Sentences with phrase «of squaring the circle»

While the cable giant's mammoth $ 5 billion purchase of exclusive rights to NHL programming last year got all the headlines, Thursday's deal with World Wrestling Entertainment is equally interesting, especially to fans of the squared circle.

We may agree that some Simple ideas, like the idea of a square circle, are contradictory.

Simon Hughes told the FT that he was «trusting [the chancellor and chief secretary] will find a way of squaring the circle that colleagues in my party can sign up to and that will send a message to colleagues around the edges that they can't suddenly change the game after the rules have been agreed».

As one of the top women's wrestlers in WWE, it can only be expected that fans would want to know about the English grappler outside of the squared circle.

Lea Michele is standing by her man TMZ has learned the Glee actress has decided to keep dating new BF Matthew Paetz because she's As one of the top women's wrestlers in WWE, it can only be expected that fans would want to know about the English grappler outside of the squared circle.

It also has a bit of the squared circle drama, too: Your trainer can instantly pep you up for a round with a encouraging speech!

I expect them to brazen it out, on the grounds that they are the experts and are quite capable of squaring the circle before breakfast if need be.

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Of course, that doesn't change the fact that it's a difficult circle to square — the idea that Cohen has to specifically ask for payment for something he didn't tell Trump anything about.

The display called «Moving Truth» has images of aborted foetuses and will circle Parliament Square and travel up and down Whitehall on Friday.

Oh, and by the way, God didn't make the circle (even though it's perfect) and He didn't make the square root of 3 either (even though it has an infinite number of decimal places).

J.H.H. Weiler's «The Trial of Jesus» is a fascinating but, to my mind, unsuccessful attempt to square a circle.

The decision to create a soul surely places constraints on divine power no more and no less restrictive than the physical impossibility of creating a square circle, 87 wherefore «the supreme miracle of the divine power... consists in being able, through a deep - reaching and all - embracing influence, incessantly to integrate, on a higher plane, all good and all evil in the reality which that power builds up by means of secondary causes.»

While the oil is heating, spread a small about of oil on each of the parchment squares and then pipe a circle of batter, being careful not to overlap the batter to much or you get lopsided doughnuts.

(In case, like Anna, you are contemplating painstakingly cutting out 12 individual circles, fold up a piece of parchment paper into a small, thick square with 12 layers so you can measure once and cut once;)-RRB-

In the center of the square, draw an 8 - in / 20 - cm circle with your finger or lightly with a paring knife (without cutting all the way through).

(Paul Klee, in his treatise on the heart shape, calls it the perfect marriage of the square and the circle) ~ So I want to bring the most wonderful chocolate cake possible to accompany my dream, and yours clearly seems to be it!!!

If you don't mind a somewhat rustic shape to your muffins, instead of cutting out circles, pat the dough into a rough rectangle and use a dough cutter to cut it into square - ish pieces.

Slice the round one in half so you have two half - circles and place each half - circle on each of two adjacent sides of your square to form a heart!

cut dough with 2» cutter, square or circle, and then cut another shape / heart / whatever using a 1.5» cutter in center of half the cookies.

Those performances produced a few of those attractive circles on the bottom left part of the infographic, but they're not SEC games in the sense that «SEC game» usually connotes: they were akin to Alabama taking on a mid-level MAC team and Tennessee in a down year, not heavyweights squaring off.

So, try making black and white images of squares, circles and triangles on separate flash cards and hang them somewhere your baby can see it.

Look for squares, triangles, circles, stars — any kind of shape.

For example, you might provide pictures of circles, squares and triangles.

Includes 7 wooden circle and square shapes that your baby or toddler can stack into a tower of rainbow hues.

Cut out a variety of shapes — triangles, circles, and squares were mostly what we used for these puppets.

The story is centered around a little square that lives in a world of circles.

It's a brilliant system of notched circles, triangles, squares and half octagons that are specially engineered to lock sturdily when you slide them together.

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle.

To square this circle, we need to arrive at a new definition of left - wing politics.

History shows that such political circles can often be squared but rarely in the best long term interests of the country.

In the ad, wrestlers who represent the rancorous climate in Washington go at it in the squared circle, while Santorum lists all the tone - defying bipartisan legislation he's sponsored with friends of moral relativism like Joe Lieberman, Barbara Boxer, and — wait for it — «even» Hillary Clinton.

Trying to square this circle, the strategy calls for house price stability — which is at least more honest than the last government's attempts to «reduce long term unaffordability», a mangling of plain English designed purely to avoid reference to prices.

The aim of this conference is to examine the role of economic analysis in both helping to «square this circle» and contribute to a sound evidential framework upon which pay determination could be based.

So Balls squares this circle by insisting he's never happier than standing up in front of a big party meeting and hearing people's opinions.

The remnants of former palm groves are visible, concentrated right next to the road, surrounded by the circles typical of aspersion irrigation zones: Pivots with ranges of approximately 650 feet provide water to grain plots over an area of approximately 15 square miles.

Practice flying simple paths in the shape of a circle, square, and triangle.

Now Danish researchers have squared that circle by rotating just the bottom of a water - filled bucket.

I react to a stream of geometric shapes, pushing a button for a circle or a square but not for any other shapes.

In addition to the name - association task, I do what they call the checkerboard game, which is not much of a game but rather a test to see how quickly I push a button when squares are illuminated on a pinwheeling circle.

15 About 1,000 square miles of Chinese land turns into desert every year, fueling deadly, globe - circling dust storms.

Now, B might be good, but he sees that the second - from - the - top C circle points only to bad squares, so he sends you to the topmost C circle who is bad and sends you to one of the bad squares.

The researchers induced an equivalent to synesthesia in which some symbols in a selection — circles, crosses, and squares — were each suggested of always taking a specific given color.

Consider the problem of turning a circle into a square.

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, that famous sepia sketch of a nude, spread - eagled person touching a square and a circle with his extremities, asserted the eerie proportional coincidences of the ideal human form (arm span = height; height = hand length x 10) but said nothing about the face.

As a control, Haas and study co-author Joshua Miller also included shapes, like squares and circles, that participants would have to match from emotion of the faces to the situation.

The concept was straightforward — design and build a robot that could pick up inflatable game pieces (triangles, circles and squares each about a meter in the diameter) and hang them on pegs protruding from walls on either side of the 8.2 - by 16.4 - meter playing floor.

For example, he would give them a one - step problem such as Place the yellow circle in front of the blue square, and they responded well.

The big surprise came when we then swapped one of the three shapes — the circle — with a different form — a square (left).

The squares closest to the circumference of the circle represent the Internet service providers, or ISPs, that connect home PCs to the Internet.

But if he added, Before you pick up the yellow circle, touch the blue square, most of them would fail.