Sentences with phrase «left to the devices of»

However, without adult role models who live in fully meaningful, purposeful ways, students are left to the devices of popular culture, mainstream media, and socio - economic norms in order to find their way in the world.

Often an accused feels that their life is under a microscope after being released or feels powerless and left to the devices of the state.

Not exact matches

Indeed, it's «a constant game of risk management,» says founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, who also worked at Google but left in 2010 to launch Drawbridge, a company that builds technology to connect users» screens and devices without relying on their personal security information.

But the buzz of the launch was quickly overshadowed by reports that the device leaves behind an unseemly, and not very easy to erase, white ring on certain types of furniture.

While many users comment that it takes a bit of practice to learn how to use a water flosser without drenching your entire bathroom, most feel the device leaves their teeth and gums very healthy and clean.

Whether an average shortfall of 37 % says more about the analysis or the device is a question I leave to the reader.

Left to their own devices, the 26 analysts I've heard from so far — 16 Wall Street professionals (in blue) and 10 independents (in green)-- have submitted estimates for last quarter's sales with a range greater than I've ever seen for an Apple (aapl) product: from a low of 3.1 million to a high 10.5 million.

Just two months later, perhaps not surprisingly, Boatman left EA to become senior vice-president of mobile for Zynga, which develops simple, free games such as Farmville for Facebook and mobile devices.

In a Nov. 19 interview with NPR, a company representative claimed they were «excited» to see the creative ways Kinect was being adapted, and that the device had been left open «by design» for exactly this sort of thing.

While the price tag for stolen information on the black market can translate to a lucrative sales career for some crooked employees, it's a costly phenomenon for organizations once they have realized it has occurred, which is often «during forensic examination of user devices after individuals left a company,» said Verizon.

She recommends companies institute a clean desk policy (ensuring that workers file away papers containing customer data before they leave their desk), implement inactivity time outs for any tech devices, and switch to an e-faxing system, which eliminates the exposure of sensitive patient data on paper that's piled up around traditional fax machines.

Add to that the micro-aggravations of dealing with buggy domestic devices and you'll be left wondering how this stuff ever came to be called «smart.»

In a way that is exactly what Dell did, but instead of killing Alienware's mojo, it seems to have intentionally left it largely to its own devices.

While Nintendo shares jumped more than 10 percent in Tokyo, according to a CNN report, China's gaming market has proliferated for over a decade in the absence of consoles through the popularity of PCs, mobile devices and online gaming — leaving questions as to whether consumers will choose to re-adapt.

Leaving behind Apple's trademark cohesion that makes all of their devices work in tandem is going to be the biggest adjustment for me as I move on in my smartphone journey.

Yelp noted that over the same earnings period, roughly 40 percent of its ads were displayed on mobile devices, underscoring the evolving ways consumers search for businesses and things to do on the fly instead of planning ahead before leaving home.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

For many of us, we are so glued to the devices that we never leave home without it.

Left to our own devices, most of us will speed through or avoid failure analysis altogether.

In the wake of the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas, which left 59 dead and injured hundreds more, Democrats and Republicans in both the House and Senate proposed banning bump stocks — a device the Las Vegas shooter likely used to make his semiautomatic weapon function as a fully automatic one.

While all of the disciplines have responsibility for revenue growth, the fact is that left to their own device, they'll approach the issue from such different perspectives that alignment can't happen.

From getting help on how to create an investment strategy to understanding how the results of feedback mechanisms affect the market, online traders are left to their own devices.

A new StageFright exploit puts millions of Android devices at risk of being hijacked, leaving phones and tablets vulnerable to remote hacking.

Issued in May 2011, it covers a computer system comprising a data store containing a decision tree that is constructed to produce a predicted geographic location for an IP address associated with a user; and a computing device that obtains a first set of sample data including IP addresses and user profile information; trains the decision tree with the first set of sample data; obtains a second set of sample data including geographic location information correlated with an IP address; prunes the trained decision tree with the second set of data; and then qualifies the decision tree with a third set of sample data to assign to each leaf node a confidence score indicating the degree of accuracy of a predicted geographic location.

The evidence shows that, left to their own devices, many Canadians are just not saving enough to secure a decent retirement, and certainly not enough to make up for the sharp decline of compulsory saving though traditional employer sponsored pension plans.

With plenty of spec leaks and even photos of a working device making its way onto the internet, there is little left to speculation about the hardware side of this device.

Leaving energy, Rockwell Automation, which manufactures devices such as variable - speed motor controls and programmable logic controllers, and ITT, a diversified manufacturer of products for the water and defense industries, both appear to have benefited from the renaissance in U.S. industrial production.

The free - of - charge tools now available allow Office 365 administrators to limit access to Office 365 corporate email and documents to company - managed devices; set device - level PIN locking; and wipe Office 365 - related data from an employee's device, such as when they leave the organization and take their personal device with them.

Those put into question your belief in the characteristics of the god, perhaps even the existence of the god itself, but it is still more comforting to assume something more powerful than yourself has your best interests in mind vs. the idea that we are left to our own devices — especially when you are surrounded by people that agree with and reinforce that idea and shun you when you do not agree with it.

In the absence of any advice from David on how he might be helped in moving forward, one is left to one's own devices as to how to do what is conducive to that aim.

But thanks to Ellis, the film is not at all cynical about love, while remaining truthful about today's rural South as a world of broken families and kids left more than they should be to their own devices.

Ash Wednesday confronts us with our gross inadequacy when left to our own devices and calls us to the discipline of repentance.

Then comes the most painful thought: if God withdrew from me, cut me loose, left me to my own devices, I would be as an animal, unable to worship, incapable of the joy and the sorrow known by those who daily lay hold of the One who has already laid hold of them.

Humans, left to their own devices, aren't capable of balance, and either degress morally, socially and spiritually, or fail to progress at all.

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

Finally, the family, exasperated at their inability to successfully convey to the dog the danger he was putting himself in, decided the only way the dog would learn was to leave him to his own devices and allow him to experience for himself the consequences of his actions.

Left to our own devices we are capable of infinite self - deception, confusion and evil.

With regard to the latter I leave you to your own devices, if you are at all interested in it, but I surely want you to grasp the meaning and deepen your experience of the New Testament's threefold understanding of God.

So, too, the prophets all speak of the one God, not only as eternally enthroned above all temporal change, the invisible spirit above all earthly affairs, but as the One who has purposes for man, who does not leave man to his own devices like some great nobleman who says: I can get along without them; I can wait until they come to me.

Many teachings from each directly contradict each other and the Christian god has left it to mans devices to interpret and guess which is right even though in all of the Christian teachings he / she has given man the direct and undeniable route to salvation.

But she was working hard and raising a child of her own — she hadn't asked for Cavonte to be dropped in her lap, so she left him to his own devices.

Even when they do exist, they cut the teens loose after their senior year of HS and leave them to their own devices... and inevitably they fall away.

Fanny believes that a family at regular prayer is part of «what such a household should be,» but Mary disagrees: «It is safer to leave people to their own devices on such subjects.»

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I do not think that God is the cosmic clock maker who wound the gears of the universe to get things started and then left us to our own devices.

He has left the world to its own inhuman devices and dwells now in some other corner of the universe so remote that his messengers can not even reach us.

Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism was rejected by the church before any split with Orthodoxy, so everyone who his looking to his own spark of goodness shall be left to his own devices, really.

«Left to my own devices, I would probably go through a bottle of Aardvark every other day,» says Lillian Karabaic, a 26 - year - old Reed College graduate who works as a database administrator in Portland.

If you like, you can add a large piece of lemon peel or a cinnamon stick, but for this recipe, the blueberries are best left to their own devices.

I have foods I prefer over others too but left to his own devices though he would subsist on a diet of cheese and carbs and fruit.