Sentences with phrase «means of recounting»
However, many laws are built so they actually discourage the most accurate means of recounting, ostensibly for considerations of time and expense (not necessarily malice or shenanigans).
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As the economist Josiah Stamp recounted of another power trying to control a vast territory through oppressive means, «the Government [of British India] are very keen on amassing statistics — they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
As CEO and founder Tony Lourakis recounts, the firm decided to place a huge bet on partnering with AT&T as the means of breaking into a vast and rapidly growing market.
The life of the individual Christian, on this account, makes sense and achieves meaning through participation in this communally recounted narrative.
One may read that, as perhaps it was intended, to mean that the lives recounted here are very much a thing of the past.
The unfortunate monkey wrench in the Genesis recounting is the use of the word «day» as a term meaning «era».
There's the parent bringing birthday treats to school; the well meaning teacher who bought tons of Girl Scout cookies from her students who were scouts (nice) and then passed them all out to the class (not cool); my fellow soccer team parent who thinks a juice and Lay's is a fine post-game snack; etc. etc., to mention the over-the-top incidents I've just recounted here.
Asked if that meant pushing for a potential recount of all votes in the district, Murray responded: «Means reviewing all options.»
Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN)- While the official hand recount in Minnesota's tight U.S. Senate race between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken has ended, a stack of about 1,500 challenged ballots means the announcement of a winner is still at least a few days away.
Under Connecticut election law, an automatic recount is triggered if the margin separating the highest vote - getters falls within one - half a percentage point of the total number of ballots cast; for Somers and Bacchiochi, that meant a difference of 1,000 votes.
This is a completely fascinating recount of denim, with all the history and both the meaning and emotion that has come from this evolution!
That means a lot to these kids, and it's not something I can say with the same amount of credibility,» Reeder recounts.
«A lot of people still think that apes are fairly violent,» Hastie says, and she recounts how she often overhears zoo visitors describing a male gorilla's expression as mean and angry.
The Angel in My Pocket By Sukey Forbes Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143127574 In a profoundly moving meditation on grief and the path to healing, Forbes recounts her struggle to rediscover joy and meaning in life after enduring the death of her 6 - year - old daughter, Charlotte.
Recounted in visceral, kinetic prose, and crafted with a forthrightness that rejects piety, cynicism, and self - pity, it brings us face - to - face with a provocative new understanding of the nature of addiction and the meaning of recovery.
Maynard recounts her joy at finding unexpected love, her discovery of what it truly means to be a partner and her determination to continue on in the face of great loss.
This term means the capital issues in which the par value and size of percents are expressed in US dollars, and the amount of paying off the liabilities is recounted against the exchange rate of the USD to another foreign currency.
At MoMA, too, the exhibition has become what its organizers call an «open monographic» one, meaning that, at certain points as it recounts the history of the evolution of Rauschenberg's art and ideas, it branches off and pays special - focus attention to projects he undertook with various collaborators or to the work and thinking of other artists who influenced or inspired him.
It is worth recounting here some of the details of the artist's early biography in order to understand the origins and implicit meanings of Mother of God.
The Japanese - born artist recounts his refusal to dictate how spectators should view his work, his visual dialogue with Frank Stella, and the desire to void his art of meaning.
As Doig has recounted, however, the title of the present work also has a further layer of meaning, referring to a teenage experiment with blotter acid, or LSD, in 1974.
As Raff recounts, the old — I mean, former — Supernova alleges trademark infringement, false designation of origin and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.