Sentences with phrase «fickle nature of»

With apologies to Charles Dickens, a tale of two corporate office campuses underscores the fickle nature of real estate fads and the difficulty property owners face in convincing tax tribunals that standard valuation matrices may not apply in pro...

He spoke about the fickle nature of Indian voters and the challenges faced by political parties, «In the US house of representatives, the re-election rate is 92 % over the last 30 years, and if you look at India's lower house, the house that I belong to, the re-election rate is 26 % over the last 25 years.

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres and Inflatable Structures is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.

Perhaps this has to do with the fickle nature of video game music within games.

I was terrible at it, mind you - it was a difficult game that focused on precision of control and an unusual inertia - based movement system that wasn't done any favors by the fickle nature of the Flash platform.

A significant factor in the decline of cheat codes lies in the fickle nature of trends.

It's about as «scientific» as one can get, given the fickle nature of the economy and the evolution of individual markets.

These incidents are a reminder of the fickle nature of the stock market.

The investor should not be influenced by the fickle nature of the market to determine the true value of his shares, but rather do his own due diligence.

This agent added: «To us, this is a very slippery slope, considering the fickle nature of the business.»

The fickle nature of the market is rarely given its due.

It's as much a diatribe about the fickle nature of youth as it is a pure slapstick comedy, featuring a humdinger of a hipster prophet in the form of a footloose Greta Gerwig.

There is so much surface noise, from the casual nudity to the Skrillex soundtrack to the clear social commentary about the fickle nature of youth culture to the Mallickian overtones of slow motion montages set to Franco's slow drawl of «Sprang Break foreeeeeeeevah.»

It's abrupt cancellation suggests to me the fickle nature of the entertainment industry in the internet age.

It's abrupt cancellation suggests to me the fickle nature of

It's impossible to really harness the power of these machines in a useful way without error correction, she says — a technique that mitigates the fickle nature of quantum mechanics.

The laboratory spun off a company, Spirae, and built a futuristic, computer - driven test bed that could simulate the operations of a large power grid and instantly adjust for power fluctuations caused by the often fickle nature of renewable energy.

Many people don't have an extra 20 hours a week to enter job training programs, Wilson said, owing to the fickle nature of the North Country economy, where residents often have to patch together a string of seasonal jobs over vast distances.

On Sunday, Yuki Noguchi looked at the fickle nature of social networking sites» audiences, wondering if MySpace will meet the same fate as Xanga and Friendster before it.

We're one J.D. and the Straight Shot ballad about the fickle nature of the NBA beast from moving this team to No. 30.

Now, can we talk about the fickle nature of food photography for a minute?

One of the best examples of a company taking advantage of the fickle nature of younger generations is Under Armor.

Such is the fickled nature of athletics and player acquisitions.

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I feel that most people don't fully understand how fickle mother nature can be and how utterly dependent we are for our day - to - day supplies on a network of human cooperation that could easily break down in the face of catastrophe.

But the older sites» current cultural and technological irrelevance hints at the ephemeral nature of internet domination: in an environment as tumultuous as this one and as driven by the fickle human desire for the new and shiny, no hegemony is eternal.

It has always been the accepted convention that Labour voters (by their very nature) are a bit fickle and lazy and so are less likely to turn out in bad weather or the dark, whereas our supporters have a greater sense of civic duty and will turn out come what may.

After several years as a postdoc, I became weary of the perversely hypercompetitive, and somewhat fickle, nature of life as a biomedical researcher.

Of course, Mother Nature is fickle and we're bound to get some cold temps again but this week has been a nice break in the winter doldrums.

Though it's been labelled as the filmmaker's most impenetrable work, I'd offer that it's a crystal - clear representation of Herzog's belief that art is first ineffable, then essential, then fickle — that the pursuit of the muse is, in a Modernist sense (and the Romanticists are the wellspring for the Modernists), the only possible solution to the schism in us separating the things of Nature from the things of Man.

As they say, a film is as good as its story, and the incredibly harsh realities faced by the characters provide the basis for a compelling story - one abundant with paradoxes of life's fickle nature

But that is the attraction of the high tundra in the blowing Katmai Preserve, where nature can be somewhat predictable and the elements fickle, but fleet footed red foxes will pass you on the trail, and they always seem to know where they're going.

Even though Redondo Beach sees its fair share of sunshine, you never know when fickle Mother Nature may make her presence known.

They're actually fickle in nature, literally at the mercy of the wind to operate.