Sentences with phrase «much intellectual effort»

Bart R, this particular abstract property of recurring maps is not overly rich conceptually, and does not require much intellectual effort to understand and appreciate.

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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.

For me to suggest that much of what followed right into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is not intended to be dismissive of intellectual giants whose efforts far outstrip my own.

Such were our intellectual efforts, when it would have been so much simpler to believe in Jesus!

However, it is much cheaper to go to the theater or cinema, but here flirt, excitement, and what is most important, your totally unpunished intellectual - charismatic efforts.

The Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci (a writer not much cited these days) developed a theory of what he called «organic intellectuals» that has become a vital part of wider efforts to understand how modern societies work and how their working might be improved.

Teaching is as much amoral effort as it is an intellectual enterprise; teachers not only educate our children how to think and solve problems, they also inform children's beliefs about what is right, good, and important in life, shaping their values in the process.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

Co-directors Yuka Yokoyama and David Dempewolf noted in a 2009 interview that without such critical apparatuses, «much of the intellectual content of their efforts [is] lost and the work is only read formally and / or emotionally.»

-- Finally, even the collection of the raw data, much more the different stages of analysis, represent a considerable degree of intellectual effort.

Intellectual property lawyers are bracing for change as the federal courts move forward with an effort that could see much higher cost awards as a way of discouraging unnecessary and vexatious litigation.