Sentences with phrase «of chance operations»

Stella's reasoned irrationality ultimately precludes the possibility of chance operations in his works, which creates an inertia of being, an odd kind of nihilistic idealism.

John Cage is best known for his use of chance operations, but in fact he often plotted out the operations of his artwork and performances via complicated preparatory notations that he called scores.

Nancy Perloff, curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, discusses Cage's use of chance operations to develop works that would transform music in the 20th century.

, curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, discusses Cage's use of chance operations to develop works that would transform music in the 20th century.

His poetic use of found materials and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb the environmental stains of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed in the work of a subsequent generation of artists, including Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, and Nate Lowman, among others.

His poetic use of found materials, printed and reproducible images, his unconventional and inventive mark - making, and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb stains of nature and of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed within Schnabel's entire body of work as well as in the work of a subsequent generation of artists.

The line of a dozen or so stainless steel variations on the letter «U,» display the repetition and idiosyncrasy that run through all of Guyton's work, but these are not the result of chance operations on the machine's part.

Not exact matches

«I am more than willing to give a second chance to Mark in this fight's critical hour,» says Andrew Lee, cofounder and chairman of London Trust Media, who also briefly ran Mt. Gox's U.S. operations.

In fact, if you launch a business today, you have only a 10 percent chance of still being in operation a decade from now.

«Operation Holiday Cheer is a chance for DHL to show our gratitude to our troops in a big way during this country's most important holiday season,» Greg Hewitt, CEO of DHL Express U.S., said in a statement.

Repeat business over time equals profits, and if the business is generating some type of cash flow (or even slightly negative cash flow) from repeat customers, there's a good chance the business could generate consistent cash flow and profits with a few tweaks to its current operations.

Liberty Global and Vodafone ended talks about an exchange of assets — the companies» operations overlap the most in the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands — denying the cable and mobile - phone giants a chance to consolidate in their key markets.

Now, thanks to its planned merger with H.J. Heinz, led by a 3G Capital and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - B), Kraft stands a better chance of taking on overseas markets, getting the clout it needs to rein in rising commodity costs and attain more efficient operations that will lower its expenses.

The winner of the contest, called Operation: Take Command, will have the chance to open a 7 - Eleven franchise, bypassing the $ 190,000 franchise fee.

I had the chance to speak with Taylor Freeman, CEO of Upload, Inc., about some of the important ways businesses can use virtual reality to communicate, envision and expedite their projects and operations in ways that we have never seen before.

Chase launched a contest today that offers a dozen small businesses the chance at a $ 250,000 grant, a new Chromebook Pixel laptop and two days of marketing and business development help from the experts at Google, according to a blog post written by Jon Kaplan, Google's vice president of U.S. sales and operations.

Order - to - shelf systems have become popular among retailers for the same reason that just - in - time inventory became a fad a generation ago: another chance to streamline operations and save money, said David Huff, a Penn State University clinical professor of supply chain management.

Quite naturally, that reduces chances of centralized operations.

Just as it is OK for a doctor to perform an operation or a medical procedure that has a good chance of causing an abortion in a pregnant woman.

Or was the origin of man a matter of chance alone, a haphazard outcome of the operation of the evolutionary roulette?

With the proliferation of computer users and the growth of knowledge about computer operations, the chances of computer abuse have drastically increased.

If an individual acquires a character during its lifetime, that does not increase the probability that its offspring will exhibit the character; but if the development of some members of a population are affected by the environment in ways which improve their chance of leaving offspring, this will obviously increase their contribution to later generations, that is to say, their natural selective value; and the frequency of that character in later generations will be increased, not by any physiological or genetical change, but by the operation of selection.

however what happened in reality was that protesters raised the hammas» demands tenfold, the israeli government refused to initiate a military opperation to rescue gilad — which is the logical solution to this crisis (and the israelies had their chances during operation cast led and even afterwards... in fact, the israeli intelligence knew and still knows the exact location of shalit, but since the failure of the nahson vaxman rescue operation the israellie's government position on rescue operations changed dramatically.)

In the absence of a real chance of someone other than Metcash taking up the Franklins wholesale assets and continuing Franklins wholesaling activities, the field of grocery wholesaling in the defined territory would be left, substantially, and by default, to Metcash simply by reason of Pick n Pay's decision to cease its Australian operations.

Every time you visit the Comforts of Home web site and enter a code from a specially marked package of Marie Callender's meals or desserts, Marie's will make a donation to USO Operation Celebration ™, a program that ensures that our troops have a chance to celebrate every holiday.

«When we had a chance to get to know him, he just carries himself with a demeanor that you can read that he's going to be special,» Grancio, the head of global basketball operations, says.

A pair of operations early in his stay with Arsenal appeared to have severely affected his chances of returning to the form that lead to his move to London and kept him as a regular with Les Bleus.

With greater participation, a school food service operation stands a greater chance of remaining cost neutral or even showing a surplus.

Dear Amanda: Now is the hour, and thank you for giving me this chance to announce the launch of Operation Dear Abby XVI.

hi, my baby was ectopic doctors said it seems to have miscarried itself without an operation as my hormone levels are dropping, i was wondering when i should start trying again and what my chances are of another ectopic.

«Presently, numerous New York residents are participating in illegal, unregulated and unsafe gaming operations which offer games of chance over the Internet,» the bill memo states.

(CNN)-- Jim DeMint's political operation is firing back at anonymous Senate Republican aides who criticized the conservative South Carolina Senator on Tuesday night for helping Christine O'Donnell capture the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware, possibly jeopardizing the party's chances of winning the seat in November.

Westminster insiders are preparing for Momentum spokesman James Schneider to take a senior role in Jeremy Corbyn's communications operation — as the chances of Paul Mason getting a top job appear to have been diminished.

Chronic or hard - to - assess ailments where the clinical encounter does not have an easily identifiable end point will all fall victim to the on - off logic of a private health service, as will operations involving high costs with low or medium chances of success.

The operation should be sustained up until the chances of further attacks by the armed herdsmen are either rendered very slim or completely eliminated.

Electorally, Thompson's chances seem grim: He's down by sixteen points; an expected low turnout puts Thompson at a deeper disadvantage by making it more costly to draw out votes, say political analysts; Bloomberg is readying what the campaign promises to be the «largest get - out - the - vote operation in the history of municipal politics»; and the mayor's also cut into Thompson's potential labor support, depriving him of ground troops.

Very popular with the grassroots Tom Strathclyde has the enormous task of overseeing Tory operations in the one chamber where the party often enjoys a good chance of defeating or amending Government legislation.

The reception is the social highlight of the four - day event and gives people like Marty Vanags, president of the Prosperity Partnership, a chance to pitch semiconductor industry leaders on the benefits of moving their operations to the Capital Region and Saratoga County.

So, in order to build a coalition that could give him a chance at the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, he'll most likely need strong support from Republican establishment types, like those who formed the core of Romney's formidable operation.

The other 14 would, if they had relied on this test alone, very likely have undergone unnecessary operations to remove their otherwise healthy ovaries because they would have mistakenly believed they had a 99.3 percent chance of having cancer.

People who received prescriptions for opioid painkillers in the months before elective abdominal operations had longer hospital stays, and a higher chance of needing follow - up care in a hospital or rehabilitation facility, than patients who weren't taking such medications before they had the same operations, the study finds.

During 30 years of a surgical career, it has been my not quite tongue - in - cheek observation that a patient's chance of survival is inversely proportional to the number of anesthesiologists required to get the operation under way; a figure of six or higher is a virtual guarantee of death.

Despite my attempts to run a democratic operation that gave everyone an even chance, different levels of skills and motivation were sorting us into two groups.

The next stage of the experiment will take place next summer when the Viking voyage research operation will travel back to Denmark from Ireland, allowing some hardy salts another chance to relive the grueling days of the Vikings on the open sea.

Each of his ions can interact with every other ion, reducing the number of operations needed for many tasks — and the chances that a superposition will collapse.

Kepler investigators, however, will get the second chance to look at planets discovered by the telescope during the second year of TESS's operations.

By using ASRGL1, the chance of identifying such hidden high - risk patients and offer them more aggressive treatment after their operation, said Per - Henrik Edqvist, Manager at the facility Tissue profiling.

Xerogeanes explains that prior to using the 3 - D MRI technology, ACL operations were conducted with extensive use of X-Rays in the operating room, and left too much to chance when working around growth plates.

This operation took place as late as possible to give scientists the best possible chance of calculating the landing site.

Where there's obesity in large amounts of the population, there's a very good chance you'll find misguided and destructive eating habits such as low - fat diets along with too much processed, CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) meat and not enough vegetables and healthy sources of fat.