Sentences with phrase «for weak writing»

There is a crippling naïveté among many religious writers (and even editors) that saintly intentions compensate for weak writing.

Not exact matches

Perth - based Automotive Holdings Group will incur a $ 35 million write - down hit from the closure of some of its underperforming businesses, in response to the weak market for car retailers combined with recent regulatory changes by the corporate watchdog.

Billionaire investor Stephen Jarislowsky, whose firm manages $ 35 billion in assets, wrote an op - ed for the Financial Post that says higher taxes on capital gains would, «hammer another nail in the coffin for Canadian investments, particularly at a time when our economic outlook is already relatively weak.»

«The verdict is in: relative to expectations, the cycle is weak, and total iPhones sold are likely to be flat for the third straight year,» Sacconagahi wrote in a report on Friday.

Some of her writing has criticized the SEC for what she views as weak cost - benefit analyses.

Today's review for downgrade considers that much weaker industry fundamentals have potential to warrant rating changes» for those companies, Moody's wrote in a press release.

As Miguel Helft writes for Fortune, that's partly due to the company's reorganization around mobile, which critics once bashed them for being weak in.

Levi writes that as a justification for enhancing domestic and North American oil production, «the underlying argument is weak.

Germany underperforming makes the entire eurozone look even weaker, with Italy, France and Spain all written off as saviours for the region.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

They dwell on the weak, mainly males looking for power over their women and those looking for easy salvation by following the crap written in Quran (f..

In a song that is at once poignant and cruel, Bob Dylan wrote one version of John's denial: «You say you're looking for someone who's never weak but always strong / to protect you and defend you whether you are right or wrong, / someone to open each and ev» ry door, but it ain't me, babe... / It ain't me you're looking for.»

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

Voltaire, for example, writes thus to a friend, at the age of seventy - three: «As for myself,» he says, «weak as I am, I carry on the war to the last moment, I get a hundred pike - thrusts, I return two hundred, and I laugh.

«Ultimately the weakest will be hit three times over,» Ryan writes, «by rising costs, by drastic cuts to programs they rely on, and by the collapse of individual support for charities that help the hungry, the homeless, the sick, refugees and others in need.»

The bible was written to control the gullible, weak - minded fools and you have fallen for it... such a weak mined stance to take.

Write your list for each position you feel we're weak, for those that you want / should be sold.

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

Mr Tony I read yesterday someone wrote here and criticise the team and to some point the manager on his selection of the team.The languagge he choose maybe soft yes for my likes but fair is fair he touched the weak points.

«This is always good for a laugh and helps your child feel more confident, because it means they are not always the one who is smaller, weaker and more helpless,» DeBenedet and Cohen wrote.

In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

Community colleges are also equipped to provide English language training for immigrant and refugee students, so they are a good starting point for strong students with weak skills in spoken and written English.

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

Writing in 2014 in the European Journal of Neuroscience, Leuner and colleagues reported that in rats with symptoms of postpartum depression (induced by stress during pregnancy, a major risk factor for postpartum depression in women), nerve cells in the nucleus accumbens atrophied and showed fewer protrusions called dendritic spines — suggesting weaker connections to surrounding nerve cells compared with healthy rats.

Several explanations could account for the weak association between economic growth and reductions in child undernutrition, the researchers write.

This involved writing computer codes that calculate what weak gravitational lensing should look like for a given model.

As Siega - Riz wrote in a recent review of Hariâ $ ™ s book: â $ Raw milk, which means unpasteurized, can carry dangerous bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, which are responsible for numerous foodborne illnesses, especially among people with weak or developing immune systems, young children, pregnant women and older adults.â $

I've been writing about this for a while — mostly on the basis of fairly weak indirect evidence because there's very little research on the health effects of wheat vs. other grains except in celiac patients.

The plot is weaker than some of Marvel's more recent stories (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier), and the villain is the biggest mustache twirling megalomaniac the studio has yet produced, but what it lacks in completely solid writing it makes up for in its wonderfully charming cast, an impressive use of special effects, and at least a baby step forward as far as female supporting characters are concerned.

In the wake of a relatively weak opening for Jennifer's Body, Variety reports that Cody has just signed on to write and produce a movie based on Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High teen book series for Universal Pictures.

Francis Coppola's (he dropped the «Ford» in the»80s) Life Without Zoe (34:19) is the film's insignificant weak link, although it is noteworthy for being the first writing credit of Coppola's daughter Sofia, who has since blossomed into an esteemed director herself and an original screenplay Oscar winner.

Besides writing scripts for Horrible Bosses and Spider - Man: Homecoming, the Daley - Goldstein duo made their weak splash into directing with the 2015 flop Vacation.

For whatever reason the respective film fails: perhaps the writing was weak, the direction went horribly wrong, or all the ingredients needed to make a great film, hell even a good film, simply were not there.

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (genre mechanics with a gift for narrative momentum but weak on story) write and produce but don't direct (Jimmy Hayward gets credit there), and this dull mess could really used some of their hairbrained excess just to make it interesting.

But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a win if she were considered in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead category for her work in

But for Paramount, she would have a better chance at a win if she were considered in Supporting Actress against comparatively «weaker» competition (a dubious claim in itself), especially with the writing on the wall that Natalie Portman would be running away with the Lead category for her work in Black Swan.

Just because Farrell's Martin is criticized for writing weak female characters doesn't exactly let McDonagh off the hook for wasting both Abbie Cornish and Olga Kurylenko.

And while writing for games is still pretty weak, for the most part, filmmakers seem happy to sink to the levels of the games (or even lower, in some cases), rather than elevate the material.

There are coloring activities for the little or weak ones as well as writing activities for the older or stronger students.

For example, the SIG program was written such that SEA had no power to tell districts which of the four «turnaround» models to use (and of course, most districts then chose the weakest models).

«Even a weak program may be better than no program at all, as can be seen in the results for whites,» Cascio writes.

«Despite having the highest levels of educational attainment of any previous American generation,» writes ETS's Center for Global Assessment Director Irwin S. Kirch in the report's preface, «these young adults on average demonstrate relatively weak skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology rich environments compared to their international peers.»

Written for use with weak EAL pupils but of use to any children just starting the reading scheme.

Writing instruction for teacher candidates: Strengthening a weak curricular area.

Remember that motor skills of children with learning disabilities are often weak, provide dotted cursive writing paper for ease and guide the child's hand.

And for the students who need remediation, Hall has a granular understanding of what parts of math or reading or writing they're weak in.

Despite the fact that his party had control of both legislative houses this year, the most McDonnell managed to do was to pass the voucher - like tax credit plan (which has been criticized for only allowing those providing scholarships to poor kids to write off a mere 65 cents of every dollar spent, or less than similar plans) and a weak charter school expansion that has only allowed four new charters to be opened this past school year.

I feel awkward using my own weak words to describe what he does — but for me he was writing about what was happening now as if it were the future but with so much compassion and feeling.

For example, some students are creative and write imaginatively but do poorly in history because weak memory skills prevent them from retaining facts.