Sentences with phrase «on nebulous»

If you don't know their agenda, you're shooting in the dark or relying on some nebulous concept of charisma.

Another supposed point of distinction — drive times based on actual road networks, not just on nebulous radius projections — has popped up in multiple software packages as well.

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As a corporate solicitor, I often run into resistance to using electronic signatures on contracts based on the nebulous idea of the security risks involved.

Tom is fixated on nebulous «signals» not parameters and estimation.

The odds are the IPCC conclusion will depend on nebulous «science» or a pea and thimble maneuver.

As heat waves move across the U.S. from the northeast to the southwest and in much of western Europe, climate alarmists are responding predictably by blaming hot temperatures not on true meteorological causes but on the nebulous bogeyman of «climate change.»

Average daily attendance won't tell you which students or subgroups miss class regularly and are in need of intervention, and truancy numbers often hinge on the nebulous difference between what schools consider to be «excused» or «unexcused» absences, they argue.

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To rely on a nebulous Christian - humanist synthesis as a guarantee that the Holocaust and Gulag will never happen again is perhaps to create the conditions under which they are likely to recur.

Founders vie for personal introductions to venture capitalists, who in turn make decisions based on nebulous criteria.

This is, of course, easier said than done, but marketers can start by focusing less on the nebulous objective of empowering women and instead push themselves to identify a real insight about the female audience that can be tied back to the company or product in a meaningful way.

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Much of the credit goes to comedian John Oliver, who set the Internet on fire last year by explaining the nebulous concept in easy - to - understand terms on his show Last Week Tonight.

President Donald Trump has taken some heat this week over his nebulous positions on gun control.

You'll get different answers from different people across the team, because the idea of a «target buyer» is inconsistent, nebulous, and often based on hunches and feelings — not data.

Three of the 20 finalists on Amazon's shortlist are in the D.C. area: the city proper, Maryland's Montgomery County, and the more nebulous «Northern Virginia.»

In many areas, unauthorized delivery operators are still on the road, some continuing under nebulous California medical marijuana collectives rule due to expire next year.

However, the Ad Hoc Committee on Complimentary Standards, a rogue UN body with a nebulous and expansive mandate, is currently reviewing a proposed amendment that would criminalize defamation of religion to the International Convention for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), a treaty to which the United States is a signatory.

This insight, though commonly cited, including in the Instrumentum Laboris for the 2012 Synod on the new evangelisation, remains however somewhat nebulous.

That is not to say that poetic language is nebulous, vague, uncertain: on the contrary, the cutting edge of great poetry is sharper and digs deeper than that of any prose.

This argument breaks down on the fact that the contemporary form critic does not deal with a nebulous entity, «the community», to which he ascribes all kinds of powers; he deals with specific groups, individuals and traditions which he isolates, identifies and delineates.

For instance, a word in great currency these days — in the «hard» sciences, philosophy, computational theory, and so on — is «information,» and many of its uses are remarkably nebulous in meaning.

«Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it,» as Leonard Nimoy once said, and when it comes to something as nebulous as the idea of worth in football, he was spot on.

We have, however, reached one nebulous milestone on the baseball calendar.

Whether or not you think he's actually «in contention» — a wildly nebulous term that's thrown around all the time — is not as important as the fact that he's playing late in the day on Sunday of an actual PGA Tour event.

One of the unexpected things that happened as a result of starting Brave New World Designs is that it has offered two unexpected things: 1) a tangible business that my kids can see in operation and understand (vs. my life on the Internet, which is sort of nebulous to them), and 2) a way for me to connect with the girls.

Ghanaians were warned by leading members of the NPP, about the possible insecurity, should Nana Addo, becomes president, but they ignored all the warnings and the signs that were not nebulous, but clear, now we are all on a roller coaster ride for the next three years.

Clegg also won the promise of a referendum on electoral reform, an attempt at Lords reform and the more nebulous hope of creating a new politics.

One judge - led inquiry to be completed by Christmas on Libor, and another wider inquiry into that nebulous word ministers keep spitting over this issue — the «culture» of the city.

De Blasio said that since June, the city has been waiting on the state «to give us a clear affordable housing plan» but that it passed a «nebulous plan with no facts.»

Two contracts for work on Fort Schuyler's Central New York Hub, a $ 15 million film production facility currently sitting empty, illustrate the effect of these nebulous procurement rules.

Environmentalists and industry groups alike are speculating on what the president has in store next for oil and coal after a seemingly nebulous statement he made during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

In the standard telling, this most well - tested of physical theories — fount of the computers, lasers and cellphones that our adult souls delight in — informs us that reality's basic building blocks take on a very different, nebulous form when no one is looking.

Instead, they are forced to rely on often - nebulous physical signs, and on players» self - reporting of symptoms.

Many criticisms of emotional intelligence centred on the problems of defining something so nebulous.

This document imposes a brand new and nebulous requirement on scientific advisers to «maintain the trust» of politicians, and they can sanctioned on this alone regardless of whether they have abided by their pre-existing detailed Code of Practice.

A new generation of researchers is using DNA analysis of varied organisms such as humans, chickens, and sweet potatoes to add compelling data to a case previously based on more nebulous linguistic and artifact similarities.

Not an easy syndrome to treat Fibromyalgia presents as a cluster of nebulous symptoms, and there is no definitive cure, so treatments are based on trial and error.

In general, this extremist view stems from nebulous fat - loss and clean - eating diet fads, mostly disseminated by Facebook «nutritionists» who think that reading a couple of «truth - revealing» articles on bad foods vs. good foods provides them with enough knowledge to advocate for the banning of certain food items from our diet.

He builds on the shoulders of giants like Lyle McDonald's Guide to Flexible Dieting and takes the process a step further to truly provide a workable guide to what can be a very nebulous topic.»

But vintage value is still a nebulous force: What might sell for $ 500 on Etsy would only fetch $ 100 in a store.

I could never settle on «the day» we started being together — it was a very nebulous, what was our first date?

In addition, the script adds enough plots to fill a whole rack at the airport Barnes & Noble: looming epidemics, African civil wars, sinister businessmen cutting backroom deals, even a nebulous threat that may destroy all life on Earth if Pitt doesn't save the day.

In April 2012, Warner Bros. announced that it was developing a new take on the Kipling story, but the project's development over the next few months was more nebulous.

Without something that is clearly and readily seen as better / different, it will be hard to ask people to by a new $ 600 Blu - ray player that goes online and plays HD games to replace their old $ 600 Blu - ray player that goes online and plays HD games on only the nebulous promise of «more gameplay possibilities.»

If you're at the PlayStation Experience event this weekend, there will be a playable demo of the title in Hall B. For everyone else, we'll just have to wait until that wonderfully nebulous time of year we all call «Spring 2018» rolls around to get our hands on it.

And while we had the young actress on the line, we had to quiz her about a myriad of upcoming projects she has in the works, everything from the upcoming Wes Anderson joint «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» to Ryan Gosling «s directorial debut «How to Catch A Monster,» to things that are in a more nebulous state of flux, like Joe Wright «s «Little Mermaid» and the hotly rumored «Fantastic Four» and «Star Wars: Episode VII.»

(15) More crucial, however, was a nebulous idea for an intimate, small - scale film based on the life of children.

Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the leader of Erudite, has placed the blame for the killings on the rebellious, nebulous clan of Divergents — those members of society whose personalities are too well - rounded to fit in a single faction.

They are little more than pawns being shifted around on an increasingly nebulous narrative chessboard.