Sentences with phrase «of affairs in»

I suspected that the «culture of the gun» was just as firmly entrenched on the streets of Scarborough as it was in Harlem, and the average Canuck wouldn't fare out any better in a street interview about peculiarities of the USA than Rick Mercer's hapless Yankee victims did when quizzed about the supposed state of affairs in our Great White North.

Such is the state of affairs in rural Ontario.

an unsatisfactory state of affairs in the native title area.

In the Wongatha decision, Justice Lindgren considered this when he considered the «unsatisfactory state of affairs in the native title area»: 68

Handles hectic state of affairs in a busy environment by using own initiative, and strong communication skills.

Companies belonging to the same economic sector are often included into an index, which helps the traders to understand in general the state of affairs in the field, and to realize the current stock value dynamics of the companies included in the index.

While selling stock at two different valuations would be impossible for a publicly traded company, the somewhat nature of Uber's existing ownership structure allows the company to do precisely that, with SoftBank pushing to capitalize on that state of affairs in exchange for buying a smaller portion of shares at a non-discounted price and injecting some additional cash into Uber following the deal.

But yes, I had not imagined a state of affairs in which a device with a full HD display, powered a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and 3 GB RAM would be considered «slightly overpriced» (yes, that was the term used by many people yesterday) at Rs 19,999.

If you're not so happy, we'd really encourage you to check back in on the state of affairs in a few months.

If you've followed me for any length of time, you probably know I've grown highly disillusioned with the current state of affairs in crypto.

Each point of the triangle represents one of the three properties that blockchains need — scale, the ability to support many users; decentralization, a state of affairs in which no one entity controls the system; and consensus, the agreement between each node on the validity of transactions.

On November 9, 2017, the editors of CEE Legal Matters sat down with a cross-section of experts from leading law firms and prominent in - house legal departments in Turkey to learn about the current state of affairs in that ever - changing market.

CALL / ACBD has worked to assemble the following surveys and papers to reflect the state of affairs in Canadian Law Libraries.

«In short we do not consider that Parliament can have intended a state of affairs in which, in any given instance, no particulars whatever need be given or proved of a cardinal element in the case, namely the criminal conduct relied on.

The Court determined that the Appellant's challenge was to the conduct of the Respondent in bringing and pursuing disciplinary proceedings against her, not to an alleged state of affairs in which BME lawyers were more likely to be the subject of such proceedings.

Political recognition of the sad state of affairs in family law?

«chalks it up to the «millions for defense, not a penny for tribute» mentality and / or, more precisely, to the regulatory / enforcement state of affairs in the U.S., which gives corporate America no non-fatal alternative but to comply with Sarbanes - Oxley, bow humbly at the feet of Eliot Spitzer, and investigate the daylights out of «even the appearance of...»

Despite this continued sorry state of affairs in the world of BigLaw, one tiny group of fledgling lawyers continues to be in white - hot demand: former U.S. Supreme Court clerks.

At least, that's the state of affairs in the aftermath of yesterday's Supreme Court decision in Bowles v. Russell.

This is a general answer based on the state of affairs in various jurisdictions.

If we somehow achieved a state of affairs in which everyone was as sure as Leonardo Dicaprio, Ph.D. about climate change, we wouldn't cut emissions.

The fact that there is, is what tees me off more than anything about the lamentable state of affairs in the purportedly «modern» world.

«The state of affairs in [storm] track is steady improvement, while the state of affairs in [storm] intensity has been stagnant,» said Frank Marks, director of NOAA's Hurricane Research Division in Miami.

As the current U.S. NCADAC Report is clearly one of those systems, no unique truth value can be assigned to any proposition in it, which makes it impossible to establish a correspondence between its content and any conceivable state of affairs in the real world.

We would not accept such a shoddy state of affairs in any other profession.

The fact that the alarmists find the abuse of Lennart Bengtsson perfectly normal and in fact are defending this is typical for the sorry state of affairs in the climatology community.

Surprising as it may seem to some people, this is actually the normal course of affairs in science.

It means a crucial or decisive moment, a turning point, a state of affairs in which a decisive change for better or worse is imminent.

In contrast to the bleak state of affairs in the immediate wake of the economic downturn, everything felt eerily back to normal that night — if 2007 can be called normal.

There is, in van Velde's work, a quality of indecision and incompleteness, of being improvised rather than planned, of being left in a transitional stage, in other words, of Provisionalism — as defined by Raphaël Rubinstein in his now famed article from 2009 — which makes it relevant to today's state of affairs in abstract painting as well as to the young painters loosely grouped under the name of New Casualists.

The Talent Call is the moment for Foam to gain insight into the current state of affairs in photography around the world.

They are neither angels nor demons, neither conflicted nor hesitant — its significance is a reflection of the current state of affairs in China.

This is a dismal state of affairs in itself, but it appears that these attacks have been perpetrated by disgruntled fans who are dissatisfied by the low number of regular updates.

Perhaps this is some commentary about the state of affairs in revolutionary France.

Peter Greenberg also sits down with the Prime Minister for a candid and unrehearsed discussion about the ever - changing state of affairs in the Middle East.

While there's some grain of truth there, what you described is an exaggeration and misrepresentation of the current state of affairs in this area.

An example is his ground - breaking piece in our November issue on the true state of affairs in fee - only planning.

Whether you are a junior high teacher or a professor in education, this book provides a resourceful guide to keep you up to speed with the current state of affairs in teaching reading and education in general.

Intel clearly has not been at the helm of affairs in the great tablet game being played out.

We talk about the current state of affairs in digital publishing, eBooks, e-Paper, e-Readers, Tablets, Library... [Read more...]

Charles Darwin begs to differ.He correctly summed up the current state of affairs in the Dunning - Kruger Effect.

This is the sad state of affairs in contemporary publishing.

However, with this being the state of affairs in the traditional computing scene, putting the entire blame on Windows 8 alone would be a bit harsh.

This year, many librarians and digital companies will be in attendance, all of whom will be discussing the current state of affairs in the industry.

At a recent event in London many publishers and booksellers got together to talk about the current state of affairs in the world of digital publishing.

One of the most frustrating aspects of digital publishing is the current sad state of affairs in ebook lending.

His opening laments the state of affairs in the teacher preparation pipeline and supposed competing draws for potential teachers:

Governor Cuomo's new proposal for improving the current state of affairs in New York classrooms is a welcome change of course in what has otherwise been a...

Those frustrations were visible at a recent State Board of Education meeting, as turnaround operators offered blunt assessments of the current state of affairs in IPS schools, while district officials unsuccessfully argued state officials» funding formula for the takeovers is inequitable.

A Democratic Constitution for Public Education offers an interesting assessment of the current state of affairs in the public education system.