Sentences with phrase «object lessons of»

If I might offer a little advice, you would do well to try and emulate your co-authors, particular your father and Richard McNider (above), who provide good object lessons of how people can disagree over substance and yet discuss issues without getting personal and without misrepresenting the other person's statements.

It is deeply unfortunate that your stories serve as object lessons of the dangers of homebirth, but, in my judgment, the loss is compounded if we refuse to learn from these deaths, if we refuse to acknowledge just how common they are, if we let substandard self - proclaimed «midwives» continue practicing, and if we allow organizations like MANA (the Midwives Alliance of North America) to get away with hiding serial «babyslaugher,» the newborn equivalent of unintentional manslaughter deaths.

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It is deeply unfortunate that your story serves as an object lesson of the dangers of homebirth, but, in my judgment, the loss is compounded if we refuse to learn from these deaths, if we refuse to acknowledge just how common they are, and if we let substandard self - proclaimed «midwives» continue practicing.

HUTCHINSON: I generally avoid any adult literary fiction that features gay characters because I know they're either going to wind up the victim of a hate crime or with HIV or miserable and alone; they become the object lesson of the story or the death that motivates the protagonist to action.

So this was the study of Wahl & Amman's paper preview and publication, an object lesson of deception, unethical behaviour and downright repugnant behaviour.

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For an object lesson, Mr. Ford's brand managers might consider the story of Hummer.

But it is also — in an admittedly self - serving sense — the «best» of times, because Ford's abysmal leadership serves as an object lesson in how not to lead, and reminds everyone of just how important leadership really is.

It could if you paid attention to the annual sale of tasty baked goods not just as a chance for philanthropy and gluttony, but also as an object lesson in moving product.

They may be viewed as an object lesson for a dystopian future of debt peonage.

The attempted raids on McDonalds and other companies in recent years provide object lessons in this destructive financial policy of «shareholder activists.»

Their disastrous collapse, capital flight, emigration of skilled labor, shrinking GDP and corruption should serve as an object lesson for what China should avoid.

If a taxpayer has reported only 5000 euros income, but has property worth millions of euros, the property should be taken, the payer and his family should be obliged to pay back taxes, and a few criminal convictions should serve as an object lesson to help enforce compliance with the tax code.

Two, the parables of Adam and Eve are for less evolved humans, they're like children's bedtime stories with object lessons.

The Old Testament explains the fall of man, and God's object lessons and promises regarding the coming Messiah.

What motivated these German anti-Nazis to resist the powerful Hitler regime is an important object lesson for more precisely locating the roots of the moral evil of Nazism by understanding the source of its antitheses (malum privatio boni est).

I suppose what ended up being for me a rather free - for - all melee, instead of a real experience of communion with like - minded and ostensibly like - hearted folks, is sort of an object lesson that ended up characterizing most of the rest of my journey in Emerging church circles.

His life is itself an object lesson in the meaning of that philosophy.

The lesson of history is that those lacking such a faith are no match for those inspired by such a faith, whatever its object.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

Most of us seem to think that Jesus» primary teaching method was storytelling and parables and object lessons.

Again, this is pretty close to just an object lesson as part of a sermon, but it gets a bit closer to the point.

Both Paul ’10 and John the Evangelist11 draw an object lesson from the grain of wheat which is sown in the ground and they emphasize the fact that it is only when it falls into the ground and dies that it brings forth a harvest.

What frightens all reasonable people is the fact that we see about us, in our own neighborhoods, some of the same factors which, existing in greater degree, made that object lesson actual.

There were specific instances where he didn't wash before a meal, but those were done as object lessons, and did not represent his usual pattern of behavior.

At a recent public gathering in the heart of the nation's capital, with former civil rights hero and disgraced Mayor Marion Barry on the podium as an object lesson, Farrakhan prepared his black audience for the coming race war.

And if they can't be locked in the stocks, or perhaps burn a few of them as an object lesson, then at least they can be punished by forced parenthood Raise that screaming brat on your own for failure to keep your legs closed and engaging in DIRTY FILTHY NASTY SE - X!

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

The Holy Spirit included this not so small detail because it is what gives this story its object lesson for the church and it explains the significance of the question the eunuch asks Philip, «What prevents me from being baptized?»

I am a passionate Darwinian in explaining why we exist,... but if we lived our lives in a Darwinian way, that would be a very unpleasant society in which to live... One of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and our social lives».

Many of us who grew up in the Church sat through at least one or two horrific object lessons reinforcing the idea that premarital sex ruins a person for good.

And while Watford were taking advantage of Arsenal's mental unpreparedness, Chelsea were grinding out a draw up at Anfield, an object lesson in «job done.»

The greatest thing about Wimbledon is that they are an object lesson that there is an alternative; that football doesn't have to belong to stupid people making stupid decisions for the benefit of a selfish and self - serving minority.

Brexit secretary David Davis» Kafkaesque appearance in front of a Commons select committee today provided an object lesson in how that process works.

He «remains a living object lesson to his colleagues about flying too close to a sun — if the sun was made of a big ball of money.»

The story of how attempts at cooperation broke down and were then sullenly repaired offer an object lesson to progressives on the challenges of trying to formalise a cross-party electoral alliance.

For their part, many Tory MPs see the saga as an object lesson in Liberal Democrat duplicity - and one that has increased their instinctive distrust of their coalition partners.

The solar system, we have come to see, is a dynamic marvel, and in their myriad and fluid forms, Saturn's rings are an object lesson in the universality, scalability and endless complexity of gravity.

But just as a straight highway can prove to be a veritable cloverleaf of intersecting ecosystems, the story of American leprosy is more convoluted than it seems — an object lesson in the complexity of the natural world.

The miseries of the plague years are taken as object lessons in the evils of colonialism.

«My analogy is to the fact that any lesson requires the use of a solid object, which is in three dimensions,» says Helen Quinn, a theoretical physicist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Stanford, California, who chaired the 18 - member panel that wrote the report.

The meeting's attendees were treated at the outset to a round of inspiration from David Shoemaker, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Cambridge, who walked them through the observatory's history as an object lesson in how to succeed with large - scale science.

The history of computer graphics provides an object lesson: Once a representation gets halfway realistic, the market demands increasing levels of fidelity.

The lesson here is to use a pointed object on the top of the feet, like the heel or edge of your shoe.

(I'm only speaking for myself of course, because I dig metaphors and I'm always on the lookout for lessons from inanimate objects.)

Maybe it was meant as an object lesson in the mysteries of the Eucharist («Take, eat.

The other members of the band fade away as bystanders, object lessons, or seat - fillers and Andrew's fleeting attempts at romance are all about how Fletcher's influence infects him with the same emotional brutality.

Also, it should be noted that what comes at the end of the film is considered more scientifically impossible that an asteroid the size of Texas being jagged and sharp (Gravity lesson... an object the size of Texas in space would be spherical in shape).

All too frequently, Admission serves as an object lesson in the risks of having a non-comic writer (Karen Croner, whose other screenplay to date was the cancer drama One True Thing) adapt a non-comic novel (by Jean Hanff Korelitz), and handing the result to a director, Paul Weitz, whose last comedy was Little Fockers.

Writer / director J. C. Chandor (whose first feature, Margin Call, was among the best films of 2011) offers an object lesson in the virtue of understatement in this one - character drama featuring Robert Redford.