Sentences with word «vagaries»

* Because of vagaries of the electoral system Labour need a smaller percentage of the total vote to secure a majority.

Just like weather, we suffer from vagaries of emotions too.

A waterproof smartwatch is your all - season friend as it is made of robust materials that can put up with vagaries of climate.

Maybe his early fourth - wall - breaking crack about the prior film's box - office success («I'm spoken of in the same sentence as Jesus — it's Passion Of The Christ, then me, at least domestically») is as much about messianic reluctance as it is about vagaries of audience taste.

See the excellent first show by Brent Wadden, a young Canadian - born painter who has set aside his brushes and taken up weaving, making thick rug - like abstractions whose jagged, interlocking shapes have the wobble of Op Art except softened by vagaries of color, texture and edge.

Rosenthal informs her readers about abuses: how lobbyists have influenced government policies that benefit drug companies and insurers; how drug and device manufacturers skirt laws, take advantage of vagaries in regulations, and «game the system» to reap obscene profits; and how deceptive accounting practices lead to incomprehensible — and often inaccurate — bills that patients and insurers pay without question.

When faced by demands that they «cash» their claims about God as active, theologians too easily fall into vagaries and generalities.

Bear in mind that people pay twice that much to live in Jersey City, of all places, where they have to struggle with the PATH Train and the other vagaries of life in New Jersey while working in NYC.

This makes petroleum just another commodity, subject to the same market vagaries as other commodities like iron ore, copper and platinum.

On such vagaries are political careers saved.

Mumbai About Blog Vagaries © of the weather.blog written by rajesh kapadia.concentrating on meteorology of the Indian sub continent and extreme world weather.

They didn't hold back, complaining about almost as many features and design vagaries as they praised.

Director Steven Soderbergh has averaged a film a year since his acclaimed 1989 debut Sex, Lies & Videotape, an incredible work rate by modern filmmaking standards especially for one who frequently works within the political vagaries fof the studio system.

If there is a key that unlocks Picasso's achievement, it is to be found neither in the Marxists from Max Raphael to John Berger who measured his achievements against the social and economic vagaries of his times, nor in the formalism of Clement Greenberg, who viewed Cubism and the onset of abstraction as a revolution that Picasso precipitated but that eventually left him behind.

In matters of communication, subscription to an objective reality, abstractly independent of the historical vagaries of individualized discussion episodes, is indispensably demanded by any step into the domain of the publicly accessible objects essential to communal inquiry and interpersonal communication about a shared world.

In affirming this intimate experiential source for the knowledge of man the data of objective research are not rejected, nor are the gates opened to uncontrolled subjective vagaries.

But don't let these institutional vagaries obscure the fact that Hong is in the midst of one of the great cinematic winning streaks, a frenetic burst of creative energy that comes along only a few times in a generation.

A founding principle lies at the heart of every investment manager — a basis on which to profit from the seemingly confused vagaries of the stock market.

While we believe our long - term records demonstrate some success in our service to shareholders, we remain humbled by the day - to - day vagaries of our capital markets, and how little control we ultimately have over our investment fortunes in the short run.

I think the best aspect of the conversations was getting a range of answers about the history of Puebla and cultural vagaries that helped me to start developing an understanding of the area and history.

That is because U.S. shale companies have been somewhat protected from the full vagaries of oil price swings up until now.

It is within vagaries of paint application that Johnson's pictures accrete homey idiosyncratic charm.

Eschewing frustrating vagaries, sweeping generalizations, and gender - based assumptions, Puhn's extremely specific guide focuses on simple, rational solutions that primarily revolve around maintaining respect for one's partner.

Decades of development show how versatile the prospect of putting a few shapes on a broad canvas can be, with many vagaries and tensions.

But it expertly shields its occupants from most vagaries, top up or down, and despite all the bits and bytes, it still represents conventional luxury — that's conventional as in plenty of street cred and every convenience item money can buy.

Jack Kleinhenz, the chief economist at the National Retail Federation, does not discount the magnitude of the transformation that is occurring in retail, but cautioned that the monthly job figures are also highly subject to temporary vagaries.

In the course of controversy the reformers were led to go further than they had intended at first, and to claim for the whole Bible indiscriminately, in and by itself, exposed as it now was to the possible vagaries of private interpretation, an absolute authority displacing that of the Catholic Church.

There was no answer to the problems of the heavens above and the teeming phenomena of the world beneath but the leap of the mind into speculation which had already produced the multiform vagaries of polytheistic theology.

Because of agricultural vagaries, production figures vary radically from state to state over the years.

And they show that the right managerial change — a reasonable characterisation, at least from the outside, might be from overcontrolling to relaxed — can, coupled with a little luck and the inherent vagaries of cup football, end up working out rather nicely.

There are so many different vagaries and outcomes that it's only a handful of Westminster elites who really get it.

Whereas a previous generation lamented the pickiness of children's changeable tastes, now doctors positively welcomed childish vagaries of appetite.

And with the passage of time, the numerous vagaries that the skin gets to face begin to show up on its surface.

And as our narrator, F. Murray Abraham reminds again, as he did last year in Inside Llewyn Davis, of the Hollywood vagaries that allowed someone of his extraordinary talent to all but vanish from the big screen for three decades.

It would seem the film fell victim to the twin vagaries of executive shifts at the studio and failing to gather enough momentum to nab that all - important greenlight.

She dishes out dreamy montages of all the neighbours silently doing their thing, so we get Nighy gravely setting book - jacket photos alight, Frances Barber staring daggers as a redundant seamstress, and Clarkson plotting vagaries out of her window to pass the time.

The alien tongue is literal, but it's also the ineffable vagaries of human emotions and aspirations that draws from a three word phrase: «I miss you» (a deep, bitter draught of personal melancholy and longing).

That's before you get into the environmental vagaries of hydrogen production, which tends to be either energy - intensive itself (when extracted through electrolysis) or is gathered during the extraction of fossil fuels or natural gas.

Despite a lifetime of sailing experience, the meteorological vagaries of the vast geography and the black art of strategizing a course that capitalizes on the velocity - amplifying power of the wind mean Soldini has his work cut out for him.

Doctorow deftly captures the complex but beautiful vagaries of life in clean, simple language.»

At $ 10 a day it'll give you 30 days of advertising — long enough to get statistically reliable results, account for the daily vagaries of performance and give you time to change ads, keywords and other strategies when they inevitably go sideways.

And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.

So, wouldn't AWP be the perfect forum in which to focus less on the esoteric vagaries of poetry and literary analysis and more on the options its young charges will face as soon as they step off the campus curb into the peculiar traffic patterns of publishing today?

This allows lenders to make consistent underwriting decisions — despite the underlying vagaries of each data source.

Other than that, currency markets are immune to the emotional vagaries that often slap stock prices around.

Our true purpose and goal was to add precision to what we held to be vagaries regarding investment performance and where it comes from.

Indulging her passion for vacation vagary through the written word on a full - time basis since 2010, travel funster Jodi Thornton - O'Connell guides readers to the unexpected, quirky, and awe - inspiring.

Vagaries dot the bill's language like puppy kennels along the rolling Holmes County landscape.