Sentences with phrase «of flawed individuals»

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's beautifully observed Three Monkeys (Zeitgeist) is a poetic portrait of flawed individuals facing the consequences of bad decisions.

In fact, David Brody in The New York Times says, «The Bible's replete with examples of flawed individuals being used to accomplish God's will.»

Not exact matches

As a society, we have come to understand that stress, anxiety, and depression occur naturally without any moral flaw on the part of the individual who is suffering.

There's nothing that individuals can do; changing your WiFi password or using a different device won't help, since the flaw is embedded deep in the very basis of your internet connection.

«The flawed fiduciary rule will make it harder for low - and middle - income workers to save for the future, limit the ability of individuals to receive basic financial advice, and jeopardize the creation of small business retirement plans.»

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

There are plenty of people who see cryptocurrencies, however flawed, as a step in the right direction because they at least take power away from governing authorities and give individuals more freedom.

Take heart, churches are full of broken, flawed individuals and you cant meet all their needs.

I see them in a different light, as incredibly flawed individuals who happened to hold the highest form of power their nations allowed them, and as a result, no restraints on their behavior.

In those days, it was OK to criticize the mistakes and crimes of the individuals, but never the system — to do so would be to imply the system itself was flawed.

Juergensmeyer sees people as fundamentally flawed, and his solution — a more Protestant one, perhaps — seems to come at the level of the individual.

What is deeply troubling about tragedy is that it involves more than our individual will to action, or our intellects; it involves character flaws so grave that they permeate the actions of complete families and whole communities.

They believe the flaws of democracy and capitalism are so great — individuals continuously make the wrong choices — that we need to abandon (or at least seriously curtail) both.

They are the most flawed among us, whatever deep held insecurity or mental dysfunction drives individuals to seek truth in the completely unknowable and to accept words from the quill or mouth of another human being as that of a deity is long obsolete in the hearts of man.

Jerome Colburn is not the first individual to point out to me the scriptural and biological flaws with my suggestion of precisely «when God takes human form.»

Granted, there will still be many divorces brought about by the flawed decisions of individuals, giving witness to the continuing ingenuity of human sin, and creating a painful legacy of injury and evil.

Any time we meet an half decent team, the individual flaws of our average or spent players are brutally exposed.

This problem partially reared its ugly head on the goal, when Carles Puyol lost Alvaro Vasquez at the back post, but that perhaps had more to do with Puyol making an individual error than any kind of inherent formation flaw.

This result makes people take notice of United's flaws while criticizing Alex Ferguson's transfer window decisions and the performances of individual players.

The families, campaign groups, and other individuals have, over the years, been consistent in their arguments that the inquest was deeply flawed in a number of significant ways, and that the verdicts should be quashed and new inquests held.

This policy is also flawed though, it has been deeply criticised for driving up the value of homes, it reduces individual ownership of their biggest asset and even with the reduced cost, in places like London, the mortgage payments remain high.

He notably did not endorse the man who defeated him in the GOP primary, Carl Paladino, and also took his erstwhile Democratic target, Andrew Cuomo, to task, calling both candidates «flawed individuals, flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of ideas and principles that will restore growth and pride to our great state.»

As you'll recall, Lazio had some harsh words for both Paladino and his Democratic opponent, AG Andrew Cuomo, when he bowed out of the race, calling them «flawed individuals, flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of ideas and principles that will restore growth and pride to our great state.»

Although there is great pressure for the ousting of the president, the procedures headed by these individuals suffer from evident flaws in legitimacy.

Marxism's lack of understanding of human nature, it's morally flawed call for violence, it's debasement of the individual to be subservient to the Party and to the State, the lack of curtailment on the state's power, and a host of other issues caused it to be a political failure as precedent to it's economic failures, which are legion.

«I look at the two major party candidates and I see flawed individuals — flawed in terms of public character, flawed in terms of commitments to ideas and principles that will bring growth and pride to our great state....

«With sole concentration of power in one elected individual this Act is fundamentally flawed,» the group said.

But it too has flaws: individuals can garner a huge number of mandates and wield a disproportionate amount of power.

«The problem of police killings of unarmed black victims should not be viewed merely as a problem of flawed action on the part of individual police officers, but more as a consequence of the broader problem of structural racism,» said senior author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

About three years ago they and another research team working independently at Princeton found a serious flaw in what has been the most widely accepted theory of galactic magnetic fields — a theory that with slight variations has also been used to explain the magnetic fields of individual stars such as the sun.

Not that Miller hasn't inserted a few clues beforehand, or that the message (you can't really help others, on an individual or group basis, unless you learn to accept yourself first) IS N'T valuable or valid... but Mumble's hero's journey to to convince us humans to quit depriving them of all the fish necessary for their sustenance is flawed from a basic storytelling rather than a thematic viewpoint; it has a tendency to zigzag from point A to point Q while skipping Points B through P altogether.

Whenever it glimpses into the private lives of men like O'Neill, The Looming Tower accentuates these individuals» character flaws, but it leaves us only with a sense of conflicted anticipation, waiting for O'Neill and his cohorts to return to work so that we can witness their critical failures.

Instead, this deeply flawed and fascinating individual inexorably follows the internal logic of his negative thought process to its logical conclusion.

While the «modified» facts may raise an eyebrow and / or finger, The Imitation Game makes the «legend» of Turing abundantly clear: he was a flawed, courageous, ingenious individual who served a society that did not serve him or «his kind»....

Phoenix has been on great form recently; his outstanding performances in The Master, Her and Inherent Vice have been some of the best flawed individual performances for the past few years and his work here can be included among them.

And to varying degrees, each of the picture's protagonists proves to be a flawed individual.

Cooper is an old hand at creating individual scenes that evoke characters» flaws and emotional backstories through a minimum of words and gestures, but the bigger picture seems to elude him.

The first is a character study of a tragically flawed individual, the son who can never live up to the expectations of his father or the example of his brothers yet masters the clan's tools for success, achieving public acceptance and private disgrace.

Instead of being the model material showcased in the «70's, these modern angels have individual personality flaws, making them more plausible and humorous.

That's not to say the game isn't worth purchasing, it just depends on whether the individual player values an incredibly flawed piece of gaming history at more or less than five dollars.

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence play two flawed individuals — each with psychological issues of their own — who form an unlikely alliance with one another.

But it's not all politics, as we also learn about the families and the individual make - up (flaws and all) of the 3 principals.

Three factors have contributed to the muddled view regarding the effectiveness of school choice: ideology, the limitations of individual studies, and flawed prior reviews of the evidence.

Without this level of specificity and understanding of contextual factors, we'll be stuck understanding only what works on average despite aspirations to reach each individual student (not to mention mounting evidence that «average» itself is a flawed construct).

They fail not because of their individual flaws - though some reviews certainly are more defensible than others.

Even though it seemingly makes sense to look at individual gains attributable to particular teachers, this method is fundamentally flawed due to the nature of current state tests, as well as the methods used to assign students to teachers and other reasons.

The problems experienced in a corporation, therefore, are almost always due to systemic flaws rather than to a lack of effort or ability on the part of individuals in that organization.

Although schools have a much easier job with a balanced ability intake, individual students can still be well served in any comprehensive school that prioritises the individual development of its students over the DfE's and OfSTED's flawed performance measures.

New Research Shows Serious Flaws in the Research Behind the L.A. Times» Controversial Ratings of Individual Teacher Performance

That's a fundamentally flawed way to look at retirement security, because it discards large numbers of former teachers and ignores the basic facts about how individual teachers accrue benefits over time.