Sentences with phrase «obverse of»

This is the obverse of the former Ontario Treasurer who attempted to «introduce» his budget at an auto parts plant.

And such a «retrospection», therefore, only the obverse of Projection.

Carbon - Neutral Man is the goal, a model of ascetic behavior that is the obverse of the wasteful hyperconsumer.

Stanley Lewis's work is the obverse of what one might think of as a downtown aesthetic... The fascination he arouses comes partially from an almost irreconcilable tension between working directly from observation, with exacting attention to small forms, and a very contemporary, almost sculptural painting process that builds a work with obsessively dense materiality.

«Stanley Lewis's work is the obverse of what one might think of as a downtown aesthetic.

These two shadows [sic] like eclipsing objects, since light spills over their edges; the effect is the obverse of Robert Irwin's paintings.

On 3 December 1857 the minutes record that «the thanks of the Council were voted to Mr Dyce - for a medallion drawing of the head of Mr Turner which he had made and presented to the Academy as a suggestion for the obverse of the Turner medal».

The career of the second DBE, Ethel Walker, who had to wait for the honour until 1943, when she was 82, is the obverse of Knight's.

[4] Architectural features of Dundas House are represented today on the «Ilay» series of banknotes issued by the Royal Bank; the building's Palladian facade features on the obverse of each note, and the background graphic on both sides of the notes is a radial star design which is based on the ornate ceiling of the banking hall inside Dundas House, designed by John Dick Peddie in 1857.

Governor Perry heads into his presidential quest with a different blind - spot, in some ways the obverse of Bush's.

You will not be surprised to learn that the «holistic» approach to admission also brings serious woes of its own, and that these are pretty much the obverse of the problems associated with test - based entry.

And isn't the remoteness to which you rightly refer really the obverse of all that?

What's more, the obverse of the coin was stamped with the name of yet another underdog, Liberty, just above the head of another low seed, Washington.

Death is not the obverse of life but only a passing phase of its endless continuity.

(This would be the obverse of the way in which a straight marriage presents the temptation of total personal subjugation of the other person on the basis of sexual ownership.)

(To what extent is this temptation the obverse of a temptation, characteristic of a straight, middle - class life style, to become all - responsible as a means of self - justification?)

The obverse of this is the fact, unfortunately too evident in the contemporary world, that when a totalitarian system sets out to destroy an existing social structure, it begins by attacking the home.

But ministry, despite the grim landscape in our generation, has within it the signals of transcendence, the possibility that frustration (which is the obverse of wonder) is not the last word, that even abrupt events invite us to that intellectual activity we call wonder.

This is the obverse of Newman's claim that true conscience helps us to recognize the one true God.

Androgynous and gynandrous have precise meanings with neither term being the obverse of the other.

However, the obverse of this is that the effort to understand God must be a genuine effort.

The obverse of that question needs to be asked too, of course.

John Montague's searching for light in darkness, his helping us to find it, helps us even now as we struggle to answer the obverse of that ancient philosopher's question — today, why is there nothing rather than something?

The obverse of this fear of contact with the media is the fascination they exert on left - wing movements in the great cities.

But when governments systematically accumulate huge amounts of dollars, the reason has almost always to do with creating or expanding the trade or current account surplus, which is just the obverse of expanding the export of net domestic savings.

Because capital exports are just the obverse of a current account surplus, this meant that after spending much of the 1990s in deficit, Germany's excess production, caused not by a surge in production but rather a decline in consumption, was resolved by the country's running a current account surplus.

Not exact matches

According to Long, the theologies of the oppressed «do not wish to claim simple ethnic goals or superiority; they do not wish to be another and obverse example of racism and exclusiveness.

The obverse side of this economic problem is a moral one, for it relates to power — who has it and who doesn't — and to the axioms behind present power relationships.

14 The death of a controlling deity external to human projections provides a basis for Feuerbach's intriguing reversal of 1 John 4:8,16, whereby it became possible for him to proclaim the obverse, that love, in fact, is God: «Love is not holy because it is a predicate of God, but it is a predicate of God because it is in itself divine.»

The two belong together as obverse and reverse of the same coin; the showing mercy is a response to being shown mercy.

Real guilt is the obverse side of the dignity of freedom.

, a «stringent rejection of all deification of self - willing power» 81 and an affirmation of its obverse:

Fanatical support of one side or the other during the War and clerical carpetbagging — and its obverse — after the War are examples of a type of ministerial activity that has plagued Protestantism in America periodically over the last one hundred — and more — years.

I admit to not understanding mega churches on TV with lots of music and shouting about hell (or the obverse: you can get anything you want on earth if you believe — and «plant a seed»), and as important — no visible crucifix.

The obverse side of the prevalence of this kind of sentiment through out the population is that what anticlericalism there was in the United States was «sectarian» rather than «secular.»

But how often does its obverse generate the same kind of drama?

On the obverse side of the same coin are the character traits that often make his films worthwhile.

Now, as we return authority to states and districts, no one should imagine that folks in the states are somehow smarter or more informed than their counterparts in Washington (although I've never quite understood why Washington - centric reformers are so confident that the obverse is true — that political appointees at the U.S. Department of Education are nobler, smarter, and care more than those yahoos out there in the states.

More specifically, in reasoning that was the obverse to what might be otherwise expected, the appellate court summarily concluded: «Students who refuse to answer any questions on the ELA have not «exhibited a substantial deficiency in reading,» which is the statutory trigger for the required notice of the availability of alternative assessments and student portfolios.»

Attitude is like a valuable coin: on the obverse (heads) is caring about what you do, on the reverse (tails) is knowing what to do and the relentless pursuit of knowing what should be done (or more simply, knowing to learn).

I have had at least three people ask me how I pitched Head of State, as Obverse Books currently have open submissions for their Faction Paradox range, and mine is the most recent Faction Paradox novel.

Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts also features an earlier work, Sänger (Singer), 1965/1966, a Photo Painting with a colour chart of various shades of red painted on the obverse side of the canvas, which provides an integral insight into the artist's conception of the series.

• Obverse Reverse (Black, White, Red and Gold), a 40 - foot long sculpture commissioned by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), at the Mercedes - Benz Stadium, Atlanta, GA..

These include paintings, portraits and text - based works inspired by the Palm Island Riot and the stunning 3D installation of competition surfboards, adorned with traditional combat shield designs from North Cairns on the face and excerpts from a James Baldwin's article («Unnameable Objects, Unspeakable Crimes», 1966) on the obverse, through to two extraordinary and enormous drawings «Lynching I» and «Lynching II» which, placed either side of the large picture window, eloquently emphasise the dark side of Sydney's pre-eminence as the starting point of colonisation in this country.

Darío Escobar Obverse and Reverse (Black, White, Red and Gold) 2016 - 2017 Leather, latex, 18 karat gold leaf, polyurethane and steel 4 clouds: 30 modules with 50 soccer balls in each module A total of 1,500 soccer balls Approximate dimensions: 27» 10» L x 13» 2» W x 9» 10» D

I find that 9 times out of 10, the obverse is true, and these are the people who intelligently discourse on the subject.

Thus the «obverse» of that was that a conclusion that England was not clearly the natural forum concludes the argument in a service out case.

A review of my mailbox unveils a number of dispatches from astute readers — those who agree — and a few from cave dwellers — the obverse.