Sentences with phrase «elaborate systems of»

Known for videos depicting women engaging in elaborate systems of production that often harvest their own body, Mika shows us the set of her latest piece (and Biennial installation), «Cheese» and tells us the backstory of making the video.

Known for videos depicting women engaging in elaborate systems of production that often harvest their own body...

Of course, the cost of maintaining a checking account seems to keep increasing every year, and the only way to avoid the fees is through elaborate systems of automatic transfers and minimum balances.

Chimps stick to simple behavioural norms, but we humans, with our language skills and greater brainpower, have developed much more elaborate systems of rules, taboos and etiquette

But it's mostly an elaborate system of business education, teaching employees to understand — and take responsibility for — the numbers that govern SRC's financial health every week and every month.

Moments later, as if by magic, the product arrives at the retail counter, via an elaborate system of conveyor belts and dumbwaiters.

The community was to be made secure by an elaborate system of alliances based on a recognition of mutual interests and even by covenants with non-Muslims.

In responding to such questions the church develops an elaborate system of apologetic theology and of moral rules much like those against which Jesus and Paul protested.

There is an elaborate system of sensors and alarms now to give those down the mountain a heads up.

Chicago's new elaborate system of buoys and statistical models will monitor 16 of the city's 24 beaches, and Park District officials are seeking grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand the system to cover all beaches by next summer.

Pettit not only believes that the republican case for «counter-majoritarian protection» is «straightforward», but that the means of providing that protection should be through something like the elaborate system of checks and balances we see in the United States [4].

«Some governments conceal executions and enforce an elaborate system of secrecy to hide who is on death row, and why,» Guterres said.

Then they kept going, right into the water, and set up an elaborate system of underwater test tubes.

They're happily single, 30 - ish guys who, during «wedding season,» make lists of the nuptials they're going to crash, determining ahead of time what roles and pseudonyms they're going to adopt and following an elaborate system of rules.

And so the Lego people live in a state of primitive superstition, torn between their ambitious new leader — who reinvents himself as President Business, issuing an elaborate system of «instructions» that keep his citizens tightly confined to their respective realms — and the mysterious godlike entity whose hand can reach down at any time to rearrange everything according to his own design.

November 20, 2012 • The Gaza Strip has an elaborate system of smuggling tunnels linked to Egypt.

To achieve their version of the Utopian ideal, the Soviets executed a planned economy in the extreme; everything, from the amount of food that would be made to the quantity of clothes that would be sold in stores, was regulated and calculated according to an elaborate system of quotas.

Additionally, the «papers» and the expensive price tags leads the public to believe that there is an elaborate system of health evaluation in place, as well as a continuous chain of ownership from birth of the animal and intimate knowledge of the animal.

Marvel at Madeira's elaborate system of levadas (irrigation channels).

The resort's elaborate system of eight infinity pools overlook the beach, in case you want to venture across the pristine white sand and frolic in the Caribbean.

MileagePlus also has one of the most elaborate system of benefits for its frequent fliers.

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Steel beams form an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of 18 roadways, including one six lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks.

It was hung in a horseshoe shape in the oval gallery, suspended by an elaborate system of wires and weights (I realized after I proposed the project that there was no ceiling!).

Ptolemy's ancient elaborate system of «epicycles» — a brilliant design to map out the heavens — falls just short, placing the earth at its center.

It is an elaborate system of motivated reasoning crafted to defend a particular religious view.

As identified by the claimants in the Croker Island case, the sea is a significant part of an «elaborate system of laws and customs that had been substantially maintained to the present day».

In some parts of Australia, traditional sea country is constituted by an elaborate system of laws and customs that on land could be recognised as full beneficial ownership.

The claimants» evidence in the hearings of the Croker Island case presented the sea as part of an elaborate system of laws and customs that had been substantially maintained to the present day.

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On its face it's no more than an elaborate employee - suggestion system: propose a way of saving sales or administrative costs and get a little plaque.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

Those lawmakers accused Apple of setting up an elaborate system overseas to stash cash and avoid tax payments on at least $ 74 billion in profits between 2009 and 2012, facts that were uncovered in a Senate investigation on Monday.

The article elaborates that the rise of social networking and distrust of the current financial system increase the acceptance of virtual currencies.

For a few years, Stephen Harper viewed political strategy as something more than an elaborate system for the prosecution of grudges.

The Yoga system which complemented this basic world view elaborated a technique for the realization of the self (purusha) as independent of prakriti.

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

For better or worse, the elaborate investigation of, for instance, the connections between St. Paul's teaching on justification and the criminal justice system will be totally inaccessible» and, if accessible, implausible» to anyone within hailing distance of policy discussions about crime and punishment.

Since the God who appears here is patently a reincarnation of Kant's «master of the exclusive disjunction,» it follows that any attempt to interpret the system of Process and Reality as representing a nascent chaosmology will have to demonstrate that the theology developed in the later work positively supersedes and excludes, rather than, as Christian claims, «elaborates and defends,» the theology of the earlier.

According to Noddings, history (including philosophy, theology, politics, societal structures) up to this point has obscured the nature of the problem of evil because all systems for dealing with it have been created, elaborated, and promoted by and for males.

Also something most purveyors of this belief system conveniently fail to elaborate on, as they push their religion of cosmic chance.

Just before Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther in early 1521, the provincial theologian had elaborated his Ninety - Five Theses into a new system of theology.

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to which would only unnecessarily complicate comparison).

First, Whitehead complements Collingwood by not only constructing a concept of metaphysics, but also by elaborating a metaphysical system.

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

Collingwood did not elaborate a metaphysical system of his own, making some tentative endeavors in the manuscripts, «Notes Towards a Metaphysics,» «Method and Metaphysics,» and «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory.»

The sectaries of Qumran had made them into an elaborate system.

Rows of swamp white oaks are likewise arrayed in rectilinear plots or square planters fed by elaborate subterranean irrigation systems.

George Santayana (1869 - 1952) and A.N. Whitehead (1861 - 1947) were almost precisely contemporary philosophers each of whom elaborated a complete metaphysical or ontological system, the affinities and contrasts between which are of considerable interest (I am not distinguishing here between metaphysics and ontology as the terminologies of our two thinkers diverge on this in ways attention to...