Sentences with phrase «make certain kinds»

On the contrary, the odds have changed to make certain kinds of events more likely.

«I wanted to create some other kind of dialogue between the viewer and myself, about what they are looking at, and why they ask certain kinds questions, or make certain kinds assumptions.»

Some set unusually high standards and other simply do not make certain kinds of loans.

They can also be a great way to get some money for college, or make certain kinds of purchase.

Survival needs would seem to require no more than a little arithmetic, some elementary Euclidean geometry and the ability to make certain kinds of simple logical association.

Conditions make certain kinds of decisions more likely and more possible.

The bill also exempts small banks from the Volcker Rule, which prohibits them from making certain kinds of speculative investments with their customers» money.

The Volcker Rule is a specific section of the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers.

The Volcker rule, finalized three years after the Dodd - Frank financial reform law passed in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, restricts U.S. banks from making certain kinds of speculative transactions on their own account and from investing in hedge funds.

«Zero K. It's predicated on the subject's willingness to make a certain kind of transition to the next level.»

First, the sequential events are understood jointly to make a certain kind of sense — a dramatic kind of sense.

It made certain kinds of coverage more expensive while using subsidies to pay for Medicaid expansion and subsidies for individual health plans.

This makes a certain kind of sense, since the stem cells in the paternal germ line undergo continuous cell division throughout a man's life, whereas a woman is born with all of the eggs she'll ever have.

«You make a certain kind of movie because that's the way you see things,» De Palma explains, «and these images keep recurring again and again in these movies.

It all makes a certain kind of sense through the lens of the superhero narrative, in which the heroes are embodiments of some real idea and representatives of some aspirational ideal.

Or it can be really simple, as in someone wanting to make a certain kind of game and then just plugging away.

If they wanted to blend several tribes into one that makes a certain kind of sense, even though I think it still comes off in kind of a crummy way.

In a lifetime of making a certain kind of painting, an artist may find some kind of transcendence in the production and some kind of sign of that transcendence in the work, but, as time passes, I'm not sure how immutable that transcendence is.

The lapse rate, strictly speaking, applies to elevation above ground level (which is strongly affected by local atmospheric conditions such as absolute humidity and the rate of change of the absolute humidity in space and time) and this should be considered when making certain kinds of comparisons.

Set a time limit for making certain kinds of decisions.

A Few Career Blogs Worth Your Time Bailey Work Play Career Hub CareerDiva Dan Erwin Blog Escape from Cubicle Nation Pongo Resume Susan Strayer The M.A.P. Set a time limit for making certain kinds of decisions.

Not exact matches

It takes a certain kind of person to make it in the smartphone business, but Ryan Seacrest didn't get this far in life on good looks alone.

Those factors make such a strategy best suited to certain kinds of businesses.

Even so, the researchers aren't making broad pronouncements that remote work always trumps office work in terms of productivity, but rather suggest certain kinds of workers might be better suited for it, such as solitary, hourly folks whose output can be measured — call - center reps, proofreaders, developers, and the like.

Short people don't make it often in the NBA, just like certain kinds of genetically hard - wired individuals don't make it as entrepreneurs, and others do.

Mode of Persuasion The customer commentary will tell you much about the way a certain kind of visitor is going to make a decision, from which you can identify their mode of persuasion.

The IRS makes an exception for certain kinds of gold coins or bars.

In certain instances, unlike other ETFs, the Fund may effect creations and redemptions partly or wholly for cash, rather than in - kind, which may make the Fund less tax - efficient and incur more fees than a more conventional ETF.

Using an analytics package such as Google Analytics is recommended for all but the smallest campaigns as this kind of reporting system will show where site refinements need to be made — high bounce rates and declining visitor numbers will be picked up, suggesting that on - page efforts be focused in certain areas rather than spread around the site as a whole.

Most Likely to Make You Cry (in a good way): Jan Johnson with «Weeping Prayer» [found this over at Elizabeth Esther's blog] «In Christian spiritual tradition, certain kinds of weeping are a charism, or gift of the Spirit.»

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Thus, by making a formal - material distinction, one can combine a certain particularity and avoid the kind of conception of «decisive act» which Ogden would have to judge mythological.

Out of the Gordon Conference on nucleic acids in the summer of 1973 came an open letter to Science; the establishment (in October 1974) by the National Institutes of Health of the Recombinant DNA Molecule Program Advisory Committee; and in February 1975 the now - famous international conference at the Asilomar Conference Center in California, where a reluctant decision was made by scientists to declare a temporary moratorium on certain kinds of DNA research.

Eternity is kind of a big thing to disregard, I'd make absolutely certain you're right if I were you.

In addition to these arguments against Harnack and his followers, adopting his historical exclusivism would make us into a certain kind of people.

In SCT par.36, Collingwood makes a distinction between eternal objects of historical thought and Whitehead's eternal objects and examines their relation: «The eternal objects of historical thought are concrete eternal objects, e.g., the revolution of 1688; Whitehead's eternal objects are abstract eternal objects, e.g. a certain kind of blueness, or (returning to 1688) the exact configuration of the splash made when James II threw the Great Seal into the Thames.

We will not make this kind of move until we really decide that happiness is more important than the quantity or quality of the goods consumed, and that the latter is not, beyond a certain point, a significant contributor to happiness.

The research of James S. Coleman and his colleagues confirms the finding of the Kauai group that, for a child whose family is weak or broken, a certain kind of school can make a remarkable difference.

So, this means that there is ONE valid interpretation to any text, unless the author purposely designed the text in such a way as to make people ponder various interpretations (which would be a certain kind of genre, but not most texts).

«It makes you wonder like, «If you know a certain song is going to do better because it says a certain thing, but you kind of would rather say it a different way, but you're going to say it this way because you know it's going to do better, what does that do to our spirituality?»

Sometimes he seems to mean pattern in space, sometimes something Aristotelian — that which makes a thing what it is as being of a certain kind.

There are great differences among these three spokes - persons for social possibility and pathology, but they all focus on the fact that societies have ways in which to articulate and distort certain kinds of truth that make human life possible Or problematic.

But lawyers and politicians long ago realized they could make a profit, you know, by captivating part of the mind in certain people who's minds didn't have good sense, and made them start believe all kinds of crazy things.

One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today's popular atheism is that disbelief in God involves no particular positive philosophy of reality, much less any kind of religion or creed, but consists merely in neutral incredulity toward a certain kind of factual asseveration.

For example, in order to attract or keep a membership, a typical congregation must make the Sunday morning event work, and to do that it must have a certain kind of minister, music, ethos and preaching.

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

Whereas we commonly understand religion and theology as beginning with an inner and personal experience that only later seeks a community or tradition, the postliberal asserts that the community's ways of speaking and acting, its rites and rituals, its patterns of life and behavior shape and indeed make possible certain kinds of experience.

Because public opinion supporting certain kinds of abortion is close to unanimous; it was formed before the 1973 Supreme Court decision; and the majority that have come of sexual age since that year now take for granted that fertility decisions are to be made only by the individuals involved.

Holmes is positing the existence of a certain kind of person to explain observed phenomena (not, as he habitually says, making deductions), but we would not normally call his conclusions science, even when true and convincing.

And in that conversation, America could be reminded that it takes a certain kind of people, living certain habits of the mind and heart, to make the machinery of democracy work so that the net result is human flourishing, not human degradation.