Sentences with phrase «work of amateur»

As an exemple, the follow - up of variable - stars relies partly on the work of amateur associations.

And yet, although those early paintings were earnest and well - intentioned, they were clearly the work of an amateur who, if he hadn't been president, would not have received or deserved much attention.

If you design your own cover, you might think it looks great, and some of your friends might think the same, but many people with a genuine design sensibility will instantly recognize it as the work of an amateur.

Security experts who looked at the app, known as ByLock, at the request of Reuters said it appeared to be the work of amateur software developers and had left important information about its users unencrypted.

The fact that the body washed ashore has fueled speculation that the murder was the work of amateurs imitating something from the movies rather than professional assassins, and some have even suggested that the remains never sank at all, perhaps due to air bubbles in the concrete.

As so often happens, the great discovery was the work of amateurs.

Although the project at first seems the work of amateurs, it really settles into its own and manages to be a fun, horrifying, thoughtful, and succinct experience.

Bear in mind with personal finance and investing blogs that you're generally reading the work of amateurs.

Instead Jaray has hung all the paintings in a wave - like curl, so a painting of two nice lamb chops hangs beside portraits of two nice dogs, mixing Turner prize winners such as Martin Creed with the work of amateurs like (declaration of interest) a tiny portrait of my son's best friend as a baby by his father Marcus Austin.

In general, they encompass a broad range with variations that go from the media used — oil painting, embroidery, enamel, and, in a particularly memorable instance, seeds and beans — to the dazzling variety of technical skill displayed by their creators, most being the work of amateurs.

Not exact matches

Thinking about the sports - media market as a supply - and - demand problem probably also pushed Bleacher Report toward its original business model, which relied heavily on amateur bloggers producing prodigious amounts of work.

Meanwhile, two programmers who are amateur photographers dipped into the group's funds to frame some of their work.

If a bunch of untrained amateurs can identify fake news being promoted on Facebook or YouTube, then so can a bunch of super-geniuses working at companies approaching trillion - dollar valuations.

I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.

Coming as it does from one who considers himself an outsider and an amateur in regard to process thought, his essay nevertheless, or precisely for that reason, provides those of us working on «process hermeneutics» with illuminating analysis and criticism.

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympics.

These are unsigned amateurs working with agents who should only have 100 % of their best interests in mind.

I have worked with and developed some of the Strongest, Fastest most Well - Conditioned athletes in 25 plus sports from Youth, Amateur, National, Olympic and Professional from Canada to the US.

When armchair amateurs actually genuinely believe that they have all the answers to matters which hundreds and thousands of other professional and experts at football clubs all around the world are working on 24/7 to resolve then you can be pretty sure these looney - tunes are clueless or delusional — probably both, and over-dosing on childish self - entitlement.

«Given the pending Supreme Court decision regarding the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PAPSA)[SIC], representatives of the MLBPA, NBPA, NFLPA, and NHLPA have been working together on the legal, commercial, practical, and human consequences of allowing sports betting to become mainstream.

From biking, running and triathlons to skiing, tennis, soccer and hockey, GU continues to work with pro and amateur athletes to formulate a suite of products that work together to improve your performance in endurance pursuits.

Recently married and hard at work as associate editor of Golf magazine, she will not compete in this year's Amateur.

«FIFA works hard to protect the rights of players under the age of 18 — whether male or female, amateur or professional.

He is a former amateur rugby player and has been working in the field of brain injury for more than 15 years.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.14 For some disadvantaged youth, boxing is a preferential alternative to gang - related activity, providing supervision, structure, and goals.14 The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing seems to be lower than15 in some other collision sports such as football, ice hockey, wrestling, and soccer.4, 16 However, unlike these other collision sports, boxing encourages and rewards direct blows to the head and face.

CIVIC CENTER — Outgoing Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Wednesday slammed a report criticizing Broken Windows policing by the NYPD Inspector General, calling it the work of «amateurs.»

More than 60 years since the end of hostilities, a team of amateur cryptologists have set to work trying to crack three previously undecoded messages that were encrypted by the Nazis» famous Enigma machine — and they are making speedy progress.

Paglen was able to identify and photograph these secret spacecraft due to the work of a diverse international group of amateur astronomers who maintain a catalogue of classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit by producing mathematical descriptions of orbits using simple tools like stopwatches and binoculars.

Don't forget the amateurs, they make up the majority of astronomers and do much serious and useful work.

But as Johnson explained here today at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, that all changed thanks to British amateur astronomer Kevin Apps, who is working closely with the Kepler science team.

Although professional archaeologists lament the carelessness — and cluelessness — of many amateurs, they admit that Google Earth has boosted interest in their work.

An amateur interest in photography could be combined with a career in science to provide a novel step toward work in the field of the public understanding of science or scientific photography.

With vast amounts of computing power comes the opportunity to turn the work of many amateur birders into a nuanced portrait of how species migrate.

It's case after case of that and right now there are thousands and thousands of people from the professional level to the amateur and volunteer level who have projects that they are working on to protect birds, save birds, to grow more birds and so there's a million ways to get involved.

Conservation often seems to work most satisfyingly when professionals and amateurs cooperate, the necessary scholarship and experimentation of science being augmented by the enthusiasm, time, money and (often) very considerable accomplishment of the hobbyist.

«It is the duty of veterinary surgeons working in the industry to ensure that horse trainers are aware of the dangers of its «amateur» use.

First noticed by amateur astronomers, the massive storm works like the much smaller convective events on Earth, where air and water vapor are pushed high into the atmosphere, resulting in the towering, billowing clouds of a thunderstorm.

She earned her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1945, worked as a part - time math instructor for several years, served in local government, including as Lord Mayor of Manchester, and became a dedicated amateur astronomer after her husband died.

Dave Bellomo has worked in a variety of positions in the fitness management field, including: corporate wellness, personal training, and program design for amateur and professional athletes.

I am an amateur cyclist from Ireland I have had the advantage and pleasure of working with Götz Heine during a world cup ultra endurance cycling event (Race around Ireland) Which is 1350 miles in 132 hours.

She works with many professional and amateur athletes and teams and is in constant admiration of all students of sport, yoga and life.

As I was telling my friend who is an artist why I stopped blogging, she simply held up her hand and said, «Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.»

Sometime during my awkward high school years, probably drooling over the spreads of Teen Vogue, I realized this park would work as a pretty darn cute backdrop for my amateur «fashion photography,» if you can even call it that.

He worked as a farm implement salesmen in his late teens before turning his hobby of amateur theatricals into a lifelong profession.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Three of Jennifer's assailants work at a gas station: ringleader Johnny (Jeff Branson) and his two obedient cronies, stocky amateur videographer Stanley (Mean Girls» Daniel Franzese) and the unshaven, harmonica - playing Andy (Rodney Eastman).

Keva York explores Crispin Glover's directorial work in his «It» trilogy, Jasmine McGowan situates Bruce LaBruce's Gerontophilia (2013) in the context of his broader oeuvre, and Jack Sargeant interviews Iraqi - American filmmaker and artist Usama Alshaibi about his work (particularly his 2003 film The Amateurs).

Experts working on new social networking map apps, Wi - Fi and cell tower experts, and old - school amateur radio operators are all working to help Filipinos cope with the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.