Sentences with phrase «draws upon things»

The culture of safety draws upon things outside the smaller community.

A third - grade passage about turning tree sap into maple syrup, for example, is more likely to control for background knowledge and draw upon things children study in school (plants and trees) than a passage on the same test about snowshoeing.

Not exact matches

Similarly, an organization is going to want to draw upon the relevant ethical principles, as well as its own basic ethical structure, consisting of things like its Code of Ethics and its Mission, Vision, and Values statements.

For example, against both dualism and reductionistic determinism and in favor of the pancreationist, panexperientialist view that the actual world is made up exhaustively of partially self - determining, experiencing events, there is considerable evidence, such as the fact that a lack of complete determinism seems to hold even at the most elementary level of nature; that bacteria seem to make decisions based upon memory; that there appears to be no place to draw an absolute line between living and nonliving things, and between experiencing and nonexperiencing ones; and that physics shows nature to be most fundamentally a complex of events (not of enduring substances).

That is what I propose to discuss here: not from the viewpoint of Sirius, as the saying is — that is to say, with the lofty detachment of an observer seeing things from so far off that they fail to touch him — but with the anxious intensity of a son of Earth who draws back in order to be able to see more deeply into the matter and spirit of a movement upon which his happiness depends.

Three issues ago, and then again in the last issue, he's devoted «The Back Page» to persuading us that most modern men and women, even the faithful among us, find it hard to think of nature as morally purposeful, and therefore won't be persuaded by arguments that draw upon a robust notion of what things are for.

One thing I love about being part of a blogging community is the way we can draw upon each other's work and resources to advocate for our common goals.

For instance, when a person sees a clock, only a small number of neurons become active, enough to do pattern matching that draws upon the brain's memory of a clock and compares it with the object's basic features — its round shape, the presence of numbers — to draw a conclusion that this thing is a clock.

The first thing that you'll notice is that there's not a great deal of clinical research to draw upon with this food.

Among other things, the movie makes a convincing case that the Indian tradition was one explicitly drawn upon by Charlie Patton, one of the giants of Delta Blues.

This may be Keaton's most brilliant performance in years, perhaps ever, channeling into Riggan's own ups and downs as an actor to draw upon his own quest for a comeback to relevancy in the hearts and minds of a public that only sees him as «that guy that did that thing», and nothing more.

BL: I think the first thing to draw attention to is the lack of awareness that teachers had of the significance of history upon Indigenous students» success in schools.

One of the best things you can do for PBL is to draw upon the expertise of a teacher librarian to coteach alongside the classroom teacher.

For one thing, its unique selection of materials and colors draws upon the world of luxury boating for inspiration, and rather than conventional passenger doors, it features two massive, upward - swinging «gull - wing» doors, with no real B - pillars.

Other authors have strengths or assets they can draw upon to get things rolling (an MFA from a prestigious university, a friend in a high place).

So while the idea behind a HELOC is that you can draw upon the funds as you need them, your ability to access that money isn't a sure thing.

The last thing any purebred animal lineage needs is total lack of genetic diversity to draw upon to create future generations.

The first thing everyone has naturally leap upon is how the game's lead character looks nothing like Mel Gibson, prompting me to believe that the game is going to draw heavily upon the forthcoming Mad Max: Fury Road movie in which Tom Hardy plays the role of Max.

Sometimes it is small things, like how lighting a candelabra doesn't illuminate the room with flames but rather a child's drawing of flames upon the wall, or how touching a piano sends everything in the room floating up into the air.

The first thing someone notices about Aldridge's work is the electric color palette of the hyper - stylized world, but upon closer inspection, a darkness reveals itself from the beautiful deadpan model-esque character, drawing you in to feel some empathy or compassion for her both bleak and beautiful situation.

Rendering, modeling, shading and all the other methods that we associate with traditional drawing — things that Guston could do well — were no longer called upon.

Her works draw upon differing cultural, sociological and especially geographical features between Europe and America: «What surprised me most about Los Angeles was the one thing I had imagined there would be little of and that was clouds.

Based in Newcastle - upon - Tyne, Adam creates simple, stylish drawings of people and things for brands and publications such as Goodhood, Liberty, Cat Footwear, Diesel and Red Bull.

In Wahl's drawings what appear to be large formal renderings of gems, upon closer and more intimate inspection open to reveal not a «thing», but a place.

The drawings from the Vision Cloud series possess a personal note as they are based upon Franziska Furter's own observations from «her Cloud ``: Visual adjustments from her daily life seen out of the corner of her eye, for example of things remembered, of things vanishing, of speed or mist.

Drawing upon the tradition of 18th - century travel books, Smithson here presented «anti-monuments,» tributes to suburban sprawl and urban growth that exemplified the decay and deterioration of all things: «One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason.»

This work draws upon the patterns and motifs used by Persian rug makers, especially the way Afghani weavers use the rug to record their experiences more literally with vivid images of the war torn land that surrounds them.This collision between the old and the new, fact and fiction, surveillance and invisibility, is part of a strategy to reflect on the global order of things.

Like Alexa, you can ask Google Assistant basic questions, at which point it'll draw upon Google's 20 years of search experience, or you can use Assistant to control Internet of Things devices with your voice, though the selection of compatible devices is slim at launch (the speaker launched in late 2016).

Here's the thing though — if you are newly graduated and don't have a lot of experience in employment, this may not work for you unless you are very clever with words and can draw upon achievements from your studies.

«I want to know that when we were tested by life's challenges, that we pulled together to face them as a people; that we drew upon the best of what we had, to find positive solutions to the things that have tested us along the way.»

The interesting thing about that is that most, if not all, appraisers relied upon the accuracy of all of the real estate sales representatives» calculations regarding square footage numbers as noted within the listings of the «sold» properties drawn from the MLS when using same as comparables within those calculation grids of their report documents.