Sentences with phrase «of adaptation by»

Many times, the LPO consultant finds deficiencies pertaining to the lack of adaptation by the Firm to utilize current technology and software that is available in the current market place.

As individuals and as a species, we are the products of adaptation by natural selection.

Trainees may also improve their chances of adaptation by choosing the right lab.

When going abroad for their postdoc, trainees may improve their chances of adaptation by choosing the right lab.

In my experience (I am originally from Britain) the growth of Islam brings nothing good whatsoever to our society it becomes a succession of adaptations by non-Muslims, ever more «tolerance» of an ideology that itself is the epitome of intolerance.

I thought this collection of stories would be a hit for me considering it is full of adaptations by such talented writers, but aside from a couple of stories, it left me flat.

Not exact matches

The author admitted to fans of the story — both in written and televised form — that there may be some aspects of the novels that are spoiled by seeing the acted adaptation first, but also acknowledged how the story differs between the two mediums.

Before James Cameron made «Avatar» and broke all box - office records, he was planning on making the big - screen adaptation of «Battle Angel Alita,» the famous manga series created by Yukito Kishiro.

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of the controversial 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, which gives an alternative fate for Jesus Christ, was banned in numerous counties, and in the US cities that had successful bans during the film's release included: Savannah, Georgia; New Orleans; Oklahoma City; and Santa Ana, California.

This suggests adaptations by many industries — home remodeling leaps to mind — to capitalize, and a whole new field of multifamily household services and family - leader support services.

The actor stars in and directs the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize - winning play by August Wilson.

«Too Much Johnson» was originally intended to be used in conjunction with Welles» stage adaptation of an 1894 play by William Gillette at Welles» New York City playhouse, the Mercury Theatre.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

This treatment included one to two cold showers of 38 degrees Fahrenheit, two to three minutes long, followed by a five - minute gradual adaptation to make the procedure less shocking.

Based on actual events, «The Meeting» is an adaptation of a story by Irving Faught, the Administrator of the Oklahoma Securities Commission.

In CETA there is also a provision which says that the costs of pollution are borne by the polluter and requires Canada and Europe to prioritize trade in environmental goods and services related to renewable energy and co-operate on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Freakonomics: The Movie (available on Netflix and Hulu) is Chad Troutwine's documentary film adaptation of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives - based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.

Most of our difficulty in the advancing half - cycle since 2009 would have been avoided by the key adaptation that we made in 2014: in the presence of zero - interest rate conditions, even the most extreme «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes were not enough.

Water Criteria development has been led by a consortium consisting of the Climate Bonds Initiative, Ceres, World Resources Institute, CDP and the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) which is supported by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).

Research conducted by groups such as Ogilvy Renault LLP and SiG@MaRS have led to the the adaptation of the B Corp structure to the Canadian Social Business landscape.

This 2010 western is the second adaptation of a 1968 novel by the same name and was previously filmed by John Wayne in 1969.

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

The term macroevolution, by contrast, refers to the origin of new species and divisions of the taxonomic hierarchy above the species level, and also to the origin of complex adaptations, such as the vertebrate eye.

There's a curious and discouraging article in the November 20th Entertainment Weekly magazine about producers» efforts to «sell» the upcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road to Christians (by way of their pastors).

Readers of First Thoughts will know by now that Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Silence by Shūsaku Endō was released in select theaters on December 23.

Here I mean by it that Christianity must be accepted in its revealed totality — accepted absolutely, intransigently, without cultural or philosophical or any other kind of accommodation or adaptation.)

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

Then, Scorsese's next film, Kundun (a biography of the 14th Dalai Lama), set the stage for the religious tones of what would become a passion project for him: a film adaptation of Silence, the 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo.

The Council mounted this challenge to the monistic cast of mind, a term that Weigel uses interchangeably with «totalitarian,» through a recovery and adaptation of the pluralistic principle articulated by Pope Gelasius I to Anastasius in 494 a.d.: «Two there are, august emperor, by which this world is ruled on title of original and sovereign right» the consecrated authority of the priesthood and the royal power.»

The most striking instance of the concrete new taken into an apocalyptic story so that it becomes the peripety or surprise in the plot would be the adaptation of the apocalyptic story by the early Christians to the new which they saw in Christ.

By establishing a metaphoric adaptation of certain aspects of Whitehead's thought, he is able to integrate into his novel the second great need of modern man — a viable metaphysics.

Then, too, it will presumably be possible to leave it an open question whether the history of human descent as known to us does or does not possess features which only after the Fall of the first man can be thought of to some extent as a predominance of his pre-human past and of his environment, over a sensitivity to the world around him no longer protected by the gift of integrity, and over his lack of adaptation to a particular milieu.

The Church Growth Movement, for example, has responded by adaptation, utilising the technologies of marketing analysis, business administration and mass communication to help churches grow.

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

These are governed by aims at meaning and value that are often little oriented to the practical adaptation of the organism or the psyche to its environment.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

In primitive existence, intelligent adaptation to the environment and unconscious symbolization, as a means of intensifying and ordering the psychic life, existed side by side.

(What follows is an adaptation of ideas developed at more length in my article «Religious and Cosmic Homelessness,» in Liberating Life, edited by Charles Birch.

Man is what he has become; and his present being is what it is by virtue of the long struggle for more successful adaptation to the environment.

Pride is then followed by surprise at what I didn't already know, and the enlightenment of discovering new elements the adaptation left out.

For one thing, job uniforms have been replaced by designer adaptations, often to accommodate the degenderizing of crafts and professions: the fireman is now the sexually ambiguous firefighter, the nurse may well be a man, and so forth.

Paul Thomas Anderson (one of America's greatest living filmmakers) is directing a film adaptation of a book by Thomas Pynchon (one of America's greatest living writers) starring Joaquin Phoenix (one of America's greatest living actors), so Inherent Vice has some hype behind it.

Though he recognizes that what justice requires changes with changing circumstances, his thought about justice is so dominated by a «sense of things fixed» that little if any place is left for personal adaptation in its exercise.

Anderson plays famously loose with his adaptations of books (There Will Be Blood was supposedly inspired by Upton Sinclair's Oil!

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction... Continue Reading»

Error here means that the adjustment of means to end, the fulfillment of end by means, and the consequent adaptation of each succeeding occasion to the aim which is its basic identity, may be missed in this or that given instance.

[1][2] It is a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for the existence of God, presented by its advocates as «an evidence - based scientific theory about life's origins» rather than «a religious - based idea».

Presupposing men who are thoroughly trained in the traditions of the Church and completely loyal to the hierarchy, Ignatius wants Jesuits on the spot to make necessary adaptations rather than simply to go by the book.

He is, as Charles Hartshorne would put it, «the supremely worshipful», who is surpassed by anything which is not Himself; yet in His own life He may surpass, in richness of experience and capacity for adaptation and provision of new opportunity for advance, that which He has been.