Sentences with phrase «of puzzling over»

For those of you puzzling over whether certain titles will fall into the drama or musical / comedy categories at the Golden Globes, Tom O'Neil has a handy list to clarify matters.

And after decades of puzzling over what causes narcolepsy's fits of daytime sleep and muscle paralysis, researchers suspect it's a response to an autoimmune disease.

«After years of puzzling over how its grant - review process might be shortchanging younger scientists, the National Institutes of Health appears to have figured out a more fundamental truth: There just aren't enough of them applying,» reporter Paul Basken writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Researchers believe that the latest results showing that dogs» quality of semen has diminished may offer a new piece of the puzzle over the reported significant decline in human semen quality.

As «man's best friend» and closest companion animal, the researchers believe that the latest results may offer a new piece of the puzzle over the reported significant decline in human semen quality — a controversial subject which scientists continue to debate.

Philosophers pose this sort of puzzle over dinner every day.

Extremely pretentious and boring game about solving one type of puzzle over and over again.

Not exact matches

Order a glass of wine over lunch with a colleague or crack open a beer in the cafeteria today and get ready for a few puzzled stares.

The government expects the anti-smoke move will increase federal tax revenues by $ 685 million in 2014 - 15 — a major piece of the puzzle in Tory efforts to balance the books over the next two years.

In the early years, we would have parts of our puzzles manufactured and then shipped to us, and we'd bring family and friends over and set up an assembly line in the basement.

While unlimited time off is only a piece of the culture puzzle, a practice that has grown over 10 years, it is clearly generating strong employee loyalty.

Before the release, Sony puzzled over the name of their new device.

These sorts of odd - ball questions — logic puzzles, brainteasers and riddles — have been favoured by some employers as a means of testing problem - solving and communications skills for over half a century.

The last piece of the puzzle that must fall in place is the government's hope to realize about $ 4 billion in savings over the next three years from closing tax loopholes, tracking down tax cheats, and minor efficiencies in the public service, such as reducing travel costs.

For months, Morel — an elder (read: over 40) member of Moment who jokes that his white hair makes the LAWA reps feel more at ease — has puzzled over what he calls the logistical nightmare posed by the work site.

While ICF makers puzzle over whether to target buyers, builders or distributors, one of the most dramatic and lucrative construction opportunities of the decade may be passing them by.

As outlined in the crowdsourced, pro-privacy action plan we launched last year with the help of over 100,000 Canadians, Bill C - 51, while crucially important, is but one piece of a larger puzzle that we'll need to solve if we are to put into practice the fundamental privacy safeguards that all Canadians deserve.

For instance, during the third quarter of fiscal 2014, as we were constructing our first Shack in Chicago, we unveiled six interactive life - size sliding puzzles with illustrated pieces that celebrate Chicago landmarks, while revealing the burgers, hot dogs and frozen custards that Shake Shack guests have enjoyed over the past decade.

What is even more puzzling is that while the President of the Treasury Board claims control over spending by pointing to the decline in the Estimates of $ 10.4 billion, or 4 per cent, the June 2011 Budget shows an increase of $ 9.7 billion, or 3.6 per cent, in expenses between 2010 - 11 and 2011 - 12.

Stocks drove up, then pulled back, as investors puzzled over the minutes and bond yields climbed on the prospect of a faster pace of rate hikes.

Even knowledge of the «hard» sciences advances over time; a unified theory of the investment world is similarly beyond our grasp — as is a full understanding of any one strategy, no matter the current pile of historical evidence.the research puzzle For more thoughts on the topic, see this posting on «decaying beliefs.»

Secularized Jews, having already divested themselves of just about everything that made them singularly Jewish, puzzled over the failure of Christians to do the same.

The upshot is drearily typical of the Protestant mainline - a sour estrangement between a self - consciously «prophetic» national bureaucracy and a mostly traditionalist membership that puzzles over what went wrong and wonders what might be done to set things right.

In the 129 public addresses that Pope John Paul II delivered over those five years, in four long sequences of a varying number of weeks, he went back to the Word of God to try to fathom the Creator's intentions in this puzzling work of His.

We hear repeatedly of his «ingenuity,» «virtuosity,» «vigorous intellect,» «mental agility,» «agile wit»; he writes poems that are «brilliantly convoluted,» in which «intractable mental puzzles» are pored over and «metaphysical quandaries are addressed, but never resolved.»

At the very least, it is helpful for Catholics — and others — who puzzle over some of the pope's pronouncements to get this window into his thinking about doctrine.

Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of «reform» as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church «relevant.»

The authors spend a few pages puzzling over the form of religious clusters, and their observations can help us understand today's discontents and contentments.

North American Christians who recall Jane Russell's description of God as a «livin» doll,» who have suffered through the death - of - God debate, who are now puzzling over the «process» God, and who are generally confused by God with a body, God without a body, or God as eternal spirit, are no longer close to the place where Luther was in his God - walk.

I have never ceased puzzling mightily over this old, old «problem of evil» until, to adapt a line from Dr. Seuss, my puzzler is chronically sore.

The miracles in the Bible we may still puzzle over, to accept, reject, or try to explain, but the miracles around us we do not think much about except to make use of them.

I used to puzzle over the meaning of the story which appears in the early part of John's gospel about Jesus changing water into wine.

Quite apart from controversies connected with the Genesis account of creation, historians have puzzled over the story of 12 brothers who go into Egypt and father 12 tribes, and then under miraculous circumstances flee Egypt, wander for 40 years in the wilderness, invade Canaan, conquer the land and settle down.

I have puzzled over this story of the bronze serpent, as the image of the serpent was what people were asked to look to for healing and yet the serpent was the very creature that caused their suffering and death.

My concern here is not to defend the notion of the autonomous individual» a problematic enough notion, but one for which there is at least something to be said» but, instead, to puzzle over the casual nature of Meier's judgment.

But the truth is, theologians have been puzzling over these questions for centuries, and there are a variety of views to consider and compare with Scripture.

There are a lot of things I puzzle over in matters of doctrine and knowledge, but in the end I just have to trust God to the best of my limited knowledge.»

In his autobiography, Fosdick describes the focus of effective preaching: «Every sermon should have for its main business the head - on constructive meeting of some problem which was puzzling minds, burdening consciences, distracting lives, and no sermon which so met a real human difficulty, with light to throw on it and help to win a victory over it, could possibly be futile.»

We puzzle over the nature of Christ's resurrection, and the locus of the resurrected Christ is extremely problematic, but in so merging Christ with cosmos and consciousness that he has no personality of his own in any sense, Altizer certainly seems to have negated Christian tradition.

«In the end,» writes Stewart, «his importance is greatest not to the historical theologians who puzzle over his thought but to those of both East and West who recognize in him the great charism of Teacher.»

Culturally speaking, while the «relative infertility of the orthodox is puzzling» to Moran, the actual infertility of radical liberalism should not be graffitied over Benedict's prophetic message.

Royce labored over the next thirty years to work out the implications of what he called «Absolute pragmatism,» venturing into psychology, logic, and even mathematics in an effort to puzzle out how minds can understand the will and ideas of the Absolute.

I often puzzled over Jesus command here to go and buy a sword, and am not entirely convinced by your explanation, Jeremy, though it is certainly more plausible than the acceptance of His instruction as a right to own weapons.

It was in Rome that he first began to puzzle over how Christian unity could be achieved «without doctrinal capitulation,» as he would put it two decades later in his 1984 block - buster The Nature of Doctrine: Theology and Religion in a Postliberal Age.

It is especially puzzling why the deity of traditional free will theism, who created the universe for the sake of soul - building, would have taken over 10 billion years simply to set the stage, employing an evolutionary process involving hundreds of millions of years of animal suffering prior to the rise of human beings.

The stories say that he is taken up into heaven — like Elijah — and while we puzzle over the physics of how this happened, we have no trouble understanding it emotionally.

Studying the Gospel of John with some friends once upon a time, we puzzled initially over the way the disciples believed in Jesus after his turning water to wine.

It is also possible to see how those who thought, over the last generation, that something like liberation economics would be the wave of the future and who remain hostile to or puzzled by current developments, would be attracted to a vision such as this one.

Now, this is completely un-Greek; II Clement 3.2 avoids this construction while explicitly quoting the saying in its Matthaean form, the version in Rev. 3.5 does not have it, and the Greek fathers Heracleon, Clement of Alexandria and Chrysostom all puzzle over what it can mean.

You may disagree with some of Winchell's assessments, taking offense at what he considers harmless or puzzling over omissions (where, oh where, is that Peter Sellers classic I'm All Right Jack?).