Sentences with phrase «too narrow a set»

Though a missionary endeavour, Moma could not preach too narrow a set of doctrines.

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Religious leaders also suggested the February exemption was still too narrow, possibly setting a precedent for the government to be able to compel religious groups to provide something against their conscience.

In proclaiming the gospel as evangelists we have been concerned to make a point of contact with the people, but because the faith as thus presented has been set in too narrow a context and has not been addressed to the mind as well as the heart, it has often failed to lead to a permanent and constructive reorientation of life.

Instead the Bank - which was given the freedom to set interest rates by Gordon Brown in 1997 - was «hamstrung» by too narrow a remit.

The report points to inadequate oversight by NIGMS, goals set by the groups that were «inflexible» or «too sweeping or too narrow,» «missing expertise,» and poor outreach to the rest of the scientific community.

For example, most training programs consist of multiple sets, but all sets are done with reps in a range of 5 - 15 reps.. This, in my opinion, is too narrow of a range in order to train as many fibers as is desirable or practical.

Certainly, multiple sets within a narrow range of reps / weights will create greater overload on the fibers being trained (perhaps too much overload, but that is another question).

Veteran teachers who work in other settings may wonder what all the fuss is about, and Lemov's definition of effective teaching as getting big test gains in low - income schools may be too narrow for some.

A: In unique circumstances this might be possible, but an SGO appropriate for a school librarian might be too narrow for a teacher in a traditional classroom setting.

The effort to insist on «assessment boundaries» — which narrow the focus of a standard by setting a ceiling on the content that can be assessed — in connection with every standard often leads to a «dumbing down» of what might actually be learned about a topic, seemingly in the interest of «one - size - fits - all» science that won't be too challenging for students.

Co-principal Pat Finley says schools have become much too focused on teaching a narrow set of academic skills, the kinds of skills that can help kids do better on standardized tests.

Lots of book buyers have just as narrow a set of preferences, but they're different from mine and one another's, and you can't turn that into a realistic business opportunity because the stock / customer ratio is too large.

Want to tweak sensitivity settings, or turn on a «sudden death» mode that narrows the safe window when players take too long?

One of the most famous occasions of marginalia has to be the notation (in Latin) made by Pierre de Fermat as he was reading Arithmetica, here translated as: «I have a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain,» which set off a 357 year long hunt for that proof.

He says there's too much of a focus on fee structures and that «sets you off on a much narrower path than you need to be on.»

As an interim recruiter, I am often frustrated when I find a profile that is of high interest, and can not get to that person because their settings are too narrow, they don't have a few LinkedIn groups displayed, they have no Twitter address I can write to, have no blog or other personal website at which I can contact them, have no email or phone number displayed overtly or on attached documents, etc..

The focus of the mandate of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access, as set out in the order of reference adopted by the Senate and the House of Commons, may, in fact, be too narrow, and does not take into consideration the variety of family formations in Canada, which include families with parents with disabilities, same sex couples, aboriginal peoples and peoples from different cultures.

If I were feeling ambitious, I might even set a narrow bookshelf between the sinks — not too deep as to completely separate the two sinks into stalls or anything — and create a bit of a faux built in look.