Sentences with phrase «only rudimentary»

He speaks only rudimentary Mandarin and Cantonese, mostly in the form of greetings and very light conversation.

For most health policies pre-policy medical check - up is not required if no medical history is reported by the subscriber, or only some rudimentary tests may be required for blood and urine test.

Invariably the self - represented accused comes to court with only a rudimentary knowledge of the trial process, often influenced by misleading depictions from television shows and the movies.

There is only a rudimentary browser.

By the time of the TAR, several climate models incorporated physically based treatments of ice dynamics, although the land ice processes were only rudimentary.

While I hope it stays there, remember that most people still believe in horoscopes — and that most Americans have only rudimentary science literacy.

Penn's signature portrait style consists of placing a figure in the natural light of the studio with only rudimentary props included to facilitate the composition.

In the 1970's when people like Sally Bishop struggled against the overwhelming flood of stray and unwanted animals, shelters had only rudimentary criteria for selecting the animals that would be saved for adoption.

If they used computers at all in elementary school, they were probably command - line machines with no mouse, no hard drive, and only rudimentary graphics.

Back in World War Two the Codebreakers were given only rudimentary inductions into the art of cracking the enemy's messages.

Playing as Ori you begin the game with only the rudimentary skills of running and jumping but as you progress and skills accumulate, you begin to traverse the Nibel forest differently: You scuttle up a cliff face, flip off, Sein lets off a pulsating light explosion in the air sending a pus heavy poisonous blob in 10 different directions and you in 1 direction... backwards, you free fall down, dodge a lurid green rolling monster, launch yourself off the skittish rotating creature, shoot towards a lantern, catch an enemy projectile and propel yourself back up towards a platform (whatever you do remember to create a soul link and save).

These do - it - yourself explorers are taking experiments from the lab table to their living room tables using only rudimentary equipment and innate curiosity.

This is causing heightened concerns with the approach of the fall migration season, particularly since there is only a rudimentary understanding of many migration routes.

Players in a game that mixed real and online worlds organized and operated in teams that resembled a military organization with only rudimentary online tools available and almost no military background, said Tamara Peyton, doctoral student in information sciences and technology, Penn State.

Bandit II at the University of Southern California has a simple, cartoonlike face with only rudimentary feature mobility.

The Rhagovelia with knocked - down genes, which had developed only rudimentary fans, could cope with slowly moving water but failed at higher speeds.

Kangaroos and other marsupials have and need only a rudimentary placenta: after a brief gestation, their bean - size babies finish their development while suckling in the mother's pouch.

The computer has just two quantum bits, or qubits, so it can perform only rudimentary computations.

At birth, the mammary gland contains only rudimentary ducts that have small club - like ends, which grow throughout childhood.

Tentation Fromage is a company helping bridge the gap in France between traditional cheesemakers, who may not have an online presence, or only a rudimentary one, and consumers.

He may, of course, have only the rudimentary and uncritical reflections from his feelings, concluding that he did well because he feels good or that he failed because he is still concerned.

If I think of answered prayer as a message telegraphed direct to my heart, if I have no sense of the breadth of God, the ways in which God talks to me, then I have only a rudimentary sense of prayer, for, as Gadamer shows, God is talking to me all the time and I don't seem to know it.

The challenge was that the IOC's digital archive was itself incomplete: it had only a rudimentary collection of historical materials — and some of those materials, especially older, pre-digital samples, contained errors.

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Many people will operate their home computers with weak or even no passwords and with their only protection from Internet threats being the rudimentary security capabilities of their DSL router or cable modem, which they will gladly disable to make it easier for their Xbox, PlayStation or Wii game console to connect with strangers from all over the world.

Wolfenstein — often credited as the game that launched the genre — looks positively rudimentary now, since it limited players to grid - like levels that had only one plane of action.

Not only am I on a first - name basis with most of the head purchasers and tool room managers of the biggest utilities in the Northwest, but there is such a small internet presence for the industry online that even the most rudimentary of Google Adwords campaigns (or something similar) would land a well - built page in the top five within a few months.

We are only beginning now to understand some of the mechanisms by which emotional and physical factors are inter-related, and therefore to possess a rudimentary explanation of faith healing.

In short, the student is emancipated from academic servility only as he has the opportunity in a real though often rudimentary fashion to be a practicing linguist, mathematician, scientist, artist or art critic, historian, philosopher, and theologian.

Unlike much of the inherited Western tradition, which has equated creativity with mentality and attributed it only to human beings, process thought considers anything actual at all an instance of creativity, from the tiniest energy event to the most complex creatures we are aware of, human beings; some degree of mentality is present in no matter how rudimentary, even negligible, a form.

But this power of reflection, when restricted to the individual, is only partial and rudimentary.

What one can historically describe as the «mechanization of the image of the world» is, at any rate in an environment formed by machines, a process which is also being looked at psychogenetically; this process advances the same object categories and ideas of movement, if only in a rudimentary, pre-reflexive manner, which might, especially for that reason, influence thinking so much more persistently.

17 This is the only instance I can locate in which Whitehead shows even rudimentary awareness that there is more than one «doctrine» or «formula» of evolution.

Not only is no thought given to how to unify all of this into a single coherent course of study, but no attention is given to how anything more than a rudimentary introduction can be given to so many different research disciplines.

For the Jew - based christian rudimentary and timid preaching practices in emotionalized devilish tongues beatifies only the lecherously dumb - hearted relics, those aged heartburns of their jew - based christiandumbness's idiosyncratic marmoset - like redundancies.

Such support may begin on as rudimentary a level as literal hand - holding whereby the pastor accepts the alcoholic's present weakness and supports the only strength that is available — his potential strength.

Bamba's rudimentary offensive game is a riskier bet, but he may only need to be a DeAndre Jordan - type lob threat to be immensely valuable.

The former Virginia governor's rudimentary campaign site has only one substantive page, and that outlines his economic plan.

Rather than bring the company to justice, the order required only the most rudimentary cleanup, demanded no cleanup benchmark, and failed to order a single penny in penalties.

You can communicate only through rudimentary speech or limited movements such as blinking.

Quantum devices remain the ultimate in computing prowess, but after 35 years of development, only elite research labs have even rudimentary examples of them.

But 8 or 9 days into the embryos» development, the chickens start to look drastically different: The cells in the rudimentary penis begin to die, eventually leaving only a slight bulge.

Rudimentary editing methods were first developed some 30 years ago, but only now have techniques been honed to the point that they can be used for treating people.

The experiments were, by necessity, restricted to only extremely rudimentary forms of the two most promising approaches, and the results still can't be applied to practical quantum computers that would contain thousands of qubits.

No other animal even comes close: Chimps have to be laboriously taught over years to use a rudimentary set of signs, and only when another species decides to train them.

The vast majority of doctors in this country get no training whatsoever in nutrition, and those who do receive only the most rudimentary and superficial introduction to the subject.

As an advanced yoga student, I thought I'd only go through the rudimentary steps to get my certification, but boy, was I wrong!

A process so complicated in fact that only the most rudimentary prediction can be calculated in the calories in / out kindergarten formula.

An intriguing ensemble cast heightens a certain interest in the film's rudimentary wiles, but exaggerated characterizations distract from an inevitable plot twist only unexpected because it's not particularly notable.

The rudimentary direction works against the energy of the performances — the filmmakers and cameramen seem determined only to keep out of their way — and doesn't even give the viewer that sense of intimacy and raw, behind - the - scenes immediacy that the D.A. Pennebaker brings to Don't Look Back or Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

From the magic lantern - style innovation of his sculpture installation Six Men Getting Sick to the fixed camera placements of The Alphabet to the rudimentary narrative of The Grandmother (whose heavy's freakishly accentuated jawline transforms his countenance into that of a snarling villain in the «Perils of Pauline» mode) to, finally, the total aesthetic compromise of the shot - on - video The Amputee, the first few entries contained on «The Short Films of David Lynch» imply that there is only one destiny for the medium, whether its evolution is spread out over a century or concentrated in the time it takes for an artist to develop a conscience.