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  • Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

    Political   Care   Messy  
  • Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.

  • A notion for a story is for me a confluence of real events, historical perhaps, or from my own memory to create an exciting fusion.

    "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
  • You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

    "The Earth Is Full". www.nytimes.com. June 7, 2011.
  • You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

    "Steve Jobs Biographer Walter Isaacson on the Apple CEO's Polarizing Persona" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. October 23, 2011.
  • Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

  • The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces; a severe test of patience or belief; a vessel for melting material at high temperatures." A crucible was the vessel in which medieval alchemists attempted to turn base metals into gold. That the alchemists inevitably failed in their audacious attempts doesn't denigrate the power of the crucible as a metaphor for the circumstances that cause an individual to be utterly transformed.

    Source: bobmorris.biz
  • Rock and roll was a good way to, to first recognize the, the confluence of white artists with it but also to kind of pretty it up a little bit, clean it up a little bit, make it more acceptable to, to people.

    Artist   White   Rocks  
  • Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

    "The French Revolution, A History" by Thomas Carlyle, part I, book VI, chapter V., 1837.
  • Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

    "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.
  • Something special can happen late at night in a jazz club. As the crowd thins, the musicians intuitively sense that those few who have stayed, have stayed for a reason. A reciprocity of need and desire inspires the musicians to dig as deeply into their talent and souls as they are able. This mysterious and transformative confluence of events rarely happens in concert. It is the province of the nightclub.

    Night   Inspire   Soul  
  • Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

    Religious   Men   Hunting  
    Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press
  • Life, for the most part, inevitably becomes routine, the random confluence of timing and fortune that configures its components all but forgotten. But every so often, I catch a glimpse of my life out of the corner of my eye, and am rendered breathless by it.

    Eye   Glimpse   Routine  
    Jonathan Tropper (2011). “Everything Changes”, p.9, Hachette UK
  • Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.

  • At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.

    World Design Science Decade 1965-1975 Phase I, Document 3 : Comprehensive Thinking, "Venus Proximity Day", p. 33, 1965.
  • Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will now move into a place of enormous influence and enormous impact, as that energy creates a confluence of all the energies surrounding our experience of deities, of the Tao of God, and our expression of that experience in our daily lives.

    Source: www.enlighteningtimes.com
  • We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.

    Source: collider.com
  • What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work force. But perhaps even more important than work force numbers is the fact that women - who began this sweeping entry in the mid-seventies - are just now beginning to assume positions of leadership, which give them the scope to create and reinforce the trends toward change. The confluence is fortunate, an alignment that gives women unique opportunities to assist in the continuing transformation of the workplace.

    Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.39, Crown Business
  • Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

    "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.
  • I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.

  • It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

    Cancer   Lying   Answers  
    "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.
  • There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate.

    "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.
  • From the 9th to the 15th centuries, the area which is now modern Spain was home to the greatest peaceful agglomeration of cultures ever known in the post-literate worldEven more remarkable than the flowering of art itself was the confluence of cultures that produced it: under the rule of Islam, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived and worked together in relative harmony.

    Christian   Art   Home  
  • Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  • We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.

    "Interview with the President of South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki, on SABC2 following his State of the Nation Address 2005". SABC2 Interview, www.gov.za. 13 February 2005.
  • Performance art is really about the sociology of the artist, where ideas come from, and the confluence of those ideas.

    Art   Ideas   Sociology  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

    Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.139, A&C Black
  • Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.

    Real   Biblical   Garden  
  • Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls, I passed close to the Marsh refinery, which seemed to be oddly free from the noise of industry. The building stood on the steep river bluff near a bridge and an open confluence of streets which I took to be the earliest civic center, displaced after the Revolution by the present Town Square.

    Fall   Squares   Bridges  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “The Shadow of Innsmouth”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

    Kids   Thinking   Today  
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