Sentences with phrase «sort of attempted»

Yet rather than welcome or even just tactfully ignore the announcement, Jeremy Corbyn's opponents have decided to spend their time mocking it as some sort of attempted mass - indoctrination programme.

If we're indeed a simulation, then that would be a logical possibility, that what we're measuring aren't really the laws of nature, they're some sort of attempt at some sort of artificial law that the simulators have come up with.

I've read books about the Bible that were sort of attempts to explain it, but they can't say certain things because you realize the author might lose his or her job, so it ends up avoiding all the real questions everybody has.

How can they when their religions mandate they make some sort of attempt to convert others.

I obviously talk about numbers a lot, but they aren't what made me a college football fan, and my obsession with them has not been some sort of attempt to beat the game or pound others over the head with them.

I now fully expect Wenger, to rejuvenate the troops and push on with some sort of attempt to have a good season.

«We believe that we can defend against any sort of attempts to access these documents that are a fishing expedition,» Nisha Agarwal, the mayor's Immigrant Affairs Commissioner, said at the bill - signing ceremony outside the Brooklyn Public Library's main branch.

«It was simply a thought experiment to compare two talented figures in the party and not any sort of attempt to predict future contests,» the source said.

«If we're indeed a simulation, then that would be a logical possibility, that what we're measuring aren't really the laws of nature, they're some sort of attempt at some sort of artificial law that the simulators have come up with.

While these sorts of attempts may bring about temporary weight loss (with plenty of suffering), the weight is quickly recovered as well as your body is more nutritionally deficient than ever before.

Yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds and only looks more so whenever MacFarlane actually makes some sort of attempt to play straight this ludicrous premise.

In these instances friendly - fire is turned on but I never found that anyone made any sort of attempt to pick a fight.

A project which seems to be going above and beyond expectations, the Ura Zelda Restoration Project is sort of an attempt to remake Ura Zelda, the original Ocarina of Time sequel planned for the Nintendo 64DD.

«If you look at the way the ruling elites operate, it's part of a sort of attempt to cover their bases culturally.

Gavin's use of the phrase «tacit knowledge» seems to have caused confusion among some readers, who see it as some sort of attempt to push a specific scientific view.

Many believe that any sort of attempt at long distance sex — be it by way of sexting, exchanging photos, erotic storytelling, or even Skype sex — lacks the intimacy of a true romantic encounter.

Not exact matches

You probably wouldn't guess it, but the people behind some of your favorite movies and TV shows — even some of the ones that seem the least tied to reality — might have consulted a scientist in an attempt to keep things (sort of) realistic.

Healthy communication is essential to making long - distance relationships work, so make sure that you're at least attempting to form some sort of plan.

Given how manipulated the data and the economy is these days, I find it impossibly frustrating to attempt any sort of rational analysis of trends and investment.

Put it all together, and today's big jump is sort - of a «whisper» move, where investors are attempting to get ahead of the potential growth that broad adoption of this engine could mean for Clean Energy Fuels.

This is the sort of sight greeting engineers as they attempt to restore power to some of the thousands of homes cut off by Storm Katie.

This leaves both sides time to attempt to reconcile their differences and reach some sort of agreement.

An issuer selling tokens in an ICO to Canadians would certainly have its work cut out for it in attempting to argue it was in fact selling utilities, commodities or licenses to use some sort of yet - to - be developed platform.

It occurs to me that, despite the unprecedented flood of writings of all sorts — books, blog - posts, newspaper op - eds, and academic journal articles — addressing just about every monetary policy development during and since the 2008 financial crisis, relatively few attempts have been made to step back...

Some brokers have attempted to overcome this problem by having «sponsored» traders of some sort.

Those are attempt to create a sort of certainty.

This is a bullshit attempt at some sort of «intellectual honesty».

When cultural trends attempt to render science a sort of religion-less clericalism, scientists are apt to forget that they are made of the same crooked timber as the rest of humanity and will necessarily imperil the work that they do.

Beyond that is the attempt to make American Atheists into some sort of major organization that represents some meaningful number of atheists, and thus be able to use it as a conduit to attack atheists.

Instead of letting a person attempt to shed his or her beliefs, You are demonstrating «All Negative Behaviors» that a book that just so happens to be called, «Bible», and was noted so many hundreds of thousands of years, Tells us, «the believers», That people of your sort would be here to «Dictate» other wise!!

It was probably via a midnight rabbit trail sort of web surfing and I probably saw something I like and then in my attempt to not forget about it yet still fall asleep at a reasonable hour I signed up, signed off, and went to bed.

Attempting to cast himself as the next in that line, he enters the auditorium for each performance from the back, milking the applause like a boxer entering a ring; shaking hands as he goes; a sort of nightly triumphal entry.

The most painful part of the process, though, was when friends and well - meaning mentors dismissed my questions as silly, or, even worse, questioned whether my doubt was nothing more than an attempt to justify some sort of secret sin in my life, usually pride.

When first proposed, conceptual reversion was absolutely necessary, because Whitehead was then probably attempting to explain the emergence of subjective aim from the occasion itself, and some sort of explanation had to be given for its novelty.

He said: «If more Christians... were more active in making sure they did write to people like Boots, but also any other group that is attempting to expand the use of this sort of drugs, they would have an effect as well.»

That is to say, any attempt to cover - up something about the situation would have seemed sort of irrelevant to me since I never really saw the success or failure of the emerging movement as particularly hinging on people like Tony in the first place.

Within an hour I was lambasted for my questioning and was told that I was attempting to «be cute» and was stirring up unnecessary controversy in a format not appropriate for that sort of thing.

My analogy was attempting to suggest an incommensurate gap between rational logical positivism (on the one hand) and the kind beyond literal and metaphorical thinking that aims at representing — well, religious faith, for sure, and all sorts of varied artistic representing.

It is this privilege that should make us wary of any attempt to reduce faith to a rigmarole of judgments and explanations, or to any sort of familiar talk about God.

The theology books generally attempt to answer these sorts of questions.

A very different sort of pastoral counsel is needed, however, for those who have repeatedly made earnest attempts but never achieved their fondest goals.

Today attempts to arrive at the text of the New Testament center on three sorts of materials: ancient Greek manuscripts, ancient versions in languages other than Greek (e.g., Latin, Syriac and Coptic), and early quotations said to come from the New Testament.

The point I was attempting to make with Michael is that his claims of some sort of visual (substantive) evidence for his particular brand of faith is baseless.

It is true, one must concede, that Hamann eschewed systematic expositions of theory to the end; he never abandoned pseudonymy or indirection, never attempted to bring the passion of faith within the securer enclosure of any sort of psychological science or speculative regimen, and never condescended to the soberer disciplines of «direct communication.»

When our attempts to mature as Christians run into obsessive guilt and shameful or angry impatience with ourselves, we need to sort out the way God wants to deal with us from the way we are dealing with ourselves out of our psychic history.

I sir have made no attempt to do anything of the sort.

He became a Congregationalist «in an attempt to raise, with my Unitarian wife, four children in some sort of Christian context,» and moved to Episcopalianism, «in accord with my present wife,» but one suspects that these compromises fit his own spiritual needs as well.

Using the definition of «religion» that some theists appear to be using in their desperate attempt to equate atheism with religion, one could call all sorts of things a «religion» — like Capitalism for example.

As far as I'm concerned, Obama takes the best of the Bible to apply it to his thinking on public policy and leaves the worst of it for you «born again» people to sort through with your various attempts to control everyone and keep all the poor people poor.

This was to be an edifying discourse of the sort proposed by Richard Rorty, in which we joined with other researchers and educators in an attempt to make sense of the multidimensional aspects of human experience.