Sentences with phrase «other vagaries»

Bear in mind that people pay twice that much to live in Jersey City, of all places, where they have to struggle with the PATH Train and the other vagaries of life in New Jersey while working in NYC.
Nevertheless the latter is often a very significant component of the future economy of each or both parties; unlike any attempted capitalisation of earning capacity, it does not depend on the application of future effort but subject only to market and other vagaries, is in the bag; and its size has usually been increased by the efforts, direct and indirect, of both parties during the marriage.
Bear in mind that people pay twice that much to live in Jersey City, of all places, where they have to struggle with the PATH Train and the other vagaries of life in New Jersey while working in NYC.
The smaller groups stand a greater chance of being wiped out by food shortages or other vagaries of nature.
For entrepreneurial farmers like Sayles, the key to surviving intense droughts and other vagaries of a changing climate lies in testing new practices and abandoning old ones.
If philosophy among other vagaries were also to have the notion that it could occur to a man to act in accordance with its teaching, one might make out of that a queer comedy.

Not exact matches

In other words, they are as susceptible to the vagaries of traffic as the vehicles they are supposed to be replacing.
Commodities» investing is highly volatile and subject to changing economic conditions and the vagaries of speculators among other risks.
This makes petroleum just another commodity, subject to the same market vagaries as other commodities like iron ore, copper and platinum.
However, while the Fed's mandate does not extend to reacting to the vagaries of the currency market or the dynamics affecting other economies, recent US dollar strength and wobbles in risk assets caused by concerns over the state of the Chinese economy can not be entirely ignored.
We have at least one such panoptic writer, Dante, and one might include a few others, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Mario Luzi, whose sublime vision allowed their work to escape the vagaries of history.
Beguiled by this assumption, Western Christian theology has become an inadvertent effort to protect this «God» from the vagaries of finitude and surprise — in short, from the very things we ordinarily associate with the ability to have meaningful relationships with others.
... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»
Throw in the vagaries of a supermarket duopoly and a raft of other issues faced most starkly by regional Australia and it's little surprise that SPC, which suffered a loss of $ 25m this year, is so candid about its desire for government assistance.
Ambulance service, servicing and maintenance facilities, also protect the aircraft and other equipment from the vagaries of the weather.
You find fellow Ghanaians standing in open places; some left to wait at street shoulders and roundabouts with no one caring about the associated risk posed by motorists; others are left at the mercy of the vagaries of the weather — to these embassies, they couldn't be bothered if the sun is scorching, if it's raining or even if there is a category five hurricane — they simply don't seem to care,» he noted.
«Many people in my constituency are fed up with working hard and doing their best, and seeing others who make little or no effort being better off because of the vagaries of the benefits system.
But for the vagaries of ugly politics — is there any other kind?
This type of model could work for other fisheries — such as a squid fishery off the coast of South Africa — that are susceptible to the vagaries of currents, says Jean - Paul Robin, an expert on cephalopod fisheries at the University of Caen, France.
Likewise, individuals with policy backgrounds can help others understand the vagaries of public policy.
Of course, in reality forensic science, while exact in some respects is just as susceptible to the vagaries of measurements and analyses as any other part of science.
Some frames of the recollection are dropped on the mind's cutting - room floor, others are restored and enhanced, and others still are so deftly combined either by our wants or by the vagaries of chance that they create new scenes that were never shot.
But on the other hand, human behavior — say the vagaries of human behavior — imagine that these things could happen sometimes and genetically these populations are very close.
McLaren also gave some consideration to aesthetic concerns, and will fit those winters on forged alloy wheels that include tire pressure monitoring sensors and are coated in a «stealth» finish to protect them from road salt and other winter driving vagaries without compromising their looks.
It would be awesome if there were a magic bullet or some secret other than working hard and applying yourself to your craft, and then taking your content creator hat off and donning your business guy had on to deal with the vagaries of selling books.
The Vagaries of Us offers a free book reviewing service to authors, publishers, marketers, and other bloggers.
All of these vagaries don't apply to the other major lists, like the Wall Street Journal list, which is based strictly on Nielsen Bookscan reporting (estimated to be about 75 - 80 % of the actual market on most general trade titles) and includes eBooks, without filtering out types of non-fiction.
At $ 10 a day it'll give you 30 days of advertising — long enough to get statistically reliable results, account for the daily vagaries of performance and give you time to change ads, keywords and other strategies when they inevitably go sideways.
Forbes considers how the burgeoning self - publishing industry will alter the role of literary agents; author Sean Beaudoin discusses the vagaries of self - promotion; Robert Archambeau examines the state of conceptual writing; and other news.
«Each sumptuous and suspenseful tale is strikingly different from the others even as they all reflect the intricacies of Indian culture and Chandra's profound sensitivity to the vagaries of the heart and the implacability of circumstances.»
Other than that, currency markets are immune to the emotional vagaries that often slap stock prices around.
Although in each of these pieces the shafts of yarn are all of identical height (stretching from floor to ceiling) and evenly spaced in relation to each other, they appeared to differ wildly thanks to the vagaries of perspective, steadfastly refusing to cohere into a stable configuration, let alone the outline of an implied plane or object.
Those of us steeped in the vagaries of even the most rigorous art theory will be forgiven for finding the dry precision of these categories somewhat refreshing: recorded information must have communicatory intent, otherwise it is likely a form of embedded information, which is any object or other durable result of action: «the spider makes its web, the bird builds a nest, the human being makes tools, utensils, and other artifacts.»
Conceptual artist Braco Dimitrijevic and his Tractatus Post-Historicus (1976), exploring the vagaries of chance, the whims of history, and the fickleness of celebrity are critically engaged by Jean - Hubert Martin and others.
The Sir John Soane Museum has survived economic vagaries, changing tastes and the Luftwaffe, which destroyed other buildings in the same London square.
One of the fascinations of the exhibition will be the chance to reassess Hirst — who, perhaps more than any other living artist, is associated with the vagaries of the art market — in the light of what appears to be a new economic era.
Both genres basically tell the same stories as any other genre (stories of love, death, fear, possibility) but I like the capacity of sci - fi and horror to discuss big questions in ways that aren't necessarily tethered to everyday vagaries of life.
[Response: Roger — I would presume that PDI is a statistically far more stable measure than actual destruction, which varies wildly according to the vagaries of the actual track, and other circumstances... had someone spent a bit more money on levees, Katrina's actual damage would have been far less.
Some say thermometers are flawed and the world isn't warming much, others that warming and cool spells are the result of solar vagaries, ocean cycles or simple random variability in a sloshy system (basically anything but greenhouse gases, their critics note).
Without gas or some other form of peaking power supply the Victorian electricity system is not equipped for the vagaries of wind power.
What Epstein, Stossel, Goklany, and others are pointing out is the fact that real societal «resiliency» only comes about when energy production has raised a society's technology to a level that enables people to cope with the cruel vagaries of nature.
This is left to the random vagaries of weather, and will eventually occur in the right combination with the other factors to allow a Hurricane to form.
Notwithstanding the often high stakes, legal decision - making is prone to the same influences and vagaries as are other decision - making processes.
Now, I don't want to get into the vagaries of how directories are compiled, but I think these particular rankings are pretty accurate, and what that says to me is that there is a degree of explaining to do — more so in some market segments than others — about why a brand might choose to defer to a lesser or, in a few cases, broadly equal one.
I will address the Wonderland qualities of Comprehensive claims first, and return to write some other day on the pitfalls and vagaries of Specific Claims in a later column.
As with other iPad Pro models, the Smart Connector frees the tablet from the vagaries of Bluetooth and cabling when it comes to external keyboards and other accessories.
The real estate «wanna - be-a-profession / should - be-a-profession» is governed by overseeing umbrella organizations vs the ungoverned reality of most other every - day, free - for - all for - profit ventures that fit into the category of «wild - west - grab - what - we - can - when - we - can» and «hope - we - don't - get - caught - with - our hands - too - deep - in - the - public - cookie - jar - of - public - ignorance» ventures that are not subject to oversight by said oversight umbrella holders, who would take their dollars, as CREA, OREA / RECO (Ontario) et al do, in trade for supposed guidance away from from the vagaries of the wild - west show artists out there.
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