Sentences with phrase «vagaries in»

Her post underscores the vagaries in «top» lists of any kind.

This path is just one of many possible outcomes, and vagaries in winds and water temperatures will most likely take the storm somewhere else.

To be sure there's clarity, I'll state for the record that I agree with these tornado researchers (and Muller's comments above) that there's no way at the moment to spot a trend in either direction, let alone a relationship to climate change, given the vagaries in the data (as I wrote in 2008).

But that approach, too, can be held hostage to vagaries in energy prices.

I have an article running in The Times on recent vagaries in planetary temperature, which almost all scientific experts on global warming describe as a brief and normal hiatus from the long - term warming driven by greenhouse gases.

The vagaries in this surface catches the light at different angles and eases the otherwise mechanical effect of the paintings, much like Newman's own matter - of - fact, but still luminous handling of paint.

MDM is giving the car some leeway through the third - gear curves, but when disturbed by a sequence of vagaries in the surface, it interferes momentarily through two 125 - mph - plus right - handers.

However, investors shouldn't pay too much attention to those vagaries in performance, because currency movements are notoriously difficult to predict and tend to even out, noted BlackRock analysts.

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«If you want to maintain a position in the middle class, given the vagaries of the humanities job market... well, you may want to make sure you snare some lucrative stock options first,» says the post.

The latest leg of the bull market in stocks could have a familiar impetus — a Federal Reserve unlikely to rock the boat, particularly while many of its members are still learning the vagaries of central banking.

Forecasting revenue and expenses in a best and worst case scenarios is a great exercise to prepare your business for the vagaries of operation.

That lesson: Pay attention to the vagaries of doing business in a foreign culture.

And because of the vagaries of living on the edge, that's all the more so in bootstrapping.

Financial pressures mounted, worsened by the Writers Guild strike in 2007 and 2008 and the vagaries of Ontario's studio tax - credit system, which put added strain on CORE's cash flow.

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

However, while the Fed's mandate does not extend to reacting to the vagaries of the currency market or the dynamics affecting other economies, recent US dollar strength and wobbles in risk assets caused by concerns over the state of the Chinese economy can not be entirely ignored.

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.

The vagaries of the calendar and the cycles of the moon bring in an early Lent and Easter this year, and...

The vagaries of the calendar and the cycles of the moon bring in an early Lent and Easter this year, and so the transfiguration has come early too, cutting short the season of Sundays after Epiphany.

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 ChurcIn 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 Churcin and by itself, exposed as it now was to the possible vagaries of private interpretation, an absolute authority displacing that of the Catholic Church.

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

Another example of the vagaries of boycott is the campaign waged against 7 - Eleven Stores by the Rev. Donald Wildmon and his organization, in an attempt to get the chain to remove Playboy and Penthouse magazines from their shelves.

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.

In the desert, Orange Peel and the man talk some more about the existence of God, the vagaries of religion, and suffering.

If philosophy among other vagaries were also to have the notion that it could occur to a man to act in accordance with its teaching, one might make out of that a queer comedy.

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.

He recognizes that «Israel's grammar was indeed impinged on by the vagaries of historical experience.Brueggemann also recognizes that old Testament theology exists in two historically and culturally distinct audiences.

Beguiled by this assumption, Western Christian theology has become an inadvertent effort to protect this «God» from the vagaries of finitude and surprise — in short, from the very things we ordinarily associate with the ability to have meaningful relationships with others.

... 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.

That capacity, we can now see, has been severely impaired by urban growth in the Sunbelt since World War II, and is likely to be further impacted by the vagaries of weather shifts.»

Because cookies bake for a shorter amount of time than bread or cakes, and are relatively low in water and high in fat content, they're much less susceptible to the vagaries of high - altitude baking.

These systems provide for moderate levels of meat and dairy, but they do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.

In Sonoma County alone, with close to 60,000 acres under vine, almost 70 percent are insured against any number of the vagaries that can occur — and there is a reason for that.

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!

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

Throw in the vagaries of a supermarket duopoly and a raft of other issues faced most starkly by regional Australia and it's little surprise that SPC, which suffered a loss of $ 25m this year, is so candid about its desire for government assistance.

Hayes's final rage at the vagaries of the forward pass occurred in the last moments of the 1978 Gator Bowl when he slugged Clemson noseguard Charlie Bauman, who had just intercepted a last - gasp OSU pass.

The vagaries of the seasons year in and out especially in the West means a Finals appearance is incredibly difficult.

Despite all of the vagaries associated with the passing game — first with quarterback Brandon Harris, then with Etling — they still ranked 22nd in Off.

Seattle Sounders fans should be well - versed in all of this by now — few teams have been more active during the so - called «secondary» transfer window — but we wanted to put together a primer of sorts for the uninitiated or those who may have forgotten some of the vagaries.

He has been a top target of the Senate Democrats, though, given the vagaries of Western New York politics (in which Democrats can often be mistaken for conservatives), they were unable to make much headway last year.

Instead she talks in vagaries about how she's proud of her record in Nassau County.

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.

You find fellow Ghanaians standing in open places; some left to wait at street shoulders and roundabouts with no one caring about the associated risk posed by motorists; others are left at the mercy of the vagaries of the weather — to these embassies, they couldn't be bothered if the sun is scorching, if it's raining or even if there is a category five hurricane — they simply don't seem to care,» he noted.

«Many people in my constituency are fed up with working hard and doing their best, and seeing others who make little or no effort being better off because of the vagaries of the benefits system.

He railed against the «British curse of short - termism both in the corporate world and in government», referring to the problem of potential industrial and infrastructure investors being scared off by the vagaries of British politics and timidity towards infrastructure projects.

And unlike a public sector pension plan, which is protected by the state constitution and whose benefits can't be diminished even in an economic crisis, the retirement savings plan the city is proposing would be very much subject to the vagaries of the market.

And there's a case to be made that continuity in essential services requires something beyond the vagaries of annual appropriations.