Sentences with phrase «less a product of»

But great cities are no less a product of communal acts of faith, hope, and love.

As a person matures emotionally, his religious beliefs become less a product of wish - fulfillment and increasingly ways of understanding and articulating the spiritual realities experienced by that person as an adult.

The record was less a product of the schedule and more a product of when they showed up.

«Reapportionment and term limits combined to make the City Council younger, a little bit further to the left, perhaps less a product of traditional political organizations or machines, and demographically, a little more like the population of the city,» said Kenneth Sherrill, Chair of the Political Science Department at Hunter College.

That Lincoln has to keep doing both seems less the product of thorough research and more a way to nudge the viewer into staying alert.

It might be more appropriate to call them glamorized — they seem less the product of overt «male gaze,» and more the product of teenage girls» morbidity.

His interest in monumental scale and simple form was less a product of conceptual reductionism, but rather, of an interest in the drama which such forms can inspire.

For Broodthaers, artistic identity is less a product of individual agency than that of power negotiations between artists and various institutions.

Hirst's paintings remind me of nothing so much as the lesser products of the so - called New Image Painting of the 1980s that gave rise to art world stars such as Julian Schnabel and Georg Baselitz.

Buchanan countered that entering that order after illegally accepting a bribe to do so made the order less the product of a judicial act and more the product of a crime.

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Shopping for our groceries, especially staples and commodity products, is basically a chore, and the less of it we have to do, the happier we'll all be.

A negative comment about the product in the form of a review is typically less impactful to the seller than a negative feedback.

Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

This can even be a small coupon or freebie with a value of $ 10 or less, which they can use on any of your products or services.

In less than a year, Weiss went from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she declined to be more specific) and managing a staff of 30.

These founders eagerly plot out five - year financial projections before they've even developed a product or service; a few theories about the fates of those impacted by a company's success are not any less likely to hold water.

The gathering is intended to probe what companies from Johnson & Johnson to 3M to Samsung — as well as every leading consulting firm across the globe — have already discovered: that smart, creative, and bold «design thinking» is one of the most essential (if too - often - overlooked) pathways for companies to build better products, connect with customers, improve their collaborations, and make the day - to - day corporate processes that now drive most of us crazy less crazy - making in the future.

We have averaged a cost of $ 3 million to get our previous products to market, which is less than one - tenth of the industry average.

Much of what we love about Slack is timeless: The problem the company set out to solve is one that Butterfield and his founding team faced themselves, and their product is less of a quantum leap forward than a stunningly effective set of improvements on what came before.

Amidst all the hype about a larger iPhone and the possibility of an iWatch, the company's latest product may signal a less obvious consumption shift: the era of the mobile wallet is finally, finally here.

It's important to add products that are more seasonal or are part of a Black Friday deal, while pairing back on non-gift items that holiday shoppers would be less interested in buying.

A marketer or salesperson can influence a customer into buying the latest version of an item instead of the less - expensive current model by highlighting the new features on the latest version and displaying the latest product pages.

The non-profit which employs former gang members is now selling a selection of food products at Ralphs and Food 4 Less chains.

They include products with less than 90 mm of codeine, ketamine, anabolic steroids and testosterone.

Clearly, a cart will typically cost less than a truck, and a prepackaged product such as ice cream, candy or cans of soda are typically cheaper than making your own foods or beverages.

As sales leaders, our job is to help our teams develop their skills, so they sell more of our products and services quicker and with less friction.

CVS (cvs) is now selling an authorized generic version of Adrenaclick, a lesser - known epinephrine delivery product from Impax Laboratories (ipxl), for just $ 109.99 per two - pack (and that's before potential discounts and rebates through Impax's patient assistance programs).

As traffic at Nike's key wholesale partners continues to slow (hundreds of department stores and specialty sports retailers are closing their doors, resulting in less square footage for Nike products), it is working to boost its direct - to - consumer channels.

So far, those concerns have had much less impact on sales in emerging markets, where entrance to the middle class includes consumption of higher - calorie, higher - fat food products that are only available with more disposable income.

But all they had were the theoretical underpinnings of a business — nothing close to a prototype, much less a product.

Jobs was less of an outright inventor than he was a visionary who combined what he saw in disparate fields to produce gorgeous, seamless, user - first products.

In less than three years, and with just 24 products that range in price from $ 12 to $ 35, the startup has become one of the industry's biggest disruptors.

Yet I can't think of a faster and less - expensive way to find out whether a startup is taking the right path in developing a product.

But if you're looking to pay less for a product that's available now, there are a variety of light - based alarm clocks for sale on Amazon, including the sunrise alarm clock by Mosche ($ 32.99) and the sunrise simulation snooze alarm clock by totobay ($ 27.99).

The less work affiliates must do to understand the parameters of the agreement, the more work they can do to sell and promote products.

Once customers understand the benefits of your product or service and the value to them, it's much easier to make a sale, and you will also find that the customer is less likely to try to negotiate the price down.

On Wednesday, China announced fresh tariffs on 106 U.S. products, including cars, whiskey and soybeans — less than 24 hours after the U.S. administration issued a list of Chinese imports that it would target.

Do you feel comfortable knowing that iPhones and iPads and other products could be manufactured in less harsh conditions, but that these harsh conditions perpetuate because of an economy that you are... supporting with your dollars....

«When we put all the final logos onto products, storefronts and new forms of communications — whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or our own app — it became evident that the more complicated the logo was, the less power it had.

Earlier Wednesday, China announced additional tariffs on 106 U.S. products, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump unveiled a list of Chinese imports that his administration aims to target as part of a crackdown on what he deems unfair trade practices.

In a similar fashion, the Body Shop got skewered when a magazine article questioned its claims about animal testing, alleged that the company used petrochemicals in some of its «natural» products, and charged that its Trade Not Aid program accounted for less of its supplies than it had claimed.

Smaller companies, which are only sold in three regions or less, will maintain their relationships with each of those regional buyers, who will still have the authority to make decisions on bringing in new products.

Tens of thousands of everyday household items, grocery essentials, and Amazon products can be delivered to you in two hours or less, in select US cities.

The bulk of American Apparel's products — T - shirts, sweatshirts and underwear — can be found elsewhere for less.

Plenty of software companies claim they're making work communication less painful and more fun, but Slack is the only one that is doing it so well that its product literally sells itself.

«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

You can grow without new products — AT&T sold essentially the same telephones for decades while becoming the world's largest telecommunications concern — but most small companies will find it difficult to grow at all, much less rapidly, without a constant stream of new products that meet customer needs.

If it made the product less simple, or less beautiful, we would question the importance of that feature and try to find an elegant way to do it in a way that didn't reduce the overall simplicity.