Sentences with phrase «from trivial»

For example, it's far from trivial to spend a long time arguing over a sofa or a plate.

She steered me away from trivial issues that were based on my emotions and helped craft a settlement that protected both me and my children.

Clearly, there is a sliding scale here ranging from the trivial to those habits that are very problematic, such as a major addiction.

This is far from a trivial matter, and the way Google deals with its growth into a global hardware company is going to be instrumental to the development of Android and will affect the balance of power between it and Apple's iOS.

There are now more than 300 skills for the Echo, from the trivial — there is one to make Alexa produce rude body sounds on command — to the pretty handy.

Freedom from trivial cases that waste lawyers» enormous creative human potential on what machines can do well enough.

Even without the potential loss of millions of pounds in trade with India, to whom Gordon Brown had to grovel last month, this is a far from trivial matter.

In other words, stuff is anything you have to deal with that requires a plan of action, from the trivial to the complex.

«Grievance procedures promptly alert corrections managers to problems ranging from the trivial to serious health and safety issues so they can take immediate action to prevent harm to inmates and fix problems, large and small, before they turn into federal lawsuits,» says a 2008 letter to Congress from 41 state attorneys general.

There have been internet libel law suits where judges have issued orders directing that anonymous internet bloggers are to be revealed in the full light of day, such orders are normally accompanied by protests from a trivial yet noisy family of rabid people who deem that freedom of expression should be absolute and unconditional & the speaker should not be held to account for their words, without consideration to the accuracy or deceptiveness of the allegations.

I've got a bunch of tech sites and features to talk about that range from the trivial to the not so trivial.

The models seem to be saying that temperature response is amplified twofold or threefold from a trivial first - order result, right?

The possible effects of the problem range from trivial and insignificant, to serious hardships of various sorts (well publicized by Gore et al), to utter catastrophe.

Determining which factors win overall is far from trivial.

Unfortunately, the task of correcting misinformation is far from trivial.

Standing alone, these proactive measures might be «far from trivial,» as Krugman puts it.

Rather It is that the temperature of the oceans varies between -0.2 degrees and +5 degrees (apart from a trivial ~ 3 % in the tropics and sub-tropics sitting on top in a tiny pool) but GMST is +14.6 degrees.

monty, You mean it is worse than when the team uses data upside down or extrapolates vast climate dangers from trivial changes in a derived average?

I wish you could demonstrate, in a powerful way, how a world in which the leatherback turtle has become extinct is a world in which entire food - chains collapse; a world in which human survival, even of the rich and powerful, is far from trivial; a world that has been robbed and plundered of such fundamental resources as clean air, clean water and viable ecosystems, that it can no longer maintain the top predators — humans.

However it is a very fine line when you cross over from trivial to important.

Themes range from the trivial to highly personal, and styles on display run from overpainted photographs of landscapes or people to abstract «squeegee» canvases.

Putting this criticism into context, it is important to note that, after 400 years of Renaissance - dominated aesthetics - which decreed that painters and sculptors produce works of art from exclusively noble (and thus highbrow) subjects - the idea of creating art from trivial, commonplace objects was irresistibly appealing to Dadaists and their heirs.

The featured imagery appears to be a component from a larger Greco - Roman scene, which is typical of the banal subject matter and second - hand imagery that Polke excelled at transforming from trivial into epic.

The questions vary from trivial matters about food and pop culture... Read More»

These range from the trivial camera glitches that see bumper cams clip through the floor, to major issues that see cars getting stuck together.

Parasitic diseases range from trivial to fatal disease.

However, feline ownership also comes with its own inherent risks, as cats can transmit an array of diseases to their owners, ranging from trivial to fatal ailments.

This is far from a trivial engineering problem.

They further found that higher turnover was associated with lower student performance on reading and math achievement tests, apparently because turnover takes a toll on the overall climate of the school.42 «It is far from a trivial problem,» the researchers say.

The gender gaps in achievement as students finish high school are far from trivial.

By the early 1980s, the percentage of unionized workers in government had skyrocketed from trivial levels two decades earlier to a robust 37 percent - where, as with teachers, it stabilized at a new equilibrium.

The details are especially important in a film like this where the time and place recreated are far from trivial.

From trivial to almost important topics.

Since it is a gentle and low impact exercise, it supports in recovery from some trivial heart procedures.

The root of it all, he came to believe, was poor health: If people couldn't recover from a trivial injury, or if they died from preventable diseases, then how could they be expected to live productive lives?

What Americans will quickly discover as they use this new tool, Rank said, is that for many, the future risk of poverty is far from trivial.

Bringing a scientific business idea to the marketplace is far from trivial.

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said Hammer was gunned down in cold blood, he was unarmed and defenseless at the time, and his death resulted from a trivial argument with the suspect.

Having read the Jason Cowley book yesterday, today was reading Charles Nicholl's The Lodger (where he digs up previously unknown facts about Shakespeare's life from a trivial court case).

Sudden starting when awake and also sudden awakenings during sleep, though they occur from trivial cause, it should never be disregarded.

The experience of tragic circumstances, of pain and loneliness can not help but turn our questioning from the trivial to the profound.

Everything is up for question and debate, from the trivial («Larry, now that you're CEO will you start wearing a suit?»

Unfortunately, we won't hear much about Echo on tomorrow's call, aside from some trivial data Amazon likes to share, during Thursday's earnings, Wingo said.

Not exact matches

So how can you separate the truly meaningful from the momentarily terrifying but ultimately trivial?

He called the new endeavor Obvious, a nod to a lesson learned from the success at Blogger — that seemingly silly and trivial ideas often look like great ones in retrospect.

Even one patent that effectively prevents a competitor from practicing a key technology generates immeasurably more value than a mountain of patents covering trivial or easily avoidable features.

Making sure the right ones get to the right places has never been a trivial matter, but the decision to narrow forecasting brought with it a gigantic leap in the amount of data that had to be processed each day, from 100,000 to 3.5 million data points --» demand forecasting units,» in supply chain speak.

The investment from a Relationship Investor is likely not trivial, but you won't lose them as a friend if things go badly.

Or perhaps it is merely that there is comfort from the stresses of life in the trivial.

Ms. Hebert referred to those «who get a sense of engagement from the very instant gratification of Twitter or Facebook», to which Mr. Coyne followed with how «the immediacy of social media... greatly enlarges the significance of incredibly trivial moment to moment events».