Sentences with phrase «sense out of the efforts»

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Thus did Origen, for example, speak of theologia as the effort of the individual to «make sense» out of Scripture but he immediately asserted the tentative nature of any such interpretational In Gregory of Nazianzus the element of indirectness, of being one step removed from the original data, is identified with the word theologia and Pseudo-Dionysius employed it as a synonym for mysticisms

Maybe I'm too cynical, but the best sense I can make of the administrations decisions requires me to presuppose the predominance of (1) dreamy human rights internationalism, and (2) cynical efforts to keep the Middle East out of domestic politics by doing whatever it takes to kick the various cans down the road.

Even reconstruction efforts, when handled by the IMF / WB, wind up being subcontracted to (mostly) American businesses, cutting out the locals not only from wages but also from any sense of control over teh reconstructions of their devasted nations.

When various forms of idolatry became part of their effort to influence the world, they were merely trying to tie all things together, to make sense out of a world that often proved hostile to human feelings.

Somehow we sense that the complexity of a great work of art could easily have gotten out of control and undermined any efforts toward harmonizing its many facets into an intense unity.

In a larger sense, however, Berry's work must be counted a failure, As in the effort to get Americans to protect the climate, small victories have been overwhelmed by crushing losses, As Berry points out in the opening essay, America now has half the number of farms it had in 1977.

I am referring to the fact that the fervent effort to please the powers we rely on for our sense of self - esteem may cause us to deny those aspects of our existence that seem to conflict with the conditions of worth held out to us by family, school, fraternity, sorority, church, government, place of employment, etc..

Everything we had at Hartwood was unusual in the best sense of the word, and totally worth the splurge, and extra effort in planning and booking, and driving there, but this chocolate mousse somehow stood out.

The man - on - the - street interviews were the most effective part of the spot, but the Cuomo attack comes out of nowhere, and doesn't really make sense in a two - minute video — and makes the whole effort feel extremely, well, political.

Mr. Koch scoffed at that contention, saying that some lawmakers were merely suggesting alternatives that «make no sense» in an effort to squirm out of the pledge.

«This effort makes sense for the City of Syracuse and the entire state, enabling more than 800,000 New Yorkers to come out of the shadows and have legal, safe access to drivers licenses,» Miner said in a press release.

Brannan has not been shy about his efforts to lose weight, and has a sense of humor about it, imploring people to smack bagels out of his hand in his New Year's resolution — but was not a fan of Golden's joke, he said.

Sensing an effort by the hardliners, supporters of President Rouhani who back his promises to steer the country toward moderation came out in big numbers too.

«This legislation will help refocus our priorities in this important moment where they should be — common sense efforts to keep guns out of schools and out of dangerous hands.»

In the State Senate, she'll stand up to Republican efforts to repeal the Safe Act, and she'll break through Republican roadblocks for common sense legislation to ban deadly bump stocks, or keep guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals and children.

Matt Hansen, a remote sensing scientist with the University of Maryland who was a major contributor to WRI's analysis, said that while efforts to stop forest clearing may be helping, some parts of Indonesia may be «simply running out of forest.»

But that sense of relief is tinged with anticipation: So much data takes time to process, and the team must wait months to find out if their massive effort was truly a success.

It's best if you have a trainer to help you out in this effort until you are able to regain your sense of what normal levels of exercise feel like.

If it's sometimes too taken with its own sense of wacky, it surely deserves kudos for putting out the effort at all.

The film's world - building is more engaging than its plotting, which skews toward the generic as the embattled good guys set out on their last - ditch effort to save what remains of humanity; there's a sense, while watching Blame!

Being based on a movie property, it could be tough to license and offer it for free to subscribers of such platform, and it wouldn't make great sense to use it just out of nowhere without promoting any correlated cinematographic effort.

The portrayal of the Muslim terrorists is frightening and intense (the effort from Aymen Saidi as the terrorist leader is so filled with anger that it's painfully good), despite conveying a sense of insanity that seems circumspect, and the Algerian government is painted as dumbly trying to endanger French citizens as long as they possibly can, with only the French seeming to come out in a good light, when the assault on the plane saves the day.

His travels give him some insight into disease rapidly sweeping around the world, but none of his efforts come without their fair share of perils and everywhere he goes a pervading sense of hopelessness seems to win out.

By comparison, Diana's efforts to stop the Great War provide a sense of hope not present in films like Man of Steel or Batman v Superman, while also taking the superhero genre out of an urban environment and contrasting Diana's supernatural powers against early 20th century firepower and chemical weapons.

Applying sound business analysis to your thought process — in combination with statistical principles — can help you make sense of the data and tease out which approach maximizes your efforts.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

Without imparting on our students a sense of their civic duties, and the knowledge required to carry them out, I worry that all our education reform efforts will be for naught.

Today our schools are driven by data, and we need to somehow make sense of it all - especially when trying to figure out how school culture can influence decisions as diverse as instructional strategies, anti-bullying efforts, or even how to get parents more involved.

To me, this SVT truck makes a lot more sense, because it focuses engineering effort on trucky stuff, instead of trying to make a sports car out of a truck.

The biggest cheerleaders of this theory often throw out the idea that if you had 100 monkeys throwing darts at a list of stock tickers, you might observe that 9 or 10 of them beat the market but ascribing any skill to their efforts would not make a lot of sense.

Laura Jordan had her work cut out for her in convincing a Connecticut community to participate in her effort to spay and neuter feral cats, having to overcome suspicion of her motives, educate property owners, and show that her methods made sense.

Finally making your move brings an immense sense of satisfaction; it wasn't the game guiding you through some scripted sequence where failure is nigh on impossible, it was you carefully plotting an escape, gathering the tools needed, figuring out how to hide contraband and timing your every effort.

A motif of having two sides sticking out of the varied machines has been added to each of the machines in an effort to uphold a sense of balance while racing, with only slight variations depending on whether its a fighter class, speed class, etc..

Beside the angry sloganeering that has thus far characterized efforts to deal with the issue in galleries, Rethinking Histories stands out like a beacon of common sense.

His exuberant improvisatory canvases had a ruthlessness, as he painted out passages of paint other artists would have killed to have created, in pursuit of a visceral anti-perfection, a sense of mystery and ritual that made the efforts of his British peers look positively effete in comparison.

But in conversations with some Japanese diplomats who sought me out after reading my posts on the film, there was a clear sense that the Japanese government was trying to gauge American views on its whaling efforts, perhaps recognizing that its ongoing investment in, and aggressive defense of, whale hunts was creating a significant branding problem, at the very least.

Although it makes sense that people would want to hide their negative emotions in an effort to maintain closeness and / or avoid conflict, suppression may actually be counter-productive and actually cancel out the benefits of the sacrifice.

This e-book focuses on salivary cortisol in relation to the following topics: psychosocial work environment (effort reward imbalance and job demand vs control model), psychosocial resources (mastery, perceived control, sense of coherence), psychosocial risk factors (perceived stress, depression, vital exhaustion, burn - out), sleep quality, biological markers (bodily factors, cardiovascular risk factors, inflammation and metabolism) and somatic outcome.

NAR is offering this fact sheet and suggested guidelines as part of an industry - wide effort to educate real estate professionals on the dangers of money laundering, common sense tips to be on the look - out for money laundering transactions and what steps to take if you become suspicious or if you are asked to handle certain combinations of cash and cash instruments.