Sentences with word «vagary»

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.

So this is where the vagary of a single quarter data point comes into play.

It's a bona fide West Hollywood institution, a sun - kissed sanctuary seemingly immune to the vagaries of time and fashion.

For many who remember what business was like pre-Internet, millennials seem an appallingly sensitive lot, having been protected from the vagaries of the world by helicopter parents, trigger warnings and — to especially cynical critics — sheer narcissism.

But even that doesn't always explain the vagaries of executive compensation.

Yet it's more than the vagaries of style, or even simple reverse - snobbery, that has prodded executives to buy Swatches.

There are chapters on workplace gossip, on the vagaries of loyalty, on expense accounts, whistleblowing, vendor relationships and even pornography.

«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.

Given the IMETs» record and the vagaries of Canada's legal system, popular desires for an official reckoning will likely not be satiated for a long time.

The vagaries of sizing can also be used to flatter or reassure a consumer.

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.

Like Memphis Meats, which counts meat - processing giants Tyson and Cargill among its investors, Finless is hopeful that major industry players will welcome a more reliable alternative to the vagaries of fishing.

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.

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

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.

We'll never know who advised the board its dividend program could continue uninterrupted by the vagaries of an $ 11.3 billion transaction.

Commodities» investing is highly volatile and subject to changing economic conditions and the vagaries of speculators among other risks.

But I think the real lesson of becoming overly dependent on the vagaries of some startup is not to become so reliant on anything.

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.

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.

The numbers are a stretch, and the vagaries of Macau make it difficult for MGM to justify a premium.

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

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.

Plus, you know you don't have to worry about losing your principal to the vagaries of the stock market.

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

While the forces at work here may smack of a Jungian «collective unconscious» shared by all humanity, Orlando's analysis depends on the vagaries of history.

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 Church.

For Buber, the human person was reducible neither to the discrete features of individualism nor the collective ones of social aggregates, let alone the vagaries of language and discourse.

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.

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

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.

Such skepticism has less to do with the personality of Jimmy Carter than with the vagaries of political power.

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.

Besides having to overcome the vagaries of nature, the farmer had to wait patiently for the fruit of one's labor.

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.

The God of the biblical narrative is not an unmoved mover, majestic monarch or all - determining controller of history who is untouched by the vagaries of time and change.

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.

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.

He struggles with the frustration of trying to figure out the complexities of his retirement plan, the vagaries of the stock market, the indifference of the Medicare system and the insecurities of Social Security.

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

For all their vagaries about religion, Dickens, Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, and James had all benefited from it.

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.