Sentences with phrase «much as it attempts»

During the Soviet era in Russia, secular Communism arguably did not attempt to eradicate religion so much as it attempted to become the religion.

The Stoke goal started with a lame attempt at intervention by Xhaka which totally failed, then Ozil trotted half - heartedly after the Stoke player only to give up without even so much as an attempt at a tackle, then Mustafi gave the Stoke player the inside of the box whilst he should have forced him outside only then did Monreal fail as last stop.

Intimidating speech is not the expression of a point of view so much as an attempt to stop unwanted points of view from being expressed by others.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

We don't contemplate the paintings so much as attempt to grasp the conflicting elements that energize their clamoring internal spaces.

As much as we attempt to work in a number of other kinds of institutions, it's still the Studio Museum that first and foremost recognizes our contributions.

The study does not show a rise in ocean temp so much as it attempts to model the variation of ocean temperature in order to pick out the forcings.

I've never seen so much as an attempt to justify calling it «internal», yet it gets asserted multiple times daily, right alongside the contradictory assertions that everything's uncertain.

Mine did, but the driving factors for me using an LLC weren't to avoid liability over payment for asset as much as attempting to place a firewall between my personal and business dealings.

Not exact matches

And to this day, because she fears being seen as «stupid,» she pushes herself to learn as much as she can in an attempt to measure up.

If you understand this fact, then suddenly, you can have a better attitude toward the change in your life while continuing to attempt to control the outcomes as much as possible — but not letting the things that are out of control upset you.

Skurge spends much of «Thor: Ragnarok» as an unlikable coward, but he attempts to redeem himself in the end by betraying Hela... who then launches a sword through his chest.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.

In January, Viacom announced a $ 1 billion cash investment from Shanghai Film Group and Huahua Media, giving the U.S. studio much - needed cash and support as it attempts to grow.

Without saying as much directly, the ESRB is adding the label in an attempt to assuage the concerns of legislators.

Activists in four states were arrested after they cut padlocks and chains and entered remote flow stations to turn off valves in an attempt to stop crude moving through lines that carry as much as 15 % of daily U.S. oil consumption.

And as NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen has argued, the attempt to be evenly balanced on every issue can lead to a problem he calls the «view from nowhere,» in which there is so much balance it arguably distorts the issue.

Much like trolls» attempts to affect Black Panther «s status as a critical darling, the Twitter posts describing fake attacks at movie screenings also seemed to be part of a racist campaign meant to scare people away from theaters in order to hurt the film's overall box - office gross (again, a major fail).

Enter FounderMade, an attempt to bridge this information divide by offering four industry - specific forums (Wellness, Food, Invention, Beauty) that appeal to startup founders as much as to large established companies.

Long before the Hogan trial took center stage, Gawker Media invested millions (Denton won't say how much exactly) in building a commenting and reader - blogging system it called Kinja, which Denton described as nothing less than an attempt to turn the publishing world on its head — to put readers on the same level with journalists and publishers.

But what made this company's work so revolutionary was not what it was trying to make so much as how it was attempting to do it.

It looks to be seeking to test the water to see how much of the workings of platforms» algorithmic blackboxes can be coaxed from them voluntarily — such as via measures targeting bots and fake accounts — in an attempt to stave off formal and more fulsome regulations down the line.

Be careful though, because if it's too high it may also mean that too much time is being spent here, as too much effort (and time) may be spent in an attempt to reach a lead that could be better spent elsewhere.

We've heard an awful lot about entrepreneurs attempting to «disrupt» the tech ecosystem with new innovations, but few sectors are experiencing as much disruption as the auto industry, where dozens of start - ups are aiming to create the vehicle of the future.

Although the private company's finances are a mystery, industry experts question whether the company is subsidizing rides to grow market share, much as it did recently in a failed attempt to break into the Didi Chuxing - controlled Chinese market.

I would leave the straight razor to the professionals as these are much harder to use when attempting to shave your own head.

This dubious promotion, wherein the account promises to send ten times as much Ether to participants, attempts to draw interest through a «limited» opportunity.

My increasing concern is that we won't see much from the incoming administration that doesn't involve intimidation, misuse of power, self - dealing, and attempts to use discretionary edict - as a substitute for equal protection and legislative process.

as this book documents so well, a foolish attempt to beat the market and get rich quickly will make one s broker rich and oneself much less so.»

Our ongoing response to omnipresent risks is to attempt to mitigate as much as we can, intelligently and affordably, while willingly incurring only those risks for which we are being well compensated» Seth Klarman

Throughout his career he has been active on public and private corporation boards as well as those of 501 (c)(3) organizations; he believes that «to whom much is given, much is expected in return» and attempts to live life and manage wealth with reference to the Golden Rule.

The Corporate Mapping Project report by earth scientist David Hughes may attempt to cast some illumination on the facts underlying this debate, but it is not likely in the current overheated circumstances to get much attention except as the work of «enemies» of the oilpatch who «want to destroy» Alberta jobs.

Going well beyond a static profile, buyer personas can reveal much about how buyers are actually behaving in the various stages as well as indicate what specific goals they are attempting to accomplish in each stage.

You must attempt to secure as much time as possible in order to advance your binary options skills in small steps of incremental risk.

Altcoins began life as little more than bitcoin copies attempting to mimic bitcoin's successful run, but they quickly became much more than their name suggests.

Carefully controlled experiments not only attempted to divine the shape of a demand curve — which shows just how much of a product people will buy as you keep raising the price, allowing retailers to find the optimal, profit - maximizing figure.

Than nuclear quantitative easing, the goal here is to just buy as much debt as possible to try and stop the debt bubble from deflating in an attempt to reflate it.

Instead of supporting this attempt — a drive that has the positive consequence for world peace that it will limit U.S. military adventurism (much as the Vietnam War finally forced the dollar off gold in 1971), Krugman is using the crisis to attack China — as if its success is what is harming U.S. labor.

The combination of fear, social proof [other investors are selling], loss aversion [we feel losses twice as much as gains] and recency bias [we overweigh what has happened recently and underweigh or ignore the long term evidence] counteract the average investors attempt to make a rational decision.

While we do believe the New York Agreement (NYA) and Segwit2x proponents have the best of intentions in attempting to improve Bitcoin's protocol and have contributed so much to the development of the Bitcoin industry as a whole, we do not agree with the process by which they chose to enforce these changes.

The attempt, under Bill C - 32, to bring Canada into conformity with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)'s 1996 Internet treaties is an effort to navigate these tensions — occasioning as much friction and controversy as its predecessors.

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

Or... you can put asside your prophecies of doom & gloom, praying and hoping for God to smite all the yellow, black & brown people who don't believe the way you do anyway, and attempt to make peace with your neighbors, not by converting them at swordpoint, but accepting them and learning about their cultures and traditions and give them as much respect as you want them to show you.

Much as it did during the dark ages, it will attempt to burn all books, scrolls, and data that do not agree with its doctrine.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

But it's also obvious that she desires to rally people against Tony and attempt to damage his reputation as much as she can.

Peacocke finds a similarity of intention in religious and scientific cosmologies: «Both attempt to take into account as much of the «data» of the observed universe as possible and both use criteria of simplicity, comprehensiveness, elegance, and plausibility....

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

Insofar as philosophers now attempt to reach final conclusions, they characteristically abandon the traditional questions of philosophy and limit themselves to much more specialized ones.