Sentences with phrase «interesting than the majority»

We understand that your phone can be more interesting than the majority of your dates, but be polite and pay attention to your date.

Bill Seitz's actions are the latest in a long line of government officials who have drawn our attention and appear to be more closely aligned with entrenched, fossil fuel interests than the majority of his state's citizens.

Not exact matches

Despite their enthusiasm for Verizon participating in the market, the slim majority of Canadians, just more than half, agree that Canadians might lose control of their own mobile market to foreign interests if they are large enough (52 %).

The SSE Holdings LLC Agreement may be amended with the consent of the holders of a majority in voting power of the outstanding LLC Interests; provided that if the managing member holds greater than 33 % of the LLC Interests, then it may be amended with the consent of the managing member together with holders of at least 50 % of the outstanding LLC Interests, excluding LLC Interests held by the managing member.

Vodafone has majority or joint control in 22 countries and minority or partnership interests in more than 150 total countries.

What is interesting is that yes farmers did enroll in the WCB before bill 6 and what has been shown by the majority of responses to this blog is that there is much greater concern for the workers than the farmer, K. Larson I am not including you in the last comment as I am well aware that you are a farmer.

This is interesting because it's different than what we've seen from the majority of hedgies who as of late are only 25 % net long, well below the historical average as hedge funds have been selling equities.

These beliefs are way more interesting and intelligent sadly than what the majority of Americans believe.

The interesting question for us is why it is that the church in the West in the sixteenth century and ever since opted with the majority for the mechanistic view of the universe, particularly in view of the fact that the organic view is in many ways more supportive of Christian faith than the victorious mechanistic view.

Oto says that Kokusai Green never wanted more than a limited interest in the Lightning but that because of Tampa Bay's financial woes — in June 1991, the team missed a $ 22.5 million franchise installment payment — the company felt obliged to take a majority stake in September 1991.

On a tangent Jon my son (he's 4) asked me why he should support Arsenal, I said «well because I do, you're granddad does and your great granddad did» I was going to say its because of the values and principles that our club has but then I stopped myself because I have no idea what they are anymore other than paying a has been manager and over hyped players a fortune for non achievement while being owned by a majority shareholder that has no interest in the club other than as a business and having a board that view the fans as the gift that keeps on giving.

While Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo is a Democrat, he ran on a fiscally conservative platform that had more in keeping with the Senate Republicans» interests — property tax cap, public employee wage freeze, spending reductions — than the majority of Democrats (particularly those who hail from downstate) in the Senate and Assembly conferences.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

These systems of knowledge about the function of parliament seem to be better informed than attending to the minutae of either side of the house, neither of which represents the economic interests in work of the majority of voters.

The importance of the outcome is perhaps even greater than our first Civil War, because economically speaking the Anti Gov forces are attempting to rob the majority of Americans, for their own selfish vested interest pursued at the expense of average Americans.

Assembly members Tedisco, Graf, Ra say Assembly Majority more interested in «symbolism over substance» and covering backsides after voting for budget that's outraged parents & teachers than informing parents of their rights to refuse to have their kids take tests

Republicans hold a 245 to 188 edge over Democrats in the House and a member of the majority may be more successful than the minority members in advancing New York City's interests.

«The 2012 redistricting process was business as usual in Albany, with the majority parties controlling the process and lines being drawn for partisan purposes rather than in the best interests of voters, with greater candidate choice and more contested elections,» said Dick Dadey, Executive Director of Citizens Union.

«No one wants to show their cards unless they have to,» said United Federation of Teachers president Mike Mulgrew, whose organization has an interest in seeing a working Democratic majority, which would presumably be friendlier to the union's interests than the Republican majority has been.

Already people with diabetes represent a substantial interest group within a parliamentary constituency with around a third of constituencies in England having a higher number of people with diabetes than the size of the current MP's majority.

In the final three weeks of the 2012 election cycle, Democrat campaign committees transferred more than a quarter - million dollars in special interest campaign contributions to help bolster the campaign of Sharon Quirk - Silva, who helped secure Democrats two - thirds majority in the Assembly.

If Labour was on course for another hundred - plus majority would the party be any more interested in electoral reform than it was when Roy Jenkins» Royal Commission reported back in 1998?

Our proposals retain the right of a UK - wide majority to make the final decisions where they believe UK interests or those of a part of the UK other than England should prevail.

The SNP would presumably argue that Scotland's best interests would be served by them holding the balance of power than a majority Labour government, and the poll indicates that this is the majority view.

It's hard to see this as anything other than a hit piece, which is interesting, since the Schneiderman campaign is crying foul very loudly over Rice's comparison TV ad that links the Manhattan senator to Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr..

«You itemize your state and local taxes as well as your interest, and even if you do that, it doesn't amount for the vast majority of people in this district, especially the middle class, it doesn't amount to more than $ 24,000 for a family of four,» Katko said Monday.

ALBANY — Apparently the «Most Interesting Man in the World» is more interesting to Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan than sexual abuseInteresting Man in the World» is more interesting to Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan than sexual abuseinteresting to Senate GOP Majority Leader John Flanagan than sexual abuse survivors.

Crowther is a biologist but is so interested in music that 10 years ago he created a website with a database of songs about science and math; SingAboutScience.org now has links to more than 7,000 of them (the majority do not have video).

You can not assume that just because a statistic shows a majority of non black men having one opinion that the statistic of the minority does not equate to a lot of people, possibly even more than enough people to meet the demand of black women interested in dating out.

Most people are looking for chemistry when they date, and the majority of daters are more interested in finding a long - term relationship than just a casual fling.

We imagine that the majority of people interested in Spider - Man 2 chose to download it from the Xbox Marketplace — where it was available at launch — rather than wait for the belated retail release.

But An Education is still far more interesting and substantial than the majority of today's films.

The proposals were not built around any theme other than that they were all things that the majority Democrats in the legislature and their interest - group allies were sure to oppose.

What is surprising, however, is that there are those who - despite all the news, documentaries, journalism, research and literature today openly available to anyone interested to learn more - believe that Finland is a «completely socialist country» where its children are educated by the State rather than parents, that the vast majority of children don't get enough school education their parents (if they can afford it) have to buy proper education for their children, that resources are not distributed equitably to all, and that all schools are unionized.

Listening to them last Thursday night, it sounds like the majority of the Franklin faculty seem far less interested in money than respect.

Teachers - union members were even more blunt in their opposition: «Let's be very clear and dispel any notion that the school board majority, representing more than $ 15 million in political donations from the charter lobby, is here in the best interest of our public schools,» charged United Teachers Los Angeles secretary Arlene Inouye.

SchoolDash founder Timo Hannay said: «It would now be interesting to try and understand why girls at girls» schools tend to do better than their peers, and what the vast majority of mixed schools might be able to learn from this phenomenon.»

More often than not, the light signifies no more than a turning or a twist or a light vent in a tunnel, which for the vast majority of societies in the West will seemingly never end in the sunlight of a vital, dynamic, and responsible system of free speech in the legal domain, a system that responds to the needs of a democratic society and also responds to the protection of certain other vital interests of the individual in a humane society.

Indeed, said Robert Young, chief executive of Lulu Enterprises, based in Raleigh, N.C., a majority of the company's titles are of little interest to anybody other than the authors and their families.

In America the Authors Guild, an organisation notorious for representing the interests of publishers rather than writers, and whose members are almost entirely traditionally published, recently announced: «the majority of authors would be living below the Federal Poverty Level if they relied solely on income from their writing.»

If our results hold true for all student loan borrowers that have claimed the interest deduction in the past, than a vast majority of them would either be putting the money right back towards their student loan debt, saving it, or investing it in the market.

The graph shows that until about 10 years, the majority of the balance is the cumulative amount I've invested rather than interest earned.

When you do a balance transfer, more of your monthly payment is contributed to the principle, rather than that majority of your bill payment going toward interest.

Yet because of the way the prizes are allocated, the majority of people will win much less than the interest rate anyway.

Ironically, the vast majority of people who qualify for low interest rate credit cards are those with higher than median incomes and who pay their credit card balances in full each month.

If you follow the proven steps to financial survival you will be better off than the majority of people and in the long term you will be able to afford more of the things that you desire than you would do otherwise simply because of the lower interest rates that you demand by virtue of your credit rating.

But there's a curveball: Mortgage interest is «amortized,» which means that during Year 1 of a 30 - year mortgage, the vast majority of your payments are applied to the interest, rather than the principal.

The bottom line is that in majority of the US housing markets, it is becoming cheaper to own than to rent at the prevailing mortgage interest rate.

The vast majority of credit cards charge a higher - than - normal interest rate for a cash advance.

If a majority of the Board considers that the charges, if proved, might constitute conduct prejudicial to the best interests of the Club or the Breed, the Board shall order a hearing committee of not less than three and not more than nine members of the Club having no direct personal involvement in the issues to be heard, and shall fix a date and time for such hearing at a place within the region where the defendant resides.