Sentences with phrase «struck by the fact»

The post lists 10 easy activities you can engage in to increase your happiness and, reading it, you're struck by the fact that some of the ideas are so simple you could do them right now while sitting at your desk.

«But I'm just struck by the fact that critical reviews may not be as critical as the market, and the evidence of that is the commercial success of «Bright,» at least according to the company, versus the fact that it got relatively low ratings from the critics.»

As I watched little people tackle the challenges presented to them with pure enthusiasm and creativity, I was struck by the fact that children are natural engineers.

«As tragic as these events are, I'm struck by the fact our God has gone before and prepared a safe place for these people,» she said.

When we read the synoptic gospels, we are struck by the fact that Jesus was always followed by large crowds of people.

In thinking about my parents I am struck by the fact that they did not talk in clichés.

Miller and Docherty, who are currently on a 10 - week placement at the re-settlement project, said they were struck by the fact that limitations in funding mean that staff have to raise money themselves to send service users on short respite breaks to a cottage near Pitlochry.

I was struck by the fact that new clergy within new paradigm churches are almost always first identified within the ranks of active laypeople within the congregation.

They aren't struck by the fact that Harvard employs no «symbologists» like Langdon and that no such discipline exists.

It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck by the fact that, in any other area of medicine, ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).

Weber was struck by the fact that the Protestant reformation seemed to give rise to a series of motivations which acted as catalysts in the rise of capitalism.

When I see televangelists and religious right leaders charging against oh so many issues (including homosexuality) I'm struck by the fact that they can't see past their own fear.

On a day when we remember the work of Martin Luther King Jr, we are struck by the fact that we have reelected an African American for president of the United States.

Anyone who reads the letters of the Apostle Paul can not help being struck by the fact that Paul had a high doctrine of the church.

In view of that expectation, I have been even more struck by the fact that Hartshorne has published four of his 19 books and a hundred articles and reviews after his eightieth birthday.

On rereading the story recently, I was more struck by the fact that they changed their minds.

«I'm just struck by the fact that somebody like Ray Rice gets a two - game suspension and Tom Brady, over deflated balls, faces a four - game suspension.

Given time to poke around, he was soon struck by the fact that a coterie of a dozen gamblers from Florida, who became known to him as the Miami Syndicate, were using sophisticated mathematical formulas to figure the odds and place bets, particularly on trifectas, in which a bettor must pick the top three players or doubles teams in the order they finish.

In my interviews with some high - powered women, sometimes working in a traditionally man's world such as Kate Thorp, founder of Real Girls Media and DivineCaroline, I have been struck by the fact that their husbands are often stay - at - home dads or at least have flexible jobs.

So, I'm still struck by the fact that until I started pooling mother / child related charity name ideas for our album, I didn't really know about the Milk Bank or pay attention to the need for donated breast milk.

«I was struck by the fact that the students I'm working with really rely on the school for so much, including potentially their best meal of the day.

I wish I had voted the way Oscar's mom did — but I was so struck by the fact that my experience was the opposite that I voted for potty training.

While purusing the state party's 32 - day pre-general election filing, I was struck by the fact that it owes $ 125,000 to former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, who made the loan back in December 2009, shortly after his surprise loss to Republican Ed Mangano.

Commercial marketers usually have a wealth of data to work with, from demographics to credit history to homeownership, but when he started working in politics, Ghani was struck by the fact that political campaigns are trying to build voter models based on a handful of data points.

When I attended the Labour Party Conference last year, in Manchester, I was struck by the fact I didn't meet a single business person over the 36 hours I was there.

In fact, when the first gravity measurements were made in India, people were struck by the fact that Mount Everest did not seem to produce much of an effect.

«I was struck by the fact that people were Swedish living next to Poles living next to Germans.

Like others before him, Schrödinger was struck by the fact that chromosomes are accurately duplicated during ordinary cell division (mitosis, the way in which an organism grows) and during the creation of the sex cells (meiosis).

I am struck by the fact that there is hardly a topic that would not benefit from being informed by the best scientific evidence to guide sound policy.

«I thought there should be more than that,» says Teh, who has long been struck by the fact that Taiwan, with high use of supplements containing birthwort, also has the highest known incidence of upper urinary tract cancer in the world.

I'm always struck by the fact that the image of the scientist is as a lone person wearing a lab jacket in the lab by themselves for hours, whereas my sense is that maybe the single most important thing for a scientist, aside from being able to think of good questions, is figuring out good people to work with and enjoying the process of inventing ideas together with other people.

It was a Kentucky distiller who was also handling imported spirits and he was simply struck by the fact that prior to containerization, his shipments of Scotch were often broken into — partially destroyed — and they could just salvage a percentage — not a high percentage — of the shipment, for sale.

I was struck by the fact that a couple of articles in the March issue of «InStyle» magazine were about being true to yourself.

Recently, however, after preparing a single portrait of an African - American female originally intended simply to serve as a sample in his portfolio, Jerry was struck by the fact that «Very little attention had been paid to the beauty of the black woman.

As we have been thinking through all the education questions, I am struck by the fact that we couldn't even be posing these questions if we were constrained by the labor contracts governing the regular public schools.

Even in doing the research for girls we were struck by the fact that there was a different set of messages for boys.»

Recently, I have been struck by the fact that many of the commercially produced SPaG resources can be a little dull and dry at times.

Personally, I couldn't help but be struck by the fact that the people who operated these charter schools are generally among the most politically progressive people I knew.

She was struck by the fact that the ships were barely bigger than oversized rowboats, and completely open to the wind and sea and waves.

«I was most struck by the fact that the attendees were from all demographics: young, old, men, women.

I was struck by the fact that Bessembinder's fabulous 50 stocks resemble a portfolio of growth stocks.

But the lay reader may be struck by the fact that neither the GNP data she rejected, nor the ones she preferred, were compiled in the moment.

We were struck by the fact that about a dozen funds lost women from the management teams, but it appears only two funds added a female manager.

Actually, I think I must have missed your TOT post back in March — I was just reading it now, and I am struck by the fact you reach many of the same conclusions ** — particularly your dubiety over the whole acquisition focus & scale / quality of the resulting returns.

Thinking about him all these years later, I'm struck by the fact that Jake was unneutered, and I had no problem with that at the time.

As you consider these budget travel tips for the island nation of St. Lucia, you'll be struck by the fact that this place appears to have been separated from the South Pacific: towering mountains of volcanic origin, pristine, secluded beaches and a feeling that you're on the other side of the world.

«We were struck by the fact that people were so warm,» said a WBA respondent.

Back when I reviewed the first Project CARS, I was struck by the fact that there were no unlockables.

Throughout our time with Labo, we were struck by the fact that it consistently makes you feel skilled — though it would take extra effort to do the kits wrong, you feel like a genius for getting it right.

I've been struck by the fact that contemporary advertising seems to know more about the kind of visual language Labille - Guiard utilized (and for that matter, Johannes Vermeer and other golden age Dutch painters) than they know about contemporary painting.