Sentences with phrase «take haphazard»

Some just have an exceptionally laid back attitude and take a haphazard approach to parenting.

The study's authors stressed that measuring «growth» is not as simple as policy makers think it is; and «it is certainly unwise for states or school districts to simply take haphazard or commonsense approaches to measure growth.

«Companies tend to take a haphazard, scattershot approach to international business that rarely hits the bull's - eye,» the author wrote.

«For too long the Welsh Labour Government has taken a haphazard approach to housing targets.

Not exact matches

I know you aren't a fool, so I am just trying to explain my take on all this based on my haphazard legal education and insistence upon the rule of law over that of religion.

We observe that at the lowest level of the evolutionary process, time is contingent in the sense that electronic and atomic radiations are short - lived, measured in millionths of a second; the movement is chaotic, diffused, haphazard, indeterminate as shown in the cloud chamber or the Brownian movement of molecules; the time is transient because entropy takes over; the movements are lost instead of being collected in the thing and perfective of the thing.

If a man has not enough passion to make either the one movement or the other, if he loiters through life, repenting a little, and thinks that the rest will take care of itself, he has once for all renounced the effort to live in the idea — and then he can very easily reach and help others to reach the highest attainments, i.e. delude himself and others with the notion that in the world of spirit everything goes as in a well - known game of cards where everything depends on haphazard.

Both teams are here because of the wacky, haphazard paths they took after that trade.

Didn't take long for him to revert to his usual haphazard style.

With that incident calling the reliability of the National Transitional Council (NTC) into question and continued criticism of its haphazard military strategy, many observers are starting to ask searching questions of the body ready to take over from Gaddafi.

The second was issued on an individual apartment where haphazard construction has been taking place for months.

After it was fully coated, I sanded it down just a little and wiped it off - then nervously took a paint brush and just went to town painting haphazard swirls in Annie Sloan Aubusson Blue!

In fact, some supporters who have had winners with such sites would go as far as to take that some sites are so such safer than a haphazard meet in a singles bar.

Despite all the gross - out humor, the most offensive thing about this is the lazy filmmaking; every shot feels like a first take, and the haphazard editing precludes any comic timing.

While the «Zombies - take - New England» storyline seems fresh in this venue, the haphazard cast of characters surrounding Norman could be underdeveloped and little more than stock supporting characters.

Accompanied by costume mistress / Jimmy's girlfriend, Faye (Liv Tyler), their haphazard success takes them from local gigs to TV specials and national tours.

Rather pleasingly, the haphazard wiring in my brain has taken random sources of diversion and arrived at what is surely one the most pressing questions of any petrolhead's life.

Our 401k's are solidly in target retirement date funds though, and I'm thinking now to just move our entire portfolio to target retirement date funds, given how well they seem to be doing compared to my other haphazard portfolios, and given my lack of will to properly take care of them.

Probably as haphazard as it sounds above: I'm happy to roam across the internet (& from Twitter) each day, wherever the links take me... Obviously, over time, I return to certain sites over & over again — mostly I'd say they're quite obvious sites, to all concerned — these I'll bookmark (mentally, or in my browser) and return to them regularly.

Also, as a courtesy before you read, if too many of these comparisons come across as haphazard coincidences for you, I'd like to simultaneously apologize and ask you to just enjoy the ride instead of taking this as gospel, while asking you to just do me a favor and be cool.

Taking the position that artistic work is not about fitting into a consensus or about desiring populist approval, it identifies attitudes that enjoy an undercurrent of improvisation and frugality, haphazard formality, and changeability.

Although all of Blalock's photographs are taken with a 4 × 5 camera — a near - anachronistic, technically demanding format — they often appear haphazard and experiential, seemingly taken as opportunity strikes between his studio and the outside world.

Perhaps it will be related to fracking:) I assume seismic measurements are being taken and kept in terms of a record and if so, we could get a lot more data - than compared to all the haphazard and brief attempts to do this in the past.

[W] e lawyers pride ourselves on our capacity for ingenuity... At some level, we take offence at the idea of project management because it seems to reduce this wonderful profession of ours to little more than a series of steps, a collection of flow charts that anyone could follow... The day of the haphazard lawyer, who pursues a solution by intuition, experience and the loosest possible timetable, is drawing to a close.

Taking time to plan for a meeting and thinking about goals in advance doesn't always feel productive, but when I don't, my meetings feel haphazard and disorganized — nobody's idea of a productive use of time.

The persistent progression - driven framework that made the first Modern Warfare such a success is still here, it's just frustrating to engage in an online space that takes such an apparently haphazard approach to matchmaking.

As far as the conclusions and recommendations from child custody evaluations, they just make up whatever they want based on their own personal beliefs and inherent personal biases, they then apply some psychological constructs in entirely haphazard and idiosyncratic ways to justify whatever biased and idiosyncratic conclusion was reached, and they usually take a middle - of - the road risk - management response of recommending the status quo with the addition of «reunification therapy» and an admonishment to both parents that the degree of parental conflict is harming the child and that the parents need to co-parent better.

After it was fully coated, I sanded it down just a little and wiped it off - then nervously took a paint brush and just went to town painting haphazard swirls in Annie Sloan Aubusson Blue!