Sentences with phrase «less emphatic»

The Liberals were less emphatic during the campaign than the NDP, but they did promise to toughen the federal environmental assessment process for approving mega projects.

Note that quoteing the less emphatic findings on greenhouse gas contribution is misleading because there is a higher uncertainty about the greenhouse gas contributions than about the total anthropogenic contributions as shown in Fig 10.5 and discussed extensively above.

Unlike Auerbach, whose gestures structure his image, or Hodgkins, whose paintings are abstractions based upon memories yet still appear anchored in reality, Caivano's best results seem less emphatic statements and more queries into the nature of picture - making.

In addition, his straight lines have become even more minimal but not less emphatic.

Though currently the official legal answer to these questions is an unqualified «yes,» it is becoming less emphatic over time.

You are less emphatic about clinging on to loving thoughts of what love should be.

The margin was less emphatic.

In a nuanced but less emphatic move, Saugerties» town board passed a vote of «no confidence» in the company, citing its failure to appear at a board meeting to present its plans to the citizens of Saugerties.

Other countries have been less specific, but no less emphatic, in their threats.

He's less emphatic about branding it as a tax today.

Not exact matches

My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....

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.

However, he is emphatic in his judgment that theological schools are less bothered by this tension than they ought to be because they have chosen «to devote themselves primarily to the second,» the professional school function.

Not content to just be done there after also breaking Dame Kelly Holmes» British record, the 23 - year - old added 3000m gold less than 24 hours later in Belgrade to complete her emphatic double.

Robin van Persie equalized with a typically emphatic finish, less than a minute later.

«We raise our voice and use our hands when making an emphatic point, but stick to voice only when not particularly excited or the situation is less urgent,» he said.

No less expected was the awarding of Best Actor to Timothy Spall, whose emphatic grunts as landscape painter J.M.W. Turner made Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner an early critical favorite of the fest.

But even the lesser of the two options packages has our emphatic support.

Yellow makes an emphatic appearance throughout, in a variety of diverse and eye - popping works by Jean Dubuffet, Nancy Graves, Ad Reinhardt, Lichtenstein and the lesser - known William Baziotes and Burgoyne Diller as well as two boxes by Joseph Cornell.

Anecdotal evidence (and my own experience) suggests emphatic quotation marks are most commonly used by the over-50 demographic and much less commonly used by younger people.