Sentences with phrase «approach than the point»

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But at some point I realized that was the completely wrong approach: I was more effective being a pro skater and being an ambassador for the company, instead of being the guy that created the ads, which someone else could do better than me.

Rather than using the new data to push investors to buy stock, Wieser recommends caution because he believes that the we're approaching the saturation point when increases in digital ad budgets won't lead to increased sales.

5A reading of Bacon's New Organon reveals a more nuanced and less empiricist approach to induction than Whitehead (and other twentieth - century philosophers) usually give him credit, One text in particular refers to the ascent and descent characteristic of imaginative generalizations:»... from the new light of axioms, which have been educed from those particulars by a certain method and rule, shall in their turn point out the way again to new particulars, greater things shall be looked for.

Indeed, it is precisely in this respect that he diverges from the traditional subjectivist approach: his insistence on a more primitive mode of experience than is generally recognized as the starting point for metaphysical investigation.

This approach (which is, I think, more impressionistic than analogical) would have the advantage of not forcing all religions into a single, narrow mold — a point to which I shall return.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The point is that this is more than a risk: it is the methodological problem with Fr Purnell's approach.

What we need at this point is an interpretive framework permitting us so to specify the possibility of the objective reality of the risen Christ that Paul's experience may be approached as a vision rather than as an hallucination.

But Americans are curiously unwilling to learn from Europe, even though almost all member - states of the European Union have better policies and lower rates of addiction than the U.S.. On other points, Massing is in agreement with the harm - reduction approach: he favors free needles, methadone treatment, decriminalization of marijuana and repeal of mandatory sentencing.

Approached from the point of view of faith rather than of works, the question ceases to be «What constitutes a breach of divine law in the sexual realm?»

Approached from the point of view of love, rather than that of law, the issue is at once transformed.

But try to let your experiences of abundance point you toward the this - even - more approach of divine love rather than the that - as - well - as - this approach that feeds our fantasies of somehow enjoying an expansive universality.

While there are major differences between the two approaches which can not be overlooked, these two points of view can be brought closer together than they appear to be at first glance.

I shall approach this position by entering more explicitly into the problem of theodicy than I have done up to this point.

So they will know how Shrek 2 might help them think about how to look deeper than the surface in choosing a life partner, but they will have no idea how to approach English Lit, Sociology, History, Geography or indeed Science from a biblical point of view.

I believe my original point, that your approach, fishon, was less than loving (and, as Cindy put it, you are «neither listening to [others], nor attempt [ing] to understand where they are coming from nor attempt [ing] to explain to them why you believe the way you do) stands.

The point was that Christians can FULLY enjoy MARITAL physical intimacy... which can be attained if we take a different, truly BIBLICAL approach, as opposed to the «religious» «morally upright» «stale» stance which serves as no more than a decieving facade.

Furthermore, if shopping for the best kids» program is our primary motivation for choosing a church, we are modeling a consumer approach to church that may very well shape our kids as much or more than any curriculum, which brings me to Point 4:

On every other occasion it was our laid back approach against mostly smaller teams that cost us points, where we take the results or points for granted just because opponent is considered smaller than Arsenal.

The season is warming up nicely as the midway point approaches, this weekend's latest round of matches is to throw up some interesting encounters that could provide us with more answers than questions.

If I was undecided before now, now I am certain Wenger's been right all with his approach of not signing prima donnas who think that they are bigger than the team, it's refreshing to see a player with as much enthusiasm as Sanchez but at some point discretion and good sense has to prevail, afterall he and Ozil are Barca and Madrid rejects, I would take RvP and Fabregas over him and Ozil, players we didn't have to pay over the odds for, players who despite the circumstances of their exits understood the team comes first.

Arsenal may only be a single Premier League point better off than our opponents today, but you would normally expect a team like Watford to approach a game against us or any of the big hitters with some degree of caution, even though the Hornets are at home today.

And I firmly stand on the point that this is a result of the destructive approach the top teams in England take rather than it being really good for the league.

Large home underdogs (more than 7 points) really start to howl as the playoffs approach and in the postseason.

Maybe if you approach the subject in a different manner people would actually be able to look at your points in an educational view rather than attacking one type of parenting style and making them feel bad in their beliefs.

Although they take different approaches, their goals are similar: to have kids begin to make conscious food — and life — choices by showing them that there's more to it than pointing at a supermarket shelf, opening a box or waiting in a fast - food drive through.

You are point blank trying to make the case that some mothers, some women, are better than others in the way they approach pregnancy and childbirth.

But the point, Gadoua emphasizes, is that couples can approach and exist within their relationships strategically, rather than joining or avoiding the married ranks based on the marriages they grew up observing.

As Reifsnider points out, it is important to take a life cycle approach to this issue, rather than focusing solely on nutrition during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

«Most of the candidates for Senator Gillibrand's seat were approached at various points by certain Republican State Committeemen, other than Chairman Cox, to gauge the candidates» interest in running against Senator Schumer, only because there was no candidate for that vacancy for some time.»

One noteworthy point from a RootsCamp 2012 session on the Obama campaign's digital marketing: sometimes a less - targeted approach to recruitment worked better than tight targeting.

Replicating Latimer's vantage point in a similar vehicle, starting back more than.2 miles, at no point in the approach is the backdrop to the traffic light above the horizon.

-LSB-...] We could point to proposals to tax child benefit, or to reform it to a Tax Credit, to demonstrate that while we understood the need to reduce spending, our way of doing it would were more sensitive to family needs, more considered in our approach and less harmful to working families than George Osborne's politically driven cuts.

No - one has a more balanced view of this than Lib Dem Vince Cable, who sat on the fence before the election by pointing out the pros and cons of each approach.

«Rather than scoring political points they should be reaching out to create a cross-party approach striking the right balance between effective security measures and the need to win the long - term battle for hearts and minds,» he said.

«I think the right honourable gentleman ought to do something more useful than just read the newspapers,» Cameron observed, before pointing out that shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan had called the sentencing approach a «perfectly sensible vision».

With more than two months left in the 2015 - 16 academic year at that point, the number of intoxicated students transported to the hospital t approached the total number of transports reported during the 2014 - 15 academic year, according to the report.

«We urge the attorney general and his department to take a thorough look at the many thoughtful comments from concerned citizens and quickly reconsider this approach,» wrote Holt and Rakoff, pointing to more than 250 public comments published in the Federal Register.

The pedagogical approach of his HHMI - funded program is equally rare; rather than selecting research students with impeccable academic credentials, Warner's program admits only students with grade point averages between 2.5 and 3.0.

The claim that the biosphere is approaching a global tipping point remains no more than a contested and untested hypothesis.

Rather than a bottom - up approach, the researchers worked their way down from bulk gallium by heating it to 29.7 degrees Celsius (about 85 degrees Fahrenheit), just below the element's melting point.

Researchers from the United Kingdom and Brazil also said the pair of droughts have raised concerns that the forest could be approaching a point where it ceases to be a carbon «sink,» absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it produces, and flips to a carbon source.

This means it has a more elongated orbit than Sedna, another distant Pluto - sized object, whose closest approach is 76 AU and whose estimated far point reaches 937 AU.

One caveat that both researchers point out is that the new approach conceals a two - dimensional area rather than a three - dimensional one.

By moving in a large enough circle around an axis, at something approaching the speed of light, an observer might catch his own temporal tail, returning to his starting point at some time earlier than his departure.

The phenomenon occurs when a liquid, upon approaching an object that is much hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces a vapor which insulates the liquid from the surface of the object.

In truck transportation, some of the existing approaches include «point to point,» in which one driver stays with a full load all the way to its often - distant destination; «hub and spoke» systems in which less - than - full loads are changed at selected points; and «relay» networks in which the drivers change but the load stays on the truck.

They took a conservative approach, discarding studies in which researchers had pointed at the lizards, walked towards the animals faster or slower than a particular fixed speed, or studied populations that were habituated to humans.

At that time, the average temperature at the planet's surface would have approached the boiling point of water — 100 degrees Celsius, about 75 degrees higher than today.

Also, atmospheric measurements of the amounts of methane released by permafrost (a top - down approach) are far less than estimates of these amounts made using point - based field assessments and ecosystem modeling (bottom - up approaches).