Sentences with phrase «vagaries as»

Notwithstanding the often high stakes, legal decision - making is prone to the same influences and vagaries as are other decision - making processes.

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

Not exact matches

Anyone concerned to know more about the vagaries of such statesmen as the Reverend Winrod may turn to page 142 where an appendix of anti-Semites is published for the benefit of fanciers of Americana.

In other words, they are as susceptible to the vagaries of traffic as the vehicles they are supposed to be replacing.

The vagaries of a banking system with many smaller participants relying heavily on a market - based system of funding could be mitigated by an evolution to fewer nationwide banks backed by FDIC charters - and therefore not be as affected by the whims and fluctuations of capital markets.

More Muslims are embracing them as an acceptable alternative to arranged marriages and the vagaries of 21st - century, American - style dating.

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.

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

Some of it is symptomatic of an experimentation controlled by no leading idea but only by vagary and the desire to please as many potential church visitors as possible.

Nor can I see that a single test, least of all a simple reference to the Bible as understood by the recipient of the special revelation, is now or ever will be a sufficient safeguard against the vagaries to which intensely sincere minds are sometimes even more liable than those whose convictions are less fiercely one - sided.

We have at least one such panoptic writer, Dante, and one might include a few others, such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Mario Luzi, whose sublime vision allowed their work to escape the vagaries of history.

Furthermore, the fact that the worshipper himself is involved in all this, that he has his own «liturgy» or expected part to play within the great liturgy of the Church as a whole — his own work to do as a member of the company — and that he is well acquainted with what is going to happen next in the course of the service, delivers him from the vagaries of the minister, who in such worship is not able to obtrude his personality and his personal predilections in any offensive sense.

And, whether we care or not for immortality in itself, we ought, as mere critics doing police duty among the vagaries of mankind, to insist on the illogicality of a denial based on the flat ignoring of a palpable alternative.

... I can tell the very place where the blessed Polycarp used to sit [note the posture of the bishop as teacher or preacher upon his cathedra] as he discoursed, his goings out and his comings in, the character of his life,... the discourses he would address to the multitude, how we would tell of his conversations with John and with the others who had seen the Lord, how he would relate their words from memory... and I can testify before God that if that blessed and apostolic presbyter had heard the like [the Gnostic vagaries], he would have cried aloud and stopped his ears and said, as was his custom: «O good God, for what sort of times hast thou kept me, that I should endure these things?»

To love included not only the vagaries of circumstances — annoyance, anger, pleasure, laughter — but the growth from a childhood emotion, through all the changing years of becoming womanhood, to that which finally emerged in these last twenty years as an ever - deepening friendship.

I can't say I belong to the group that live in fear of yeast but I deal with the vagaries of living at altitude and that's always an extra consideration that can make any baking questionable as evidenced by the jar of yeast I just pitched that had expired... I don't do it a lot!

Another Saturday and another Arsenal friendly for your humble scribe (having made the trip to Underhill last weekend with the ArsenalArsenal crew), but thanks to the vagaries of the M25 I missed the first 20 minute or so of the pre season friendly against Blue Square team Welling United, known as» The Wings».

Hayley Rogers of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel created the game as a substitute for delivering a lecture on the vagaries of legislative process.

Economists distinguish a number of types of unemployment, however: cyclical unemployment is brought about by the vagaries of the business cycle; structural unemployment is brought about by changes in the economy or the labour market, when the jobs available do not fit the workforce's skills; frictional unemployment is the phenomenon of people being «between jobs»; and seasonal unemployment is linked to certain types of seasonal jobs, such as farm work and construction.

As such, by making the lottery explicit, the vagaries of the USPS are factored out and made explicit by INS (excuse me, ICE) directly.

It could also be precisely drafted, rather than be subject to the vagaries of a particular case, as the Option One route is.

At the least, he wants to suggest to his backbenches that he's determined to tackle the vagaries of the courts; at the most, last week's Commons vote has convinced the Government that it can't just carry on as usual.

Given the vagaries of the electoral system, an even smaller popular vote than this for Labour might return us as the largest party.

Whether they do depends as much on geopolitics as geology — the vagaries of market speculation on future oil prices and how much economic pain private oil companies can take compared with their national oil company counterparts, like Saudi Arabia's Aramco.

This type of model could work for other fisheries — such as a squid fishery off the coast of South Africa — that are susceptible to the vagaries of currents, says Jean - Paul Robin, an expert on cephalopod fisheries at the University of Caen, France.

Of course, in reality forensic science, while exact in some respects is just as susceptible to the vagaries of measurements and analyses as any other part of science.

Walter Salles reinforces the impression of Jia's own art as emerging fluidly from the vagaries of his own life and socioeconomic position.

Walter Salles reinforces the impression of Jia's art as emerging fluidly from the vagaries of his own life.

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.

There are any number of readings available here, from Katniss and Peeta's relationship mirroring generations of Hollywood stars (closeted and otherwise) with fake publicity marriages, to the oppression of the working classes by the greedy 1 %, to the vagaries and dangers of instant fame, to bread and circuses, and «Catching Fire» allows viewers to dig into or avoid the metaphors as much as they want.

Eyes Wide Shut was Kubrick's final message before he passed away, and it revelas an artist still grappling with the complexities and vagaries of the human heart, as well as organs slightly southward.

Terence Nance's semi-autobiographical film is amusing and heartfelt as well as a visually and narratively imaginative exploration of the vagaries of love in all its angst and pleasure — especially during the uncertainty when flirtation has no clear end.

Thanks to the vagaries of Netflix's recommendation algorithm, it doesn't take more than a few steps to go from family - friendly kiddie pabulum like The Smurfs 2 to a left - field oddity like The Trotsky, a 2009 Canadian comedy that re-imagines Rushmore as a tongue - in - cheek Marxist crowd - pleaser.

Director and co-writer Noah Baumbach constructs the film from Frances» point of view, as though she is living in a bubble, pushed along hither and yon by the vagaries of life.

Where The Rider gives us a protagonist ensnared by his responsibility to a dream — Brady can no more shake the memory of being on horseback than he can abandon his town or his loved ones — The Black Stallion paints a picture of animal kinship as the ultimate escape: from the vagaries of the human world, from one's own tragic backstory, from the limitations of one's youth.

First, a few notes: due to the vagaries of international release dates, there are quite a few films that I haven't had the chance to see — «Django Unchained,» «Lincoln,» «Zero Dark Thirty» and «The Master» are not on release in my territory yet, so those titles not being on my list should not be seen as pointed omissions.

Terence Nance's semi-autobiographical film is amusing and heartfelt as well as a visually and narratively imaginative exploration of the vagaries of love in all its angst and pleasure — especially during the uncertainty when flirtation has no...

Terence Nance's semi-autobiographical film is amusing and heartfelt as well as a visually and narratively imaginative exploration of the vagaries of love in all its angst and pleasure — especially during the uncertainty when flirtation has no... more

As with most film adaptations of John le Carré, and many of le Carré's stories, the vagaries of the plot in all its inevitable twists and surprises is less important than the memorable characters and the precarious world of betrayal that they inhabit.

The families, offended by what they regarded as sartorial tyranny, have since given their children a two - year lesson in civil disobedience, the Bill of Rights, the American legal system, and the vagaries of iron - on patches.

First, afterschool and summer enrichment opportunities are available to all students as a core part of the public education system — whether through schools or organizations that partner with them — and not optional «extras,» which are particularly vulnerable to political vagaries and budget cuts.

Support for competitive programs, even among reformers, is apt to plummet as it becomes clear that the vagaries of peer reviewers and the prowess of grant writers are what drive results in such competitions, not true policy change, political courage, leadership or public commitment to reform.

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.

Getting the word out is hard (as I've discovered) but the vagaries of Amazon can mean that one small change in your sales strategy can ruin an established author's standing on the site.

«Well known as the author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery novels, American Donna Leon has lived in Venice for 30 years and knows its vagaries and delights in and out.

The previous months's KENP payout was $ 0.0048 per page read, so I'm regarding this latest payment as being at the same level due to the vagaries of rounding off figures.

«Each sumptuous and suspenseful tale is strikingly different from the others even as they all reflect the intricacies of Indian culture and Chandra's profound sensitivity to the vagaries of the heart and the implacability of circumstances.»

As any investor is well aware, keeping up with global politics, macro-economics, regional currency fluctuations plus the vagaries of sectors and individual stocks can amount to almost a full - time job.

One can learn all about companies, markets, valuation, etc. but without the understanding of and ability to cope with market vagaries, one can not thrive as a value investor.

Ever since the New Deal, Democrats have largely accepted the label as the party of regulation — defenders of the weak from the vagaries of soulless capitalism.