Sentences with phrase «large part of his subject»

The now very senior Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) has often found himself classified as a Pop artist, largely because a large part of his subject matter — still lifes of commonplace objects (in his case often items of mass - produced food)-- overlaps with the kind of things that members of the American Pop movement chose to depict.

Not exact matches

That's in large part a byproduct of humanity's imperfection and what happens when, God forbid, young adults are allowed to study subjects in which they're interested.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

Jeffes shows us how to address the subject, either one - to - one or as part of a larger group, in a way that will demonstrate God's grace rather than condemnation.

If it is valid that not respecting another's right to live forfeits any claim one can make for one's own life, it applies even to the killings erupting from anger, jealousy or revenge which make up such a large part of murder statistics but are not normally subject to capital punishment.

I think Iran needs to take a good look at itself as a nation and realize that the world is watching — and Iran is part of a larger world, despite it's posturing — it is subject to just as much temptation to war and Evil that it claims to be against.

We send eighteen - year - olds off to college rather than to professional schools, and, for a large part of four years, students take classes in subjects with no obvious relevance to their future jobs.

It is to that subject that Garrow devotes the larger part of his book, offering what amounts to a backstairs history of the litigation strategy that eventually led to Roe v. Wade.

Not all of these are concerned exclusively with the subject of religious television, but they provide information on religious television as part of a larger study into a broader area of mass communication.

It is a loaded subject, both because Jean - Georges Vongerichten is one of the few chefs equal to Boulud in age, stature, and pedigree, and because the New York Times critic Pete Wells has recently removed one of Restaurant Daniel's four stars — in large part because of what he saw as a double standard between the treatment of VIPs and anonymous diners.

All States may participate in and permit, provided that the Security Council decides in advance on a case - by - case basis to approve: the supply, sale or transfer directly or indirectly from or through their territories, or by their nationals or individuals subject to their jurisdiction, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in their territories, to Iran, or for the use in or benefit of Iran, of any battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large caliber artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems, as defined for the purpose of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, or related materiel, including spare parts, and the provision to Iran by their nationals or from or through their territories of technical training, financial resources or services, advice, other services or assistance related to the supply, sale, transfer, manufacture, maintenance, or use of arms and related materiel described in this subparagraph.

One large clinical trial known as JUPITER reported in 2008 that rosuvastatin (Crestor) lowers the risk of heart attacks and other events by 44 percent in healthy subjects but experts have since raised questions about its methodology in part because the trial was stopped early, which might have created the effect of overestimating the drug's benefits.

Graphene, a two - dimensional form of carbon in sheets just one atom in thick, has been the subject of widespread research, in large part because of its unique combination of strength, electrical conductivity, and chemical stability.

Many researchers believe that psychedelic effects are driven in large part by expectations of the experience so neither monitors nor subjects knew when they would be given the psychoactive drug.

The subject matter of The Search for Infinity falls naturally into two parts: the microscopic and the very large.

Also included are essays from individuals who do clinical research in industries, large and small; a listing of the kinds of opportunities available to clinical scientists; a snapshot of some of the research topics clinical scientists pursue; and discussion of the ethical considerations that are part and parcel of working with human subjects.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

When it was first released in 1997, it made quite a name for itself, arguably in large part to the fact of its subject matter.

When «Argo» turns serious, it starts to drag, in large part because the subjects of the operation (fully aware of the 52 other Americans that didn't escape the embassy and remained in a perilous hostage situation) lack the depth of the cunning Mendez, the focus of our sympathies when he encounters hesitations from the Americans to play along.

Initially, however, things do seem promising in «Elysium,» in large part because of how its subject matter is compellingly visualized on screen (Philip Ivey is the production designer).

The ability to pick up any text and make sense of it depends in large part on knowing at least something about the subject matter.

The move is part of the government's push for more academically challenging subjects and follows a large rise in pupils studying computer science, which the DfE believes gives pupils a stronger foundation for further study and employment.

Concerns about potential inequities in the availability of different schools to different families, based in large part on geography, are plausible but have not been subject to systematic empirical analysis.

In addition, you certainly can't expect them to remember every single part of the eLearning course that needs improvement after they have covered a large number of modules and different subjects.

The teachers and administrators at ACE realize that recognition is a large part of student success, and honor student achievements in core subjects like reading and math.

Today, it has expanded to a large number of subjects and disciplines which are an integral part of the curriculum across various colleges around the world today.

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With a population of 200,000 as of the last census, Glendale is a large enough city to have an economy that functions as an important part of the local economy, but small enough that the city economy is still subject to the swings of the national economy.

Additionally, in the huge part of the island, larger versions known as Piranha Flowers (later Big Venus Fire Traps) make their series debut and are the subject of one of the Power Star missions.

Combined with decrepit interiors, wilderness, and seductive subjects, Rothen's photographs emanate overtones of mystery and dissatisfaction that become part of a larger narrative.

Factors of geography, economics, race, age, gender, sexuality, education and class all shape prizes, just as much as large geopolitical currents that pull us one way or the other — whether those are part of an artist's subject matter or not.

«The current situation at Artforum should be seen as part of a much larger structural problem in which women, people of color, queer and gender non-conforming people, and others are routinely subjected to behaviors they have been forced to accept at the risk of their own careers and livelihoods.»

In part, this is one of the most appealing aspects of «bad» painting - that the ideas of good and bad are flexible and subject to both the immediate and the larger context in which the work is seen.»

Shown across five monitors, the work seeks to create an alternate reality in which five totemic entities recite an eerily subjective poem.A second piece of work utilises the cables from each of the five monitors, so that they become an integral part of a large black and white paper collage displayed on the other side of the wall, questioning what is the back, what is the front, and what the subject is?

Hanged heads, chopped - off hands, a trail of blood running from body parts: these are the subjects of the large - format color drawings that make up the environment of a new group of works by Bruce Nauman.

Conceived as two parts of a larger whole, these works typically deal with opposing subjects that complicate and advance the meaning of the work on either side, a strategy that allowed Wróblewski to convey multiple narrative and stylistic possibilities.

The history of women in art has been, in large part, the history of women as subject or as muse.

These are part of a larger body of work that varies in format and subject and expresses an ethos of angsty middle - American adolescence with biting wit, wrapped up in frustration with the establishment, struggles with mainstream culture, and in this case, humanity's rampant destruction of nature.

Even though the outcome of Mickalene Thomas» artistic practice tends to be large - scale paintings encrusted with rhinestones, along the way she is known to take photographs of her subjects as part of that process.

Over the past 18 months, I have been the subject of intense speculation and public scrutiny, in large part because of the philanthropic investments of the Mercer Family Foundation and the political contributions made by my father and me.

As a part of this special focus Cap Digital & RDA have created a special Challenge designed to connect Climate Change related Data Sets with startups, subject matter experts and larger organizations with practical application for these data.

We can be reasonably sure Koonin is being deliberately misleading in this case, because his action here is part of a larger pattern of deceptive & misleading activities in connection with the subject of AGW.

The book of Pierrehumbert has about 650 pages and a large part of those are on this subject.

However, such agreements have always been regulated and subject to court supervision, in large part to ensure the integrity of the legal profession is maintained.

If your organization is part of a larger international corporate group with affiliates located in the EU, you should expect that the EU affiliates will not be prepared to allow the Canadian affiliate to have access to the personal data of EU subjects, even for internal corporate group purposes, unless the Canadian affiliate adheres to «binding corporate rules» which will require the Canadian affiliate to comply with the key elements of the GDPR.

With a population of 200,000 as of the last census, Glendale is a large enough city to have an economy that functions as an important part of the local economy, but small enough that the city economy is still subject to the swings of the national economy.

The social insurance contributions are paid by both employer and employee subject to the contribution rate, of which the employer usually pays larger part.

In addition, three of the subjects in the 30 - hour supplemental course, specifically Contract Preparation, Pricing Properties, and Predatory Lending are part of larger subjects in the salesperson licensing course.