Sentences with phrase «sport analogies»

That essay uses a crappy sports analogy to deny that there is a greenhouse effect.

In our introduction, Ben and I note that Swedroe likes to use sports analogies when he discusses investing.

Being fond of sports analogies as I am, I compared that reasoning to a football coach who precisely evaluates and rates his players» performance, but does nothing more.

A better sports analogy — Basile has been sitting on the bench for years, waiting for the coach to put him in the game.

Don't get carried away with sports analogies.

Yet Kluck's chapters ¯ which share touching stories, make numerous sports analogies, and reinstate stale clichés ¯ destabilize the book because they often get tripped up on some of the same trappings that are in the emergent church.

For one, the infernal sports analogies when addressing fathers.

«No matter what sports analogy you use, it is clear that momentum is on Wilson's side,» Greenberg said.

It wasn't a slam - dunk, or a knock - out blow, or any other definitive sporting analogy.

So with the experience of a past sports analogy movie under his belt, Coraci did a great job with this one.

By likening his job to that of a home plate umpire who has little discretion to «interpret» pitches, Roberts was painting the law as something that is «objective» and «non-partisan» and not, to momentarily switch sports analogies, a «political football.»

Does the judge tend to frequently cite Latin legal maxims, or even sports analogies?

Having spent nearly two decades in the sports media business as a full - time sports anchor and reporter for Fox Sports, A-Channel News and CTV News Vancouver, it's no surprise I relied on a basic sports analogy to get me through the early phases of entrepreneurship.

I love a good sports analogy, so I was thrilled to see Frank Houdek's article in the July 2010 issue of the AALL Spectrum, «Introducing the AALL Hall of Fame.»

Mike Scala, a Democratic candidate for NY's 5th CD discusses primary elections; makes numerous sports analogies.

I believe, in my limited knowledge of sports analogies, they call this taking one for the team.

Think of it as sports analogy, suggests Bauerlein.

Chief executives who are (or who once were) athletes like to use sports analogies.

I think that'll do it for my sports analogies for one day.

Back to our sports analogy: not only am I to invoke the very best for those who are pursuing me in order to take me out of the game, I am with equal tenacity to pursue them with love.

Still reading it, but I agree 100 % about the sports analogies.

But doesn't the sporting analogy truly highlight the paradox of the left's infatuation with political integration in Europe?

To continue the sports analogy, a primary determines whom each team puts in the game.

Using a sports analogy to rubbish the NPP's criticism, he said, «often times when you listen to spectators, you will be under the impression they are better than the players themselves.

When I meet the 48 - year - old Greg van der Vink — known as GVDV among colleagues — at a June meeting of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), a consortium of universities and research bodies, I ask for a sports analogy to explain EarthScope.

The first time van der Vink testified before Congress — in the mid-1980s as a congressional fellow fresh out of graduate school — a senator advised him to use a sports analogy to explain everything in three minutes or less, the idea being that that is about the amount of time you have to make your case.

Now a sports analogy is part of the final exam for his Princeton students.

When he finally complies with my request for a sports analogy describing EarthScope, funding and management challenges are not part of his description.

LOS ANGELES — In describing just how much of a powerhouse the group of six scientists leading Sean Parker's new $ 250 million cancer effort represents, Otis Brawley has to resort to a sports analogy.

As unexpected as her techie role models are her sports analogies.

The sports analogy is impossible to miss, but the young man proves he may be a bit more hard - headed than first thought.

The results: Male teachers tend to use sports analogies, such as «Standardized tests are the Super Bowl of knowledge.»

If you are a leader and do not feel proud of your team - if you are not grabbing the pom - poms and getting people fired up about the great things they are making happen - then I believe you need (pardon the sports analogy) to take a little «time out» and think long and hard about your present situation.

I use a sports analogy: The long jump is about improving — are you doing better this year than last year?

When explaining this to primary students I use a sporting analogy, e.g..

Think of it on the sports analogy.

[25] To take a sports analogy, suppose that we had very precise estimates of the performance of ten baseball players, but that every player was almost equally effective and therefore had almost identical batting averages.

If you will forgive a sports analogy — drawn from basketball, in honor of our Hoopster - in - Chief, Arne Duncan — consider the players from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who've entered the National Basketball Association over the past three decades.

Consider a sports analogy.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are v

Misquoting a sports analogy, Scarlet unwittinglyinspires the first serial killer San Franciscohas seen in some forty years.

As for your sports analogy, it's pretty dumb caring about somebody you never met just because they throw a ball well.

He prefers to use a sporting analogy: «Artists train themselves in the same way as athletes do.

But you can feel the age and — sorry for this, but sports analogies are required when you talk about lists — there's not much depth on the bench.