Sentences with phrase «with anything approaching»

One myth is that high conflict parents can't possibly share children's time with anything approaching equality.

The Predator features stereo speakers and an internal subwoofer, neither of which reproduced sound with anything approaching decent quality.

The trackpad supports multi-touch gestures, but it's engraved with tiny horizontal grooves that made it nearly impossible for us maneuver the mouse pointer with anything approaching precision.

In addition to the point I made earlier, you will note that neither West nor Lexis (let alone CanLII) can look up each other's citations with anything approaching a reliable level of accuracy, whereas if you have a print citation you can usually find a case in both databases.

Even now, given the nature of proxies — for which the word «independence» must often seem like the concept of a crazed idealist — I doubt that it is possible to say with anything approaching certainty that the current «divergence» phenomenon has never happened before during the last millenium.

If you do not fully understand a system, which for climate we're not even close, you can not make any predictions / claims on it's manipulations, natural or not, with anything approaching the levels of certainty that the IPCC et al suggest without reams of evidence to back it up.

The answer is shaped by the shocking way in which the rhinos are killed and their horns removed, the widespread myths fueling the recent poaching escalation and the apparent inability of governments to tackle this massive problem with anything approaching competence.

However, unlike the case of gravity, we have no competing theories of the evolution of our climate with anything approaching the explanatory power of the generally accepted theory.

The delay between real life movement and in - game special move is such that you can't react to what's happening on screen with anything approaching the timing you'd normally associate with a fighting game.

All academic research shows that we have pathetically little skill at forecasting the overall market on a consistent, year in, year out basis with anything approaching reliable accuracy.

Amish + Vampire =??? Well, conflict, for sure, since it is unlikely that the Amish community looks on the undead with anything approaching approval.

Honda says it has close to 100 hydrogen - powered vehicles on the road in California today — the only state in the US with anything approaching a hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

The movie is so disjointed, unfocused and underdeveloped none of what it is talking about comes through with anything approaching clarity.

Above all, to revisit King of the Hill — or to discover it — is to realize how seldom American cinema deems it worthwhile to tell a child's story with anything approaching serious psychological intent.

That makes Farid wonder whether trying to predict crime with anything approaching A + accuracy is an exercise in futility.

Plus, all three have grown as performers and characters since the last time they all interacted in a match with anything approaching this level of importance: seeing them bring all that new knowledge to the mix, especially in the case of Charlotte, who is leaps and bounds ahead of where she was at NXT, is reason alone to watch Clash of Champions.

It might take a few days for Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players to be able to look back on last night's win in Monaco with anything approaching positivity, because no matter what the result or how well we played, the harsh truth is that Arsenal are out of the Champions League at exactly the same stage that has been our downfall in every one of the last five seasons.

Not exact matches

If you want anything approaching a touchscreen computer from Apple, you have to go with an iPad Pro — but the iOS versions of apps like Photoshop or Final Cut pale in comparison to their Mac or PC equivalents.

Amy Lewallen's approach is to ask herself, «Is there anything about this brand that I wonder if I can live with that or not?

This is something you can actually approach with a system called how to talk to anybody about anything that top interviewers like Barbara Walter use where you can ask someone questions in five different categories:

It is decidedly counter-intuitive to be positive about anything to do with fund manager Blue Sky Alternative Investments, but the strategic thinking behind the company's approach to agricultural investment is sound and has been validated by large institutions.

While the president attacks 99 percent of his opponents by mercilessly strafing them in speeches, sound bites and tweets (and has a one - size - fits - all approach to firebombing Democrats, disobedient Republicans, Gold Star families, war heroes, etc.), Daniels fends off her online critics with self - deprecating humor, and has made a point of refraining from saying anything bad about the president himself — which has probably kept him from retaliating and going after her personally.

As with anything else, there are many different approaches to investing — some of which you've probably seen on late - night TV.

i think that's a very good question — but i don't believe there's enough room on all the forums of all the websites to even approach the subject with anything meaningful.

The shotgun approach was just attempted at me yesterday as a matter of fact... it turned out not one of the verses cited in the list had anything to do with the topic at hand:)... as per usual.

I began to answer these questions in a post about the existence of God by looking at the basic approach I use when answering questions from atheists (or anyone with whom I disagree about anything).

If there is no god and no ultimate reality, we have nothing by which to approach objectivity but a mish - mash of opinions and perspectives that can never hope to know anything with any certainty.

Typically they lauded the morality of the Gospels while denying anything that might conflict with a scientific approach to the world.

Thus, interpreters using the traditional approach, were able to focus, albeit unconsciously, on the passages conveying the final position, while disregarding anything incompatible with or superseded by the final position.

I was absolutely appalled at Soledad O'Brien's approach to interviewing Imam Rauf and can now see why he hasn't spoken about the subject — we form opinions before we know ANYTHING about the subject matter, we're not consistent with any of our opinions and only want to hear answers to satisfy what we want satisfied, otherwise it's ignored — and that was evident all throughout the interview.

They wouldn't cop out to hiring a little girl who suggested «Unequally Yoked: A geeky atheist picks fights with her Catholic boyfriend» as her approach or anything.

By contrast, those — and they seem primarily to be women — who approach experience intuitively, grasping feeling tone and insisting that value, emotion, and purpose are experienced within reality are usually patted on the head for contributing such insights and then dismissed as too emotional or intuitive to be trusted with contributing anything important about the «real» world.

This recipe has a few different components that might look a little daunting but just approach it with a positive attitude and go into like a meditative coma while you're making it so it's more relaxing than anything.

If you combine such a small quantity with the rest of the ingredients you have a very watery soup mix, not anything approaching a paste!

I actually get a little nervous if anything is approached with complete conviction: nothing and nobody is perfect.

After he passed (from complications after kidney surgery, not anything having to do with gluten, or inedible gluten - free bread... although honestly, some of the stuff that was out there at the time would've done me in), it occurred to me that perhaps we had taken the wrong approach.

They have away games with Slovakia and Luxembourg, both of whom will feel that an aggressive approach might be the only way to get anything from the games.

But he also feels confident ahead of the game and after nobody expected us to beat Bayern after losing the opening two games with Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiacos, he knows that anything is possible, as long as the Gunners approach it in the right way.

Just like, with anything that you attempt to do in life... If you approach it with confidence, dedication and concentration then you will have a much more higher success rate!

If anything, this whole mess is probably scaring teams away with the January window approaching, which could be bad news for Liverpool who are trying to recoup part or all of the # 6.7 m fee they paid to Birmingham for his services.

If anything's working against the Blues it is the lack of a clear statement of intent from the club that they want to enter the bidding for him, with other clubs seemingly making more direct approaches for the player so far this summer.

JORDAN (to reporters in 1993): Winning this championship was harder than anything I've done before, with all the ups and downs and the mental approach that I've had to take into each game.

Also with another striker there is the added benefit of a different tactical approach, because sometimes with our attacks are very entertaining but don't produce anything (like a monkey on a tricycle).

At home this time, they should have a different approach to the game if their ties at the Stadio Olimpico with Maribor and Panathinaikos are anything to go by.

I almost look forward to them approaching me during the next 48 hours so I can mention their failed social media campaign and ask if they've learned anything (by the way, they never mentioned compensation for partnering with bloggers during their workshop either).

However, the challenge with this approach is that there's no guarantee they'll share anything — and if they do, you have no control over the messaging or content.

If anything, it has allowed me to approach cloth with a more open mind and given me a deep desire to help other moms figure out what works for them.

PRIYA NEMBHARD: She walked in with an insult instantly AFRICAN MOON: Yes, like, I, now I can't hear anything you're saying because you came at me so wrong, you know, so I asked her to leave, I need you to get out of here, like, you're putting me in a bad space, but the way she approached me....

«I haven't heard anything different from the board and haven't been approached by anyone on the board on what's going to happen with my contract.»

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.