Sentences with phrase «in something less than»

An additional risk is if the mutual fund invests that money in something less than desirable to juice returns.

As in something less than substantial, too small to get the job done.

It used to be that Subaru would show a nicely designed concept predicting a future model, and then the realities of production would result in something less than handsome.

Driven from office in 2007, West was returned in something less than triumph in 2011 for a term that ends year after next.

Not exact matches

Something a bit less sexy than its flashy name suggests: it's the set of regulations that will govern digital currency businesses operating in New York State.

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

Be more specific, and instruct customers with something like, «Complete one page per day, and you'll have a blueprint for your business in less than a month.»

«To this day, before doing something I don't want to do, I try to transform it into something I'm eager to do,» he writes, citing no less than Mary Poppins as an authority in support of this plan.

A minor celebrity in both Davos and Big Data circles, Goldman sold his first company for $ 225 million, back when less than a billion dollars was actually worth something.

Even the best strategy in the world — even something that could change the world — is worth far less than something far simpler that a team can actually execute on.

As ever, the causes of the cryptocurrency's fortunes are less than clear, but some experts reckon it might have something to do with the approach of April 17, the deadline for filing taxes in the U.S. Others think it's a function of geopolitical fears and sanctions.

«The growth rate (of non-energy exports) persistently was less than what we thought should happen and it's gradually building up to something that we have to acknowledge, and we have to say, «Either it comes back someday after firm creation kicks in more strongly» or something,» Poloz said.

He also indicated it would be something people wouldn't be embarrassed to wear in public — a nod of recognition to the fact that people were less than comfortable interacting with others wearing Google Glass, the futuristic head - mounted computer system that Google created a few years ago.

«Together we thought: What would the world look like in which doing something better for the [earth] was 30 or 40 percent less expensive, rather than 30 or 40 percent more expensive?»

Sometimes there may be an opportunity for a business to offer something that's smaller or lower in quality for a lesser price than the industry standard.

In a little less than two years, Halo Top's relentless sales growth has afforded the founders something most entrepreneurs only dream of: They run a profitable company, at scale.

Your schedule may force you to wolf down something less than super appetizing alone at your desk every once in awhile.

This past February, Dick Costolo did something smart: He shut down his startup, Chorus, even though, at less than a year old, it had real customers and money in the bank.

By contrast, Front National leader Marine Le Pen, currently leading the opinion polls in France's Presidential elections due in May, routinely attacks the ECB's policy as too tight and Germanic (albeit she recently diluted her comments on taking France out of the euro into something much less coherent than the brutal «Frexit» she threatened earlier).

«If currency in a bank is worth less than currency in your hands or in a mattress, that could produce something in the way of behavior that nobody has ever anticipated.»

In other words, the company tried to do something good, and the good stuff it did turned out to be less - good than it thought it's effort would be.

It's more or less the internet's favorite portable generator — it's fuel - efficient, it's simple to use, it runs quietly, and, for something as strong as this, it's light, weighing in at less than 50 pounds.

We talked to the CEO of Revolut, a bank that hit a $ 1.7 billion valuation in less than three years, about US expansion and «building something bigger than» HSBC.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

When I think about investing vs debt, I tend to think about the Roth a bit differently than other platforms only because elapsed time is not something you can make up (both in the sense that you can not make up for lost investment time AND the fact that $ 5,500 today is worth less than that $ 5,500 was worth one year ago).

It usually requires an explanation on the order of infinite retention («yes, our sales and marketing costs are really high and our annual profit margins per user are thin, but we're going to keep the customer forever»), a massive reduction in costs («we're going to replace all our human labor with robots»), a claim that eventually the company can stop buying users («we acquire users for more than they're worth for now just to get the flywheel spinning»), or something even less plausible.

The fact that Congress chose to denounce unjust redistribution suggests that something else was at play — namely, that the public was «angered less by the reduction in their wealth than by the way in which the wealth was extracted.»

A new surveillance video from Birmingham, England shows two hackers exploiting keyless technology to steal a sleeping man's Mercedes — in less time than it takes to order something off Seamless.

The miles driven between instances the car did something it wasn't supposed to do has dropped from more than four miles in January to less than two miles as of last week.

If something less than total disaster happens in most... areas, it stands to reason that the market should recover strongly.

For the same year the Median Income for a family of four in Canada was something less than that, and for an individual it was a whole lot less.

But is it any less noble to invest in something because you believe in the idea, rather than investing simply to make a profit?

Stopovers, as we know them, are changing in less than 3 weeks, so if this is something you are interested in, you need to use your United miles to book a ticket before October 6, 2016.

It implies that your opinion is not only self evident, but that I am being something less than honest in disagreeing with you.

There were two main camps at the time: that represented by Jovinian, claiming that virgins, widows, and married women were all deserving of equal merit, and that represented by Jerome, which said that marriage was merely the lesser of two evils, rather than something positive in its own right.

All too frequently in contemporary American society, a sentence of «life» means something far less than «for the remainder of one's time on this earth.»

So according to you because nothing can be «proven» we should all believes in something that can be less proven than our basic reality.

However, as I have tried to show, while in Deleuze's metaphysics we find something like Whiteheadian pure potentiality reappearing in a radically decentered form, the net result is less a neo-Whiteheadian naturalism than a distinctly postmodern avatar of polytheism: a vision of multiple «little divinities» effecting random syntheses of differential elements within an immanent space of possibilities: a theory of evolution metamorphosed into Chaosmological Myth: an unqualified affirmation of the endless, goalless, production of Difference.

If the earliest conception of Jesus had been something less than that reflected in Acts 1 - 12, Christianity would perhaps never have arisen as a religion distinct from the Jewish.

He is not less concerned than the materialist or the scientific humanist for the welfare of men, but more so; for he has glimpsed something of man's value and potentiality in the eyes of God.

Speaking of a «true myth» may catch attention, but it is also misleading for most people, suggesting that the truth in the myth is something less than really true.

Here's the deal, first and foremost, mary jane is so much better than any of the legal substances, the sheer hypocrisy of allowing something more lethal to be on the market while the lesser substance can result in a felony and jailtime is just madness.

In the classical metaphysics all temporal things are something less than real, because in being - itself all time and process are overcomIn the classical metaphysics all temporal things are something less than real, because in being - itself all time and process are overcomin being - itself all time and process are overcome.

Unless something extraordinary happened to convince them that against all their expectations God had reversed his apparent verdict on Jesus, I can not imagine that they would later on have taken immense risks to assert in public that a man who had been condemned and hanged was no less than God's Messiah.

I confess, I too wanted to believe that «Dubya» was, somehow, a man apart from most men» that a «Patriot Act» in his hands was something less dicey than it would be in anyone else's.

No less than in the Abraham and Jacob stories, Israel reads in the Joseph story something of her own inner experience of life lived under the rule and covenant of God.

This morning CNN's expert panel appeared to be unanimous that an academic discussion of religion was less useful than belief in something that resulted in being kind to our fellow man.

Once early embryos become something less than incipient human life, once they are treated in vitro as a means toward the end of pregnancy, once they are cryopreserved in thousands of vats across the country, ESCR with «excess» embryos may be predictably the next step.

, so that would be something less than that in actual visits.

(21) Most couples achieve something less than heaven in bed and yet value and cherish the pleasure they do enjoy together.