Sentences with phrase «standard idea of»

He knew he wanted to be an artist, but two attempts at art school ended in disaster: he seemed unable to conform to the standard idea of what an art student should care about.

The Nintendo Entertainment System hit American shores in 1985 and was the first to introduce the now standard idea of holding a controller with both hands and operating it with your thumbs.

For some time now, Virginia Quarterly Review's Jane Friedman has been trying to wean readers away from the standard idea of «The Book» as the inevitable goal.

They transcend that standard idea of on - screen romantic couple to a pure and natural level.

The idea was to use the standard idea of sex determined by sex chromosomes — XX for female and XY for males — and to ask what would happen if culture affected the different numbers of each being produced.

The standard idea of a baby crib continues to be the best option for most nurseries, but the innovations and new options are exciting and fun.

I love changing up the standard idea of dinner.

The standard ideas of the 1980s about the shape and history of the Universe have now been abandoned — and cosmologists are now taking seriously the possibility that the Universe is pervaded by some sort of vacuum energy, whose origin is not at all understood.»

It's also enabled a fairly typical tale of coming into manhood, tackling standard ideas of accepting responsibilities and one's place within the massive tapestry that is life, but one that is brimming with heart and good ideas.

Not exact matches

So the idea that colors such as yellow or purple are able to invoke some sort of hyper - specific emotion is about as accurate as your standard Tarot card reading.

Again, Zuckerberg has gestured to this idea, adopting «meaningful groups» as another of his new totem - phrases, and suggesting that the solution lies in Facebook's hosting a constellation of smaller overlapping social networks, each of which can set its own standards.

The first group of ideas that follows consists of refreshing variations on familiar - but - stale standard tactics, whereas some of the other ideas that follow may seem downright outlandish.

One would think that these proposals would make Schultz a natural standard bearer of the Very Important Liberal Ideas.

This kind of «hustle porn,» as Ohanian put it, often establishes an unhealthy standard for entrepreneurs to live by, reinforcing the idea that they need to sacrifice their health to be successful.

Poland also faces complaints from the EU executive that it is breaching standards which others see as fundamental to the idea of the European Union and defying the bloc's rules.

BMW and Bang & Olufson at least have the right idea in this regard — they've decided against having a touchscreen in the 750xi in favour of a centre - console instrument panel with standard buttons and a knob.

But if you have serious ambitions for growth, you need your team to not just deliver the work you give them to the standard you set, but to also take the initiative to come up with their own ideas and their own way of implementing things.

Write 10 ideas every day: This is one of my favorite (and standard) «creative» muscle workouts.

He was part of a New York City dinner circuit that includes people who believe the US should go back to the gold standard, rich people who don't think they should have to give back to society in the form of taxes, and anyone interested in either of those ideas who wanted to write a book about them.

Ethical standards are inherent to the very idea of doing business.

By today's standards, it's safe to say that none of these spaces was intentionally designed to increase innovation and creativity, yet somehow they became the perfect breeding ground for ideas that went on to change the world.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

LearnStorm came from the idea of we can create these great experiences online that are aligned with standards that are really good for students and they correlate with success metrics, but you need the the students to engage with them.

The idea of parity, that «we're no worse than the next guy» is being blown up by new entrants with new business models that aren't held to the same old standards and aren't doing business in the same old way.

«I'm a bit of a perfectionist, so when it came to submitting some ideas, I felt embarrassed — they weren't up to my standards.»

Rather I would argue that the current situation reinforces the idea that the standard operation of monetary policy should continue to be directed at the inflation target, but that it needs to be supplemented by other tools to address the ever - present threat of financial imbalances.

In those areas that we have mapped, it typically takes us a few hours to go from a mechanism - inspired idea for treating a disease to knowing the companies that might have relevant clinical and preclinical assets to license, the companies from whom a candidate could be commissioned, trial designs and endpoints, competing and complementary agents, current and future standard of care, market size, comparable pricing, financing strategy, and potential acquirers, all meant to enable a thoughtful first - pass assessment of whether an idea could be worth a much deeper assessment.

At the October trade show for NACS, the association for Advancing Convenience and Fuel Retailing, Hershey showed plenty of ideas for traditional displays, such as putting larger king - size bars next to standard bars.

Generally speaking, itemizing is a good idea if the value of your itemized expenses is more than the value of the standard deduction.

When your competitive research is complete, you should have plenty of new ideas about how to differentiate yourself, how to appeal to your target audience, and an appropriate balance of fitting into your industry standards.

FYI, Search Marketing Standard will soon be unveiling a new ebook that has 130 + content creation ideas — watch for an announcement on our blog and website in the next couple of weeks!

Our priority is to keep the standards of journalism high with innovative ideas and workforce.

If you look at the qualification standards above, you can get a good idea of your ability to qualify for financing.

As the leader of Canada's standardization network, SCC is working with Canadian companies, large and small, to help them get the most out of standards and to bring their innovative ideas and products to Canadians, and the world.

«In order to sustain a high standard of living, Canada will need to improve its ability to develop new ideas and successfully commercialize them,» said Mr. Nixon.

You can check out ratings from Moody's (which rates the riskiest entities as C and least - risky as Aaa), Standard & Poor's (D to AAA) or Fitch Ratings (also D to AAA) to get an idea of how reliable or risky an issuer is.

«With this, we're kicking around the idea of redoing those standards to assume a little more hiring risk and using the simulator before they get into a truck to improve on those areas,» he said.

and yes i am slightly valiantly inclined, but never the cause Violence and chaos are inherent in the universe, but those who attempt to uphold the idea of peace need to be of a higher standard.

The argument for no standards is an argument against the very idea of public decency.

«The idea (promoted by politicians of both the left and the right) that Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are falling from the middle class in great bunches, even trailing behind the living standard of their parents, is, in aggregate, complete rubbish.

I don't think I like the idea of the govt enforcing some kind of naming standard.

'' it was about what I thought to be true» While we obviously are world's apart on our perception of truth, I respect the idea that truth is your standard.

Hold the very idea of God to the highest standards.

he refuted the idea of a standard or «constant» morality.

As for the standard of interpersonal relationship you suggest, I would offer in reply the idea that if one is incapable of making one's meaning reasonably plain without taking the steps you recommend then perhaps one should either spend a good deal more time reflecting prior to committing one's words to print or, failing that, consider a full withdrawal from the grind of blogging.

Self - indulgence is the standard, and that is the reason most of the comments in this thread are scornful and dismissive of the idea of sexual purity, except for the times they are rabidly aggressive against it.

It was all standard fundamentalist fare, a set of ideas commonly known as Darbyite premillennialism (after an architect of the scheme, John Nelson Darby, a 19th - century British Plymouth Brethren preacher.)

It seems that maybe what John, Peter, James, and Jude did was go to a professionally trained letter writer and provided them with the basic ideas, arguments, and points they wanted to make in their letter, and then let the professional letter writer compose the letter according to the letter writing standards of that day.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

It follows that if evil is nonetheless real, then atheism» i.e., the idea of the nonexistence of that evaluator or standard of evaluation» is not only an extraordinarily unappetizing prospect, it is also fundamentally untrue.