Sentences with phrase «become less a way»

«The tables have become less a way of giving parents the information they want and more an arms - length policy lever by which successive governments have sought to influence the decisions heads take about how to run their schools,» said United Learning's chief executive, Jon Coles.

It became less a way of talking about new ways of doing art.»

Not exact matches

«When I don't move my body in a way that I enjoy, my business suffers, and I become less productive and a lot less creative.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

While the mobile Web is an efficient way to make your content available on mobile devices across platforms, with the rise in prominence of smartphones, it's becoming somewhat less relevant.

In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Anchor says that when volunteers picked,»... one of their signature strengths and used it in a new way each day for a week, they became significantly happier and less depressed.»

Put another way, the fatter and less active you become, the better the chances are that you'll suffer some form of cardiovascular disease.

Either way, the repo market is becoming less liquid.

But he added that thinking in terms of incremental changes may miss a larger point: As wearables and home devices become more important to the way we use our phones, the design of the phone itself may become less critical.

As we age, they become less and less responsive to negative stimuli, and «in some automatic, preconscious way,» begin to accentuate the positive at the expense of the negative.

Therefore, in obvious ways, the more advanced a community's technology the less important place becomes — or appears to become.

«If Facebook were forced to change the way it uses data or the way its ad products work, then advertisers may become less enamored with it,» Debra Aho Williamson, eMarketer's principal analyst, said in an emailed statement.

Instead, unilaterally imposing a 19th century tariff policy is a sure way to alienate Washington's closest friends and ensure that other, less democratically - minded, states might become tomorrow's «greatest nation on earth.»

However, as the digital landscape becomes increasingly crowded with content — and you feel more and more pressure to create content in less time — you're likely looking for quick and dirty ways to create SEO - friendly, best - answer content that doesn't require loads of your precious time.

If Bitcoin ultimately goes the way of gold and becomes harder for people to enter, less expensive (to enter) cryptocurrencies may be an option for some.

You could argue that the business community and financial sector became less worried during Trump's victory speech, where he congratulated Clinton and talked about business issues in a non-aggressive way.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

In 50 years African Americans are slave of white people and now we have African American president... and I am so happy for that... you will see a day coming may be in 100 years more or less Americans will accept Islam and will become a Muslim majority country... the way Americans are reverting to Islam...

• The Kabuki dance between activist group outrage and administrative prostration at the University of Virginia and elsewhere suggests to me that the university has become less and less capable of addressing our culture's problems (and successes) in a serious way.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

Religions SEEK power, it is the only way they can inflict their beliefs on others; otherwise, like in Europe they become less and less relevant.

We have forgotten its devastating disregard, or even reversal, of current worldly values, and have allowed what we call «Western civilization» or «the American way of life» to become more or less God - fearing substitutes for the real thing.

Some of the points raised by the numbered critique are excellent, but true the tone becomes less useful and condescending with some of the points (and I love that Hayward raises the point that this is no doubt the way the author feels he has been treated).

We also become more likely to misinterpret an honest challenge to our faith as an «attack,» and react in a way that is less than winsome.»

That last sentence bears repetition, for it is fundamental to why there is such a widespread feeling that in some way our religious observance has by these changes been diminished and devalued: the day «becomes less significantfor being absorbed into the weekly routine».

Could it be that God has given some people more than others, not so that they can feel extra special, or become puffed up about how great of people they are in God's eyes, or how wonderful their ministries are for the advancement of the Kingdom of God, but so that those to whom God has given more can use what they have to bless others who have been given less, and in so doing, be blessed in other ways in return?

The only way that Pannenberg could appropriate Whitehead's analysis would be to affirm a doctrine of personal becoming which stresses individual concrescence more and ascribes a less important role to consciousness, especially consciousness of the whole of history.

So, to me, the real question becomes do you, as a devout Christian, vote for someone that has rejected the Bible and its Christian tenets in favor of a different path to salvation, or someone that actually does believe in the Bible and its Christian tenets but interprets those tenets in a less literal way that seems to run counter to your more literal beliefs?

When understood this way, prayer become much less of a mystery about how to pray and what to pray for and who can pray and where to pray, and much more like a conversation we have in everyday life.

For the church to become effective the way the Bible defines it, it's going to take a lot more (or a lot less...) than blue jeans and plasma screens.

Lately I've been interested in what sort of difference could be made if «dialogue» became less focused on understanding why someone believes what they do (in light of the way I belief) and more about understanding the way those beliefs are held in the context of the experiences that helped birth them.

In this way, God is sort of pictured as a being who sucks the human life out of us and injects us with His own life so that we become less like «me» and more like Him.

Mary Eberstadt argues that it may work just as much, or more, the other way around: As people stop having children, they become less religious.

As we become more outspoken against obvious abuse and broadcast it without restraint, abusers will go underground and become less obvious and more subtle in ways that will require a more wisdom and honesty to discern.

Denying yourself is to walk more the way Christ did and not necessarily become less human.

In such a way, the giving of the first portion becomes less of an offering and sacrifice, and more like a bribe.

I think this is really the problem with the church today, it has become less organic, because people don't live in vicinity of it, and because people do not make it a priority to have time to learn in depth, or are indeed way to swamped with activities (but that is often a matter of priorities.)

As I tried to find my way to god on my own, I became less and less convinced that religion was true and am now an atheist.

It is less common to consider the way Protestant civil religion has become a domesticated religion of the white middle - class.

In the next several posts, we are going to see that one way churches can become more loving and less power - hungry and controlling is by discarding their doctrinal statements.

After a while, as the grief becomes less prevelant, you will rest in the silence and it will seem that God unfolds His arms and embraces you and you will connect with the Divine in ways you never imagined.

So the understanding does not, in this way, simply become less plain because it has become crooked and awry, but rather it has become less plain — to go by.

Yet we do have to sort the wheat from the chaff — become more effective in proclaiming the Christian gospel and less preoccupied with propping up a particular way of being faithful to it.

Religion became less concerned with maintaining the world than with restlessly transcending it on the way to something infinitely better?

Political discourse therefore is no less oriented, disoriented, and reoriented than any other form of discourse; and the specific way in which it is oriented and disoriented is that it becomes the place for the insertion of an impossible demand, a demand that we can validly interpret in utopian terms, meaning by this a quest that can not be exhausted by any program of action.

Jobs have become more a way of making money and less a way of doing something of value.

The image of God as a supernatural being, who from time to time intervenes in the affairs of the natural world in clearly recognizable ways, and who can suspend or reverse the usual behavior of natural phenomena, if He so wishes, in order to perform His will, is one which has become less and less tenable as the new world has emerged.

Technology as a total way of life becomes idolatry, that is, ultimate allegiance to something less than God.

Missionary dating, dating someone of another faith, marrying someone of another faith... these things all come about because trusting God is extremely difficult when life becomes less than we expected, when frustration sets in because things aren't happening the way we think they are supposed to.

Pain and becoming «less» is the only way to become more.