Sentences with phrase «influence than a good one»

Charming, sardonic and with a naughty, rebellious streak, Julia is probably more of a bad influence than a good one.

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Western Australians are more likely to go online to find the best deal and be influenced by user reviews when shopping online than any other state, according to new research by Bankwest.

Learning the nuts and bolts skills of building influence and weighing tricky trade - offs is a far better approach than just assuming being upright and decent all the time will be get you where you want to go.

Looking out on the next decade, Jobs may well be asking himself a variation of that very question: After creating more than $ 150 billion in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom, music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next?

You have a much better chance of monitoring and influencing your own behaviors than you do decoding the behavior of others.

As the rule is implemented, retirement savers will benefit from receiving genuine advice that's in their best interest rather than advice that is influenced by conflicts of interest.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

Indeed, when you take into account technology's downward influence on price, U.S. consumption and productivity figures look much better than headline numbers would suggest.

However, more than 60 % of luxury good sales are now digitally influenced — meaning shoppers either researched online and bought at the store, shopped in the store but bought online, or purchased online outright — according to recent analysis by the Boston Consulting Group.

Following Murray, he credits a Calvinist influence with tempering the founders» own liberal impulses, allowing them to build «better than they knew.»

-LCB- alert: Smith would probably not have done well in the Twitter world -RCB- One can surmise that the form of capitalism that Americans subscribed to in Adam Smith capitalism was based on an ethical system influenced by Christianity.My very, very rudimentary understanding of Sharia laws concerning finance suggest to me that it is more closely related to Adam Smith capitalism than to predatory capitalism.What do you think?

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Nevertheless, even if nations do not always act in the best interests of their people, they are far more amenable to influence from the public than are transnational corporations.

On face value, W. E. Hocking's remark that when Whitehead arrived at Harvard «his speculative structure... was already well advanced in its main outlines» is a bit of external evidence against my hypothesis, but it may mean nothing more than that Whitehead was little influenced by the philosophical opinions and controversies of his American colleagues during these years, which seems very much to have been the case.

If Christians as he says are more focused on doing good deeds than exerting their influence politically to tramp down the rights of others, then more power to them.

As well, it drives me crazy when sincere people veer away from sincere «church talk» and out of habit or influence, start using the buzz words and «churchy» talk... I want to shake them and remind them they are better than that... to go back to their most sincere and honest use of language.

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

There will be no future healing if a couple delude themselves, through a pastor's misguided attempts to provide loving support, into thinking that their divorce is a momentary inconvenience which is best forgotten rather than a broken relationship which will exert continuing influence on their lives.

While it maybe be true that large pools of institutional money are better at buying political favors, influencing scientific research, and swaying foreign governments, it has always been known and is frequently demonstrated that individuals always do better at loving and caring for other individuals, tend to be wiser stewards of money, and view their giving and service toward others as a means of actually helping them, rather than a means to gain political power or popular prestige.

This stuff works to a degree: as Smith and Denton show «religion actually does influence positive outcomes» and religious teens tend to do better than nonreligious teens.

However it could be a good thing that other influences are impinging on the ubiquitous western view, we might start to realize that God is much bigger than we try to make Him.

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.

In 1998, however, a meta - analysis in Psychological Bulletin found that most victims of pedophilia turned out only «slightly less well adjusted» than the average adult, with the probability of maladjustment being influenced by the degree of physical force or coercion present in pedophilic encounters.

There was an uncomfortable silence as she continued, «I wonder if more people aren't motivated by power rightly used and influence for the good than we've let on, only it's been socialized out of us?»

His theory is better than the gnostic - influenced crap Augustine came up with.

With the good news that the Catholic religion is in steep decline here and losing political and legal influence it never should have had, fairly soon those definitions, and the religion itself, won't matter as anything other than a sorry footnote in history.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

My response to this is that despite the immense influence of Hellenistic culture on Christianity, the fundamental institutional, liturgical, and ethical patterns that won out in the struggle within the church are better understood in terms of their Hebraic background than in terms of their Hellenistic background.

These cullings at times make it hard to distinguish Hartshorne from utilitarians like Von Wright who have a far richer conception of the good than, say, Hare, or from Kantians who have been heavily influenced by Kant's Lectures on Ethics and other of his writings more conducive to virtue ethics than the Grundlegung.

To the Christian, Jesus is more than a great, good man who has exerted an influence upon the course of Western civilization.

However, Mr. Blake would have done CNN's readers a much better service to have included comments from Billy Graham, Tim Keller, Rick Warren or host of other Christian leaders who actually live the life of faith and believe in the divinity of Christ rather than to focus in on Borg who has little influence inside the Faith because he does not accept its basis tenets.

Dr. Thomas Sydenham, put it well: «The arrival of one clown has more beneficial influence upon a town than 20 asses laden with drugs.»

Christians, as citizens, have an obligation to exert whatever influence they can to ensure that the mass media in our society operate to serve the public good rather than merely commercial interests or those of individuals.

The decision to create a soul surely places constraints on divine power no more and no less restrictive than the physical impossibility of creating a square circle, 87 wherefore «the supreme miracle of the divine power... consists in being able, through a deep - reaching and all - embracing influence, incessantly to integrate, on a higher plane, all good and all evil in the reality which that power builds up by means of secondary causes.»

The good news is you'll never have more influence over the entertainment industry than during awards season.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

I'm a 100 % abstinent when it comes to alcohol — I both don't want to be under the influence of a substance that makes people act so stupid and rude and have never found the taste of any alcoholic beverage anything better than bad.

However, the higher price paid for organic cotton has had a positive influence on the conventional price as buyers of conventional cotton are forced to offer better prices (although lower than that offered for organic cotton) and / or other incentives like farm tools in order to ensure their supplies.

+ wenger out is more than just lack of spending; its not studying the opposition, not rotating players, not addressing why we have so much more injuries than others, not subbing early enough to give incoming players a chance to influence the game, not playing players in their best positions. . . .

There are few who are better chance creators and influence the game than he.

doesn't really do i can really influence the game on his own he has match winning ability an equality he is far better than ozil some one to keep in mind sadio Mane Liverpool off Liverpool

please stop these silly articles this is a joke Wenger would die rather than play 7 defenders in his team he is no mourinho are u influenced by him there is no problem with this formation our past 2 seasons best performances have come playing this formation and about your one time theory this season only we beat manu that lead us to a run of fa cup and we won that so do your homework properly.

But if you go by the same factors of impact and influence then no Arsenal player has been better than Giroud of late.

• 09 Podolski — Under used, best left foot in the squad, no good at chasing back • 10 Wilshere — Falls over a lot, injury prone, runs down blind alleys, spends more time sitting on his arse waving his arms around than influencing the game • 14 Walcott — Quick, can change games with his pace, improved his finishing, can't wait for him to be back to full fitness • 22 Sanogo — Looooooooool, that is all • 26 Martinez — Haven't seen enough of him to truly judge.

So best to look at the next season where his influence would have an effect, it did have an effect, we cut our spending to less than 1/3 of the season before.

And think how much better an influence she will be on kids than Beatles or Monkees.»

In my view he may well be past his best and like Ian Wright, l can not believe Wenger turned aside a bid of # 50 million for someone whose contribution to the team has been no better than average for some time.He has become a disruptive influence on and off the park and should have been sold during the last transfer window.

It was great to see Chamberlain playing well and having a big influence and it seems like there are more Arsenal than ever getting in on the act this season.

Find me another manager that has had a bigger and better influence at a club than Le Prof other than these men and get him in the dugout.

Burgess from what I read will also have an influence in transfers along with psychology, although we have SF working on fitness (and done well) this looks like AFC wants to have a deeper infrastructure than what we already have and as much expertise they can get outside of Wenger.