Sentences with phrase «numbers gloss over»
Even the Brundtland Commission, which at first glance seems to be an exception with its blunt language about unsustainable population growth, ends in a familiar UN place: «Talking of population just as numbers glosses over an important point: People are also a creative resource, and this creativity is an asset societies must tap....
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Of the online tax services I reviewed, it did the best job of looking out for my bottom line and minimizing the work without glossing over subjects, though the number of options and the high cost can be a turnoff.
The statistics on Net message distribution, the growth of the number of domain names, the number of individual citizens with Net access, and all of the other widely used data simply gloss over the real, underlying communication.
As with number one of this list, this one is a reality we tend to gloss over due to the romance - goggles.
The free and colorful spirit of the circus comes to life through spectacular musical numbers that conveniently gloss over the cruelty towards people and animals that circuses often exhibit.
The Ohio study, led by respected Northwestern University professor David Figlio, came with a number of caveats that are often glossed over.
The report is a few months old now, and it has some useful historical notes, but it also includes a number of attempts to gloss over the true history of retirement savings in this country.
You could try to figure out your odds of joining that statistic, but chances are your eyes will gloss over before you come up with the right number.
They include those items ignored, glossed over, or deliberately misrepresented; projections are consistently wrong; the science has not advanced, a 2007 paper in Science by Roe and Baker concludes; «The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed appreciably over the past 30 years, despite tremendous increases in computing power, in observations, and in the number of scientists studying the problem»; and claims of impending disasters that simply do not make scientific sense.
You did, however, gloss over one of my favorites in number 5's «bad» with «Detail oriented public relations professional.»