Sentences with phrase «greater than the degree»

To be fair, Gladwell never said that innate talent had no role to play in achievement, but the extent to which inborn ability sways outcomes in this analysis seems much greater than the degree suggested by the 10,000 hour rule.

Not exact matches

The plane made an unprompted roll on its left side at a 41 degree angle, he said, adding that rolls are rarely greater than 20 to 25 degrees.

«International research has found that highly indebted households cut back their spending to a greater degree in response to declining house prices than those with lower debt levels,» he said in a letter to the House finance committee this month.

Without a doubt, the best business leaders are smart, often with advanced business degrees, a great pedigree and more certifications than a business card can hold.

New research from the American Management Association reveals that the 4.8 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs who are women come into those positions with more rigorous academic degrees and greater work and life experience than the 95.2 percent who are men.

More often than not, I see great leaders and organization so close to success, but if they would just make that one degree adjustment, that small step, or pursue that final inch, they would achieve what it was they were dreaming of.

Another study of more than 4,000 companies showed that those with a greater degree of gender diversity were more likely to introduce more radical innovations.

«My success in the financial markets has given me a greater degree of independence than most other people,» Soros wrote, according to his website.

The JuiceBoxx case slides nicely over a MacBook charger and completely prevents the cord from bending at greater than 90 degrees from the base of the charger, effectively saving your cord from fraying.

And our days are dictated to a far greater degree than we understand by the 5 C's: conversations, conventions, comparisons, compromises and chores.

The median manufacturing worker without a bachelor's degree earned $ 15 an hour in 2015, a dollar more than similarly educated workers in other industries.1 But those averages obscure a great deal of variation beneath the surface.

In fact, the impact was around four times greater than that of having a parent with a post-secondary degree.

In the recent advancing half - cycle, the speculation intentionally provoked by zero - interest rate policy forced us to elevate the priority of market internals to a far greater degree than was required during the tech and mortgage bubbles.

A beta of 1.00 indicates that the fund's returns will, on average, be as volatile as the market and move in the same direction; a beta higher than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall respectively but to a greater degree; a beta of less than 1.00 indicates that if the market rises or falls, the fund will rise or fall to a lesser degree.

However, we feel that this adjustment should increase over time, rather than decline, reflecting the greater degree of uncertainty in the economic and fiscal projections as one moves forward in time.

Besides the national sales initiative, other elements of the plan — digital development, new revenue sources, acquisitions, even cost cutting — turn on centralizing operations to a much greater degree than they had been already at Tribune.

Back then, there were junior gold and silver mining companies that were a fraction of the market cap of their much larger - cap mining peers that had much stronger management, had managed geopolitical risk in a superior manner, and had streamlined operations to a far greater degree than their larger - cap peers that were not huge risks.

In providing this liquidity, the Bank relied to a greater degree than usual on foreign exchange swaps to supplement outright transactions in CGS and repurchase agreements (repos).

Historically, smaller - company stocks have experienced a greater degree of market volatility than the overall market average.

In the short run, the inflation rate could decline more than forecast if the exchange rate were to appreciate further, or if the degree of pass - through is greater than expected due to strong competition in the retail sector.

Since sector - and commodity - specific funds are not diversified and focus their investments entirely in a single sector, commodity, or basket of commodities, the funds will involve a greater degree of risk than an investment in other diversified fund types.

Sector funds may involve a greater degree of risk than an investment in other funds with greater diversification.

I believe some are more apt to experience these feelings than others, and consider the propensity for awe and wonder to be an element of personality that some are predisposed to experience to a greater degree than others.

Social science data have shown that the decline in morality affects the working classes to a greater degree than the upper - middle and upper classes.

To a greater degree these people are doing more harm to themselves than to anyone else.

Because everyone interprets scripture differently than everyone else, to a greater or lesser degree.

If the moon were larger than it is, then the tides would be stronger, climatic changes would be greater, causing the tilt of the earth to perhaps be greater than 23.45 degrees.

I wonder whether most (or at least many) people have a latent capacity for narcissism to some degree (some more than others), and whether being placed into a position of great influence can actuate this capacity and then cause it to swell to damaging proportions.

After all it seems to me that Generation Y has, through world travel, through mass education and through sheer amount of leisure time actually faced a greater degree of natural and artistic beauty than any other that has preceded it.

It has been difficult to not be bitter over a degree in theology that has done nothing for me, other than give me a great deal of debt!

One modern psychologist takes it that way, and ventures an explanation for why woman has traditionally had greater goodness and observed a higher degree of morality than man.

But when we derive the conclusion that the internal degrees in a triangle are one - hundred and eighty degrees from the principle that a triangle has three sides, the conclusion is not really a separate truth since it is nothing more than greater insight into the principle.

Needless to say, as we have seen previously, the capacity for novelty is minimal, even negligible, in many actualities, thus, presumably, their responses are more in accord with the divine call than those of more complex creatures; the greater the degree of complexity, the greater the capacity to misuse freedom and refuse or diverge from God's call.

It is clear that philosophy, no less than theology, has always taken it for granted that man has to a greater or lesser degree erred and gone astray, or at least that he is always in danger of so doing.

To risk a generalization even more reckless than those I have already made: from the time of the pre-Socratics, all the great speculative and moral systems of the pagan world were, in varying degrees, confined to this totality, to either its innermost mechanisms or outermost boundaries; rarely did any of them catch even a glimpse of what might lie beyond such a world; and none could conceive of reality except as a kind of strife between order and disorder, within which a sacrificial economy held all forces in tension.

And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it.

Tyranny is the most common lot of man and a democratic - republicn form of government based upon Biblical principles of limited government and balance of powers is unusual and requires the greatest degree of protection than any other.

But unless we have to a far greater degree than at present the ordering of society on the basis of the supreme worth of every human being, we shall have repeated outbursts of world tragedy.

It has always seemed to me, however, and I have been walking around this planet for half a century now, it takes more thought, action, trust, study and a far greater degree of intelligence to believe in something rather than nothing.

To offer a tendentious example, insofar as Dante's powers of writing exceed my own (which is to say, by a lot), he attained a greater degree of distinction with respect to that power than I.

Attention was focused to a much greater degree on the psychic state as such rather than only on outward action.

Within the functional world - village, to which technology has now shrunk mankind's space - time dimensions, information on a world or inter-continental scale is distorted, mutilated and ignored to a much greater degree than information within the nation - state systems.

Perhaps to a greater degree than we care to admit, the principle of the relation between order and in - equality may function in the organization of life at the human level.

The small family of hominids, the last shoot to emerge from the main stem of Evolution, has of itself achieved a degree of expansion equal to, or even greater than, that of the greatest vertebrate layers (reptile or mammal) that ever inhabited the earth.

Tragically, we should expect that those systems providing the greatest degree of freedom, security, and economic opportunity (today, almost all Western or Westernized states in Asia) will be viewed as rivals and threats to be eliminated — or overrun and poached upon — rather than beacons to be praised and emulated by the less successful.

To a lesser or greater degree, to be rich is to be human; it means to be a creature that has more of life's necessities than another human creature.

Since Whitehead attributes this function to God, it seems that, to a greater degree than Whitehead intended, God must be conceived as being the reason that entities occur at all as well as determining the limits within which they can achieve their own forms.

Theo It is quite obvious from the body of your comments that you rely on apologists opinions to a greater degree than anyone else on this blog, that and your constant interpretations of verses from the book of silly.

Ed Pawson, chair of NATRE and head of RE at The King's School in Devon, added: «It is great news that teacher training bursaries for prospective secondary RE teachers have been brought back, although we are puzzled as to why the figure for RE graduates is less than 50 % of that offered to Geography or D&T graduates earning a 2:1 degree.

The Army expects to become involved in the Third World «to a greater degree» than ever before...»