Sentences with phrase «vague notions of»

Vague notions of undefined «best interests of the child» should not trump both common sense and scientifically proven outcomes for children of divorce.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

As the moderator in my panel finally understood after an hour of discussion, the only vague notions of God that may be compatible with science ensure that God is essentially irrelevant to both our understanding of nature and our actions based on it.

As the years went by, the explanation for what U.S. forces were doing in Afghanistan shifted from America's raw national security needs to vague notions of nation building and «bringing democracy.»

So far explanations of motive (when attempted) are vague notions of «The Russians» wanting to generally harm the U.S..

Under the heady influence of a springtime picnic and vague notions of obligation, young undertaker Wilfred Price blurts out a marriage proposal to a woman he barely knows.

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

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.

Alex has vague notions of his inadequacies as a man and as a father to his sons, but God knows what the root causes of these failings are and seeks to form him in love - divine love, a Father's love which will do anything for the sake of the well - being of his children.

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

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.

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.

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.

Like Columbus sailing west, we have only the vaguest notions of where we might be heading.

This morning, after I realized a yawning void on the bread end, I threw the pizza plans for the evening out the window and decided to use my last yeast block in favor of a proper breakfast including... well, I wasn't exactly sure on what to do with it but had a vague notion of a sweet yeast roll or similar in mind.

Failures moan that successful people get their breaks not through their own efforts but through some vague notion of dumb «luck» When we were humiliated 6 - 0 by Chelsea, they played during the weekdays but we didn't.

We live in the age of branding, where one's personal value is rooted in some vague notion of authenticity.

Katherine Bradley, the president of the CityBridge Foundation, offered me valuable direction and counsel when I had only the vaguest notion of what this project could be, and she continued to provide me with important insights and suggestions throughout the time I spent working on it.

People should be judged biologically on whether they are alive or dead, not on some vague notion of personhood.

I had a vague notion of thinking I should handle the situation with presence, and maybe even compassion.

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

I have a vague notion of what you mean, but I can not apply it to my outfits.

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).

The Cleanse» embarks on an allegorical journey with only the vaguest notion of a destination.

Not only does this film resurrect old Cold War red menace paranoia to paint the villainous Decepticons as Commies, but it also evokes a lot of contemporary xenophobia towards a vague notion of what lies in the Middle East.

It comes in from the start like a race car already in fourth gear, speeding through flashbacks that serve as brief intros and a vague notion of the mission on which the team finds itself.

I had approached our drama teacher, Daniel Shindler, with a vague notion of what I wanted assemblies to be: in the round (in circles) and participative.

«Traditionally, in a lot of the historical research that I did, the vague notion of wanting control over the students is not surprising,» she says.

Like many other North Carolinians I spoke to, with the exception of the attorney Kelley, Quigley seems to have only a vague notion of how for - profit charters make money.

When we pick up a book by an author we haven't read before, we have only the vaguest notion of what themes it will contain.

Up until this point, I had a vague notion of who I was writing my stories for.

If you're like me, with boxes and boxes of photos, souvenirs and mementos and some vague notion of creatively organizing them «someday,» Scrapbook Tips and Techniques can propel you into action.

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.

Worse you might have a vague notion of how these new financial technologies work.

Awakening in a darkened room in a gothic castle, with no recollection of how you came to be there and only the vaguest notion of who you are, you explore the corridors and hallways piecing your memories together by collecting notes and journal entries left in the musty corners of libraries and sinister laboratories.

Well, it's a survival game, to be sure, with tech to be upgraded and some vague notion of reaching the universe's centre - point.

Dark Souls and its predecessor reminded me quite a bit of Link's Adventure, a game where you're supposed to use a spell (appropriately named «spell»)-- which normally turns weaker enemies into slime — in a very specific spot in one of the towns to make a building arise from underground, with only the vaguest notion of a clue to tip you off.

The ability to approach each new project with just a vague notion of what it will be.

I'll have a vague notion of what's going to happen.

The, admittedly, vague notion of «the onus of proof» or «the balance of probabilities» often rests on a much lower degree of expert agreement than 97 % (BUT, of course, we know this expertise has been wrong in the past).