Sentences with phrase «incomprehensible number»

It is good to keep in mind that graduate recruitment trawl through an incomprehensible number of applications; make sure that yours stands out from the crowd for all the right reasons.

This is the brilliance of modern Ferrari: the computer is continually adjusting an incomprehensible number of parameters, but from the driver's seat, the F12 feels like there are no computers at all.

That's an incomprehensible number.

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Incomprehensible language and hard - to - find numbers are red flags, says Rittenhouse.

At the present time, we are seeing a number of authoritarian expressions born of the frustrations people feel about the unjust and incomprehensible world in which we live.

Each study participant received his or her group specific food tray based on a unique computer generated code number, which was designed to be incomprehensible to the participants but easily interpreted by the food servers.15 Twenty one labels were printed out for each participant each week.

First, the scope of suffering and pain is almost incomprehensible: Each year hundreds of millions of animals big and small suffer physical and emotional pain, and the numbers just keep rising.

It's not as action - packed as «Predator» (it's actually more comparable to «Prometheus» and «Alien: Covenant»), nor as incomprehensible as «Under the Skin» (with which it shares a number of similarities), nor as aloof as «Arrival,» but it's one of those rare drama / horror hybrids that hopes to encourage audiences to think — at the same time that they're cowering.

But despite the number of subplots going on that include parallels to a particular commander - in - chief, amnesia, and betrayal to name a few, Vaughn and Jane Goldman manage to tell a story that gels just enough to avoid becoming incomprehensible.

Consider that the Kindles still do not offer one of the most basic staples of ereading: a page count for the chapters, and it still offers some completely incomprehensible measurement of progress called «loc» (for location) with a gobbledygook number next to it.

The incomprehensible walls of numbers and icons will transform before your eyes from gibberish to meaningful statistics that let you keep a careful track of your ever - expanding empire.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

Quebec's Civil Code also contains various provisions dealing with external clauses, abusive clauses, penal clauses, illegible and incomprehensible clauses, and so on, to name a few, and also provides for a great number of statutorily imposed terms in what it calls «nominate» contracts (such as leases or contracts for services, which have rights and obligations specially prescribed by law).