Sentences with phrase «less appealing as»

On the other hand, given the reverse mortgage changes soon to be implemented by HUD, the reality is that the strategy may become somewhat less appealing as the upfront Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) costs rise.

You can still do tracking when hooked up to the GPS on your handset, but dropping it from Versa hardware means the watch is less appealing as a standalone tracker.

If this was brought to our attention during the design process, the feature would have been less appealing as there is no great panoramic view from the site.

On the downside, Pentagon Federal Credit Union charges a sizable booking fee for cardholders who redeem points for travel, which drags down the card's overall value and makes it less appealing as a travel rewards card.

2) The intangibility of e-books may make them them less appealing as gifts: You can't wrap an e-book and put it under the Christmas tree.

However, while the OS has been tweaked to allow for easy and safe operations by the kids, things could be slightly less appealing as the tablet can only access the Nabi app store, while the Google Play Store remains off bounds.

These changes didn't significantly elevate the Malibu's place in the family - sedan pecking order, but they do make the 2013 model marginally less appealing as a used option.

The steering, albeit well weighted, is a touch less appealing as far as responsiveness goes.

with a date at a Comedy Show in London on Tuesday night, Speed Dating with a group of girls who have been following the blog in Clapham on Wednesday, and a date with another POF guy I wouldn't normally have chatted to on Thursday (which is looking less and less appealing as the days go on!!)

Don't be surprised, though, that those formerly favorite foods like pizza will begin to be less appealing as you begin to eat well!

Also the interest deduction is phased out as your income level goes up which makes keeping it around less appealing as time goes by.

The software is still good for maintaining a centralized contact list, but it's less appealing as a sophisticated CRM.

Not exact matches

While Apple (AAPL) has pitched its News app as a must - have for both readers and publishers, it's proven far less financially appealing to the media outlets.

The offers can be bland — or as with the colon cleansing, of less - than - universal appeal — opening the door to rivals with a local sales team to solicit better deals from A-list merchants.

As the gap between wealthy and poor Americans widens, the middle class is becoming less of an appealing target for nationwide retailers.

High - dividend stocks such as utilities and phone companies fell; those stocks are often compared to bonds and they tend to fall when bond yields rise, as higher bond yields make the stocks less appealing to investors seeking income.

During the last year, as valuations got less appealing, Lowry's analysis remained positive.

We could cut a few things — our bi-weekly date night (a movie, or a dinner, never both), eating less meat (though that doesn't appeal to me, as -LSB-...]

As a result, the biggest losses went to high - dividend companies such as utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking incomAs a result, the biggest losses went to high - dividend companies such as utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking incomas utility and real estate companies whose stocks become less appealing than bonds to investors seeking income.

Today we see a much less appealing professorial personality at large: someone who dresses up ill - informed political diatribes in the finery of «discourse analysis» and publishes them in what were formerly thought of as scholarly journals.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

And as professional critics we reject any appeal to a transcendent power at work in history, much less one that «works for good in all things.»

Charlemagne's successors were less powerful and as they became unable to hold overbearing archbishops in check, bishops appealed to the Pope for support and this increased papal authority.

But I am less thrilled when such an appeal is based on a view of religion as essentially private.

you're appealing to scientific findings as a basis for compassion... and yet science can not even define LIFE... much less compassion.

Huffington Post: Hispanic Churches, Historically Spanish - Speaking, Adopt More English To Appeal To U.S. - Born Latinos While it's become common wisdom that English - speaking churches will shrink as younger generations, who are typically less religious, become the majority, the Spanish church - known across denominations for its religious fervor - is battling to keep its youth in the faith.

Furthermore, even the identification of the putative content of experience proves to be normed by whatever hermeneutical analysis is employed, for one can only imagine, much less recognize as present, what one can come to identify somehow.16 Finally, some hermeneutical analysis is also presupposed by and, therefore, normative of any argument from experience, whether of the individual or the communal type, since it is only experience as interpretable in terms of some description or other to which one can ever appeal either for the mutual corroboration of such descriptions or for their illustration of a theistic interpretation.

If the branches of the federal government are truly coequal, if the President and Congress are not subordinated to the Court by the Constitution (except insofar as the Court might declare them to be), then the theme of «judicial restraint» that runs wistfully through your symposium is less an appeal for the impossible than a misconstrual of the problem.

They described the phrase as «relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief».

(I coin this label because Latin American Music indigenous to regions wherever there are few blacks, such as Peru, Mexico, etc., does not allow for useful comparison, and has had less international appeal.)

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

The Grizzlies» appeal lies in the quirky personalities on their roster and the manic energy in their home crowd, less so than their style of play, which is as unassuming as it is unforgiving.

This needed to happen, as Masterson's 2015 has left him as a less appealing option than an unproven, unpredictable knuckler who has spent most of his career in the high minors.

As with every all - inclusive resort, there are always mystery items at the buffet that look less - than - appealing.

You may love the idea of crocheting beautiful handmade Christmas decorations, but as the season grows closer, this idea becomes less and less appealing.

But as they grow older, their body reaches a point when solid food looks more appealing and they grow less interested in nursing.

We had an appointment planned for the Thursday in half term, but decided to postpone it as the idea of dragging Sausage to London during half term, on Halloween no less, then trying to get her home on the tube during work - kicking - out time just didn't appeal, especially as she's not a huge fan of stairs, having lived in a bungalow her whole life.

It also seems like less work for the parents, which as a second - time mom, seems appealing.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

Therefore New Labour needs to talk less about clever theoretical things such as policy (because women have very small brains) and appeal rather more to their hearts (because women, though dumb as toast, do have very large hearts).

Just as CEOs of high profile corporations usually don't usually move onto non-C-level positions, presidents usually don't see a lot of appeal in a lesser role.

A New York appeals court ruled last year that a less comprehensive form of teacher evaluations used by New York City's Department of Education — known as Teacher Data Reports — must be disclosed under the state's Freedom of Information Law.

Blackwell could appeal the decision in court, though his campaign had less than $ 1,000 to spend as of July 15.

As the world is becoming more international in its relations, that is an increasingly less realistic goal, even though it can not be denied that the idea carries a lot of appeal to modern humans as their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over most of their biological existencAs the world is becoming more international in its relations, that is an increasingly less realistic goal, even though it can not be denied that the idea carries a lot of appeal to modern humans as their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over most of their biological existencas their behavior and decision - making has evolved in tribal contexts over most of their biological existence.

«Having regard to the settled position of the law as expoused by our courts in not less than five cases wherein the suspension of legislators by legislative houses was annulled and set aside, the Senate should withdraw the appeal filed against the judgment of the Federal High Court in the case of Senator Omo - Agege.

The #ReleaseMarquis Campaign has been urging District Attorney David Soares to recommend a lesser sentence as Dixon's appeal moves forward.

The appeals court said Spitzer's background as attorney general could have left listeners «less skeptical» and «more willing» to believe him, including when he told then - CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo that «Hank Greenberg at AIG committed fraud.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

Downsides: Just as expensive as Fit Brains but less visually appealing.