Sentences with phrase «rather narrow set»
«In this case,» says Steinfels, «the news media tended to bestow credibility heavily on a rather narrow set of experts» lawyers, therapists, and leaders of victims» groups, who had long been locked in legal battles with the bishops.»
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Within the more traditional framework, fundamentalism has been described as a «world - view,» a rather tight (or narrow, or simplistic) view of the world — an orientation that is perhaps hierarchically organized around the ultimate value of otherworldly salvation, an orientation that supplies totally encompassing normative expectations for how people should behave, a set of beliefs and assumptions that are deeply meaningful to the people who hold them and that give meaning to these people's lives.
He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.
Strong running from Oxlade - Chamberlain set up Welbeck down the right but he chose to try and find a team - mate rather than shoot from a narrow angle and the chance was lost.
But despite the increasing precision of some 300 modern - day experiments using Cavendish's set - up, different labs have found slightly different values for G, and in recent years the discrepancy has widened rather than narrowed (see «G - whizzes disagree over gravity»).
If I had to bet on which intervention is most likely to work at scale, I'd be inclined to bet on a massive data set that found positive effects on test scores rather than a very narrow data set of three studies where only two study found higher degree attainment.
Professor Helen Atkinson, chair of the RAE's education and skills committee, said: «Accountability measures have created perverse incentives, encouraging some schools to focus pupils on a narrow set of subjects rather than a broad and balanced offer.
Animal control shelters, including those operated by private humane societies, are sometimes forced to use narrower criteria for assessing adoptability than private shelters because their mandate is set by government statutes, ordinances, regulations and policies rather than by a mission statement.
To narrow it down further, consider whether you'd rather work in a hospital setting, clinic, school — or something entirely different like a non-profit organization.