Sentences with phrase «underpins much»

You can use the touchscreen to capture photos or the centre hard button, which underpins much of the functionality of the phone.

The centre button, which underpins much of the phone's functionality, also works as a mechanical camera button.

Known for exploring issues including cultural identity and individuality, the artist's complex relationship with his native South Korea underpins much of his practice.

This has been a highly - effective process, which underpins much of what has been achieved over the past four years.

Chemistry is truly the central science and underpins much of the efforts of scientists and engineers to improve life for humankind.

It is also important to focus on the short term thinking which underpins much of Western foreign policy.

In October of 2013 GGF invested in Telogis because we saw them as a leader in vehicle connectivity, which underpins much of the disruption in transportation.

Taking effect in 1994, NAFTA underpins much of the more than $ 1 trillion in annual trilateral trade, and Washington's threats to walk away from the pact have spooked markets.

On the other hand, Vento's cri de coeur ought to register with the base: it evokes, without quite articulating, the subterranean distaste for immigrants» foreign - ness that underpins much of the nativist sentiment.

«It's that forward - leaning, fearless approach that has underpinned much of Uber's success and has attracted many employees, including me, to the company,» he writes.

Several related questions underpin much of the discussion about the growing presence of Muslim immigrants and their children in the United States.

The politics of fear that we have seen during the referendum campaign, and the worrying rise in hate crime since the result, have dramatically demonstrated the threat to the values of unity, diversity, and solidarity which underpin much of the UK's international development work.

This idea has underpinned much of Western thought today, including the «liberal notions» you mentioned above.

Underpinning much local opposition is objection to diktat from distant bureaucrats in central government, but we need a way of gaining local approval without allowing a tiny minority a veto on projects of essential national strategic importance.

The best way to describe the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) TV is as a sort of European equivalent of the ever - popular TED, which is instead taking a closer look at the often ignored bigger ideas, which underpin much of politics and society.

Observations of climate variables underpin much of the knowledge and modeling described here.

Sheridan Smith and Alexandra Roach are fun as the she - dwarves who join them, but could have been funnier still but for the misogyny and innuendo that underpin much of the jarring banter.

Dr Bill Mitchell, Director of Education at the British Computer Society and one of the founders of the Barefoot Computing Project, said: «A lot of people don't realise that computational thinking concepts like logic, sequencing, abstraction and debugging now underpin much of what we do in our daily lives.

What the Coupe Concept also does is introduce Volvo's new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) platform which will underpin much of Volvo's production going forward, including the 2014 Volvo XC90 — the first production Volvo scheduled to use it — and Volvo's new range of 4 - cylinder engines.

Under the skin is the new Mercedes lightweight Modular Rear Drive Architecture Platform (MRA) that will be rolled out to underpin much of the Mercedes range from the C - Class upwards and promises a more agile chassis, the option of air suspension and plenty of driver tech inherited from the S - Class.

What drives people to cross continents in search of a «better life» is a question that has underpinned much of Julien's work over the past decade and in responding to the question he repeatedly returns to the same answer: capital.

The conceptual concerns that underpin much of contemporary art make its conservation more than an effort to arrest physical change.

Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making in the West, from commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street in New York) to websites such as Contemporary Art Daily that tend to privilege the flattened picture surfaces of post-minimalist paintings, which look good filtered through the even light of a laptop screen.

Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making in the West, from commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street in New York) to

Investigations into psychoanalysis, the history of photography, and existential questions linked to reading, writing and literature underpin much of her production.

Although a prolific sculptor, Hepworth was fascinated by costume, design and performance, and this shared interest — some 60 years apart — underpinned much of Linder's work during her Tate St Ives residency

After all, I often find myself agreeing with what Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, a close adviser to Pope Francis, said at the 2014 Vatican meeting on «sustainable humanity» that went on to underpin much of Francis's encyclical: «Nowadays man finds himself to be a technical giant and an ethical child.»

(01/02/2014) Resting near the bottom of the foodchain, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) underpin much of the Southern Ocean's ecosystem.

Fossil fuels not only provide the energy required for our manufacturing processes that alternatives will be hard - pressed (if even possible) to replace (including those needed to create the alternatives) but have been used to underpin much of the world's food production (while not particularly wise over the long - term, the world's population depends upon fossil fuel - based herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers to remain fed).

The same view underpinned much of the Benchers» reluctant justification for granting TWU's accreditation in April.

David Johnston summed up one of the common themes underpinning much of this activity across business by saying, «We're not making nearly enough of the country's talent... What the top firms are doing is accurately judging potential, not past performance».

Not exact matches

We stayed up much of the night, and he introduced me to the technical underpinnings of bank-less money.

But all they had were the theoretical underpinnings of a business — nothing close to a prototype, much less a product.

«The Lexington at Princes Dock will help underpin the regeneration efforts there while also providing much needed quality homes for rent.»

Salmond's administration argues that North Sea oil revenue, much of it in Scottish waters, will underpin the prosperity of an independent Scotland.

Ever since Bitcoin was introduced in late 2008, the blockchain code that underpins the cryptocurrency has been the source of hope and fear — and much hype.

Facebook and Zuckerberg really has EU regulators to thank for forcing it to do so much of the groundwork now underpinning its response to this its largest ever data scandal.

The habits of Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and other innovative CEOs reveal much about the underpinnings of their creative thinking.

With new blockchain initiatives launching pretty much daily, the path ahead is anything but certain, but the implications of the technology on many of the fundamental underpinnings of our business and legal structures are already starting to become clear.

The last 12 months or so have seen blockchain finally emerge from the shadows of bitcoin — with much of the attention having definitively shifted away from the digital currency and onto the technology of the ledger underpinning it.

There are several technical differences in the technologies that underpin the Bitcoin and Ethereum platforms but at this early stage of these projects, they may seem very much alike.

The slow growth in wages is underpinning the low inflation outcomes in much of the world.

Naturally, I go into much more detail in my latest DIY Simple Investing book and cover other aspects that underpin this central theme.

So what we've seeing is that the rate of savings, and savings goes back to this building of collateral and underpinning debt and the rollover of the debt, is growing but at a certain rate which is a much slower rate.

We give a bit more credit to the potentially much broader applications of the so - called distributed ledger technology underpinning the innovations.

Rape involves both theft and assault, while at the same time pointing to the sexist underpinnings of much violent crime.

It's not that everything in the novel happening concerns church people — although much of it does — it's just that the black church's activity in the South and Oklahoma is the musical underpinning of the novel.

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

«I think that so much of what underpins the story is about community and society and how one engages with their fellow man,» Ejiofor says.

Reviving the vision of the Greek Fathers it saw Jesus Christ as the recapitulation of the whole of history, but it did not offer much specific development of philosophy or theology to underpin a new apologetic able to inform a fruitful dialogue with modernity and a new call to faith.