Sentences with phrase «are at least as»

They showed that the ancestors of dogs, the wolves, are at least as attentive to members of their species and to humans as dogs are.

Perhaps, but the oceanic and atmospheric sciences are at least as fortunate.

Indeed, psychiatric and neurological disorders are at least as genetically determined, and in many cases more so, than common diseases of other organ systems.

«If we find that lymphoscintigrams using tilmanocept are at least as good as the conventional radiocolloid tracer in identification and visualization of sentinel nodes, we would like to see a randomised clinical trial involving large numbers of patients,» says Prof de Bree.

Their rates of these mental health issues are at least as high as those reported by victims of both child abuse and bullying, say psychologist Dieter Wolke of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and his colleagues.

«We've documented a minimum of four big impacts right around the end of the Archean [2.5 billion years ago], all of which I would bet money are at least as big as the one at the end of the Cretaceous,» he says.

Issues of belief such as these are at least as important as skills matching when it comes to finding a new career.

But we are at least as willing to criticise right - wing vested interests as the Guardian, say, is willing to confront left - wing ones.

Of course part of this is about rates, but survey after survey has found that, for many, administrative burdens are at least as important.

The stories of judges becoming very wealthy on bribes paid by litigants in election petitions and other high profile cases have become more pervasive and in matters of the sanctity of the judicial process, appearances are at least as important as the substance.

Given that, unions are at least as necessary in the public sector as the private.

They are at least as illuminating than the frenzy of private briefings that are of little significance at this early stage of the negotiation.

The multiplier effect would be much greater if a similar voucher was used to unlock housing wealth, as the sums involved tend to be a lot higher: an average equity release is worth # 50,000 and when people downsize their home the sums are at least as much.

I think there's lots of evidence out there now that says that these other strengths, these character strengths, these noncognitive skills, are at least as important in a child's success and quite possibly more important.»

The book provides solutions to real problems that are at least as bad as the real problems themselves.»

And those things are at least as important as how you choose to feed your baby.

Despite Wenger's protestations that Arsenal have enough strikers already on the books, and the ongoing prediction that Danny Welbeck will be back in the squad shortly (yeah yeah), the Gunners continue to be linked with classy strikers that are at least as good as the ever - injured Englishman.

My reason for not doing so is certainty that the meals I prepare have superior nutritional virtues, and ethical virtues, and are at least as tasty, if not more so, than anything I can buy.

Omelets are at least as good!

Pulse until the butter pieces are at least as small as peas.

This dish is made extra easy by using frozen vegetables, which are at least as fresh as fresh ones, since they're frozen at their peak.

I hope the humans in his group are at least as smart as apes.

Most of the atheists posting here are at least as rabid as the fundamentalists — the only difference is that they use better grammar and spelling.

Unusually large gatherings in North American churches at Christmas and Easter tend to suggest that they are at least as much celebrations of loyalty to family and its tradition as they are response to God's peculiar ways of being present in Jesus of Nazareth.

If an atheist is stupid for claiming to know that no gods exist then believers are at least as stupid for claiming they know their alleged but never proven supernatural buddy exists.

I anticipate another accusation of stridency here, but I'm sorry, I feel that any intellectually honest person has an obligation to call out any and all bullshit as such, and religious beliefs are at least as unsupported, ridiculous and unintelligent as beliefs in homeopathy, astrology, the ideas of David Icke, or the belief that thunder comes from mighty Thor riding across the sky.

There are at least as many reasons for accepting religion, loving the Catholic Church for its enormous contributions to the world, and admiring the millions of fine Christians around us.

Human knowledge is cumulative so we are at least as intelligent and much more knowledgeable.

Second, unwritten standards are at least as conducive to abusive or controlling outcomes as written ones.

They obtain very good Ofsted reports and have examination results that are at least as good as other local schools.

All of your arguments against science are AT LEAST as much arguments against imaginary fairies.

Such programs are at least as bad as the ills they seek to remedy.

As the U.S. Catholic bishops acknowledge, churches must judge themselves by moral standards that are at least as rigorous as those to which they would hold other corporations accountable.

I do too, and what I observed when I participated in such a group was that in fact, these groups are at least as dogmatic as any Christian church is in cramming down the throats of attendees the notion that «God is whoever / whatever you want he / she / it to be», and there can not be any absolute concept of God.

We already know from a good deal of other data that in countries where atheism is accepted, atheists are at least as happy as Christians.

Catholics and Jews are at least as strong as mainstream Protestants, and sectarian and cultic Protestants, beginning with Mormons, are, collectively, stronger.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

(For every socialist who believes that socialism is The Answer to the problems of the human condition, there are at least as many capitalist «true believers,» the preponderance located in the business world.)

Many of them are at least as committed Christians, serving the seminary out of love of the church, as are any other members of the community.

The errors in estimating the costs of the war, the incompetent planning for the occupation, and the failure to understand the sheer length of the commitment are at least as important in understanding questions of when, if, and how, the U.S. should get into wars.

Well, they're not in jail if you know the stats on faith in prison, and they are at least as good as believers otherwise.

They are at least as plausible as your jesus.

This is why using a dartboard as a predictive tool is so wonderful: the results are immediate and unambiguous, it provides a competitive element and the results are at least as good as the talking heads can produce, but at a much lower cost!

If there were reasons to be wary of the future a year ago, there are at least as many reasons to be so now.

Under the current system of lax or non-existent restrictions on political spending, billionaire givers are at least as influential as any individual member of the House or Senate, probably a bigger deal than the chairmen of the two major political parties.

The online - retailing giant has pockets that are at least as deep as those at Facebook and Netflix, and it has shown signs of wanting to aggressively move into the market.

Author Elizabeth Royte writes in her book, «Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it,» that 92 % of the nation's 53,000 local water systems meet or exceed federal safety standards and are at least as clean and often cleaner than bottled water.

It is possible many of our challenges are at least as much social as they are economic — related to a lack of community and connection to something greater than ourselves.

Entrepreneurs understandably seek partners who are at least as experienced as themselves to jumpstart the business but that doesn't always happen.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.