Sentences with phrase «not lend»

While scissor jacks vary in size and shape, it should be noticed the small base and head, which do not lend well to stability.

You might think, rightly, that chilly temps and 7,000 - foot - plus elevations do not lend themselves to the utmost in performance, especially for naturally aspirated sports cars and supercars.

The pedal box also does not lend itself to heel - toe downshifts, lacking the friendly, driver - conscious setup that makes pushing the limits in a manual so invigorating.

Frankly, my emails portrayed correctly my frustrations with the fact that there was a nuance in the system that did not lend itself to face validity...

«I am afraid that I could not respond to very many of your questions because the issues you raise do not lend themselves to multiple choice and ranked answers,» Kilgore wrote.

Students experiencing various levels of abusive relationships resulting in assignment to an RTC, do not lend themselves to a traditional seven hour school day in a classroom.

Given the nature of 21st century skills, formative assessment is even more necessary because they do not lend themselves to a single, paper - pencil test.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

The teaching of mathematics does not lend itself to a great amount of varied instruction.

A caution we would offer in this regard, however, is that many of the deeper levels of change in teacher beliefs and practices associated with literacy learning do not lend themselves to simple directives.

Because the problems with testing are structural and systemic, they do not lend themselves to an easy fix.

«The teacher tries to devise a daily routine that will best serve the largest number; but she often finds it impossible to meet the individual needs of some children who do not lend themselves to education on the plan of mass production.»

California's new accountability system for schools and districts is complicated beyond imagining and does not lend itself to useful interpretation by parents, taxpayers, voters, or policymakers.

It does not lend itself to useful interpretation by parents, taxpayers, voters, or policymakers.

Just as the traditional school layout does not lend itself to repurposing for blended models, the inverse seems to be true as well.

Paths may not lend itself to the studious dissection that Kubrick's subsequent movies do, but it does have its fair share of interesting directorial decisions.

It may not lend itself well to repeat viewings, but it does enough right to be engrossing.

His cold aesthetics and distanced storytelling do not lend the material any momentum, and the whole affair feels lethargic when it should be lively, monotone when it should be matching Sondheim's musical intricacy.

Ned sticks around his hometown to try and make some money from his family (they have a mutual agreement to not lend money to each other), so he can afford to stay in his ex-lover's goat barn.

Alchemist's Cookbook: Setting a film in the woods with a hermit does not lend itself to much dialogue.

I could discuss similar films that played at this year's Berlinale — but these two examples must suffice to demonstrate the dilemma German cinema faces: these genre films suffer on the level of craft, while also facing the problem that the socio - cultural context might simply not lend itself to the kind of genre filmmaking (at least with regard to the thriller and action film genres) that seems to come so organically to filmmakers working in different national contexts.

The film never quite succeeds, simply because the book's core virtues do not lend themselves to cinema.

Initially the story of a pro sports scout might not lend itself to intriguing fare, but it all works, and all credit should go to Cameron's vision and the quality cast around him, especially in Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. for going all out in their respective performances, which rank among their best work to date.

Unfortunately, my job does not lend itself to permanent nor temporary relocation to anywhere outside the USA.

Paul Surridge, the British designer now presiding over the leopard print empire that is Roberto Cavalli, is smart enough to recognise when a brand does not lend itself to intellectualising.

Abby Eagle School of Meditation does not lend or sell personal information to other organisations for marketing purposes, however we may at times provide a mailing list to a third party organisation to mail correspondence to you or to a business associate on your behalf.

However, this does not lend support to healthy bodybuilder or powerlifters who lift weights in a gym setting.

The coconut milk does not lend a coconut flavor to this drink at all!

Because the coconut sap needs to be hand harvested it does not lend itself well to mass production and is therefore mostly extracted on a small scale by local peoples and men skilled at climbing coconut palms.

The effects of fatigue on motor learning are fairly well documented and it should be of no surprise that fatigue does not lend itself well to skill execution or motor learning.

In order to carry out analyses of this type anyhow, researchers need to use snap - frozen samples — which do not lend themselves to histological inspection under the microscope.

But some members of the committee have told ScienceInsider that this is not the conclusion they came to, and that their findings do not lend support for the draconian legislation.

He was reluctant to write this book at all, because indigenous knowledge is so embedded in land, language, and lived experience that it does not lend itself easily to written explication.

The massive complexity of the problems it is tackling, from mapping the functioning brain to making petabytes of data meaningful and accessible to training a new generation of neuroscientists who are equipped to work across disciplines to make sense of it all, do not lend themselves to easily assembled and discretely defined teams and tasks — at least, not quickly.

But the technique does not lend itself well to studying structural materials, such as steel, that are needed to build, for example, aircraft wings, bridges or engines.

In the end, however, 11 - dimensional strings do not lend themselves obviously to genuinely satisfying modern myths.

«Any casino resort would not lend itself to our rural and agricultural character in Tyre, NY,» said James Dawley, a spokesman for the opposition group Casino Free Tyre.

More than any other reason, Klein and Avella face challenges because in the legislative session just ended the two did not lend their votes to giving the Democrats control of the Senate.

But they should not lend any credibility to such reports.

«Until we as a community can collectively come together to address the root cause of these violent acts, I can not lend my support to it going forward,» he said.

Civil service structures and systems do not lend themselves to the support and administration of an independent federation of volunteer based bodies.

Shehu, in a statement, noted that Buhari had sworn to defend the constitution of Nigeria and would not lend his hand to anything that is inconsistent with the constitution.

The Westminster adversarial system does not lend itself to coalitions, as history shows.

Furthermore, I would not lend those hundred bucks to a friend, if he owes me and other people in the friend circle lots of money.

Does the Intransigence of the Ashanti Regional minister not lend credence to this claim?

This relationship does not lend itself to any obvious explanations and therefore I am keen to investigate this further in my future research

While the district would be prepared to respond if the agency recommends the site be shut down, Ekey said «we're optimistic that all the information we have does not lend itself to that conclusion at this point.»

In the past year, as my daughter has grown from 2 to nearly 3 years old I have left her several times to attend to adult activities which did not lend themselves to bringing her along.

Cloth diapers, today's designs at least, do not lend themselves to leakage.

The profile of midfielder Wenger uses, even in the three - man formulation that he has favored recently, does not lend itself to this kind of role.