Sentences with phrase «from lack of purpose»

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Judging from the repeated references in the letters, clergy spouses» three major difficulties are: dealing with unrealistic expectations; loneliness; congregations» lack of a sense of urgent purpose.

... Discovery that the universe apart from man or before his coming lacks and lacked any purpose or plan has the inevitable corollary that the workings of the universe can not provide any automatic, universal, eternal, or absolute ethical criteria of right and wrong.11

Although the scope and number of links are certainly extensive, the collection?s lack of focus tends to detract from the site?s purpose.

It would also have a negative impact on the use of such resources by scientists working on other organisms — often motivated by hunches from other MODs — more casual users or those who lack significant funds, such as researchers at under - resourced institutions and those using such data repositories for educational purposes.»

Hidden family events and dynamics from past generations may manifest in our current lives as illness, relationship problems, addiction, financial instability, lack of purpose, depression, etc..

That it borrows heavily from classics like It's A Wonderful Life isn't actually such a crime — one suspects it unlikely the two will ever be confused — but the lack of a clear, unifying purpose leaves it wandering somewhat aimlessly.

As a result, we never really give a damn about their livelihood or purpose, resulting in the final confrontation between Frost and Blade resounding from the hollowness caused by a lack of creative process that dressed everyone up, but gave them nowhere meaningful to go.

The place where a film's soul should reside is instead crammed with a potpourri of familiar faces, executing (admittedly funny) distractions to keep your attention squared away from its over-arching lack of purpose.

I suspect this stemmed from the original photography, but I couldn't discern a logical reason for the lack of definition, as these occasional shots appeared fuzzy for no clear purpose.

To be blunt, it feels sometimes like a lack of purpose or voice, and that's holding back the company from becoming the next Netflix or even Hulu (who has their first truly great show in «Casual»).

[We can] reverse the current declining trend — a trend that stems more from weakness of purpose, confusion of vision, underuse of talent and lack of leadership than from conditions beyond our control.»

They left for a multitude of reasons, from family needs and responsibilities to medical and financial hardship, as well as a lack of purpose for being at college in the first place.

It's true that all - purpose schools can make it easier for kids to bounce from one interest to another, but the costs of that lack of focus are dramatic in terms of quality and the inability of schools to excel.

It's true that all - purpose schools can make it easier for kids to bounce from one interest to another — but the costs of that lack of focus are dramatic in terms of quality and the inability of schools to excel.

Perhaps one of the greatest tragedies of contemporary society lies in the fact that the child is becoming increasingly isolated from the serious activities of adults... Until school and society are bound together by common purposes the program of education will lack both meaning and vitality.

«Schools experiencing exceptionally rapid principal turnover, for example, are often reported to suffer from lack of shared purpose, cynicism among staff about principal commitment, and an inability to maintain a school - improvement focus long enough to actually accomplish any meaningful change.

Schools with abrupt leadership disruptions on average experience «significant negative effects» on student achievement.67 Furthermore, such schools «are often reported to suffer from lack of shared purpose, cynicism among staff about principal commitment, and an inability to maintain a school - improvement focus long enough to actually accomplish any meaningful change,» according to the Minnesota - Toronto report.68

Some critics argue that this lack of strong evidence stems from a general absence of purpose (Frechtling, Sharp, Carey, & Baden - Kierman, 1995; Guskey, 2003).

As you can see from the links, other members of the tablet community have found these devices lacking for general purpose use.

While it's far from a terrible game, and would probably even work pretty well for its intended purpose, the lack of the polish seen in previous games still shows.

If the location L is embedded in a continuous temperature distribution with a continuous CSD distribution, the same will happen for intensities in opposite directions when CSD is large enough, so that the net intensity goes to zero; unless CSD is purely scattering near TOA, this won't happen at TOA because of the lack of radiation from space (except for solar radiation, or for very tiny solid angles directed at specific objects, which can be ignored for our purposes here)

Now, you're getting into the real purpose of this site; keep the readership from being too hard on the Administration for lack of leadership on climate change.

In fact, certain of TEPCO's actions in the aftermath of the explosions have been confused and, some might opine, lacking discipline of purpose to the extent that expedient decisions have been made without proper forethought and judiciousness to avoid knock - on consequences: for example, the injection of seawater may have resulted in salt deposits sufficient to foul cooling flows in the lower regions of the RPV [reactor pressure vessel]; the liberation of hydrogen from seawater is more rampant than from freshwater and radiolysis of oxygen from the cooling water could provide stoichiometric conditions and ignition with hydrogen in the absence of air in the containments; and the latest and most recent announcement to deploy a nitrogen purge to the Unit 1 reactor seems yet another ill - explained and unjustified desperate measure».

But lack of space to expand in any of these three sites meant that planning for a purpose built book storage facility became vital, as the collection grows by some 3 linear miles per annum just from Legal Deposit books.

In so holding the Court stated that Alberta precedent is clear on the fact that lack of financial motivation does not, alone, mean that trafficking is not «commercial» where it is clear from the sheer quantity of drugs that its ultimate purpose is to be distributed for sale (at para 15, citing R v Marshall, 2012 ABCA 160 (CanLII) at paras 8 - 9).

But from the standpoint of judicial process, the failure was also understandable, for federal courts lack the resources to systematically identify all relevant international practice for the purpose of resolving 12 (b) motions.

Anoncoin was created not only for the purpose of strong user privacy, which was lacking in Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies at the time, but also to provide a cryptocurrency that could support an eventual crackdown from hostile governments and central banks.

Priced at # 179, it faces stiff competition from the likes of the mighty all - purpose Nexus 7, and while Google's offering lacks physical controls...