Sentences with phrase «entire apparatus»

In fact, on just such important issues the entire apparatus of biblical scholarship is of remarkably little assistance.

One of Pius VII's wisest decisions was to name Ercole Consalvi his secretary of state, creating this layman a cardinal — Consalvi was ordained a deacon at the time — and putting him in charge of virtually the entire apparatus of papal governance.

The most troubling of these were vibrations of the entire apparatus that resulted in spurious microscopic variations in the distance between the two mirrors.

This is enormously risky and, frankly, hubristic, since nobody yet has any idea whether these standards will be solid, whether the tests supposed to be aligned with them will be up to the challenge, or whether the «passing scores» on those tests will be high or low, much less how this entire apparatus will be sustained over the long haul.

Because high - stakes testing is so central to the entire apparatus of the corporate educational reforms that are being forced upon us — and because of the overwhelming evidence of the invalidity and injustice of using the tests as they are presently being used — we are publishing Pencils Down: Rethinking High - Stakes Testing and Accountability in Public Schools.

Named for Douglas Crimp's 1977 «Pictures» exhibition at New York's Artists Space, the group came of age by questioning the entire apparatus by which images from mass media determined, rather than merely described, our experience of the world.

For Nora Schultz the entire apparatus of offset printing looks, as she calls it, The Discovery of the Primitive.

Environmental program grants alone from just 25 of the most activist - oriented environmental foundations total $ 850 million annually, almost three times what conservatives spent on their entire apparatus.

But instead of helping them get it, virtually the entire apparatus of the global aid system — the UN, the EU, the World Bank, the aid agencies, individual donor states — is pushing them instead to adopt unreliable, environmentally damaging and prohibitively expensive renewable energy, such as wind and solar.

It's amazing how effectively vehicles work when, should a single moving part among hundreds fail, the entire apparatus will fall apart.