Sentences with phrase «reciting facts»

Beyond merely reciting the facts of her subject's life, the author vividly explains what was happening in the country and explores what prompted Chisholm to run a serious race for the presidency in 1972 despite the strikes against her — her race and her sex.

Critics say it is a testobsessed bureaucracy that produces students who excel at reciting facts but not much else.

Adults have no interest in reciting facts.

As students, we learn by reciting facts.

Editors claim that on the set, Trump had trouble reciting facts and talked about how he'd like to «drill» female crew members.

Briefly, newspapers recite The facts about the fisherman Who for two months, day and night, Went out fishing for his son, His only child, aged 23, Who in a winter squall was drowned» Washed overboard and out to sea» And whose body was not found Till the hour his father's net,....

It even recites some facts about the continent.

The factors the Court took into account in making this determination are summarised below but first it is useful to briefly recite the facts of that case.

The C&D letter actually recites this fact on its main page (an image of which can be seen on the ThinkGeek page about this... episode):

He explained that «although the recited facts of Merritt appear to also contain similar evidence, apparently the [c] ommission did not rely on such evidence, and this court's holding in Merritt did not rely on such evidence.

The Court of Appeals carefully recited the facts from which it concluded that DiBona and Peruto represented both Sullivan and his codefendants.

Not exact matches

They said it was «questionable» whether the poem constituted slander, given the satirical context in which Boehmermann recited it and the fact that it wasn't intended to convey his own view of «personal traits of the Turkish president.»

For instance, you might know your scripture verses and be able to recite a creed or know the facts about doctrinal theology.

To recite areas of research in which an author is ignorant is surely no worse, perhaps less so, than to charge an author with knowledge of which she pretends but in fact does not possess.

As many people as possible are given the honor of an aliyah (reciting a blessing over the Torah reading); in fact, even children are called for an aliyah blessing on Simchat Torah.

In fact, every rabbi cited by my Jewish correspondents — from Rabbi Meir of the Mishnah, to Maimonides, to Rabbi Moses Cordevero — recited these blessings, which ask God to return most human beings to Him in wholehearted repentance, but also to «uproot, smash, cast down» the wantonly sinful.

I think we agree on the fact that it is by faith that all are saved i have no problem with that and its in that that there is unity.You find within any christian modern church law can be mixed with Grace that is not peculiar to any domination maybe it is more extreme in some.Where there are believers there are works of the flesh such as pride and self reliance.I was thinking today the word says if we believe in our hearts and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord then you shall be saved.Its not a hard doctrine to believe thats in its basic form.The seventh day have tacked on to that belief adherence to the sabbath that is sadly how denominations spring up.In the anglican church we still recite the apostles creed how many church still do that today as a basis for there faith in Jesus Christ.Your statement that some are saved is just as true to those who go to modern christian churchs who say they are christian but walk according to the flesh..

There is a difference between being able to recite verses and list Bible facts, and actually living or applying those verses and Bible facts to your life.

The most famous points regarding the Divine Office in the Society are its exemption from choir, which did not absolve individual Jesuits from our obligation to the Breviary, and Ignatius's personal dispensation from said obligation, which was granted in view of the fact that the flood of tears that ensued when Ignatius recited the Office was harming his eyesight.

The extraordinary mishmash of traditions and legends, including having Jesus recite the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, presented a peculiar problem to a National Council group, in view of the fact that the National Council held the copyright on the RSV «in order to preserve the purity of the text.»

As a former Catholic I can attest to the fact that reciting the rosary does put you in a meditative state as well.

Rather than claim a method of administering certain novel drug dosages, Prometheus chose to instead claim and assert a method that recited old steps and thinking about the FACT (law of nature).

But upon further reflection, I'm not sure how much of that reaction was due to the fact that I could still recite almost all of the film in my head (much of the dialogue is the same), that I will always love its songs (except for the new ones, which added nothing), and that Condon knows his way around a lavish musical.

So inevitable are these conclusions, in fact, that I just gave up and accepted the ending, which sidesteps a first - glance case of double jeopardy with such vague dialogue, recited in such a bland tone of sotto voce, that I only got the basic gist of how we got from Point A to Point B. With Point B such a shrug - worthy certainty, I wasn't nearly confused enough to care besides.

Characters range from a stripper who gets abused by her over-protective boyfriend that hits her as much as any guy who looks at her, to an autistic hitchhiker who constantly recites useless Top 10 facts while making perverse sexual conversation with the passengers.

I am the Chuck Norris fan that wears his shirts, recite his «facts» and respects the beard.

One of the founders still lives there; he's Carvin (Alan Alda), who has an acid - ravaged mind and recites the names of all nine of the commune's founders whenever he brings up the fact that the commune was founded by nine other people (It's often).

It's telling that for a toast, someone recites the last stanza of Matthew Arnold's «Dover Beach» * — telling not for the sentiment of steadfastness in the face of societal unkindness, but for the fact that the poem has already once received a revision (in 1922 as «The Dover Bitch» by Anthony Hecht) and clearly receives another in Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh's very personal hyphenate debut.

Last school year ~ I worked with one brilliant young lady ~ who could perform math and reading at three levels above her grade ~ recite hundreds of historical facts from memory ~ and trouble - shoot the teachers technology problems ~ but when you gave her a county - required essay prompt to hand - write ~ she would stand in the corner and cry.

The old - school model of passively learning facts and reciting them out of context is no longer sufficient to prepare students to survive in today's world.

A fun game to help children recite and remember Facts about space.

A bold new approach to learning was needed to prepare students for a contemporary job market that favored quick - thinking technical expertise over the ability to retain and recite rote facts and figures.

Despite the fact that students recited a daily pledge in which they promised to be models for their classmates and others, the 4th graders saw that few took this responsibility seriously.

To elicit the effort and energy needed for long - term retention, I have students try to memorize a set of five of their unmastered facts, reciting the prompt and the product together.

For many children coloring in the lines is just as important as counting to 10, counting to 100, reciting the alphabet, learning the multiplication facts, and so forth.

Moderator Charlotte Abbott led off by reciting a number of alarming facts about the paucity of women in executive positions, the gender and diversity gap, and other matters («On the bright...

If you want I will look up the law so you can recite it to them, if I were you I would write another letter a little more direct and with more facts.

We're huddled together, reciting Pokemon facts from our youth -LSB-...]

Hickman, clearly entirely credulous towards this information - seeking hero, recites the complaints against the think tank — generally limp and petty criticism which takes more liberties with the facts than they accuse the GWPF of.

Even the situation you describe is not necessarily simple (or at least the facts that you recite are not enough to determine that).

In fact, Roberts makes no mention of the court's holding until he recites the procedural history, and even then he abstains from taking potshots at the court's decision.

According to the facts as recited in the appellate opinion, the victim and his brother were skateboarding around the hilly Mammoth Lakes area while their family visited a condominium that was owned by a friend.

An agreement in open court as to the facts of the crime leading to the sentencing can not be overturned by showing a mere miscommunication about some facts between client and counsel, nor an oversight in reciting some additional facts.

According to the facts recited in the supreme court opinion, the plaintiff's mother was in good health when she moved into the home, but her condition dramatically worsened within six months of moving in.

The facts recited are taken as correct, and obviate the need for more evidence, unless the defence objects to them or contradicts them.

: Avoid first reciting all of the facts and then proceeding to conduct an issue - by - issue analysis.

If the facts recited by a federal court in its 148 - page order are correct, two Florida plaintiffs» law firms have given new meaning to the term frivolous filing.

13 No justice questioned this fact, or any of the other facts she recited based on extrarecord sources.

It does not simply involve reciting the law but identifying the important elements of the law, applying it to the facts and using lateral thinking to come up with solutions.

Before I impose sentence, I want to recite some of the facts as referred to in submissions here today and in the briefs as provided to the Court.