Sentences with phrase «other than its function»

Other than its function for increasing testosterone, it also functions for increasing libido levels and hence improves sexual performance.

Not exact matches

More than two - thirds of chief marketing officers don't think the role gets the same respect as other executive functions.

It is significantly different than any other position because you stop becoming a person and you become a function.

As ever, the causes of the cryptocurrency's fortunes are less than clear, but some experts reckon it might have something to do with the approach of April 17, the deadline for filing taxes in the U.S. Others think it's a function of geopolitical fears and sanctions.

But there was no improvement in verbal functioning and language schools, other than the ability to order, without a trip of the tongue, that «grande, quad, nonfat, one - pump, no - whip mocha.»

Many people pointed out that Roku has a powerful multi-service search function (the company claims to include more than 100 providers) while others highlighted useful third - party search options such as reelworld.com and canistream.it

For example, let's say your uniqueness rests on your app's ability to perform functions faster than any other app on the market.

[2] Indeed, to my mind, the value of these initiatives has been less the «integration» aspect than the progress made in enabling eight local bond markets to function more effectively for foreign and domestic investors and, not least, for the governments and other borrowers of those countries.

So, when searching for your organization's next leader, look for someone with an attenuated dopamine function: someone who is never satisfied with the status quo, someone who wants the feeling of success more than others — but likes it less.

Of course, SHA - 256, a cryptographic hash function used in parts of the bitcoin network, is part of SHA - 2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2), which was designed by none other than the NSA.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

Other than collecting money and debts, banks and licensed moneylenders function in different ways.

Content is regularly churned out without much connection to the buyer journey, and serves little function other than initial customer attraction.

On the other hand, stock prices are — to a certain extent — a function of earnings growth, and smaller companies are often able to increase their profits at a faster speed than larger businesses.

Even as other corporate functions — logistics, sales - force management — were being given the «moneyball» treatment in the early 2000s with powerful predictive software (and even as airlines had fully weaponized airfares), retail pricing remained more art than science.

You can argue that the original organism had better eyesight than others of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to occur in the first place, and if there was a change in the first animal the interconnectedness of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the chance change — which by the way required the loss of genetic material — to have happened regardless of the amount of time you had.

Science, philosophy and history have not produced any scrap of evidence to indicate that death is anything other than the termination of all function.

Let others, fulfilling a function more august than mine, proclaim your splendours as pure Spirit; as for me, dominated as I am by a vocation which springs from the inmost fibres of my being, I have no desire, I have no ability, to proclaim anything except the innumerable prolongations of your incarnate Being in the world of matter; I can preach only the mystery of your flesh, you the Soul shining forth though all that surrounds us.

The first description points to a level of mental functioning in which bodily experience is merely registered without much enhancement of the mental pole in the occasions other than perhaps a general feeling tone; the second points to an habitual form of bodily unity; and only the third suggests a flight from environmental obligations in the interest of greater depth of experience.

How can we believe at all against the fact that historically our religion has functioned as an opiate for the oppressed and that it is, as a cultural phenomenon, neither appreciably better nor essentially worse than any other religion?

No less than the other three, John's Gospel makes the task of understanding Jesus a function of grasping OT figures.

Yet the decisiveness of the act is partially a function of God's activity, which is in one sense different here than in other places, for the particular ideal aim given here is such as to give particularly apt expression to his being.

Ivor Leclerc (3) has recently shown that although Whitehead has - done more than other atomists in explaining the kind of unity possessed by compounds and organisms, he still fails to do justice to the distinctive characteristics that emerge and function at these supraparticle levels.

In a society where the people are widely committed to the right rather than to the advancement of their own interests and the satisfaction of their own desires, the censoring functions of government can be reserved for the occasional serious offender who escapes other controls.

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

People who think in this way see forests as having many functions other than supplying the market with cheap products.

In other words we in the West are too centered on how to get our individual churches to grow, primarily through attractional means, rather than seriously considering how to think as a cross-cultural missionary focused on reaching those who have no interest in attending our church functions.

It may simply mean that in that denomination evangelism is a separate function — and therefore needs to develop a holism of its own — or that the materials sent me represent a larger slice of that denomination's life than what others would call «evangelism pure and simple.»

It does seem that they learn how words function largely by relating them to experiences other than religious.

We must then allow a place in our picture of the universe for categories not reducible to those of science, and must preserve a role among the functions of the mind for other methods than those of the scientist.

At other times with this passivity in the pews the listeners function mainly as private consumers, more as an aggregate of individuals than as a corporate body.

There're things witnessed that can not be explained away, at least not in a way that neatly tucks everything in, folds it up and demonstrates that there's nothing behind it other than false conclusions derived from brain functions.

(And really, why would we expect our ecclesiastical relationships to function any differently than all our others?)

When family researchers look at how families function, i.e., how competently they handle tasks, challenges, and conflicts, rather than how families are structured, the encouragement and support of individuality and difference emerges as a key factor In other words, what is important is how people treat each other within families rather than who they are or how they appear.

They think it means the parceling out or «devolution» of state power to other institutions of society, rather than the inherent location of such powers and functions in what Centesimus Annus calls «the subjectivity of society.»

The significance of these three or four ways in which it is other than itself [Andersssein] refers rather to the three or four different functions which it exercises in the process of its becoming with respect to itself and to the others related to it.

In other words experience is the outcome of physiological events because it is a function of the organization of atoms rather than being inherent in the atom itself.

By way of trances and frenzied actions, the shaman, who functions as a scout of the «other world,» discloses or reveals an other - than - ordinary dimension of reality to the members of a tribe.

God's function in relation to other beings is therefore rather of persuasion than of voluntaristic initiation.

Hence he claims that consciousness is no more mysterious than other emergent properties of natural functioning — it is a biological phenomenon (comparable with growth, digestion, or the secretion of bile), and «thus... part of the ordinary physical world» (MC 60).

This meaning of «religion» needs to be kept in mind along with others, but in most discourse it functions more as one of the characteristics that may or may not be present than as the decisive basis of use of the term.

Henry Murray describes «cognitive and convictional functions» of myths, which must be credible to their adherents, though he considers these secondary to other functions.28 Even though a living myth is closer to daily life than to metaphysical speculation, it does seem to presuppose some sort of truth - claims which can be examined.

X-ray inspection systems equipped with SimulTask ™ PRO help manufacturers optimize their lines by performing functions other than just physical contaminant detection, reducing maintenance and operating costs by reducing equipment requirements.

I think that body temperature is actually a much more accurate indicator of thyroid system function than other tests, in many cases.

Leafy greens, especially in the raw form, are an alkaline promoting food, so eating them assists our bodies in achieving that necessary slightly alkaline pH. Leafy greens are also great bone builders, as they have more vitamin K than any other food, which is crucial for the bone building proteins to function properly.

There are more than 50 published studies about blueberry research involving antioxidants, anti-aging and cancer, to eyesight, brain function, diabetes and other topics.

The latest metal detectors and separators offer a range of functions other than basic metal detection and are, nowadays, fully integrated quality assurance instruments.

It has so many other health benefits and I'll list them briefly; high in mineral especialy calcium (more than any other plant), high in protein, anti-viral / - infection / - inflammation properties as well as offering polysaccharides which can prevent for example type two diabetes, improve liver function, stabalise blood sugar and last but not least release «happy» brain chemicals.

Pumpkin seeds are a good source of zinc, involved in more body processes than any other mineral and important for healthy immune functioning.

Curry's first MVP was the biggest longshot at 40/1, with new Cavalier and former owner of two functioning knees, Derrick Rose, the only other winner with longer than 7/1 odds.