Sentences with phrase «firm line»

The film's theme is that many adolescents don't draw firm lines between reality and fantasy.

But parents have to draw firm lines between right and wrong at the end of the day.

Only later did she lay down firm lines connecting these floating features.

Unless I am working on a brief, I draw a pretty firm line between 8 pm at 8 am or so.

After the 2010 general election, right - wing Tory MPs decided they lost because they were straddled with Big Society gobbledegook to sell on the doorstep, instead of firm lines on immigration and benefits.

«The head and her staff take a very firm line on pupil absence to ensure continuity of learning, so how do we justify to these same parents that the local authority can close a school?»

Silicon Valley is a unique environment where venture capital firms line the streets, share expertise and are unafraid of investing in the dreams of imaginative entrepreneurs.

The unit helps buyout firms line up funding.

«So what I would say back to Ken Livingstone and others who have made this argument that it's all a smear designed to just undermine Jeremy Corbyn, let's hope that these elections draw a very firm line under these arguments and basically knock it out, because the truth of the matter is there is a very real sense of rawness in the Jewish community.»

Karl Schroeder: RFID is the beginning of a change that will require us to draw very firm lines regarding issues such as ownership and privacy.

US, UK and Swiss firms line up as state - owned ChemChina buys Swiss agribusiness in its latest foray in Europe over past 12 months

Law firms line up to advise as Brazilian striker becomes most expensive player in football history

Heavyweight UK and US firms line up on BBA Aviation's acquisition of Landmark Aviation from the Carlyle Group

UK firms line up alongside Irish counterparts on what is set to be one of London's biggest IPOs in years

It's no surprise then that there are already other firms lining up to hire ROSS.

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We think European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi's firm line on resisting pressure to adjust the central bank's accommodative monetary policy is the correct one.

If you are implying that Neufeld thinks that sexual abuse is acceptable on some level, or that his approach doesn't involve drawing «firm lines between right and wrong,» you are mistaken.

Though investors and analysts sometimes question fast - casual chains about the cost sacrifices they may be making by holding a firm line on their menus, Shaich isn't dissuaded.

As has been the case for a number of years in Europe, the political backdrop remains uncertain, and this is one of the reasons we think President Draghi's firm line on resisting calls to adjust the ECB's accommodative monetary policy is the correct one.

The world of most African Christians doesn't have this firm line between the world of experience and the transcendent world.

Of course, Western theology has made its peace with the Enlightenment, the fundamental assumption of which is that there is a firm line between the empirical world and the transcendent world or spirit world.

«So, it's not easy, I accept, for the government and the courts but if things are going to improve in any country the courts and government have to take a firm line.»

And my eye retraces the outline of a face to see behind it the firmer lines of a younger face that I knew «way back when.»

The goading from fans was not going to change the firm line he previously took when he said there was «zero percent» he'd try to drive the 17th green this week.

Centre manager Karen Keenan says assessments, including residential stays of an average of 12 weeks, make no assumptions about whether children are likely to be «better off» with mum, dad or both, but take a firm line that fathers are important: «We start from the point of view of the child, and over many years we've found that often it's the father, rather than the mother, who is the more competent or promising parent of the two.»

It doesn't prevent a meltdown, but it does give me a firm line to hold.

Children might get upset when you set a boundary like No hitting, but as that child grows, realizing you are also stopping him from being hit by others, he will appreciate this firm line.

Bafflingly, he announced it without a firm line on whether it would make it into the manifesto.

Rather than tackle in detail the thorny problem of drawing a firm lines between selves and objects, the authors propose that a subject exists when there is the possibility of intersubjective recognition between us and that subject.

The committee also drew a firm line on international efforts to halt climate change which sidestep the UN.

The foreign secretary adopted a firm line towards Iran, warning it had no right to spark a «nuclear arms race in the Middle East.»

It may be that «there is a firm line» between vegetative and minimally conscious patients, «but our tools are too crude to tell us who is on which side of the line,» he says.

A firmer line of evidence for supernovae in Carina came from another researcher's 2009 identification of an ultradense stellar remnant called a neutron star there.

For the worker bee, life is given over to the grim satisfaction of striking a firm line through a task accomplished.

To test to see where we draw a firm line?

The abstract works in these years underwent a further change with a retum to compositions, with firmer lines and a chromatic range that favored primary colors, making clear reference to Mondrian: Manhattan Beauty, and New York City Beauty (both 2001).

Its display blurs, as it should, firm lines between artworks and artifacts, giving both equal significance as objects of our moral attention.

Roxy Paine's works raise existential questions about our place in the natural order and the extent to which we can draw a firm line between the processes of nature and those of technology.

Finally, there's a sense that any firm line between painting and sculpture is, for this determinedly unconventional and unsentimental artist, merely notional, if it ever existed at all.

Return to Function surveys contemporary artists who make functional objects that verge on «the designed» — from vehicles to clothes to mobile studio units — which happily confirm that the once - firm line between fine art and the applied arts is indeed dissolving.

Despite the criticisms, it is clear from some recent developments that the Department of Energy has taken a firm line in some cases.

While others offer developers meek incentives to do better, Portland drew a firm line 25 years ago with no sewer and water services beyond it.

Striking the balance between being a good listener and facilitator on one hand and taking a firm line when needed on the other is very much the core art of being a mediator.