Sentences with phrase «as less reasoned»

During the past decade, a full - scale war for dominance raged between the two groups in a manner that Chall (2000) described as less reasoned than exchanges in earlier periods.

Not exact matches

Investigators believed the company's reviews over whether to supply customers more controlled substances were not meaningful and were used as a sales tool; customers were granted threshold increases for reasons, like the 4th of July, or the closure of an area pharmacy years earlier, that the government considered less than compelling.

Less than 24 hours after the Post's searing critique went live, Cordray became a trending topic on Twitter, as she says, for all the wrong reasons.

With friends in high places, Wall Street may have less reason to be as outspoken about the new restrictions.

In their 2010 third - quarter report, the company cites poor weather as a reason for slightly lower sales — a lack of rain last summer meant less beer in the fall and winter.

The alums fingered a complicated tax code, an inefficient political system, a struggling K - 12 education system, and persistent pressure from abroad as reasons why the U.S. will become less competitive over the next three years — something 71 percent think will happen.

There are already plenty of reasons to keep your caffeine addiction alive and kicking: habitual coffee drinkers are less likely to die of heart failure as those who don't indulge, and research has suggested that caffeine may help prevent cancer, diabetes, stroke, and Parkinson's disease.

Back in the day, companies would justify paying women less than men because, among other reasons, men were seen as breadwinner providers responsible for an entire household.

As one San Francisco - based Uber driver, Mikeal Gibson, told the Journal, «I've heard that the only reason [customers] give people less stars is for poor driving and bad behavior, so delineating those two would be useful.»

For a host of reasons, governments the world over have chosen to cut spending, not as a virtue, but as what they believe to be the less severe of two painful options.

They found that those who had a solid reason to be unhappy, such as a recent bereavement, were again less productive than their happier counterparts.

Another reason analysts consider the January effect less important as of 2016 is that more people are using tax - sheltered retirement plans and therefore have no reason to sell at the end of the year for a tax loss.

Shortened (or non-existent) commutes, as well as spending less time getting dressed and ready, also ranked as important reasons.

The main reason was that I could cash flow there with 20 % down and could not in Seattle plus I could tie up less cash as real estate is cheaper in the midwest.

For the same reason, issuance of lesser - voting rights shares as consideration in a merger or other corporate acquisition should not be objectionable.

And thanks on the compliments — luckily this is a link building blog, meaning the main reason I did this is to act as a link building case study and less of a monetization project.

As with the other names mentioned a significant bounce in the health REIT space has occurred in the last month making many of the other health REITs less attractive than in days past, however, HCP still remains relatively weak for a variety of reasons and presents the best value (and risk) for potential returns.

So I do not view the effect of low rates on savers as a reason to be less accommodative.

He went on to say that in his opinion «Canadians culturally are quite a bit more utilitarian, more conservative, more practical in some ways [than Americans]» which he points to as being the main reason why initial interactions with Tilt by Canadian users have been less robust than Tilt's experience with American users of the platform.

As for the alleged inability of governments to manage the tax deferral, if such a system were implemented, provided that people traded securities or died at a more or less steady rate over time, there's no reason to think that there would be government cash flow issues.

A healthy economy could leave customers feeling less strapped for cash overall, Hamilton said, adding that relatively small increases to their budget - such as a few dollars more a month for a Netflix subscription - might not stand out as reason to worry.

Naturally, there are a lot of compelling reasons to retire early, such as more leisure time, vacations, and less stress.

In addition, MT4 supports auto trading as well via Expert Advisors or EAs, and is another reason why traders will choose it over other lesser known and even proprietary platforms.

Merger and acquisitions among registered investment advisors fell sharply in the third quarter as advisors see less reason to merge in the wake of an 18 - month delay of the Department of Labor fiduciary rule.

This is one reason why borrowers with excellent credit get access to lower mortgage rates, on average, as compared to borrowers with less - than - perfect credit.

These companies cited visa and immigration policies, which have become stricter (PDF) and less certain under Trump, as the main reason for growth in international hires.

Much of the reason that safety razors are so great has to do with the double edge razor blades themselves, as not only are they relatively inexpensive (even the best ones typically cost less than 50 cents apiece), but they are also generally made of much higher quality steel than the blades found in disposable razors.

For this reason, the Wildrose Alliance will fight for less tax, a smaller, more responsive government, principled values and the freedom to develop Alberta as economic leader.»

About the only reason I know that women like to put on lavish weddings, is to get the man at least two years into debt so as to make it less likely that he will leave her if he changes his mind.

In contrast, even in «transient» cities like San Francisco and New York, less than half of millennials listed marriage or not being ready to settle down as a reason.

However, the man is not a literature specialist, so what reason do I have to seriously consider what he has to say about «fairy tales,» much less about «philosophy» and «theology» when he hasn't even so much as an undergraduate degree in either of those areas.

you're right the church probably will be there long after any of us cease to exist but it stands to reason that it is going down... as more people come to the realization that the belief in a deity is not necessary to live, the less need there will be for a church to exist.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

We will give you a full refund of the amount paid or an exchange credit as required, less (if for any reason these costs have not been paid by you) the costs of delivery to us.

The X sold less than expected, but most consumers cited the price as their reason for not buying the device as opposed to the functionality.

Skinner declares: «As we learn more about the effects of the environment we have less reason to attribute any part of human behavior to an autonomous controlling agent.»

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

Gregory makes a stunning point on the ambiguities of giving to those derelicts among the poor who are by consensus generally regarded as less worthy: One should give not just to the unworthy poor, but also to the worthy poor, regardless of their moral condition, and for a profound reason: because one «gives of his bread to an indigent sinner, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a man.

Of course, one of the reasons religion disappears as we approach the present is that contemporary societies are much less religious than previous civilizations.

One theory I have is that the devil attacks them harder, and that while trying to live the life of the Cross, it acts like testing metal in fire — the worst will come out, burn brighter, they may have more suffering going on and less wordy things to turn to as crutches — these aren't excuses, but possible reasons.

As to the, «where are the intermediate forms» argument that has occasionally been put forth in a slightly less ignorant manner, there are a variety of reasons why every intermediate form isn't in the fossil record, the most significant being that of the trillions of organism that have ever lived on the planet, only the extreme minority get fossilized.

Hartshorne reasons that if the past is not in some sense eternally and perfectly preserved, that is, if the past is not immortal, then it follows that in the more or less distant future, it will be the same as if we had never chosen one action as opposed to any other; indeed, it would be the same as if we had never existed at all.

that the introductory verses are not part of the original passage but are simply used by Matthew as an introduction, there is all the less reason to say that the evangelist intended no universalistic reference at all.

One reason less attention has been paid is that the orders have their own chain of command and, as one bishop remarked, «The media are out for the blood of bishops.»

Yet there is little reason to believe that society is going to be more tolerant of truth as regards marriage, and less tolerant of truth as regards other issues, such as concern for the poor.

It seems the most likely scenario is that he married his sister or less likely his niece.The reasoning is that Adam and Eve lived alot longer and continued to have sons and daughters GEN5: 4 aCTS 17:26 Paul tells us that the God who made the world hath made of one blood all nations of man to dwell on all the face of the earth.Cain did nt marry to another tribe or nation as every man and women was a relative and of the same bloodline of Adam and Eve.The importance of this is that sin entered through one man Adam and is past through the bloodline so redemption is only possible through the same bloodline.So for the formula to work the human genome had to stay the same no other tribes or nations just the descendents of Adam and Eve.It also solves another riddle in that satan at various times prior to the flood and after the flood tried to contaminate the bloodline by his angels having sexual relations with the women this created a type of alien in essence and would have not been able to have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus as it wasnt fully human.This is where the giants came from and why God wanted to destroy them as they had the potential to destroy the human race as they couldnt be redeemed by the blood of Jesus.Interesting?

This «how much more» argument is a recognized form of reasoning in the rabbinical literature, where it is known as «light and heavy, i.e., arguing from the less to the more important.

The only reason a despotic capitalism should be preferred over a despotic socialism is that the former usually isn't as good at despotism and is somewhat less difficult to change.

One reason is that people began to think of retirement funding as a right and primarily a public responsibility, and so — not surprisingly — started saving less.