Sentences with phrase «maelstrom did»

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Famous for his contrarian approach to investing, Marc Faber does not run with the bulls or bait the bears but steers his own course through the maelstrom of international finance markets.

Nancy McCann, for instance, speaks for many when she concludes her article on the subject in Sojourners with the sentence, «Perhaps, as one person has remarked, when we lack sufficient wisdom to do, wisdom consists in not doing» («The DNA Maelstrom,» May 1977).

But he did say he's «making an appeal» that they consider moving in hopes of ending the maelstrom ignited by their project.

While it did nothing to calm the maelstrom swirling around Summers, the new understanding of the chromosome revealed tantalizing clues to the role genes might play in shaping cognitive differences between the sexes.

One reason Morris and a growing number of astronomers are mesmerized by the maelstrom at the core of our galaxy is that it doesn't fit neatly into any of the models that scientists have painstakingly assembled over the decades to describe the various types of «active» galaxies they observe.

The main problem with Maelstrom's design: Tons of options don't equal tons of useful options.

The Maelstrom name didn't offer much in terms of plot clues for the sequel, unless another giant portal opens up in the ocean to let more kaiju into our world.

The picture itself concerns our eponymous hero doing nothing at the centre of history's maelstrom, unlike, say, the passive centre of The Remains of the Day (1993).

But unlike his first foray into the holiday maelstrom, Four Christmases is tiresome and blatantly formulaic — so much so that within five minutes of each of the four substories, I knew precisely who was going to do what to whom.

Na Hong - jin opens this yarn as a gloomy yet seemingly ordinary murder mystery, only for the gapes of Hell to crack open and drag unsuspecting village copper Kwak Do - won into a supernatural maelstrom of pure horror.

In the 1970s, tarnished NYPD detective Robert Leuci agreed to help investigate illegal police activities (which included taking drug dealers» money as well as their heroin and cocaine, which they resold), and, in doing so, found his loyalties torn and his life descend into a maelstrom of legal bureaucracy and betrayal.

Amidst a maelstrom of one - liners that don't land, it's the spy's brief interaction with a rodent that sticks.

«I just did a Google search for the phrase «teaching to the test» because I've been getting lots of e-mails from readers asking me to comment on the practice Since I love finding out more about what gets folks riled up, I decided to throw myself into the maelstrom.»

Our schools need to teach the real, discipline - based skills of quantitative data analysis, statistics, political science, and economics much better than they do now if we are to be prepared to wade into this maelstrom of information.

James didn't need a publisher as such, but once she turned to the pros, her relatively modest success was turned into a maelstrom of money.»

George Tramountanas: This is the story that ended Straczynski's run on «Amazing Spider - Man» and created a maelstrom that fans continue to debate today. My take is pretty much the same as a lot of fans out there:  I understand the reasons for undoing the marriage, disliked the way it was done, but enjoy the current direction of the book. I often wonder if this story will be remembered in the same light as Ben Reilly's time as Spider - Man, or if history will be even... less kind.

It didn't die in a hail of dramatic criticism or even amidst the maelstrom of a major shake - up at Microsoft.

Even if another maelstrom reoccurs, this will be yet another opportunity for investors to achieve dramatically inferior portfolio performance, when they do not have a well - defined long - term asset allocation and re-balancing strategy in place and when they do not have the will to implement it consistently over time.

«Thrown into the maelstrom of the old style European kitchen, my first reaction was «What am I doing here?

When contemporary art does electrify the public, which is surely the case right now, the art itself is often part of an urban spectacle, a trophy floating atop the cultural maelstrom, and there can be no question that the blissed - out atmosphere in the Chelsea galleries this season has everything to do with New York's emergence as the ultimate amusement park for sophisticated tourists around the globe.

Like Aguilera, Mehretu seeks to make sense of 21st - century chaos, to draw lines around the modern maelstrom, and she does so by giving the chaos form.

As an African - American artist caught in the maelstrom of the civil rights movement, Sam Gilliam received fierce criticism because his abstract paintings did not address black culture.

Anyone who is familiar with «The Four Disciplines of Execution» knows that much of what we deal with in a day is the «whirlwind» — the maelstrom of «must - get - done - now» that keeps us from focusing on the really big goal.

And perhaps the biggest irony central to this current battle is that the complaint mongering and litigation that has brought about this industry maelstrom was not instigated by a throng of irate «Joe Consumers», but rather a couple of frustrated entrepreneurs who were told that if they didn't follow long established rules of conduct and professional obligation they couldn't reap the rewards they were demanding.

When you are in the maelstrom that is the foreclosure process, the endless phone calls, the stacks of mail in the box, it's hard to know what to do.