Sentences with phrase «less a function of»

This is less a function of disinterest, and more a result of widespread misunderstandings and misinformation — including those spread by some unscrupulous «credit consultants» who sell their so - called services to individuals and businesses.

The difficulty of discerning a systematic consistency in John is less a function of some fundamental confusion in his thought than of his remarkable mirroring of the way in which we all must hold our faith.

He acknowledges, however, that these emotions might be less a function of the peyote than of the ceremony of the Native American Church.

In other words, making money on the yellow metal is less a function of a rise in its fundamental value and more a function of finding someone who is willing to pay you more for it.

Stock purchasing is now more or less a function of the pure enjoyment of investing as a hobby and passion (rather than a function of becoming financially independent as fast as possible), but the ongoing casual investing of fresh capital does add to my passive income, freedom, and options.

Not exact matches

With one provider to take responsibility for a range of HR functions, you'll not only spend less time on administration, but less time managing vendor relationships as well.

No organization can function, much less grow, without trust and trust only thrives where people understand what each other is willing and capable of doing.

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.

Since Chen came aboard late last year, he's focused the company on its traditional customer base of business users and outsourced other functions so the company can pay less attention to the consumer market.

In addition to helping create a culture of transparency, it also helps to increase the adaptability that your company will function more like a network and less like an organization of silos.

The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef's «ecological function» instead.

The move comes after shares of the company, which makes and markets systems to analyze genetic function, slipped less than 1 percent during the regular session.

Respondents who had robotic surgeries reported less pain after a day and a week, and there were no differences between the two types of patients after 12 weeks when it came to sexual function or urinary control.

While less enthusiastic about artificial intelligence's current contributions to healthcare, Bush suggested a perhaps more radical vision of the future, in which machines do indeed supplant many rudimentary medical functions.

[2] Indeed, to my mind, the value of these initiatives has been less the «integration» aspect than the progress made in enabling eight local bond markets to function more effectively for foreign and domestic investors and, not least, for the governments and other borrowers of those countries.

So, when searching for your organization's next leader, look for someone with an attenuated dopamine function: someone who is never satisfied with the status quo, someone who wants the feeling of success more than others — but likes it less.

That Mr. Trump seems to have so much less debt on his disclosure form than what The Times found is not his fault, but rather a function of what the form asks candidates to list and how.

This inequitable situation translates into less opportunity and social mobility for everyone, and is having a corrosive effect on everything from health outcomes to social cohesion and the functioning of our democracy.

They are attracted by well - functioning institutions, less red tape, regulatory transparency, the advantages of the English language, and access to investors and open financial markets.

Voter turnout increases as people get older, a function of greater personal stability (moving less often), and that voting tends to be habitual.

«We've earned our money over time by significant outperformance in down markets, which is primarily a function of owning low - expectation stocks that are less susceptible to market corrections» Tom Shrager

If every trader used this function, losses would occur much less often and the market maker would eventually go out of business (because of all the losses they would absorb).

It takes you less time to create and make it profitable (since you've done it before), and you quickly have 2 fully functioning niche sites that now earn you a total of $ 2,000 per month.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

The most important point here is that removal of parts does not render the biological machine inoperative — it simply performs a different — and often less complex — function.

In the less easily understood symbolic function of etiquette, its rules are rarely deducible from first principles.

Occasionally liberation theologians suggest that injustice is a function of capitalism and would be overcome more or less automatically in a socialist society.

If we learn to teach with different foci and emphases, perhaps with less isolation from one another and more emphasis on the needs of students, the church, and the world, can we affect the ways in which our guilds function?

In the New Testament, besides Jesus, only John the Baptist is praised as much as Mary, yet in spite of her scriptural credentials she has functioned less in my Protestant theology than has John — and certainly less than the Old Testament prophets and such remarkable Old Testament women as Miriam and Deborah.

Last spring, as her strength dwindled, and her ability to function on her own became less predictable, the inexorable end of summer portended the dread awareness that this time my return to full - time teaching would require engaging full time care by strangers in my absence.

Our genome is nearly identical to the chimpanzee genome, a little less identical to the gorilla genome, a little less identical to the orangutan genome, and so on — and this correspondence is present in ways that are not needed for function (such as the location of shared genetic defects, the order of genes on chromosomes, and on and on).

No less than the other three, John's Gospel makes the task of understanding Jesus a function of grasping OT figures.

Externally, it has put itself at the mercy of international capitalism, becoming a dependent region with an industry, a labor force and an agriculture developed as a function of the North American and (to a lesser extent) the western European metropolis.

I see no reason why these two general kinds of function are any less proper «teaching» than direct instruction of an individual or a small group.

Respect is shown to the corpse, not necessarily because this body will be enlivened again one day to function more or less as it did during the sister's lifetime, but because the sister's bodiliness, concretized in and through this body, remains an inseparable dimension of her very existence.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

But when we look we find that the context and intended function of Paul's restrictive statements about women is less clear.

The convention authorized the establishment of a «Central University» provided that no less than half the required million dollars were in hand, and named the members of its Board of Trust, who were to function under supervision of the bishops of the church.

An evolutionist is not surprised if he finds component parts or precursors of organs or functions fully developed in more complex organisms in their less complex relatives.

But on the whole they are less bothered by them than they might be, for in their relation to the churches they have chosen or been required to devote themselves primarily to the second, that is, to the teaching function of schools.

Gradually but progressively our bodies begin to function less effectively, and that increasing loss of function makes us more vulnerable to disease and death....

Protestants are less apt to agree, however, that authority itself serves the positive function of promoting the plenitude of gifts and blessings ecclesial and political life are supposed to encompass.

However, the lowliest worms have sense organs, nerve cells and nerve centers, and these cells function more or less in the same manner as those of higher animals.

This tells me that we have pastors leading congregations and setting the tone for community norms that are less than at an adult level of functioning.

At the same time, a more equal distribution of functions creates a liability: the person is less able to hone in on a few details which are relevant to a pattern.

But what of the possibility that the universe does indeed function more randomly and less purposefully than Cobb would prefer?

Idols serve a function of making events less mysterious and therefore more manageable.

But if God serves the functions of an attachment relationship in our individual lives, it can be the difference between cognitively believing in God, as most do, and emotionally connecting, trusting, and walking with him every day, which is much less common.

20This is not, however, to say that all interest is «biased» or «ideological» in the sense that it expresses, in Ogden's words, «a more or less comprehensive understanding of human existence, or how to exist and act as a human being, that functions to justify the interests of a particular group or individual by representing these interests as the demands of disinterested justice» (The Point of Christology [San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982], p. 94).

Pentecost is that mediated ideal refracted and shining through a vast multiplicity of subsequent self - formations, and functioning to a greater or lesser degree as their root principle.