Sentences with phrase «even less mean»

Not exact matches

There are even more abstruse explanations, for example, that computer equipment accounts for a growing portion of capital investment but has become less expensive over time, meaning fewer dollars spent.

Sure, fitness gadget owners are also likely to own a smartphone, but that probably means they're even less inclined to carry a third device.

In the post-recession business landscape where good jobs continue to be hard to come by, more and more employees across all industries are working harder than ever, even if it means sleeping a lot less.

And less business on Main Street means no job creation from the small businesses, not to mention even more difficulty keeping small businesses operating as - is.

So happy, they may even be willing to take a pay cut to work for a dog - friendly company: a survey conducted by Modern Dog magazine revealed that 65 % of readers would take a job for less money if it meant they could bring their dog to work.

Breakthrough leaders are less concerned with people's personal loyalty to them and more concerned about building a place where everybody is loyal to the company first — even if that means disagreeing with the big cheese.

Even if it means making less sales in the short term.

Unfortunately, even if Musk's colonization dream is actualized, that doesn't mean AI is any less of a threat.

It often means that they are forced into even worse options that are less regulated, sit on the fringes of the economy, or unravel stability in other parts of their lives.

So, even if we can't take it to the bank that more coffee definitively means less heart disease, the signs are pointing in that direction.

Reading about the Elon Musks and Jeff Immelts of the world leads us to assume that business greatness means little sleep, and even less time with loved ones.

Along with these issues is the temptation for Americans across age groups to spend beyond their means on things they might not need, making retirement savings even less of a priority.

Earning even a small amount of income in your retirement years means you don't have to rely 100 percent on your savings to fund your lifestyle, and that in turn means you may be able to retire with a little less in the bank.

«A zero - down payment will mean even less saving on the part of consumers,» notes Klein.

That can be a daunting target, but even having a little bit set aside can mean you rely less on credit to cover an emergency, said Bruce McClary, a spokesman for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.

A narrow plurality of offerors (49 percent) say the On - Demand economy should not be regulated and companies should compete to offer workers fair pay and benefits, even if it means less security, compared to 40 percent who say the government should regulate the sharing economy to guarantee independent contractors the same benefits afforded to full - time workers, even if it means fewer jobs.

Worst of all, Luhnow and his execs were openly violating the baseball compact by which rebuilding teams were supposed to obscure their long - term plan by maintaining the illusion that they were genuinely trying to win each and every year, even if it meant losing just a little less.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

Offerors are split over the tradeoffs between independence and job security: Forty - three percent say they prefer the independence of the On - Demand Economy even though it may not have the same job security or access to benefits, while 41 percent say they prefer the security and benefits of working for a traditional company even if it might mean less flexibility.

Even so, today's sluggish economic recovery and high unemployment levels mean companies are under less pressure to keep employees happy, and under more pressure to boost profits.

That means the worker has even less money to pay bills for next month, according to the Center for Responsible Lending.

Ironically, the trend of companies raising less capital actually enhances the importance of the initial round buy - in (both because that initial buy - in becomes less diluted meaning the first round price was that much more important and because even if an angel wants to buy up more in later rounds they'll have less of a chance to do so; I also believe that along with the trend of companies raising less capital we're also seeing earlier and somewhat smaller average exits — also enhancing the value of initial round buy - ins as fewer investors are truly swinging for the proverbial fence).

A shorter loan term means saving money, since you'll pay less in interest and may even get to refinance to a lower - interest rate loan.

This means that Google has even less control of their partners push for any Android tablets and this probably translates into Android tablets in general losing steam.

But for a huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.

Because the Chinese yield curve is extremely flat, investors wouldn't even need to invest in longer maturities in order to obtain higher yields, meaning that they can remain comfortabe in shorter and less risky maturities.

Small caps (Russell 2000) and to a lesser extent Nikkei and EM equities in stocks all have below - average vol and correlations today to S&P 500; makes index hedges cheaper, although the lower level of realized volatility means consensus is looking for an even better entry point to buy equity vol.»

That means a someone could be following a successful trader and making less money than him (or even losing).

These additional monthly savings could mean even more in a place that costs less, and so could their existing retirement income.

«And that means you're going to get even less investment, because they are looking at future tax rates.»

This could mean the market moves less than you anticipated and, in some cases, can even move in the wrong direction — prices falling even though the news event is categorized as positive.

As I've noted before, for an investor looking to capture all the market's long - term returns with substantially less downside risk, it would actually have been enough, historically, to simply step out of the market on a price / peak multiple of 19 and then wait for a 30 % plunge before repurchasing stocks, even if that meant staying out of the market for years in the interim.

They have taken on too much private and public debt which means that compared to the USD, their fiat currency has even less value in the future.

An active portfolio would almost certainly be less diversified than the ETF, which means that the same asset flows would have been directed to a smaller number of stocks where they would presumably have been even more disruptive.

(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed same - sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).

Just because a gift is temporary does not mean you should neglect it, a «sacred gift» even less so.

I couldn't cope alone, but this meant even less money was coming in.

Even though EV has considerably less influence now than Mars Hill, the fact that the system continues with the same leaders in place using the same patterns means that others are being abused spiritually at the very least.

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

But if God were incapable even of self - surpassing, then no surpassing could contribute anything whatever to his value or mean anything to him, for to him there would be no more or less but just sheer value.

No one even knows what is actually meant by «salvation», much less.

For example, even if one grants that homosexual intercourse or abortion is in a sense less natural than heterosexual intercourse or childbirth (because it does not further reproduction), it does not follow that «unnatural» means wrong, or even undesirable.

There is no infallible «dictionary,» not even in the minimal literal sense of a collection of definitions for specific words and even less in the wider sense of what symbols, sentences, and social structures mean.

Since they deny that even less advanced creatures, like trilobites, can arise by purely natural means, this is a big problem.

Perhaps it even meant a less sophisticated view in the sense that reason did not dare to deal with the sacred power.

This means there is very little memory of what it means to worship and even less of sacramental worship.

Even though specific Christian beliefs were unknown in Athens, Christian thinkers used resources which were far less internally consistent than process thought to express religious meanings, defend practices, doctrines, and so forth.

When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal means — it sends the insidious message that the lives of the dying are less important and less worth protecting than are those of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.

And no less clear is that the irreducible core of meaning even of miracle is wholly existential or metaphysical.