Sentences with phrase «whole thrust»

His concluding paragraphs also show that he missed the whole thrust of the book.

The whole thrust of Holloway's work was to move away from the perception of truth as abstract.

Although profoundly philosophical, the whole thrust of Holloway's work was to move away from the perception of truth as abstract and notional.

The whole thrust was on public relations and spin, not on protecting children and certainly not on putting right what was and is wrong in the Church.

The whole thrust of the article is faith / delusion / excuses - what is going on?

The whole thrust of his work appears to revolve around the question: Is there order in the universe beyond my experience, and if not, what is it that gives me the impression of orderliness?

The whole thrust of revivals was to get results in the moral life.

The whole thrust of the story is inclusion.

As for soothsaying, Brodeur points out that the whole thrust of a pro's training — hitting ball after ball, year after year, until each shot is a machinelike reflex action — is aimed at the kind of consistency that makes prophets out of oddsmakers.

[There is a] very strong Conservative case for reform — the whole thrust last election was moving power from the centre to the voters and the whole Conservative approach to having a smaller government, limited government and having better parliamentary control over executive.»

It is not okay to steal from anybody and the whole thrust of this report is can we take theft more seriously whoever it is from and I can't underline that enough.»

«The whole thrust of this bill is to reduce illegal infringement.

«As my report makes clear, GB rail fares are already too high, and the whole thrust of the study's recommendations is to reduce costs and thus reduce the pressures that have led to fares being at that level,» he wrote.

While this research has undeniably delivered important public benefits, it has also tended to drive «the whole thrust of the economy» in directions that favour powerful elites.

The money spent on scientific research does indeed determine the whole thrust of the economy.

American physicist Harvey Brooks, a member of the president's Science Advisory Committee during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, noted how the 2 per cent of GDP spent on science by the federal government had a «disproportionate social and economic leverage, since the whole thrust of the economy is determined by scientific and technical research».

«The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.»

The whole thrust of Brown was that segregation was actually harmful to students, not that the use of race itself was always and everywhere to be rejected.

The whole thrust of education reform today ignores, even if some specific efforts (like KIPP and E. D. Hirsch - inspired programs) may subtly respond to, the needs of boys — for action, competitiveness, rough - and - tumble activity, whether inborn or whatever, and the need, too, for a stricter and more consistent discipline to socialize these characteristics.

Twenty - three years ago, David Suzuki was publicly rejecting «the whole thrust of the scientific paradigm.»

That's the whole thrust of the scientific paradigm — that we use this very powerful way of knowing to get somewhere — that's our definition of progress.

● Partnership — The whole thrust of the Bar's initiative to open a new «conversation» with stakeholders is to develop a new public — private partnership for legal aid.