Sentences with phrase «drawn back from»

He began to draw and paint fragments — shadows on an open page, a curtain drawn back from a window — reducing the physical world to a few large shapes defined by strong color.

Has Fried drawn back from his initial dismissal of theater?

In the wake of the financial crisis, the bank has drawn back from its investment and overseas units, selling off assets to concentrate on consumer and commercial banking on home turf.

So I draw back from the kinds of statements you might find reassuring.»

It is all the more remarkable that even Paul draws back from absolutizing such injunctions.

Dr. Ford wonders why Whitehead, at this point, drew back from his magnificent portrayal of God.

If I draw back from Him now, it is not likely I would have been any different then.

Even to contemplate a drawing back from empire — something so inconceivable to our pundits and newspaper editorial writers that it is simply never considered — we must specify as clearly as possible precisely what the elected leaders and citizens of the United States would have to do.

Why, after rhetorical gestures in that direction, does the General Synod draw back from any such proposal?

But soon we shudder and draw back from their grasp.

The word of God, he says, calls man and draws him back from self - idolatry.

... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one deniesâ $» all this is indispensably necessary.

He draws back from the display of his power, even though his miracles are performed to show people that the kingdom is near.

It is many years now since, after one (very happy) year at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, I drew back from the ministry as my own vocational goal.

All biographical decisions are murky, but this one was essentially simple: I felt that I could not be a Lutheran minister unless I could fully assent to the definition of the faith as stated in the Lutheran confessions, and I drew back from this role because I doubted whether I could give such unqualified assent.

We may well draw back from such an undertaking, which can seem almost godlike in its pretension to mastery.

He is always charitable in his appraisals and quick to acknowledge his share of the responsibility when things went wrong, but he does not draw back from incisive judgments.

First, some say that just as a loving parent must sometimes withdraw from a child to let the child grow and mature, or just as sometimes a loving parent must draw back from a rebellious child so that the child can learn through pain what they have failed to learn through instruction, so also God, as a loving Father, withdraws from us at times for similar reasons.

However, it's easy to also see why the home side are above evens, given that they've enjoyed a mixed record against the other top sides in recent encounters, with Manchester United taking a 0 - 0 draw back from Anfield last month.

It is a process of normalising the activity — perhaps making a breastfeeding selfie something that people do, rather than draw back from.

Nevertheless, the Electoral Commission report into these elections drew back from their earlier recommendation because its research showed that a large minority of people wished to retain the option of voting at polling stations.

Then Russia invaded Crimea and NASA drew back from most joint operations.

But The Golden Circle drew itself back from targeting one figure in particular: then - Presidential - candidate Donald Trump.

It draws back from the sharpness of the humorous sequences, lingering too long on the illuminations of each of the protagonists, and the constant worrying that each of their problems entail.

Here though, we drew back from endorsing practices or philosophies.

Draw it back from oblivion for just so long as needed: When a privately run charter school adopts the exact same measures public schools wanted but you rejected, now call it «innovation» and throw money at the charter.

«To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality.»

I was close to getting wage garnishment till I spoke with this company, but should I fear any draw backs from dealing with this company?

Abstraction survived because it did draw back from the edge — or, with Rafael Bueno, from flatness.

I could draw back from Jackson Pollock and his all - consuming density of line, maybe just long enough to pin a witty and appreciative phrase on it.

In drawing back from the edge, erasure becomes revelation.

He draws back from the currents of realism or Modernism, while bridging them both.

In Step Out (2016), Semmel doubles the image as a means of expanding both the background and foreground of her compositions so that her figures appear to simultaneously enter and draw back from the viewer's space.

Not exact matches

In a high - energy speech that drew many laughs, the outspoken 65 - year - old said she's found that the ability to bounce back from hurt, rejection and disappointment is the No. 1 predictor of a person's success in business.

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

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«Resiliency allows you to bounce back from failure and face pain, challenges, and even temptation, head - on without drawing back,» says Wittman.

The 1,603 - page bill, negotiated by Republican and Democratic appropriators and leaders, drew Democrats» ire when they discovered it would roll back the Dodd - Frank law due to go into effect next year by killing planned restrictions on derivatives trading by large banks, allowing them to continue trading swaps and futures in units that benefit from federal deposit insurance and Federal Reserve loans.

«It's good news but a very large but a very large proportion of this improvement came from people who left the labor force - labor force participation has declined significantly and therefore the effort to draw them back into the labor force is a structural issue.»

In that context, the Labo could tap into parents» desire to draw kids» attention away from screens, at least a little bit, acting as a kind of bridge from the digital world back into the real one.

Bargaining for Advantage, the book by Wharton professor G. Richard Shell, often backs its arguments with tidbits drawn from psychological research.

In an email from UZI NYC co-founder Mari Gustafson, the brand stated that they named the dress «refugee» as a way to draw attention to the crumbling global economy back in 2007.

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

With a new lens and some added direction from a research study on collective intelligence (abilities that emerge out of collaboration) by a group of psychologists from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Union College, Project Aristotle's researchers went back to the drawing board to comb their data for unspoken customs.

But during a press conference on Aug. 15, he reverted back to blaming the violence on both sides, drawing criticism from members of his own party.

In addition, McDonough also served as the deputy national security advisor, advising President Obama during the Iran nuclear negotiations, the draw - back of US troops from Iraq and the search for Osama Bin Laden.

Last year Maker's Mark drew brickbats after it announced that it would reduce the proof on its signature expression from 90 to 84 (proof is twice the alcohol percentage) as a way to make supplies last (it backed off).

That would've been enough to send most major brands back to the drawing board to reconsider its content strategy but, as this new MacAskill video illustrates, its years and years of content creation combined with a rock - solid commitment and confidence in its strategy prevent it from being easily scared.

The study drew on data from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18 to 34) at a time when homeownership for Americans under 35 years old is at its lowest point in the history of Census recorded data dating back to 1984.

So we went back to the drawing board and bought new towels in a broad selection of sizes and textures from a kitchenware shop and low - priced restaurant suppliers.