Sentence examples for away from the essentials from inspiring English sources

Friends who have been around Washington longer than I point out that, ever since No Child Left Behind, we have gotten away from the essentials of learning and focused instead on high stakes tests.

I even thought, occasionally it's a purely subjective view based on 'Bhowani Junction' that he was sometimes sort of seduced away from the essential story line itself into a lovely picturesque irrelevancy".

Following Rubin's interview at the Code Conference, and a mere month away from the Essential Phone's ship date, the product and the company's website like a collection of good – or at the very least, compelling – ideas without a central thesis.

The artist does not veer away from the essential materials: cotton paper, paintbrush, and paint.

The use of drones to inflict harm at a distance is a stark reminder of how far we have gone toward losing our ability to feel and away from the essential need to realize the impacts of our actions.

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that the freeze is "appalling on every level...shifting attention away from the essential need to reform health care and focusing on small change instead".

G268 is three residues away from the essential active site residue K265 and in the 3D structure makes contact with the backbone of this residue.

At times Mr Giannetti writes as if caring less about strangers than about yourself, your friends and your family was a form of self-deception, a sliding away from the impartiality essential to truth.

The children are quickly spirited away from the adults (essential to remove grown-ups from children's fiction as quickly as possible) by Mrs Who, Which and Whatsit, who actually turn out to be stars who gave up the fight against the dark Thing.

She said she did not feel either role was diminished for it; in both cases her parts were women who did not feel particularly good about themselves yet did not shy away from the absolutely essential roles that they played in their families.

Almost any denomination confronts the question of whether sacred architecture should strive in its simplicity to pare away distractions from the essential act of worship or aspire in its magnificence to convey some sense of divine majesty and mystery.