Sentences with phrase «devolves from»

If there is a perception that necessary information is lacking, it devolves from making an investment decision into pure gambling based on chance.

Frankly, I can't blame them for being mad, and it sounds like we're on the wrong side of the fight, but Alex dives in head on, and the story devolves from there into cliché soldier versus madman territory.

Another meaning of rollover is that the investor devolves from a charge and moves the positions to the subsequent delivery date.

As slow and uncomfortable as anything I've seen on the big screen, the movie devolves from stylish satire into off - the - wall endurance challenge.

An opening scene in which Cross literally dodges a bullet a second or more after it's fired kind of sums up the action trajectory, which eventually devolves from bad police procedural into a bad «Dirty Harry» copycat.

For the eighth - century Isaiah the understanding of Yahweh as holy devolves from history.

It's as predictable as gravity: From the beginning, every religion devolves from primitive purity to decadent ritualism.

Because of this — and some other awful reasons — this election devolved from a competition of ideology into a comparison of scandals.

It's always amusing to watch Boof Deacon's posts devolve from smug, arrogant piety to spitting bitter and hateful words towards the very people he claims need his message.

Let the all - knowing and all - powerful government do it all so we can sit here and devolve from caring nation to one that expects its butt to be wiped.

This may change in the future, should agreement be reached on further powers being devolved from Government.»

In 1999, powers were devolved from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly, and Northern Ireland Assembly.

He is a so - called metro Mayor with additional powers devolved from central government over local transport and housing along with social care and business investment.

The mayor would be elected by voters in the metropolitan boroughs of Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, and act as chair of the combined authority as well exercise additional powers and functions devolved from central government relating to transport and housing and planning.

Simultaneously, the rise of academies and free schools has left many core responsibilities devolved from local authority control.

Many powers - like education - have been devolved from Westminster, and are the responsibility of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments

«Mutually helpful species become competitors in benign environments: Species relationships devolve from jointly beneficial to competitive in benign environments.»

We have devolved from those...

Sorry, this comment devolved from a simple question about whether to take Align whilst treating with oregano oil or wait till after.

They quickly devolved from recognizable real - life case histories (that were mostly as pathetic as their victims) to being replacement boogeymen, mad obsessives always one step ahead of the law.

They are victims not of fate but of an overheated screenplay, and Gino and Bénédicte devolve from characters who determine their own destiny into ciphers who arouse more pity than sympathy.

Cage's image has devolved from amusingly unselective star to flat out laughingstock.

Many years ago now, the writer Larry Gross predicted that the term «indie» would devolve from the designation of an actual economic position within the film industry to pure marketing speak.

However, in a film about a teen with Down syndrome who has suffered a tragedy and is searching for something that doesn't exist, the circumstances rapidly devolve from quirky to creepy to preposterous.

Like a couple in need of a powerful fix, they soon discover they need action (Annie more than Bart) as they devolve from robbing grocery stores to banks.

The scenes involving Joe Manganiello's bad - ass mercenary Burke is directly devolved from the Predator template, and those early sequences involving the introduction of the gigantic wolf «Ralph», are amongst the most graphic, and in a strange way some of best - staged and most enjoyable.

The premise of director Michael Winterbottom's series has devolved from moderately diverting to actively stifling.

In this movement, some researchers saw democracy in action as power devolved from the state to local schools, sometimes culminating in outside stakeholder involvement.147 Many contentions about site - based management, community control of schools, community schools, and school choice were based on democratic and communitarian theory.148 Some researchers and policy makers influenced by economic theory have begun to view the relationship between schools and communities differently.

We are disappointed with the way this round of PSC has devolved from a nationally recognized reform effort to a process where defenders of the status quo have sought to sideline external operators with proven ability to serve students, including charter schools.

However, since the base engine had devolved from a 2.0 - liter turbo four - cylinder to the rather grim, 2.5 - liter five - cylinder, we moved up to the turbo - diesel.

But true tactical options soon dry up, and levels quickly devolve from non-linear spaces into elaborate, broad corridors - and then into simple, narrow ones.

The video games, on the other hand, seem to do the opposite, as among the decades we've seen Sonic devolve from an ambiguous character into the pure Mascot object that makes something like Sonic Boom so horrifying.

Youngman's performance offered much - needed respite, although as it devolved from a lecture into a strangely stereotypical stand - up comedy act («So, who's from Chicago?»)

The»60s, a decade of radical change in America, devolved from its beginnings and the national idealism of the Kennedy era into a sort of cultural madness that, by the end of the decade, saw three heartbreaking political assassinations, massive student unrest, a bevy of seemingly intractable social problems and the Vietnam War.

The title of Nari Ward's exhibition, TILL, LIT, at Lehmann Maupin gallery is a pun that works in several valences, each devolving from how you read the two words.

In the decades since, art that critiques modernist abstraction has become a seemingly permanent fixture, always finding new adherents (not unlike pop music subcultures such as hardcore punk that devolved from radical statements to stylistic options), while Neo Geo, the movement that brought Halley to prominence, has been installed in nearly every art historical account of the period.

There are often injunctions against questioning authority, as all authority is seen to devolve from the supernatural — just as it did for the shamans of the early agricultural era.

Name any one of the inquiries that didn't explore the questions of lies affecting the science, the «rotten apple» of the spread affecting the science, or the conclusions being affected in such a way as to alter the narrative or policy devolving from it.

Sandy quickly lost intensity after passing over Cuba, devolving from a category 3 hurricane to a mere extra-tropical storm before strengthening again to a weak category 1 hurricane.

In in that narrower sense, within a state power is not devolved from an authority outside the state but from the voters of the state.

Assuming for the moment that there may be justification for protection against signal theft at the international level, the WIPO treaties have, over the years, devolved from an attempt to address that narrow issue into a free for all that could grant broadcasters a sweeping set of rights.

However, over the past couple of decades, the objective has gradually devolved from being a vital resume component to being antiquated and hopelessly outdated — particularly in the ways that most people incorporate them.

However, experts caution that progress will be limited if funds are not devolved from the Scottish prison system, consistent with a justice reinvestment model.

National rates devolve from many local markets thus, there is a clear relationship and, while national rates do not mirror any given local market, they encompass virtually all of them.

Not exact matches

But as my experience demonstrates, democratization quickly can devolve into anarchy — making it difficult for learners to find advice from a true expert.

The head of Catalonia's devolved government Carles Puigdemont, told the BBChis administration would declare independence from Spain «at the end of this week or the beginning of next.»

While we brainstorm new ideas and explore higher - level issues, we prevent the session from devolving into discussions of daily challenges.

The White House has insisted that it made only a «stylistic» change to the intelligence agency talking points from which Rice suggested on five Sunday talk shows that demonstrations over an anti-Islamic video devolved into the Benghazi attack.

It's a healthy reminder (and one that could save many a political conversation from devolving into an unproductive shouting match).

This boss wanted people to like him, and as a result the organization quickly devolved into a chaotic state that it never really recovered from.