Sentences with phrase «far lesser matter»

Not exact matches

It builds a personal relationship - no matter how short - lived it may turn out to be - for far less than their competitors pay to achieve the same goal.

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.

This development is important to our discussion because it is far less emotionally taxing to «pull the plug» on a text - based chatbot, no matter how advanced, than it would be on a machine with a discernable face.

Further complicating matters, millennials seem to have an expectation that they need a lot less for a down payment than they actually do.

The details of law and the vital debates over the personhood of the fetus mattered far less than the success of a continuing ideological war to liberate women from male domination, orthodox religion, and oppressive notions of traditional sexual morality.

This is both a matter of more efficient electric appliances and cars, and a matter of constructing buildings in such a way that far less energy is needed for heating and cooling.

Specifically, it's far less common to hear about how a student who finds their way to or from Christianity, Islam, or Judaism (or even Atheism for that matter) while attending a university.Taking classes and sharing experiences alongside classmates from varying backgrounds can cause even the most religious or nonreligious person to inspect, analyze, and even question their beliefs.

As University of Chicago law professor Philip Hamburger ably demonstrates in Separation of Church and State, the matter is actually far less benign than the picture the University of Virginia graduates were given.

Once again I was an outsider of sorts, but it mattered far less that it had before.

That those who cling to evolutionism would strip us of what makes us human may seem far - fetched and conspiratorially minded, but try to view the suggestion less as an accusation of coordination and more as a simple statement that ideas matter.

Now let us consider the results when the World Council of Churches assembles a far less distinguished group of Christians from around the world to reflect on similar matters.

What we sing and what we do matter far less in comparison with where our hearts are.

Who won the lockout (the refs, for now) matters far less than that the new agreement ensures long - term labor harmony

On the pitch, it has been less of a laughing matter for Louis van Gaal's boys so far.

In football, wind direction matters far less than in baseball since the ball will be going towards each end zone.

That is 10 less than the season previous and although a troublesome groin injury did not help matters, it is simply far too few for a player who should have been given more of a chance this season.

And it's not just a simple matter of «parking the bus» as many of Burnley's detractors describe it, the back 4 especially as well as the 3 - 5 CMs spend a lot of time practicing cutting down on the shooting lanes so goalie Heaton has less goal to cover and generally doesn't need to move too far to get behind a shot.

Weekends will assume a deeper meaning, and thoughts of summer holidays and World Cups in far flung lands, will fade hazily into the memory banks, perhaps retrieved and discussed at some later date, when other matters appear less pressing.

As long as the styles are similar, it does not matter that your piece cost far less than the one on the red carpet.

When a person feels like they are doing something alone — no matter what it is — they are far less likely to succeed or meet goals.

To complicate matters further, some symptoms may be more or less urgent depending on your particular situation or health history and on how far along you are in your pregnancy.

One of the only things that stays true no matter which aspect of trade you're talking about is that the further two countries are away the less they tend to trade.

And going back to pre-Sandy days, the Democrats were none too thrilled that Cuomo declined to intercede when the Senate and Assembly failed to agree on a redistricting plan for the congressional lines, kicking the matter to the courts and resulting in a far less gerrymandered outcome than a politically - controlled process would likely have produced.

It is also why developments in the business of digital journalism matters for democracy, especially in countries like the U.S., where private sector media provide by far the largest share of news coverage of public affairs, because of the low levels of funding for public media — as commercial media organizations in many countries continue to lose revenue and lay off reporters because their legacy platforms (like print) grow less popular by the day, the future of the private media sector, an important part of our democratic systems, depends in part on its ability to find new business models and reinvent itself for a new century and new media world, online and elsewhere.

But when you're ahead by as far as he is it matters a lot less how many views your speeches have on YouTube.

The procedures were used for what My Lyon described as «less serious» breaches of the rules regarding such matters as office stationery, but the public anger over expenses has moved Sir George to prevent any further damage to the standing of MPs, which is already at an all - time low following the scandal last year.

When a Government chooses to insert into primary legislation powers to make statutory instruments, one of the consequences of that choice — whether or not it is the reason for the choice — is that those matters that will thereby fall to be dealt with in secondary legislation will receive far less scrutiny than those matters that are addressed on the face of the Bill.

Compared with the galaxy - laced, matter - filled regions where we've so far directed most of our study, voids should «feel» the enlarging effects of dark energy or modified gravity more, on account of having less gravity - generating matter acting as a counterbalance.

Further complicating matters, treatment makes infected people less infectious and is a form of prevention itself; next week, the World Health Organization is expected to recommend that all infected people in discordant couples receive ARVs — a huge challenge for many resource - limited countries.

The award's 5000 - euro prize matters far less than the «boost in motivation» that the award represents.

When matter turns from its gas phase back into its liquid phase, the molecules take up much less space and exert far less pressure.

Where previous estimates were drawn from a range of mostly long - run models that looked at century - long changes, we instead focused on a precise definition and current starting point, and other factors which matter far less in the long term, but a lot if the goal is much closer.

The specifics of the decades - old affair matter far less than the way Weiss tells the story.

Because they lie much farther away and contain much less total dark matter than the center of the Milky Way, dwarf galaxies produce a much weaker signal and require many years of observations to establish a secure detection.

But it's more than that, not only do they grow faster and eat less food, and obviously create a far better economic return for us, it's a matter of getting your animals into the ponds when you require them and that's priceless.

In the case of this giant void, further studies may reveal some matter in the region, but it would still be far less than what is found in «normal» parts of space.

«For example, the Milky Way should be surrounded by hundreds of small, invisible dark matter halos, but we have so far only detected less than 50 galaxies,» says Yozin.

And, to confuse matters even further, the brain becomes less responsive to the hormones that your body does still produce.

To confuse matters even further, the brain becomes less responsive to the hormones that your body does still produce.

as far as customized nutrition that is fine and I may recommend some people do it but no matter what you do to customize it you need to eat the right amount of calories and less about what you eat

Rick's business model does have some flat - out illegal elements, which become important to resolving matters near the end of the film, but it's ironic how those illegal activities do far less harm to ordinary people — even providing work for some of Dennis» friends — than the legal ones.

What began, however glossily, as an ambiguity - laced power struggle between two people from separate social and sexual worlds has devolved into a far less intriguing victory lap for an exquisite couple that wants, and can afford, most of the same things — at least until the pesky matter of baby - making gets in the way.

EARLY MAN is a far less formal tale that stays true to Aardman's gentle sense of humor, but with a primitive grit that's built into the subject matter.

Cannes Film Festival Lionel Shriver's 2003 bestseller «We Need to Talk About Kevin» is a rare pop novel indeed: a nippy, low - comfort social essay that lures readers into messily untied arguments on topical subject matter the talk - show circuit would have far less trouble resolving.

It's for this reason that Emmerich's treatment of more delicate subject matter, as in The Patriot or the recent Stonewall, is far less palatable.

When you can see the artifice of the construct, the physical details don't seem to matter much, and it is far less effective from a shock or scare standpoint.

But when it comes to complex enterprises like public schooling, whether things are done often matters far less than how they are done.

Under the new legislation, however, it's less a matter of if than of how: How far must schools go to ensure that boys» and girls» educations mirror each other exactly?

The fact that the ELA Standards are largely silent on content would matter far less if this country had agreed on a shared curriculum — but we have not.

Though exact results vary from one study to the next, there is little doubt that credentials and additional years of experience (beyond the first few years) matter far less to teacher effectiveness than they do to teacher compensation as it is currently designed.