Sentences with phrase «rather than promise»

The simplification throughout its app strategy, and Microsoft's message to developers is fresh, and the Metro approach across three screens (Xbox, Windows Phone, Windows) is starting to become a reality rather than a promise.

So rather than promise everyone that it will be a launch title right now and then have to break that promise later, I'll just say that for now it is not a launch title.

In truth I guess most of us are a little bit of all three, although I personally tend to prefer cars that try to do one thing very well, rather than promise to be several cars in one thanks to the voodoo of systems such as RS Drive.

A brain in balance, rather than the promise of pain or pleasure, may form basis of decision - making for psychiatric patients

But it's the call for consolidation, rather than the promise of tax relief, that has some local leaders concerned.

Rather than promise her the world, use your resume to paint a picture of what your world is like.

The British government's attempt to crack down on offshore tax evasion is only yielding # 349 million ($ 492 million) a year, rather than the promised # 1 billion.

I just wished the old SEO companies who have tried to reinvent themselves as content marketers would spend more time helping their customers «invest» in building audiences and authority through their content, rather than promising them short term returns on their efforts.

With Steven Gerrard leaving Anfield in the summer, Brendan Rodgers has already told his bosses that Liverpool must bring in a world class player to replace him, rather than the promising and young signings that he has tended to make so far.

It is clear that Milner's place in the team, like every Liverpool player, is now purely on merit rather than promises or politics, as it seemed in the final days of Rodgers.

That's the approach that Labour and the rest of the Remain campaign need to take over the next eight days, rather than promising to unpick the central tenets of EU membership.

Montes hopes the results will encourage employers to concentrate on delivering good conditions and rewards, rather than promising workers next to nothing in the mistaken belief that delivering a little more than was offered will be appreciated.

If Tennessee and Delaware and other states now shift their standards dramatically upward, RttT will win over those who think it is performance, rather than promises, that should be rewarded.

Not exact matches

Fast forward to 2017 and AIG finds itself with a new CEO, Brian Duperreault, a former employee who promises to return the company to growth rather than break it up.

So rather than shelling out for a pill that promises to be a cure - all, snack on a parfait.

Rather than have you spend hours on a slow train or in a cramped car, Blade's flights promise to get you out to the Hamptons in just 40 minutes.

Netscape was young, and its promise was built on a revenue model, rather than profitability.

Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.

This can work for the consumer if it delivers on the promise of facilitating access to high - quality primary care in more ways than currently delivered in the rather bare bones CVS Minute Clinics.

OnePlus isn't making any concrete promises about its new facial recognition, however, as the company said it's designed more for convenience when unlocking the phone rather than security - intensive tasks like making mobile payments with Android Pay.

SAFTs, in which investors are promised a set number of tokens that don't yet have value, are popular because they allow investors to put money toward the technology rather than in a centralized company.

Rather than airy - fairy promises and feel - good anecdotes, he offers solid basic advice for the everyman and everywoman.

Trump has said he might have to build a fence, rather than a wall, in some areas of the U.S. - Mexican border to stop illegal immigration, tweaking one of his signature campaign promises.

Too often we'll uncritically embrace a study that promises a great headline, rather than looking hard at the claims of the tall foreheads who authored it.

There's been relatively few promising robotics companies until now, he said, «but people are becoming more commercially disciplined — they're taking it seriously now as a business rather than as a science project.»

In «Leaders Must Live Up to Their Promises,» he writes, «Mr. Goffee and Mr. Jones concluded — after speaking to followers, i.e., lower - ranking employees rather than leaders — that the best leaders brought four things to their organizations:

Three tactics proved especially promising: 1) moving away from «direct» sales and toward integrated campaigns that drove purchases in retail stores; 2) using DRTV as an inexpensive testing vehicle, rather than an all - or - nothing launch pad; and 3) maximizing margins by relentlessly optimizing costs and sales prices.

Looking out over the next five years, a technology revolution — one focused on industrial applications rather than consumer connectivity — promises to improve capex and open doors for the next crop of market leaders.

Some of them, such as Ripple, look particularly promising and are beginning to enjoy success in trying to improve rather than replace the established ecosystem.

Rather than use his own stock, Shkreli induced two Retrophin employees (Thomas Fernandez and Kevin Mulleady) to deliver 90,000 of their Retrophin shares to him in exchange for a promise of Fearnow Shares — i.e., unrestricted shares in Desert Gateway, the Reverse Merger entity.5 Those 90,000 shares were multiplied to 450,000 shares after the Reverse Merger.

«The administration's short - sighted decision to implement new tariffs is meant to fulfill a campaign promise rather than support robust, pro-growth trade policy,» said Thom Dammrich, President of the National Marine Manufacturers Association.

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

This implementation stage, which 2017 should represent, is a crucial step in the larger adoption of blockchain tech, as it will allow skeptics to see the functionality, rather than just hear of its promise.»

We strongly advise that you make use of a system that achieves genuine results rather than empty promises.

After all, there's now a businessman in charge at the White House rather than a politician, and Trump has promised to cut taxes, boost infrastructure and defence spending and slash regulations.

«There are solutions that deliver on this, and Minister Stone appears to be buckling rather than looking for these solutions, as he promised he would.»

The immediate liquidity of these tokens means those participating in the original sale are often more interested in dumping the coin on someone else via an exchange rather than investing in the long - term promise of the project in question.

Cai Yi, the general manager of Tencent's blockchain operations, said that the technology's greatest promise lies in its potential to deliver an internet of value, rather than an internet of information.

Rather than taking a hardship withdrawal, you can actually borrow funds from your 401 (k) account with a promise to pay it back.

Rather than treating China with kid gloves, the president should be much tougher with China — as he promised he would be on the campaign trail.»

Rather than viewing it as a sign of sin or mistrust, let's view it as a temporary messenger, designed to slow us down and reorient our minds, bodies and souls towards the peace and the freedom that Christ promised.

Good news for those who were disappointed that Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master turned out to be a vague parable of Scientology rather than a penetrating exposé of it: a new book promises to do the job instead.

Although he has a track record of breaking promises — both to his voters and his wives — some evangelicals would rather gamble with Trump than lose for certain with Clinton.

God's promised fulfillment includes, among other things, the image of a New Jerusalem where «death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away» (Rev. 21:4) As we begin to engage in the business of genetic co-creation, how can we be sure that our path goes toward this fulfillment rather than toward some irreversible destruction?

The telephone number flashed at the bottom of the TV screen and the camera's occasional glance at three tiers of telephone operators might make you think you were watching a telethon, with the callers transmitting promises of gifts rather than the confessions of faith they are in fact making.

Adultery fares no better, with many couples embracing what psychologist John Gottman calls a «conditional commitment» rather than the risky, come - what - may promise cherished by the church.

5.5) which exactly parallel a common Jewish usage, except that there the synonyms «age to come» or «eternal life» would be used rather than Kingdom of God, as, for example, in the question in Mark 10.14 or the promise in Matt.

I guess the shorthand of my response would be that we shouldn't be too «sure» of what we have faith in, not because we lack trust but rather because we trust the One who makes the promise so much that we can accept it if what He has in store is better than what we could expect.

It promises satisfaction of the minister's primary calling to be a prophet - pastor rather than an institutional functionary.

The focus in interpreting St. Paul's words has usually been on the obliteration of distinctions, rather than on what it means to be «heirs according to promise.»