Sentences with phrase «striking example»

The two most striking examples of how human life may be guided, so far as our tradition is concerned, are seen in Greek philosophy and the Christian religion.

Perhaps the most striking example of this comes not from recruiting, but from education.

By and large, history's most striking examples are from authoritarian regimes.

Revealing Pictures: Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection Works on view by Edmund Clark, Daniel and Geo Fuchs, Pieter Hugo, Liu Zheng, Zanele Muholi, Robert Polidori, and others serve as striking examples of photography's ability to explore issues of identity, place, and nationhood.

In one of the more striking examples of teardowns, a developer dismantled a $ 400,000 Hinsdale home and is replacing it with one that costs $ 1.3 million.

In one striking example from Afghanistan, introducing better wheat varieties alone reduced women's work burden, showing how the uptake of technology — whether seeds or machinery — can improve the quality of life.

Standing alone, surfboards can provide striking examples of functional design.

Jesus» preaching and counseling offer striking examples of creative confrontation.

A particularly striking example of geographic disagreement comes from Illinois's 17th district, she says, where during the 111th Congress (2009 - 2011) Democrat Phil Hare voted the same way as his neighbor from the 18th district, Republican Aaron Schock, 904 times, while he voted the same way as Mazie Hirono — who represented Hawaii's 2nd district — 1,566 times.

Striking example with outstanding restoration.

Although a fact stays a fact, the wordplay, over-exaggerating and visually striking examples brought as proofs of many travel bloggers often do not hold true and are simply attention seeking trials - and - fails.

Although a fact stays a fact, the wordplay, over-exaggerating and visually striking examples brought as proofs of many travel bloggers often do not hold true and are simply attention... View Post

Before you get too far into French drawing at the Morgan Library, you might stop to compare two striking examples on facing walls.

One of the most striking examples comes from Henry Taylor, a Los Angeles - based painter whose three paintings show a side of America that couldn't be farther removed from the institution's serene, monied surroundings.

For a rather striking example, in the month after the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, $ 50.1 million flowed out of environmental - focused funds.

The Turkish midfielder joined Milan last summer and is showing himself to be one of the better ways that they spent all that money, with this sublime strike an example of what he's capable of.

A recent striking example of this is Labour's poor showing in the 2017 local elections that was followed by a large increase in the popular vote in the general election, just over a month later.

They weren't finding that in insects, but in crustaceans we show a very striking example of this correlation.»

Its poorly written characters and abrupt transition in gameplay and style can be jarring, but overall it's a solid, incredibly striking example of the genre that uses its first person perspective to greater personalize the horror.

Hold your nerve and visit the ominous Palace of the Inquisition, a hauntingly striking example of late colonial architecture.

Striking examples by historic protagonists, Alma Thomas, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Lenore Tawney, Louise Bourgeois and Grace Hartigan set the stage for an exhibition designed to challenge and reshape the meaning of the word lady.

FA striking example of our dependence on pollinator services and the damage that can be inflicted on the agricultural economy without them can be seen in the decline of US honeybee populations beginning in late 2006 which became known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

Another, even more striking example of the gull chick principle is the idiosyncratic preference (demonstrated in the lab) that guppies show for potential mates that have been painted blue — even though in nature guppies are not blue.

One of the most striking examples of how graphics aids drug developers searching for small molecule drugs is the discovery of buckminsterfullerene as an HIV drug.

Observations unknown to Whitehead offer striking examples of the ability of some animals to enjoy sensuous contrasts and structures for their own sakes.

See my previous post about Heidi the German Shepherd for a particularly striking example of this phenomenon.

Works on view by Edmund Clark, Daniel and Geo Fuchs, Pieter Hugo, Liu Zheng, Zanele Muholi, Robert Polidori, and others serve as striking examples of photography's ability to explore issues of identity, place, and nationhood.

Striking examples on display will include photographs of performers such as Beatrix Lehmann, Berto Parsuka and Robert Helpmann by Angus McBean, who was jailed for his sexuality in 1942, alongside stage designs by Oliver Messel and Edward Burra.

One striking example came in Garcia v. Google, where an actor succeeded (for now) in taking down a controversial video by claiming copyright on her 5 - second performance; we're working to convince the courts just how dangerous this precedent could be.

Cyan Bloom is a visually striking example of the cutting - edge processes and materials Eden has employed in his recent practice.

Each summer, the National Center for Science Education organizes a boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to bring visitors face to wall - face with striking examples of geologic and evolutionary processes.

«We consider these accusations and speculations as striking examples of a reckless, provocative, and unfounded policy against Russia,» according to an email sent to Forbes from the Russian embassy in London.

The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.

The most striking example is tax reform, which struck a blow against blue - state Americans who tend to pay high state and local taxes, or SALT.

His experiments, writes Tim Harford, «are a modern classic in evolutionary biology, and a striking example of how a population adapts to a new problem.»

In his book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, author Daniel H. Pink writes that the crash of Wall Street is a striking example of the peril of motivating employees strictly with gobs of cash.

The most striking example of change occurred in October 1995, when a wrecking ball smashed into the walls of the old Timmins Daily Press office.

Perhaps the most striking example of a Wal - Mart success is Asda, which was Britain's No. 1 discount chain when Wal - Mart acquired it in 1999.

A striking example is Conservative Senator Hugh Segal, who has spoken out forcefully and passionately against Bill C - 377, a discriminatory, anti-union piece of legislation that would swamp unions (but not corporations and other organizations) with paperwork, and violate the privacy of nearly everyone doing business with them.

As a striking example, and noting the total B.C. Budget is approximately $ 50 billion per year, servicing B.C.'s debt using Ontario's credit rating (and resulting higher interest rates) would cost B.C.'s taxpayers an extra $ 2.3 billion every year.

C.S. Lewis's account of reading The Everlasting Man is a striking example.

It might go without saying that pairing «creativity» with «thinking outside the box» in a single sentence is a striking example of neither.

The betrayal, rape, murder and dismemberment of the concubine in Judges 19 is a striking example.

A striking example of the way in which the attitude toward evil has been influenced by the horror of recent events is found in a statement of Jean - Paul Sartre born out of the experience of the French underground:

In a striking example combining metaphor and humor, Koko made a joke about being a «sad elephant» because she was reduced to drinking water through a thick rubber straw as a solution to her constant nagging one morning for more drinks of juice (IULG 534).

The housing market crash, and the ripple effects from it, are a striking example of how a total lack of oversight can backfire if people making financial decisions are stupid... such as lending billions to individuals with a questionable ability to repay the amount granted.