Sentences with phrase «of a conundrum when»

This leaves conservatives in something of a conundrum when they fear that progressives are fighting for practices and policies that undermine religious liberty, personal responsibility, property rights, or social cohesion.

We were reminded of this conundrum when we encountered «Food for Thought,» an opinion piece written by Andy Rooney, a former commentator on the TV show, «CBS Sixty Minutes.»

It can also pose something of a conundrum when it comes to furnishing and decorating.

Not exact matches

Thankfully, for Dublin - based LinkedIn analytics manager Mariah Walton, she had the good fortune of having Jeffrey Weiner as a CEO when she faced just this conundrum.

That establishes a conundrum: one must maintain these quite different forms of global power without knowing if the cost is justified, until the moment arrives when others would pay ten times over to hold what you have in hand.

It's an interesting conundrum for Microsoft since Kinect, when it was originally released for the Xbox 360 in 2010, became the fastest - selling electronics device of all time.

The NASAA statement highlights several of the conundrums that regulators like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must confront when seeking to exercise their legal mandates for cryptocurrency, such as associated tangible assets, controls by regulators or governmental authorities, and reliable methods of exchange for other commodities.

When Christian theology fell into this trap of substance thinking, all sorts of conundrums arose.

Her story reveals the unique challenges and spiritual conundrums Christians face when they become ensnared in an addiction, and the redemption that's possible when we finally reach the end of ourselves.

A real conundrum I find with Christians of various theological persuasions is that they harp on how we must be engaged in studying the Bible, how the Bible is our guide in life, and hold the Bible on a pedestal, much like rabbinic Jews hold the Torah or Catholic hold up their Eucharist, but when it comes to the nitty - gritty of how they have come to know God, no matter how they explain it, it ends up being on the basis of experience.

We were all well aware what the explanation was of the great conundrum, for the English Church, about the reign of John Paul II: why was it, when he had appointed most of our bishops, that nearly all of them went out of their way to undermine his vision for the Church?

The conundrum is particularly pressing when a concept of God

Many of our current starters didn't have that luxury when they came in due to the roster conundrum.

players like Ozil always present the fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't, by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes

When faced with the conundrum of who to position up front last Sunday against Liverpool, in Arsenal's opening Premier League fixture, Wenger decided to go with Alexis Sanchez over Theo Walcott.

In the wake of Trump's broad executive orders on deporting undocumented immigrants, Suffolk County police officials are wrestling with a conundrum facing police departments across the country: how to shut down a violent gang when the immigrants they will need as witnesses and tipsters may be afraid to come forward.

«Does the Secretary of State agree that there is a huge conundrum when it comes to party political funding?

Neuromarketing made a national news splash in 2003, when Read Montague of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, used functional MRI (fMRI) technology to explain a famous Coke - Pepsi conundrum: The two sodas are very similar in chemical composition and there's little difference in taste, yet Coke maintains its market dominance.

To solve the conundrum, Gregory Sivakoff of the University of Alberta in Canada and colleagues asked amateur stargazers to alert them when SS Cygni ignited so that they could point two high - end telescopes at the system to measure its distance from Earth.

In some respects, less scientifically sophisticated cultures may have come to terms with this conundrum in the way they grappled with the knotty question of when life begins.

Kind of similar to the whole nitrate / nitrite conundrum where plant - sourced nitrates (from beets and arugula) get metabolized in the stomach and re-sent to the mouth where, instead of becoming carcinogenic nitrosamines (as is what happens when you consume nitrates from meat), they become NO and increase our oxygen efficiency.

When trying to get the most out of your suitcase, I'm a big believer in packing dresses — they're so easy to wear and help you through that whole mixing and matching conundrum.

You may hear echoes of previous superpower digimations, both the great (The Incredibles) and the not - so (Despicable Me), as the plot spins its conundrum: What happens to a supervillain when he vanquishes his superhero rival?

His comedies, graceful and charming aristocratic entertainments, lack the satirical exuberance of Molière's or the thematic density of Shakespeare's: the conundrums of cross-dressing and mistaken identity in «Triumph of Love» seem pretty thin when set beside «As You Like It.»

When the police target Pascal as a suspect, the intrigue kicks up a notch, introducing a familiar but effective conundrum in which Moll is both repulsed and aroused by the possibility of her lover's guilt.

Sneak - previewing as part of the closing night of Film Comment Selects, Denis Villeneuve's new film Enemy stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a man confronted by existential conundrums and deep - seated inner - fears when he discovers his doppelgänger.

Without them, The Devil Wears Prada is just a feature - length version of the opening credits of «The Mary Tyler Moore Show», with Meryl Streep as Lou Grant and a big ol' rapturous toss of the hat the solution to those prickly body - image conundrums that surface when Miranda calls size - 6 beauty Andy «fat» — and Andy obligingly shrinks down to a size 4.

In just one of multiple instances of the screenplay giving up, John Connor declares the heroes of this iteration an island in time, immune to time travel conundrums; later, when the evil operating system intent on taking over the world (why?

When that is contrasted against the self - evidently appalling nature of their work, the resulting sensation is an exquisite psychic conundrum.

When the box of tricks they've knocked together in their garage starts behaving in ways they neither expect nor understand, so begins an escalating series of conundrums for Aaron (Carruth) and his best buddy co-creator Abe (Sullivan).

When allegations of sexual misconduct against actor Kevin Spacey surfaced in late October, renowned film director Ridley Scott was faced with a conundrum: his new film, All the Money in the World, was slated to open mere weeks later, starring Spacey.

The movie takes no sides; it merely presents the moral conundrum of how to stay honorable when fighting a pure force of chaos, and when to stop playing by the rules.

As the title suggests, Looper has its share of fun with the convolutions and conundrums that take place when folks from the future start tinkering with the past.

A conundrum though: What to do when there's obvious artistry in one of these vacuous behemoths?

As I wrote in a recent blog post, there was a time when poetry was «my grounding force, my way of grappling with the world, questions, uncertainty, joy, sorrow, conundrums, beauty, ugliness, and all forms of life that living could throw in my direction.»

The conundrum is captured by Seymour Fliegel, president of the Center for Educational Innovation, when he reminds us that too often the teacher says, «I taught him to swim, but he still sinks.»

For most of us, it happens in late adolescence or even early adulthood — when Mom and Dad start speaking up about job conundrums or relationship woes, or even (God forbid) sex.

The gutter of this unexpected adventure has a mind of its own, and when Bella's dog disappears between the pages, she finds herself in an escalating conundrum reminiscent of the events in Jeffers» Stuck.

When you consider that almost 45 % of the people with Twitter accounts never tweet, lack of engagement there is a conundrum.

So my conundrum was: a Dell Streak 7 which was borderline unusable with its stock install, a custom ROM load that was not sufficiently functional when interacting with some of my more important (or at least frequent) apps, and the planned replacement suffering a 6 to 8 week delay in delivery.

I take care of the side tasks of being a writer — answering emails, posting to social media, interviews, etc. — when my brain is not quite to the point of dealing with time travel conundrums.

The Federal Reserve's (Fed) decision to delay raising interest rates in the wake of fears over the health of China's economy highlights the conundrum facing central bankers, so when will interest rates rise and will I be dead before rates match GDP growth rates («neutralise») again?

Young people coming out of college find themselves in a credit conundrum: How to build a credit history when they are deep in student loan debt.

The brain - damaged owner was so upset when I came to collect those cats that had not yet been taken to the shelter (I picked those up later) that, even though he loved his cats, he lost control over his emotions and physically abused 2 of the cats, who they did not sit still to be grabbed and shoved into the pet carrier, in all the conundrum.

Here's the type of information we think illustrates the conundrum of whether to and when to sterilize:

When one thinks of puzzles and conundrums things like crosswords, point and click adventure games and actual puzzles come to mind.

The Copyright Conundrum: The Case for Shortening the Length of Video Game Copyright When you've been around games for some years (or even decades), you start to wonder whatever happened to some of those classic games you vaguely remember playing years ago instead of doing your homework or going outside and enjoying the sunshine like -LSB-...]

Of course, those massive conundrums are at their best when pondered and solved together.

This can also be referred to as the «de Kooning conundrum,» made apparent when Clement Greenberg said to Bill in reference to his use of the figure, «you're dead.»

When a painting really works, it has answered the oldest of metaphysical conundrums by becoming more than the sum of its parts.»