Sentences with phrase «do less activity»

Additionally, we all love our labour saving devices, we now do less activity than we did even 5 years ago.

Not exact matches

But if they view us as a social - service activity, not only will they be less likely to hire us and take us seriously, they'll be less likely to take the concept seriously, and they'll be less likely to do that kind of hiring themselves.

Tim Syrianos, president of the Toronto Real Estate Board, said the decline in activity has less to do with foreign buyers and more to do with potential homebuyers waiting to see how the market plays out.

Dugan said there weren't any surprises CMHC found when compiling the report, but he did spot «a little bit of a softening» of market activity in Toronto and less of a «spillover» in demand from the city to neighbouring communities, including Hamilton.

The more focused you are on losing yourself in the activity, the less you are able to do it.»

I'd have no problem doing this since I live on less than 50 % of my income each month and would gladly suspend my investing activities for a while to help out my family.

Discontinue some less successful activities to concentrate on those that yield the best results (55 % of the total U.K. respondents agree their organizations are doing this, which is fantastic news).

It reminded me of the feeling that inspiration gives, as I wrote in «How inspiration feels, in depth ``, that inspired people look back fondly at the crazy amount of work they did after the project is done and inspired people value missing less rewarding activities, no matter how fun they would have been.

But I think we have risen above this distinction and can recognize in the activity of the painter and the sculptor, no less than in that of the poet and the dancer, the emancipation from the «deadliness of doing» that distinguishes art from «work.»

And then, Lord, at that point where all things are set ablaze, do you act upon me though the united flames of all those internal and external influences which, were I less close to you, would be neutral or ambivalent or hostile, but which when animated by an Energy quae possit sibi omnia subjicere7 become, in the physical depths of your heart, the angels of your triumphant activity.

Leaving God unnamed does not make their argument any less theological, especially when they claim that the elements of complex design they have observed in nature are present because of the activity of their unnamed intelligent designer.

But the adulation that came Seeger's way in recent decades had less to do with his mastery of the five - string banjo and his song - writing than with his status in certain circles as a living martyr: the man who stiffed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), found himself blacklisted, and was reduced to performing on college campuses for a while.

It does not, however, make any less imperative the inclusion of recreational concerns within the school curriculum, for it is in the program of formal education that meaning, perspective, and direction in leisure activity may best be taught.

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.)

These international organizations may ask of themselves: «what can we do to help people to become more self - reliant in their economic activity and less dependent upon us and the services we provide?»

There will be no more prancing around along with all the other gay activities that homosexuals like to do... More importantly, we as parents can now sleep a little better at night just knowing there will be less gays out there wandering the streets trying to molest our children.»

While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

But I'm finding myself with more dishes, more activities and less time to do it all.

They are full of student discussions and group activities large and small; teachers guide the conversation, but they spend much less time lecturing than most public school teachers do.

There's prolonged, more intense pain postpartum, a longer hospital stay, readmission to the hospital, an upsetting or emotionally traumatic birth experience, less early contact and connection with the baby, depression and mental health problems, low self - esteem, relationship issues, difficulty functioning and doing usual daily activities postpartum, chronic pelvic pain from scar tissue, problems with and discontinuing breastfeeding - along with the associated risks to mom and baby of not breastfeeding.

Another aspect of this time of year is that there is less money around because all the funds are geared towards Christmas, so you will want to think up activities that don't cost the earth.

Of course, you don't have to attend a class to expose your baby to music, but it is a great baby activity once your baby is old enough to be less content with just staying at home, probably at around the age of 4 months.

These kids suffer less from depression, eating disorders, tend to do better in school, and delay sexual activity.

If my 3 year old knows she is going to do a special 15 minute activity of her choosing with me, she will act a lot less like this:

A child that knows that after breakfast they are going to get dressed, and after they get dressed they are going to have their big daily activity, then after that they will have lunch and a nap will spend less timing worrying about what is coming up next, be more cooperative to doing what you need them to do and be able to focus their energy on exploring their world and being a kid.

For younger or less able children this activity could also be done using just the sounds or phonemes or for recognising letters and numbers.

When your muscles are strong it takes much less effort to engage in whatever activity you are doing, whether it is grocery shopping or getting through a day of work.

The line of questioning was at times contentious, as reporters pressed Cuomo about why he didn't know, as he repeatedly insisted, that alleged criminal activities were taking place more or less right under his nose.

It can impair ability to learn, problem solving, and motor skills, meaning that pretty much any activity done while high is going to be less effective than not being high, though the effects are generally not as severe as to make one incapable of performing an activity, just less skilled at it.

Men showed less activity in a key face - processing region of the brain than the unstressed men did, suggesting that their ability to evaluate facial expressions declined.

WHY CITIES SUCCEED In «Bigger Cities Do More with Less,» Luís M. A. Bettencourt and Geoffrey B. West assert that a high - rent city allows only greatly value - adding activities to be profitable, which leads to a cycle in which more talent is attracted, «pushing rents higher still, fueling the need to find yet more productive activities.»

It's easier to do research in a lab with more resources and fewer insecurities, but most established scientists spend less time in the lab and more time traveling to conferences and invited lectures, in grant - review meetings, and on other activities.

In other words, older adults who did more moderate to vigorous physical activity perceived less facilitation of pain, while those who did at least some activity were better able to block pain perceptions.

Those who did more light physical activity or had less sedentary time per day had lower pain scores on the conditioned pain modulation test — indicating better pain inhibition.

However, these standards don't account for differences in size (the average person is now taller and heavier), body composition (fat versus lean), age (older people have slower metabolisms), activity levels and gender: Women radiate as much as 35 percent less energy than the standard man.

When tipsy females were at their most nimble, during their pre - and postestrous states, the ethanol had 10 % less impact on neurotransmitter activity than it did on the drunken males» neurotransmitters.

Desk - based workers would like to spend less time sitting down and more time walking or doing physical activity as part of their working day, research published in the open access journal BMC Research Notes suggests.

«So doing something physically demanding and asking a small group of friends for their support is much more effective than relying on donations from lots of people for what would be perceived as a relatively less exerting activity.»

In both cases the scientists arrived at the same surprising results: The athletes» brains were quieter, which means they devoted less brain activity to these motor tasks than nonathletes did.

While the team's research showed no significant difference in bacterial degradation of organic matter from cleared or forested watersheds, Canuel says it did show that «organic carbon in runoff from watersheds affected by human activity is less susceptible to solar degradation than that from forested watersheds.»

Note that there is much less red staining, even though the HDAC3 does not possess the enzyme activity for which it is named.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

Older people were less likely to be depressed if their grown - up children were back at home — something that seemed to have a greater effect on depression than their daily activities did (Social Science and Medicine, doi.org/bqxc).

Less physical activity is not the problem The screen - time study did find that kids engaged in more physical activity had lower BMIs, but that does not mean that more exercise is keeping those teens lighter, Freedhoff says.

Sexual activity is largely fueled by male appetite: women are less likely to be active if their partners do not experience much desire and more likely if their partners do.

It's not as simple as turning a gene on or off, Zhu noted; instead, a treatment must prompt the right amount of gene activity, and that may require prodding a gene to do more or pulling on the reins so that it does less.

Patients who reported less than 150 minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity still had a 33 percent lower risk of 30 - day readmission compared to those who did not exercise at all.

So in addition to doing worse on standardized tests, having higher BMIs, or being less socially competent, the marshmallow test predicts that impulsive individuals may have brain activity similar to those of drug users.

On average, a woman needs about 6000 to 8000 kjs a day, less if she wants to lose weight, possibly more if she does a lot of physical activity.

When you do cardio continuously for a while, your body will adapt to the extra calories needed to finish the activities and it will burn far less fat, when you would expect it to burn more.