Sentences with phrase «naming things rather»

Not exact matches

We can entertain ourselves behind screens; and, perhaps the thing most severely changing group dynamics is texting rather than picking up the phone and having a conversation or communicating, if you call it that, through Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest — you name it.

Well, now we know that Theodor Geisel's (that's another thing — no «e» at the end of his first name) pen name — which was his mother's maiden name — was actually pronounced to rhyme with «voice» rather than «moose.»»

The Anne Frank Foundation said it recognized the «good intentions» of those who name things after Frank, but pointed out that the significance of Frank and what she represents «will increasingly have a contemporary rather than a historical basis.»

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

This all seems rather silly but I could see the Student Republicans flooding the Student Democrats (or vice-versa of course) with fake members then electing people who would do outrageous things in the name of the group to disgrace them.

He takes a rather suspiciously named «Peter» (played by Levi Miller) and we'll see where things go from there.

On an interesting side note, back in my fundie days, I refused to vote for the politicians that supported marriage equality and even wrote a letter to my member to that effect; the only thing I ever felt strongly enough about to actually write rather than be content just signing my name to a petition.

This doesn't mean that we tack on «in Jesus» name, Amen» to the end of every prayer, but rather, that we pray for the things Jesus would pray for, as if He were the one praying.

And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; not that they were hereby warranted to drink poison, to show what power they had; but should they accidentally drink it, or rather should they be forced to it by their enemies in order to destroy them, they should find no hurt by it: and Papias F24 reports of Barsabas, surnamed Justus, who was put up with Matthias for the apostleship, (Acts 1:23), that he drank a poisonous draught, and by the grace of the Lord, received no hurt: and the Jews themselves report F25, that «a son of R. Joshua ben Levi, swallowed something hurtful; and one came and whispered to him in the name of Jesus, the son of Pandira (so they call our Lord), and he did well.»

The movement of our love toward all these things, though they go by the name of God or gods, is the way of our idolatry; it is the movement toward the many away from the One, toward the partial instead of the universal, toward the work of our hands rather than toward our Maker.

Some say there is such a thing but it should be called by another name, «public piety,» for example, rather than civil religion.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

I think the CSWBG movement might have evolved through a scenario rather like this: probably under the mistaken truism that more expensive is automatically better in all things, somebody started buying high - grade steak and carefully hand - slicing it into tiny, uniform, fat - free cubes, then sauteeing them into a rich gravy without too much of those old Mexican spices that have given chili such a good (or bad) name over the years.

There are many things I make at home rather than buying them at the store and never give it a second thought — pita, salad dressing, tomato sauce, pizza dough, and soft sugar cookies just to name a few.

I just don't know what's wrong with Arsenal fans.Sure I get it as humans we all have our preferences but things start to look funny when we begin to bash and criticize a player like he's useless.I just don't get why Arsenal fans do nt want Vardy.Oh is it because he's not world class, he's English, He's not a big name, he's a fairy tale, you feel all he does is run, he's not got a better history in footballing until now or you feel Giroud is better or what?I really pity Arsenal fans honestly.I would've taken Jamie Vardy in a heartbeat.Sure he's not the best option out there.But I'll say this and say it again it's not a world class striker that wins you a league but rather just increases your chances of winning the league.If you've watched Arsenal clearly from the time since Henry left you realized that it's more of not being able to find a clinical striker.Eduardo was not a already a finished product when he started his career here yet he was clinical and was on world class form until injury.What Arsenal need now is a world class finisher if they can't get a world class striker.

Would rather short a stock that pops on some random thing (like adding blockchain to their name) than a company that drops because it lost 30 % of their customers.

Wenger himself has stated in the past that it is the right balance of players rather than star names that is more important to the Gunners, but does this mean that he believes it is the best way for Arsenal to win things or simply that it is the right way to go about things?

From his name OsloGunner maybe he prefers to spend his hard earned cash on other things, rather than return flights from Norway and tickets to games.

One of the best racers was a British woman named Audrey Sale - Barker, and a description of her from a contemporary account (1929) is fascinating — if only to see how this rather pale and ethereal young thing contrasts with the sturdy, hard - schussing women downhillers of today: «Audrey Sale - Barker was very tall, extremely slim... with pale honey - colored hair, a vague, dreamy expression, and when she skied I can only describe her as a sleepwalker.

I'd rather think about her name than think about how I'm going to keep her safe out there... or maybe it's because we all know that, despite our best efforts, we can't prevent them from being bullied, or getting hurt, or just feeling the ups and downs of being human... so we try to exert some control over the one thing that we know will travel with them... maybe it's a little like trying to wrap them in a protective spell J

The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.

Then four years ago Charles Zuker, a rather aptly named neuroscientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, made a startling announcement: All the sweet things in life are perceived by a single receptor.

The researchers, led by Dr Aleksandra Cichocka of the University's School of Psychology, also established that conservatives generally, to a greater degree than liberals, tend to refer to things by their names, rather than describing them in terms of their features.

Not naming things and rather BEING with them is quite the challenge.

Despite what the name says, these are not foods per - say, rather the things that bring us nourishment and peace at a spiritual and emotional level.

Name aside though, this is a pretty good site, but does tend to verge more on the adult entertainment, rather than adult dating, side of things.

A bunch of impressive set pieces stitched together rather than a good story convincingly told, this gargantuan production should ride Brad Pitt «s name, teeming action scenes and widespread interest in all things zombie to strong box office returns, particularly internationally.

It works incredibly well, despite being a remake, and showing us a great main character «The Thing» does not stain or rather the name of his predecessor.

There other flubs in The Next Best Thing (such as a line where Robert mentions it's the 21st Century in a scene that, in the film's time frame, should be set around 1993; or the fact that Robert's sole love interest, a cardiologist, has no name and is rather comically listed in the closing credits as «Cardiologist»), but to go over them would be as pointless an exercise as the entire film is.

i note that justin long's character name in «Accepted» is Bartleby Gaines, and wonder if it's some sort of nod of the head on the part of the writers» to Melville's «Bartleby» the scrivner who doesn't work or live like the other clerks and scrivners around him, and isn't accepted by them because he «would rather not» be somebody, or fit into the accepted way of doing things.

There's a furtive and rather cryptic Mexican (Demian Bichir) who calls himself Bob, a former Confederate general (Bruce Dern), a smug and effete British hangman (Tim Roth, filling what might otherwise be the Christoph Waltz part), and a smirking gunman named Joe Gage (Michael Madsen, doing the Michael Madsen thing).

«And the idea of the spiral curriculum — where you can over time revisit basic ideas / concepts in ever more complex ways — is so different from today, where we try to simplify things to lists, or memorization of isolated names and numbers, or multiple choice options, thereby deadening rather than waking up the mind.»

The truly hilarious thing about this sentence is that if Leonard is right — that Amazon is starting a «class war» between authors, then Leonard is deliberately siding with the «one - percenters» of the publishing world — the Turows, Prestons, and Kings, rather than the ninety - nine percent of authors who can only dream of the volume of sales enjoyed by those big - name authors.

This biography of Celia Cruz is a lot gusher than her own — the author often refers to her as things like «the diva» rather than her name, which is a l

This biography of Celia Cruz is a lot gusher than her own — the author often refers to her as things like «the diva» rather than her name, which is a little uncomfortable.

Things like being able to swipe from message to message and having contact cards, rather than just names or dirty email addresses, makes everything look more refined.

If someone wants to argue that women need to use initials rather than their names for books in genres largely considered the province of male interest such as action - adventure, that's one thing.

EDIT: One more thing «Jrock» (how cool is that name... / s), you need to look around your residence for a rather large rock under which you can crawl.

Players control a mage who has weaseled himself into the inner circle of Demonaica, the rather generically named evil overlord who does... evil things.

The larger narrative engulfs too many names in too many regions doing too many things to keep too much track of, although one can assign that fault to Final Fantasy XII's place in the convoluted Ivalice saga rather than an individual narrative failing.

Elsewhere the game has players vanquishing foes with a rather, shall we say eclectic selection of weapons that includes such things as a tree trunk that shoots rocks and a chicken that fires eggs, to name just a few.

Also, the clue is in the name: a few good things — a carefully selected and limited colour palette of black, grey, green and white; a quiet, neat and rather beautiful sans serif font; carefully considered paper stocks and a neat graphic device tying it all together make for a cohesive, uncomplicated identity system.

The aim in all this is not to create a straightforward narrative description of an event, place or person, but rather to explore distinctions between nameable things and things we can not name, between thoughts and objects.

The same thing happens to AGWers at skeptic sites, to be sure... some of the name - calling and automatic dismissals comes across as rather close - minded on both sides.

Biglaw is good for a few things — matters that need a response quickly, matters a client would rather have drawn out for many years, big deals that require an important name on the cover (for some reason no one thinks my name is important), sexual harassment — and a few things only.

In Jameel, Lord Bingham noted that the good name of a company, as that of an individual, is a thing of value: commercial rather than immortal, but of value nonetheless.

This partial anonymity is pseudonymous rather than anonymous: All of your transactions are visible, and the only thing that protects you is a «fake» name.

But in terms of customization, the lock screen is rather limited, and one of the things that users can't change is their name displayed every time they're asked to input their password.

With the Moto X series having made a name for itself in the smartphone world for offering personalisation like no other smartphone maker did, Lenovo changed things up with the Moto Z. Rather than just being able to customise the look, the Moto Z sought to offer a customised experience via modular snap - on accessories, called Moto Mods.

One of the most exciting things Microsoft announced at Build 2017 was the «Fluent Design System,» not because of the name, which is a bit clumsy, but rather the underlying theory.