Sentences with phrase «vague notions about»

«Let's say you have a baby and you have all these vague notions about saving for college.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The low fat school of nutrition benefits greatly from the fact that the public has only vague notions about vitamin A; for the family of water - soluble nutrients called carotenes are not true vitamin A, but are more accurately termed provitamin A. True vitamin A, or retinol, is found only in animal products like cod liver oil, liver and other organ meats, fish, shell fish and butterfat from cows eating green grass.

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

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.

Trouble was, no one had the vaguest notion about how that might be accomplished within the limits of the existing technology.

Still, I find very few folks have anything more than the vaguest notions about the Common Core.

I guess I have some vague notion about the sustainability of Social Security trust fund, and insofar as that's concerned, sustainability is a measure of a current policy's power to produce the same positive returns indefinitely.

Not exact matches

What is more, the post-Enlightenment knack of reducing Christianity itself to vague, generic qualities hardly distinguishable from gentle manners or sound citizenship (about which more below) yielded a foundational notion of Christianity — an «essence,» it was often called — so insubstantial that it could hardly sustain any specificities or provoke any controversy at all.

So far our attempts to talk with Noah about the baby in Mama's belly have gone completely over his head — he might retain the vague notion that there's a baby in there for a few minutes, but it's not sinking in at all.

The jokes hit upon every elementary school kid's favourite subjects: comic books, movies about comic books, sex (but only some vague notion of sex — as if viewing a porn video through a scrambled pay - per - view feed or, for today's generation, via a slow - to - buffer WiFi connection).

After eight years together, she wants to get married and have a baby, but Tobey is too emotionally arrested (he has a Sportscenter cell phone ring) and freaked out by the vague notion that «everyone dies someday» to entertain a serious conversation period, much less one involving a discussion about commitment.

The novel began with a vague notion that I wanted to write a story about two sisters.

How fortuitous — I'd just spent all of 30 seconds glancing through the catalogs in the waiting area, so I said intelligently, «Oh yes — those are like departments,» despite having only the vaguest notion of what I was talking about.

«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.»