Sentences with phrase «swing of the pendulum»

There are countervailing pressures for democratic control and we will likely observe continued swings of the pendulum between democracy and technocracy for many years to come.

The secret behind this constant swing of the pendulum — whose mid-point is always the same — is that each successive generation is faced anew with the privilege and responsibility of apprehending and realizing the whole of God's revelation in the whole of its contemporary life and time.

«Only a few more swings of the pendulum, and, from Moscow to Chicago, atomic explosions will strike midnight for Western civilization.»

But we should keep our long - term goals in mind and judge the leftward swing of the pendulum accordingly.

While it can happen, this somewhat exaggerated fear seems to be the most recent swing of a pendulum that has gone back and forth over the years between those who used to recommend closing cards to reduce the temptation to charge and those who now say doing so is a sure way to see your score suffer.

The swing of the pendulum back to capital punishment suggests the direction of movement on the criminal - justice front.

One might expect a swing of the pendulum back to the center, but it seems that this swing is accelerating and may be even wilder.

Historically, researchers have divided up data from a dynamical system through Markov partitions — a function that describes a point in space in relation to time, such as a model that describes the swing of a pendulum.

To get a handle on what was happening, he needed a clock or something that could serve as one — some regularly occurring phenomenon, like water dripping from a faucet, the swinging of a pendulum, or the oscillations of a quartz crystal.

«This is certainly a swinging of a pendulum, but it is a pendulum that's been swinging for a very long period in one direction — which is...

«This is certainly a swinging of a pendulum, but it is a pendulum that's been swinging for a very long period in one direction — which is towards more federal involvement in K — 12 education, and in particular more federal oversight of state accountability,» West says.

Such a swinging of the pendulum, intended to lessen the pressure of year - end exams, has many in education, including teachers, breathing a sigh of relief.

Past memo's have covered the idea of the swing of the pendulum between greed and fear, through the various stages of investor sentiment that lay between the two extremes.

The brilliance and appeal of their lushly painted surfaces are not indicative of a post — Whitney Biennial trauma — a swing of the pendulum of artistic style and taste away from «political» art as if in protest — rather, they suggest that painting is still capable of acting on the spectator.

To me the Pop movement was incontrovertibly a swing of the pendulum back towards representation.

Appelhof's working title for her book is «Lee Krasner: The Swing of the Pendulum» and is based on material collected for her Master's thesis on Krasner before she became Director of Guild Hall.

However, the pendulum driven by the airflow is not an oscillator (assuming the swing of the pendulum doesn't change the coupling of the paddle to the airflow); it's a noise source, with the high and low frequency components filtered out by the pendulum.

If we want equality the efforts of both genders have to be recognized; it not, it's merely a disgusting fight over the swing of the pendulum.

Well, consider this the correction everyone's been waiting for, the reverse - swing of the pendulum we all have to ride out before the cryptocurrency market stabilizes.