Sentences with word «hairsplitting»

Born roughly between 1960 and 1980 (the precise years are the subject of endless hairsplitting), they're now at an age when they have families, homes, mortgages, cars and maybe even investments, with the oldest of them in their peak earning years.

As such I am in CC's camp that too much hairsplitting about the exact percentage that would be an optimum allocation is a waste of time.

Ridiculous theological hairsplitting.

Setting aside such hairsplitting, tempting though it be, one is left simply with usage.

But the discussion quickly degenerates into an exercise in semantic hairsplitting, finally concluding that «taken as a whole, the data and analyses we have examined throw serious doubt on the validity of the strong thesis that culture of poverty is a major cause of self perpetuating poverty.»

These are, for me, far better examples of belief than micro - hairsplitting on exegesis.

The fact that the word «dunce» is derived from his name is an indication of opinions of later critics — and the critics of the scholastic method — of what seemed to them to be futile hairsplitting.

As before the great Flood — when the subdivisions of nature, two by two, marched up the ramp beneath Noah's discriminating gaze — this one goes with that but never with this, the wonderful hairsplitting order of life, of which there was no more wonderful example than the biochemical rule pairing A with T but never with C or G, and the complementary rule matching G with C but never with T or A.

The jargon of the author's own field is another matter: the reader wearies of specialized terminology and hairsplitting definitions.

It is not about obstructing research into saving lives for the sake of self - justifying hairsplitting by pompous fools.

Facebook «goes into this endless hairsplitting that people should have known,» said Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group that has brought privacy cases before the FTC.

So Homejoy developed its hairsplitting approach, a vetting meant to establish some quality - control guardrails without explicitly telling workers how to do their jobs.

The 2014 BMW M235i is technically an example of the latter, but take a turn behind the wheel and the hairsplitting between what is and isn't an M car quickly disappears.

Facebook «goes into this endless hairsplitting that people should have known,» said Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit advocacy group that has brought privacy cases before the FTC.

In reality, the purported «science of resumes» and the idea you must perform a hairsplitting task of gaming your resume to meet algorithmic settings are both exaggerations, in my experience.

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