Sentences with phrase «more as a background»

All the voice talent from the first film — including Jack Black and Angelina Jolie — are back to lend persona to the lovable heroes, but in the sequel they serve more as background to the repetitive chase and fight sequences.

I would try one more as the background and especially Martin and Rosalyn (I truly hated them) seemed so sinister.

I would try one more as the background and especially Martin and Rosa

The music is done well with a number of tracks to listen to throughout the game, they act more as a background theme so they don't feel to repetitive as you play.

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«As a U.S. company that has operations in more than 200 countries and territories, we respect people from all backgrounds.»

But there's more at stake here: If the company does adopt more rigorous background checks, which could include fingerprinting, drivers seeking classification as employees could try to use the move as evidence they are indeed employees and not private contractors, says one labor attorney.

The decision to appoint someone with a strong retail banking background is seen as a potential move towards a more domestic - market focused bank.

He has an extensive background in enterprise technology having spent more than 15 years at Mercury Interactive (which was acquired by HP) where he served as SVP products and GM of applications delivery.

It is important that diversity be interpreted as more than gender and Wynne's background may have had a part to play in favoring the Australian model.

As an area that continues to grow, propelled by interest in and demand for FinTech solutions, more investors are turning their attention to regtech startups, including those in cannabis, vendor risk management, information security / cybersecurity, healthcare, background checks, compliance management and government / legislation.

With a background as an investment banker rather than as an economist rooted in a particular analytical framework, Powell will lead «a more data - driven Fed, which at the current juncture means a more dovish Fed,» until and if inflation recovers, said Robin Brooks, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance.

«I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do, to help bring Glossier to life,» she says.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

When your workplace is home to a diverse group of individuals from different backgrounds and experiences, your company can more effectively market to all groups of consumers, from a wide range of racial and ethnic backgrounds, men and women, older and younger adults and those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

Dotzler, who does not have a technical background, took it upon himself to act as a liaison between nontechies willing to serve as bug reporters and the programmers — helping to get the former up to speed and the latter to be more forgiving, and thus bringing thousands of new people into the project.

«They're more likely to see their ingroup — the people they most identify with — as a broader group of people which includes those of different racial backgrounds.

If your hosting service is slow and it takes more than 3 seconds to load your site or if you have heavy wallpaper image as your background and it won't load on my phone, you've lost me and probably 90 % of your user base.

As we argued on numerous occasions, the budget needs to be much more explicit on the proposed policy initiatives; providing sufficient detail and background information for Parliamentary assessment and for a better understanding by the public at large.

David's background in public relations and communications includes working for Ruder Finn, DKC, and SS+K and for clients such as PBS, FreshDirect, Catholic Charities of NY, Esquire, AARP Bulletin, and more.

Although the current design looked pretty nice (at least to me) a year ago, the readability kept bugging me more and more over time, as a dark background is even considered to be a usability sin.

As you look at SEO and content marketing jobs side by side, it's immediately apparent that there are more similarities than differences in backgrounds and skill sets.

Before anyone starts trolling me: I am wealthier / more privileged than most; aristocratic background; LOVE children but have none of my own; can easily afford First Class, but just as often choose to sit in PREMIUM ECONOMY (and a screaming infant is just as annoying in the back of the plane as it is up front!)

Va.) as they discuss reaching a bipartisan agreement that would expand background checks to more gun buyers.

Issuers must perform background checks on any director, officer, general partner or managing member of the issuer, as well as any promoter and owner of 20 % or more of the issuer's voting shares.

As an example of the failings of Uber's background checks, the complaint cites the more than 8,000 drivers in Massachusetts who were pulled off the road after the state government decided to introduce more stringent screenings and reviewed the records of the 71,000 people who drove on Uber or Lyft.

Gain these skills is far more time intensive than using a trading robot, but it is going to help you to grow your skills as a trader and give you the background that you need if you want to be successful over the long haul.

Assist with customer research: As part of our role in sales support and lead qualification, we can help fill in the blanks on who the contact people and key decision makers are at the prospect's company: job titles, background notes, and more.

As we enter the Asian Century, more and more students from a variety of backgrounds — whether it be in engineering, arts, business, or science — are looking to China as a study abroad destinatioAs we enter the Asian Century, more and more students from a variety of backgrounds — whether it be in engineering, arts, business, or science — are looking to China as a study abroad destinatioas a study abroad destination.

However, as many of our Members primarily invest in people, they are likely to want to hear more about your team's background and track record.

In addition to his extensive international retail background, Mr. Van den Berghe has two decades of experience teaching international business at universities across Europe, Asia and the United States, and more than a decade of experience as an international trade commissioner for the Government of Belgium.

«As we've seen unemployment tick down, we've seen this ongoing driver shortage that's always in the background start to become more prevalent.

Geithner's history as New York Federal Reserve Chair, co-architect of the $ 700 billion bailout, and having a background in the International Monetary Fund means he has had a more important role than many.

The Church of England welcomed some aspects of the review, but also said: «We are however disappointed that the report misunderstands the role of Church of England schools in providing a rounded education to more than a million pupils from all backgrounds as part of our commitment to the common good.

Between these extremes lies a more humane economic order: one in which, as Röpke put it, «wealth [is] widely dispersed, genuine communities, from the family upwards, form a background of moral support for the individual, and a healthy balance [exists] between town and country, industry and agriculture.»

The final piece of the puzzle for Arendt was the conflation of Hitler's vision of Jewish world domination as a cause of the animus he held for Western democracy and the Stalinist ideology of cosmopolitanism, which she tells us is the «fictitious world conspiracy that provided a more suitable background for totalitarian claims to world rule than Wall Street, capitalism, and imperialism.»

In reference to any given society the world of actual entities is to be conceived as forming a background in layers of social order, the defining characteristic becoming wider and more general as we widen the background.

But there is a background, and the background more often than not is the world in the best sense of the word, the world as made, approved, loved, sustained and finally redeemable by God.

If for example the Christian Gospels are considered by themselves without any background of definite belief, or any authoritative norm of interpretation, all sorts of meanings can be put upon the bare words, the more so if the critic is ready and willing to make the early disciples of Christ neurotics, hysterics, or downright liars as the occasion may demand.

As more religious persons seek mental health services it has become apparent that the relevance of religious background, participation, and values requires attention in the diagnostic and evaluative process.

This is clear in Whitehead's description of the natural social order: «In reference to any given society, the world of actual entities is to he conceived as forming a background in layers of social order, the defining characteristics become wider and more general as we widen the background» (PR 98 / 150).

Even more important for him, as limiting his task, was the background to all his thinking for half a century:

This tripartite organization makes the overall narrative disjointed, with Beecher fading to the background as ever more characters crowd onstage and the work becomes a survey of 19th - century history.

I am attempting to furnish a very broad sketch of the variety of Indian Christian perception of God - Christ relations as a background for a more detailed appraisal of insights on the same subject from a mystical tradition of Islam.

The beasts may be mentioned simply to accentuate the loneliness of the desert as a place of testing and struggle, but more probably, as D. E. Nineham suggests, «they are thought of as subject and friendly to» Jesus, and, hence, «the passage should be understood against the background of the common Jewish idea that the beasts are subject to the righteous man.»

Blending cultures: Faith traditions are becoming more diverse in the U.S. as people of different denominations, cultural backgrounds and ethnic heritages adopt new beliefs or reinterpret traditional ones.

In the process, I visited 44 movements, each with more than 1,000 Muslim - background believers in Jesus Christ who had been baptised as a defiant act of their new - found faith.

Finally, the totality of Israel's rebelliousness is, in the prophetic understanding, the shocking betrayal of Israel's pride and arrogance, which appear all the more reprehensible against the background of such relationships as father / son, owner / vineyard, and husband / wife:

The hope of glory yet to come remains as a background of thought, but the foreground is more and more occupied by the contemplation of all the riches of divine grace enjoyed here and now by those who are in Christ Jesus.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

MARY DOUGLAS AND A PRESCRIPTION FOR MODERN BRITAIN Dear Fr Editor Some of the more thoughtful parts of the secular media have recently acknowledged the passing of Mary Douglas, who Commonwealdescribes as «one of most influential Catholic intellectuals of the postwar era, and... perhaps the most influential social anthropologist from any background».