Sentences with phrase «less convincing»

You may need to do less convincing to get home shoppers to make their move in the housing market.

Keep in mind that round numbers are less convincing than more specific numbers.

Katie Evans from Money and Mental Health considers a recent study looking at the impact of co-located welfare advice in healthcare settings, which found significant improvements in financial outcomes, but less convincing results in terms of health benefits.

An individual who can only provide vague positive references to your strengths may be less convincing.

But in a Q&A with reporters following the theatrical press conference, Sampson was less convincing, though he attempted to strike a positive note.

However, these rumors are less convincing than the ones that preceded the ICO and trading bans.

Such apologies, followed by promises to do better, are getting less convincing every time.

It also lays out news stories you might want to read, but it's all less convincing than the more graphically - appealing Flipboard, which occupied this space before.

(Barclays is less convincing with its example of MySpace, which it says was plagued by unspecified technical issues, but ultimately abandoned by users in favor of the cooler and more relevant Facebook.)

«People have increasingly high credit card debt, but it's fine,» becomes less convincing when less than a third of Americans can tell you what interest rates do to that debt.

In the case of Ukrainian investors in Crimea, a systemic effective interpretation approach (with regard to ISDS especially) is perhaps even less convincing.

As the Court observed in Kerr, the argument for retroactive spousal support would be less convincing where a spouse has already enjoyed the advantages he or she would have received from that support.

But it could not avoid the need to determine whether or not permission was to be granted in a case where the issue as to whether or not there was a ground for jurisdiction was no more than evenly balanced, or where the case in favour of an agreement was somewhat less convincing than the claim that there was not but was still plausible.

The reasoning is less convincing as far as shipyards are concerned though.

Therefore, the rank histogram results shown here may be less convincing.

The other proxies may be slightly less convincing — but are not too out of line.

(Indeed, if you look on the last page of this poll, note that, in these districts, the GOP's favored «cap - and - tax» message was only slightly less convincing to voters than the pro-reform «create jobs» message.)

Such cases have made economic argumentation less convincing but believing that the situation is the same for all other problems is just naive.

I can not see how adding nuance to the degree of future catastrophe the claim asserts will make it any more or less convincing.

Indeed, while the group of outliers funded by ExxonMobil has had some success in the court of public opinion, it has failed miserably in confusing, much less convincing, the legitimate scientific community.

As far as the SST trends are concerned, your arguments are even less convincing.

Braungart's speech was quite controversial with most of the other lectures that day, but not less convincing and inspiring.

The apocalyptic narrative looks less convincing in the context of global economic meltdown, and the works feels like a weak art in - joke, a flailing attempt to draw attention.

Less convincing are the divergent combinations, in terms of both medium and content.

Generally the more the artists celebrate identity, like Cox's Yo Mamadonna or Smith's video of hip - hop in a park, the less convincing they become.

The rest of Hibid's display, however, is less convincing: a series of pages of the Guardian newspaper in which areas are painted out to reveal what she appears to see as unconscious racism, specifically — in the way images of black people are used — feels rather dated, if not in its racial paranoia, then certainly in the way Hibid has chosen to express it.

By making something fake or synthetic feel even less convincing, I aim to create a more «authentic» rendering of the illusory nature we experience.

There are yet additional elements of the show, which I find less convincing.

However, this argument seems less convincing in low season when hotels have lower occupancy levels and rooms are standing empty.

It becomes less convincing to transfer them to an external loyalty program.

Writers need less convincing to self - publish and more tools to do it effectively, and all of those deletions freed up a huge amount of space to devote a lot more time to marketing, things like Kindle Unlimited, or how to find your first readers.

Academic papers look less convincing if lots of errors are committed.

In the course of bringing up and demolishing counterarguments, literary essay writer may state the case for the other side in a less convincing way than its proponents might state it.

I will note that I still love the Kindle Oasis for its handsome and unique design, but its value proposition wasn't clear when it launched at $ 500, and now with the launch of the Aura One, it's only become less convincing.

Surely this makes it a bit hard to digest in the absence of any confirmation from Barnes & Noble, though what makes it even less convincing or all the more audacious is the claim made... [Read more...]

Surely this makes it a bit hard to digest in the absence of any confirmation from Barnes & Noble, though what makes it even less convincing or all the more audacious is the claim made by the online shopping giant that they will be the first ones to offer the new updated Nook Colors.

Super-rational Jo has trouble believing what she saw, much less convincing anyone else so she sets out to find the woman on her own, and finds her own share of trouble.

As we'll see, others of similar SHAM stature hail from far less convincing backgrounds; they proclaim themselves «relationship therapists» or «dating coaches,» made - up specialties that require no particular licensing yet sound credible, thus duping unsuspecting patrons by the millions.

Less convincing is the Macan's Porsche Communication Management infotainment system, which lacks the sharp widescreen setup of newer models like the 2018 Panamera.

However, from a practical perspective, the cabriolet is less convincing than the coupé.

Other techno - doodads, including active steering, where the wheel rumbles and attempts to steer back into a lane if you cross into another, proved less convincing.

Dynamically, it's less convincing: the 3.5 - litre hybrid V6 has to work too hard to cope with the car's 2420 kg weight, and it's pleasant, rather than fun, to hustle, although the ride is good.

Technology Less convincing in the technology stakes, the Pulsar SSS finished second - last in this part of the test.

The little centerline wind split on the short hood is less convincing than those atop the front fenders.

[2] And plenty of research — with less convincing methods — has been interpreted as showing that too many blacks, especially boys, are identified for special education.

Unfortunately, Scott Elliott's film as a whole is far less convincing.

Some late - inning plot developments are forced and contrived; even less convincing is the annoyingly inconsistent character of Rachel, who undergoes radical shifts according to the needs of the plot.

Following an academic talking head's advice that «Physical evidence helps to preserve a memory» — and a less convincing authority's insistence that a dead person's soul lingers in their newly - vacated home for about eleven months after their death — the filmmakers take it upon themselves to turn their grandmother's house inside - out, the better to immortalize her through the spectral traces they log on camera.

Woody is often sharp with character study and Jasmine is something else, but his portrait of San Francisco working class folk is less convincing and carried only by the strength of a typically excellent cast (it also co-stars Louis C. K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg) and an honesty and commitment that the socially poised rich of the film lack.

Like Whitaker's part, she also spends the finale reduced to a cheerleader, although it's a much less convincing transition on her end.