Sentences with phrase «thinking over the subject»

When setting out to help children learn about art, I think it's important to spend some time thinking over the subject first — what is the purpose of art, and why should kids study it?

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In response to a post by a Twitter user which said Musk should provide «some very strong arguments in a well written blog piece to win over the (myself included) skeptics,» the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote: «Movie on the subject coming soon...» Now, why hasn't anyone thought of that before?

It's a subject most of us could benefit from studying up on, but in an interview Vanderkam explained that when it comes to thinking about personal finances in a constructive way, entrepreneurs generally have a leg up over salaried workers.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

So personally, I think they got exactly what they deserved for opening their mouths and complaining over 4 busses having a simple basic add that is not offensive at all except to those who believe they have the right to DICTATE (derived from Dictator) to others what they can and can not do and who SCREAM bloody murder if they are subject to the same rules they themselves wish to espouse.

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

The point about all these pontifications, I thought at the time, whether over the airwaves or in the print media, either by secular commentators or by the kind of Catholics the liberal media like to give a platform to because their views on the Catholic tradition are so similar to their own (it seemed by the beginning of the conclave that it had all been going on for ever) was — or so I reflected then in my simple way — that this wonderful free - for - all was the only chance for many of them to be heard at all on this subject.

This poetic description incorporates an essential principle of both Mennonite and mainstream Protestant thought: the supremacy of word over image, a prejudice that Dutch painters in general and Rembrandt in particular countered by imbuing their portraits and historical subjects with the visual equivalent of sound.

They think of emancipation from its subject - object dualisms and the hegemonies these spawn (humans over nature, men over women, and the West over the rest of the world) as liberation indeed.

The honeymoon, that is, between the now enfeebled and increasingly remote souls who for over a quarter of a century had carped and sneered at Pope John Paul II (and by the same token at «PanzerCardinal» Joseph Ratzinger) but who had nevertheless hoped against hope for a Pope who would be somehow reborn if not as a fully paid - up liberal, as a Pope at least who would go easy on all that counter-cultural JPII stuff about being «signs of contradiction» and about continuity with the pre-conciliar Church and who had breathlessly found (so they thought) that, lo, it was even so, in the wonders of Deus Caritas Est. «On his election last spring,» carolled The Tablet, «the former CardinalRatzinger was widely assumed to have as his papal agenda the hammering of heretics and a war on secularist relativism, subjects with which he was associated as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.»

It is hard to think of another prominent writer whose thought and character have been subjected to as many willful distortions and vilifications over the past thirty....

Sherry has not only read extensively in the scattered Greene archives, talked with everyone available (including, perhaps most interestingly, Greene's former wife, Vivien), and thought long and hard about the connections between the life and the work; he also traveled all over the world retracing his subject's footsteps in order to share his experiences — including the dysentery Greene contracted in a certain Mexican boarding house 40 years earlier.

This would simply misrepresent the diversity of goals held by the various Christian mission agencies; gloss over the historical shifts in the nature of relationships between the East India Company, the British empire and the mission societies; and conceal the multiple ways in which local subjects — the colonized Indians — thought and acted within this context to demonstrate their identity as independent agents.

His subject, as one might expect, was theology and the philosophy of science, and he argued that the biblical concept of the Holy spirit may provide the missing link, so to speak, in the controversy over whether mind or language has precedence in the creation of human thought.

The chief subject of all our theological thinking and decision making are people for whom I believe, Jesus came to demonstrate his self - giving love over against the pentateuchal law.

I have been studying and thinking about this subject for fifteen years so far, and have been working on a book for over a year which explains my proposal, but I am facing problems with putting it into words.

In France, «the French Jews,» Louis Halphen and Bloch, were part of a new approach to the Middle Ages which, beginning in the 1920s, has taken as its subject not the heroes or the thought of the Middle Ages but the economy and social habits over the longue duree.

Uprooted subjects colonized to the core, thinking and acting according to the rules of modern science, the larger public fails to recognize the myth of development that has been tantalizing over the decades.

Thank you for being so open and honest (naked) about this sensitive and sometimes delicate subject that I think we all trip over from time to time.

Shoot around, under and over your subject, walk around it, crawl under it, climb up above it; shoot it in as many ways as you can think of.

From her physician's labor support over the phone while waiting for the home birth midwife to arrive, to seeking out back - up care for her homebirths with physicians who had never heard of midwifery, to hearing the thoughts of feelings of both midwives and physicians on the subject of homebirth, Sheryl believes the differences are not stumbling blocks; rather, they are the catalysts for necessary change.

I will take some ideas that I have heard other mums say over the years, Dr. Jay Gordan's approach and my own experiences, suggestions and thoughts on the whole subject.

«The idea that because we've having a rough old time, that you turn to a total irrelevance, a referendum on our membership of the European Union, where you create turmoil on a great subject, you throw absolute confusion over our continued involvement in the European Union - I can not think of anything sillier to do,» he told the Today programme.

«There is no doubt that tax has become an important subject of debate over the past several weeks and I think it's important to share that the emotion of the issue has taken us a bit by surprise,» Engskov added.

While the administration appears to have backed off part of the Port Authority proposal — saying bill language that would have enhanced the governor's powers over appointees reflected earlier thinking on the subject — the idea of an inspector general for the authority is still alive, much to AG Eric Schneiderman's dismay.

Bob Whelan, the chief executive of the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology, a think - tank funded by government and industry, says that the report «overturns a great deal of political dogma we've been subjected to over the past 10 years».

This content is subject to copyright.When most people think «abs,» they think the muffin top that blooms over the top of too - tight pants.

Based on these statistics, you'd think that candid conversations about infertility and pregnancy loss would be all over the internet and women would be having discussions in real life all the time about these subjects.

While I still think this is the most comprehensive resource available on this subject geared towards the general population, there were a few things that he completely skipped over that I think would have made this better.

I wanted to explore my style as a woman over 50 and share with my «tribe» You can read more about my thoughts on this subject on this post

Weeks, months or even years after your breakup, the thoughts of dating, from putting yourself out there, setting up a date and riffing over surface subjects like work, your.

The collection abounds in not only samples of what peak athleticism was thought to look like over the course of a century, but in displays of various conceptions of bodies in motion and coming into being as compelling subjects for the moving image.

Anyway to me this is an interesting film that tries to put thought behind its subject with out beating you over the head with it.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Just under half (49 %) say that PSHE and RSE do not have the same status as other subjects but over 90 % thought that they should.

Regular followers of Fordham know that, over the past few years, I've been thinking and writing a lot about «education for upward mobility,» starting with a series of posts on Deborah Meier's Bridging Differences blog and culminating in last December's conference on the subject.

One of the most common reasons for that is that Subject Matter Experts think that eLearning courses will take over their positions.

If we think about improvement as measuring the difference between a teacher's effectiveness at the beginning of a period and her effectiveness at the end, the change over time will be subject to errors in both the starting and the ending value.

«We're having to work much harder to make it more fun, desirable - they don't see languages as being as important as the core subjects and I don't think that schools do generally either with literacy, numeracy and science seen as more important over subjects like languages.»

I think it is also true, that «The Major Publishers» need to climb down from their high horse of literary snobbery and realise that the majority of the reading public, just want to a good tale, and not an over edited, over indulgent, wordy story based on a subject that most ordinary, averagely educated people can not, and have no desire to grasp!

The publishing house was named after Cardinal Mercier of Belgium, a man who in his day, proved himself not only a man of thought, whose mind ranged over every subject of vital interest to humanity, but a man of action in the varying circumstances of a life that shone before the eyes of a watching world.

While on the subject, here's the way we like to think about the value of paying an advisor to construct an investment portfolio for the purpose of producing a sustainable retirement paycheck: Take the total amount of their fees, expenses, and commissions and divide that by the amount of income realized over the past year (don't count share sales as income, just dividends and capital gains distributions).

The scaremongerers over at the American Bird Conservancy and The Wildlife Society must be downright distraught at the thought of the American public being better informed on the subject.

If you think El Al is a good choice for an airline, I suggest you look over some of the many posts on the subject by our friend Dan over at dansdeals.com.

Thoughtful article and a subject which I have thought much about over recent years.

So gamers all over have been subjected to this story and had to think about what they've seen and heard.

Having embarked upon an ill - fated trip that is to mark the triumph of experience over thought, Cooke's protagonists are at the same time the subjects of existential crisis and an absence of redemption.

Over the past few years we have done many exhibits addressing feminist themes and I think this is a particularly important subject.

However, over a period of time I have been inspired to incorporate the use of other materials, where I think there is a relevance and relationshop to the subject matter.

Having spent a good part of last week at the Dpharm Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials Conference, in Boston, we came away with some insights about innovation — a subject that we've given a lot of thought to over the years but is endlessly fascinating.More than ever, we believe that true innovation is first and foremost a cultural issue.