Sentences with phrase «nebulous at»

While the term «workplace violence» is appropriate for a quick definition or diagnosis of a problem, fully defining all aspects of «workplace violence» can be nebulous at best.

Be aware the process of obtaining a list of your current security holders (which you will need to deliver your management proxy to the security holders and submit to the bidder so it can deliver its bid circular to the holders) is aggravatingly slow, and the information you obtain will be nebulous at best since shares are often held through various intermediaries.

The name isn't entirely inapt, though, since people's understanding of it is often nebulous at best.

I think for the most part, virtual property is nebulous at best.

This car has zero connection to Touring of Milan, or Zagato, so the historical use of the Superleggera name is nebulous at best.

And, at times, the connection to the curriculum was nebulous at best.

«This means that traditional descriptions of the electronic structure of actinide elements are often of a qualitative nature — but this is precisely the area where quantitative models are needed because our understanding of core chemical concepts become increasingly nebulous at the foot of the periodic table.»

But insiders say the bus terminal is very nebulous at this point with an unknown price tag and no money to really get started.

The concept of «god» is nebulous at best, which is one of the reasons it can't be disproved (other than the obvious).

No recent atrocities inspired this call to arms, Asbridge and Phillips agree; the threat Islam posed to the West was nebulous at best.

I've always found the identifiers» implicit / explicit» atheism to be nebulous at best.

Not exact matches

This isn't as nebulous as it sounds at first.

«In itself it's a nebulous word,» said Jagdish Bhagwati, a professor of economics at Columbia University.

A nebulous assurance that at some random unknown point Jesus would show up and surprise me only aggravated that stress.

When he thinks of the matter at all he is likely to try to imagine a nebulous substance like a wisp of invisible smoke that is said to be present in churches and to hover over good people when they are dying.»

But because all of this is at a rather nebulous level of experience, it seems to many people to be either wishful, romantic thinking or weak by comparison with the tough, pragmatic, hard - nosed realism of action.

For voters who may have applied the nebulous «winning team» requirement, the Brooklyn Nets have won 12 of their last 14 games, and at 26 - 16 they own the No. 3 spot in the conference — right behind the Heat (27 - 12) and Knicks (26 - 14), and ahead of the Bulls (25 - 16).

Those foundations have socio - cultural roots, but at their most elemental, they all revolve around one desire: for money, or more pertinently the security that it provides, however nebulous it may be.

Melvin Lowe, a former top political aide to the indicted Sen. John Sampson whose job was nebulous — at best — is being eyed by federal prosecutors as part of a mushrooming corruption probe.

Clegg also won the promise of a referendum on electoral reform, an attempt at Lords reform and the more nebulous hope of creating a new politics.

Given that Tony Avella invested his time in writing a letter back in November, 2006 that questions the many nebulous and dehumanizing practices that continue to flourish in the present day at the New York City DOI and MTA Office of the Inspector General (who, collectively have misbehaved like unresponsive tyrants with no agency from above to challenge their utter dysfunction), I have long ago lost my illusion with honest, ethical leadership that stands by their constituency until a matter is thoroughly resolved.

The HDST's unexcelled sharpness at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths would allow astronomers to see the stellar and nebulous contents of galaxies billions of light - years away with the same crispness that Hubble sees inside galaxies just tens of millions of light - years away.

At some stage in your life you've likely spotted one of those trite motivational posters, the kind that sports a generic landscape underscored by some nebulous phrase championing the merits of «success» (or something similar).

November 15, 2016, at 5:02 p.m. Nebulous, a sci - fi puzzler from Namazu Studios, where players guide a cocky and rude astronaut through massive puzzles that will feel familiar in design to anyone who has played the Incredible Machine video game series or the board game Mouse Trap, will blast its way to Xbox One and PlayStation VR

At some stage in your life you've likely spotted one of those ghastly motivational posters, the kind that sports a generic landscape underscored by some nebulous phrase championing the merits of «success» (or something similar).

In addition, the script adds enough plots to fill a whole rack at the airport Barnes & Noble: looming epidemics, African civil wars, sinister businessmen cutting backroom deals, even a nebulous threat that may destroy all life on Earth if Pitt doesn't save the day.

Tragedy strikes at SXSW; Nebulous platitudes and James Franco; TV actors don't need movies; Connecting The Sopranos and Irreversible; Eviscerating Nymphomaniac: Vol I.

If you're at the PlayStation Experience event this weekend, there will be a playable demo of the title in Hall B. For everyone else, we'll just have to wait until that wonderfully nebulous time of year we all call «Spring 2018» rolls around to get our hands on it.

These nebulous conditions that are never told to you can mean that there's no way for you to succeed in your mission, and this actually increases in probability as you get better at the game because you don't have to visit the safehouse as much.

In the end, The Anniversary Party just might show enough talent and flair for viewers who enjoy solid acting and nebulous independent features that delight with bells and whistles, despite the lack of authenticity at the core.

At first glance, Richard (Thomas Jane), an English teacher; Ron (Jeremy Piven), a stock trader; Jonathan (Rob Lowe), a doctor; and Tim (Christian McKay), a Briton whose character remains nebulous, seem to have it all.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

Specific examples of troubles ranged from keeping the BOE from reviewing appointments of principals and other senior leaders, to her unauthorized presentation to the Education Committee at the General Assembly, to her nebulous approach to special education, to specific upheavals:

It means that choice through decentralization is worse than a red herring: It not only fails to solve the problems at the core of its mission (improve a nebulous and poorly constructed paradigm of student achievement through competitive incentives) but creates an entirely new set of problems with which students, parents, teachers, administrators, and elected officials have to cope.

The next year, the nebulous «boys, have at it» policy (or nonpolicy, if you prefer) was instituted, with predictably incendiary results.

Though still at a nebulous stage, this is something that is definitely being given a chance by Australian budget airline Jetstar, a subsidiary of the Qantas Airlines.

That kind of labeling makes those who have yet to make past your strange standard — not worthy of a nebulous title — even though they may be great at it.

A rather nebulous reporting method at best.»

There are various percentage handicaps which are applied to the working capital figure (to account for obsolescence of inventory and uncollectability in receivables as well as the nebulous benefit of some other current assets like pre-paid insurance and rent) to arrive at the sum used to deduct liabilities from and arrive at the proper current asset figure used in the equation.

Rather than look at your credit history — which may be short depending on your age, or nebulous depending on such things as identity theft — UpStart calculates credit worthiness based on your career (for example, a lawyer is deemed more credit worthy than, say, an actor), your educational status, your job status (obviously, if you're employed, you're more credit worthy than someone who isn't) and standardized test scores to determine if you're worthy of a loan from them.

I'm sure people scoffed at the valuation of Facebook or Uber, but these services are investing in social changes that are, by their very nature, nebulous.

With the brief glimpse of the game we were shown at E3, it would seem that The Legend of Zelda on Wii U is quite a ways away from its nebulous 2015 release.

Between getting caught leering at pixelated breasts on a PSP screen or succumbing to the intimidation of a Soul Caliber tournament announcer, the life of a podcast personality often exists in the nebulous space between...

Having uncovered the true nature of Delilah at the conclusion of Dishonored's first downloadable content pack, The Knife of Dunwall, Daud is spurred by supernatural deity The Outsider to put a stop to her nefarious yet somewhat nebulous plans.

There still isn't a launch date outside of the nebulous «coming 2015,» but with so little gameplay shown outside of the tidbits we've seen at E3 — and pretty much nothing coming out of Ubisoft regarding what the game entails — many gamers are wondering if we may be looking at the possibility of another delay.

But aside from the fact that it exists in some nebulous form, the single trailer premiered at E3 2015 hasn't provided much solid info on what the game is actually going to be like.

Much was made of The Last Guardian's appearance at last years E3 and despite this some fans found the launch date of «Coming 2016» to be a bit nebulous.

Spencer appeared at a special sponsored PC Gaming E3 event to admit that Microsoft had «lost its way» in the PC game market and will be porting Killer Instinct to Windows 10; he also appeared at a pre-E3 Oculus VR press conference the week prior to announce a nebulous Microsoft partnership with Oculus VR that will see every Oculus Rift shipping with an Xbox One gamepad, even as Windows 10's Xbox One game streaming capabilities are expanded to support the Rift.

«Indie» is a nebulous term as it is, and you could argue any game getting a mention at a platform holder's E3 conference is forced to turn in its indie card then and there.

The nebulous notion of ephemeral storage for digital information captures the imagination of many contemporary artists, and it has also been a popular art subject throughout the ages that can now be marketed as if imbued with a new meaning, with Diane Arbus» 1960 photograph Clouds on - screen at a drive - in movie, N.J., offered by Fraenkel Gallery, being just one example.