Sentences with phrase «point obscures the fact»

Earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio hailed the fact that high school graduation rates ticked up two percentage points, but this data point obscures the fact that college readiness in NYC high schools lags far behind graduation rates.

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The more elaborate details of verses 11 - 24 should not obscure the fact that the same double point is being made.

This may be a more charitable reading of Nestorius than the facts warrant, but it points to a continuing concern of Protestants: Granted the legitimacy of doctrinal development, including the Christological clarification that led to the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon, where are the checks against exalting the Virgin so high that her son is obscured?

New figures pointing to a rise in the number of self - employed women obscures the fact that a lot of women's enterprise in the UK is unglamorous, scarcely profitable and curbed by childcare responsibilities.

The paper points out that all cloning is reproductive and reflects on the immediate outcome of human cloning — a human embryo — while examining the terminology used by cloning advocates to obscure the facts.

But pointing the finger at specific incidences today can obscure the fact that it has been part of the system since fashionable society was established in Europe around the 14th century, or even before.

The response surprised state board of education member David Tufaro: «We did not envision the level of hostility to the point of obscuring the facts about the abysmal state of these 11 schools.»

Peter Coffin, whose practice includes photography, assemblage, performance, time - based media, installations, sound art, and sculpture in many forms, often uses art history, odd facts or obscure theories as a departure point for his surreal reinventions.