Sentences with phrase «occasional references»

Therefore, pure mathematics is more associated with higher PISA performance than simple, applied mathematics that relies on repetitive drilling with occasional references to real - life contexts.

These days Microsoft's PR team go out of their way to avoid the term and downplay the significance of the feature, with only occasional references to «dedicated servers», or attributing features to the more nebulous «Xbox Live».

You would at least have found occasional references in the old standards and framework, the problem being that the idea wasn't applied coherently, across the many grade levels and topics for which it makes sense — and that it certainly didn't make it into mainstream textbooks.

The historians of the origins of Christianity in India have to depend mainly upon traditions both within India and outside and occasional references here and there in later writers.

But as a type of canonical literature, Israelite wisdom remained relatively peripheral and always more personal than communal in character; and the Psalter, to which occasional reference has been made, is self - evidently in a faith - to - faith category of expression.

Despite occasional references, Plessen has worked hard to define his own voice.

Nearly 10 years later, as a lawyer whose work is in mostly family proceedings, I still have — of necessity, and for occasional reference — my 1998 Green Book (containing County Court Rules 1981) and a 1999 White Book (Rules of the Supreme Court 1965).

A rough sampling of denominational publications reveals only occasional references to the aging situation.

Indeed, Professor Smolin wrote not a review, but an intellectual ramble that might have been titled, «David Smolin muses about the use and abuse of natural rights, with occasional references to someone named Hadley Arkes.»

In our own generation we are witness to the same practice: Persons who hold public office are careful in their speeches to make occasional reference to the Deity and to be photographed going to their church or synagogue.

Church leaders can appear impressively culturally relevant during a tournament by throwing in the occasional reference to what's been happening on the pitch, and in a game dominated by wannabe messiah - figures it's not hard to find gentle biblical parallels.

They contain few if any references to original sources and their bibliographies are mainly English, with perhaps an occasional reference in French.

Very very few people can answer that, beyond an occasional reference to the pope.

Kagan's occasional references to Reinhold Niebuhr suggest an awareness that there is more to the just war tradition than the pacifism that frequently dominates it today.

Apart from very brief and occasional references, Downton Abbey finds almost no place whatsoever for God.

In the thread below, Chantal Delsol graciously responded to my observation that her more recent book had dropped the occasional references to human nature used in earlier books.

Any attempt at a positive characterization of generalization is hampered by Whitehead's occasional references to the impossibility of such a characterization.

There is occasional reference to empirical work, but there are extensive quotations from philosophers, musicians / composers, and musicologists.

The majority of the time, One Piece assumes you know the ins and outs of the series and when it doesn't it gives you an occasional reference to help you out, but this is something of an oversight if Bandai Namco was hoping to create new fans thanks to the Switch release.

, which looks only slightly less slapped together, redubs (and probably recuts) a Chinese martial arts movie, The Crush, with more French post-Marxist theory, jokes, and occasional references to what it's doing technically; roughly speaking, it's a situationist variation on What's Up, Tiger Lily?

However, while there are some occasional references to certain other films (such as the murder frame - up from North by Northwest and the bell - tower scene in Vertigo), much of the rest is Mel Brooks all of the way.

Hitchcock would often toy with devices like these, and the occasional references show just how influential Hitchcock's films were to this thriller.

There are occasional references to nonfiction in the text, but if this were truly an equal opportunity book there would be a section on how to use LinkedIn for nonfiction marketing purposes.

It's a worthy project give or take the cobwebs and the occasional references you might find there to President Grover Cleveland's recent initiatives.

Oddly considering the fact that the Harry Potter series started life as a book meaning it's a story driven affair the game actually has barely any story to it, instead it simply ignores most of the storyline and gives only the occasional reference and cutscene leaving anyone who has not actually read the books or watched the films with a general feeling of «What the hell just happened?»

With it's unlikely at this point that most of the other popular Pixar films will get their own LEGO game, this could be TT Games opportunity to have some broader fun with the Pixar universe, by throwing in the occasional reference to other movies.

We discussed the loose narrative in her work, in which colorful motifs appear, with occasional references to memories from childhood and persistent brain musings manifested as geometric shapes.

Thank you for being a loyal reader and putting up with the occasional references to additional material I've written:)