Sentences with phrase «predominant interest»

The tribunal, however, found this conduct unacceptable and claimed that the firm's predominant interest had been in obtaining and maintaining a flow of work from that introducer, and they had therefore acted in circumstances of conflict between themselves and the claimant.

Although Blaisten has acquired works from various periods, this exhibition focuses on a predominant interest of his: paintings created in Mexico in the first half of the last century.

«The Empty House» focuses on Bourgeois» «sack forms» — works that embody the artist's predominant interest in architecture and the female anatomy during the last two decades of her life.

In his practice he has shown a predominant interest in social structures and the mis - use of slogans, logo's, symbols and code's.

It takes a very long time in your life to find a predominant interest.

Sugimoto's oeuvre does have interesting overlaps with Judd's work, including a predominant interest in repetition and variation, mathematical orders, clarity of form and method, and an elegant, precise finish.

I also wrote: «I may be wrong, but I can't see the voluntary party leadership taking a predominant interest in policy development.»

Not exact matches

I have cautiously watched, with interest and support, the assault on the overtechnologized concepts so predominant in Western medicine and religion.

The justices said, «A thing is obscene if, considered as a whole, its predominant appeal is to prurient interest, i.e., a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor in description or representation of such matters.»

No, said Holmes: «The right to life is sacrificed without a scruple not only in war, but whenever the interest of society, that is, of the predominant power in the community, is thought to demand it.»

It is an underhanded attempt to get politicians to obey your special interest group, and an attempt to make your special interest group predominant, if only for a day.

On a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road record.

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, for example, represents the interests of liberals in Europe while the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is the predominant liberal group in the European Parliament.

One of the most interesting players is Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, or B. theta, the predominant bacterium of the human colon and a particularly bossy symbiont.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

Two findings of particular interest are: 1) our data suggest that academic research positions remain the predominant career choice of postdocs in the United States, although unequally between postdocs of different gender and residency status; and 2) receiving mentorship training during the postdoctoral period has a large, positive effect on postdoc mentorship satisfaction.

I tell clients with a predominant free spirit archetype to get comfortable with the fact that they might not fit into the 9 - to - 5 grind, that they have lots of interests and passions, and that they love to travel or move around.

Most of these white women that are interested in interracial relationships are those who grew up in a place where only one race was predominant.

That is probably the predominant way of looking at the world during periods of low interest rates.

While traveling as a naive tourist makes for interesting content, it is far easier and safer to explore Central and South America with at least a working knowledge of the predominant language.

Video games are getting increasingly more expensive which is why indie titles are becoming more and more appealing and predominant; often times an indie will offer a new and interesting mechanic or feature at a cost well below that of AAA.

My experience of, and keen interest in cultural diversity and spirit - soul life have become the predominant focus of my art...

It was very interesting to see those paintings in the context of the eighties, when Neo-Expressionism was the predominant trend, owing a great deal to French Surrealism and German Expressionism, but your paintings had an emphatic homebrewed quality.

I said:» Interesting that you try to shift from temperature anomaly, the predominant metric used to say AGW, to energy imbalance.»

Furthermore, they repeated the offending allegations when they knew or foresaw that their defamatory slurs would be repeated in the entertainment and celebrity media and their conduct was orchestrated for the predominant reason to attract interest in their publications.

For example - when I articled (about a million years ago) my principal was a woman — and it was an interesting experience seeing that — at that point (1985) of the four female lawyers in our city, every one of them were «family lawyers» — which is the predominant A2J focus for the most part now.

Other visionary jurists, constituting in fact and in law the predominant view, reduce the removal inquiries to an unadorned single question — irrespective of the custodial parent's constitutional right to travel, is relocation in the best interests of the affected child?

The evidence that parenting is a predominant factor in children's healthy development has been used by political interests to attack preschool programs (a recent example).