Sentences with phrase «practices akin»

In this edition, Jeff Koons and Gagosian are being sued by an art collector that alleges sales practices akin to a Ponzi scheme, the «Fearless Girl» statue is on the move, Nick Cave wants New Yorkers to dance and «Let Go» and more art news people are talking about.

Yet, conventional advice to reduce a few calories every day persists and fasting is continually belittled as an outdated, dangerous practice akin to blood - letting and voodoo.

But the one strategy that does help, fasting, is continually belittled as a dangerous practice akin to blood letting and voodoo.

In the wild, cats «express» this substance along with their feces, for marking purposes, a practice akin to leaving a calling card for subsequent visitors to read.

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Even though this scanning is automated — and doesn't amount to Google employees poking around emails — critics say the practice is akin to AT&T listening in on people's phone calls or the United States Postal Service reading personal letters.

The authors said Kalanick had become «a giant liability to the car - hailing company for a growing number of reasons, from sketchy business practices to troubling lawsuits to a basic management situation that was akin to really toxic goat rodeo.

The practice of religion has usually shown an element of free creativity which is akin to play.

The Daily Telegraph's Tim Stanley has described the use of the remains of the unborn to heat hospitals as being «more akin to cannibalism» than the efficient recycling that these macabre practices were presumably being justified under.

For UCF tight end Jordan Akins, such a moment came when Griffin batted away a ball headed his way during practice with his left arm.

Ministers have rejected this, and Metropolitan police chief superintendent Ali Dizaei has warned the practice would be akin to creating a new offence of «travelling while Asian».

«This is a subject close to my heart as I got into tax when my first boss took me on at the age of 18 on something akin to accountancy articles, to practice and study tax.

«It becomes kind of akin to an authorship practice.

They found that, today, it is common for research project teams to use practices such as division of labor, task standardization, and hierarchies within teams that make them akin to small factories for knowledge production — and that the size of the team predicts the extent to which such factory - like practices are implemented.

A DDoS is akin to barricading the place of work and physically preventing access by strikebreakers, a practice which we have largely banned for good reason.

Change will come, Kaufman believes, only when a «culture of safety» akin to that widely cultivated in industry permeates universities and when lab chiefs are held responsible for everyone knowing and following accepted safety practices.

Sleep, in this view, is akin to an off - line practice session.

The dietary recommendations that Dr. Mercola makes are akin to the practice of the doctors and dentists of my youth who handed out lollipops to their patients.

Based on his self described extreme practice, I said in the blog that listening to Mr. Black's opinions on the dangers of asana practice struck me as being akin to receiving advice on motorcycle safety from Evel Knievel.

Flow practice can be akin to a moving meditation where the body is warmed, energy flows, and as a result the mind calms.

They seem like a stock platformer set - up on intial touch (walk, run, jump, float), but some practiced play reveals something more akin to the set - up of a good fighting game, with almost every action capable of adapting, cancelling or transforming the properties of Raymans movement in some way.

The message I carried pertained to something akin to the «union shop,» the practice of collecting agency fees to cover collective bargaining costs from teachers who do not join the union.

Both claims are akin to bomb throwing, since these practices are high orthodoxy in the world of professional pedagogy.

In a new poll out today, Americans say they want teacher preparation programs to raise the bar for entrance, provide longer training periods for practice teaching, and require new teachers to pass a rigorous certification exam akin to the ones required of lawyers and doctors.

Some regard it as the latest in a line of ideas intended to keep students progressing through school and heading toward graduation, akin in some ways to practices like social promotion.

Highland Park's students may have been more readily consoled and given productive tools to cope with the day, had they been provided opportunities to have structured discussions during a daily advisory period, akin to the restorative practice «circles» found in schools that have adopted this social - emotional learning strategy.

Rhee now describes teaching ability as something akin to an inborn talent, joking that no matter how much she practiced basketball, she could never play in the NBA like her fiancé Kevin Johnson, the former All - Star and current mayor of Sacramento.

While the interior design would encompass improved materials along with the latest best practices, the exterior design would incorporate the state - of - the - art GMC design language with the extensive use of aluminum and mixed materials, much akin to the Cadillac CT6 aiding in improved fuel economy and performance of the car.

Artist Carol Marine wisely proposes that art can be made in tiny increments and become a daily practice, much akin to ritual or prayer.

Being a commercial airline pilot isn't as glamorous as Leonardo di Caprio would have you believe; in practice, it's more akin to long haul trucking than aerial acrobatics.

With the country's publishing industry growing fast, adopting newer models, and aligning closer to practices from mature publishing markets, such interactions with experts would be akin to attending a master class.

Risk parity if practiced on a large scale will produce wipeouts akin to the recent crisis.

My opinion is that using food is akin to a bribe which is fairly mechanical in practice.

The first - person parkour seems to work very well and after some practice I'm not leaping across the rooftops and walls with something akin to grace, only the occasional problem arising in Crane failing to grab a ledge he should have easily reached.

The bosses range from easy to hard, and while some people may at first find some frustrating (such as one that uses instant - kill crushing attacks akin to the final boss of Sonic 1), I found that with a little concentration and practice, they mostly offer average challenge.

What sounds like the epitome of a boring game mechanic, in practice makes for a mind - melting activity akin to learning a foreign language or working through mathematical problem sets.

A good comparison comes in the form of Jim Sterling's video on how Steam's practices are akin to selling teddy bears full of... well, see for yourself.

Gasiorowski said that painting the flower pots was akin to a musician practicing scales, and that it was while making his «Pots de Fleurs» that he «began to use color seriously.»

Emptied of preconceptions and ascribed meaning, Ding's aspiration to simplicity is almost akin to entering a meditative state, a conscious turning away from reality that is not unlike the metaphysical practice of Chinese calligraphy or traditional craftsmanship.

The Maniacs, known colloquially as the Crow Tribe's «The Beatles,» both positively influenced the Crow people through their indigenized pop expression and also made an impact on non-Native audiences — a set of conditions akin to Red Star's art practice that is persistently entangled with concepts of pop internationalities and the culture industry.

His intuitive approach to art - making is epitomized in the expressive black forms on white surfaces mentioned above, almost calligraphic in nature and akin to this Asian practice in their emphasis on gesture, both are forms of writing that transmit sense visually.

Imagining artistic practice as a sedimentary process of material and social transformation (akin to a trash heap or scrap yard), Alli works in installation, performance, image - making and visual research to rummage in the aesthetics of precarity, collapse, and by extension, the vast formlessness of the Earth's ocean gyres.

Using a range of media including collage, painting, performance and typewritten text, her visual practice explores the subtleties of language, relying on an approach akin to concrete poetry.

BH 118 and 119 [the present work] are thus companion pieces in that both are the culmination of a sequence of plasters (akin to Ben Nicholson's practice of multiple variants of a painting or a relief), both are carvings in coloured wood and both date from 1943, the year Hepworth was able to return to carving.

Restrepo's drawing practice has elements that make it akin to sculpture.

But Prinzhorn was hardly proposing a new aesthetic, certainly not one akin to that of the Surrealists, who three years later would claim the practices of mental patients as further evidence of the universally liberating forces of the unconscious (even if those «liberated» remained incarcerated in the asylum).

Giving equal focus to form and duration in her sculpture, Shechet's practice is akin to the Buddhist philosophy of considering the whole of the work.

In these works, built on an intentional, immediate mark making, akin to Basquiat, Beuys and Twombly, Schwartz continues an exploration of the relationship between both her painting process and the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as she makes unformulated, subjective experience material and realized through painting.

How does this parallel with your practice seeing that there is a mutual rebellion of the flat surface, especially to it being akin to that of a computer screen?

Endorsing Mann08's practice is akin to defending a bank that charges interest on a customer's savings account, rather than paying it out (post).

You may want to consider applying for jobs at organisations that run businesses akin to the type of law you wish to practice.