Sentences with phrase «with lack of purpose»

Left to our own devices, many of us fall into lifestyle patterns that leave us feeling unsatisfied with our lack of purpose, or motivation to create the life or career we want.

Despite how almost all of these upgrades merely serve to feed an already mundane cycle of mining, flying and mining some more they still manage to provide a small sense of progress in an existence that otherwise struggles with its lack of purpose.

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Because «Menlonians» share the same purpose and passion in the work they do, the noise, clutter, and lack of privacy comes with the territory and is ingrained into their DNA.

The absence of any direct empirical evidence of cosmic purpose is intricately linked with the lack of any immediately tangible evidence of morphogenetic fields that would exercise a causative influence on the formation of discrete systems in the natural world.

(Deuteronomy 7:12 - 16) With these for the main objects of petition, prayer was naturally evoked by their lack, and it was typical of early Hebrew as of all immature praying that the negative rather than the positive purpose of prayer was prominent.

This book is about closing your church with purpose, rather than just fading away for lack of funds and people.

When my high - school basketball career faded and college and the military fell through, I was left with a complete lack of purpose, susceptible to addiction and depression.

It is one of the greatest weaknesses of our time that we lack the patience and faith to build up voluntary organizations for purposes which we value highly, and immediately ask the government to bring about by coercion (or with means raised by coercion) anything that appears as desirable to large numbers.

but i didn't state anything example — i stated that the theory of evolution is yet to be proved and so with that i agree that due to that lacking it is equal to the theory of god... the only thing i said which is cemented truth for anything is that we don't know what the real answer is... and by stating ideas as facts serves no real purpose but a selfish one... lets call it an ease - ment on the inner self, the mind can now be at peace with the hope that when i die i get to live yet again... full belief in this is insane without evidence.

But on the other, the lack of consensus regarding the content of this «good news» we're supposed to be sharing with the world makes me wonder if we're missing something important about the original meaning and purpose of the word «gospel.»

It is because many of the terms lack meaning that squares with verifiable human experience (must be verifiable to others, as well, for purposes of proof; but inverse this requirement, as I did with language, and you end up with the following: if something can't be evidenced to others, there is a good likelihood that it is not what the individual thinks it is).

Judging from the repeated references in the letters, clergy spouses» three major difficulties are: dealing with unrealistic expectations; loneliness; congregations» lack of a sense of urgent purpose.

However, the past year I have felt a lack of purpose with my blog posts here.

In hindsight, I can see that the problem with this activity was the lack of purpose and the unsatisfying end product.

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The government conceded that some parts of the IPAct including the lack of independent oversight and broad purposes for data retention are inconsistent with European law.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

And the lack of oversight created by «freedom» means that, as with academies, groups with a non-educational agenda could gain control of free schools for their own purposes.

Whether it's just a lack of understanding how to do an exercise properly, or just an ego thing (lifting more weight than you can with proper form for the sole purpose of lifting a heavier weight), it doesn't really matter.

Huston's directing is dull and monotonous, with a distinct lack of purpose.

Pettyfer is pretty and easygoing but lacks the sort of charisma that comes with a more focused sense of interior purpose, and the film basically feels, at its core, like a mash - up of carefully cross-tabbed teen movie trends, which is probably what happens when you set out in pre-production with the chief intent of manufacturing the next big «Twilight» - type cinematic franchise.

The place where a film's soul should reside is instead crammed with a potpourri of familiar faces, executing (admittedly funny) distractions to keep your attention squared away from its over-arching lack of purpose.

If «The Hateful Eight» lacks something, it's that extra quality that «Inglourious Basterds» and «Django Unchained» had, a larger purpose, a vision of history that made sense of all the bloodletting and left audiences with a sense of having engaged with an important subject.

Amanda, on the other hand, has a self - professed lack of emotions and looks at morality as a sort of calculus where a bad man like Mark can be eradicated for the purpose of excising his bad influence on the world, so while she understands the risks attendant in killing someone she doesn't quite understand the problem with doing so for a greater good.

Where many superhero films, specifically the sequels, have failed is the inclusion of too many characters with zero purpose for even being present let alone a lack of explanation for why they do the things they do.

Otherwise heartwarming and not unduly sentimental, The Vow fulfils its purpose even with a dangling plot hole (why is there a lack of money when there should be an obvious insurance payout?)

Lowe, with a perfect deadpan sense of purpose, wields her kitchen knife as an instrument of karmic retribution against life's intrinsic lack of fairness, provoking empathy and scorn in equal measure as she cuts a deliberate and very bloody swath through London.

With the sequel, however, that sense of fun is diluted somewhat by a meandering storyline, some ill - advised twists, and an overall lack of purpose.

As is the case with most war films that focus on combat, the storytelling here is lacking true character development, a flaw easily forgivable if a thematic sense of purpose is given to the characters.

The European observers hesitated to proclaim wholesale fraud, however they did raise concerns with the ruling party's use of state resources for campaigning purposes, inequitable access to media, implausibly high voter turnout at polling stations in Sargsyan strongholds, voter list manipulation, and a lack of impartiality on the part of the public administration.

They struggle with the public's lack of understanding regarding their local school board's purpose, but maintain the public's support for local education governance.

Schools with abrupt leadership disruptions on average experience «significant negative effects» on student achievement.67 Furthermore, such schools «are often reported to suffer from lack of shared purpose, cynicism among staff about principal commitment, and an inability to maintain a school - improvement focus long enough to actually accomplish any meaningful change,» according to the Minnesota - Toronto report.68

Please do not tell me you Brits are about to become as stupid as us Yanks are when it comes to being obsessed by owning oversized pickup trucks (full discloser this Ranger is larger than a full sized 2008 F150) that you don't need, will never use (as intended) with the sole purpose of buying one is fulfilling some delusional macho image y» alls got stuck in your heads in the attempt to compensate for all your lackings.

Furthermore, the lack of a 16:9 aspect ratio (a screen's width versus height) for media on the screen (Apple goes with a 4:3 aspect ratio for internet browsing purposes) makes watching movies and television shows not as enjoyable as it would be on other devices.

Recent controversies over reviews for books bandy about the idea that reviews are now only gimmicks for marketing purposes, due to their lack of quality and the ease with which anyone can rate a book.

Envision rooms filled floor to ceiling with crates and cages, each housing dogs whose sole purpose in life is to make puppies... There are purebreds of multiple varieties although some might not be recognizable as such given their lack of health care and horrifically overgrown hair coats... One would think these rooms filled with dogs would be chaotic and noisy.

The lack of strafing, the inability to walk and shoot, the Tetris - nightmare inventory management, the largely locked camera and stiffness» of control... They're all very deliberate facets of an immaculately designed interface, with very specific purpose.

however, the lag is too much for me to handle, and with a lack of any real purpose to it i don't care about home anymore.

It also lacks focus having you just tackle a bunch of random missions instead of doing something with purpose.

True, my complete lack of interest in football at all might have something to do with this, but even then I don't see the purpose of even trying to sell an independantly made football game on the eShop.

Lacking a sense of purpose or identity, the pre-90s Turner (inaugurated in 1984, with Malcolm Morley winning) was an insular, inconsequential and increasingly directionless affair.

The purpose — or lack thereof — of art will most likely be debated until the moment true liberation arrives, so a to - and - fro process repeats throughout history, with culture occasionally called upon to serve in ideological battle, then permitted to roam free.

If the location L is embedded in a continuous temperature distribution with a continuous CSD distribution, the same will happen for intensities in opposite directions when CSD is large enough, so that the net intensity goes to zero; unless CSD is purely scattering near TOA, this won't happen at TOA because of the lack of radiation from space (except for solar radiation, or for very tiny solid angles directed at specific objects, which can be ignored for our purposes here)

General Introduction Two Main Goals Identifying Patterns in Time Series Data Systematic pattern and random noise Two general aspects of time series patterns Trend Analysis Analysis of Seasonality ARIMA (Box & Jenkins) and Autocorrelations General Introduction Two Common Processes ARIMA Methodology Identification Phase Parameter Estimation Evaluation of the Model Interrupted Time Series Exponential Smoothing General Introduction Simple Exponential Smoothing Choosing the Best Value for Parameter a (alpha) Indices of Lack of Fit (Error) Seasonal and Non-seasonal Models With or Without Trend Seasonal Decomposition (Census I) General Introduction Computations X-11 Census method II seasonal adjustment Seasonal Adjustment: Basic Ideas and Terms The Census II Method Results Tables Computed by the X-11 Method Specific Description of all Results Tables Computed by the X-11 Method Distributed Lags Analysis General Purpose General Model Almon Distributed Lag Single Spectrum (Fourier) Analysis Cross-spectrum Analysis General Introduction Basic Notation and Principles Results for Each Variable The Cross-periodogram, Cross-density, Quadrature - density, and Cross-amplitude Squared Coherency, Gain, and Phase Shift How the Example Data were Created Spectrum Analysis — Basic Notations and Principles Frequency and Period The General Structural Model A Simple Example Periodogram The Problem of Leakage Padding the Time Series Tapering Data Windows and Spectral Density Estimates Preparing the Data for Analysis Results when no Periodicity in the Series Exists Fast Fourier Transformations General Introduction Computation of FFT in Time Series

Because IPCC officials seem to have misled the IPCC plenary session on the purpose of this language, it seems to me that you lack any moral authority to insist that reviewers comply with your request.

In fact, certain of TEPCO's actions in the aftermath of the explosions have been confused and, some might opine, lacking discipline of purpose to the extent that expedient decisions have been made without proper forethought and judiciousness to avoid knock - on consequences: for example, the injection of seawater may have resulted in salt deposits sufficient to foul cooling flows in the lower regions of the RPV [reactor pressure vessel]; the liberation of hydrogen from seawater is more rampant than from freshwater and radiolysis of oxygen from the cooling water could provide stoichiometric conditions and ignition with hydrogen in the absence of air in the containments; and the latest and most recent announcement to deploy a nitrogen purge to the Unit 1 reactor seems yet another ill - explained and unjustified desperate measure».

~ The terms of an order dealing with a vexatious litigant must not be so restrictive that it lacks a suitable mechanism for the individual to attend a courthouse for a legitimate purpose.

The response to the notice of arbitration may also include: (a) Any plea that an arbitral tribunal to be constituted under these Rules lacks jurisdiction; (b) A proposal for the appointment of a sole arbitrator referred to in article 8, paragraph 1; (c) Notification of the designation of an arbitrator referred to in articles 9 or 10; (d) A brief description of counterclaims or claims for the purpose of a set - off, if any, including where relevant, an indication of the amounts involved, and the relief or remedy sought; (e) A notice of arbitration in accordance with article 3 in case the respondent formulates a claim against a party to the arbitration agreement other than the claimant.

With respect to (4) and (5), the ONCA set aside the motion judge's lump sum spousal support order, without prejudice to the mother's right to bring another motion for lump sum support, noting that the motions judge's analysis on this issue was lacking and that his approach supported the conclusion that the underlying purpose of his lump sum spousal support award was merely to convert the mother's unpaid equalization payment into lump sum spousal support following the father's bankruptcy.

The nurse's registration had been suspended by the council which is also permitted to extend such a suspension for a further 18 months before it needs to seek approval of the Administrative Court — this contrasts with the lack of power of the GMC to extend suspensions; it needs to go directly to the court for this purpose.