Sentences with phrase «out of fashion as»

Invented in 1828, it was used in the earliest prefabs, shipped from Britain around the world, but fell out of fashion as local building industries developed.

He surprised everyone by returning to Glasgow in 1987 but, in the decade that followed, his work fell out of fashion as painting ceded to the hyperbolic conceptualism of the yBas.

With the nationwide efforts to raise graduation standards and the increasing use of standardized testing, the idea of basing promotion and graduation decisions on portfolios of students» work has fallen out of fashion as swiftly as slide rules gave way to calculators.

It is possible that Anderson is done making movies that are chic; but then, Kubrick and Hitchcock spent long stretches being out of fashion as well.

The cast is what helps to make it work, from Meryl Streep chewing the scenery like it's going out of fashion as the unhinged, cancer - stricken, pill - popping head of the family and the aforementioned Roberts (both of whom have received an Oscar nomination for their respective performances) to the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper and Margo Martindale who all feel very much perfectly cast when casting is so important for a film like this.

But the idea fell out of fashion as researchers began to discover that mutations in specific oncogenes and tumor - suppressor genes could set cancer in motion.

Some job - rumor Web site moderators have verified rumors in the past by e-mailing the subject of the rumor, but the time - consuming process may be falling out of fashion as wikis — sites that anyone can edit — spread, and the labor and responsibility for maintaining the sites pass on to an anonymous crowd.

Spreads are out of fashion as consumers return to butter, and the business was dragging down Unilever's organic growth.

Not exact matches

By the 1980s and»90s, Arnault, who started out as a civil engineer, had assumed control of the family business and proceeded to buy high - end fashion house Christian Dior, reviving it from the brink of bankruptcy.

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

At the same time Ofoto and Shutterfly are reaching out to picture takers of all stripes by offering steep discounts on old - fashioned film processing (returning prints by snail mail), as well as digitizing the images for online viewing and distribution.

Puma, which fell out of favour as a fashion brand for women, has made tapping into the booming female sportswear market a key part of its strategy.

Long after diversified conglomerates fell out of fashion, Pattison has amassed an unusual but highly profitable mix of interests, including billboards and signs, radio and TV broadcasting, magazine distribution, packaging, fishing and groceries, as well as the Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Global fast fashion retailer Zara was another company the Shanghai Cyberspace Administration publicly called out for showing Taiwan as a country in a list of nations on its website.

This was then out of fashion for a long time as Google and Facebook hit their stride.

In 1966, a professional manufacturing association known as the Hawaiian Fashion Guild figured out a plan to boost sales of Hawaiian shirts and dresses.

Although yesterday's action in the Nasdaq could easily lead to a near - term pullback from the recent highs, we can not rule out the possibility of a strong recovery today, as bull markets tend to close out the week in bullish fashion.

As Marc Bain at Quartz points out, the speed of production is what has allowed fast - fashion brands to overtake longtime favorites like Gap.

It seemed to me then (as it does now) that a hefty dollop of insidious «SHENANIGANS» was being carried out in covert fashion, the likes of which moved from the ridiculous to the sublime with the April (2011) massacre in the gold and silver markets that most certainly were to be found under the headline of «shenanigans» and most certainly «ruined the fortunes of many.»

For example, a trendy fashion retailer can go out of business as soon as consumer preferences change, or a neat new software company can suddenly get trounced by another new technology.

But, as it happens, we have a defense against this barbarity, an old way of thinking about these things that has not quite gone out of fashion.

Most of us probably think of Rubens as a painter of women whose body shapes are now decidedly out of fashion.

I agree if he understands eternal truths in the sense that there are confessions of truth eschatologically valid once for all time, never out of fashion but always worthy to be remembered, confessed, and more deeply reflected upon by the people of God in order to discover always anew their eternal newness (as Pope Francis says in Evangelii Gaudium, 11).

As opposed to evolution that gives guesses and hypothesis, the 1st chapter of Genesis lays out how the earth was prepared for human habitation, in a logical, coherent and chronological way, just as when a builder lays the foundation for a home and proceeds to build it in an orderly fashioAs opposed to evolution that gives guesses and hypothesis, the 1st chapter of Genesis lays out how the earth was prepared for human habitation, in a logical, coherent and chronological way, just as when a builder lays the foundation for a home and proceeds to build it in an orderly fashioas when a builder lays the foundation for a home and proceeds to build it in an orderly fashion.

God's creative power does not in fact fashion us as though out of soft clay: it is a fire that kindles life in whatever it touches, a quickening spirit.

Reinforcing in advance the claim I have put forth at the end of Part Two, Hartshorne went on to point out: «Just as the Stoics said the ideal was to have good will toward all but not in such fashion as to depend in any [221] degree for happiness upon their fortunes or misfortunes, so Christian theologians, who scarcely accepted this idea in their ethics, nevertheless adhered to it in characterizing God.»

So, too, with one who wishes to do good out of fear of punishment, if indeed it can be done in that fashion, if it is not as when the fear - ridden person turns his whole life into nothing but illness, out of fear of becoming ill.

It starts out as micro being individual snowflakes that are falling and gather stacking one on top of another forming a mass just waiting for a single dog bark or branch crack to set it off down the mountain in very macro fashion.

We do not think primarily of «saving» people out of the world in sect fashion, corrupt and corrupting as the world may be.

The world existed for her insofar as it provided the material out of which she fashioned her relationships.

@Colin, It was an interesting fashion of backing out as well, since this is actually an excellent forum to better educate people on the meaning and execution of sacraments.

But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.

Unless a gift is in this fashion sacrificial — the giving up of something — it is argued, a gift reduces to a hidden contractual agreement, governed by a principle of self - interest; and actions out of self - interest, as Kant pointed out, are not pure gifts.

And to speak in that fashion would be to say, with Dr. Paul Knitter of Xavier University in Cincinnati (one of the brilliant young Roman Catholic process theologians of our time), that we need to «recognize the possibility that other «saviours» have carried out... for other people» the redemptive work which as Christians we know in Jesus Christ.

It is not folded, as in the initial reports out of Florida, but placed face up on the floor --- that is, students are «asked» to put it there in this fashion.

As Arthur McGill has noted, «In an age of anxiety and violence, glory is out of fashion, even in Churches» (Arthur McGill, The Celebration of the Flesh, Association Press, 1964, p. 184).

We arrived on a Friday and as is the Catholic fashion one of the first things you do is find out where the nearest Church is and its Mass times.

If her training eventually pulls her back into her professional role so that she is able to study her reactions, she may notice that she has been led to picture the story of humankind as being played out solely by males: inventing language, passing it on to the next generation of sons, inventing pottery for use as containers, fashioning needles in order to make better clothing.

I have a personal theory that it went out of fashion because people eventually realized what it really means and decided they didn't care for it as much as they at first thought.

Niebuhr would, of course, understand that nothing he wrote had eternal value; his cautions that we should be sparing in handing out bouquets are found on virtually every page of his writings, along with his affirmation of such old - fashioned doctrines as original sin and the transcendence of God.

He said: «If we as a the Church plan to reach out with the gospel to folks who have never come into contact with the Church, and they come in to a church and find people dressed in rather a quaint, unusual, old - fashioned way, it may well put up a few barriers in terms of them relating to the gospel.

Process no longer takes place [247] within matter but stands as it were on its own and makes up the entirety of its subjects, instead of presupposing a substrate out of which it fashions its subjects.

When Christians» worship is understood in this fashion as a «practice» (in the somewhat technical sense of «practice» we have adopted), then James Hopewell's description of a congregation turns out to be unusually fruitful: «A congregation is a group that possesses a special name and recognized members who assemble regularly to celebrate a more universally practiced worship but who communicate with each other sufficiently to develop intrinsic patterns of conduct, outlook, and story.»

As Scalia's dissent makes clear, the majority opinion in Lawrence epitomizes everything that is wrong with the contemporary Court» its arbitrariness, its contempt for democratic governance, its constant readiness to fashion new constitutional rights out of whole cloth.

What stood out as an almost mystical vision in the first book, now came down to a kind of a working broad delineation, in a behavioral fashion, to the specific behavior in the universe that was to be designated God.

It's as if the angel in heaven responsible for doling out the years of our lives in an orderly fashion got bored when I was 45 and decided to press the «fast forward» button.

Because nonhuman animals are not, by hypothesis, capable of developing such virtues, it is hard to see why a creator who is both omnipotent and benevolent would make them so susceptible to pain (insofar as warning devices are needed, omnipotence could have fashioned nonpainful ones, as pointed out in the book Catch 22).

Rather, the purpose is to sketch out possible new directions in religious thought in an indirect fashion as they are mediated through the concerns, activities and reflections of the participants.

In one sense, Revivalism as a religious movement excised the concept of conversion out of Puritanism and cast it loose in a highly individualistic and subjectivistic fashion.23