Sentences with phrase «better than the opposite»

As Michael Oakshott famously said of Hayek's liberalism, «A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.»

However, it is far better than the opposite — paying late!

Waking up next to your partner every morning is much better than the opposite.

Not exact matches

The best people will tell you that constraints encourage more creativity rather than the opposite.

In fact, what you often find when you dig deep is the exact opposite — that somewhere along the line, your smaller customers negotiated the same, if not better, prices than customers placing exponentially bigger orders.

Quite the opposite in fact, as automated vehicles that can adapt distances to each other perfectly is a better use of space than regular buses.

She has also been a strong voice for cooperation among progressive parties rather than for continued competition that mainly serves the interests of the Right (yes, yes, I know the argument that having many choices on your ballot is supposed to be a good thing, but the outcomes of Alberta elections suggest that in fact for progressives, it's just the opposite).

To live celibacy well requires in some ways a deeper healing, and a more dramatic inner transformation than opposite sex marriage would require.

Furthermore, while an intact family composed of two parents of the opposite sex and their biological child or children may provide the best standard family unit in society (and should, therefore, be given support), we would be naive and cruel to dismiss the possibility that differently configured families (e.g., families with single parents or homosexual parents or adopted children) may produce family situations that are as good as, or, in some cases, better than, those of families that fit the standard.

The Barna Research Group, an evangelical Christian organization that does surveys and research to better understand what Christians believe and how they behave, studied divorce rates in America in 1999 and found surprising evidence that divorce is far lower among atheists than among conservative Christians — exactly the opposite of what they were probably expecting.

And no I don't think I'm better than anyone — in fact quite the opposite!

We suggest the opposite for products affected by moisture transmission; HDPE is a better moisture barrier than PET.

While his gut is young and developing I'm hoping to minimize exposure to these ingredients with controversial effects on the body (there are a number of studies saying carrageenan is harmful but a number saying the opposite, so who knows, better be safe than sorry I guess?).

«Products produced to be sold internationally were selling much better than those for the consumer market months ago, this is the opposite of the current situation.»

I think someone who has proven himself in the PL is a much better idea than paying a fortune for one of the foreign keepers that are being mentioned as possibilities 3) Quite the opposite view of Elneny; I thought he was very lively when he came on.

But while diving at several spots on the reef I have felt the current suddenly swing and run better than a knot in the opposite direction, so that, to avoid being carried off the deep side, I had to grab the base of a sea fan or the encrusted trunnion of an old cannon and hang on.

He's better to drive in runs than set the table, although his ability to go the opposite way is very useful in terms of moving runners up.

Wisconsin's smooth schedule and proven performance against LSU when at full strength make it a better bet right now than Ohio State to reach 10 or 11 wins, and USC looked something like unstoppable against Fresno State, or at least like the opposite of however UCLA looked against Virginia.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Also Monreals form last season for the most part looked as good or better than almost any opposite numbers did.

And just for good measure the Frenchman pointed out, as reported by Metro, that Arsenal are in a better position having a player like Alexis desperate to play than some other clubs having the opposite sort of problem with the likes of Diego Costa and Dimitri Payet.

Somewhere in between these two opposite poles you have good defenders who would be easier and cheaper to sign than the Dortmund star while still being able to significantly add to our paper thin defensive options.

If the opposite begins to happen well then it will be like you are playing away from home, actually even worse than playing away from home because your own fans turning on you is worse than away fans, who are expected to.

The second part of it, is if you're swinging at more bad pitches while letting good pitches go by, you're likely going to make worse contact than by doing the opposite.

Much of this stems from the fact that batters almost always hit better against opposite - sided pitchers, and that there are — naturally, as only about 10 % of people are lefthanded — many more righthanded pitchers than lefties.

In your section «10 Greatest Players of All Times» when ranking PELE, you mention as a negative for him that he did not play in Europe a more football competitive scenario than South America, actually it was totally the opposite since in the decade of the 60s and part of the 70s the best football of the world was played in Brazil and the rest of South America at both the national team and club level.

Well, considering it's on the opposite side of the concourse and there are no fewer than three walls between the ice and you...

Rather than providing a battle of wits between two managers with opposing ideas of how their teams should play, or a fight between rival sides seeking to out - play their opponents, the best Anfield got was a scrappy clash between the Belgian and his opposite number, Lucas Leiva, besides Rooney's goal.

The Wolves team does look better from an attacking point of view, with Mick McCarthy boasting a lot more creative outlets than his opposite number, who will once again rely on the quick feet of Victor Moses.

Just as well really as Birmingham have struggled to carve our opportunities all season, but with Alex Hleb working his magic on the opposite flank, Cameron Jerome and Nikola Zigic should have more to contend with up front than previously.

What Bolton needed was a good start to the second half but they got exactly the opposite as Edin Dzeko seized on a flick from James Milner before holding off Zat Knight and drilling a shot past Jaaskelainen less than two minutes after the break.

It was looking the complete opposite of lucky for the first 45 minutes when Juve's best scoring chances were being denied by the goal itself rather than Cagliari's goalkeeper.

At the opposite end of the spectrum are those who maintain that it is better for a mother to breastfeed, even after drinking, than it is to sacrifice by feeding formula or by «pumping and dumping» the milk.

It doesn't get more complimentary than this: «There are honourable members opposite who give good service to this House!»

I have no other agenda than what is best for our country», Cameron appeared to be accusing Johnson of doing the opposite.

Damningly, 41 % said that religion is more often the cause of evil in the world than of good, with just 14 % saying the opposite.

Quite the opposite actually...... «If indeed it is better to give than receive, New York City and its suburbs can count their blessings by the billions of dollars.

To win elections, it is best to win individual seats by small rather than large margins, and to lose by large ones: to do the opposite is inefficient, as it makes it more likely that a party will lose an election even if they win the most votes.

Miliband's ratings remain far worse — only 20 % think he is doing a «good job», with 55 % saying the opposite — a net score of — 35, considerably worse than his always - negative average over the past few years.

Even so, the chancellor is in a better place politically than his opposite number as the next election looms, because the terms of engagement next May will not be Ed Balls's choosing.

The new VLBA observations, made in 2014 and 2015, measured a distance of more than 66,000 light - years to a star - forming region called G007.47 +00.05 on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the Sun, well past the Galaxy's center, some 27,000 light - years distant.

Most people are much better at identifying colours than smells, but one group of hunter - gatherers from the Malay Peninsula shows the opposite pattern

What we do in our lab is we unearth truth on a lot of work for dealers and collectors and auction houses, and I tell you, I often feel like the opposite of Antiques Roadshow, because so often we have to get people the bad news about their objects rather than the good news.

But those who did two visual tasks thought they did even better than the other group did, though the opposite was true.

In fact, in our preliminary analysis the good stations report more warming in the U.S. than the poor stations by 0.009 ± 0.009 degrees per decade, opposite to what might be expected, but also consistent with zero.

Subjects did better when they saw the choices with the opposite eye, rather than the same eye that had seen the first words.

The proportion of worms that migrated from the centre of a circle to one side laced with butanone, rather than the opposite side that smelled of alcohol, showed how well they had learned this lesson.

«On the opposite end of the spectrum, if you don't have any calcified plaque, our estimations indicate that use of aspirin would result in more harm than good, even if you have risk factors for heart disease such as high cholesterol or a family history of the disease.»

The second group will, of course, find excuses in that the former group is using a lot more than they are, the reason being for them looking better, although it's quite the opposite.

As I have recently been learning a lot about complementariness; warming vs. cooling, masculine vs. feminine, yin vs. yang, I've come to realize the importance in seeing these opposites as wholes; working in harmony as opposed to one being better or worse than the other.