Sentences with phrase «mystery to most»

Despite a recent U.S. publicity blitz about the moderate Arab city - state, Dubai remains a mystery to most Americans.

Litigation graphics were largely a mystery to most lawyers at that time, and I believe that the litigators at Howrey were quite proud of the in - house graphics department.

Success, however, does remain elusive and the workings of human rights commissions and tribunals across the country remain a mystery to most ordinary folks.

But the ingredients of a «good» website remain a mystery to most attorneys.

Mr. Monckton is something of a mystery to most Americans who follow climate.

They allow them to bamboozle the public because computer models are a complete mystery to most people.»

Chosen from more than 300 applications, the gray box, which sits across from the Fine Arts Center in the middle of campus, is still a mystery to most.

The first part of the game is a complete mystery to most.

The appeal of bungy jumping is a constant mystery to most folks.

Blockchain mortgage is a mystery to most of us, but it could make buying and financing a home fast, easy and less - expensive in the future.

Hedge funds are still a mystery to most main street investors.

AC: I know, I think that's a mystery to most people.

The fairly recent innovation of layered comics used by Thrillbent, Marvel Infinite and others is still a mystery to most, even though I'm convinced it's going to be a future if not the future of digital comics.

Who buys what and what works is still a big mystery to most authors.

Not only does it provide a wealth of highly readable information about the hilltribes that live in the mountainous area known as the «Golden Triangle» that spans the borders of five South - East Asian countries (see sidebar), but it also provides a study of two other cultural groups that are a mystery to most of us - missionaries and anthropologists!

Fi knows about books and means well, but she knows very little about Kenya, and even less about the semi-nomadic tribes that the mobile library serves, who are a mystery to most city - dwelling Kenyans, let alone to foreigners.

However, despite this, «online education is still a mystery to most people — they have no real idea how it works» [2].

School funding is a mystery to most Texans and can be described as convoluted at best.

Yet for all the talk, what educational tests can and can't tell you, and how scores can be misunderstood and misused, remains a mystery to most.

The inner workings of the metabolism are a mystery to most and yet we're convinced that a strong metabolism is the key to our weight loss success.

Like the trailing, unseen strings of numbers that make up «the Matrix,» the world of standards operates as a mystery to most — affecting all but understood by few.

Two other de Blasio rivals also were also a mystery to most voters — 66 percent said they had no view of Bo Dietl, who is running as an independent and 64 percent hadn't heard of Reform Party candidate Sal Albanese, a perennial candidate.

And here's one on discipline: «In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers.

TSA is usually a mystery to most parents on how their policies work especially if you haven't flown before or with kids.

Quite how Stewart Downing gets into the England set - up ahead of him is a mystery to most football fans.

At least when he was picked for the team... Chelsea's seeming reluctance to give him a chance will remain a mystery to most, and their error of judgement is even more pronounced now that he is flourishing for Premier League rivals Man City.

Not exact matches

No matter what the truth behind the mystery is, it seems as though most sports fans will be sticking to hot dogs and nachos for now.

While those groups were well - known to most voters, one of the groups that joined the counter-protesters was a relative mystery to many Americans.

In order to tell that story for Canada's 150th year, our Government will continue efforts to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of our past.

Most of the mystery shops require a small purchase (which is usually reimbursed) and / or photographs to document your shop.

Nevertheless, why Mr. Flaherty decided to change the timing for the 2014 budget after tabling most of his previous budgets in March remains a mystery.

Most of trades during Thursday's unprecedented sell - off that Nasdaq and the NYSE plan to cancel involve ETFs, and the mystery as to why hasn't yet been solved.

When most people think about branding, logos are the first thing that come to mind, and it's no mystery why.

The real mystery, and ultimately the reason most asset bubbles last, is why certain asset markets tend to spike randomly in the first place.

A Mystery Shopping engagement will enable your institution to focus on objectives that are aligned to your most critical opportunities and competitive advantages.

Israel's top - secret Mossad spy agency has long been shrouded in mystery and mythology, behind what are believed to be some of the most daring covert operations of the past century.

``... those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy, the most sublime & benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man, endeavored to crush your well earnt, & well deserved fame.»

One of the most moving sections discusses the way in which the sexual revolution and the overweening arrogance of science have destroyed the mystery of life and reduced sex to a casual recreation.

How will you grasp what Gadamer is saying if you are resolutely unprepared (as most philosophers are) to acknowledge the ontological mystery of a Being that speaks directly to us» that is, to our troubles, our innermost issues of identity and value?

The thing about science is it does provide the answers to most of the mysteries we use to give god credit for.

The thing I loved most about it is that it took breastfeeding from a mystery to a normal part of life, while also affirming the art and wholeness and spirituality of the practice.

He reserves his most ferocious verbal assaults for «zealots» like Nellie Gray; he attacks Phyllis Schlafly («Why anyone paid any attention to this lady is one of the mysteries of the 80s»); he turns on Carl Anderson, who perhaps more than any other single figure in the Reagan Administration was responsible for the success of Koop's confirmation process, and berates him unmercifully for his opposition to the condom solution for AIDS.

There is more power (and more mystery) in prayer than most of us realize, but as you say, God is not obligated to give us what we ask for.

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?)

As Bennis and Mitroff argue, most of us are uncomfortable with unknowns and mysteries so we create unrealities to fill in the blanks.

It is rather the power to rediscover and live, each time afresh, the peace, power, and joy of this most intimate of unions, to experience each time afresh, its inexhaustible wonder and mystery.

For the future of the Church everywhere, too, what is most essential is the ancient yet ever - new message of Christianity, that is to say that in the darkness of this life the hearts of men must entrust themselves to that ineffable, adorable mystery of life which we call God in faith, hope and love and unconditional confidence in Jesus Christ our Lord.

It allows the Word of God to remain alive rather than shrouding it in the binder of the most read, but yet the most misinterpreted book ever written — because many of those who read it, read it through the eyes and mind of an ancient civilization that was only beginning to understand the mysteries of creation.

And that, perhaps oddly, is why I am drawn to the mystery of faith in most historical science.

If all we can say of Jesus and of God is that Jesus is God — all the God of God there is — then we have effectively ruled out all other attempts of the human spirit to glimpse the mystery of the ultimate; and this is all the more conspicuously the case when our understanding of «Jesus,» in the first place, is really a dogmatic reduction of his person, his «thou - ness,» to the «it - ness» of christological propositions that, most of them, enshrine little more than our own religious bid for authority.