Sentences with phrase «peculiar because»

I also find it peculiar because women express their feelings more overtly than do men.

We're used to thinking about averages, and in a way, the best fit is just telling us the average for every value along the number line.12 It's worth noting, however, that our data are a tad peculiar because the seriousness of charges is always a whole number between 1 and 10.

Dr. Dittman said she found the condition peculiar because Olwin tested negative for heartworms.

Her puppies were born last week, but it's peculiar because they each have six legs...

You will also need to pay attention to see if your cat is acting peculiar because this could indicate that he has been exposed to or ingested a household item or food which is toxic to cats.

Burrowing bats are peculiar because they not only fly; they also scurry about on all fours, over the forest floor, under leaf litter and along tree branches, while foraging for both animal and plant food.

Negative matter is quite peculiar because it is lighter than nothing.

It was peculiar because at birth, I remember my baby's blinking eyes staring at me.

Not exact matches

Michele Berdy, an interpreter and translator working for the Moscow Times, has explained that because Trump's peculiar Twitter style sounds childish Russian translators often transpose it into a more adult register.

«Buying the yen because of a trade war in which Japan was going to be hit pretty badly, and Japan hasn't been exempted from the steel tariffs by the way, that seems to me pretty peculiar,» Giles Keating, managing director at wealth manager Werthstein Institute, told CNBC.

Those peculiar results have led to widespread rumors that the schools are gaming U.S. News» rankings, especially because they are based solely on a survey of business school officials.

This is peculiar, because there is a wealth of data showing that gender - oriented investing can accelerate impact, both financial and social;

This is peculiar, because there is a wealth of data showing that gender - oriented investing can accelerate impact, both financial and social; women - led businesses outperform and they are also driving a greener future.

However, this is somewhat of a peculiar transaction because just two weeks ago we detailed that Second Curve sold PRS shares at a price of $ 4.42.

(One part of the problem is that because of its peculiar status, Puerto Rico can't file for bankruptcy under Chapter 9.)

Eberstadt recounts her experience avidly perusing parenting manuals until, over time, they became «profoundly irritating» because of their «peculiar combination of joylessness and self - congratulation.»

Newman concedes this dilemma, saying that «we can not make sure, for ourselves and others, of real apprehension and assent, because we have to secure first the images which are their objects, and these are often peculiar and special.»

To the contrary, precisely because of the idiosyncratic reality of God and God's peculiar way of being present, interests in liberation from oppression, realization of our full humanity, and the righting of injustice are mandated as an integral part of interests in God.

The question has often been left unanswered because the theologians have failed to see that this is a problem which is not peculiar to Christianity, but which belongs to the fundamental structure of our natural Being.»

To do so is possible because the brain holds a peculiar place in the universe — and, more specifically, in our universe.

What was said of Cromwell — that he was the most typical Englishman of his time because he was the oddest — makes the peculiar logic of uniqueness apparent.

Because of this peculiar intransigence in the plumbing of the psyche, Auden's comic expression of his moral vision is important.

Precisely because of the specialized nature of pastoral work at this ethnic level, the pastor has peculiar dilemmas.

The specific opposition good - evil is peculiar to man because it can only be perceived introspectively:

Consequently, the area where our freedom is operative and influential is all the more important because it is a peculiar, special area.

Some metaphors readily lend themselves to high development because they belong to a metaphor system, i.e. a group of metaphors linked together by their common origin in a single area of human observation, experience or activity, which has generated its own peculiar sublanguage or jargon.110

For example, a child may experience inner tranquility because of the presence of a parent apart from anything peculiar to the present experience of the parent.

It is our faith that in that Man it did not «fail», not because it had peculiar privileges or unique divine prerogatives, but because it held fast to its «initial aim», making that its own «subjective aim» and thus through «the travail» which mortal existence imposed upon it finding the «satisfaction» or fulfilment which was its destiny.

I think it's because America has a rather peculiar obsession with retributive justice, and no doubt some of that is connected with our theology that goes back to colonial times, when it was Puritan revivalistic preaching, and some of that bitter fruit is still among us.

It is generally recognized that many blows struck against the pulpit come not because of its peculiar faults but because it is a part of a traditional and entrenched institution, and all such institutions, religious, political, or otherwise, are being called into question.

Because of the peculiar customs of the Jahriyah sect, which are judged to be superstitious, they are regarded as heretical by the other Muslims.

I have found that on occasion I really sympathize with a friend of mine who feels that organizations of people are to be avoided as the plague; but I think that is peculiar of me, probably because I live in a rather close - knit community and sometimes find a «gold - fish» existence somewhat fatiguing.

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

17 - 26 is termed «Holiness» because of its peculiar stress, unparalleled elsewhere in Hebrew law, upon the holiness of Yahweh.

Saul's jealousy takes form at once and in extreme degree, not only because of David's great popularity (18:7) but also because Saul recognizes that David now possesses the charismatic quality, the peculiar endowment of Yahweh which Saul himself had previously possessed.

Because the present is the peculiar completeness of the past, it identifies itself with its past.

For its peculiar characteristic is the conviction that because of the formal authority of Scripture all the commands of the Law are equally binding.

It is precisely because of his Christology — one that sees the Christ - event arising from no prior conditions and plotted against no prior coordinates (2:20; 6:14)-- that Paul develops his peculiar understanding of Gentiles» freedom from the requirement of becoming Jewish proselytes.

In other words, Banerjea wants to attest to the Divine mission of Jesus by pointing to the miracles that «the unblemished character» performed, which in turn are «proved facts» because they have been «attested by strongest possible testimony» by «witnesses whose competence has been proved by peculiar ordeal.»

It is also a question of peculiar force to us, because we must fully admit the highly individualistic character of a believer's faith - image, and yet, at the same time, face the question of which, if any, are to be called «Christian», and so face the necessity of distinguishing true from false.

All these continue to increase, especially because of the new life - style of the rich, and the irresponsible use of natural resources which add a peculiar burden on the ecosystem.

This latter is of interest because of the peculiar belief of Buddhists concerning the soul.

I imagine, as a parent it puts you in a peculiar position, too, because what do you do?

Because of his peculiar talent for doing the right thing as often, or more often, than the wrong thing, Paul Larson gets enough rope to hang himself.

If you became an Arsenal fan because of Wenger's early achievements then you have a peculiar attitude.

We had been led, because of our peculiar history, to associate manliness, sport and economic individualism with a system that had failed us as individuals, a system that was in every identifiable sense bankrupt.

Two years later, England are in a peculiar predicament, because they find themselves in the opposite situation.

I'm going to have to revisit this post because I have another toddler with his own peculiar eating habits.

Perhaps this is because the Cabinet Office is such a peculiar, unknowable creature.

Ashanti Regional Secretary, Samuel Pyne, admits the constituencies were selected because of their peculiar challenges and needs, including threats posed by independent parliamentary candidates to the party.