Sentences with phrase «of the whims of»

Rather than, Berkeley like, explaining this as a result of the whim of God, it seems eminently more rational to me to eliminate the possibility of immediate prehension of noncontiguous actual occasions categoreally, which is what I propose.

We also aren't, so far, at the mercy of the whim of a single oligarch or dictator, and that means that we're existing and prospering on the basis of our own strength.

The Conservative leader said it contradicted Brown's declared wish for a return to Cabinet government: «Suddenly the Government's policy is torn up on the sort of whim of an answer at Prime Minister's questions.»

At the hospital, I felt like I was at the mercy of the whims of the doctors and nurses (like when they would check my cervix a bunch even though I asked them not to or when they kept waking my first born to check her vitals or when I wasn't allowed to push when I was ready to).

So far its made me realise how liberating it is to be able to sew your own clothes, and not be at the mercy of the whims of the high street.

They end up separated and at the mercy of the whims of their selfish children.

If you publish a book with a solid set of editorial reviews, you are less at the mercy of the whims of Amazon customers and potentially malicious competitors.

In the patent filing Apple talks about the need to provide a power source that is renewable, and independent of the whims of various governments.

Experience all this in the company of investors who follow the principles of Buffett, Munger, and Fisher instead of the whims of the crowd — for just $ 60 a month.

Her character theme is a remixed version of The Whims of fate, which plays during the Casino Palace dungeon in Persona 5.

He was involved in several exhibitions: in Los Angeles (USA) where he also organized a group exhibition (within the context of a residency at the 18th Street Art Center Of Santa Monica), in Poland at the Gotycka Museum Of Szczecin, in France at the «FRAC Aquitaine» within the context of the whim of play (Caprice des jeux) exhibition in Bordeaux, at the Article Gallery Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in the UK, and at the Goethe Institute of Bordeaux.

So, am I at the mercy of the whims of my employer such that they can allow or deny my request at their pleasure?

But if when buying your clothes, you stuck to classical ideals of proportion, fit, and color — and didn't venture off into any of the whims of the fashion of the day — well, you could probably still wear those items today.

The flaws in years past (even the years you worked at Forbes.com) were that the methodology was overcomplicated, suffered from false precision and had the appearance of being under the influence of the whims of an editor.

Additionally, our Supreme Court noted Pennsylvania courts require the following considerations in relocation cases: (1) the economic and other potential advantages of the move; (2) the likelihood the move would substantially improve the quality of life for the custodial parent and the children and is not the result of a whim of the custodial parent; (3) the motives behind the parent's reasons for seeking or opposing the move; and (4) the availability of a realistic substitute visitation arrangement that will adequately foster an ongoing relationship between the non-custodial parent and the children.

Building your business on the foundation of your relationships with your clients helps to ensure that you'll thrive regardless of the whims of the market.

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Audiences are much more informed about their options than ever before — that means you, your services and products are at the whims of other consumers» opinions and reviews unless you take charge.

Your phone will be the remote control for your life, and you will have a myriad of products and services available to you at your whim in a completely transparent and digital way.»

When you're operating on a budget, you can't fulfill every whim, so part of the responsibility — and surely thrill — of owning a business is learning to set and then meet your clients» expectations.

What may end up to be far more difficult is trying to deal with the many unknowns around trade, tariffs and protectionism, all stemming from the whims of a capricious U.S. President.

Chief executive officer Michael Medline, like all the merchandisers who have held the top job before him, knows that Canadian Tire's fortunes rise and fall on the mercurial whims of Canada's weather.

That's the insider nickname for the solar energy industry, which — while surging — remains vulnerable to the whims of policy and trade.

Trump is notorious for getting into — and out of — real estate and business dealings at a whim.

After all, it can be easy for an entrepreneur to fall prey to the whims of a difficult market or to make a series of mistakes that eventually leads to failure.

That meant DSC's product was not just a commodity; it was also subject to the whims of its supplier.

A common tick of the Bad Boss is to select an office scapegoat on whom he or she can dump any built up frustration / anger / aggression at whim.

Now, you can buy a share of a big bullion reserve without the expense and risk of having to store it yourself, and sell it on a whim.

In Virginia, at least, the credit market is atomized; its decisions are subject to the biases and whims that rule the lives of real men and women, to ambitions and institutional prerogatives that set the agenda at the office.

Britain deserves better than simply outsourcing our country's security and prosperity to the whims of the Trump White House.

Though the whims of Beijing continue to pose a threat, the popular narrative of Big Government may have overshadowed a more fundamental challenge to Apple's business.

Pinning global trade deals to the whims of a single minister is the opposite of what was promised.

It's risky to depend on the whims of ISPs for your business model, Gupta said.

Anonymous Broadway insiders claim he's indulged the unrealistic whims of the musical's creative talent instead of reining them in as a producer should.

Rental markets in Toronto and Vancouver are extremely tight, units suitable for raising families in are highly coveted, and being subjected to the whims of a landlord can make for a precarious existence.

They obsess over the whims of the market, they get scared and they sell — the antithesis of the Lee - Chin system.

But you should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organization will never question the whims of your clients.

In a 1942 issue of Vogue, a columnist wrote: «Weddings nowadays hang not on the bride's whim, but on the decision of the grooms commanding officer.

This resilience shown by the S&P 500, which just last week hit a series of new record highs, goes a long way towards disproving the notion that the stock market is trading at the whim of the tech industry.

«This decision wasn't made on a whim — Google has been in the mix in some way or another for about three years of our almost four - year history,» Fadell explains in a blog post.

Like markets, media, and investors, The Pyrenees do not bend, however, to the passing whims of mere mortals.

Although the original JOBS Act passed with bipartisan support in 2012, this is an election year, and so the fate of the bill could be subject to political whims.

But let's say you're at least mildly intrigued about this notion of less expensive software that leaves you free of Microsoft's strategies and whims.

Perhaps he misses the autonomy of not having to answer to the whims of Wall Street, but in response to a question during an analyst conference in New York yesterday, Michael Dell said that he has considered taking his eponymous computer company private.

While these days meals are often tailored to the whims of little ones, in the past whole families prepared the same food and ate it together.

In a letter published on the eve of Google's IPO, the company explained the phrase to mean its search results were «unbiased and objective,» not subject to influence by advertisers or the whims of Google's own engineers.

I picked up this book on a whim based solely on its title and a quick scan of the back cover.

Those who are in favor of air traffic control privatization, however — including the National Association of Air Traffic Controllers and most major airlines — say air traffic management is too important to be subject to the whims of possible government shutdowns or budgetary fights.

The same technology that converted my thoughts into action on the screen someday could be hooked up to a real - life backhoe, robot surgeon, or microwave oven, placing any of those objects at my mental whim.

But as the situation described in the Information piece makes clear, holding an entire company to the whims of a product - focused tyrant doesn't always benefit a business.

But given the whims of department stores, she prefers the resort channel.