Sentences with phrase «less about influence»

It is less about influence and more about crossover voting.

Not exact matches

The piece focuses specifically on informal negotiations at work — those common but less written about moments when it's up to you to secure the credit or influence you deserve, or to get what you want from a reluctant supervisor or colleague.

Concerns about political / cultural differences influence attitudes towards an FTA with China, but they carry less weight than economic factors.

People who are nervous about money backed by a central bank with unclear controls — such as China's — have become attracted to bitcoin, an open source currency that is less influenced by the state of the economy or any looming geopolitical risk.

If I am right about the distinction for which I am feeling here, then although the enduring influence of his mind - set is more or less ensured since he became pope, his writings might slip from view.

What I have learned is about nurturing true self in order to be free to encounter love for God and others as yourself and escaping the clutches of a false sense of self from social influences and less than helpful personal choices.

Emphatic that «faith is personal and honorable and uncorrupted by political influence,» Mondale is less clear about how religious and moral meaning should enter into the public forum.

Yesterday: Alexis Sanchez Baby Today: Alexis Sanchez Mercenary / Disruptive Influence Think about it... if you think Micki came to Arsenal to earn lesser wages than he was getting at Man Utd, then you are as blind as a bat with no sonar.

Eleanor Rathbone used her voice to elevate the voices of others, used whatever influence she had to help those less fortunate, and never thought twice about voicing truths to governments that they would have preferred not to hear.

The lawyer who spoke passionately about the issue said, she was attracted to the way Mrs. Bawumia excelled in the campaign and so in the same vein, she should use the power and influence for the benefit of the less privileged.

The main impression from the exchange was of two men talking about events they have little influence over and even less intention of getting involved in.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

Critics say the candidates» dependence on outside money makes residents of the Syracuse area congressional district feel like they have less influence and fuels cynicism about government.

The results showed people who had written about why they disagreed with statements were much less likely to be influenced by their preliminary preferences in the choice process.

As such, the genome holds much less influence about longevity than expected and our results help to explain why [genome studies] of longevity have failed to find a reliable signal so far,» noted Erlich.

While researchers know that adolescent drinking is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors, much less is known about interactions between the two.

Senior academics are less concerned about the alleged influence of job - rumor Web sites on search committee decisions.

«Despite the fact that Alzheimer's disease is more common in African Americans than Caucasians, we understand less about the genes that influence risk of Alzheimer's in African Americans.

The truth is that we know little about how climate change will pan out — still less how it will influence climate disasters.

The influence of electromagnetism extends to infinite distances, whereas the influence of the weak interaction is confined to subnuclear dimensions, less than about 10 - 15 centimeters.

There was no association between discrepancy stress and average daily use of alcohol or drugs, but men who felt less masculine, and who weren't worried about it were the least likely to report violence or driving while under the influence.

I think we agree that the forcing from anthropogenic GHG concentrations starts at about 1800 and then increases, getting to its strongest influence after about 1950 (more or less steady GHG increase since 1980).

«The thing about growing up in the Soviet Union was that the choices were relatively limited; natural sciences were highly respected and less influenced by propaganda and politics than other fields.

Although it has been reported that polysaccharides can reduce the toxicity of silver nanoparticles [15] less is known about the influence of monosaccaharides [16] thus, the different results are difficult to rationalise.

Basically, who you find attractive may be less about where you grew up and where you went to school and more influenced by experiences that are very unique to you.

(These nitrogen - based protein byproducts)-- frequently spoken of as toxins — float about through the body and may exercise more or less of a deleterious influence upon the system, or, being temporarily deposited, may exert some specific or local influence that calls for their speedy removal.»

Dear Roger Williams wasn't aware of this fact when he wrote the Biochemical Individuality book I described above (although he hypothesized about a genetic influence on propensity to thrive on specific diets), but variants of these genes are now known to hinder or help absorption or the efficient use of nutrients in foods, which means that — depending on your genetic makeup, microbiota, health history and living environment — you should consume more or less folate, choline, vitamin C, fatty acids, starches, caffeine and beyond.

And to all of you who worry about the look of their chest by maybe doing less pushing work in favor of pulling: Perceived attractiveness of your upper body is mostly influenced by the size of your shoulders and your posture.

People are less likely to fib about things that influence the success of the relationship such as past relationships, education, or religious and political beliefs.

It's also $ 6m less than John Carpenter spent over three decades ago on «Starman» — the picture which Nichols freely cites as the template for his «Midnight Special» screenplay, just as he was articulately frank about the Mark Twain influences on «Mud.»

Based on fact, this indie low - budget movie about a Texas serial killer influenced a host of less factual slasher movies later on.

The film is definitely more action - oriented than its predecessor, less concerned with building suspense than watching its would - be victims fight off a never - ending onslaught of crazies («The Warriors» and «Assault on Precinct 13» were obvious influences), but there are still so many questions about the sheer absurdity of the premise that it's hard to invest in the story.

Leadership is all about influence — nothing more, nothing less.

Teachers are widely agreed upon to be the most important in - school factor influencing student achievement, but we are less sure about the mechanisms through which teachers can have an impact.

«To a lesser extent, Democrats must deal with some teachers — their unions hold strong influence within the party — who are upset about implementation details.

«The tables have become less a way of giving parents the information they want and more an arms - length policy lever by which successive governments have sought to influence the decisions heads take about how to run their schools,» said United Learning's chief executive, Jon Coles.

The NTLI members» failure to address market forces, teacher agency, and sociocultural influences on schools and instruction perpetuates harmful myths about educational computing and makes successful integration of handheld computers less likely.

This is because the investor is ignoring a powerful influence about which he has positive knowledge through fear of a less powerful force about which, in the present state of human knowledge, he and everyone else is largely guessing.

Warren Buffett had this to say about Walters Schloss: «He knows how to identify securities that sell at considerably less than their value to a private owner; And that's all he does... He owns many more stocks than I do and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on Walter.

«Currently, we only register between 30 and 40 % okay, so now if we were to just say they'd have to be with the Assured Breeder scheme that would bring that number down to about 5 % or less than that so we would have even less control or influence and it's only by having influence.

In 250 words or less children can express their feelings about how to help pets and possibly influence others to treat pets with kindness, tolerance and compassion.

3) This fact is less about women's influence on the railway network, and more about the bizarre theories in which the railways were supposed to affect women, specifically they're reproductive organs - something that had long baffled and terrified men.

Meanwhile Origin's recent hire Warren Spector, who came to them with a Masters in film studies, brought his own ideas about games as interactive dramas that were less literal than Snell's, but that would if anything prove even more of an influence on his colleagues» developing views of just what it was Origin Systems really ought to be about.

Mali Morris interviews Geoffrey Rigden where we learn about the influence of jazz, the teaching of Hans Hofmann, what it means to be contemporary (what a great question, by the way), the influence of Noland and Louis in the early days as well as Milton Avery and Albert Marquet, also other less well known figures at the time like Adolf Gottlieb, for Rigden «still more pertinent and engaging than Pollock».

It's less a case of using paint to explore the binary of home / not at home, or to make a point about medium specificity, but to reflect on the hybrid identities that emerge from multiple influences, sources and images.

Patrick Heron's seminal review of the first showing of the Abstract Expressionists in London in 1956 at the Tate Gallery singles out Rothko for especial praise, while raising doubts about the others, and there is no doubt, despite his protestations to the contrary, that this show marked a decisive shift in his art towards abstraction, and Rothko in particular, though he rapidly turned the influence in the direction of a more European sensibility, less nuanced, a more immediate and direct attack, and an asymmetric compositional style more akin to the early Multiforms, which Heron insists he had not seen.

Less about looking at the image as an object, or the thing unto itself, this exhibition beckons the viewer to think about the history of the photograph, its relationship to writing with light, and its ability to influence politics and public opinion.

A recent study out of Columbia University delved further into the weather's influence on perceptions, and confirmed that people are far less likely to say they're concerned about climate change — or even that they believe it's happening — on unusually cold days.

A few other problems: - While there is an extremely good correlation between accumulated emissions and accumulation in the atmosphere, the correlation is less when one looks at the year by year increase, simply because temperature changes have a short term influence (about 4 ppmv/degr.C) on the increase rate, not on the trend!

Second, Democrats» beliefs about global climate change might be more crystallized and thus less influenced by subtle manipulations, consistent with research showing that stronger attitudes are more resistant to change (Krosnick and Smith 1994).