Sentences with phrase «odd notion of»

Re # 46 and # 49: Unfortunately, FactCheck.org has a history of getting its facts wrong, and of apparently sacrificing truth for some odd notion of balance.

RRS have an odd notion of «rebound», in their world a rebound tends to wait for a couple of centuries before really setting in.

That is a very odd notion of teaching.

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In fact, the notion of adding new international staff — however admirable it may appear to a nation that could use more global coverage — offered the odd resonance of another newbie Southern California publisher offering outsized expansion plans.

I find it odd that so many of those who otherwise set such store by the founders» intentions are so unbothered by the fact that they left these notions blank.

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

This would be an odd point to make if Whitehead wanted to retain the notion that all these events are units of experience.

Back when Courchesne began his work, the notion of a neuroscientist studying autism seemed a bit odd.

It's almost inconceivable that an American debut this defiantly odd — one clearly conceived as a challenge to notions of «good taste» — could be produced at this budget - level, with this cast, in 2016.

While the notion of an ultra-luxury hybrid SUV might sound like an odd combination, the capability of silent motoring will likely be popular with its urban target audience.

If the notion of Toyota's bona - fide sports car mixing it up in Nascar seems a bit odd, remember that the stock - car racing series is no longer exclusively the preserve of large sedans turned coupes.

Strange Journey is an odd game to celebrate the series» 25th anniversary with, but its sheer amount of quality mitigates that notion entirely.

The notion that a child could outperform them misunderstands the nature of the performances involved, as the pranksters seem to have misunderstood — or just never got — Ireland's much odder performances.

They are brilliant and Bob, a nice ordinary sort of guy, completely dispelled my notion that artists were a highbrow odd type of people.

My guess is he'd agree with my notion that energy progress will only come with an odd combination of «urgency and patience.»

That's a very odd switcheroo to my mind, using the current «persecution» (as I see it) of those who dare question the CAWG cult, to justify this (to me) utterly bizarre notion that it couldn't have happened at the hands of previous groups of elites in power.

I have no doubt that my grandchildren will live in homes powered by AP, and the, notion of being attached by wires to a centralized coal powered or even nuclear power station will seems as odd as a local Abbott telling me I can't grind my own grain seems to us.

It was when I read Yes Virginia a couple of years ago that I realised something very odd was going on with the «science» explaining AGW and its strange notions about the physical properties of gases, that even those not blaming it all on man had bought into it, actually believed the impossible «science» which was so much at odds with basic physics — it took a while for it to sink in that these changes were now ubiquitous through the education system..

While I have heard these refrains before, I find them both odd and at odds with fundamental notions of separation of powers and federal sentencing judges» overarching command to impose a sentence that is «sufficient, but not greater than necessary, to comply with the purposes» of federal sentencing.

The notion of a bumper may seem odd to some.

I see this as a somewhat odd notion when presented by mediators who know that a big part of our work is identifying our clients» fears and dealing with those fears openly and honestly.