Sentences with phrase «real than events»

The deepseated assumption that substances in relative motion are more real than events continues to characterize most thinking in our time.

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The sale event for a block of 28 townhomes in an upscale part of Toronto recently drew more than 750 real estate agents; some were so eager to buy they offered more than the list price, neglecting the fact the units would be parcelled out through a lottery system.
A: I find attending smaller, more intimate events where you're having a real conversation with someone is better than going through a large network.
Today, she's called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she'd spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.
If the deficit is due to an economic recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth in real gross domestic product, or to «extraordinary events», such as a natural disaster or war, that results in an «cost» of more than $ 3 billion, then the operating budgets of departments and agencies would be automatically frozen to pay for any wage increases.
But despite all this, the important thing is that the real estate bubble would have developed in any event, simply because of the exponential financial dynamics at work and the increasing tax favoritism for real estate — taxing labor and industry rather than land rent.
Real breaking - news events happened only every so often, and people lost interest in them quickly; more quickly than ever, in fact, now that there was so much else to distract them.
Despite their high real yields, the premiums over face value would erode in the event of deflation (though the securities do not mature at less than par in any event).
There is more merit to the Biblical Flood being based on a real event, than this article's merit.
The real bone of contention for educated folk is the «miraculous» events, for which there obviously can be no proof other than being tehre to see them.
They tend to try to make the events in the real world fit their theories rather than studying those events with true open - mindedness.
It may be a mystery why He should have allowed us to cause real events at all, but it is no odder that He should allow us to cause them by praying than by any other method.
Such a distinction has real merit, but it does not answer the question as to whether there may not be other channels of «salvation» (in almost any sense that can be intelligibly specified) than that which stems from the historic events connected with Jesus of Nazareth.
More often than not, when Christianity is discussed either in a fictional setting or in relation to real events, it is in the context of an issue related to human sexuality.
Mark is interested in theology — a very elementary theology, but a real one — rather than in history; that is to say, a theological idea is more important to him than the actual course of events in the life of Jesus.
After these events are over: other than a memory, what is left that is of any real temporal value?
In contrast Greek thought puts the really real in a set of static forms, and processive physical events are less than real.
For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.
With investments in more than 200 companies across 15 countries, Tavistock Group's investment portfolio includes: life sciences, sports teams and sporting events, manufacturing and distribution, oil, gas and energy, financial services, restaurants, commercial properties, private luxury residential properties, resort properties and master - planned real estate developments.
Sonoma State University Wine Spectator Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with classrooms and outdoor space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...
Tiger Woods, at 41 - years - old, came off a 17 - month - competitive layoff from real events and got tossed into a Torrey Pines South Course that looked more like a U.S. Open setup than a regular tour stop.
Live, televised sporting events represent the last bastion of programming where a captive audience actually watches in real time, eyes glued to the screen, rather than via DVR where ads can be skipped over with the simple push of a button.
@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................
It's an event that will inspire and teach you and your children how to not only eat better, but enjoy real food rather than processed food.
Intensely distressing events can be more easily managed and lived through with support, enacted and resolved in play rather than real life.
This year's event drew roughly 1000 of us, many fresh off campaigns, and it was a true joy to get to learn from people who are applying online orgnizing principles in the Real World (i.e., we got to listen to actual practitioners rather than the usual loud voices that hog the stage at these things).
Also, note the Clinton video from a town hall discussion in Virginia — a good way to amplify a real - world event and reach far more people than could attend.
An economic study by HR&A Advisors, an economic, real estate and public policy consulting firm, estimates one UFC event at Madison Square Garden would generate more than $ 10 million in economic activity.
Even local government in England provides a greater opportunity to influence real events on the ground than does membership of the second Chamber at Westminster.
The city has seen larger - than - expected tax revenues in recent years, but Mr. de Blasio warned that it needs to stow away copious funds in the event of another recession — which he claimed struggling stock markets across the globe make a real possibility.
«Indeed, in the event of a now likely early election there is a real risk we would suffer a worse result than in 2015.
But consider the matter from the viewpoint of the J Alfred Prufrock MPs of the Tory backbenches — the real players in the present drama, since their lack of attachment to faction or viewpoint is more than compensated for by their relatively large numbers and, therefore, their decisive impact on internal events.
One real - estate professional who was at the event, voicing an opinion that is not atypical in the industry, said Liu is «nothing more than a union puppet,» and that de Blasio was «not as bad as Liu, but he comes from the same place.»
This makes it possible to follow cellular events in real time, and in more detail than is possible with each of the microscopes individually.
Of course, paintings and engravings depicting European colonists, wagons, soldiers and domestic animals may well be records of real events rather than ritual occasions.
We've all had the experience of repeating a dramatic story so many times that the events seem dead, as if they came from a novel rather than real life.
Williams sees a real danger the festival will become a local Canberra show rather than the national event that was envisaged.
This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.
Come out to this event and get a real feel for the size of our solar system as you walk the distance and get to see it in more tangible terms than ever before.
Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.
And it has a ripple effect: Where there is social media, or social - media - informed in - person events, there is ripe real estate for advertisers giving them arguably more sway than ever before.
Attracting a significantly higher clientele than other companies in the capital, our highly tuned, focused and organised events are the «real deal» with an even ratio of men to women, friendly and experienced hosts, a fantastic venue and the most important factor; a very high success rate of matches.
Rather than alluring to the obvious shocking facts and events affecting our planet and way of life, audiences actually see Al Gore for what he's really doing in real life «being the most influential person of his generation» inspiring others to take up arms in the fight for Climate and how the world's democracies are politically unwise when it comes to using the actual solutions.
I know that in real life people are more likely to be hanging out at the local Dariy Queen than having life - changing events, but it does not make for compelling drama.
By cleverly tying the film in with real world events, like the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in the 50s, the film feels a teensy bit more believable than any of the other Godzilla films, aside from maybe the original Gojira.
It's uncertain if the film even has a firm opinion of our sitting president, for with Sawyer's reductive preachings about a stereotypical black upbringing, and actions to end a «limitless war on terror» that plainly contradict current events, the movie is both a simplistic Obama insult and an aspirational Obama fantasy (and if you don't think it's channeling our real - life president, look no further than the Easter egg of Nicorette gum, which Sawyer keeps in his own nightstand).
An epigraph before the movie warns us not to take anything we're about to see too seriously — probably because, while Hughes was a real figure, the movie compresses various events of his life and inserts fictional characters, eventually taking on the cast of an old, fictional Hollywood narrative closer to Sunset Boulevard than a biopic.
The best thing about the film, though, is that even though it's all about real events and real people, it still feels like a very well - written piece of fiction — not to say it feels unrealistic, it's more to say that the characters are more developed and intriguing than in most biopics.
David O. Russell deploys his deranged genius to explore the real events behind Abscam, cleverly focussing on the inter-relationships rather than the details of the elaborate sting operation.
The scenes of this film have more impact than any other horror film since this is based on real events.
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