Sentences with phrase «by definition less»

@Baa Humbug «I'm really keen to hear your explanation as to how warmer water (by definition less dense) disappears to the depth.»

I'm really keen to hear your explanation as to how warmer water (by definition less dense) disappears to the depth.

Your question wants to lump all non-believers into one category that you can label as unhappy, unfulfilled and by definition less than yourself.

Not exact matches

It is not in any executive's interest to be paid compared to CEOs at smaller or less complex companies, nor to be paid as a «below average» CEO, even though by definition 50 % of CEOs must be below average.

They are (mostly, preferably) outsiders — they are outsiders on purpose — and so by definition they spend much less time in direct contact with the organization than, say, the CEO or other employees.

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.

Almost by definition, a PE firm thinking about acquiring a target in a particular healthcare market will know less about that market than a corporate buyer who does business in it every day.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

Rare diseases are conditions affecting less than 200,000 people in the US and less than five (5) in 10,000 according to the definition adopted by the European Medicines Agency.

Still, there is emphatically no investment merit in long - term bonds, in the sense that by definition, a long - term investment in 10 - year Treasury securities will lock in a total return of less than 3.4 % over the coming decade.

Value stocks are, by definition, values for a reason, i.e. they tend to be less profitable.

Paleontology has progressed a bit since Origin of Species was published, uncovering thousands of transitional fossils, by both the temporally restrictive and the less restrictive definitions.

Beliefs or practices that do not express devotion or that refer to objects of less than supreme worth are by this definition not religious.

It stands to reason that an all knowing eternal God could predict what you and I would believe no before He made and thus have already know whether we would except him or not And I'm not sure what you trying to say by that And because we want to tell others about Him and be used by Him to reach others And that commit does not make any sense, but clearly God is not a punk, as I have already demonstrated And your main point, as I already explained is false No, but my belief is true, none the less, it is by definition virtually impossible to prove anything And no, I don't need knee pads.

One is inclined to say that anybody who is well adjusted to contemporary society is by definition very maladjusted indeed, because contemporary society is as mad as a coot and is something to which nobody ought to be adjusted, even in this land, not to speak of others which may be less fortunate than ours.

By definition, mercy is punishing the criminal less than he deserves, and it does not seem clear at first why not going far enough is any better than going too far.

The problem is that people who behave the way Christ did — taking care of the less fortunate, living their life as an example of God's love — do not, by definition, stand up and say «look at me, I'm a Christian — see how superior I am!»

Henderson's connection with the league makes him a less than ideal selection in the eyes of the NFLPA, who claimed, «A long - time NFL Executive and current legal consultant can not, by definition, be a neutral arbitrator,» according to Pro Football Talk.

it wouldn't be «more» by any definition, it may actually be less as I couldn't imagine Silent Stan staying a part owner with no voice.

Young players by definition have less of this, and need to learn by benefiting from the experience of the coach.

And by definition, the skin on baby's bum is much less delicate than the vaginal mucosa.

We should therefore care less about definitions, and ask the real question: is representative democracy now so overshadowed by capitalism that it is no longer able to make room for the popular sovereignty upon which it was founded?

Only once, in response to a question from a reporter Syracuse, did Cuomo directly say that LATFOR would by definition fail to meet the «independent» standard he created, leaving many observers to believe that he has deliberately left himself wiggle room in case he has to justify a less clear - cut resolution than the overhaul he promised.

Retailers are evading such bans elsewhere by handing out thicker plastic bags that meet a statutory definition of reusable but are generally in use for less than 20 minutes, then litter the earth for 200 years.

For example, according to Sam Castañeda, visiting scholar and postdoctoral appointment coordinator at the University of California, Berkeley, their definition of a postdoc is «an individual who holds a Ph.D. and has less than 5 years postdoctoral experience, possesses a source of funding, does not have a professorial title, and is being mentored by faculty to gain advanced training and skills.»

Reliable data about sperm morphology was only available for 1,970 men and so the researchers compared the information collected for 318 men who produced sperm of which less than four per cent was the correct size and shape and a control group of 1,652 men where this was above four per cent and therefore considered «normal» by current medical definitions.

Preliminary field tests of the new criteria, overseen by researchers working on the revision, show that some definitions, such as those for depression and anxiety, are less reliable than in previous versions.

Vaginal birth certainly isn't sterile or clean or any less «disgusting» (by their definition).

The presumed conversion rate, however, is just an average — by definition, many people will convert carotenes more efficiently than the average and many will convert them less efficiently than the average.

Because whey is, by definition, the stuff that separates from the casein when it curdles, it has even less casein (save for trace amounts), rarely enough to be noticeable to anyone but the most casein - intolerant.

Just how many will depend on the activities you do, but in one study by the Mayo Clinic fidgeters burnt about 350 more calories than non-fidgeters (bear in mind, their definition of fidgeting includes walking around the office; fidgeters spent 150 minutes less sitting down compared to non-fidgeters).

Ketogenic diets aren't grain - free by definition, but people who use low - carb high - fiber crackers or grain - based wraps would be taking in far less gluten than those on high - carb diets.

I know there are some fakes but if you go with amateurs you are going to get less fakes because the site by definition seeks people that arent usually into this kind of thing.

You have to be dating a year to get to the anniversary (annum = «year» in Latin) so less - serious relationships by definition never made it that far.

By definition, grab - bag films are uneven, and some of Coffee And Cigarettes» segments — a meeting of Spike Lee's less - charismatic siblings, an aloof beauty's lonely afternoon — capture Jarmusch at his most oblique and least rewarding.

If you haven't already upgraded to Blu - ray, you probably won't be troubled by the standard definition transfer's visual shortcomings or the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack's lesser impact.

Those who assert that the U.S. has a sky - high poverty rate use a relative measure of poverty that assumes all families with less than half the median income of the country are by definition «poor.»

So by definition, a «cheap» car is one that costs less than that.

OK, that's not much difference, but consider the Jetta has a trunk and the hatchback - by definition - doesn't, yet the Jetta has less cargo space.

A flash flood is a sudden release of water that inundates an area, and is differentiated from a normal flood by its duration; by definition, a flash flood lasts less than six hours.

So by very definition it is a LESSER PRODUCT.

While reading you can look - up a words definition by simply tapping and holding on the word, this is much less cumbersome than using the older Kindle's 5 - way controller.

Value stocks are, by definition, values for a reason, i.e. they tend to be less profitable.

So, if you hold the investment for less than a year, you're opening yourself up to the risks of short - term stock fluctuations as well as potential tax penalties, so if you put your emergency fund in stocks you're essentially betting that you won't have an emergency that year (which by definition you can't know).

So if market corrections cause smaller losses by definition, one could reason they would require less recovery time.

Perhaps I can break it down more simply: If the market earns 10 %, by definition it means that as a whole, all the market participants - both active and passive investors - would have earned 10 % less their respective expenses.

By definition, all other domestic borrowers are less creditworthy than the U.S. government.

I personally still think that the definition of value investing as buying things for less than they're worth is too broad, for it effectively makes almost every long - focused active investor a «value investor» by definition.

The reason is that because they are short lived (by definition, 5 weeks or less), once you get away from the top 20 or 30 symbols (by volume) the open interest in the weeklys is pretty small.

Short term trading is not, by definition, less risky.