Sentences with phrase «n't out of his element»

In planning to reinvent the movie camera, Jannard wasn't out of his element.

Not exact matches

Ali, moreover, points out that planners, because they work so often with members of the public, need to be versed not just in the technical elements of the job; they must also possess exemplary communications skills, and have to be able to respond to criticism or skepticism from residents.

As detailed in a study by Harvard Business professor Dennis Campbell, TD revolutionized the way it measured the in - bank experience, streamlining its customer satisfaction survey and using a massive pool of customer data to find out not only how customers felt about their banking experience, but also what specific elements of «satisfaction» mattered most to them.

While you should certainly make «free shipping» a prominent element of your home page, don't overdo it and drown out important messages about your brand and specific products.

Employees were siloed workhorses, churning out elements of a digital product as if part of an assembly line, not fully understanding how their part of a project impacted others or fit into the overall strategy.

It turns out there is psychology behind almost every element of the Facebook experience — and researchers can't seem to get enough of studying our habits there.

We're not talking about paring the superfluous elements out of your message.

Senior executives are debating the elements of a comprehensive plan to streamline Ford's internal operations and rebuild profitability in the company's North American business, and job cuts can not be ruled out, these people said.

If people love a physical keypad I will not talk them out of it but it's one element of the larger experience,» he said.

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Automation ensures proper and not too frequent touch points for leads but takes away the manual element of reaching out continuously.

Regulators haven't quite figured out how to deal with the newfangled fundraising method, which blends elements of crowdfunding via cryptoassets and traditional initial public offerings.

This does not create a fair playing field and it pulls the underpinnings out from under the WTO, the World Trade Organization, which is the major element in the destruction of the industrial power of Japan, Canada, the US and Europe.

It has elements of «value investing» that help in total returns but index out - performance is not guaranteed.

I also did not say that America was Isolationist — there was a large isolationist element in society (and the Christians were in that camp) that effectively kept America out of the war for years, but Roosevelt, an internationalist, was able to provide supplies via lend - lease (which the conservatives and religious people of the time opposed).

The problem is that through out history folks have called groups or elements of society that they do or did not like or agree with such names to de-humanize them.

If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient experiences; is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative experience for the patient.

Another element of continuity, conscious or not, is the idea that they are a remnant, a people called out of the larger doomed society to herald a new age.

In two respects, however, the Thomas version may be more original than the Matthaean, for, as Jeremias points out, the fact that the merchant is a general merchant and not a dealer in pearls, preserves the element of surprise, and that the merchant sold his merchandise is more likely to be original than that he sold all that he had (Ibid., p. 199) Both changes are easy to account for in the tradition; the first under the influence of the fact that the merchant found a pearl, and the second under the influence of v. 44 when the two parables were brought together by Matthew.

In a 2009 essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the fiftieth anniversary of Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Edinburgh professor Geoffrey Pullum isn't content to point out errors in that celebrated book.

Thus those elements of our experience which stand out clearly and distinctly in our consciousness are not its basic facts» (PR 245).

@Jeff: Yes, and because of this element of surprise, arming citizens will not do anything to solve the problem that there is a crazed gunman out there in the first place.

My reply there lays out the erotic and political elements any full analysis of that song would address, and why the Solidarity connection is not the key to the song, nor entirely «what it is about.»

Perhaps, however, «synthesis» is not quite the right word, for it may imply the creation of unity out of originally diverse elements.

Victor does not fault the logic of these elements of the protocol, but he does point out the extreme difficulty of measuring and monitoring them.

If the resurrection is the true dénouement of the whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which brings us to the frontiers of normal human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.

This selection of Pharisaism expresses the belief not only that Pharisaism represented the normative expression of the mainstream of prophetic Judaism, but also that Jesus» message formed itself primarily in relation to Pharisaism out of a different configuration of elements in this mainstream.

They have been stirred together in a mortar, and the two elements have completely neutralized each other in a compound which is neither history nor interpretation, but mystical rhapsody and poetry of devotion, not so much a theology as a half - Gnostic Christian theosophy — history turned inside out in order to reveal its inner meaning, but ceasing to be history in the process.

The fact that some good may have come out of the first World War does not alter the other present fact that the war was evil and that it is still recognized as evil because it involved elements of mutual obstructiveness.

Pride is then followed by surprise at what I didn't already know, and the enlightenment of discovering new elements the adaptation left out.

As another example, if the relationship between the strengths of the gravitational force and the electromagnetic force were not close to what it is, then the cosmos would not harbor any stars that explode and spew out life - supporting chemical elements into space or any other stars that form planets.

Niebuhr pointed out that in its personal - individual form, revelation contains three elements, two of which are sharply defined and the third not defined at all.

The energy emanating from it is free not only in the sense that it represents forces that can be used: it is moreover free because, in the Whole no less than in the least of its elements, it arises out of a state that grows ever more spiritualized.

As for myself, I think it will prove to contain some elements which morality pure and simple does not contain, and these elements I shall soon seek to point out; so I will myself continue to apply the word «religion'to it; and in the last lecture of all, I will bring in the theologies and the ecclesiasticisms, and say something of its relation to them.

Similarly I find his dialectic of past and future to be out of correspondence with reality, forcing him to reject not only the past but the non-eschatological future as positive elements in his theology.

This is another unique element, not only does God come down and reach out to man, but he gives him a free pardon of his crimes.

Despite elements of evasion, panic, scapegoating, and other desperate efforts to wriggle out of their bad fix, the bishops will not get off scot free.

Because we are not used to thinking this way, it may be worthwhile to spell out the basic elements of the case for more explicit attention to protecting social environments.

But may it not be that our fear of a process of mechanization seemingly fatal to our active growth arises simply from the fact that we have left the most important element out of our reckoning?

In thus analyzing the elements in this moment, as well as in describing as I have its inner significance, I do not believe I am doing more than to draw out some of the implications of the common Christian experience and conviction which we considered in an earlier chapter.

The Beach Boys were a pretty good model of what thoroughly middle class folk with no blues or country apprenticeship possibilities can aspire to do, working to keep a rhythm n» blues feel while trying to work something fresh out of elements (barbershop, surf instros) that reflected their backgrounds.

The entity rises out of a constitutive activity analyzable into elements which are not actual entities.

It is the dimension of suffering, not as something chosen out of masochism but as an element of growth in the Spirit itself, that distinguishes authentic learning of Jesus from cheap versions of Christianity that trumpet Jesus as the solution to all life's problems.

Because the empty tomb is the most historically defensible element of the resurrection narratives, they point out all the reasons why this would not imply a resurrection.

When gospel - related themes about justice, peace, and equality are raised in the various elements of culture, the church may suspect that these issues did not rise solely out of the hearts and minds of unregenerate people, but were created by the gentle breezes of the Spirit upon all people in our society.

Also, keep in mind that Jesus — «the fun loving hippie, also spoke of judgment and hell... you can just pull out the pieces of God you like and disregard the elements... if so you are creating a god in your own image and not His.

Cooking always brings an element of entertainment and who doesn't like hanging out in the kitchen?

While pricing is definitely an important part of certification, and while Rainforest Alliance Certified ™ farms often generate significantly higher prices for their crops, a system that focuses primarily on pricing may miss out on a number of other critical elements that influence whether or not a farmer can lift himself out of poverty.

When Harry Guggenheim is drawn out on his philosophies about racing, he speaks with the conviction of a hardheaded, not overly imaginative man who is delighted to find in this particular sport an element of life lacking in the day - to - day conduct of other businesses.

Before KO, he made us much weaker than we should have been, because of three elements: using players that are not good enough at this level, players in the wrong position, and players out of form.