Sentences with phrase «out the window by»

The Church's teaching against contraception, for example, was effectively thrown out the window by the laity.

There are also 12 traditions in AA and those have been a couple of those were thrown out the window by the writer of this article.

I think it's a dumb argument to make in a 7 - 0 game, though, where obviously whatever he would have done got thrown out the window by midway through the game.

When You Look Out the Window by Gayle E. Pitman When You Look Out the Window tells the story of Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, one of San Francisco's most well - known and politically active lesbian couples.

Welcome to Skirt The Rules, a life and style blog that throws proverbial and sartorial rules out the window by living and dressing without bounds.

He was thrown out a window by Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Male - female stereotyping, discussed in one scene, is thrown out the window by Blanchett's superb characterisation of a mid career Dylan.

Whatever emotional response Mason's children pleading with their father was supposed to have, or reflection on the viewer's choice of programming is thrown out the window by the end.

Imagine being hung half way out a window by your suspenders 40 stories up, or being held up...

Unfortunately, both of your viewpoints smack of good old common sense, something that doesn't seem to be at issue in this case, and therefore, seems to have been thrown out the window by the esteemed Ms Aitken.

Daphne would spend her nights not sleeping, but standing - looking out the window by her bed.

She spent most of her nights, not sleeping, but standing - looking out the window by her bed.

Not exact matches

In applied economics accuracy often needs to be thrown out the window and replaced by what can be measured.

That vision of better is spelled out in applications for 30 patents across an array of goods — including EcoRock, a gypsum drywall alternative made of recycled waste that cuts manufacturing emissions by 80 percent; and super-energy-efficient windows that reduce emissions from heating and cooling up to 40 percent.

Chef Marco Canora has made waves recently by selling gourmet «bone broth» out of a window next to the restaurant, so you may want to pick up a cup before you head in.

When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core of HP's problem in this area).

That you're not in Windows - land anymore hits home when you want to install software that is not included with Ubuntu — in my case, a program to play DVDs, left out by Ubuntu to avoid legal hassles with entertainment companies.

Measuring new hires to a set, proven standard, by using data from analytics and call - recording for support, will help you determine in, say, a 60 - to - 90 day window, whether or not the rep will work out.

If the planet is to avert the worst scenarios for climate change, the optimistic long - run forecasts for oil demand growth put forward by energy giants such as Exxon can be thrown out the window.

Obviously, assorted crash analogs have by now gone out of the window — we already noted that the market was late if it was to continue to mimic them, as the decline would have had to accelerate in the last week of March to remain in compliance with the «official time table».

For simplification, you might look out the window and ask, «What rate of return would I earn by investing in this business?»

The HSUS Animal Rescue Team helped farm animals trapped by floodwaters, pets who ran away when winds blew out windows and doors and shelter animals who needed a ride to safety.

As a side - note, Shiller's version will retreat by about 10 - 15 % as depressed earnings from 2008 - 2010 gradually drop out of the 10 - year window.

But by the end of Tesla's first - quarter conference call, Musk was berating analysts for asking «boring» questions, and any shred of predictability was out the window.

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

When it comes to money, most people are on the slow train looking out the window watching the fast train pass them by.

Learn to give your eyes frequent breaks by looking out of the window and away from your computer screen.

Sure, he registered for the draft after he returned from France, but by that time he was already out of the window of draft vulnerability, which is the year one is age nineteen.

See: Read a book, watch a bird hop around on a branch Touch: Craft, fold laundry, bake cookies Taste: Eat a meal without checking my phone, eat one of those cookies I baked Hear: Listen to music while staring out the window or at the ceiling (not at my phone) Smell: Hang out by the oven where my cookies are baking, light a candle

Their words, carelessly spoken, spent the last 40 days in my home — getting creased and folded, worked over, brushed aside to make room for dinner, stepped on by a toddler, read by my sister, stained with coffee, shoved into a closet when guests arrive, blacked out, thrown away, turned into poems, and folded into sailboats and cranes and pigeons that now sit smiling at me from my office window.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

Quirky and perhaps at times a little meandering, it is as though we have joined him in his sitting room and, as he thinks out loud, generously sharing a lifetime of penetrating, logical reflection, he illustrates what he has to say by gesturing to books on the table, pictures on the wall, activities going on outside the window.

My brother and I stared out the backseat windows as an enormous ball of orange fire rose boastfully over the horizon and Interstate 10 spilled us onto a freeway congested by more cars than we'd ever seen.

His office is larger than McWethy's, and it has a window: the sun is blocked out by a plastic shade.

By dropping two objects out the window, One heavy and one light, To test which one hits the sidewalk first.

How ironic (no, how damnably shameful) that scripture's very own songbook of worship is the very one that we, by our omission of it, have, in effect, tossed out of the window and trampled underfoot.

But a window, by its very nature, selects out only a small piece of reality.

I felt like adrenaline had been injected directly into my heart, and I turned to stare out the windows behind the tellers just to collect my thoughts, and through them I saw this crazy old man pass by, his face smeared with chocolate.

It is wholly illogical and downright arrogant to accept a simple watch was made by someone but our planet Earth with its BILLIONS OF LIFE FORMS is not... it saddens me that with our amazing supercomputer, our brain, that people can throw logic clear out the window.

By the way has anyone else notice that Dalahäst religious concepts have gone out the window during this argument?

In its places, come things that are instituted by the dictator, and if you don't agree to go, you will be made to go, and free speech is out the window.

And I also know that by 2:42 a.m. when all has been restored and babies are sleeping again and the window is cracked open for a bit of fresh air, when we are back in our bed and quietly groaning at how over-the-puking-thing we both are by now, it's then, when he reaches out for me and moves the hair back off my neck before resting his calloused hands on the baby still growing within me, when the baby rolls up against his palm, and he whispers, «hey, you» quietly, it's in that moment that I think the love we make or find or reimagine at the unexpected moments is still the sweetest.

Who's the man with a French pastry who sits by himself in the delicatessen and stares out the window at passersby every afternoon at five o'clock?

And you live to stare with sightless eyes out of the window of some nursing home where you are addressed by your first name and periodically fed spoonfuls of lamb paste and pureed carrots.

As long as the activity is being engaged in by consenting adults (so there goes your child marriages right out the window) I see no reason why I should say «you can't do this» to someone else.

That evening, he walked back home and told how he woke up and found himself surrounded by dead bodies, and ran out the window» @Cheese» «He never actually died,»

You can't pick and choose what you abide by, or it totally throws the legitimacy of the book out the window.

A cabbie driving by sniffed something delicious, leaned out his window and requested his own.

The summer's unusual heat and abundance of hungry insects had promised an iffy tomato season anyway, but, needless to say, by the end of September, it was clear I would miss out on my yearly homegrown tomato activities: no weekends of steamy kitchen windows with boiling pots of canned sauce featuring my prized Cherokee Purples; no homemade, slow - simmered San Marzano tomato paste; no sheet pans lining the counters with roasted black cherry tomatoes (the best tomato flavor on this earth, ever).

That alone is enough to put me off from going out and make me want to stand by the window with a warm cup of tea.