Sentences with phrase «more of an amateur»

I am probably more of an amateur than you, but with the advantage of a vast acquaintance with science and scientists and a brief foray into science itself (biochemistry).

You are more of an amateur than I thought.

@David B. Benson, thanks for the reply (i am even more of an amateur at this).

Not exact matches

Immigration is a far more contentious issue than online piracy and with U.S. unemployment still high, a bunch of super-rich political amateurs could easily attract popular antipathy.

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By shifting the risks away from banks and to asset managers, Gross argues that the risk of herd behavior that causes a liquidity event in markets has been shifted away from the professional investing class and to a more amateur, less - informed, skittish class of investor: the public.

But Sim Tack, a Stratfor analyst, told Business Insider that estimates of 100,000 or more Russian troops were taken from a Ukrainian blog, informnapalm.org, which is run by amateur journalists.

The second phase of this fever dream is that the world immediately reaches out to these amateur auteurs and fervently demands more of the same as well as offering princely sums for the privilege.

We don't want to make the amateur mistake of getting caught in an echo chamber, such as: Just because you watched one horror title, slapping in front of you nothing but more horror titles.»

The first notes that critics rely on amateur photos and videos of lower quality than those of the IDF, and that IDF claims are thus more credible (Richardson 2014a; Shapir 2013a).

If we remain mere amateurs in the actual Christian life, if we have not in some way accepted to obey a law within the context of Christian freedom and self - restraint, then we are no more than miserable bunglers even if we do not carry too much real ballast of historical piety.

The person who studied the classics at home, who wrote poetry in the early hours, or who listened in private to Beethoven quartets was, in my little patch of suburban England, no more to be despised than the expert in tarot cards, the amateur acrobat, or the breeder of exotic chickens.

This also gives you a nice barrier (like the Catholic church once used to great effectiveness) to convince the amateur readers of the Bible that your interpretation is more accurate and they could not possibly understand what it actually meant unless they had special training like you!

This thought crept into the back of my mind more than a few times in the midst of spooning down several hundred amateur salsas.

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Will try again, but one thing that would help the amateur baker would be to post more pictures of the process.

Amateur barbecue fan Johnny Fugitt wanted to learn more about barbecue, so he did what any of us would: Googled around and read «Top 10» and «10 Best» lists.

Try racing against literally hundreds of cars, all driven by complete amateurs and none of which cost more than 500 bucks.

The next morning, I took a train to Seville to see one of the more promising amateur fighters in the country, a 16 - year - old teen heartthrob nicknamed «Juanito,» who was fighting inside the baroque façade of the La Maestranza Plaza de Toros, immortalized in Bizet's opera Carmen.

The league's current structure for signing international amateurs — players born outside the United States ages 16 - 22 and with less than five years of experience in a professional league recognized by MLB — involves allotted signing bonus values for teams, with more money available the worse a team's record the previous year, very much like a draft.

At the Women's Sports Foundation awards dinner in New York on Oct. 5, Jackie Joyner - Kersee, who has grossed more than $ 750,000 in endorsements and stipends in 1992, was honored as amateur sportswoman of the year.

But surely, the real question is whether or not he is making the best job of any big name manager of running our club, given the restrictions he has from an uninterested owner and son, aboard of football amateurs - including a Chairman who cares more for horseracing than Arsenal - and a CEO who is clearly hopeless and has no real relationship with Wenger.

With more than 100 significant amateur championships to their credit, five generations of the Fords of Charleston have been to Carolina Lowcountry golf what the Wallendas have been to the high wire

The international swimming authority, FINA, wrote the Irish Amateur Swimming Association (IASA) in January and warned that any swimmer who is unavailable for out - of - competition testing more than two times faces suspension.

And while I will gladly acknowledge that I am an amateur in all of this while Rick Spielman and his staff are professionals with infinitely more knowledge than I possess, with my limited knowledge, I would still find it stupid for Spielman to prioritize safety or slot corner over the interior offensive line in the draft.

To my amateur eyes it looks like a lot more wide receiver screens and rub routes — the kind of routes where you're really setting a pick.

Ordinarily the Annual attracts a more balanced mix of professional gamblers and big - betting amateurs, but this year the pros are in short supply.

It's also about, in some far more fundamental way, the vast and sprawling roots of amateur and semi-professional football that feed, in rather tangled fashion, into the professional leagues.

It will be a mutation of the soul and the spirit that will span months and years; it will involve enlarging muscle mass and increasing brain power; it will include the hormonal process by which a girl becomes a woman; it will entail the spiritual journey of a gifted amateur into a professional; and, even more burdensome and fascinating, it will require Michelle to publicly assume the role for which she is being cast — the greatest women's golfer ever, a potential savior of her sport.

Under terms of the new agreement, there is an annual cap on spending on international amateurs, of no more than $ 5.75 million per team in total.

This could result in an upward spiral: more American kids playing indoor soccer, more young American players capable of beating out foreigners for spots in the indoor league, a more American game overall, a higher profile for the sport, encouraging more amateur players to take it up, and so on.

On other pages a hat-less Ben Hogan signs autographs for youngsters next to a sign proclaiming BUY MORE WAR BONDS; a phalanx of men pushes grass mowers past the Pinehurst clubhouse in the 1930s; Fred Astaire plays miniature golf with a lady on the roof of a Manhattan hotel; Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her knee - length skirt billowing, tees off at Tulsa's Southern Hills Country Club at the 1946 Women's Amateur; and a shirtless lefthander with a grip from hell Hails away on the driving range at the Ala Wai Golf Course in Honolulu.

The Republic of Ireland's Development and Amateur teams were playing against each other in what was nothing more than a training match.

He is a former amateur rugby player and has been working in the field of brain injury for more than 15 years.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

So, your amateur DJ might end up playing the same song numerous times or even play a heavy tune, when the mood of the event is a bit more romantic or mellow.

The 95th Congress of the United States passes the Amateur Sports Act, which states that no one organization may govern more than one sport.

The cognitive impairments and short - term memory problems suffered by the likes of ex-Carlton midfielder Greg «Diesel» Williams and Test - level forward Ian Roberts are well - documented — both have featured prominently on national television — while, more worryingly, Pearce found that their amateur counterparts are liable to exactly the same symptoms minus the corresponding level of medical care and financial security.

What set «Baby and Child Care» apart from so many other childrearing manuals is that Dr. Spock addressed parents with the friendly, forgiving voice of an amateur, someone who might know more than they did but who didn't talk down to them.

I must admit I haven't read either Cowley or Norton, but I do wonder if Hanna's position, though his recent article doesn't make it explicit, is not more accurately understood as a lament on the loss of amateurism as a virtue in the political establishment (the amateur MP, the eccentric parliamentarian, the independent - minded representative, which of course gives the Hannan position indirectly: the professionalisation of politics and political parties, the well - drilled party system and an overbearing executive).

I think campaigns will find they have less and less control of the message and the community, and that more and more amateurs will create upstart communities which, in many cases, they don't give over to the campaign.

In an interview with CNN, King said that initially he thought Trump's inflammatory comments were the result of inexperience — «things that maybe an amateur would say» — but now «the more the campaign goes along, the more extreme he gets.

Police officials expect to soon have more information on the make - up of the explosive that seriously injured an 18 - year - old Virginia man's foot in Central Park, and suspect it was the result of amateur research by someone who did not mean to cause harm.

De Blasio called the two more recent incidents in other parts of the country — both caught in gruesome detail on amateur video recordings — a pattern that must be disrupted.

WNY's leading tourism advocate envisions a Field of Dreams to lure more amateur sporting events to Buffalo.

At Netroots Nation, what you might call the premier gathering of the amateur or semi-pro left, there will surely be more celebration.

The party undertook a major review of its organisational structures under the leadership of John Swinney in 2004 designed to move it from being an «amateur activist» party to a more «professional electoral» one.

Additionally, construction of the HARBORcenter project downtown promises to bring even more amateur hockey to Buffalo.

More than 60 years since the end of hostilities, a team of amateur cryptologists have set to work trying to crack three previously undecoded messages that were encrypted by the Nazis» famous Enigma machine — and they are making speedy progress.

From NASA's point of view, the value of amateurs is obvious: The more pairs of telescope - aided eyes scanning the cosmos, the greater the likelihood that significant discoveries will be made — and given the budget crunches of the past few years, the agency needs all the unpaid sky watchers it can get.