Sentences with phrase «serve as a weakness»

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It speaks not only to Trump's limitations as a chief executive but also to Kelly's weaknesses as the «grown - up» chief of staff who's supposed to serve as the president's backstop.

Gold performed as expected during the quarter, serving as a safe haven and delivering positive returns, while the price of oil surged more than 5 percent on U.S. dollar weakness and news that OPEC and Russia could be cooperating to limit output for a long period.

So one of the casualties of easing credit fears is likely to be weakness in the U.S. dollar, and a concurrent strengthening in commodities - particularly precious metals, which serve as a currency substitute.

Gold performed as expected during the quarter, serving as a safe haven and delivering positive returns, while the price of oil surged more than 5 % on U.S. dollar weakness and news that OPEC and Russia could be cooperating to limit output for a long period.

As such, it has all the power of a human drama, where the weakness and vulnerability of Christ do not compromise his divinity, but serve rather to accentuate the staggering generosity of his self - sacrifice.

But if the Catholic Enlightenment» is really to serve as a guide for today, its weaknesses and failures, as well as its successes, will need to be honestly assessed.

You can make them larger in size and serve them as a main course or they are fantastic as finger food (I can never resist the opportunity to turn things into cute bite sized versions, it's a weakness).

As such, this metric serves as a good starting point in that it provides insight into player's effectiveness in a broad sense as well some of their strengths and weaknesses when broken down into its composite elementAs such, this metric serves as a good starting point in that it provides insight into player's effectiveness in a broad sense as well some of their strengths and weaknesses when broken down into its composite elementas a good starting point in that it provides insight into player's effectiveness in a broad sense as well some of their strengths and weaknesses when broken down into its composite elementas well some of their strengths and weaknesses when broken down into its composite elements.

As Labour MPs scratched their heads and tried to work out what their leader was talking about, the retort served to underline Corbyn's biggest weakness in the PMQs arena.

Advances in artificial intelligence will soon allow robots to serve as teachers and assistants in all grade levels by allowing them to learn different students» strengths and weaknesses and respond in a personalized way.

However, this broad tone does serve as both a strength and a weakness.

For those creating the work, the critic can also serve as a constructive voice that points to a filmmaker's strengths while noting their weaknesses or areas needing improvement.

In the face of these powerful forces, MI theory has served as a reminder to educators to focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the individual child and has also offered conceptual support for educators seeking to prevent individual students from being stigmatized by a low score on one of these standardized tests.

Therefore, after selecting teachers with the appropriate background content and pedagogical content knowledge and skills (addressing weaknesses as necessary), experienced practitioners noted that a preparation program for teacher leaders should develop and strengthen their abilities to serve as leaders.

It can mean serving as a mentor for a teacher who has a weakness in an area that is your strength.

Mr Laws said that when he served as education minister in the coalition government there had been internal data showing weaknesses in academy trusts, but there had been a reluctance to publish such information when ministers were promoting academy expansion.

Research suggests that among both types of schools, a combination of outside - of - school factors, schools» resources and structures, and laws that govern their operation, transparency, and responsiveness to the communities they serve are key factors in their strength or weakness, and not their status as charter versus other.

Teacher education faculty members serve as the teachers for these activities and are then able to discuss the affordances technology can provide within the activities, the strengths and weaknesses of the activities from a pedagogical standpoint, and potential issues with implementing these activities in more authentic settings.

These assessments can be used as interim assessments, but they provide a large amount of data about students» strengths and weaknesses and, therefore, serve a formative purpose as well.

The ability of the heart to serve as a pump is diminished, and clinical signs of DCM occur secondary to either decreased delivery of oxygenated blood to the body (lethargy, weakness, weight loss, collapse), or to congestion of blood in the lungs (coughing, increased respiratory rate and / or effort, abdominal distention) or both.

This served as a great training exercise for learning the strengths and weakness of different characters while experimenting with different arm combinations and exploring how they synergize.

But for the artists themselves — for Ingres, Delacroix and Courbet — each of these styles was justified by ideal ends that they served, whether of order, liberty or truth; and when we look back now to the nineteenth century, the astonishing variety of its styles, the many conflicting movements and reactions, and the great number of distinct personalities, appear to us less as signs of weakness in the culture than as examples of freedom, individuality and sincerity of expression.

To the credit of the New York Times, Associated Press and Washington Post — reliable outlets for promoting global warming alarmism, protecting those who craft it and marginalizing those who point out its weaknesses and excesses — they all ran stories in the past 48 hours addressing the documents somehow obtained from the computers of a UK university serving as the warming movement and industry's Mother Ship.

Apple's seeming admission to having these backdoors, however legitimate a use they serve Apple, unfortunately have opened up some serious privacy weaknesses as well.

This involves having a genuine desire to serve others, an emphasis on values and purpose, a sense of responsibility for long - term consequences and knowledge of both the strengths and weaknesses of being regarded as a professional.