Sentences with phrase «as nothing less than»

I've always considered hosting an open house, either my own or another agent's, as nothing less than a job interview.

«The state of democracy in Bihar, unfortunately, has never been up to the mark... I see it as nothing less than what I may like to call, «digital booth capturing.»

Rob Koonce, Director, Center for Legal Education and Professional Development, New Mexico State Bar: «Ross Guberman's delivery of legal writing can be described as nothing less than a commanding performance.

Overall, Kaplan describes Rand's own hand at labour relations as nothing less than «disastrous,» with nearly every stakeholder and political party expressing strong criticism.

If that were ever partly true, AGW researchers» claims of a 97 % consensus would be rightly be outed as nothing less than propaganda to help prop up the hoax and scare tactics of the Left.

For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery;... Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.»

Since the last century's backlash against discussing population size management, serious advocacy of limiting human fertility has been ridiculously regarded as nothing less than an attack on the poor and disenfranchised.

The actor providing Raiden's voice, the same guy who played Raiden before, delivers a pretty lackluster performance at times, but epic cutscenes ensure that Raiden comes across as nothing less than a badass that you wouldn't want to mess with, while his own inner demons create a solid foundation for us to relate to the guy.

For with a 4.1 inch display, the device is well into smartphone territory though ViewSonic would like it to be treated as nothing less than a tablet device with phone capabilities.

«We think of the e-Golf Touch concept as nothing less than a smartphone on wheels.»

The only thing worse than watching Tatum bumble his way through yet another leading role is the dreadful script by Montiel, which lazily strings together a series of incredibly pointless events and moments of manufactured conflict that are so easily avoidable it can be viewed as nothing less than an insult to the audience's integrity.

Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.) is the dim - witted but well - meaning wrinkle complicating the issue further insofar as he actually fought his way into Howard's bunker after what he described as nothing less than a cataclysmic event.

Faced with the unthinkable demise of Stalin, so long revered as nothing less than a god, these Soviet dignitaries panic, plot and go in and out of denial: a bizarre, dysfunctional hokey cokey of the mind.

But it's also a boldly attempted strike against the monolithic corporatization of fan service, and arguably one of the few films that defines dystopia as nothing less than a marketplace of trademarked, cross-promotional intellectual property.

The plan worked, and the program's ratings shot up to astronomical levels, qualifying it as nothing less than a national phenomenon.

By the time the interminable, seemingly endless climax rolls around, Battleship has definitively established itself as nothing less than an intolerable and flat - out reprehensible waste of time - which is surprising, certainly, given the presence of Berg behind the camera (ie the filmmaker is, after all, responsible for such entertaining fare as Hancock and Very Bad Things).

«My agents and a few friends had prepared me for my fitting, describing the department as nothing less than magical.

The debate over how to classify the 20,543 acre parcel dominated headlines in 2016, with groups viewing its future as nothing less than as an existential decision that will shape the future of the Adirondack Park.

We know Man United will not play defensively as nothing less than a win will give them a chance of leapfrogging us into Third Place.

A few months ago, in Bolivia, he spoke of «the unfettered pursuit of money» as nothing less than «the dung of the devil.»

These include a fantastic sequence in which Scout and Jem and Dill play the main parts of a revivalist meeting that culminates in Dill's grandly appearing as nothing less than the Holy Ghost, but not before the children have a pointed argument about denominational differences — Methodist vs. Baptist — and related liturgical practices (how's that for dating the novel?).

31: 33) will be recognized as nothing less than the hope that this experience known first by the prophets should in time become the possession of every faithful soul.

Marshall describes the situation facing the rural Church as nothing less than «a slow burn crisis» and yet there is a striking passion and commitment to rural ministry in the face of significant challenges.

Long before the Hogan trial took center stage, Gawker Media invested millions (Denton won't say how much exactly) in building a commenting and reader - blogging system it called Kinja, which Denton described as nothing less than an attempt to turn the publishing world on its head — to put readers on the same level with journalists and publishers.

While the video of Magic Leap's headset showcases casual uses — like a quirky robot hiding under a desk, or a projection of the galaxy in motion in mid-air — the Florida - based company sees its mission as nothing less than creating a visual operating system for real life.

Most publishers see it as nothing less than an existential threat to their way of life, and they view users who do it as traitors and thieves.

Meanwhile, Microsoft (MSFT) is also pushing Skype for Business as nothing less than a replacement for existing corporate private branch exchange (PBX) systems — and it's offering «Fast Track» funding to help businesses make the switch.

Noting that «every text is made more understandable, and interesting, by our shared attention,» the site defines its goal as nothing less than creating «the world's greatest public knowledge project.»

Not exact matches

«And its target is nothing less than the utility of the Internet as a democratic space.»

Absent such a standard, the shareholder proposal rule becomes nothing less than a species of private eminent domain by which the federal government allows a small minority to appropriate someone else's property — the company is a legal person, after all, and it is the company's proxy statement at issue — for use as a soap - box to disseminate their views.

We then immodestly set as our corporate goal the transformation of Air Canada into nothing less than a Global Champion.

Before a market can be described as a bull market, it is expected that the prices of nothing less than eighty per cent of the stocks listed in the particular exchange should be on the rise.

Given this, it is nothing less than our obligation, as fully participating members of civil society, to continue alerting Canadians to these cuts and their impacts, all too often hidden from view through omnibus budget bills and government «feel good» misinformation.

Bargain bin brands cost less because they're usually nothing more than bath soap disguised as a puck.

No less of an investment genuis / god than Warren Buffett has stuffed away nearly $ 100 BN in 1 - year US T - bills as nothing in the M&A world or stock market excites him much.

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.

Such a «godless natural law» entails nothing less than «a direct attack on humanity itself,» because it «would revere the laws of human nature only insofar as we continued to be human.

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

And let us not underestimate the importance of friendship, for, as Hauerwas notes in his essay, «God intends nothing less than to make us His friends and, therefore, friends with one another.»

He goes on to prescribe nothing less than a corporate ritual of anguish and repentance as the path toward hope in God at such a time.

This peace can keep the most violent of us in check, even as I was once placed in check when, during 9/11, I wanted to do nothing less than track Osama bin Laden down, cut his head off and put it on a pole and parade it all over Afghanistan, or wherever I could catch him.

The psalmist recalls times when his sense of the divine presence was so immediate and full that he felt as if he were beholding nothing less than the face of God.

This body, albeit a strange one if we take ours as the model, is nothing less than all that exists.

It does seem to increase the success rate for those who were the most determined to stay sober prior to beginning the program but those who were less determined are actually better off seeking help elsewhere as the tend to fail more often when they attend AA than if they did nothing, and their suicide rates go up.

A good death, he says, «is finally nothing more or less than a death approached and performed in a manner consistent with a good, well - lived life... Dying well is a morally significant act insofar as it bears evangelical witness to our most profound theological convictions.»

This does not mean that such discussions have accomplished nothing, but it does mean that no exact and reliable estimate of what they have accomplished (though it is, I believe, a great deal) is possible until we have granted full «belligerent rights» to second - type theism, as a no less qualified contender than either of the others.

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Here then is a theology that either means nothing certainly identifiable (without supernatural grace or high genius in the art of reconnecting with experience concepts carefully divested of relation to it) or else means that the world might exactly as well not have existed, or as well have existed with far more evil or less good in it than it actually presents.

The hotly debated question as to whether this implies that the Kingdom is to be regarded as present, inbreaking, dawning, casting its shadows before it, or whatever, becomes academic when we realize that the claim of the saying is that certain events in the ministry of Jesus are nothing less than an experience of the Kingdom of God.

Nothing less than the deity of God is at stake in the assertion of his changelessness, as St. Augustine sees it.