Sentences with phrase «greater than substance»

Instead the award went to HBO's rookie gangland series, Boardwalk Empire, which was met with some warm reviews at the outset tempered by concerns that its style was greater than its substance.

Honestly he is a hero in today's America where flash is greater than substance, and financial success determines who is right and who is wrong.

Not exact matches

But precisely because we are not self - contained ready - made entities which can be conceived equally well as being near to you or remote from you; precisely because in us the self - subsistent individual who is united to you grows only insofar as the union itself grows, that union whereby we are given more and more completely to you: I beg you, Lord, in the name of all that is most vital in my being, to hearken to the desire of this thing that I dare to call my soul even though I realize more and more every day how much greater it is than myself, and, to slake my thirst for life, draw me — through the successive zones of your deepest substance — into the secret recesses of your inmost heart.

Both the traditional understanding of substance and my understanding of process allow for functioning totalities greater than the sum of their constituent parts.

Something «than which nothing greater can be conceived» within the natural world gives us Spinoza's «infinite substance.»

They could only arise from the action of a substance that had a degree of being and act as great, or greater, than the substances to emerge.

It is only in terms of this broader context that a political theory's substance can hope to attain insights of greater breadth and validity than those of the myopia of academic «departments» or of the arbitrariness of de facto power.

When residue testing detects prohibited substances at levels that are greater than 5 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency's tolerance for the specific residue detected or unavoidable residual environmental contamination, the agricultural product must not be sold, labeled, or represented as organically produced.

High school boys had significantly greater odds of using protein powder / shades and other muscle - enhancing substances than those in middle school;

Behind that statistic is a far higher number of babies who became sick with diarrhoea, respiratory and other diseases because of the greater risks associated with feeding on formula or other substances, rather than breastfeeding.

One person wrote: «No greater super power than the power to give life and provide substance for life!»

The main policy argument seems to be that the costs associated with criminalization, to society, are much greater than they would be if the substance were legal.

She found the risk was significantly greater among men than women and was higher among those with a substance abuse problem.

These women had a more than five times greater rate of suicide than female veterans who did not have substance abuse problems.

You get high and feel great and then you crash and feel worse than ever and crave the same substances that got you high in the first place.

A pH of less than 7 is said to be «acidic» while a pH greater than 7 is «basic» or «alkaline,» and the more acidic a substance, the more it can react with other substances and cause chemical changes.

It's not often that I will argue for a lowering of expectations, but anyone expecting a film with the terror of Hallowe'en or the substance of The Thing is setting themselves up for a greater disappointment than necessary.

They can be pretty great, especially since one byproduct of awards season is a tendency to talk about superficialities rather than substance, and these talks can really dig into the meat of making movies.

For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's first two films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply script - related issues, Kosinski's feature - film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.

The buzz so far has been slightly underwhelming, saying it's more style than substance, which can be great for young children, not for anyone older.

Per usual, a great deal of critics have essentially predetermined that Eastwood's politics are more important to harp on than the political substance of his movie, to the point that a few truly moronic writers have labeled it as an argument for the travel ban.

It was marketing hyperbole then, and although the 2016 version makes great performance strides, it remains more marketing hype than substance.

A. Every credit services business, before it enters into a contract with a consumer, shall file and maintain with the Commissioner, in form and substance satisfactory to him, a bond with corporate surety from a company authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth, or a letter of credit from a bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in an amount equal to 100 times the standard fee charged by the credit services business but in no event shall the bond or letter of credit required under this section be less than $ 5,000 or greater than $ 50,000.

Working and performance dogs have higher physical exertion demands, increased risk for injury, and greater exposure to hazardous substances and environments than their companion pet counterparts.

Finally, there are the smaller, independent companies that produce true quality foods and take great care to include whole, healthy ingredients that provide more than just sufficient amounts of nutrients, and finally substances that offer considerable health benefits but are often entirely ignored in lesser quality brands.

Overall, Murasaki Baby is a creative platform adventure with a solid story and great pacing that is certainly recommendable to anyone who enjoys the platform or adventure genres and is good value for money at only # 7.99, despite lacking in longevity, but more than making up for it in original artistic style and substance.

For instance, what appears to be paintings are not done with paint at all but with various metals and metallic substances pummeled, poured, mixed, and boiled over a flame into something more akin to potions than Windsor Newton oils and from these Vulcan materials she explores everything from the power structures that silently govern our lives to the radiance of desire that emboldens us to a greater reality.

Because it specifies the capture of emissions from coal burning and one can only hope that it will also mean a reduction in mercury and soot and other exotic substances which I think pose a greater threat than the CO2 per se.

«Toxic substances have a far greater impact here than at other latitudes because they are degraded very slowly,» says physicist Marcel Nicolaus of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the northern German port city of Bremerhaven.

Solar ponds seem to a have limit to how deep they can be, but if you only talking about say 2 ′ depth one can approach temperature equal or greater than any dark substance not under water [around 80 C].

It is a sad commentary on the media that this presentation had so little substance other than anecdotal «evidence» that climate change is adversely affecting vineyards in the Great Lakes.

It is a sad commentary on the media today that this presentation had so little substance other than anecdotal «evidence» that climate change is adversely affecting vineyards in the Great Lakes.

This episode might feel a little less glitzy than some of our previous ones about robot lawyers and virtual teams, but it's full of really great substance on how to build a massive practice.

Of course, the substance of your work matters (a lot), but landing a full - time position from a summer associate gig requires more than just doing legal great work.

Participants in both SS and Relapse Prevention sustained experienced greater improvement in substance use and PTSD symptoms at 6 - month and 9 - month follow - ups than subjects in the community care group.

Improvements in the couples» relationship and the men's substance use were also greater in the BCT than in either of the IBT or PACT groups.

The divorce rate is extremely low at just 6 percent, and the number of children living with a parent is increasing.2 There are also a large number of non-traditional and non-family households, as well as households that represent more than one ethnic or cultural background.3 Although the outlook for families in Anaheim is generally positive, there is still a great deal of mental illness and substance abuse that negatively impacts family functioning.

Of the men he chose for his study, he found that men with insecure attachments had more incarcerations, more violent behaviors, higher rate of substance abuse, and a greater school drop - out rate than those with secure attachments.

The highest prevalence of antisocial personality disorder (greater than 70 %) is among most severe samples of males with alcohol use disorder and from substance abuse clinics, prisons, or other forensic settings.

Older men with substance use disorders are at greater risk for nonfatal attempts and for death by suicide than are younger persons.10, 11 Past suicide attempts are a strong risk factor for subsequent suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders.12 Depressed mood is a risk factor for suicidal behaviors in the general population and also predicts a greater likelihood of suicide in those with alcohol or drug use disorders.3, 6,10 The link between depression and suicidal behaviors in those with substance use disorders may be particularly strong given the high comorbidity between mood and substance use disorders.13 Although it has not been examined thoroughly, independent mood disorders and substance - induced mood disorders are likely to confer risk for suicide.

In addition, Beauchaine, Webster - Stratton, and Reid (2005) found that: (a) children with more internalizing problems made better progress than children with fewer internalizing problems; (b) children whose father had a history of substance abuse made greater improvements at follow - up; and (c) children of older mothers made more progress.

Fact:» [D] espite their greater dating experiences, [adolescents] from single - mother families were lesslikely to choose their romantic partners over mothers as primary confidants than those from two - biological - parent families... [and] unlike the popular notion that it is normative for adolescents to turn away from their parents, the adolescents who nominated peers — romantic partners or friends — were more likely than those who nominated mothers to have increased involvement in delinquency or substance use.»

While epidemiological data support that Latino youth are at no greater risk for substance use than the general youth population, some data indicate that they might be at greater risk for the co-morbid effects and consequences of substance use (e.g., school failure, incarceration, poor health).