It's as elegant in conception as a windup toy.
Likewise, many of Washington's problems spring from its conception as a showpiece rather than a working city.
PONDICHERRY, INDIA — The headlines were grim, and a blow to India's self-conception as a rising economic power.
When she reported his behaviour to management, the firm, she says, did nothing.These accounts challenge Silicon Valley's self-conception as a nerdy meritocracy.
When he is at his best -- and bad Gainsborough is meretricious and banal -- the results are as organic in conception as a quick sketch, and have the personable flair of a signature.
"The idea of 'One China' is at the heart of their conception as a nation and so if you are going to upend this understanding, you have to have thought through what are the consequences".
"The idea of 'one China' is at the heart of their conception as a nation," Obama said, "and so if you are going to upend this understanding, you have to have thought through what are the consequences.
The great William Harvey referred to conception as a "dark business," and even leading researchers tended to advance only so far before lapsing into old habits of airy speculation and reliance on classical authorities.
This, odd as it may sound to say so, is relatively uncontroversial in modern ethical philosophy; for what I mean by morality here is its metaphysical conception as a truth or command that comes to us from "on high".
His notes on the subordination of the portraits to the conception as a whole, and the lack of light in the painting, have contributed to the myth of Night Watch being rejected and of Rembrandt's subsequent "fall".
