Sentences with phrase «distinct place in»

It gives each element of a series its own distinct place in it, instead of lumping the last two together in one hasty breath.

Africa has had a rare yet distinct place in popular science - fiction, from the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey, depicting the mysterious appearance of a black monolith in the cradle of civilization, to the recent success of Neill Blomkamp's debut movie District 9, a multi-layered allegory on South Africa's recent internal and external tensions.

Showcasing works from artists such as Paulo Bringhenti and Vasco Araújo has won Galeria Baginski a distinct place in the Lisbon gallery map.

The Wii has earned a distinct place in the history of video games not only for its tremendous sales numbers, but also for its innovative technology.

Separate and equal, but also integrated: notwithstanding its distinct place in the campaign structure, the Obama new media team worked directly and daily with the their colleagues in other departments.

And we may suspect that Rousseau's claim that the experiment could not be «tried innocently» unless it were known in advance that orangutans were themselves human may be less sincere than his playful willingness to contemplate — in the name, of course, of research — acts of bestiality that would deny any distinct place in the creation to humanity.

As political risk analyst Ian Bremmer points out, those beliefs are vital to keeping America's distinct place in the world.

«The sense that pictures occupy very distinct places in culture,» wrote curators Richard Birkett and Stefan Kalmár, «and reveal a vertical «strata of representation», has been replaced by fluid, maybe even liquid, modes of accumulation and aggregation.»

Not exact matches

If Verizon can receive preferential treatment in next year's wireless auction, or purchase a competitor that Telus can not, that places the Canadian company at a distinct disadvantage.

But even if the Word of the Year quickly fades into obscurity — actually, particularly if it does — the fact that it was selected in the first place captures a distinct moment in our culture as reflected through a group of lexicographers and dictionary consultants.

«You could certainly write a book on why the US has yet to see a federal paid - leave policy — but the answers essentially come down to two distinct cultural elements at play in the US: the values we place in individualism and business,» she wrote.

And in place of the standard fitting system, which relies on cup and bust size, the company uses 10 distinct measurements, including nape to waist, bust point to bust point and the length between the armpits.

While there were certain allowances (some would call them «loopholes») to avoid or mitigate this exposure, there is no doubt that such a burdensome tax regime placed American startups at a distinct disadvantage and discouraged international expansion, especially early in a startup's life cycle.

A place to start is to improve the organization's insight as well as intelligence in two distinct areas:

The Trump administration's plans to impose $ 50 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports, as well as tariffs recently placed on imported steel and aluminum and on imports of solar panels and washing machines, mark a distinct break from decades of U.S. trade policy, which long has generally favored lower tariffs and fewer restrictions on the movement of goods and services across international borders.

It's easy to think that markets have been on a steady grind higher during this period of low volatility, but when we look more closely, we find that there have been distinct, dynamic and evolving trends in place.

I should point out that biblical studies has a distinct advantage over theology when it comes to finding a place in the university, since it is a historical discipline which can and often does just as well locate elsewhere — for instances in a department of Near East studies.

In place of accepting a basic ontological dualism between «act» and «potency» as distinct metaphysical principles at the root of being, he suggests that for material existence the concepts of «act» and «potency» or «matter» and «form» can be seen as two aspects of just one single complex of contingency.

The utopian nature of globalism insists on the possibility of multiculturalism, which is to say people of different cultures living in the same place while maintaining their distinct identities.

By maintaining the integrity of the Christian community in the face of the dominant culture, churches can rediscover the means to embrace new members from the margins of their culture, forming a commonwealth in exile, a distinct and enticing place of renewal.

place, at sacred times, through sacred persons as distinct from a profane, «unholy» people, and the adoration of God in spirit and in truth is not, indeed abolished, but radically relativized.

In the presence of the three intrinsically distinct, intelligible, and existentially necessary primary notions of temporal passage, modality, and order together with their derivative relations, and in the absence of any successful reductions known to me of one of these to the others, I am inclined to regard a synthetic metaphysics of time which has a place for each of the nine cells of the matrix as the only kind which could be adequate to all the facets of timIn the presence of the three intrinsically distinct, intelligible, and existentially necessary primary notions of temporal passage, modality, and order together with their derivative relations, and in the absence of any successful reductions known to me of one of these to the others, I am inclined to regard a synthetic metaphysics of time which has a place for each of the nine cells of the matrix as the only kind which could be adequate to all the facets of timin the absence of any successful reductions known to me of one of these to the others, I am inclined to regard a synthetic metaphysics of time which has a place for each of the nine cells of the matrix as the only kind which could be adequate to all the facets of time.

Further microevolution within these distinct subpopulations produces the more observable morphological features readily distinguishable as two distinct species, however, the actual speciation event took place in the initial microevolutionary change.

Because midterm elections take place in distinct races, 472 of them this year, rendering a national verdict involves administering a very rough justice.

And third, it assumes that time is distinct from the world, that time is a container, as it were, in which objects are placed.

However, low - intensity conflict is a globalwide strategy played out in distinct ways in places like Angola, Afghanistan, and the Philippines.

Instead, it provides a basis for the «freedom of Dasein» — the word Heidegger uses for the distinct human place in the world, the thereness of our existence, the condition in which Being is truly experienced rather than merely conceptualized.

What is needed is a change in perspective, one that places participation on a foundation that is truly distinct to Christianity, one that takes seriously the limitations of the individual voter and the decreasing political influence of Christianity, and one that affirms the Sovereign ordination of the democratic regime under which we live.

Dispensationalists therefore have a distinct place for Jews in their scheme of salvation — they need to be around in order to be converted and to populate the kingdom at the eschaton.

Aristotle lays out the difficulties that the ordinary understanding places in the way of his conception: the actualization of the cause of the process seems to be distinct from that of the object of the process, for the one is an effecting, the other a being effected.

Implied in the Thomistic approach is that a distinct divine intervention takes place every time the sacramental rite is performed.

It is necessary to remember, in the first place, that two distinct worlds were brought together for the first time within the Islamic Society: the ancient and diversified Mediterranean tradition of Rome, Greece, Israel, and the Near East; and the original civilization of Persia with its distinctive pattern of life and thought and its fruitful contacts with the great civilizations of the Far East.

In John's perspective, what happens on Calvary and what takes place afterwards in Joseph of Arimathea's tomb are not two events, separate and distinct from one another, but a single act in the divine drama of salvatioIn John's perspective, what happens on Calvary and what takes place afterwards in Joseph of Arimathea's tomb are not two events, separate and distinct from one another, but a single act in the divine drama of salvatioin Joseph of Arimathea's tomb are not two events, separate and distinct from one another, but a single act in the divine drama of salvatioin the divine drama of salvation.

I'm so thankful I live in a place that has distinct seasons.

Erickson has single - handedly made her hometown one of the most exciting places to eat in the country while becoming one of those chefs, like Chang and Batali before her, whose distinct design sense and cooking style, ahem, shall we say, inspire others.

Third in the Premier League with second place a distinct possibility, not to mention their upcoming Champions League semi-final against Roma which they are well capable of winning — it could be a special season if they manage to reach the final in Kiev, where anything can happen.

The other 14 teams in the league find themselves placed in 3 distinct tiers

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It says a lot about the distinct political character of the Northern Isles that the second placed candidate in the Orkney constituency in 2011 was an Independent, local councillor James Stockan.

These disparate voting patterns in cities across the country point to the distinct concerns and outlook of different urban areas, driven by divergent economic fortunes — and therefore the need for greater variation in policy - making to address the needs of different places.

But carbonaceous chondrites are known to have formed later than other meteorites — so it was possible that their peculiar isotopic chemistry reflected changes over time in the disk, rather than a distinct place of origin.

For 130 years palaeontologists have been working with a classification system in which dinosaur species have been placed in to two distinct categories: Ornithischia and Saurischia.

New Guinea is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, with more than 1000 distinct languages crammed into an area not much larger than the state of Texas.

The experience places Woidislawsky at the nexus of two distinct quandaries in clinical research: What health information do researchers owe the volunteers in their studies, especially when it's not clear what it means?

Shocks to the grid But that pace of growth has placed a severe strain on the country's vertically integrated utilities, according to Japanese energy experts, who say the surge in solar power threatens to overwhelm the country's transmission and distribution systems, which since the 1950s have been organized to serve each of the 10 distinct distribution areas and are not bound together by a robust transmission system.

Scientists and philosophers traditionally place our higher cognitive powers in a realm distinct from that of our senses and actions, but, Aziz - Zadeh observes, the faculties «are intrinsically tied to the flesh.»

So when it came to building a brain center like the hippocampus that can recognize places, there might have been only one way to wire those quirky neurons together to do the job — and evolution arrived at that same solution multiple times independently, just as the genetic instructions for wings evolved multiple times in distinct lineages.

They found two distinct kinds of place to live in and adopted two ways of life.

With further experimental analysis, the scientists identified two distinct genetic variants that resulted in these sensitivity differences, suggesting that in crowded places, wild C. elegans populations with a specific genetic variation adopt different behaviors than those who don't.

«Our research examines how moral values of empathy and justice have distinct influences on people when they are asked to make donations benefiting others whose choices have led them to an unfortunate place in life,» write authors Saerom Lee (University of Texas at San Antonio), Karen Page Winterich (Pennsylvania State University), and William T. Ross Jr. (University of Connecticut).