Sentences with phrase «of escape hatch»

Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and a leading advocate of action said of the report, «It confirms in stark terms the reality that many of us had accepted a considerable amount of time ago and refutes an effort by the White House to seek some sort of escape hatch from that reality.»

I always liked Matt's contract, but specifically because of the escape hatch built into it at the end of year 2.

My program gently pushed me out of the escape hatch, giving me the excuse of «interrupted service» — the interruptions being certain safety concerns, certain previous transgressions, my eventual admission that I wasn't going to make it two years.

So I think the idea that the [appeal to] conscience [can be used as a] kind of an escape hatch is really not what the church teaches.

«There are a number of escape hatches.

Not exact matches

By eliminating that escape hatch from our vocabulary we encourage people to thoughtfully consider the situation rather than dismissing a request out of hand.

«A Brief History of Time» became a magical escape hatch.

However, we must not forget the escape hatch that the church has set up for all of its members.

Its use of particular observations, analogy, and identification provide escape hatches that make uneasy those who try to negotiate life logically.

Rather than using Jesus as an escape hatch for fear, we need an understanding of redemption that will allow us to engage our fears in their most terrifying dimensions.

It has been said that whenever some older theologians got to a hard place they simply quoted a few lines of Wordsworth or Tennyson, thinking that ended the matter; or they made a few biblical citations as if that were the complete answer; or (at worst), when the attack was most fierce, they used the word «mystery» as a kind of «escape - hatch».

But in conclusion, he offers an escape hatch: It may be permissible for married couples to use barrier methods as long as they do so with the intent of «responsible parenthood» as that concept is defined, paradoxically, in Humanae Vitae itself.

I think we sort of deserve the hell we create but grace appears to be the escape hatch to which God has the key, which he offers to us.

It is one of the ironies of Christian history that followers of Jesus should present the message not as a wonderful, fulfilling way of life, but as an escape hatch through which people flee from fears created by the misinterpreted message.

If one season of tanking is enough to get him to look for an escape hatch, being forced to sign Dwight would easily have been enough.

I'm curious to know what will happen if I don't have this escape hatch of connectivity every time things get the slightest bit boring or uncomfortable.

Birth is about one life emerging from another and should be considered natural, regardless of if a baby emerges through the lady garden or an escape hatch.

The Step's self - sealing system prevents what happens with the Diaper Genie and other products: every time the hatch is opened, a whiff of old diapers escapes.

And NYCAN Executive Director Christina Grant said, «When we disproportionately place our lowest - performing teachers in front of our neediest students, we are closing the escape hatch that great schools have long provided from poverty and the status quo.

The eggs are capable of hatching from about five days old, but if they wait until seven days their tails can grow an extra 30 per cent in length, which helps them to escape from aquatic predators.

For her thesis, Warkentin caged cat - eyed snakes (Leptodeira annulata) with clutches of 5 - day - old frog eggs and found that the embryos could hatch to escape.

The 200 - centimeter - long, two - tunnel design, complete with an escape hatch, is an architectural marvel compared with the short, single crawlway of the deer mouse.

His plan to hand out his inspirational cosmic currency to the children of friends was thwarted, however, when Liberty Bell 7, his Mercury capsule, lost its escape hatch and quickly took on water after splashdown.

► An astronaut removes six large canisters of genetic research materials from a drifting space station with lights flashing and sirens blaring; a giant spiny rat chases her and pounds on the escape hatch window with paws and tentacles, cracking it (we can not see its face) as the escape pod launches and we see the space station explode into fireballs that fill the screen and soon after we see the cracked pod hatch window break apart and the pod explodes into chunks of flaming debris (the astronaut is certainly dead although we do not see her after the explosion).

Rauffenstein, lamenting the end of an aristocratic era, tries to befriend de Boeldieu, but the French captain is already hatching a new escape plan - one in which he puts himself in danger to allow the others to escape.

Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life.

Too often this year, I used the movie theater as an escape hatch, instead of an opportunity to enrich myself.

They decide to stay longer than they thought and try to hatch a plan to escape somehow but with the arrival of a gang of militant bikers their security is compromised.

But even within the artifice of the second life Baby Doll leads, she escapes into her thoughts one more time by concocting violent scenarios where the girls go on missions as part of a super team of kick - ass heroines, trying to gather the tools for which they will hatch their escape.

That uneasy clash of authority and empathy sustains «Half Nelson» through its characters» crises of conscious, which, like «Bad,» refuse an easy moral escape hatch.

Whether or not the movie is ultimately «realistic,» the lack of any viable escape hatch, for the characters or the audience, touches on and deconstructs deeper truths about the genre: that its pleasures are fundamentally sadistic and, when taken to a logical end point, deeply unsatisfying.

For those in the charter movement who have viewed chartering as a systemic reform strategy (not just an escape hatch for some kids), the prevalent theory of action for the last ten to fifteen years has been a «tipping point» strategy.

Likewise, in «Finishing Touches,» Robert Maranto states, «The animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

Thus does Glenn create an escape hatch for himself, one that helps him avoid confronting any tricky questions concerning the kind of socialization that is appropriate for children to receive within the polyglot of contemporary America.

There is no longer a methodological escape hatch for people who want to dismiss the results of the evaluation.

A steel luggage safety barrier can be fitted in place because there is an emergency escape hatch in the roof of the passenger area.

Apparently, the AP program hasn't so much raised the level of the curriculum in the American high school as it has created an escape hatch that lets a small number of ambitious students get out of the low - demand environment for a few hours.

For the animating theory of school choice has always been that it will not only serve as an escape hatch from dysfunctional public schools but also will spark public schools to improve.

So it might be the case that the Hope Scholarship actually not only provides an escape hatch for these students who are being bullied but actually reduces the level of bullying in the district schools.

The escape hatch of choice is, at best, a means to that end.

Five decades of investment and effort by the federal government to improve public education has not worked, he said, and students need an escape hatch from substandard schools.

In this haunting story of devastation and drought, young lovers Luz and Ray have their California dreams violently shattered, and they must hatch a plan to escape the relentless onslaught of the Amargosa Dune Sea for a greener, better life for their enigmatic adopted daughter.

In an effort to flee a war - torn country that was becoming less tolerant of basic freedoms, Saedi's parents hatched a plan to escape to the United States with 2 - year - old Saedi and her older sister, Samira, in tow.

A new law takes away one option that those converting from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA had, and some commentators are nervous that the rule could take away an escape hatch that people have when they contribute to one type of IRA but later need to change their mind.

De Kooning spoke intriguingly on occasion of leaving a way out, of creating an escape hatch, so to speak, somewhere in his densely cubist screens; it seems Flack understood this idea instinctively.

The artist's preoccupation with the end of the world (perhaps foreshadowing the end of his time in New York), was evidenced in Bickerton's work from the late 1980's and early 1990's, which included flotation devices, portholes, ropes, carabiners, and biosphere escape hatches.

New works include Panic Table (2004), which turns a monochrome painting into a table replete with a pool ladder and an escape hatch / trap door, and Piece of Cake (For Jack Goldstein)(2004), a painting incorporating a short video movie, which is dedicated to the late, influential California conceptualist.

The show is most compelling when it asks the viewer to see earlier works — often outliers in the field of individual careers — in light of new trajectories, or when it pushes blackness beyond the associational and into deeper psychic channels, as in William Pope L's unsettling Blind (2015), a dark window cut from the gallery wall, like a literal aperture or escape hatch.

February 19, 2014 • The National Gallery of Art is named as a potential escape hatch for the oldest private art museum in Washington.

-- As it turns out, nature has provided humanity with an «escape hatch» from this conundrum, which is a means to cool the surface of the planet with the same techniques as nature uses to cool overheated tropical sea water.