Sentences with phrase «grist mill of»

The problem lies in the fact that the internet grist mill of gargantuan marketing campaigns by the newsletter community are now inundating inboxes with every other form of social media blitzkrieg designed to pump and promote designated junior names for a «fee,» which has been escalating sharply as the stakes behind «distribution» are recognized.

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We applaud this increased focus on providing «grist for the mill» of business growth - and for the grist provided by these two new reports!
Five - to fifteen - minute sessions of role - playing are usually long enough to provide the group with grist for the mill of productive discussion.
Some while back, Robert Jenson wrote «How the World Lost its Story «(FT, October 1993), and it has provided rich grist for many intellectual mills, including Steven D. Smith of Notre Dame Law School in an article in the Wake Forest Law Review.
Scholars of the Catholic doctrine on sovereignty and just war have been given new grist for their intellectual mills.
Insisting that what is important is not the amount of aid but its quality (a point of agreement with Edwards), Lancaster makes a number of sensible proposals for reform which are mainly of interest to specialists, and certainly grist for policy mills inside the Washington beltway.
No, Short insists, «The Ignatian discipline of the Society of Jesus gave Hopkins all the spiritual grist that his poetic mill could require.»
Knowledge about individual community leaders, the history and development of a town, the way decisions are made in its institutions and social groups, the deals being made in the world of politics and business, the norms and values in the arts and sciences, the presuppositions and operational concepts of the professions — this is grist for the mill of a core group which has the responsibility of planning strategy for the mission of a particular church in an American community.
Their bodies were grist in the mills of the Egyptian regime.
At any rate, there is an oddity in Whitehead's technical terminology that is grist for the mill of the Bergsonians.
The possibility of the 32 - year - old O'Neal's going to the Indiana Pacers (who need size) in a swap involving power forward Jermaine O'Neal (who's more mobile and seven years younger) has been grist for the sports - radio mill, though Lakers officials say such a deal has not been discussed.
Located in a charming turn - of - the - century grist mill, the Sodor Balloon Station is the perfect place to pick up a small gift.
For example, liberal groups are assembling examples of Trump's perceived sexism, with his years of appearances on reality TV and talk radio providing plenty of grist for the mill.
Heeding the maxim of his mentor and friend AJP Taylor that «every historian should write an autobiography», Ken decided that his should not be «grist to the mill of possible obituaries or the product of self - indulgence or vanity» but «an indication of how a working, writing historian went about his task at a time of sweeping historical change».
Ms. Noerdlinger's boyfriend problem is just more grist for the mill for Mr. Mullins and other union leaders, who are spinning the idea that the mayor's reforms are making the city less safe — Mr. Mullins going so far as to place a paid advertisement in newspapers urging the Democratic National Convention not to come to town because New York is «lurching backwards to the bad old days of high crime, danger - infested public spaces, and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.»
After all, cosmology provides grist to the mill for those looking for signs of a creator: what better evidence than a moment of creation such as the big bang?
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch Through the eyes of theoretical physicist David Deutsch, humanity's gravest problems become grist for the mill.
A hotly anticipated announcement regarding a possible signature of dark matter delivered some grist for the physics mill Thursday but failed to produce the blockbuster result some had predicted.
«What was originally designed as a defensive mechanism seems part and parcel of a grist mill occurring in tissues that destroys CD4 + T cells,» said Greene.
«Primitive, childlike sectors of the mind can be activated during the therapy, and these intense emotions should become grist for the mill,» he says.
Although there's nothing in here as America - hating as the Old Glory - murder from the last picture, The Hills Have Eyes II is nonetheless a pretty good example of a movie that hates the wrong parts of America while providing grist for the opposition mill.
For Ian, who pulls her aside periodically to sit for his preliminary sketches, Lucy is his muse, but also grist for the mill of his art — raw material to be used, stolen from and discarded.
Almost as shocking as its narrative — which tells the story of literally tens of thousands of children, and the terrible abuses they suffered after in many cases being told that their parents were dead — is the fact that it is hardly known in the United States, where tales of adolescent mistreatment and murder are typically seized upon with a white - hot tabloid fervor, grist for the mill of the 24 - hour cable news channels.
The execution of the standards - based educational vision has been uneven in quality, providing plenty of grist for the critics» mills.
Her story has proven to be both grist for the mill of traditionalists who enjoy any opportunity to take shots as Rhee, as well as discomforting to Rhee and her allies.
Chevrolet was coy, neither confirming nor denying the grist of the rumor mill.
And with war brewing between England and France, such a damning charge against Hamilton, an avowed admirer of the British, would be grist for the mills of the new anti-Federalist faction so entranced by everything French.
The perils and pleasures of island living, the limits to natural resources, and the echoes of war all provide ample grist for his mill... An episodic structure slows the momentum slightly, but it's a richly rewarding read nonetheless.»
Finding and publishing debut authors are the grist of any publishers» mill.
In the past, they've put out such research reports as I thought I wanted an ETF or how top ten active funds are allegedly better than index funds that for the most part tried to pass along marketing spin as serious research and provided us with plenty of grist for the mill.
According to David Anfam, «The key point is that Still grappled at firsthand with precisely those natural cycles — of the weather and land, involving growth, strife, and dissolution — that since time immemorial have always been grist to the mill of fable.»
They are all unique and have provided copious amounts of inspirational grist to my mill.
You have a situation in the art world that's become like show business; and, after all, if you're in the museum field, or if you're an art writer, there has to be a great deal of grist for your mill.
Exhibiting American art in a 19th - century grist mill, the Brandywine River Museum is internationally known for its unparalleled collection of works by three generations of Wyeths and its fine collection of American illustration, still life and landscape painting.
The reception also features a stone - grinding demo of the museum's water - powered grist mill.
it doesn't need to involve my SAW or AHH's AGW) that doesn't admit an obvious decomposition resembling Figure 10 of my poster, and instead has a component more like D'Aleo and Easterbrook's graph at WUWT that was mentioned here earlier, this ought to be excellent grist for their mill, as well as hopefully satisfying those objecting that SAW has nothing whatsoever to do with ocean oscillations.
The data we've gathered, showing that the sun rose on days N - 1, N - 2, N - 3, etc. might be grist to my Bayesian mill, but are useless for testing the hypothesis, since none of the data can falsify it — the hypothesis remains untested until day N dawns (or doesn't).
For example, it could be pointed out that the bogeyman of «Global Warming» or «Climate Change» provides grist for a number of different mills.
The installation of bike lanes, and the bikelash against them, has been grist for the mill of bike and urban design blogs for a while now, but in the last few days it has gone truly
This one comes by way of the folks operating the grist mill.
Examining the automatic penalty system under the freedom of establishment, the Court made a remarkable assessment which brings grist to the mills of those who see the Court applying the internal market law principles in a more prudent way in recent years.
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