Sentences with phrase «notion behind»

The notion behind this is that, since desire for sex is supposedly like desire for food a basic biological drive, you have to be pretty screwed up not to want either one.

The notion behind Bitcoin was that it would be governed by all of the nodes.

The principal notion behind Nomus is the ability to search in an unstructured way using terms or phrases, although search operators are indeed supported, including the helpful «term boost» that weights results in favour of a particular configuration of your search terms.

And the economic notion behind this lies in the fact that Line and its competitors charge for stickers: you buy packs of them, much as you would buy a roll of paper stickers for a child from a toy store.

The whole notion behind it that you would build this $ 7 billion pipeline and 20 - something billion dollar facility at the end of the pipeline before shipping it off to China, it goes against the whole rationale for the pipeline in the first place — which is to rip and ship raw bitumen to China.»

Could that have been the notion behind the Fellows electing Nurse as their leader?

This is the notion behind Emma Marris's fine book, «Rambunctious Garden.»

Wearing a vibrant, yellow hued dress, smiling ear to ear, artist Kenya (Robinson) was generous enough to speak to me for a few minutes about the notion behind her conceptual White Man in My Pocket project.

I may not be able to use them on «as is» basis, but at least the notion behind them can be applied.

That's the notion behind a startup called Bookstackk, but rather than bringing you closer to celebrities and their favorite smoothies, the company aims to help you discover what people you care about are reading.

The notion behind pervasive learning has been around for quite a while.

I like the notion behind the movie and think it could've become a good slant on the zombie genre.

The most widely studied set of quantum numbers is that for a single electron in an atom: not only because it is useful in chemistry, being the basic notion behind the periodic table, valence (chemistry) and a host of other properties, but also because it is a solvable and realistic problem, and, as such, finds widespread use in textbooks.

That's the notion behind a bold plan unveiled last week to dig a 16 - mile highway tunnel under the Long Island Sound to connect Syosset with Rye in Westchester County.

According to him, the notion behind calling the debt profile of the state as huge and a burden is practically mischievous and a reflection of paucity of governmental savvy, saying the debt profile of the state is insignificant in juxtaposition with degree of achievement of his administration in all ramifications.

The notion behind this is attributed to the fact that when you remove the stay - in - place lid, you are left with a snack cup that can be used to store dry food or drinking fluid for your child.

The notion behind this argument is based on the fact that the bottles are made from BPA free materials which protect your baby from consuming harmful toxins.

This is the notion behind the capsule wardrobe, which, despite what some might advocate, doesn't mean you have to throw clothes away at all — just store them from season to season.

The notion behind it was to put our experts at your disposal to help you answer those burning questions for your fantasy football lineups.

I do this because faith, the word itself and the notion behind it, has been utterly central to Christianity, especially in its protestant forms, though not only in its protestant forms.

and that, I think, was the notion behind the original post.

That's the notion behind The Receivables Exchange: The New Orleans firm allows companies with at least $ 2 million in revenue to offer their accounts receivable for sale in an auction format to prospective buyers.

Leave any pre-conceived notions behind because these Christmas angel crafts are truly unique.

Each day, I pushed myself outside my comfort zone by trying a new activity I'd never done before — leaving my preconceived notions behind (or at least trying to)-- all in the name of discovering a better version of myself.

The true Belize experience is discovered when you leave all notions behind, and begin to simply be.

Not exact matches

And the notion that lawmakers were steps behind Zuckerberg on important details about Facebook and privacy policies are completely irrelevant, according to Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey.

There must be something meritorious behind the notion of privatization for so many countries to come on board.

But then again, our society is still crawling slowly towards truly embracing the notion, enunciated most forcefully by John Stuart Mill, that we shouldn't have rules against behaviour that doesn't harm anyone, and that, hence, what goes on between consenting adults behind closed doors is nobody else's business.

Just a couple of years after Snapchat went mainstream, we almost internalized the notion that we can easily have a behind - the - scenes access to any business or celebrity.

If the majority of people fall further and further behind — while others in society become unbelievably rich — the notion that the most important value in a country is its citizens having the ability to select their leaders will lose sway.

David couldn't get — couldn't get, you know, Larry [Page] and other folks and just Google, essentially, behind that notion,» Kalanick said.

The Harvard psychologist explains the fallacy behind the notion that to achieve happiness, one must get what they want.

You don't need to be a devotee of «servant leadership» or an adherent to the notion of «leading from behind» to recognize that leadership typically requires a sensitive appreciation of the talents, motives and desires of a team of people.

Both the spirit and notion of social acceptability are major driving forces behind the sweeping changes to Quebec's environmental impact assessment and review regime that are set to come into effect this month.

The notion of being «behind the curve» in that regard seems indefensible.

In the wake of the (now overbought) relief rally following the Bear Stearns debacle, we are hearing the increasingly prevalent notion that the financial markets have «put in a bottom» and that the mortgage crisis is largely behind us.

This notion that corporate consumers are just looking for «greener» options is what's behind Dr. Peter Silverstone's proposals for changing the royalty rates so that Alberta's oil sands producers have real incentive to make the world's greenest oil (http://greenestoil.ca/blog/).

So long has been the tradition behind the notion of time's contingency that it has acquired the strength of an absolute truth.

When I was more active in the church, asking questions, and reading the bible for answers... i came across passages that described the notion of leaving your material possessions behind and sharing the good news.

Seriously anyone who doesn't believe in evolution doesn't understand the science behind it or is unwilling to look past the notion of a creator.

To become a church in mission St. Andrew had to let go of clericalism and convert the members into ministers; let go of the myth of size and develop a vision of what a small church can do; move beyond «coffee fellowship» in its conception of worship and food; and leave behind traditional notions of church in order to focus on the congregation's mission on the margins.

One of the reasons behind my study of the notion of order is that the foundations of physics are not clear at present.

But on the other hand, as the notion of «waiter at table» that lies behind the servanthood idea is analyzed, it is clear that some kind of covenant about types of service offered and expected under normal conditions is essential.

It's only after we're older once we've had notions pounded into our heads that we can't or shouldn't learn from this or that, that we lose our ability to appreciate all of God's creations and see God's hand (poetic term not literal) in all things (or worse, some have been so blinded as to see it in nothing, as they hide behind their cold scientific idols, losing the same wonder that got the scientists there to start with)

Behind editor Smedes's call for the church to involve itself in the whole range of life's experiences, including the socio - political sector, is a strong notion of «social justice.»

Borg says the notion that Christians will abandon the Earth to meet Jesus in the clouds while others are left behind to suffer is not traditional Christian teaching.

What is sad here is that so many come to this page, cowering behind their ignorant notions and interpretations of what God may or may not have said and what someone who others believed to be the son of God, are using their messiah as a shield from behind which they cast stones.

Especially since my husband and a woman whom he met in youth camp when they were teenagers decided to have an emotional affair behind my back and then left under the notion that he had to find himself but in reality he was leaving to be with her.

But the notion that Christians will abandon the Earth to meet Jesus in the clouds while others are left behind to suffer is not traditional Christian teaching, Borg says.

Behind these concerns is a desire to push through Cavadini's initial criticisms of Weigel's project as insufficiently attentive to the Catholic notion of the church as sacrament.