Sentences with phrase «failed visions of»

I'm reluctant, because of the failed visions of communism, and equally dubious ultra free market Ayn Randian visions.

But the NAACP and the AFT have found themselves on the same side — and in the same pit as others with failed visions of American public education.

Not exact matches

You will succeed or fail based on how well you are able to execute your vision — and that requires a lot of «do».

Also, on the flip side, if management fails to share the vision of its leaders, there is a potential for staff to feel dissociated from the vision from the top.

Buchanon paid a team of developers to create Tappish, but the project never matched his vision, took too long to develop, and upon its release, failed to gain traction.

While fatigue with the left is on the rise, many of the region's charismatic leaders have a connection with voters that their right - wing opponents, who so far have failed to present an alternative vision of the future, are hard - pressed to replicate, he says.

The broadcast failed to set any records — apart from just being the first of its kind — and feels as much like a desperate move by Yahoo (YHOO) to remain relevant as it does a ground - breaking vision of what TV could become.

After several failed attempts at taking control, Brian came home one day and pitched a vision to Cherie of what their family's lives could look like without the debt.

Sellers fail to understand the buyers that have done research have a vision of the features or capabilities they feel are needed.

They fail to realize the critical importance of forging a team of people that are willing to dedicate their lives to turning the founder's vision into a truly self - sustaining enterprise.

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Yet, those with the lack of vision failed to realize that power and now I think we have gone to a level of overconfidence in writing the epitaph on global oil demand.

Tocqueville (whom Owen inexplicably fails to call a conservative) presents a rival vision of religion in democracy.

Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»

What should have been a journey of 11 days became a journey of 40 years because they failed to remember the vision.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

When to his observation that, though he liked the main thrust of my Man's Vision of God he failed to find in it any discussion of sin, I replied «I have a paragraph on sin,» his comment was a simple, «A paragraph!»

The social vision of John A. Ryan failed to penetrate the institutions of theological education, and the Protestant split between theology and «application» was mirrored in the cleavage between the Thomistic education mandated by Leo XIII and the televised pastoral assurances of Fulton J. Sheen.

When we plant in a hurry, without freedom of vision, or with a poor funding system, we are more likely to fail.

When there is more talk of heaven in novels, television shows and pop songs than in sermons, Christians must shoulder some of the blame for the fact that visions of life beyond death fail to include God.

When the citizens of a republic or a civilization become merely self - interested (or equally worse, interested in nothing at all) the center fails, and chaos conquers — until a man rides in on a white horse and reestablishes an order based not on nature or on God's will, but on his own subjective vision of the world.

What public conversation did take place occurred within a legal - moralistic framework, a framework that fails to persuade when we lack a vision of what it means to be human.

This singularity of vision means that we have failed to make a positive case for children as a social good, a sign of a society that is vibrant and alive, a source of joy, and a sign of hope.

If one of the eye's millions of parts fails, we lose our vision.

Stories abounded of hard - pressed couples for whom the «rhythm method» had failed, and Pope John XXIII's vision of openness to the world had become for many Catholics a desperate desire not to be seen as «old fashioned.»

How can a civilization that fails to make provision for the next generation» or even to bring about the next generation at all» hope to give a compelling account of itself before a world of competing visions of the human future?

The philosophy of scientific materialism fails to provide a cosmological vision sufficiently grounded in the value orientation needed to promote a life - centered ethic.

Pleas know — I am not trying to put anything in your wound... I am one that made it through my pit (Psalm 40) I stopped blaming circumstances and spent many hours mad, crying, angry all the stuff at God... I don't know why or how but I ended up in helping situations during the hardest time... it was crazy... I spoke at churches that were driven — failing and those not driven thriving (but those thriving had vision and direction) but not driven to the point of believing they were the best or anything like that.

When the church gets too busy chasing that vision and failing to adapt to the changes in their lives for the sake of the «vision», then it becomes that thing that is, [â $ œdemonicâ $, â $ œkills lifeâ $, â $ œmurdersâ $ â $ ¦ etc].

If one adopts a nihilistic perspective from the very start, this will avert the kind of disappointment that utopians experience when their visions inevitably fail to become fully actual in history.

He states: «It could be argued that the Church herself is in part responsible for this in that we have failed, since the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s, to explain attractively and imaginatively the alternative vision of life and love that Jesus has taught and which he promises is the true way to human happiness and eternal life.»

Although I am not entirely happy with Smith's recent books on science and religion, especially since they fail adequately to appropriate evolutionary thought, I think there is value in his own hierarchical vision and his critique of the epistemology of control.8

Although Brisman's stated intent is to bring some sense of relationship between what are often viewed as separate literary strands, his reading fails to present a compelling vision of Genesis.

It was an appropriate conclusion to a genial evening in which the Catholic side, while largely failing to engage directly with opposing arguments, presented its vision much more coherently than in the Intelligence Squared debate of last November.

Tracy describes Helou as a «visionary leader» but at the end of the day the vision failed to adapt to reality.

Also you said barring Chambers they've all failed for you.Ok now that's your opinion.I for one think Gibbs, Wilshere and Ox haven't failed but are blighted with injury.A player like Calum Cahmbers is getting worse on the bench.He needs to play for us to see his real quality whether he's the real deal or not.We need to know.He should go on loan or be allowed to play more next season.I also don't want to see Mertesacker in the line up again.What a terrible leader he's been and I said terrible leader not player though I don't rate him he's ok.Arsene must have proper foresight and vision for this current team to succeed and that's what he lacks.Also mentality of players is terrible I don't even know how to describe it.We have small boys mentality in al most all games we play.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Cazorla, like most Spanish players of his generation, is a diminutive little creative midfielder, with great vision, and with all talk of how we have failed to replace Fabgregas, Cazorla would be perfect for us right now.

Dr. Whitten is an anesthesiologist that acknowledges that most physicians, nurses, medical students, paramedics and respiratory technicians are trained to ventilate and intubate their patients, yet this training has become compressed into short teaching sessions that fail to teach tricks of the trade, or offer that mental vision for achieving success.

We are so focused on a vision of a particular kind of perfect child that we fail to see the actual creature mucking about in his or her natural habitat.

«Our vision is to be able to take action against any individual in a firm, not just the approved ones, and for the director of a failed bank to not be able to easily reapply as director of a financial institution,» he explained.

That is indeed true, to date, however, they have failed to provide a clear vision of how such vision shall be delivered, not least because of the fear of the disapproval of their increasingly Eurosceptic electorate.

The NLC, which accused Dr Nkrumah of unbridled dissipation of the country's wealth and dictatorship, failed to continue with his lofty vision and handed over political power to the Progress Party (PP), led by Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, after elections in 1969.

But Ireland offers a bleak vision of what happens when politics fails.

Speaking on Tuesday night on a radio platform, Politics, on Trend FM in Asaba, the former lawmaker who is now a member of the All Progressives Congress, noted that Okowa had failed to deliver on his campaign promises owing to «lack of vision and planning.»

«The Government has consistently sought to portray GCSEs as «broken» and «dumbed down» qualifications in order to push through its vision of an elitist, narrowly focused curriculum and qualifications system which risks failing to meet the needs of the majority of young people.

Their apparent goal and that of the Democracy Alliance was not just to help Democrats win elections but also to break with Clinton - era centrist politics, which they criticized for being too accommodating and for failing to articulate a clear progressive vision for the country.

Mr Cameron has been criticised for failing to come up with any formal policies in his first ten months as leader, but today he insisted he had created a «vision of a Britain we want to see» and that, for the moment, was enough.

Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder (and husband of failed NY - 19 candidate Sean Eldridge) who bought «The New Republic» in 2012 and precipitated the greatest staff exodus in the magazine's history, announced that he would be selling the company, saying it needs «new leadership and vision.»

«I will not approve a [state] budget that fails to realize the vision Mayor de Blasio and I share of providing high - quality, universal pre-K to the 50,000 4 year olds who need it,» stated the Senator.