In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team ( to work on a SPARC port ), but lacked the university degree required to obtain a work H-1B visa.

At the time, Volkswagen lacked an internal research and design division, and Porsche was doing the bulk of the company's development work, per a deal that went back to the 1950s ; in keeping with this history, Porsche was contracted to develop a new sporting vehicle with the caveat that this vehicle must work with an existing VW / Audi I4 engine.

Sometimes it is difficult to guess whether authors intentionally ignored a highly relevant cite or lacked knowledge of the prior work.

The compilers of the Jerusalem Talmud consequently lacked the time to produce a work of the quality they had intended.

She continued her work in the theater and on television, although she lacked " vocal horsepower " and would likely not have had a lengthy stage career.

His supporters argued that, while he lacked physical stamina due to his age, mentally he remained aware and attentive, and maintained a very active work schedule, showing up for every floor vote.

The Spring, although dated 1856, was painted in 1821, except for the head and the extremities ; those who knew the work in its incomplete state professed that the after-painting, necessary to fuse new and old, lacked the vigour and precision of touch that distinguished the original execution of the torso.

Irene Dunne commented that she had lacked Colbert's " terrifying ambition " and noted that if Colbert " finished work on a film on a Saturday, she would be looking for a new project by Monday ".

Early judgments that Micheaux's work lacked aesthetic finesse or artistic power now appear short-sighted.

The central perforation of 9. 5 mm film cannot be supported in the gate of camera or projector as 8 or 16 mm perforations are, but damage to 9. 5 mm prints is usually caused by cheap toy projectors which lacked customary sprocket drive requiring the claw to do all the work of transporting film.

Because the seller lacked the paper work authenticating the artwork, Gold & Silver manager Corey Harrison would only pay $ 1, 000 for the page, an offer that the seller declined.

Dupee, as noted above, characterised James as neurotically withdrawn and fearful, and although Dupee lacked access to primary materials his view has remained persuasive in academic circles, partly because Leon Edel's massive five-volume work, published from 1953 to 1972, seemed to buttress it with extensive documentation.

Oberth lacked the opportunities to work or to teach at the college or university level, as did many well-educated experts in the physical sciences and engineering in the time period of the 1920s through the 1930s – with the situation becoming much worse during the worldwide Great Depression that started in 1929.

They admired Irving for the pro-Nazi slant in his work and the fact that he possessed a degree of mainstream credibility that they lacked, but were annoyed that he did not openly deny the Holocaust.

In an interview, Boyd explained that he had " yet to stumble across his best work " because he lacked the ability to read music.

Since Brazil lacked a large native population, and the Indians did not make good plantation workers, the Portuguese colonists began to import African slaves to work their plantations.

Though favourably received by the press – The Times described his music as having " a personal distinction and sincerity which is absent from the work of the Central European composers of today " – the experience convinced Tippett that he still lacked a watertight technique.

Despite the importance of some of his theories, Barbon's work ( especially A Discourse of Trade ) has been criticised for an excess of " definition and classification " instead of analysis and a disjointed style which lacked rigour.

Although Parliament lacked what would be considered political parties, and would continue to do so until the 18th century, the Petition of Right marked a substantial cooperative work between individual parliamentarians and between the Commons and Lords, something that had previously been lacking.

The language of the book and its whole content show that it is the work of someone who lacked command of either literary language or good style, and in many passages it contains words which are out and out heresy.

Wunder drew highly detailed panels, but some critics, notably Maurice Horn, claimed that it was sometimes difficult to tell one character from another and that his work lacked Caniff's essential humor.

Both editions lacked the critical apparatus and were based on secondary manuscripts that had appeared after the 15th century ; much later than the original work.

Up to the mid / late 1980s, some work in phrase structure grammars thought that some languages lacked a verb phrase.

Malraux pretends, perhaps with a trifle too self-conscious a modesty, that his fragmentary work will accordingly `` appeal only to the curiosity of bibliophiles '' and `` to connoisseurs of what might have been ''.

Their work was a self-conscious attempt at creating an English equivalent to the Beats.

Whereas naïve art ideally describes the work of an artist who did not receive formal education in an art school or academy, for example Henri Rousseau or Alfred Wallis, ' pseudo naïve ' or ' faux naïve ' art describes the work of an artist working in a more imitative or self-conscious mode and whose work can be seen as more imitative than original.

The tenor of discussion changed as writers and critics became more self-conscious about their place in the world and how they engaged it in their work.

On the other hand, the intimate psychological encounters in realistic settings that characterize an Austro-Germanic work like Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ) are not ordinarily discussed in terms of Verismo because of the self-conscious " period-costume " setting of Strauss's opera, and because its elite and intellectually refined atmosphere are at odds with the earthy operatic melodramas being written in Italy during the same period, which are more typically associated with Verismo opera.

Similar traits can be seen in the Laocoön group which is a reworked copy of a lost original that was likely close both in time and place of origin to Nike, but while Laocoon, vastly admired by Renaissance and classicist artists, has come to be seen as a more self-conscious and contrived work, Nike of Samothrace is seen as an iconic depiction of triumphant spirit and of the divine momentarily coming face to face with man.

However, others contest this literary interpretation and instead read the work as a " self-conscious reflective account " that a society must give of itself in order to understand itself and therefore become reflective.

Reminiscent of the early work of American director David Lynch, it is this self-conscious and surreal merging of early film-making techniques with a post-modern sensibility that give Maddin's films a style referred to as " Ultra-Conformist " or " Anti-Progressive ".

These statements are characteristic of Tuymans ’ s self-conscious and tenaciously semantic shaping of the philosophical content in his work.

The shared values and goals of The Pioneers such as Euphronios and Euthymides signal that they were something approaching a self-conscious movement, though they left behind no testament other than their own work.

He argues that Marxist political parties must abandon the assumption that there is anything inherently revolutionary about any class, so that they can get to work creating a self-conscious revolutionary class of wage earners, " articulating the articulation.

In an interview on National Public Radio ( NPR ), author Michael Lind said, " Before the rise of a self-conscious intelligentsia, most educated people – as well as the unlettered majority – spent most of their time in the countryside or, if they lived in cities, were a few blocks away from farmland or wilderness ... At the risk of sounding countercultural, I suspect that thinkers who live in sealed, air-conditioned boxes and work by artificial light ( I am one ) are as unnatural as apes in cages at zoos.

Much influenced by Rainer Zitelmann's work, Lukacs describes Hitler as a self-conscious, modernizing revolutionary.

With the work of the latter philosopher, critical theory transcended its theoretic roots in German idealism, and progressed closer to American pragmatism.

Many critics came to view the work as a tragedy in which Don Quixote's innate idealism and nobility are viewed by the world as insane, and are defeated and rendered useless by common reality.

The utopian ideals of the founding fathers – social justice and the right to decent work – were changed by diplomatic and political compromises made at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, showing the ILO's balance between idealism and pragmatism.

This work contains Marx's criticism of materialism ( for being contemplative ), idealism ( for reducing practice to theory ) and overall, criticising philosophy for putting abstract reality above the physical world.

Agassiz was influenced by philosophical idealism and the scientific work of Georges Cuvier.

Other contributions include his early work on the economic history of Roman agrarian society ( 1891 ) and on the labour relations in Eastern Germany ( 1892 ), his analysis of the history of commercial partnerships in the Middle Ages ( 1889 ), his critique of Marxism, the discussion of the roles of idealism and materialism in the history of capitalism in his Economy and Society ( 1922 ) and his General Economic History ( 1923 ), a notable example of the kind of empirical work associated with the German Historical School.

Stirling ( 2007 ) examines this essentially stylistic trait alongside Bloch's peculiarly quixotic idealism, which tempered and sometimes compromised his work through his hope for a truly cooperative model of historical inquiry.

Supporters of Rand's work recognize the phenomenon, but attribute it to the loss of youthful idealism and inability to resist social pressures for intellectual conformity.

As the work proceeded — and Kierkegaard's overcoming of Hegel's idealism is revealed to be a mere interiorization — Adorno excitedly remarks in a letter to Berg that he is writing without looking over his shoulder at the faculty who would soon evaluate his work.

McGregor, published the far-sighted book Industry and Humanity: A Study in the Principles Underlying Industrial Reconstruction, a dense, abstract work that went over the head of most readers but revealed the practical idealism behind King's political thinking.

" The idealism of Americans centers in the future of America, wherein we hope to work out those principles of liberty and democracy to which we are committed This political idealism, this strain of pacifism, this abstinence from aggression and desire to be left alone to work out our own destiny, has been manifest from the birth of the republic.

The Allende Government was also able to draw upon the idealism of its supporters, with teams of " Allendistas " travelling into the countryside and shanty towns to perform volunteer work.

The Salon hosted a series of six presentations of avant-garde art, writing and music during the 1890s, to give a presentation space for artists embracing spiritualism, mysticism, and idealism in their work.

The leading Neoclassical sculptors enjoyed huge reputations in their own day, but are now less regarded, with the exception of Jean-Antoine Houdon, whose work was mainly portraits, very often as busts, which do not sacrifice a strong impression of the sitter's personality to idealism.

Slavoj Žižek's professes " the core of my entire work is the endeavour to … reactualize German idealism ".

" He further noted that Shriver " served as our founder, friend, and guiding light for the past 50 years " and that " his legacy of idealism will live on in the work of current and future Peace Corps volunteers.

Led by figures like Fichte, Schelling, and later Hegel, German idealism developed out of the work of Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and 1790s and was closely linked with romanticism and the revolutionary politics of the Enlightenment.

For the most part, however, Darwin ’ s ideas simply overlaid the fundamental features of Schleicher ’ s prior evolutionary project, which derived from the work of those individuals immersed in German romanticism and idealism especially Humboldt and Hegel.

The creation of a new government in a territory where no prior government structures existed was an accomplishment achieved by the hard work, idealism and commitment of many individuals, including Ministers, MLAs, public servants, Inuit organizations and municipal leaders-but the period is likely to be viewed as the Okalik legacy.

His republican idealism, considered subversive, caused a rift between him and his conservative monarchist-leaning father ( a supporter of the traditionalist King D. Miguel ); his father would break-off ties with his sons ( for those subverse ideals ), forcing the older Manuel to work to support his and his brother's studies.