The law of God was not a path human beings walked as a sort of obstacle course or road map to God but rather a means to measure human shortcomings and judge them.
"This is a sort of middle course they have adopted," he told the Dawn news channel.
The gaming confab, known as G2E, offers a sort of crash course in the state of the industry.
A tray came out with a sort of dessert course, a few little wrapped candies on it, and tiny packets of artificial creamer.
In the slalom, the object is to get down a 300-yard hill with a 600-yard drop as quickly as possible while going inside or outside planted poles, or gates, in a sort of obstacle course.
If the longstanding "SNL" segment is a sort of introductory course in wringing humor from headlines, and Mr. Stewart's "Daily Show" is the advance-level class, "Onion News Network" is graduate school, requiring much quicker thinking and a greater tolerance for comfort-zone invasion.
And one part of "4x4," the four-part, hourlong program her 17-member troupe will perform in Manhattan, employs 90 porcelain vases, spaced a little more than a yard apart in a chessboard pattern, as a sort of obstacle course around which her dancers must maneuver.
In this milieu, the men-in-charge check their morals at the door, lock it behind them and go about their business of lying to, stealing from and, if the mood strikes, assassinating one another, with low-level operatives of Lenny's stripe sacrificed as a sort of appetizer course.
Chen himself has written a sort of crash course to the Chinese tech scene called: "Web Behind The Wall" which we highly recommend.
Schleiermacher notes at one point that he wants to chart a sort of middle course between ancient dialectics, which had the virtue of openness but the vice of courting skepticism, and the dogmatism of the scholastics, for whom everything of importance was pre-decided in an assumed religious principle.
