Sentences with phrase «narrow slice of»

«It involves taking a narrow slice of data, just what you can capture in the blink of an eye, and letting your intuition do the work for you,» Gladwell writes.

Unnecessarily defines the QRM exemption from the risk retention requirements to include only a narrow slice of the mortgage market.

Will a broad cross-section of low - income couples participate or only a narrow slice of the population?

Rather than be overly broad or intentionally narrow, HubSTREET targets a narrow slice of the professional services sector — lawyers, accountants and lenders.

It's clear that the Earth is a dynamic, far from equilibrium system, and that the popular view of nature as being perpetually in equilibrium is only due to the narrow slice of human history through which we view the past.

Nowhere in his article does he take on the issue that the car is travelling 70 MPH and potentially about to accelerate, instead to him it's all about some scientists» overreaction to a narrow slice of the whole picture.

But rather that focusing the movement on an explicitly spiritual approach is «the perfect recipe to alienate, bewilder and sideline Transition in the US or anywhere else, to condemn it to the back pages of Kindred Spirit magazine and restrict it to a very narrow slice of society».

Almost all climatologists work within a narrow slice of the total climatology pie: solar variations, the oceans, atmospheric circulation, heat transfer, cloud formation, proxies for past variability, climate models,... but very few if any, have a synoptic view of the entire field.

It raises money to fund good programs, but the relatively small carbon price it imposes on a relatively narrow slice of the economy does not, in and of itself, drive many (or possibly any) carbon reductions that wouldn't have otherwise occurred.

«I think it's difficult because the raw morality you're presented with in a game is a very narrow slice of life, a narrow experience band,» explained Laidlaw.

Sector funds are special - purpose stock funds that invest in a very narrow slice of the economy.

But standardized tests focus on just a narrow slice of student learning and experience; they provide neither insight into a given school's strengths and weaknesses nor much evidence regarding whether the school should be closed or overhauled.

As the widely published education scholar Jay P. Greene of the University of Arkansas (who has sympathy for Dougco's goals) told me, «I've come to believe that we're capturing [through testing] too narrow a slice of the educational outcomes we are interested in.

State tests in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era tended to be: a) highly procedural, ignoring the conceptual skills in the standards, b) heavily or exclusively multiple - choice, and c) predictable in their coverage of a narrow slice of content in the standards.

Introduced and narrated by Parton - from Dollywood, no less - NBC's movie focuses on a narrow slice of the singer's early biography, defined by the power of love and religion.

Those are some statements made by a narrow slice of the population.

For most of its mission, Kepler stared at a deep but narrow slice of the Universe — peering out some 920 parsecs (3,000 light years) from Earth but covering only 0.25 % of the sky.

There the radio signals will excite electrons and turn them into waves of relatively hot ionized gas, or plasma, in a narrow slice of sky.

The memo makes clear that religious protections are not just guaranteed to a narrow slice of groups, like churches, nonprofits, and organizations with solely religious work.

Namely, history is almost completely irrelevant in an information environment that restricts one's attention to a narrow slice of temporal immediacy.

However, I do think the fact that such a narrow slice of the market has driven much of the S&P 500's gains poses a growing risk and headwind for gains in the coming year.

As I look forward to 2018, I am concerned that the market environment continues to favor high - priced growth stocks, especially a narrow slice of what I consider increasingly expensive technology and consumer discretionary companies.

«This doesn't work on [an iPhone] 6s, doesn't work in a 5s, and so we have a tool that works on a narrow slice of phones,» Comey said during a question - and - answer session recently.

This time around, YouTube is concentrating only on a narrow slice of homegrown talent.

Other bond funds focus on a narrower slice of the bond market, such as a short - term Treasury fund or a corporate high - yield fund.

Writing in CQROllcall's Connectivity blog this week, I cover some recent advances in the field, starting with cookie targeting and similar advertising strategies designed to reach narrow slices of the public.

Even in receptive locales, only narrow slices of the schools and services are truly open to entrepreneurs.

That's why our experts gave preference to ETFs tracking broad indexes rather than narrow slices of the market, such as the energy, financial or technology sectors.

Commercial marketers (and the Pentagon) recognize the need to spend billions to promote their products and to relatively narrow slices of the public, rather than the entire population as the climate campaigners must do.

By positioning itself as the networking site for these three groups of professionals, HubSTREET is narrowing the slice of the legal community to which it is likely to appeal.

Not exact matches

But, if I had to narrow down my favorite way to serve tomatoes, it's got to be this simple presentation of sliced zebra tomatoes from my farmers market, some burrata cheese, freshly toasted crostini, flaky salt and freshly ground pepper.

I was confused by the long, narrow shape of the cut and sliced it with the grain the first time and it was tough (doh!).

Make a narrow slit in the back of each shrimp (where the vein used to be) and stuff the shrimp with one jalapeño slice.

Almost as if it was guided by a computer, the shot sliced through several defenders and into a narrow gap between the post and Watford goalkeeper Gomes to hit the back of the net.

Much of the difference may have to do with both the narrow sliver of the public represented on Twitter as well as who among that slice chose to take part in any one conversation.

My clients support effective regulation and are willing to pay a permit fee that establishes parity with traditional hotels and B&B s. Sadly, however, some Town Board members instead seem interested only in evicting a narrow but valuable slice of the tourists, er, «strangers» from our neighborhoods.

Over the course of an hour and a half, the moon's narrow shadow will slice across 12 states, from Oregon to South Carolina (SN: 8/20/16, p. 14).

We see the deep past here through narrow temporal and spatial windows — walk a mile in any direction and you are either hundreds of thousands of years earlier or later because you are walking on eroding sediments from different slices of time.»

At the more recent Royalton Hotel, New York (1988), Starck was invited to remodel the interior and accentuated the fact that it occupied an awkward narrow plot by running a long slice of corridor right into the depths of the building and making guests walk its entire length before reaching reception.

As emission lines are narrow and redshifted, they act as testifiers of four different time slices (one for each filter) of the universe's history.

Slice off the bottom inch of the leaf base as well as the top third of the leaf, which is too narrow to extract any gel.

Brake lights look like slices in the curving bodywork of the tail, flanking a trunk that has a somewhat narrow opening.

It consists of a narrow wooden pier that juts out into a slice of ocean sandwiched between the stunning Daydream Reef.

To experience an authentic slice of real Chinese life, step into the hidden corners of the hutong alleyways, an ancient maze of traditional courtyard houses linked by narrow corridors.

Then, DeLap began cutting long narrow slices out of his rectangular canvases and mounting them on stands or bases.

Rather than overinterpret the GT experiment (which focused on a very narrow and atypical slice of CA dominated by one hothead), I suggest we run a second experiment which focuses on the proxies.

As Mark Muro of Brookings Institution writes in the National Journal, «The trouble with the new utility - only approach to emissions reductions, however, is that none of its proponents are saying anything that makes it seem likely that an adequate slice of the potential revenue the narrower system might generate will be reserved for technology innovation.»

However, the screen is now covered with a slice of Corning Gorilla Glass for extra protection, has narrower bezels than before, and there's a new anti-fingerprint coating to help avoid smudges.

5 Press on the pear to fan the slices toward the top narrow end of the pear.