Sentences with phrase «pendulums from»

Three round amethyst swing like pendulums from the sterling silver chain for a unique and sophisticated look.

As the slugs hunker in ambush, the unsuspecting bird (order Strigiformes) lands and suddenly finds itself upside - down and swinging like a pendulum from the buttered perch, talons gripping in astonishment.

The early days are spring are always chaotic, for certain places in the world, the weather often swings like a pendulum from hot to cold.

The hills of a desert, where the trio crashes after flying through a thunderstorm, become the towering waves of the high seas, and a clash of ships results in one swinging like a pendulum from the yardarm of the other.

The best argument for emphasizing evidence in educational policy and practice is what happens when evidence plays no role: practice and policy swing like a pendulum from one enthusiasm to the opposite, and then back again, but no progress is made.The solution is to have a wide array of research going on at all times to create and evaluate promising solutions to longstanding problems.

It will be important to keep the pendulum from swinging too far the other way, and implying that there is more certainty than there really is.

Woody Tasch, chairman of Investors Circle, a nonprofit network of investors and foundations dedicated to sustainability, said: «What the Hardwick guys are doing is the first wave of what could be a major social transformation, the swinging back of the pendulum from industrialization and globalization.»

Not exact matches

The first pendulum swing is pretty extreme, from no process to too much process.

In an age when the political pendulum can swing quickly from regulation to deregulation and when federal rules are frequently reinterpreted, automated help with compliance is more than a convenience — it's a business necessity.

You know, to our way of thinking, you know, the the pendulum doesn't swing from one extreme to another and then just stop.

«It doesn't do much as far as swinging the pendulum one way or the other, but what it does is directly call out Russia for meddling in the election cycle, which is a pretty bold statement from the US that hasn't been made in the past,» he said.

This is much more the traditional technology push kind of model, where the pendulum hasn't swung completely away from customers and markets, but it's much more oriented towards leveraging the technology base, seeing what you can push out, seeing where there might be applications for the technology.»

From the establishment of the First Bank of the United States to Dodd - Frank, American banking regulation has followed the path of a swinging pendulum.

The pendulum swing from euphoria to panic can play out over many years — as it did from 2000 to 2002 — or it can happen in an instant — as it did in 1987.

They should understand the sales lifecycle and how that has the potential to affect the pendulum swing of numbers from month to month.

«We believe the political pendulums are swinging — whether from the left or the right, as candidates embrace more populist positions and associate a move away from austerity with other anti-establishment and anti-incumbent rhetoric,» says Shalett.

Human emotions, and therefore valuations are typically swinging from one end of the pendulum to the other.

In our time, Benedict XVI has suggested that the pendulum may have swung too far in the opposite direction, where the communicant not only lets go of scruples but neglects to examine his conscience seriously enough to identify any sound reasons he might have to refrain from receiving.

From that moment on, weight - driven pendulum clocks struck the hour at the same intervals, whether in winter or summer, spring or fall, day or night.

Whatever your experience of the Spirit is, it is imperative that we keep ourselves from leaning too far one way or the other on the pendulum.

My broad - brush take on Eldredge, et al, is that it's a pendulum swing from one pagan extreme to the other, having missed the point of biblical manhood entirely.

Gradually the pendulum swing from theory to theory has become less wild, and a small body of reliable results has emerged.

What Goodwin, Heilbroner, Galbraith et al. are telling us is that unless we change our moral guidelines so that «material possibilities» are «totally devoted to the enrichment of human life,» the pendulum of history will swing from freedom to totalitarianism.

But I think that in the end, he was able to demonstrate that when Christianity moved away from such errors, we let the pendulum swing too far.

Best Conversation - Starter (nominated by BethanyKeeley - Jonker): Karen Swallow Prior at Her.Meneutics with «Welcoming Doubt Into Christian Education» «Human history is a series of pendulum swings from one extreme to another.

But I'm still not sure why the pendulum has to swing from one extreme to the other.

We may rejoice that the pendulum is swinging back from the extremer forms of liberalism to a type which gives them a place, and that emphasis on the saving act of God in Christ and forgiveness of sin through the divine mercy is again theological doctrine in good standing.

We'll take a 2000 pound pendulum bob, draw it back, and each stand somewhere in a straight line from its swinging path.

Rothschild, which advised Saputo on its WCB takeover, advised Parmalat while Harvey Fresh took counsel from Perth boutique Pendulum Capital.

He would sit back, fold his arms, stick out his neck, and his eyes will be swinging from side to side like a pendulum, while just does a very fat nothing.

The second half continued in much the same manner and the pendulum continued to swing both ways in an end - to - end, exciting game — but one moment of quality from Maloney was enough to settle things.

But if, back at the beginning of the season, you'd asked yourself where Arsenal would be as February began, you'd have answered «about fourth, having been a bit higher, coming off the back of a quiet transfer window and a disappointing result at home, with tricky away games to come, and with the pendulum of public opinion just starting to make its way back from «finest team the world has ever seen'to «thank you, Arsène, but it's time to go.»»

The pendulum finally seems to be swinging in Arsenal's favour as we head in to the new year, and Wenger will be looking to really get the Gunner's firing from here on out.

In 1982 our league average was 35000 against Arsenal's 25000, and the pendulum used to swing from N17 to N4 and back regularly until you got lucky with Wenger (one of the truly great managers) while we fell into the clutches of ENIC, and we all know the rest — is it going to be different this year?

It doesn't take much to swing the pendulum of optimism back into positive territory but judging by the exuberant reaction to our clean sheet I was half expecting an open - top bus parade to celebrate stopping Lukaku from scoring (I wonder what route the bus will take in the future?).

Manchester United (2.90 SkyBet) won both league encounters last season courtesy of late strikes from Michael Owen and Paul Scholes, but the pendulum has swung in City's favour after the United camp was hit with a virus which has left several of the first - team as major doubts for Wednesday's epic encounter.

However, all it takes is one goal from the visitors, a team Ferguson describes as dangerous, because of their strong, physical attributes, for the pendulum to swing in Marseille's favour.

Society is swinging like a pendulum, from a patriarchal one to a matriarchal one.

I think the pendulum swung in the seventies from the out of diapers by 2 belief to let them go at their own time for two main reasons, one people were getting mad at their kids and pressuring them to potty train and disposables made it a lot easier not to put the effort into potty training them early.

Neuroscientists at the University of Geneva rigged up a bed so it would sway gently from side to side every four seconds, considerably slower than the pendulum on a cuckoo clock.

Trends tend to act like pendulums, going from one extreme to another.

It's almost like the pendulum has swung completely in the opposite direction from a cleft palate to the opposite side which is midline tether.

The key lesson to be learned from the electoral politics of the last 100 years is that pendulum politics always favours the right, even when there is a clear left consensus.

Traditionally, social conservatives were considered a swing demographic, hard to predict, often marginalized, but never to be underestimated because of their large numbers says William Ferraro, a political consultant from the Pendulum Network.

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The electoral pendulum orders seats from the most marginal to safest based on results of the last election.

But as we also have learned from practical experience in Washington, the political pendulum usually swings in the opposite direction.

FPTP is meant to function so that there are two sets of safe seats for each of the main parties — and as the pendulum swings from one party to another, the marginal seats switch from one party to another.

Historically, researchers have divided up data from a dynamical system through Markov partitions — a function that describes a point in space in relation to time, such as a model that describes the swing of a pendulum.

Staggering home from the supermarket laden with bags of shopping, it would be impossible — and more than a little silly — to rock your torso quickly back and forth while swinging your legs in loopy, pendulum - like steps.