Sentences with phrase «vague notion»

It has no means to actually sell these things, and only vague notions of ride - sharing as a business model.

I had only vague notions about how to be a great teacher.

You will have actual numbers instead of vague notions about your retirement income.

In education policy conversations, words like «equity» and «civil rights» are often used in an abstract sense, paired with vague notions of failing schools.

Despite its importance, many people have vague notions as to what the word means.

In ordinary usage they are remarkably vague notions and quickly create confusion.

It hit me then that I had a very vague notion of what a good future for this planet might actually look like.

Before I took this job, I had pretty vague notions about federal employees — if I thought about them at all.

Most documentaries come out with some sort of shape at the end, but you go in with much more vague notions.

I also had vague notions of wanting to make a yogurt sauce.

But from the outset, the ideology behind Eden's Gate doesn't feel rooted in any tradition beyond vague notions of sin and survivalism.

Tyack wanted to help policymakers base consequential decisions on historical fact instead of relying on vague notions of schooling in the past.

Since then companies have been drawn to CSR, attracted by nice - sounding, if vague notions such as the «triple bottom line» (the idea that companies can simultaneously serve social and environmental goals as well as profits).

«It appears to have no compelling objective or purpose other than a somewhat vague notion of a state neutrality, which we don't see as being furthered in any way by a law that limits how people go about their daily business.»

Christians on the Left said that the notion of a «Christian country» was difficult, and was «too vague a notion which allows one to hide away from having your policies measured against Christian values».

It is not based on any hard facts or research, but on a general vague notion that hospitals are havens of safety.

Claims have been made for their role in everything from fighting cancer and cardiovascular disease to maddeningly vague notions about supporting healthy living.

He spends his evenings binge drinking, getting high and instigating bar fights all while harboring vague notions of becoming a writer.

And so begins your exploration of Lordran, where non-player characters offer a few vague notions of where you are and what you must do, but little else.

In the late 1990s early 2000s scramble toward new institutionalism — that vague notion espousing the value of a reflexive, publicly aware and self - critical arts institution — performance, in all its variant forms, increasingly found itself on the programmes of art galleries, aspiring to the condition of knowledge production laboratories, everywhere.

«In the case of the abstractions, I get vague notions of pictures that are just asking to be painted...

Those putting vague notions of polar ice caps melting over the welfare of their fellow American munitions plant worker, need to considerably question their patriotism.

Some commentators recycle vague notions about Australia being a wide brown land with long distances to transport goods and people and that this means that our greenhouse gas emissions must be higher than other, more compact countries.

We can entertain vague notions of such (control engineers actual build some, but with operational amplifiers as a power source and hard output limiters to provide net stability), but nature does not produce any.

Whereas pre-scientific man had only vague notions of how the mind, spirit and consciousness of man were related to the body, we now have sufficient knowledge of the brain and the nervous system to know that man's stream of consciousness could not function at all if it were not regularly receiving sense impressions from the eye, the ear, and touch etc..

What is valuable in all this is that the author is neither a theologian with vague notions about science, nor a scientist with woolly ideas about the divine.

The certainty with which the faith of many neighbors (including many Christian neighbors) was thus disposed — by some of the very people championing dialogue — pressed the discussion beyond vague notions of «respect» for varying forms of faith toward a search for the appropriate criteria for such judgments.

TU Director of Communications Mary Moser provides a detailed starting point for creating and utilizing a digital classroom observation tool in order to answer the question «How do you make systematic change without basing your work on vague notions and «we think» statements?»

Thus, the «Federalists» «anti-majoritarian bias, and their commitment to neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court whose commitment to such vague notions as «libertarian dignity under law» makes it the supreme umpire in American life.

This makes teasing out effects of central bank policy versus vague notions such as inflation expecations very difficult.

Previously, I've had trouble finding much beyond word counts and vague notions about what a novella should be, but Bell's post really lays out the specifics.

In common usage, however, the phrase «public schooling» implies a lot more, resonating with vague notions of legitimacy, nondiscrimination, and shared values.

We have only some vague notions of what it is that could be killing them off so quickly, and all possible causes — bad nutrition, pesticides, an itinerant lifestyle that's full of unnatural stresses — point to the very system of which they are a central part.

They might have a vague notion of what they want.

Too often impatient entrepreneurs leave salaried positions with only a vague notion of their business goals.

And those who have a vague notion just «agree to disagree», «embrace unity», and say essentially, «both are biblical and both are right».

In their mind is the vague notion that they're destined for greatness and world change, and if they could just find the right...

January 19, 1983, Christian Century), it is unlikely that they would have more than the vaguest notion of the contours of Christian Science theology.

Edginess was never the goal, and neither was some vague notion of Christian «freedom.»

Standing out as the single most important instruction Jesus left his closest followers in the Great Commission, it is arguable that today's Church has only a vague notion of how it should be done and a disjointed strategy in place to achieve that goal.

This was particularly remarkable in - light of the fact that the village Christians» forebears, joining the faith in mass movements, had but the vaguest notion of what they were getting into — just that it was likely to be better than being an untouchable Hindu.

Paul Lakeland shares Morris's interest in social groups as the fundamental constituents of social order, and by giving prominence to Whitehead's vague notion of «world consciousness» imagines the ideal outcome for history to be a reconciliation of the disharmonies among those constituents into a global political order.

Yes, some churches have a vague notion of wanting to get those they consider on the margins «saved», but seldom know how to deal with the issues these people face.

Personal fulfilment (a rather modern and vague notion, open to all sorts of secular goals) is not and can not be guaranteed by total consecration to God, or by any other state of life, for that matter.

What this has to do with him, or with the world of sharp competition and rising prices, he has only the vaguest notion.

The message rarely has much application or relevance for life here on earth, unless it is some vague notion that God wants to help us with our needs if we will just pray, obey, and go to church.

Or, more disturbing still, the idea of promoting this vague notion of a vision reminds me of Newspeak.