Sentences with phrase «of long lectures»

Face - to - face instructor - led training can force trainees to deviate from topics because of long lectures, where speech is the major mode of communication.

The latest animation is a short version of a longer lecture by «radical sociologist David Harvey,» who suggests that we might transcend capitalism.

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I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.

What he has left behind — books and recorded speeches, audio and video lecture series and hundreds of can - do maxims as well as children committed to upholding the principles by which he lived his life — all but ensures that people will be following the «Ziglar Way» for a long time to come.

FORTUNE — If it weren't for the Apple (AAPL) angle, I'm not sure I would have watched the entire YouTube video Jacob Appelbaum posted Monday of his hour - long lecture at a hackers conference in Hamburg last weekend.

Today I am sitting listening to Ralph Merkle lecture on nanotechnology, part of a 9 - day - long series of lectures on how accelerating change in technologies of all types will affect our world.

At the end of the ten hours, I came in and he made me give him two pennies which was my contribution to the social security and he gave me two one Dollar bills and a long lecture about the evils of Democrats and the welfare state and the lack of self - reliance and it went on and on and on, so I had the right antecedents too.

Nevertheless, if I dare to criticize the president» on the policies, the passivity, the professorial condescension, the pea - eating lectures or on the general over-ratedness that I and many others counted, in 2008, as weaknesses rendering him unsuited to the Oval Office» my friend becomes «concerned» about me; my complaints «trouble» him in unspecified ways, but he no longer flings the cheap, easy and inaccurate epithet of «racist» my way, because he has learned that one can legitimately find Barack Obama underwhelming in the extreme, without any underlying motive.

Example: the meanwhile outdated «literature of silence», Warhol's films in which everything can happen at once or nothing at all and John Cage's 45 - minute - long Lecture on Nothing (1959).

«So long as parents hear the screeching brakes and react with panic,» he said in a lecture, «they will worship death as the Lord of life.»

George Weigel's lecture, and his responses during the discussions that followed, held up as key two observations: that the papal mission is fundamentally defined as «strengthening the brethren,» as a pastoral mission to believers; and that in the pope's addresses to the world and its polities he persuades, and does not» at least any longer» use secular polities» own modes of power.

The last gasping breath of support for the long failed policy of Reaganomics is lecturing the Pope on Marxism.

Ultimately, teaching and preaching must no longer be simply a time where one person gets up and delivers a lecture about some topic of Bible passage, and then the people go home, and do it all again next week.

His Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh on The Presence of Eternity: History and Eschatology (Harper, 1957) and various books of essays — the most notable collections in English being Faith and Understanding (Harper & Row, 1969) and Existence and Faith (World, 1960)-- show over how long a period, and in relation to how many challenges, he worked out his own presentation of the Word of God to our time.

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Some observers predict that as a result of these new resources, teaching in the U.S. will soon resemble Oxbridge - style tutorials, long used in Britain, more than German university lectures.

In his lectures on aesthetics at the University of Berlin, G. W. F. Hegel observed in the 1820s that «thought long ago stopped assigning to art the sensible representation of the divine.»

Dr Carroll's long and impressive analysis of the Pope's thought, in his lecture and elsewhere, was much the most intelligent response to the furore that I came across.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has made much of this in his widely read The Phenomenon of Man, but long before the publication of that volume C. Lloyd - Morgan in his Gifford lectures had indicated the significance of such «emergents», along with the «importance» (although this is not his, but Whitehead's, word) which they possess both in the ongoing movement of the world and as a way of our grasping of the meaning of that world in its on going movement.

Then come long lectures of reason and rationality.

As I browsed eBay not long ago, I came across a 78 rpm recording of a lecture by C. S. Lewis.

Many teachers have commented on the fact that students, of all ages «turn off when some lesson or lecture takes longer than, say, eight to ten minutes.

We have seen in a previous lecture that process - thought is not content with the kind of dichotomy between fact and interpretation which has long been popular in some rationalist circles.

But for those who attend to the rational and moral defense of the West, not least in relation to Islam, what was said in that lecture hall and the responses to it will be pondered and debated long into the future.

Neither an evening with Bultmann in a Wiesbaden Weinhaus nor dinner with Tillich when he gave the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, nor that long walk with Brunner through the streets of Zurich, nor periodic chats with Barth in his Basel home shook my conviction that scriptural theism holds a logic absent from recent modern theology.

This summary of the conclusions to which Luther gradually came, and which can be seen evolving throughout the long texts of his early lectures in the University on the Psalms, the Letter to the Romans, the Galatians, the Hebrews (1515 - 18) is only a summary.

Not too long later, I was listening to a lecture where Joseph was being compared to Jesus in both being rejected by their own people and a comparison between Joseph and Jesus being likened to that of an acorn to an oak tree.

When the Anglican patristic scholar and Church historian Trevor Jalland concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1942 (published in 1944 as The Church and the Papacy: A Historical Study), he spoke of the Roman Church as having «in its long and remarkable history a supernatural grandeur which no mere secular institution has ever attained in equal measure,» and went on to refer to «its strange, almost mystical, faithfulness to type, its marked degree of changelessness, its steadfast clinging to tradition and to precedent.»

On Tuesday I did a cooking demo for all my lovely mom friends about the necessities of Thanksgiving and had a long lecture on cranberry sauce, because clearly that is the necessity of necessities and I had grown women tell me they have never eaten cranberry sauce!

In between your long hours of classes, parties, studies, parties, dormitory filibusters, lectures and parties, as well as those interminable trips to the, ahem, library, you have undoubtedly noticed that the ancient notion — rehashed and bashed though it may be — that college life revolves around its athletic teams has never been more accurate.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

This hour long lecture provides an overview of the pillars of effective parenting: clarity provides your road map so you know where you're going; connection provides the warmth that is the glue that holds the family together, and consistency provides the firm limits your kids need to learn to regulate themselves emotionally.

Somehow I doubt you have been doing this as long as I have or you would have got my point instead of giving me a condescending lecture on what I do and teach.

Jeanice has lectured extensively on this and other topics and has spent the last 15 + years uncovering the roots of institutionalized violence and the long - term, inter-generational impact of birth trauma on parents, children, families, and our entire civilization.

Old Sturbridge Village is one of 11 institutions taking part in Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture, a year - long collaborative project to celebrate the Bay State's legacy of furniture - making through exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures and publications.

Steer clear of lengthy lectures and long - winded inspirational speeches.

(1) Teach in a dynamic, well - organized style that makes use of proven pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement in the learning process via less lecture time, fewer repetitive worksheets and more time spent working in small groups solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Instead of listening to your message, your child is more likely to be thinking about how much he dislikes listening to you talk when you give him a long lecture.

I never heard of a child seeing the error of his ways after a long - winded lecture.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

These moms might lecture you on your decision to use a stroller and present a long list of the benefits of babywearing.

He has a long list of lectures lined up and will be talking to HM Treasury and Whitehall later in the year.

It is important, then, that in the «Attlee to Miliband» history set out in her lecture, O'Grady fixed on the failure to compromise, co-operate and adapt as behind the long - term decline of the union movement.

The first secretary attacked shadow chancellor George Osborne's own assessment of the public finances, calling his Mais lecture «longer on assertion than specific proposals».

James Coll, a veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law, is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a commission considering state legislative, executive, and judicial pay raises.

Akinrinade while delivering the 50th Year Memorial Lecture in honour of Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, last Premier of defunct Western Region and the 13th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, at the Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan, noted that in as much as arresting, prosecuting and jailing of offenders can not be discarded as a means of tackling corruption and deterring others, «it is time we explored building the structures for a sustainable long term response that will transcend regimes and administrations in the country».

Awujale, in his remarks shortly after the annual lecture delivered by a professor of Political Communication, Ayo Olukotun, lamented that traditional rulers across the country were no longer consulted before government rolled out its policies for the people.

During his recent Leonard Steinberg Lecture, Secretary of State Owen Paterson claimed that his party intends to remain involved in electoral politics in the Province for the long term.

For instance, irregularity of lecture times, tutors and even classrooms rather old fashioned ways of long periods of writing down dictated notes for some of the subjects, highly limited internet library facilities, some grave issues with obtaining supervision for required long paper, definitely the feeling that students, even at that graduate level, are simply expected to take instructions, since suggestions and / or protests about some of the above issues were not condemned or met with threats of victimization.»

This was the lead - up to a joke about him threatening to deliver another lecture just as long on foreign policy, but it also served to underline the impressiveness of his achievement in memorising it all.