Sentences with phrase «large cog in the machine»

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You could be a very comfortable cog in that very large machine.

As an actor, Robert is one cog (albeit a highly important cog) in a very large machine — and that machine only functions when he's there.

They were small cogs in a large machine.

Like a compact series of cogs in an unimaginably large machine, vast cyclones also swirl around the north and south poles, clocking wind speeds of over 220 miles per hour (350 kilometers per hour)-- wind speeds that are the equivalent of a terrestrial Category 5 hurricane.

At the center of the storyline is Sonny (Alan Tudyk), a robot who possesses a desire to overcome his rigid programming and become more than just another cog in a very large machine.

It seems to me that many scientists participated in the IPCC in good faith without looking too closely at the larger political machine in which they were merely cogs.

During sentencing, he needed to think of himself in the same way, as a cog, as a hand doing the work of a machine that was so large you couldn't see it — that he had to keep fidelity to principles that went beyond the circumstances of an individual case.

He was seen, by his clients and oftentimes the world at large, as a necessary cog in an annoying machine.

Being employed at big corporates may have left you feeling like a cog in a very large machine, working away without a real understanding how you are contributing to the bigger picture.

You will learn more by working for this small sized company of 20, where you will have more responsibility, than by joining one of the larger companies where you will be a small cog in a big machine.