Sentences with phrase «weaker writing as»
However, a great story can overshadow — partially at least — weaker writing as long as the writing is still reasonably competent.
http://www.writewell.silverpen.org/ Not exact matches
He once stepped on and continued to stand on the toes of my right foot as he handed me a report I had written, while asking, «Do you think this is kind of weak?»
This alarms many in academia, as business majors have «the weakest gains during the first two years of college on a national test of writing and reasoning skills.»
Some of her writing has criticized the SEC for what she views as weak cost - benefit analyses.
As Miguel Helft writes for Fortune, that's partly due to the company's reorganization around mobile, which critics once bashed them for being weak in.
By now, most people are likely aware of the government's attempts to use the All Writs Act from 1789 as a tool to force Apple write new software with weaker security so that feds could unlock an iPhone 5c they had in custody.
SAO PAULO Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA on Friday posted a net loss due to weaker aircraft deliveries and write - downs on used airliners as major sales activity stayed quiet amid tie - up talks with Boeing Co.
Levi writes that as a justification for enhancing domestic and North American oil production, «the underlying argument is weak.
Germany underperforming makes the entire eurozone look even weaker, with Italy, France and Spain all written off as saviours for the region.
I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»
Weak picks from past years include such boringly ubiquitous Beltway types as Norman Ornstein and Marvin Kalb, people like Justin Kaplan who mainly seem well - connected, Russell Banks, who writes bad novels, and Robert Venturi, who adorns his buildings with tacky architectural flourishes.
While some try to explain away what James is writing about by saying that it does not actually refer to someone who is physically sick, but instead someone who is spiritually or emotionally weak, I think it is best to go with the traditional and most common way of reading this text and see it as a a reference to physical sickness.
Voltaire, for example, writes thus to a friend, at the age of seventy - three: «As for myself,» he says, «weak as I am, I carry on the war to the last moment, I get a hundred pike - thrusts, I return two hundred, and I laugAs for myself,» he says, «weak as I am, I carry on the war to the last moment, I get a hundred pike - thrusts, I return two hundred, and I laugas I am, I carry on the war to the last moment, I get a hundred pike - thrusts, I return two hundred, and I laugh.
Or as one pastor wrote in the margin of his sermon before delivering it, «Weak point here, shout louder!»
If the people who wrote the bible had any idea how our solar system worked when they wrote it, then you might have an argument (a very weak one), but as they clearly didn't have a clue, all of your baseless assertions hold no weight.
This conclusion was strong in my mind about the time, as far as I can remember, when I wrote the Origin of Species; and it is since that time that it has very gradually with many fluctuations become weaker.»
Writing to the Corinthians with a bluntness that spared no one's feelings, he used such adjectives as «foolish,» «weak,» «low» and even «nothing.»
I am glad i did not write right away else these words would be curse words, i think our manager is just a watcher of football, tactically wenger is slow to react and very weak as a leader, being angry after something happens will not appease the fans.
I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision
Come to that, Ozil is nothing to write home about.Football is a team work.Ozil should be used only against weak teams not teams like Chelsea, Man U, City, Liverpool etc.Use boys who are ready to work as a team.
I think he's a strong character too, seeing as a weaker human will turn to putty reading what «fans» write / think about him?
In the United States, this system of Government is called a Jeffersonian Democracy, which favors a weak centralized government (without writing tons, a Jeffersonian believes the Local Government should have more control over an individual by law as they are easier for the individual to fight) and as the scope of authority rises in a federal system, the government deals less and less with the individual and more and more with lower governments.
«Due to the dire economic and financial conditions of New York State and the very weak ratings of incumbent State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, as long as he has sufficient resources to get his message out, Harry Wilson is very likely to win this election,» pollster John McLaughlin wrote in the memo, which was forwarded by Wilson's campaign manager Chapin Fay.
Widely written - off by the political commentariat as a no - hoper when Theresa May called the snap election, he is now a prime minister in waiting, leader of the most popular party in Britain facing a weak and unstable government.
«Had I stopped the tenure clock, I would have been viewed as weak by my senior colleagues, «one faculty member wrote in her response, says study co-author Jean Waltman.
It's so far away that the sunlight that falls on it would be about 300,000 times weaker than the light that reaches us, as SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak has written.
As Siega - Riz wrote in a recent review of Hariâ $ ™ s book: â $ Raw milk, which means unpasteurized, can carry dangerous bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, which are responsible for numerous foodborne illnesses, especially among people with weak or developing immune systems, young children, pregnant women and older adults.âAs Siega - Riz wrote in a recent review of Hariâ $ ™ s book: â $ Raw milk, which means unpasteurized, can carry dangerous bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, which are responsible for numerous foodborne illnesses, especially among people with weak or developing immune systems, young children, pregnant women and older adults.âas salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, which are responsible for numerous foodborne illnesses, especially among people with weak or developing immune systems, young children, pregnant women and older adults.â $
As of the writing of this post, the dollar is weak and only getting weaker.
But, the writing's a little weak and isn't sure what direction to take the plot: as it's unclear whether the resurrected character is demon possessed, lost their humanity, or something else.
It's not just that the writing is weaker, it's that the franchise is trying too hard to be cool when its strength always lay in being edgy - the cool factor came as a result of being willing to take a risk.
The plot is weaker than some of Marvel's more recent stories (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier), and the villain is the biggest mustache twirling megalomaniac the studio has yet produced, but what it lacks in completely solid writing it makes up for in its wonderfully charming cast, an impressive use of special effects, and at least a baby step forward as far as female supporting characters are concerned.
It'd be fair to write Sonic Forces off as another weak entry in the series.
Instead, he forces wooden dialogue into a script that could have been written by a monkey and introduces Dracula as the weakest baddie of the entire trilogy.
While there are some good moments as well as an inspirational story, the writing and directing are pretty weak.
The filmmaker has no problem writing electric dialogue in the new «Fahrenheit,» and the visuals are filled with understated detail, with the firemen living in plush homes turned cold by weak fluorescent lighting, and the ghettos of the book - loving eels warmed as if by candlelight.
This is a movie in the true tradition of film noir — which someone who didn't write a dictionary once described as a movie where an ordinary guy indulges the weak side of his character, and hell opens up beneath his feet.
It's a solid opening that is in absolutely no way indicative of what's to come, as the movie, written by David Loucka, Jacob Estes, and Akiva Goldsman, segues into a midsection that's devoted almost entirely to Julia's aforementioned investigation - with the heavy, heavy emphasis on this ensuring that Rings predominantly comes off as a weak rehash of the 2002 original.
The greatest problem with the film isn't as obvious as its bad writing and weak structure: it's that Queen of the Damned tries to make sense where none is to be made.
There are coloring activities for the little or weak ones as well as writing activities for the older or stronger students.
«Even a weak program may be better than no program at all, as can be seen in the results for whites,» Cascio writes.
Getting kids to write, especially the weaker writers, can be a challenge in itself but getting kids to write about math can be even more challenging — unless you use blogging as your literacy tactic.
«Experimenters separated seventh - and eighth - grade students into two groups — strong and weak readers as measured by standard reading tests,» Hirsch wrote.
Following up on my most recent post about whether «The Test Matters,» a colleague of mine from the University of Southern California (USC)-- Morgan Polikoff whom I also referenced on this blog this past summer as per a study he and Andrew Porter (University of Pennsylvania) released about the «Surprisingly Weak» Correlations among VAMs and Other Teacher Quality Indicators» — wrote me an email.
Unfortunately, research shows that most students in the United States are weak when it comes to reading and writing non-fiction, as is apparent in the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
As Rep. Pope wrote, «Strong theoretical reasons» do not amount to evidence and the absence of previous research on a topic does not validate weak research.»
To cite an example using traditional grading marks, a student who started out as a rather weak writer in 10th grade English and earned three «Ds» on initial writing assignments but worked hard to improve his skills and earned three «Bs» by the end of the term should receive a «B» as a final mark on writing, not a «C» (the average).
MORE ON WEAK COVERAGE OF DC SCHOOLS: It was think tank fluffery as well as inadequate local media coverage that allowed the DCPS scandal to fester and grow, write AEI's Rick Hess and Brendan Bell in their oped, DC graduation scandal shows how an uncritical gaze leads reformers astray.
I feel awkward using my own weak words to describe what he does — but for me he was writing about what was happening now as if it were the future but with so much compassion and feeling.
If you are writing the business plan for a specific business concern, or as an aspiring business person, keep in mind the strong and the weaker points of your competitors.
She was quite obsessed with marrying for love, but as I wrote the story, I realized that she needed to be struggling with something internally in order for the reader not to find her motivation weak.