Sentences with phrase «about function as»

And just as we suspected, that afro is as much about function as it is fashion: his pet chocobo uses it as a nest.

Nearly every exterior feature of the Z06 is as much about function as about appearance.

With goodies like insulated bottle pockets and an included changing pad and wet - dry bag, this diaper bag is as much about function as it is about form.

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As we our bombarded with information our brains sift through the small percentage that is necessary for our cognitive functions, or in other words the things that require us to think about, for instance, reading.

Agrawal is so comfortable talking about bodily functions that it'd be tempting to dismiss her as a provocateur, someone who likes to make the suits sweat for the fun of it.

And hype around the ZenFone 3, which Asus showcased at the event, is largely centered on the fact its battery can last up to 42 days (the iPhone 6 holds a charge for about a day and a half with moderate use), and function as a charger for other devices.

The room is about the size of my childhood bedroom, a single row of seats functioning as an audience for the two chefs.

As TechCrunch notes, the function is probably less about sending sensitive material and more about mimicking «real - life conversation.»

If you find yourself functioning in the world of startups, in really any capacity, you're probably about as sick and tired as I am with the litany of overused keywords and coined terms such as pivot, innovation and disruption — they've all but lost their luster and intended meanings.

It is a hamfisted cautionary tale about global warming (which, via the film's scientific hand - waving, produces an ice age), but it also functions as a powerful 9/11 allegory, celebrating the ability of New Yorkers to unify in the face of tragedy.

As Stowe Boyd points out in «Metaphors Matter: Talking About How We Talk About Organizations,» an organization that functions like a dynamic organism is better able to change and adapt.

Kanvas users can also receive notifications about or search for streams within the app, which functions as a social network.

How do we go about changing ourselves so we can have a fully empowered, fully integrated, and committed workforce, sowe all function as a team rather than «us versus them»?»

About four years ago I started pricing all of my deals as a function of «post-money valuation.»

So when thinking about quotas, it's often best to start thinking of them as a function of capacity — and then start thinking about things like revenue and closing ratios.

New hires function as secret shoppers as a way to learn about the company's app by posing as potential buyers.

As for the stereo stuff: The Maestro had a burning curiosity about how machines of all sorts functioned.

But once, I asked about Square and whether Uber might function most profitably as something of a payments company.

The retailer has been pouring huge investments into technology and innovation — about 30 % of its capital expenditures are earmarked for developing its Internet infrastructure — and until recently, it had a secret Innovation Lab that was meant to function as a lean startup within the company, developing groundbreaking tech innovations that could be pushed out chain - wide.

Colonial, the largest fuel pipeline system in the United States, functions as the primary artery carrying about 3 million barrels of gasoline and other fuels daily from the Gulf Coast to various points throughout the U.S. Southeast and East Coast.

That raises questions about whether Cohen's law practice was functioning as a vendor for the campaign and the expense was therefore an unreported campaign expenditure.

By conducting policy in a transparent way and communicating what is important in determining the central bank's reaction function, I think policymakers can strike the best balance between a monetary policy that fully incorporates the complexity of the world as it is, while, at the same time, retaining considerable clarity about how the FOMC is likely to respond to changing circumstances.

The sales development function, as defined by Trish Bertuzzi of The Bridge Group, combines data analysis tools, email nurturing and phone prospecting teams together in a specialized role that is only about creating SQLs and preparing them for new sales people.

Long despised as a craft of the lazy and unproductive, spontaneous thought (including nostalgic trips down memory lane and fantasizing about the future) is now viewed by brain scientists as a critical aspect of healthy functioning.

Musk has been pretty open about his fascination with cars that can also function as boats.

Seashells have functioned as money for thousands of years in Pacific islands and is considered one of the oldest forms of money that we know about.

Additionally, the awesome thing about this wallet is that it functions much the same as messaging in email or Facebook.

So quit whining about rope and arrests for him and start calling for the people who are truly responsible for the fiasco — he is NOT the one who functioned as CEO, he is not the one who sat on the board of directors, he is not the one who set up the trading programs and loan product matrices that loaded IMB with toxic crap loans.

Then there's a bit about how the «incentive program» in Alpha's plan is based on metrics so easily met that it functions as «a disguised retention program,» which is «prohibited in bankruptcy cases absent extremely specific and unusual circumstances that do not exist here.»

The reason for Australia's third - ranking iron ore miner traditionally being seen more as prey than predator is a function of its once sky - high debt levels, uncertainty about its ore grade, and a belief that at some point Forrest would be tempted to cash out of the company he created.

If the church truly functioned as the church Sunday's would be about fellowship, prayer, worship (not rock concert that I can't sing too), and the gifts of the people displayed.

What is most striking about this episode is that by all appearances, Cochran's department functioned as a model of principled pluralism.

What about acquiring the approximately 2,000 proteins needed for a cell to function, that serve as enzymes?

He is writing to believers about how to live as followers of Jesus and function within the church.

Biblicism is a particular theory about how the Bible ought to function as an authority in Christian life....

For instance, he throws out the old canard about women conspiring to form a «shadow government» behind the scenes in order to function as illicit leaders in the congregation.

It's my term for the texts that function like scripture in American public life, the voices to which we are forever returning as we reflect together on what America is all about.

Indeed, his commitment to religious liberty was at least as much a function of his worry about domineering religious sects imposing themselves on the public square as of any concern about a loss of society's fundamental moral character.

It is further bound together by Hopewell's strong theological convictions about how narrative functions as God's work with congregations.

Consultation may become a primary function of the entire mental health center staff as more is learned about how to use the resources of community caretakers more effectively.

The trick is that members must learn to function and observe as if they were outsiders so that they see afresh the myriad matters about the congregation that they now take for granted.

In particular, there is an excellent discussion about the merits of taking an emergent and top - down view of brain function as opposed to a reductionist approach.

For the Christian this same constitutive function is exercised by the teaching, life and death of Jesus Christ, and by the affirmations about Jesus made by his disciples as a result of their Easter experiences.

In contrast, ready evidence directly contradicts statements in the Christian bible about the basics of biology, such as how diseases propagate, and even about basic bodily functions, e.g. of the kidneys.

Precisely in acknowledging God's primordial will as represented by Jesus, one necessarily pronounces a truth - judgment about Jesus» revelatory function — or, to use the traditional term, office.

What our functional images point to is a unified attitude about ministry — complex enough to take various needs and functions and situations as they come, but with no sense of inherent contradiction among them.

See Colin's post above for more about what telescopes and microscopes can show us, as well as what can be seen by the unaided eye plus a properly functioning mind.

I do not argue that the reflexes of abstraction and generalization have no function at all, but we need to be more honest about their derivative quality and about the normalness of narrative or hortatory genres as good theology.

This comes out clearly in one of his latest statements about the therapeutic» function of philosophy as applied to social issues: «helping people get out from under outdated philosophical ideas, helping break the crust of convention.»

It is as absurd to talk about the church functioning like a superfamily as it is to speak of the state as a family.