Sentences with phrase «shocked by their ideas»

I knew that I wouldn't use an Opiate or a Caine derived drug BEFORE I was pregnant, so it confused me as to why people would be so shocked by the idea of NOT using controlled substances when there was a baby inside me.

so it confused me as to why people would be so shocked by the idea of NOT using controlled substances when there was a baby inside me.

«Why was the Labour party, the media, the wider electorate, not shocked by the idea that individuals with no connection to a party being given a chance to elect its leader?

Scientists and philosophers should be shocked by the idea of post-truth, and they should speak up when scientific findings are ignored by those in power or treated as mere matters of faith.

Many times I am surprised or even shocked by their ideas on dating and views about foreign men.

«I think some people are a bit shocked by the idea of me getting blood and feathers and stuff under my fingernails,» Morgan says.

So you weren't shocked by the idea that 42 % of the sea - level rise of the past decades is due to groundwater pumping for irrigation purposes?

Not exact matches

A decorated Harvard economics instructor, a former White House policy adviser, and the author of bestsellers like Market Shock and New Ideas from Dead Economists, Buchholz found himself surrounded by people he deemed to be seeking tawdry material gain at the expense of real quality of life.

But if you simply implement a strategic plan for idea generation, you'll be shocked by how many relevant, compelling and powerful writing topics you can conjure up.

I didn't realize how much his theology and ideas impacted me until recently when I pulled out some old CDs that I listened to twenty years ago, and was shocked by what I heard.

It was only obvious to me because I have read most of the books by Author B and was shocked to see so many of his ideas and insights being written about as if they belonged to Author A.

The idea that this planted in my mind was the realization, which came as something of a shock, that not all the supreme values pursued by mankind now and in the past were necessarily compatible with one another.

I am ** NOT ** trying to be shocking or coarse here but to just make an intellectual point by using such language: The idea or concept of erect penises, throbbing clitorises, moist vaginas, explosive orgasms, the lust / desire / craving for physical / sexual pleasure and more....

While I personally may not agree with the idea that BMI is an adequate indicator of diet or health, I was actually shocked and sickened by the comments on the article.

When she announced she was expecting her first baby with Kanye West, we had no idea what to expect from the baby name, and she shocked the world by naming her daughter North West.

As a doula, I am always shocked at how many families I support have no idea that breast pumps are almost always 100 % covered by their insurance plan.

This was Michael's link to his LabourList piece, arguing that «Now of course, we all know the background behind the idea: the shocking levels of inequality, the people struggling to get by, working huge numbers of hours, living in a heavily taxed world, and trying to do it all on a terribly low wage.

The ad hits it perfectly... an idea most people support that makes huge ecomonic sense is being stopped by big money and entrenched political interests... what a shock!!!

The ideas being drawn up by the Tories are likely to come as a shock to some Lib Dems who still hope that the bulk of Clegg's plans will be put to the House of Commons in the autumn.

With this context, the new study tested an approach based on the idea that if prostate cancer cells were flooded with testosterone, the cells might be killed by the hormone shock.

The idea that you could ask something so deep just by making this measurement — I was shocked that people weren't tripping over themselves to do it.

This isn't a call to abolish all tried - and - true techniques and switch to «shocking» your muscles with something completely new every week — which is a terrible idea by the way — it's a reminder that in order to resume growing your biceps, you need to hit their muscle fibers, which are predominantly of the fast - twitch type, with more intensity.

Now here's the greatest idea ever invented in bodybuilding: shock your body by combining two or three exercises that work the same muscle group and performing them back to beck with minimal rest in - between.

Anyway, my partner and his whole family has always been having high blood pressure issue, and his father and his uncle died fairly young because of a heart attack, he has been on a vegan diet for almost a year now, his blood pressure is back to normal, from 150/100 to 115/70, he was so shocked by that as he didn't take any medication at all, that reinforce the idea that he should stick with his diet.

I was shocked by the fundamental distortion of my ideas in the review of my book, The Global Achievement Gap (book alert, Winter 2009).

I must confess that I don't read nearly as many books as I used to BC (Before Computers) and BK (Before Kids), but I have been stealing precious moments to savor the ideas and perspectives in Present Shock, the new book by Douglas Rushkoff.

The idea is when it hits cherry red it expands the bolt, then by hitting it with beeswax (or PB), you are shocking the bolt and flange to separate.

If visual inspections are not done with your oil change, it's a good idea to have an annual inspection of the suspension system by a Certified Service expert technician to see if replacement shocks and struts are needed.

They seem shocking because we all are affected by the psychology of a mad bull, even those of us who like to entertain the idea that we are above that sort of thing.

But as indicated in the Blackwell's study, the primary problem is that most dog owners are unaware of the strength of these dog shock collars, and have no idea the pain a certain level of shock may deliver to the dog, or by how much they are increasing the strength when turning it up and what the delivered shock actually does to the dog (10).

I have heard about these «no - bark» collars before, and as before, I am shocked and appalled by the very idea that anyone would choose to do this to their beloved animals.

«The original system shock was full of normative game ideas, but it terms of its graphics it was very much limited by the computing power of the time,» says Simon.

Secret of Mana has a lot of good ideas that are neutered by the shocking abundance of technical issues and bugs that...

Future Shock will be accompanied by a 144 - page full - color catalogue documenting the works in the exhibition and the legacy of the ideas of Toffler's vision of the future.

President Obama was right when he campaigned on the idea that the country has to abandon its «shock to trance» approach to energy policy and investment if it ever hopes to cut the addiction to oil pointed out by his predecessor, not to mention the persistent allure of coal («clean» or otherwise).

I am shocked by the reality of where we are and what we are faced with: global warming, climate change, poverty... The articles show us different perspectives, even divergent views, which promote us to come up with our own ideas about the meaning and vision of sustainability... It's time for us to take responsibility on our shoulders... We can make a big difference together.»

I was (and still am) shocked by the unscientific attitude of climate scientists like those from CRU and PennU and the idea of consensus science.

That shock will be felt most especially by the world's climate alarmist Establishment, whose scientists and learned institutions have staked their reputation on the idea that CO2, not solar activity, is the prime driver of climate and that the planet is on a warming trend not a cooling one.

There are a few clues that maybe CO2 doesn't idle the centuries away aloft, and that (I know you'll be shocked) the Climate Commission (and IPCC) have overstated things: If emissions are absorbed by the global system in a matter of months, it rather blows the idea that we have to act decades ahead to stop the catastrophe.

Given the level of systematic abuse coral reefs have sustained over the last few decades, helping to rehabilitate them by administering - in essence - a form of shock treatment hardly seems like a good idea.

He was both shocked and horrified by the idea.

By the way, I had a false assumption about it, too, it was a shocking experience for me to find out that some people inside the Ethereum Foundation actually support the idea of intervention.

You might not say exactly that, but a lot of advice on the web nowadays leads people to take some sort of a shock - and - awe strategy in job interviews by encouraging them to throw out radical business ideas at their interviewer.