"Trial by fire can refine us but it can also coarsen us".
Such changes, which are likely to be very short-term, show that fictions press our buttons; they don't show that they refine us emotionally or in any other way.
"Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in".
While the sole focus on net processes within the forest land use category in this study does not fully solve complete C accounting issues across all land uses, the methods used in this research are an incremental improvement toward resolving components of net C change within the forest land category, and these results can help inform and refine US reporting in the future.
In fact, as great philosophers have understood, we need difficulty and loss to refine us and goad us to grow into the full maturity that life can afford us.
It would also help us refine the use of our trigger system for monitoring quality in the ED.
I used to think that the Australians were coarser, tougher and not so refined as us Brits, but I am beginning to wonder.
Originally conceived as an athletic shoe in Massachusetts 100 years ago, the Converse All-Star was refined after US basketball player Charles Chuck Tayloror collaborated on the design in 1921 - adding his "Chuck Taylor" signature to the Converse tag on all subsequent pairs.
It can be both healthy and refining for us to look in the mirror and ask ourselves honest questions about who we've become and how we've lost our way.
For the OCP1, the hybrid approach with control refining allowed us to arrive to J 1, BEST = 2. 36×1 1 0 − 4 with 15 s of extra computational effort.
