Sentences with phrase «rather academic point»

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The more I read the other comments the more I think this an academic, rather than a practical point.

Today it is commonplace to point out that the major fault line within academic theology goes between conservatives and liberals rather than between different confessional traditions.

The academics Peter Allen and Philip Cowley have pointed out that within three years the Cameron Cabinet included exactly the same number of women as Tony Blair's did at the same point in his premiership (though Mr Blair had rather more to choose from).

The pedagogical approach of his HHMI - funded program is equally rare; rather than selecting research students with impeccable academic credentials, Warner's program admits only students with grade point averages between 2.5 and 3.0.

Rather than requiring an institution to reduce the number of African American and Latino students admitted, Justices C. Thomas and A. Scalia pointed out that a university could also reduce its academic selectivity to accommodate a race - neutral policy.

I recently contrived to embarrass one of my former mentors by pointing out that the paper she was about to present to the annual meeting of our peculiar band of academics had a title rather similar to a paper she had presented to the same group almost twenty years before.

This is not to say that students are to blame for low scores or rates, but rather that it is impossible to hold students accountable for their school work when many see no point in academic success.

And if they are catering to academic communities keeping up with those rapidly changing disciplines, providing access to patrons at the point of need by leasing rather than owning content makes sense for those libraries.

The only value here though, on a net basis, is the value of their gold oz in the ground — which might seem rather academic at this point.

Now, at this point, you may want to remind me: a) shorting junior resource stocks can be difficult / impossible, and / or b) only a real idiot couldn't figure out (& take advantage of) such a blindingly obvious strategy!?! OK, in my defence: i) again, I point you to all those academic studies, and ii) there are legions of muppet investors out there who will (rather incoherently) argue the exact opposite in strategy... So here's the valid alternative to that trade

well, I guess we will agree to continue to differ: you from your personal vantage point of the saintly warriors of Climate purity, nobly battling the injustices of unwelcomed scrutiny and I from my personal vantage point of arrogant academics refusing to concede mistakes or poor discernment but rather adopting «the best defense is a good offense» tactic as with Trenbeth, Mann and Jones to name just three.

But your point raises the question of why the academics who run the state - funded granting agencies favour the «luvly models run on big, all flashing, computers» rather than the run - of - the - mill scientist working «in the peace and comfort of his own little lab.»

The effects of cooling are rather academic at this point, since the world isn't cooling, the hypothetical long minimum hasn't happened as yet, and the solar scientists are not predicting that the world will cool if that occurs, only that the rate of warming will slow, slightly.

(2) As Steve Bloom pointed out, there seems to be a preponderance of academic literature in favour of Jared Diamond's account, rather than Lipo and Hunt's.

And the more general point is that it suggested that the statement of skill and values came from academic theory rather than what lawyers demonstrably need for success in the practice of law.

I'd rather not name names, but the universities that are getting good results are the ones who look from a more holistic point of view, that think about community, academic and financial supports as part of a tailored package.