Sentences with phrase «long lecture about»

Wasn't she going to hear another long lecture about how homework is good for you?

Let's be honest, nobody wants to sit through an hour long lecture about company standards and protocols.

And skip the long lecture about how worried you were or how something horrible could have happened.

At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

This means more than incorporating a longer lecture about court structure or the legislative process.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

Ultimately, teaching and preaching must no longer be simply a time where one person gets up and delivers a lecture about some topic of Bible passage, and then the people go home, and do it all again next week.

On Tuesday I did a cooking demo for all my lovely mom friends about the necessities of Thanksgiving and had a long lecture on cranberry sauce, because clearly that is the necessity of necessities and I had grown women tell me they have never eaten cranberry sauce!

You should read the book first... it's not about rotational players... too long a lecture.

I started supporting Arsenal in 1970, long before you were born mate, and you want to lecture me about my club and its politics?

Instead of listening to your message, your child is more likely to be thinking about how much he dislikes listening to you talk when you give him a long lecture.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

For instance, irregularity of lecture times, tutors and even classrooms rather old fashioned ways of long periods of writing down dictated notes for some of the subjects, highly limited internet library facilities, some grave issues with obtaining supervision for required long paper, definitely the feeling that students, even at that graduate level, are simply expected to take instructions, since suggestions and / or protests about some of the above issues were not condemned or met with threats of victimization.»

This was the lead - up to a joke about him threatening to deliver another lecture just as long on foreign policy, but it also served to underline the impressiveness of his achievement in memorising it all.

were visionary and the book undoubtedly inspired some individuals who played a central role in 20th - century science, there are no direct links between Schrödinger's lectures and the experiments and theories that were part of the decades - long attempt to crack the genetic code, and historians and participants differ about the significance of Schrödinger's contribution.

Not long after her discovery, Christiano was giving a lecture at Harvard University when a dermatologist approached to tell her about two sisters in Acerno, a mountaintop village outside Naples, Italy.

Seminars About Long - Term Thinking, a series of monthly lectures in various locations around San Francisco, have included such speakers as geographer Jared Diamond, astronaut Rusty Schweikart, and musician Brian Eno.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars About Long - term Thinking.

The Child has been on the receiving end of loving - lectures about the benefits of ending shit which no longer serves us.

I've been spending so long preparing for this moment — orchestrating the move, getting my lab samples safely to NC, building a home and frantically trying to write lectures in the hopes of being somewhat mentally prepared — that I hadn't really thought about the actual activity too much.

For a long time, Khan has talked about how the use of Khan Academy videos can allow teachers to move beyond lecture mode and the lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy to help students engage in project - based learning and apply their learning.

Moreover, there will no longer be a need to hire expensive consultants to lecture employees about things they can easily learn through online coursework.

Getting learners excited about long lectures and lost time is an uphill battle.

Each lecture is made up of a number of videos each about six to eight minutes long.

«There were about 22 lectures, on average each 10 - 12 minutes long,» Danforth continued.

The academic, know - it - all douchebag within me would've corrected him in an instant, lecturing him about how his money will be eroded by inflation, that stocks have proven to be even safer than bonds over the very long run, etc, but it probably wouldn't be of any use.

Deer ticks do not live primarily in long grassy areas, but are found mostly in leaf litter under forest canopies and especially in wooded areas according to veterinarian Scott Stevesonn, DVM, MSc, BMSc who has extensively studied, lectured, and written about tick issues in Canada.

After his endless lectures about purity, Frank Stella pushed his early axiomatic approach so far that The Marriage of Reason and Squalor collapsed long ago.

She has guest lectured at National Chung Cheng University and is about to take part in a year - long residency in Canada.

In this event recorded on February 15, 2009, as part of the National Gallery of Art lecture series The Collecting of African American Art, Ruth Fine speaks with Washington, DC - based collector Juliette Bethea about her life — long passion for learning and what inspired her to begin acquiring art nearly 40 years ago.

The story is a vessel for complex ideas about racism and identity politics without the rhetorical aftertaste of lectures and symposiums, shedding new light on a long - winded conversation.

To my old friend of more than 30 years, whom I met when I was a long - distance truck driver and he was curating a show at P.S. 1, and who served as the longtime director of the Barbara Gladstone Gallery and now works the chief curator of the New Museum: Richard Flood, in a lecture in Portland Oregon, you reportedly said, «I just found out about blogs three months ago.»

At Daily Gusto, Harry reports about the Thomas Nozkowski lecture he attended at the Fisher Landau Center in Long Island City, Queens.

Rather than having Long Beach students sit through 8 hour boring lectures about driving safety, why not give them the information via a medium they already gravitate towards: the Internet!