Sentences with phrase «little sense from»

Not only are biofuels helping raise food prices, and thus increasing the number of hungry people, most make little sense from an energy efficiency perspective.

It makes little sense from a dietary perspective.

While this is convenient for the end user it makes little sense from a sustainability perspective when water is usually readily available at the point of use.

Some of the action pieces are contrived in the way that they become set up, and make little sense from the standpoint that the men are supposed to be inconspicuous — one involving attending a soccer match at a stadium filled to capacity right in the middle of a game, the other in and out of a protest in the streets.

The main reason why it doesn't work is due to the fact that the most bizarre set of coincidences, as well as the most befuddling character motivations, are necessary in order for this film to come close to working, and even then it makes very little sense from a practical standpoint.

The answers could help explain human behaviors that seem to make little sense from a strict evolutionary perspective, such as risking one's life to save a drowning stranger.

Sean Morrison, director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, pointed out that pitting different kinds of stem cell research against each other makes little sense from a research perspective.

(That makes very little sense from a marketing standpoint.)

With all that turd coming out your mouth its reasonable to expect little sense from you.

Not exact matches

The principles behind business strategy can be thought of using the following straight - forward guidelines, implemented with a little bit of common sense and an attitude that mistakes are there to be learned from.

The company claims a 30 - day snapshot makes little sense, as it makes it difficult to tease out real sales trends from short - term fluctuations, caused by things like discount programs.

Such opinions were little changed from those expressed in an entry from 1932: «Nothing good can come out of modern civilization, in the broad sense.

That little knowledge we get from Mars I don't think it does make sense.»

So, I do think that for people who have accumulated most of their retirement savings within the confines of some sort of traditional tax - deferred account, for the sake of just giving yourself a little bit of flexibility in retirement to not have to take required minimum distributions from the account, to have some withdrawals coming out tax - free, I think the Roth contributions can make sense.

These short and straightforward tweets attracted a ton of attention, and showed off a little personality and sense of humor that's so often missing from bigger brands» social media presences.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

There are some benefits to this harmonization; for example, it made little sense to charge products imported from Japan a higher rate than imports from Korea, so some harmful distortions were removed from the tariff schedule.

Yet when I now reflect on all 52 interviews in my podcast, this makes complete sense; the grit and hustle that comes from moving to a foreign country - often with very little means - and persevering through hardship lends itself to starting a company and overcoming the unexpected bumps of early startup life.

One reason it is so hard to separate myth from reality regarding Rasputin is that common sense is little help.

Reflect on this a little: Many of the inspirations of the threefold system of political economy derive from evangelical inspirations such as personal creativity, personal responsibility, freedom, the love for community through association and mutual cooperation, the aim of bettering the condition of every person on earth, the cultivation of the rule of law, respect for the natural rights of others, the preference for persuasion by reason rather than by coercion, and a powerful sense of sin.

Curiously, such requests often come from people who retain little more than a vestigial sense of prayer as a ritual act that dignifies the occasion.

I think it makes a little more sense to pay attention to this for the higher offices, such as the presidency, because it's hard to really learn about these big politicians that are so far from our everyday lives.

I feel like the emergent movement said this: «let's give ourselves a little more freedom from the restrictions that no longer make sense but still be in the safe ground of christianity».

The text seems to be proclamations from a long forgotten prophet, but there is little context to make any sense of them.

We could then suppose that when Whitehead developed the idea of the consequent nature in the narrow sense, he created the «primordial nature» as a contrasting term This hypothesis would make sense of the present text of PR without supposing that Whitehead began working on the Gifford Lectures only with a noninteractive God little different from the abstract principle of concretion of SMW» (PS 15: 200).

I was raised in it, every school I've graduated from, including graduate school was catholic, I can tell you first hand, dudes who bang little boys do not reflect any sense of values, covering up such abuses does not reflect any sense of values.

There is little sense of multiple systems with differing definitions of number within Principia Mathematica, because its goal was to unify mathematics by deducing all of it from an ostensibly common logic.

Well, from an Atheist's perspective, it makes little sense, because Atheism is entirely about reason.

Hello Godless (my spell check expert) Reading fast was just a little humor for you and as for your capacity to forgive... God is love and forgiveness comes from love in your heart and sense you «claim» to be Godless... there you go.

He may also be correct that «the very concept of prehension makes little sense without viewing Whitehead's events as centers of experience actively selecting from their environments» (WPSP 11).

No effort to help the poor has integrity apart from ecological concerns; conversely, it makes little sense to talk of ecology apart from justice when the plight of the poor has become a major contributing factor to the environmental crisis.

There is little sense of the Pauline assertion that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth awaiting redemption; rather it is man who groans and travails awaiting redemption from the world.»

Anyone with a little bit of sense understands that in the context of Matthew 27:42, the word «save» does not mean escape from hell and entrance into heaven, or receiving eternal life.

The age of accountability is a concept born from the compassion of the human heart, from a deep and intrinsic sense that a loving, good, and just God would not condemn little children or the mentally handicapped to such suffering when they could certainly bear no responsibility for their faith.

The positive moral value that emerged from this conviction was a sense of joyous confidence, that transformed the little community from a mood of passive waiting to urgency in witness, fidelity in mutual service, and at least relative steadfastness in the Christian virtues.

He knew that the meeting was little more than a communist propaganda ploy, but he also sensed that the threat of a nuclear holocaust was so grave he had to take a stand for disarmament, despite resistance from the Reagan administration and steel - tipped invectives from the Religious Right.

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

Very little of these comments make any sense... but I do get dinner ideas from some of them...

By the same token, the contextual requirement that the church empty itself makes little missional or methodological sense from the mechanist vantage point.

From my own peculiar point of vantage I sense that many Christians may be missing something — a message hidden in Scripture, in the words of the church fathers, and in the deliberations at Vatican II — without which our attempts at interfaith dialogue will be of little or no avail.

How little they may be understood in the sense of ethical idealism is clear from the fact that the command of love explains nothing concerning the content of love.

Christians tend to have little sense of history and many of them behave as though the truths of their religion have been handed down unchanged from generation to generation on a platter.

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

Christians, on the whole, have little sense of history and are unaware of the sources of the tradition from which they come.

Rather than quote Bible verses (which would have been a foreign book that made little sense to those present), he quoted from their literary works.

Every sense I was little I have heard about hate from people in the world.

But this makes little sense given the data they present: U.S. workers with less than a high - school degree had relatively little access to traditional pensions before the shift away from pensions to defined - contribution plans.

Yet (with a little sleight of hand that comes from peeking ahead and thinking of Frye's basic distinction), we can already sense that one text is going to emphasize centrifugal meanings and the other, centripetal meanings.

There's a sense of elitism that can creep iin, like we're the real, hardcore Christians who don't need lightshows or multimillion - dollar buildings to worship Jesus, so go take your pleasure - seeking self down the road and away from our «authentic» community, O ye of little faith.

I felt the same in the beginning and was shocked at how little I knew about hormones and my cycle in general, or that I should even be paying attention to PMS symptoms in the first place?!! It makes sense that cramps, bloating and hormonal acne are cry - out signs from our bodies, but we are so conditioned to think these symptoms are normal and to be expected, which is far from the truth... and that's exactly why we're here.