needs and interests of those advantaged parents.
Rather than be a cog in the big machine, you can become an integral part of the S63's progress.
But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys — from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine.
That's where the smaller cogs in the wheel come in — and I'm going to say «we», as Reedsy is a part of the machine, and I'm a part of Reedsy.
Much of that time is wasted, but they are an important cog in the machine that is our economy.
It evokes Battlefield in a way, the sense of being one little cog in a massive machine of war, both important and yet not all at the same time.
Two more important cogs in the machine at The Last Of Us developer Naughty Dog have exited the studio, with two leads making the move to Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward this weeOf Us developer Naughty Dog have exited the studio, with two leads making the move to Call of Duty studio Infinity Ward this weeof Duty studio Infinity Ward this week.
Immersed in a steampunk world with stunning visual design, Cogs players build an incredible variety of machines from sliding tiles.
In our review, we called Papers, Please «a simulation of that moment that a cog in the machine's heart finally stops beating, or a kind of hidden object game where what you're mostly looking for is a glimmer of hope.&raquIn our review, we called Papers, Please «a simulation of that moment that a cog in the machine's heart finally stops beating, or a kind of hidden object game where what you're mostly looking for is a glimmer of hope.&raquin the machine's heart finally stops beating, or a kind of hidden object game where what you're mostly looking for is a glimmer of hope.»
The game starts with your character, that can only be properly described as yet another cog in a gigantic totalitarian machine, trying to escape the factory he works at, which is set in a rigid communist dictatorship, complete with pictures of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin on the walls, as well as lots and lots of hammers and sickles decorating the bleak interiors of the facility.
While the Kongs have no real use for any of the Cogs, by taking them to Boomer, he inserts them into a strange machine in his bomb shelter.
Mattingly's photographs give a look into systems of mining that support exploitive supply chains, in which the cogs in the machine work independently from one another without realizing the full potential of their destruction.
Add in the never - ending run of art fairs, and this looks like one more cog in a financially well - oiled machine.
Cogs in the Climate Machine — Jan. 2013 The scientists who write IPCC reports have so little authority that changing the word «systems» to «ecosystems» involves multiple layers of bureaucracy.
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