As for Pat O'Shane, she maintains that continuing to focus on her controversial comments is sidetracking debate from big picture issues. |
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They eschew narrative, write in turgid, jargon-ridden prose and concentrate on micro-topics instead of the big picture. |
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Examining a game in minute detail has its advantages but the big picture can easily be lost when taking such a view. |
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Sears' Gettysburg strikes a fair balance between the big picture and minute details. |
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Their world belongs to the big picture, but even this view can often be clouded by the irritating inconvenience of detail. |
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From atop a tree-house, the big picture of a man with a white flowing beard gazed down on a merry crowd gathered around a huge cake. |
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Because of the way institutions work, an engineer ends up working on one part of a system but doesn't get to stand back and see the big picture. |
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Decency paves the way, full of home sweet values which too often are overlooked in the big picture. |
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The story works like a spell or incantation, lulling you with plausible detail into accepting a slightly warped big picture. |
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But in the big picture, it's as likely as not that he's looking to patch, not break, things up. |
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The roll-call makes it hard for the reader to get a grip on the big picture. |
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The big picture issues simply wash over people, lost in the public's distrust of politicians. |
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So remember the big picture and don't get too distracted by what only tomorrow will become history's footnotes. |
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Minor annoyances won't bother you so much because you're focused on the big picture. |
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The stage seemed a long way away, but the amphitheatre is steeply raked, so there was no problem seeing the big picture. |
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He's a famous star, sees a big picture of himself as the limo drives him to his hotel, an ad of his pushing some kind of liquor. |
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Stubborn, inflexible and goal oriented, they often jump to conclusions and miss the big picture. |
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Shackled by loyalty to his comrades he really doesn't give a fig for the big picture. |
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All those are minor details, when it comes down to the question of where this country should be going, in the big picture. |
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He's detail-oriented, and her strength lies in envisioning the big picture. |
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Keeping busy and leading an active life are all part of the big picture for Mrs Morris. |
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You can know when a lake will freeze or a pot will boil by abstracting the big picture from all the little details. |
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Instead of looking at the big picture, we became unduly ruffled by near-term issues. |
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An architect by training, Cohen has to be able to master details from dozens of sources without losing sight of the big picture. |
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Oh, yes, people are obsessed with the horse race, and who wins this and who wins that, without looking at the big picture. |
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People have been on at me for the last five or six weeks, telling me to look at the big picture. |
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A kid's mural of dolphins and fish graces the wall, and a big picture window overlooks the water. |
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If it had been all lovely I might have left with an inability to see the big picture and would missed those pieces I really did enjoy. |
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So looking at the big picture, it is hard to see why prices should rise at all. |
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Do the movements concern themselves only with bread-and-butter issues, ignoring the big picture issues such as where China may be heading? |
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He sees the big picture of the whole industry, and that generates a lot of respect. |
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And for over a year, I had a great big picture of my ugly mug up at the top of the main index page. |
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But he was so impressed by the fan reaction that he took a photo of that scene and blew it up into a magnificent big picture. |
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You're so entangled in it, and so concerned about the details of your current situation, that you miss the big picture. |
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He loves such words, toying with them, searching out their roots, using them to illustrate the big picture. |
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Nolan has good reason to be excited but he is doing his best not to let the big game divert attention from the big picture. |
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Boarding, or flying in big actors to shoot for a few days, is bad for the big picture. |
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More than the big picture, look at the immediate, present needs. |
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And to get a slant on how to bring the big picture into focus, we turned to business futurists who have a knack for forecasting economic and technological trends. |
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You know, from Doha, from Central Command, it was a convenient dateline to wrap the big picture but without all the different elements, it would have been absolutely hopeless. |
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You've got to give them the big picture, get them to believe in the team philosophy, and then execute the plan to achieve the results, which is winning. |
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My newest challenge is trying to connect my previous experiences to make a contribution to influence the big picture of sport for development. |
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Taking control of your daily finances can be tedious work, but always remember the big picture. |
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Maybe you need to make the amendments that are before you, but don't drop the ball on the big picture. |
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Unfortunately, the big picture I'm getting is that my intelligence is draining out like sand through a sieve. |
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This big picture thinking will help determine the long-term vision for the business and think through the steps to get there. |
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That tends to be work that is artistic, creative, empathic, about the big picture. |
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Thus, without giving figures-for I do not think we can get to the essence of things through quantitative analysis-we can look at the big picture. |
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The side windows are intended to replicate the view that a great big picture window delivers, only better. |
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The big picture is that this government is advocating prosperity in every sense. |
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The big picture in this matter is, of course, specifically the United States' relations with the surrounding world. |
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That is why we always have to look at the big picture and why the debate on which we have to embark in the future is that one. |
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In terms of details and the big picture, science and business are surprisingly similar. |
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This process helps ensure that all employees have clear direction and feel part of the big picture at Corel. |
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In addition to strong interpersonal and change management skills, you're able to see the big picture while delivering on day-to-day tasks. |
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The big picture is equally clear: the Court is our main hope in the quest to end impunity for the worst crimes. |
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The big picture that emerges is this. Our suburbia is becoming as diverse as the big cities, which means they will no longer be insular. |
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We see this programme as a puzzle with many individual pieces, one that cannot really be put together in such a way as to produce a big picture. |
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Democratic politics are the accumulation of a great many small decisions and actions that will accrue to what seems a big picture. |
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And yet, as we knocked on the doors in the public housing projects, big picture political ideology was never mentioned. |
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They stared out the big picture window from their perch on the couch. |
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But he is clearly focused on big picture social and political issues than he is on running money in his hedge fund. |
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Despite these positive micro-trends, the big picture remains deeply troubling. |
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People who criticize him never look at the big picture, he isn't shoving himself down our throats, the bookers, the writers, and other management are. |
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In his latest book Smith argues that science, along with its attendant philosophies of naturalism and materialism, has systematically eclipsed this big picture. |
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Happily glide from the big picture to the detail and back again. |
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These, of course, are two very different areas of the big picture. |
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The second part involves distilling this big picture and making it relevant for the office, discussing innovative management solutions in relation to energy challenges such as price, supply and environmental risks. |
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It was the images of people in the streets searching for their loved ones and trying to get a clue that started to sear into our memories just how devastating the big picture had been to real people. |
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My role is to focus on the macro side, or the big picture, while Charlie will speak in more specific terms about the role of business in general and banks and Royal Bank in particular. |
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We concentrate on the small stuff, insuring the big picture is always in focus. |
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In the big picture, she says, it also saves healthcare dollars because most patients are getting the care they need from nurses rather than from physicians, who are generally reimbursed for their services at a higher rate. |
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I do not care whether it is placed or not, if I get my stuff to that ship. Now, it is my job to look at the big picture. |
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The key figure in the big picture is Khaled Hodja, leader of the Syrian National Coalition, in close cooperation with KRG leader Masoud Barzani. |
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While we anticipate an economic recovery at some point, we should remind you that we do not structure the overall portfolio based on any big picture views of the world. |
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Participating States will need to keep the big picture in mind and work in a spirit of cooperation, compromise and flexibility, especially with regard to technical and procedural issues. |
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We really wanted a partnership with a company that could help us design the network, build a foundation for the future and understand the big picture. |
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The goal of this module is to have candidates appreciate the big picture and recognize the critical, strategic and dynamic nature of supply chain management. |
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In terms of work, there are a lot of pressures and challenges in moving things forward but it's important to stay focused on the big picture and not get frustrated by occasional setbacks or delays. |
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If your business is like many, the answer is no. You need to integrate all the silos of information and processes in your enterprise to quickly, easily get the big picture and operate more efficiently. |
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Talk about missing the big picture, Mr. Speaker. |
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If we stop looking inside the House and look outside for a moment, where we are not concentrating on only one or two subjects, we would see the big picture and the accomplishments. |
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However, what we do say is that no matter how frustrating our relations with the US may be on particular issues, it is important not to lose sight of the big picture. |
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So in the big picture, it doesn't really matter where you draw the lines on the map or what jurisdictions the federal government hands down to the provinces or to the municipalities. |
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Around the same time of that car ride, we now know from Posnanski, Scott Paterno tried to get his father to read the presentment, and the once sainted JoePa resisted, failing to see the big picture. |
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These were well-meant gestures of cultural aspiration from the 1960s – but today the effect is Orwellian, like a big picture of TS Eliot glowering down at you in Tower Hamlets. |
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If you're looking to move to a new travel program, take the time to identify and understand your goals, be collaborative across the company, and think big picture. |
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You can't just look at the election, you've got to look at the big picture. |
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Their south-facing unit has a big picture window. |
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Next time you embark upon a project, keep the big picture in mind. |
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We are ahead of the game, we can show audiences the big picture, and reframe the issues that confront all of us. |
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On contrary, it provides me a big picture, and the ability to apply some working methods from one topic to another one and finally a bigger adaptivity. |
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Studies on dry land had already shown that it had at some point already receded and then expanded again, but only after using the Glomar to drill into the seabed were they able to see the big picture. |
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It's important to look at the big picture of all of the different things that you need to accomplish so that you can create a logical order with which to begin moving through your tasks. |
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It is all to easy to lose sight of the big picture as thousands of people flock in at the weekends for stag nights, hen nights or just drinking sessions. |
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Yesterday is usually the last opportunity to fill any remaining holes in the big picture, and one piece was safely placed when Hebridean hosed up in the Adonis Hurdle. |
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This book will give them a big picture perspective on macroeconomics. |
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