Sentences with phrase «struck by the question»

My friend was struck by the question, and by the fact that the classroom was filled with future church leaders.

After four years working in admissions, Lee was once again struck by the question of whether he was doing enough while listening to Sandra Day O'Connor.

Gazing upon Hiroshi Senju's large - scale, mystical waterfalls, one isn't immediately struck by the questions: What is beauty?

On reading about information asymmetry and eBay in the recently released book The Inner Lives of Markets [6], I was struck by the question of information asymmetry in the practice of law.

Not exact matches

That raised the question of where Western countries go from here, after a volley of strikes denounced by Damascus and Moscow as at once both reckless and pointless.

This one is often used by the leader who gets frustrated and wants to shut down questions about a debatable decision or a seemingly impossible goal: «Listen, folks, failure is simply not an option,» he says, striking the table with his fist.

The less good news is that when lightning struck during the global financial storm it illuminated a financial landscape that raised troubling questions about our ability to weather the next storm that is quickly emerging driven by demographics.

A soldier strikes Jesus across the face for remaining silent when questioned by Caiaphas.

As before, the question of such survival is left open, but a new note is struck by the reference to the everlasting nature of God, which is his consequent nature as the weaving of his temporal physical feelings of actualities upon his nontemporal conceptualizations of all pure possibilities (PR 524).

In this connection, I have been particularly struck by Gustavo Gutiérrez's observation that, whereas much contemporary theology seeks to respond to the challenge of the «nonbeliever» who questions our «religious world» as Christians, in a continent like Latin America the primary challenge comes to us rather from the «nonperson» who questions us about our «economic, social, political and cultural world.»

Well, after a few moments of gut aching laughing inside the dressing room with one leg stuck in a pair of jeans pulled up to my knee - ish area and me hopping around on the other leg while simultaneously holding onto the wall trying to pull / peel the jeans off... I was beginning to sweat, my sanity was being questioned by myself and the saleswoman, and I was striking up quite the hunger.

In his interview with Oasis» Noel Gallagher, Balotelli answered an awe - struck question about his ability to convert penalties in high - pressure situations («I couldn't do it») by pointing that «I am much better at football than you» and, then, «It's my job.»

Whilst there is no question over the German internationals talent, many football fans have been struck by his attitude when featuring at top level clubs.

Napoli would like to keep Chalobah and loan him out within Italy to gain further experience but he will explore his options further, and with so much competition in the striking department these days Bamford looks further away than ever after questions about his mentality and desire were raised by both Alan Pardew and Alex Neil.

While question marks remain about his finishing — only heightened by a horror miss against Swansea City after going through one - v - one to meet Łukasz Fabiański — he is by some distance the most mobile of Watford's striking options.

He discusses the Chicago Teachers strike and an essay by writer Alex Kotlowitz that talks about how the strike raises questions about the severity of this challenge.

A national strike by the nation's millions of working mothers would shift the debate from whether mothers should work to an intriguing question: whether the nation can get along without their contributions in the workplace.

Doubtless that will change the further we get from June's political car crash, but the key question is whether that average can be pushed up by the six per cent necessary to breach the psychological threshold of 30 per cent, above which Labour politicians can console themselves that they are within striking distance of the Tories.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

Even as they question whether the deal struck by their erstwhile power - sharing partner, IDC Leader Jeff Klein, with his former Democratic colleagues will stick, the Senate Republicans are seeking to turn Klein's abandonment to their political advantage.

I was struck by the responses — or rather non-responses — to the final question in last night's AG debate, in which the five Democratic contenders had difficulty coming up with anything very negative to say about the lone GOP contender, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan.

In response to a question from a delegate about the Chicago Teachers Union strike, which led to a successful contract, and the UFT's current, long - running contract battle, Mulgrew contrasted the circumstances faced by educators in Chicago and New York City.

He told the Commons at prime minister's questions: «The fact is people affected by these strikes don't get to vote.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Questioned intently by a Senate committee, President Donald Trump's son struck a firmly unapologetic tone, deflected many queries and said he didn't think there was anything wrong with meeting a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower in hopes of election - season dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to transcripts released Wednesday.

Under questioning by Senator Ted Cruz, Eric Holder seemed to be hung up on using the word appropriate, when asked if using a drone strike on a US citizen in the US who was not an imminent threat was constitutional.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

I was struck by the families appearing to place emphasis primarily on exoneration as cathartic, and seemed to give that priority over the question of prosecutions.

As such, much of the questions for Cash revolved around the circumstances of the contract talks and the amount of money the board paid to avoid what was seen by some as a strike threat.

As the full extent of the devastation wreaked by superstorm Sandy sinks in, the question for the future is how to protect the New York metropolitan area when a similar disaster strikes again.

Americans, on the other hand, often strive to distinguish themselves, sometimes by offering suggestions or opinions that question those of superiors — a behavior that may strike newcomers from China, Japan, and some other countries as presumptuous or insubordinate.

EML Research consists of five research groups, three of which are focusing on fundamental biology questions, and (as a former experimentalist) when I walked into the «lab», I was struck by the lack of reagents lying around.

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.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A new study by Washington State University researchers answers longstanding questions about the formation of a rare type of diamond during major meteorite strikes.

Finkel is intrigued by the attention (and the possible scoop), and strikes up a jailhouse friendship with Longo, swapping writing lessons for questions about the ghastly crime.

Actress Blake Lively and actor Jason Clarke lead the way from a script by Forster and screenwriter Sean Conway with a story of intrigue, mystery and chilling uncertainty for a woman whose second chance to see for the first time since childhood brings both happiness, as well as striking new questions about her relationship.

Anyone struck in the jugular by an animal - disabling tranquilizer dart and then rolling into a swimming pool is not likely to have to face the kinds of questions about retirement confronting the hero of «About Schmidt.»

Classes lose their cadence, and their rhythm; reflective discussions and debates are jarringly interrupted by school bells that silence a student's closing comment on labor strikes or leave unanswered a question about the differences between representative and direct democracy.

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.

He discusses the Chicago Teachers strike and an essay by writer Alex Kotlowitz that talks about how the strike raises questions about the severity of this challenge.

The striking difference in the two main questions is not chiefly informed by a sense that vouchers would make public schools worse; only 21 % hold this view, while 34 % think they'd make them better, and 37 % expect no effect.

I was struck by the precise wording of the question which it asked and answered, «Can measures of effective teaching identify teachers who better help students learn?»

As I considered these questions I was struck by the importance of having standards or goals that were focusing students» effort and thus a way to use feedback to identify progress and / or how to proceed.

It's a good idea to start your essay with a really interesting statement in order to pique the reader's interest, though this can also be accomplished by using descriptive words, an anecdote, a striking question, or an interesting fact.

The outlook is uncertain as observers question whether a deal will be struck before the 2012 election and because Congress hasn't yet reached agreement on the FY12 budget that was supposed to have been completed by the end of September.

- The Times of London «Excellent... Grappling with manifold questions about identity and the tragic futility of material aspirations in a ruthless, brittle world, this novel draws you into a sun - struck realm where the survival of the fittest is more predicated by chance and where violence is a sudden, opportunistic enterprise.»

«Pocket God Comics issue No. 1 «The Gem of Life — Part One» starts with Ooga questioning the Gods and their relentless Pygmy pounding, but the gods strike back, taking away the gift of immortality bestowed upon the islanders and forcing Ooga and the gang on a dangerous mission to recharge the Gem of Life, which fades a little more with each new Pygmy death,» stated a press release issued by the comic creators.

As Sharfstein answered questions on judicial processes in the Jim Crow South and how genealogical research has given meaning to people's lives (like when a person who'd identified as white her entire life found out her ancestors had been slaves), I was struck by how valuable bookstore readings are.

And to protect yourself by increasing the strike spread, the question then becomes «is this worth the risk of doing».

In this important new book, author Lola Ball provides answers to the question of what you the owner can do and what your alternatives are if your dog is struck by cancer.