Sentences with phrase «dim view»

It is a privilege and courts take a very dim view of abuse of that right.

Most educators have a pretty dim view of what constitutes professional development today, and with good reason.

Lenders are taking an increasingly dim view of retail properties — especially malls — as the growth of e-commerce eats into sales at brick - and - mortar stores.

We all know that, with respect to fashion, the world holds a rather dim view of scientists like us.

A quick survey of global equity indices over the past year also supports this rather dim view of the Canadian investment opportunity set.

Where Cianfrance's emotionally raw 2010 directorial debut Blue Valentine offered an intimate and uncompromisingly dim view on the natural life cycle of love, Pines is far grander in scope.

She is profoundly deaf, and the barriers she has faced have left her with a very dim view of academic science in the United Kingdom.

I think they'd take a pretty dim view if someone were to come along — it's not really in our jurisdiction anyway — and say, «Well that's terrific that you've done it, but now we're going to pass a rule that says everyone can use that network and not pay fair rent.»

Madison schools are dominated by white staff, and the mostly white School Board and teachers union have a generally dim view of charter and voucher schools and anything else that veers too far from the traditional (white - dominated) model of Madison public education — even as that model has long been plagued by racial achievement gaps.

Assembly Republicans are taking an especially dim view of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office, hiring an independent investigator reviewing contracting under the Buffalo Billion, now under federal investigation.

A «comprehensive approach [to character education] is based on a somewhat dim view of human nature,» acknowledges William Kilpatrick (1992, p. 96).

Connecticut takes an even dimmer view of speeders: not only are you banned from riding your bike over 65 mph, in New Britain it's illegal for fire trucks to go faster than 25 — even if they're on their way to a fire.

The article, while somewhat enlightening, is a fairly dim view of bright performance in service towards Jesus Christ — without pay, and without clamor for recognition of decades of devoted service to men, women and children (another reason Mormons don't use their good works for personal gain or office — hence another strong reason for not wanting to discuss his service — but sadly critics tend to see the worldly side of it).

Linked to this is that most of the public, 54 per cent, do not feel they have a good understanding of the purpose of Britain's mission in the country and a majority also takes an extremely dim view of fi ghting for a government perceived to be corrupt.

Conversely, the law and economics movement (yes, it's a political platform as much as an academic one) takes a decidedly dim view of government and regulation, treating those things as sand in the gears of the market.

The speaker, a bald, bespectacled man wearing a tailored suit and expensive watch, takes a similarly dim view of conventional entrepreneurship.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

I of course can't say, but there are those who say that the big guy in the sky takes a REALLY dim view of this sort of hubris.

It remains to be seen how dim a view the Labour Party machine takes of his public courting of UKIP, but Neil Carmichael, who will fight Stroud for the third successive election for the Conservatives, has a simple message for the local electorate:

The stability control system — which in common with many SUVs can't be fully deactivated — takes a particularly dim view of any kind of slippage, positively slamming on the brakes when it detects any sort of traction failure.

It also has a «dim view mirror,» which we can only assume is a mirror into which you're meant to frown at stuff.

In reflective mirror mode, the electrochromic element automatically dims the view when bright headlamps shine on the mirror.

Light from cities or towns can travel to parks and dim the view from as far away as 250 miles.

(It takes an equally dim view of the non-lawyer partners, obviously.)

Helmut is back at work and feeling vindicated, but he has a lighter wallet and a much dimmer view of RECO and its employees than he had in 2007.

Amazon now seem to be taking a very dim view if you price books lower elsewhere.

Adam Smith himself took a pretty dim view of businessmen.

This kind of thing is just not as pervasive in other areas of the law, no matter how heated the conflicts get, and it's one substantial reason the public has such a generally dim view of the family courts and family lawyers.

However, parents do appear to be somewhat more responsive than other citizens to school poverty rates and take an especially dim view of middle schools, assigning them grades that are 39 percent of a letter grade lower than otherwise similar elementary schools.

Their C - suite bosses take an even dimmer view, estimating the wastage at 200 hours per week.

And it's there in Gustave's increasingly dim view of the world outside the hotel's grand entrance.

This was a high compliment, but Everson took a fairly dim view of it at the moment.

This is good advice if you're venting over email in light of the 11th Circuit's recent ruling in Rehberg, of which Andrew Moshirnia of the Citizen Media Law Project's blog takes an extremely dim view.

In Spanish culture, Tuesday the 13th is regarded with the same dim view and superstitious beliefs about ill luck that we have about Friday the 13th.

As far as independence, that stance takes a rather dim view of lawyers and assume we would not be capable of making ethical and responsible decisions with non-lawyers with whom we would like to split fees.

But they tend to take a dim view of outlandish and illegal behavior by their heirs.

Trump has taken a dim view of China's trade policies, and his administration could create a slow - down in Chinese investments in Hollywood.

Credit ratings agencies are likely to take a dim view of the budget.

And yet despite his dim view of capitalists, Smith remained a great fan of capitalism — or rather (since the term «capitalism» hadn't been coined yet) a fan of what he referred to as «a system of natural liberty.»

Courts take a dim view of businesses that go for years without ever objecting to another business going by the same name, then suddenly sue for trademark infringement.

I hold a dim view of most new technology.

«The World Heritage Committee will take a dim view of this decision, which is in direct contravention of one of its recommendations.»

Some analysts, such as Oliver Marks, the research vice president of digital and internet of things for HfS Research, take a dim view of the move.

U.S. regulators have also taken a dim view of zero rating, indicating in their recent net neutrality rules that any such efforts will be scrutinized for potential anti-competitive effects.

Some already have a dim view of Canada's future as a technology player.