Sentences with phrase «by something less»

If your property were to be ever affected by something less severe, such as a minor fire, it could still cost you hundreds of dollars in damages.

However, as the above case illustrates these accidents can also be caused by something less severe, like fog.

The evidence, as I understand, was that their finer dating technique showed that the impact and extinctions were offset by something less than a million years, but did not coincide.

The head of the Education Trust, a former Obama official, denounced Trump's proposed budget (which called for trimming national K - 12 spending by something less than one percent) as «an assault on the American dream.»

The nutrition community has been guilty of following a flawed sequence of logic: If something bad for you (white processed flour) is replaced by something less bad (whole grains) and there is an apparent health benefit, then a whole bunch of the less bad thing is good for you.

Though the delicate touch I gave my eye yielded just one small flash, Wolfe said that when the eye is struck by something less forgiving — like a swinging door or Ira Blitz — many parts of the retina may be stimulated simultaneously, giving rise to a whole constellation of light.

The ability to love implies, thirdly, that we risk our existence in a relationship where predestination, in the sense of determination by something less than person will, would destroy the meaning of love.

Not exact matches

Not so at RFRK, which has increased both its employee retention (in the high - turnover food - service industry, no less) and its rep as an employer of choice (the firm recently got 350 applications for an admin position) by making its people feel something very powerful: that their work matters.

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

As a cofounder, I am deeply inspired by Shelley's unabashed creativity and bravery — as a woman, no less — to craft something in a genre that had never before been explored.

In Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, Roy F. Baumeister explains that people who tell themselves «not now, but later» are generally less tormented by the temptation of something they are trying to avoid (his example is eating chocolate cake).

Microsoft's overarching goal is to «democratize A.I.,» which Nadella explained has something to do with analyzing the mountains of data produced by consumers and businesses and then presenting the findings to people who have far less free time than they used to have.

A description that reads, «These are really great to give as client gifts,» is less impactful than one that says, «These five gifts, all under $ 30, can be used by a man or a woman and are something every small - business person needs.

For example you could say, «Our competitor with similar metrics recently got financed at a $ 20 million pre-money valuation, here is why I think we're better...» Setting terms to the investor by saying something like, «I won't take less than this valuation» is the surest way to turn off a potential investor.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

Because female - led startups are found to receive less investor funding and female CEOs are often outnumbered by their male counterparts, female entrepreneurs experience something of an underdog culture.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

While «garbage patch» might make you think of something you pass by on the side of the road, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is less like a patch and more like a massive swirling vortex more than three times the size of Spain and more than twice the size of Turkey or Texas.

Virgin Atlantic's wording for its mid-level seating is quite clever: by calling it premium economy rather than business class or something similar, it makes it seem less of a step up even though there is quite a large price difference.

In 2013, a friend and I were convinced by a tech - savvy acquaintance to invest in something called Litecoin — basically, Bitcoin's less expensive little sister.

A vast increase in oil transport by rail surely has at least something to do with the accident — if the train hadn't been carrying oil, its destruction might have been less catastrophic — but there will inevitably be debate over the conclusion to draw from that observation.

The fact that Congress chose to denounce unjust redistribution suggests that something else was at play — namely, that the public was «angered less by the reduction in their wealth than by the way in which the wealth was extracted.»

So again whether that's simply weaker growth equals less money in the exchequer's coffers and therefore a bigger deficit to finance — whether that is more pressure for well, «this isn't going very well... so we better now distract by building an infrastructure project here, or doing something else.»

Running after someone to hand them back something they dropped was the most common «good deed» cited in the survey, followed by giving up a seat on a train or bus for a less able or pregnant passenger.

What's missing, in other words, is children with something actually to worry about — worries less amenable to the «low - cost treatment» proposed by NYU's Child Study Center.

He is being driven by something larger than himself, and it is nothing less than his whole Catholic faith, whether he always chooses it or not.

There were two main camps at the time: that represented by Jovinian, claiming that virgins, widows, and married women were all deserving of equal merit, and that represented by Jerome, which said that marriage was merely the lesser of two evils, rather than something positive in its own right.

However, this year we are witnesses to something less common, a lunar tetrad: ie a group of four lunar eclipses that are always separated by six - month intervals.

Were Mort less mellow, he might respond to Molly's anger by getting angry himself and calling her childish or judgmental or coming up with something even more irrelevant and hurtful to say, like, «The whole idea of taking a honeymoon in Topeka is the stupidest thing I ever heard of.

There was no individual right to bear arms, and that this is something that was actually more or less introduced to us by the NRA, but I'm anxious to know what you think [about the suggestion that he gave about repealing the Second Amendment].

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.

Consequently one feels less inclined to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary reflective consciousness which is the result of the forming of humanity into an organized society, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, corresponds on the contrary to our passage (by a movement of reversal or dematerialization) to another face of the universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its arrival at something trans - human at the very heart of reality.

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

disingenuous: Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.

If nature is too improbable to exist on its own, then something capable of creating nature must by the same logic be even less probable.

I find it much less disturbing that Megyn Kelly should make a point of observing that the character of Santa Claus is traditionally white than the suggestion by Aisha Harris that there is something intrinsically wrong with a white Santa Claus.

Sometimes the pivot is prompted by something way less overt, but you still know you need to make a change.

Let's instead work to make it better, and by so doing bring an end to some of the suffering in the world... which I think we all can agree is something we would all like to see less of.

And Whitehead says that he does not think it is inevitable that the human mind spatializes, though it often does this, and when it does, one way or another, whether through partiality or something else, it deforms the object of knowledge and of experience... [But] Bergson believed that, at least to some significant degree, the spatializing tendencies of the human intellect and of human intelligence, can be overcome by a biology and a physics that is less mechanistic.

You know perfectly well that most people are not familiar with such terminology, whether atheist or Christian or whatever... yet you would seek to portray the Christian as «lesser than» by demanding something of him, that you would not demand of another atheist.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

A note showing the incompleteness of the chapter indicated something of his feeling:» «I feel about it more or less like this: the good citizen, too, is humble before God, but the vicious man really lives only by grace.»

I might be ecelectic, but what makes me consistent is my belief is something that combines the belief of Scripture with that of Englightenment philosophy: nurturing life is goodness, simply, and helping others to see a model that thinking for ourselves can help heal the world of all past injustices - so that we all learn to WANT to be good... within reason and by our own choice...: you have a society like that, you'll have less injustices, less violence, less money - grubbing by people who hold themselves as representatives of «authority» -(which side are you on, by the way, if you see the world as so divided in such a bipolar reality...?)

Many readers will be familiar with some of the traditional «arguments for the existence of God», such as that everything has a prior cause, but that the causal chain can not be continued back indefinitely, so that there must somewhere be a First Cause; or that since there are various degrees of perfection there must be a Perfect One by whom all lesser degrees are measured; or that all change in a thing is caused by something else which leads eventually to some Prime Mover.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

«Providence» suggests that our affairs are in reality guided by something above or greater than human reason, while «fortuity» implies that the controlling agent is something beneath or less than reason; but either view renders illusory the notion that we are controlling our own affairs through the exercise of our own reason.

When I first mentioned that I'd been asked by my publisher to take the word «vagina» out of my manuscript for A Year of Biblical Womanhood in deference to the general preferences of Christian bookstores, I never expected you guys to care, much less do something about it.

Krauss» fallacious account of how something can come from nothing, though presented as a great breakthrough, and praised as such by Dawkins in his afterword, is largely a rehash of ideas already put forward by Hawking, Mlodinow, and some less eminent physics popularizers.

There are, in the history of philosophy, continually renewed controversies between those who, where the theory of knowledge is concerned, are commonly called realists, and those who are sometimes called idealists, but also constructivists, between those for whom truth resides in the end in correspondence between proposition and fact, and those for whom it is something brought into being by more or less autonomous understanding.