Sentences with phrase «rather obscure»

In a lot of cases, the handset will find the server details automatically — it even managed this for our own rather obscure account.

If you have installed the Developer Preview of Windows 8, you probably have discovered the rather obscure method of shutting down the system.

Finally, choose a policy that covers you for disasters that your home is actually at risk of; if you live in a fairly dry region of Rajasthan, the risk of flooding is rather obscure and only adds to your premiums without providing any actual benefit.

This rather obscure exception is rarely used in criminal cases.

The latter is most likely — but rather obscure in practice.

There is just one, rather obscure, link to the National Assessment — for some reason it appears on on the «International Impacts» page.

Ross McKitrick recently published a paper in the rather obscure scientific journal Open Journal of Statistics in which he purports to show that the «pause» in the data for lower - troposphere temperature (TLT) from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) has lasted nearly 26 years.

You're taking a rather obscure text, and demonstrating that it doesn't always use block quotes when appropriate, it's a bit sloppy with citations, and it mainly presents sceptic boilerplate.

You just jump out of nowhere, drop some rather obscure model with no explanation and imagine we all have telepathic ability to read your mind and fill in the blanks as well as correct typos and parse your own personal maths nomenclature.

I thought I'd coined the phrase «knowledge monopoly» in an article in a rather obscure journal in 2004: «Science in the 21st Century: Knowledge Monopolies and Research Cartels», J. Sci.

Then, at a rather obscure academic conference, I was speaking about my research on a scientist named Gordon MacDonald

Frank Jones was an elusive figure with a poignant, rather obscure biography.

His paintings have a rather obscure political meaning.

You'd be forgiven for forgetting about Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, as it's a rather obscure JRPG.

After dropping some cryptic clues on the rather obscure @SegaForever Twitter account, alongside sending cassette mixtapes to influential individuals, Sega finally unveiled Sega Forever as a treasure trove of its classic hits earlier this year.

Since drop - in play features are very rarely used, this issue was rather obscure.

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The «game Gear» was my first personally owned gaming system, witch contrary to the SMS — I noticed in retrospect — was also a rather obscure handheld over here.

This retro gaming classic is a rather obscure fighting game here in the West but much better known in Japan with releases on the Sega Saturn and 3D0 Hardware.

There are certain times as a games reviewer when you get given a game to review that could be classed as rather obscure.

The ancestry of the Shih Tzu is rather obscure, but it is probable that the breed is primarily of Tibetan origin.

Not to be exclusive, but to reduce the risk of griefers who would rather obscure the truth than just stay out of the way.

So when the Trekstor Pyrus Mini recently came out, I decided to go ahead and order one to review, even though it's a rather obscure ereader that's being sold in limited markets.

In this article, we examined 4 rather obscure, but potentially very useful, TalentLMS features.

The origin of many flowers in the garden is rather obscure: some can be presumed to be simple genetic variants of wild plants, while others are the result of hybridisation of original wild species.

Often shaken, but never stirred, Bondium is usually found in close association with another rather obscure atom, Ladyum.

We have a major task ahead to generate interest in what are sometimes rather obscure issues.

Rather obscure for quite a while, it packs an almost 1.5 million SHU rating!

Other readers have brought that book to my attention, which I appreciate, but thankfully it seems rather obscure so I'm not worried.

In proper season, somewhere in the grass or rubble, the visitor may come upon Harold (Sonny) Henderson, a genial 46 - year - old Scots - English - Polynesian whose eminence as a hunter is well established but is — as is the case with many active Hawaiians — rather obscured by peculiar distinctions in several sports.

But the Churchillian rhetoric rather obscured and overlooked the choice he himself had made.

This galaxy was not discovered until about 1890 because it is rather obscured by the foreground dust and stars in our own galaxy, but it is still a spectacular galaxy.

There's absolutely no lag or interference between your movements on the small screen and where you appear to your opponents on the larger screen — this isn't like those first Kinect demos, where the promise of the technology was rather obscured by lag.

Not exact matches

Not all small businesses have much experience or many accolades to speak of; however, rather than try to obscure that fact, embrace it.

A truly different TV would respond to the new needs of consumers by creating an interface that enables rather than obscures access to all that content, but that also reimagines the TV as but one part of a broader ecosystem.

Whereas at the time they were once an obscure brand, Uber is now a rather popular and profitable company, thanks in part to its persistent pursuit of partnerships.

Uber is planning to tweak the historical pick - up and drop - off logs that drivers can see in order to slightly obscure the exact location, rather than planting an exact pin in it (as now).

Rather than accepting the science and adapting to other sources of energy, the oil industry has developed an aggressive campaign to obscure the science and advance its own interests.

Furthermore, it is somewhat obscured in the text of the budget document, appearing, rather oddly, on page 241, in a chapter on «Supporting Families and Communities.»

The corporate trend has been towards smaller more focused companies that can make specific strategic decisions and better capital allocation plans rather than being obscured by the overall mass of the parent company.

Perhaps the best way to judge an individual is by the walk they walk... rather than obscure doctrines that many laymen aren't even aware of.

R.R. Reno, general editor of the Brazos Theological Commentary, writes: «This series of biblical commentaries was born out of the conviction that dogma clarifies rather than obscures.

In fact, a liberationist outlook obscures rather than clarifies the practical imperatives of Christian ministry within the U.S.

Griffiths further fails to understand Newman's «development of doctrine» when, one assumes by innocent ignorance rather than willfulness, he obscures Newman's tenets on «preservation of type.»

The Synod's task, then, will be to offer pastoral solutions to those suffering from loneliness, or from broken hearts and homes — solutions that illuminate rather than obscure the values to which their hardship gives radiant, poignant witness.

Thus, after all, the fundamental constituents of the world are for him «events,» each actualizing its own essence, together with (as the obscure bond between them is most readily described) the substance which they inherit from their predecessors and pass on to their successors, rather than persisting continuants changing their accidental properties while retaining their essence.

At this stage, it is Catholic teaching itself which is felt in some obscure way to be responsible for the abuse, rather than human failure at the individual and institutional level, and other Christian denominations are beginning to wake up to the fact that this is a brush with which they too are ultimately tarred, since (C. S. Lewis again), most Catholic teaching is simply Christian doctrine.

Unfortunately, many of the theologies that have sought to describe the process of at - one - ment have been so complicated — sometimes so sub-Christian — in their assumptions that they have obscured rather than helped to explicate the truth of the matter.

For this reason the ancient writings often tend to obscure rather than to illuminate the religious dimensions of experience.

Theological and philosophical systems such as Hegel's run the risk of obscuring this crucial problem by making it seem an objective matter capable of a universal solution, rather than a subjective one that each person must confront.