Sentences with phrase «grand visions for»

What bride (and groom) doesn't begin with grand visions for this special day?

For example, some attorneys choose to enter into small firm practice for the flexibility it provides while other attorneys enter into small firm practice because they are ambitious and have grand visions for the future of their new firm.

But like many of the grand visions for «new green cities», from Abu Dhabi's Masdar to China's Dongtan, it must be recognized that these plans rely on the fickle and extremely resource intensive world of international trade and tourism for their survival.

ISB serves as the ultimate environment where scientific collaboration stretches across disciplines and across academic and industrial organizations, where our researchers have the intellectual freedom to challenge the status quo, and where grand visions for breakthroughs in human health inspire a collective drive to achieve the seemingly impossible.

Steve Jobs initially had grand visions for iAd, but the platform hasn't been one of Apple's smash successes.

While some do have grand delusions that they're destined for greatness — a prophecy that's often self - fulfilling, interestingly enough — for the most part, they generally don't have grand visions for their companies.

It's an approach built on not a grand vision for the future of music but a deep understanding of industry dynamics and of how to exploit them profitably.

Heraud has a grand vision for Blue River Technology, which raised a $ 17 million Series B in December 2015, primarily from agriculture - focused investors.

The challenge is to create a grand vision for how to put these datasets together and use them in new ways, as Amazon has done.

Composed of over 25 prominent members in the payments space — including the likes of ACH, NACHA, and SWIFT — the IPFA promotes a grand vision for creating a global payments framework that facilitates interoperability and efficient cross-border payment processing.

Many new business owners have a grand vision for their ventures and see the goal without focusing on the steps needed to «get to success.»

We don't threaten or bribe people into the Kingdom of God, but simply lay a grand vision for what life could be like with Jesus.

But Cuomo has not laid out any grand vision for a second term.

At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January, the AURA committee presented a grand vision for HDST as a revolutionary general - purpose observatory of broad appeal.

The studio and producers weren't keen on Soderbergh's grand vision for the film — which was to shoot it in the style of a documentary and include interviews with real - life pros.

For a while, that seems like it could be the focus of the film, as it jeopardizes Ben's grand vision for a non-profit society.

Peter Molyneux, one of the game developers for the Fable franchise, always talked of a grand vision for the morality system along with many other ambitious ideals that failed to see the light of day.

It seems like the developers had a grand vision for what this game would be, but they couldn't execute it.

So we came up with this grand vision for what this thing could be, and to their great credit, the folks at Microsoft said yeah, let's give it a go.

The strategy lays out a grand vision for decarbonizing the nation by 2050.

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

Ask most lawyers about their firm's strategy, and they'll think back to that time when the firm's leadership team took several meetings and at least one offsite retreat to come up with a grand vision for the firm, eventually expressed in a handsome bound document that now occupies the rarely accessed top shelf in their office.

But if you don't have one at all, and you want in on Amazon's grand vision for voice computing, then this is probably the right place to start.

Not exact matches

For now, MacMillan seems to be enjoying his second lease on professional life: he may be pursuing a grand vision of the future of digital media, but he doesn't act like a guy in a hurry.

For all the grand visions of men on Mars, SpaceX's pitch is straightforward: The company says it will send your satellite into orbit for as little as a quarter of the going raFor all the grand visions of men on Mars, SpaceX's pitch is straightforward: The company says it will send your satellite into orbit for as little as a quarter of the going rafor as little as a quarter of the going rate.

We certainly can't expect it from our governments; despite our nostalgia for grand visions like universal health care or landing on the moon, they have become the road to political suicide today.

More than a decade after Teilhard's phrase «everything that rises must converge» had been on English - speaking lips, the debut of Telstar, the first of a shining silver constellation of communications satellites, established a quotidian engineering footing of sorts for the grand mystic vision.

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

So it's not a place to feel guilt for not achieving that grand vision.

«Thus, devotion to the truth about man, regardless of the consequences for traditional preconceptions about the races, leads the scientific inquirer to facts that sustain the grand democratic vision of a ground for fundamental human unity which is simultaneously the source of personal variety and singularity.

The simplistic gospel of being saved from earth for a home elsewhere in heaven has been replaced by a grand narrative of God's redemption story that encompasses social justice, creation care, and a fresh vision of the mission of the global Church.

If man is to have any hope which may be said to partake of the quality of eternity, it must be one which can be related to the much grander vision of God's purpose for his universe as a whole.

Do we only criticize scientists who draw inferences for the meaning and purpose of human life from their larger visions of the cosmos and our place in the grand narrative?

They were both befuddled and angered by Jesus» relative freedom, by his morality rooted in a grand vision of the respect for personhood and the abundant grace of God, who loves us like a doting parent.

Adulation has come at last to Detroit's Thomas Hearns, and if his grandest visions of glory become reality, that will be bad news for Ray Leonard

Formula 1 bosses and the FIA have presented their latest vision for the future of the sport to all 10 teams ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend.

Thank you so much for your grand vision; I am inspired.

Sometimes these are on a grand scale: visions of a rich and harmonious future, or plans for control and domination.

Candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Willie Obiano said of his vision that «i am here to ask for my reelection to enable me complete my project.

The $ 3 billion vision for Manhattan's Penn Station includes more light, a new grand entrance, added retail and office space and even a hotel — all part of the plan to transform the cavernous rail hub that Cuomo called «a blight on the greatest city in the world.»

Two architecture students from Columbia University have won a design competition in which applicants had to present their vision for the future of the Grand Concourse.

She said she accepted McMurray's offer to work as his assistant because she «truly believed in his vision for Grand Island.»

In Obama's vision, entrepreneurial energy, aided by NASA grants, will unleash the creative genius needed to invent the technologies for future grand expeditions.

Instead, when the neutrino results emerged, theorists rushed to propose addenda, including grand visions of new forces and extra dimensions, that could account for the Opera findings and keep relativity intact — much as relativity elaborated on Isaac Newton's model of physics but did not invalidate it.

This year's Grand Challenge competition spurred advances in laser sensing, computer vision and autonomous navigation - not to mention a thrilling race for the $ 2 - million prize

Vision's Grand Theorist Eero Simoncelli has an eye for mathematical truths that explain human vision — and he's adept at translating that knowledge into practical tools such as image - compression technVision's Grand Theorist Eero Simoncelli has an eye for mathematical truths that explain human vision — and he's adept at translating that knowledge into practical tools such as image - compression technvision — and he's adept at translating that knowledge into practical tools such as image - compression techniques.

«Much of modern developmental biology has a bias for grand visions of form and structure.»

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Pay mind to all of your belongings, assessing whether they fit into the grand vision you have for your home.