Sentences with phrase «with myopic»

Forgot about those did we, with the myopic, one gas to cause heating view.

Lolwot, I do not expect IPCC to give much weight or credence to any hypothesis, which conflicts with its myopic fixation on human GHGs as the cause for all climate change — do you?

It has certainly not been (and will not be) done by a political group, such as the IPCC, with its myopic brief to concentrate on human climate forcing factors, resulting projections for the future and recommendations for mitigating actions.

As a postcolonial, brown, female «travel blogger», I too am fed up of reading travel blogs written by Caucasian travel bloggers who perceive the world with their myopic, culturally insensitive lenses.

I feel for you, I do, because you will go through life as you, I mean, I have to be black, I KNOW what I'm in for, but you have to go trough life fearing what you don't know and fighting change, hating and combating every objective truth which doesn't align with your myopic view point.

New standards and tests with a myopic focus on text without regard for the reader (i.e. the child actually doing the reading), without regard for their interests, knowledge, and passions, will serve to further disengage children from the splendor of reading and give students more reasons to see school, and reading, as irrelevant.

In this context, it should come as no surprise that a decade of No Child Left Behind — with its myopic emphasis on reading and math — has led to the introduction of the Common Core Standards — with their broader emphasis on critical thinking.

But if we read our culture through these theories with a myopic view to the global village master image of globalization, we also misapprehend the critical view that McLuhan proffered and we also ignore his wake up call to the masses that are numbed by their very globalizing technology.

We need to be patient with our myopic political and cultural establishments.

I just can't hang with myopic hypocrites with a right wing political agenda.

It's no wonder so many people are Fed up with their myopic pursuit of self - preservation in service to a corrupt banking system.

Not exact matches

Martin Lipton, the corporate lawyer best known for helping managers stay in control with so - called poison pills, says dual - class shares ward off «myopic activists» — hedge - fund managers and buyout specialists who aim to drive up share prices in the short term yet harm the company's long - term interests.

Toward the end of the call, Musk was blunt with Ben Kallo, a Robert W. Baird & Co. analyst who prefaced a question by saying he understood the CEO's frustration for «how myopic we are right now.»

With a probability that slim, most become disaster myopic.»

«Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as «Mr. Magoo,» a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling... Trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with Sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal.

With such a myopic view, these investors tend to avoid stocks they may find cheap but that they don't expect to perform well within their narrow windows.

There's even a whole sub-category specifically about sex: The Act of Marriage, Intended for Pleasure, Celebration in the Bedroom... Many of these types of books have an almost myopic focus on a woman's obligation to have sex with her husband.

And... it's just that kind of myopic world - view, that is so out of touch with reality, that will keep you and the «Christian Right» on the continued path to irrelevance.

Again, as with the patterns disappearing because they are jarred, a desire to overstate the case lies behind the myopic use of images.

Because a world centuries in the future with iron - age beliefs constraining their wordlview to such myopic possibilities by a sizable segment of the population is disheartening.

Through the actions of its legislature and the relevant regulatory agencies, Illinois sets numerous conditions on that use: myopic people have to wear glasses or contact lenses while driving; people with retinitis pigmentosa are forbidden from driving at night; teenagers must reach a certain age and demonstrate certain skills before they obtain driver's licenses; people with a habit of driving after knocking back a dozen Budweisers lose their licenses.

But no, he's out there gallivanting with all the media pundits and politicians using their fixed myopic views of the world to search for little slots to stick people into.

Agree with you but the Barcelona comparison is myopic.

With refereeing assistance from a seemingly myopic Peter Walton, Stoke carpet - bombed Arsenal's penalty area with set - pieces and Rory Delap's long throw - ins any chance they With refereeing assistance from a seemingly myopic Peter Walton, Stoke carpet - bombed Arsenal's penalty area with set - pieces and Rory Delap's long throw - ins any chance they with set - pieces and Rory Delap's long throw - ins any chance they got.

The government has lost thirteen times in the House of Lords because of the myopic determination with which May and her Brexiteers have continued with a Brexit at all costs approach.

The impudence of a service personnel who breaks all protocols within the chains and channel of communication and command to attempt to getting the attention of the president by pouring inciteful sentiments on social media, with a delusional and myopic perception that he is a known maverick and avowed outspoken officer in uniform; such a joke

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

It was a very partisan and myopic vision of New York State, summarizing the 2014 words of discrimination from Governor Andrew Cuomo with a local flavor added.

If Galileo was first to penetrate the heavens with a long tube and two lenses, still it was poor, myopic Kepler who fathomed the anatomy of the eye, founded the science of optics, and figured out, through years of trial and error, what courses the planets follow.

Along with gravity, which Newton had mastered 2 centuries earlier, physics was, to myopic eyes, essentially finished.

Half the world's population (nearly 5 billion) will be myopic by 2050 they predict, with up to one - fifth of them (1 billion) in the high myopia category, and at a significantly increased risk of blindness, if behavioural interventions and optical treatments are not developed and implemented.

The findings point to a major public health problem, with the authors suggesting that planning for comprehensive eye care services are needed to manage the rapid increase in high myopes (a five-fold increase from 2000), along with the development of treatments to control the progression of myopia and prevent people from becoming highly myopic.

The results — tall, myopic, lanky individuals with crowded teeth, and poor bone structure, a kind of Ichabod Crane syndrome — are a fixture in America.

I am astounded that someone who would be intelligent enough to be reading Dr. Greger would be myopic enough to through the baby out with the bath water, and throw scientific research out with it.

The results — tall, myopic, lanky individuals with crowded teeth, and poor bone structure — are a fixture in America.

Dr. Greger, I am very very disappointed in your myopic commentary regarding the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and their relationship with the corporate food industry.

Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman - directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.

Hoop Dreams is a sweeping, stirring, myopic study of two young men on differing paths, both with dreams of becoming NBA players.

is a slightly myopic overview of the trends in genre filmmaking circa the 1980s, with embarrassing quips from Elvira further diminishing the word of legitimate authorities like John Kenneth Muir, Joe Dante, and FANGORIA editor Tony Timpone.

I know it's called Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, but still, that kind of focus on the hero seems unnecessarily myopic, especially since his own exes, which dominant the periphery of the film, are basically dealt with by acknowledging that they exist.

The book was criticized for being too myopic or insular, because it used too many Hebrew words that didn't connect with wider audiences, or even some secular Jews.

It sets up its targets and then fires at them with all the aim and success of a myopic archer.

Hence, NEA's myopic drive to advance its own brand of social justice has led it to a very bizarre and contradictory place — a coalition with an organization that promotes a product and behavior that runs counter NEA's own agenda.

The problems with just this 25 % policy, however, and as he writes, include the following: the «policy reflects the view that teachers are inadequately motivated to do their jobs;» this implies, without any evidence that only an arbitrarily set «25 % of a district's teachers deserve a raise;» this facilitates a «culture of competition [that] kills the collaboration that is integral to effective education;» «[t] he idea that a single teacher's influence can be isolated [using VAMs] is absurd;» and just in general that this policy «reflects a myopic approach to reform.»

But I also believe that you can't be so myopic with what your career might look like.

Chris, I wasn't «promoting» my «myopic» approach at borrowing from zero percent credit cards with no transfer fees at the exclusion of using them.

Behavioral scientists long ago identified myopic loss aversion, the negative behavior associated with reviewing portfolios on a frequent basis.

These disheartened or fearful investors — possibly struggling with career risk or myopic loss aversion, or ultimately, just from the human condition — are often the other side of the trade.

In addition, clicker training has allowed me to help dogs with what I see as «arrested development,» in that they have not had early socialization, or they are so fearful and / or reactive that they have become myopic in how they approach the world.

Using the form of landscape photography, a tradition born with industrial expansion, these photographs evidence nature's force as it reclaims land subdued and ruled by a myopic civilization.