Sentences with phrase «understood by outsiders»

'' [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.»

Thatcher could support the reforms, Agar argues, because she «had lived the life of the working research scientist, as a final - year chemistry student in Dorothy Hodgkin's x-ray crystallography laboratory, as an investigator of glues for BX [plastics company] and as a food chemist for Lyons & Co.... [I] t was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists.

People wishing to talk together across religious frontiers have been finding that their conceptions of one another's faiths, their capacity to explicate their own faiths in terms that can be understood by outsiders, and the concepts of mutual discourse available to them jointly, are inadequate.

Adding on: I think that Inward facing communities often develop coded language that no longer can be understood by outsiders.

Not exact matches

Most outsiders don't understand the principles of modern policing, nor the challenges presented by life «on the street.»

This understanding can be used by outsiders as a way of removing the beliefs of religious communities from serious consideration as to their truth.

At the heart of such an understanding of Judaism was the concept of peoplehood, which Kaplan defined as «the awareness which an individual has of being a member of a group that is known, both by its own members and by outsiders, as a people.»

On the other hand it can be made up of intricate nuances that may not be so easily understood and appreciated by outsiders to the culture.

The outsider can question another tradition's language as to its inner logic, argues Lindbeck, but to understand the realities being created and affirmed by that language — both the personal commitment and the worldview — takes more identification with it than most of us can usually manage.

It is impossible for the outsider to understand the depth of the humiliation endured by the church during the 70 years of its captivity under communism.

Physics on the Fringe by Margaret Wertheim Tales of «outsider physicists» challenging our understanding of the universe.

The research paper «Preservation of 5300 year old red blood cells in the Iceman» -LRB-[free access] Interface: Journal of the Royal Society) written by Marek Janko, Robert W. Stark, and Albert Zink helps outsiders like me better understand why there is excitement about finding blood, from the Introduction to the paper (footnotes have been edited out),

Powerpoint presentation offering guidance and tasks to aid understanding of the novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton.

Unfortunately, Fed governors generally believe in their own power not because they actually understand that «power» as insiders, but because as outsiders, they worked on theoretical models of «economies» where the links between Fed actions and market interest rates, bank lending, and overall GDP could simply be assumed by writing down one or more algebraic equations.

This is a fault of the reviewer in question rather than a given of reviews — reviewers need to be more comprehensive in their approach by either having an intimate understanding of the game's politics, or stating that they are reviewing this as an outsider.

Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range of material, among which are an 1864 photograph of the forest of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.

«Outsiders who come here to help don't understand that we play by different rules,» said a friend who has spent her life in New Orleans, where unique intersections between politics, race, class, and corruption make for a particularly heady brew.

Instead, it aims «to understand connections, motivations, and ultimately outcomes» engendered by institutions of outsider art.

Finally, it is important that those who assess their credibility do so understanding that an outsider's instinctive sense of the situation may be inaccurate, influenced by aspects of the victim's self presentation that are themselves the product of the abuse she has suffered.

This is just the nature of the often complicated Appraisal business that can understandably be difficult to understand by untrained outsiders.