Sentences with phrase «not ivory»

(I'm not an ivory or beige girl... I like my white whites... Would you chose «Snow»?).

It is good to know that the New York Times is not an ivory tower, it is a pillar in the community.

When it comes to getting a book contract, you need someone with experience to guide you — not ivory tower advice or theory.

This schoolwide application of multiple - intelligences (MI) theory to curriculum is not an ivory - tower exercise, say Enota educators.

They are comfortable which is a plus, and they look great with my dress color - not quite white but also not ivory either - looks great!

Cute design but be warned that the background is a bright white, not ivory as it appeared on my iPad.

This is not an ivory tower position that some people might take and look down at the people.

We're a ground - up, not an ivory - tower - down, organization.

«She wasn't an ivory - tower Fed chair even though she had all the credentials to be one,» said Diane Swonk, chief economist at accounting and advisory firm Grant Thornton.

Not exact matches

You don't want it to be dismissed as an ivory tower exercise.

But when you're not in the ivory tower anymore, you've got to get real, fast.»

Come down from the ivory towers and mingle with the masses, listen to them, you will be surprised how much you may learn about what works and what doesn't.»

He is a person that doesn't see religion from the ivory pulpit.

Living our faith isn't something done from an ivory tower.

Go ahead and say that I don't have a right to write a book because I don't have the proper letters behind my name, because I didn't study in the ivory halls with that theologian you like to retweet, because I don't have a properly footnoted thesis to back up the truth I know and practice in my life.

The community center is not a theoretical ivory tower where hairs are split lovingly, but is primarily a clinical setting where the delivery of specific services takes place.

An atheist is like a tick on the ass of a miscoscopic leech with it's head buried in a tick turd, living inside of the intestines of a ivory tower educator, standing up on his tiny little soap box and pretending that people don't exist.

It must speak not merely from ivory towers, but from the marketplace.

«Woe to those who lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall; who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and like David invent for themselves instruments of music; who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves, with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!»

«There's sometimes this idea that theological institutions can be quite separate from people's real life and practice... I'm hoping to be part of an institution that's going to equip people for the real world, not be some ivory tower,» he says.

I don't want to rewrite this article in english, but basically, I came to the following conclusions 1 - that Scriptures ought to be used in close interaction with daily reality (not out the blue, in abstraction, or in academic ivory tower) 2 - it ought to be interpreted by what we could call «crucified» christians 3 - and that «crucified» christian should interpret in the context of a «crucified» community / church (because being in a close knit church is a very good way to actually be «crucified» and sanctified, and because I need insight from others in my interpretations.

Also, I thought that the RCC were a museum, well - stocked with sour - faced elderly men in long flowing robes and eggshells on their heads, who lived in an ivory tower of contempt toward everyone who sought to enjoy life [No, that's NOT the whole truth.

We won't change our theologies locked up in our ivory towers, isolated from life, ghettoized in our agreeable clusters.

Several of the chapters were encouragement and insightful, but many of the other chapters seemed to have been written by ivory - tower scholars who do not seem to be aware of the sin and violence that lurks at the door of most people's daily existence.

Due to excessive poaching for their ivory, elephant populations all over the world have noticeably been selecting mates against greater tusk size, largely due to the big tuskers being killed off, but that doesn't matter.

You're saying, the only venting allowed is up to the point where it doesn't threaten your ivory tower.

Finally, it ought not to be thought that the utility of the perennial philosophy remains confined to the ivory tower of academia.

Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

I don't get why these celebrities / athletes that are living in their ivory towers thing their opinions on our lives are more valid than their own.

The World Bank loaned them $ 3 million to beef up their anti-poaching patrols, and no one in the government today seems deeply into the trophy or ivory trade, not with their coffee shambas paying off the way they are.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I created a capsule wardrobe when I packed for my honeymoon — all blues, reds, ivories, and black!

Yet the three groups most commonly associated with financing insurgency through and ivory trafficking do not reside in South Africa.

«I can't imagine who would want this on their mantelpiece,» New York's Environmental Conservation Commissioner, Basil Seggos, said at an event in Albany last week showcasing $ 8.5 million worth of ivory artifacts confiscated by state investigators in the last three years.

At 10; 30 a.m., the state DEC destroys nearly two tons of illegal ivory confiscated through state enforcement efforts in Central Park, to send «a clear message that the state will not tolerate wildlife crime that threatens to wipe out Africa's elephants,» Manhattan.

They can't just be in their ivory tower,» agreed Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn.

«I haven't been stuck in an ivory tower and because I can talk to people, I've been able to lead them.»

If Niblett's purpose was solely focused on ivory towers and navel - gazing Chatham House wouldn't get far.

It will not be an ivory tower.

But while CITES regulations make the sale and importation of ivory illegal, enforcement of these regulations isn't sufficiently strict.

The prince says that he wants to see an end to the ivory trade, which could wipe out what remains of herds of African and Asian elephants, not just for this generation but also for his son and his son's children.

Laugh if you must (Week 1 homework: convince someone to give you free Yankees tickets), but college professors tend to share with Paterson a certain remove from — if not to say bewilderment at — the cruel practicality of the world outside the ivory tower.

I - and I think Wheeler - want to vote Tory in the euro elections but if Cameron doesn't get out of his ivory tower soon, I'll vote UKIP (while holding my nose)

It would be wrong however to characterise this seat as being made up of academic quadrangles, ivory towers and Guardian reading students — most people here are not students.

The results don't just reveal the Wiki - habits of the ivory tower.

«This is not a time, if you care about the fate of the planet or of our republic, to retreat to the ivory tower,» said Norman Ornstein, a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, who also participated in the hour - long session hosted by AAAS on Jan. 26.

It didn't turn brittle, like rubber, or become cracked and discolored, like natural ivory.

How Not to Succeed In Academia 04 February 2011 Kathy Weston A once - promising academic scientist tells how she ended up jumping out a window of the ivory tower before she was pushed.

These articles will help you thrive — and show you what mistakes to avoid — when you choose to deal with the world outside the ivory tower (and when you don't have any choice).

«We simply can't ensure that ivory listed for sale on eBay is in compliance with the complex regulations that govern its sale,» he wrote on his blog last night announcing the new, more comprehensive ban.

They exploited it not just for ivory, but also for food, Smiarowski says as he huddles in a dimly lit side room here to review recent finds.