Sentences with phrase «which thwarted»

In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations — and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free.

To be sure, there were storms, but not those frightful hurricanes which thwarted Shackleton.

The evolutionist holds, in fact, that what we call «good» is simply that which survives or works, and «bad» that which thwarts survival or fails, but such terms must be purely subjective — from the perspective of a subject struggling to survive, a tool striving to be functional.

To keep the proteases in check, the body produces inhibitors such as the protein TIMP - 1, which thwart the proteases in their work.

Academics already come with sometimes insurmountable challenges which thwart forward progress.

All governments which thwart this natural course, which force things into another channel or which endeavour to arrest the progress of society at a particular point, are unnatural, and to support themselves are obliged to be oppressive and tyrannical.»

Not exact matches

Life is often about being able to take a great opportunity if it comes up, but I have found that I often would overly schedule my life with good things which would actually thwart my ability to take those great opportunities.

This month Aequitas is launching a new trading platform for Canadian stocks, called Neo, to thwart HFT operators, which use algorithms to exploit split - second price differences.

During the scene in which Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) thwarts the Terminator's attempt to murder Sarah in a bar, this effect leaves a big impact.

That didn't sit well with the NHL, which twice thwarted Balsillie's past attempts to purchase a team.

The key bit, I think, is the tweeting and off - the - cuff but on - the - record musings, which symbolizes a president who can not stop himself from thwarting his own policy agenda.

The latest hackings, which included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, and certain passwords and security questions, comes amid a company culture that The New York Times reported was «slower to invest in the kinds of defenses necessary to thwart sophisticated hackers.»

The concerns got real enough for a U.S. national security review to thwart Li's bid to buy part of Global Crossing Ltd., which operated a fixed - line communications network in North America, in 2003.

Back in October, David Armstrong of STAT News wrote a mind - blowing report detailing how West Virginia health and insurance officials tried to slow the pace of prescriptions in their state, but were thwarted at every turn thanks to collusion between Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and pharmacy benefits manager, Merck Medco (which is owned today by PBM giant, Express Scripts).

Law enforcement agencies across the country are being thwarted by Apple's encrypted devices, and the FBI likely chose this case — which involves an infamous terrorist — as its best chance to force Apple to change course.

«Cyber-risk is becoming a huge business problem,» said Rocco Galletto, leader of managed security services at Deloitte Canada from the company's Toronto Cyber Intelligence Centre, which helps clients thwart and respond to cyber attacks.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

Which is why are two factions of the board of Uber — which will meet tomorrow to try to pick a CEO by Labor Day — still incessantly leaking about and wrangling over the possibility of Whitman, with one side trying to thwart her unlikely return and the other hoping there is some scenario possible in which she would come Which is why are two factions of the board of Uber — which will meet tomorrow to try to pick a CEO by Labor Day — still incessantly leaking about and wrangling over the possibility of Whitman, with one side trying to thwart her unlikely return and the other hoping there is some scenario possible in which she would come which will meet tomorrow to try to pick a CEO by Labor Day — still incessantly leaking about and wrangling over the possibility of Whitman, with one side trying to thwart her unlikely return and the other hoping there is some scenario possible in which she would come which she would come back?

The government crisis now threatens to thwart the recovery of the Italian economy, which is badly in need of reforms to help pull it out of a two - year recession and create jobs.

And lastly, the result could be yet another damning indictment of Uber, which in recent months has been hit with a series of scandals that range from accusations of running a sexist workplace to admissions of creating proprietary programs used to thwart regulators and rivals.

This was the manner in which DOS attacks could be thwarted.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Kierkegaard shares with Kant the assumption that being moral inevitably involves a struggle to thwart the impulses of human nature, which by definition must tug the agent in the direction of aesthetic indulgence — and where does ethics derive the authority to make me go against my feelings?

Mistakes are no longer lessons to learn from, but public humiliations, which serve only to knock our confidence and thwart our passions.

But friend, take heart.,, Christ Jesus is the Lord God almighty, and He has a plan which no demon of Hell, nor force of Earth will thwart.

God is Power because in His own Self He contains all power beforehand and exceeds it, and because He is the Cause of all power and produces all things by a power which may not be thwarted nor circumscribed, and because He is the Cause wherefrom Power exists whether in the whole system of the world or in any particular part.

But we are here concerned to apply this concept of the priority of God's will and purpose, which however waits upon — and may be thwarted by — human free will, to the whole event Jesus Christ, including its Old Testament background.

Or, heuristically speaking, the rise and fall of empires might be construed as means by which men are brought to a realization of the vanity of their earthly, God - thwarting purposes.

She gets to have every woman's actual secret dream job, which is to be the lone female on a team of guys — in this case a samurai - like cadre of unlikely heroes assembled by Trevor to thwart the deployment of an ultra-lethal poison gas by a rogue German commander.

It looks like the early church preserved this pattern, which later was thwarted by the imperial agenda for control.

These four temptations of religion, all of which in the extreme would frustrate any revelation of mystery, can be thwarted only if each religious way allows itself to be nourished by the other three.

Now, the minor chord in this train of thought is that the very characteristics which make human beings potential paradigms of embodied divine aim in the world also give them greater scope for the persistent thwarting of divine aim.

Apparent evil makes possible, in a way that no other occurrence could, the attainment of higher value; genuine evil thwarts the attainment of the highest value which is realistically possible at any given moment.

So begins a grand tale in which two people with the commendable desire to marry are thwarted by craven clerics, absurd legal judgments, and the malice of the powerful.

The result of the doing may emerge as a surprising novelty to the agent — the emergent future may be startlingly novel because the context of present actualization, for unforeseeable reasons, either was devoid of those hindrances which had thwarted or restricted the agent's earlier efforts, or was replete with heretofore unencountered obstacles.

Yes, contrary to other games — in which Guardiola used his talismanic skipper, Lahm, as the midfield pivot in his favored 4 -1-4-1 system — he played Kroos as the deep lying midfielder and, with Alaba and Lahm bombing forward from their Left and Right - Back positions, respectively, Bayern didn't have bodies in their own half, to thwart Real Madrid's counter-attacks.

They know Hibbert is there to thwart any dribble penetration, but the degree to which a mid-range shot is open depends on those perimeter defenders.

Man City have plenty of injury concerns going into the game, which, however, could see them play a 5 - man midfield and thwart Arsenal from enjoying large spells of possession.

In an era in which many coaches seem to thwart their assistants» opportunities for advancement, restricting their access to the media and discouraging them from interviewing elsewhere, it's instructive to remember how far Walsh went to do just the opposite.

There is already one difference — Hodgson and Rodgers won their first home games while Klopp was thwarted by Rubin Kazan, which secured a 1 - 1 draw.

United won a penalty after Danny Simpson handled the ball in the area, Kasper Schmeichel thwarting Romelu Lukaku's spot kick which could have seen him score in three consecutive Premier League matches, which was not meant to be.

Mata also stated that United pushed Rostov until the bitter end of the match, which could have resulted in extra time being played if Sergio Romero did not thwart the shot from the free - kick given away by Phil Jones.

What I don't like is the glee with which Hughes thwarted both AW and his goalkeeper, it was the actions of a small, petty man.

Pies verdict: Carlitos seems hell - bent on thwarting United's attempts to buy him, which leaves Man City in the box seat.

One thing that rings true is that United seemed to tire into the second half, a half which showed Swansea City as the better team, despite them failing to score a single goal, having the chances to thwart United's celebrations.

In response to a study that some felt added more guilt for moms who don't breastfeed, Best for Babes once again reminds all of us that there are systemic issues at play which are thwarting breastfeeding rates in the USA.

That, in turn, helped me overcome fear and anxiety, which increases pain and could thwart my unmedicated birth plan.

If taken within four weeks of conception, folic acid thwarts this defect, which occurs in 1 in 1,000 births.

Stories where the three little pigs thwart the big bad wolf or playacting games in which your child's teddy bear learns to use the potty give him a sense that he can be powerful and in control even in unfamiliar situations.

We tried and it was a beautiful experiment that I thought was very important but those in power managed to sabotage its reputation by just constantly hammering that a new constitution should never be ratified in dispute which was complete bollocks (for more on the dispute manufactured by the Independence Party see the «An Unexpected Hiccup» section of From the people to the people, a new constitution) because those in power will always fight against anything that brings more liberation and more rights to the public and thwarts their unconditional power.