Sentences with phrase «for their flaws rather»

And generally that America was to be known for its flaws rather than its virtues.

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Federal investigators, however, blamed a design flaw rather than deterioration for the collapse.

Some Christians say that rather than try to change the world by voting in a flawed candidate, what Jesus really wants is for us to get out into the world and be the change we want to see.

By contrast, Atheists do not seek to punish people for their ideas on how the world works, but rather to let people know that their belief system is flawed; that the burden of proof is not on their side.

True church unity is achieved when each person recognizes that all other people have different tastes, desires, interests, and abilities, and rather than see these differences in others as weaknesses to be exploited or flaws to be fixed, this diversity is celebrated and enjoyed as part of God's plan and purpose for the church.

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But British football fans are the most cynical of the lot, and will leach themselves on to any detectable flaw within their grasp, with Hargreaves sadly remembered for his incessant injury problems rather than his delectable ability with a round size five ball.

On this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how: — our «flaws» are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids; — without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it; — without self - understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of «defensive parenting»; — we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and free our kids from repeating our stories; — the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts is that they can shed compassionate light on our old wounds and we can use this light to «heal» our inner conflicts, and pave our path for ourselves and our kids; and — doing this paving work «keeps our light on»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humanity.

The governor, in a statement, says he's chosen a panel to look at the «flawed» Common Core implementation and would rather wait for its results than to sign on to a moratorium.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers should consider lowering the stakes in order to account for the flawed rollout of the Common Core standards in New York, rather than removing the test scores from the ratings altogether, King said.

The emotional problem for perfectionists is not failure per se but rather the perceived meaning of failure: it implies a personal flaw.

«It is a highly evolved social skill essential for interpersonal relationships, rather than a flaw of character.»

In infants, it's probably a feature rather than a flaw: human milk oligosaccharides, normally valued only for their prebiotic qualities, get into the bloodstream to mop up and clear pathogens while the immune system is still in its, ahem, infancy.

My flaws will also be of annoyance to others and since I can't and am «too old» to want to anymore people please or try to blend in to perfectly do or fit in somewhere, I'll rather call it a day and concentrate to get the best of my flaws and share it with people who love me for me.

(Not to mention, it hides many a flaw, and its comfy elastic waistband is rather convenient for summer indulgences.

Try whenever possible to focus on the traits that you're searching for rather of flaws you don't want to need to handle inside a partner.

This is a game that is hard to recommend to many players, but those with a taste for the odd and an ability to forgive rather bizarre design flaws will find a good little game hidden under a film of potential inaccessibility.

Not that Miller hasn't inserted a few clues beforehand, or that the message (you can't really help others, on an individual or group basis, unless you learn to accept yourself first) IS N'T valuable or valid... but Mumble's hero's journey to to convince us humans to quit depriving them of all the fish necessary for their sustenance is flawed from a basic storytelling rather than a thematic viewpoint; it has a tendency to zigzag from point A to point Q while skipping Points B through P altogether.

The Belko Experiment opts for a cartoonish, histrionic treatment rather than a nuanced exploration of specific characters, a design flaw in the writing that ultimately proves fatal to the infrastructure as a whole.

Arguably, Zooey Deschanel's character Summer in (500) Days of Summer has been deemed a MPDG, although the movie can also be viewed as scrutinizing the archetype, since it shows the romantic failures of idealizing a woman, rather than accepting a woman for her very human complexities and flaws.

Terry Notary's daring work as a man living as a monkey (not too far - fetched considering his past roles in «Kong: Skull Island» and «War for the Planet of the Apes»), is the film's most enthusiastic and earnest scene that can stand brilliantly as a short film rather than a part of the film's ultimately flawed structure.

- Sailing is rather boring and uneventful - most of the puzzles either involve block - pushing or timers, so they're not terribly exciting - My last gripe is about the controls - The bow and arrow is hard to aim - That's just stupid - Oceanhorn might be a flawed, blatant rip - off of Zelda, but it's worth playing - it might not deliver finely tuned mechanics quite the way Zelda does, but it's still fun for all the same reasons

Despite the obvious adaptation flaws that make for a more unrealistic mystery — the ratio of discoveries Doc makes versus those that seem to just find him is rather disappointing — Anderson has crafted a two and a half hour dream sequence that is trippy but also diverting.

Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor have chemistry for days as best friends pounding the pavement seeking revenge, and one of the most exciting parts of «Tangerine» is that it does not necessarily portray them as nice women, but rather flawed, funny and fully - realized humans.

Prickly, acerbic, and not without its rough edges, it's an enjoyably dark humored film wisely settling for small moments of emotional realism rather than exaggerated dramatic flair or tragicomic satire of its flawed characters.

If there were a flaw to his performance, or rather written character as Cranston is not responsible for, it is that he never really struggles internally with the matters at hand.

At CEM, the other original baseline provider, director Professor Robert Coe cites the fact that the government wants the baseline assessment to be used purely for accountability, rather than formative information for teachers, as a key flaw.

Proposition 58 seeks to overturn this flaw in the system and build upon the natural assets of English language learners — their home language and culture — as the foundation for their education, rather than treating it as a deficit.

The 56 % meeting or exceeding standard for CA's grade 11 E / LA result was an outlier with blinking red lights that defies meaningful interpretation other than a grossly discrepant cut score (to the low side) or some other test development flaw (such as an inadequate item bank for a computer - adaptive test) or an error in the test administration or scoring process, or some weird effect due to the increased number of grade 11 students with scores since EAP moved from voluntary to mandatory in 2015 [which usually would involve a decrease in scores, a reasonable interpretation for the decrease in Math EAP scores this year, rather than an increase in scores].

Don — I would contend that the greater damage is not in lost time or money but rather with invalid unreliable unfair test scores in student records, to be misused for flawed placement decisions or other instructional decisions thus undermining any attempts toward providing a quality instructional program for those students.

The current delivery model that has been in place essentially unaltered for over eighty years is flawed because, in spite of all the good work done on standards and accountability in recent years, the system remains primarily «input» and compliance driven rather than «output» and performance driven.

For me, there are major flaws in these arguments, which I think place way too much faith in the wisdom of crowds (an oxymoron, in my opinion)-- but I think the anger about gatekeeping is an ideological issue, rather than a wholesale rejection of quality standards.

Might as well face doom on your own terms and for your own flaws rather than because your publisher made you add twinkly vegan vampires playing Quidditch to «make it more salable» — and then effectively told booksellers to ignore the book.

Rather than develop a complex, but flawed, analysis of risk... it's more helpful for an investor to think of «risk» in a simpler form: How much could I possibly lose?

Crashing could be eased by a good respawn system, and the system here is quicker than most at getting you back on the track, but like much of the rest of the game it's very flawed; often a respawn will skip out a large chunk of the track giving you an advantage rather than penalizing you for crashing out, and at other times the respawn just won't kick in.

So, God Mode is flawed fun in an arcade package, a package that I'd recommend picking up on sale rather than at full price, unless you're simply looking for a blastathon for you and your mates to kill some time on, in which case go right ahead and pick it up.

Despite being a rather enjoyable title in this gamer's opinion, the admittedly flawed first game Kaos developed for THQ, Frontlines: Fuel of War, didn't get the warmest reception from critics and, according to Bison, was «an incomplete experiment under pressure to ship.»

Which is often considering Wrecked's track record for rage inducing moments, not owing in any part to intentional gameplay decisions but rather to the glaring flaws already mentioned.

So for example, if something isn't communicated clearly, you may regard is as a «secret» you need to find out, rather than just flawed information design.

The hyper - smooth action mostly makes up for these flaws, but many people found it to be a rather plain yet infuriating game.

For Bianchic, imperfection is an «asset, rather than a flaw.»

Communication continues to be seen as a tool for dissemination and persuasion of some sort of ready - made knowledge (and even so with multiple flaws in the I.P.C.C.'s track record) rather than a knowledge - producing field.

If you do the same for 31 year averages, 32 year averages, 33 year averages, etc., on on through at least 70 year averages, you continue to find an indisputable trend of climate warming — even if you dismiss the land data as flawed because of the use of daily extremes rather than a more robust indication of the daily mean.

The question is, what was the EPA's basis for asserting that Mann was only saying it was flawed, rather than that was literally «pure scientific fraud»?

Proposing regulatory solutions rather than technological ones similarly motivated one side of the population to take it as a new justification for their political beliefs, and the other side to see it as an assault on their freedom and motivated them to find flaws in it.

If the general public doesn't understand this then it might be in part due to poor communication by climate scientists and journalists, but what the general public might believe is not the issue here — this is a forum for people who actually take an active interest in the subject so there should be an expectation that they are rather better informed than the average man on the street, especially if they are going to make confident pronouncements about the supposed flaws in the IPCC position (and other things).

The WWW is already too full of misinformation, especially on climate, and so those with theories they wish to promulgate really ought to submit their ideas to peer review to give a reasonable chance for obvious flaws to be pointed out, rather than promulgating them immediately to laypersons who might accept them without seeing the flaws.

So, the notion that the Lateran Pact is a rather recent and rather flawed basis for a claim to sovereignty is, at best, simplistic.

When you compare each candidate's flaws on a balance sheet, how on Earth could her flaws be worse than his — unless a substantial portion of the American electorate just couldn't stand the thought of being led by a smart, ambitious woman with experience and would rather vote for The Groper?

Further, as a recent study of the preference for non-litigious dispute settlement in the ASEAN investment context has persuasively argued, we should not assume that dispute settlement models that do not fit the European or western experience are flawed or indeed failures, but rather are independent and legitimate forms of legalization.