Not exact matches
The motivating
force behind this model, Times executives say, is that breaking news has more or
less become a commodity because anyone with a website — or even just a smartphone and a Twitter account — can publish news
as fast or faster than a newspaper.
Prices on food, such
as pork (and, in turn, bacon), may also fluctuate, since a drop in Chinese purchasing power would likely
force U.S. farmers to produce
less, potentially driving up costs at home.
Constantly changing your workout may seem
less boring, but constantly doing new exercises doesn't
force your body to adapt — and get stronger — nearly
as quickly.
As an example, if you receive a payment for six months in advance and plan to use that money to increase the sales
force, make sure to accomplish this effort in
less than six months.
It tapped Jean - Pierre Landau, a former Bank of France deputy governor, to lead a task
force on cryptocurrency risks and,
as Fortune «s David Meyer writes, his stance on bitcoin is
less than boosterish.
The new air - defense system, designed to defend Russia's borders, can be turned into combat mode in
less than five minutes, Interfax news agency quoted Viktor Sevostyanov, a commander with Russia's air
forces,
as saying.
The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such
as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work
force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim
less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.
Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or
less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school —
as well
as boost their entrepreneurial education by
forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.
The new air defense system, designed to defend Russia's borders, can be turned into combat mode in
less than five minutes, Interfax news agency quoted Viktor Sevostyanov, a commander with Russia's air
forces,
as saying.
Investor comments,
as noted on the feedback sheets of Goldman's sales
force, included «Good magazine, but the rest of the business is
less compelling» and «Will need more spending discipline
as a public company.»
However, for these players it is more difficult to meet the demand of key bank products (such
as loans) due to
less restricted regulations that
force their customers to spend heavily on compliance and maintain large capital cushions.
As for being able to accommodate 8 million or more square feet, Luff said he could envision the planners of Schuylkill Yards and uCity Square adjusting their proposals to include more offices and
less space for other uses, while potentially joining
forces to share the Amazon campus.
Individuals buying these junk plans will also be
forced to pay more for
less care,
as these plans will be exempt from existing marketplace rules.
This group of super spenders is expected to see its population double over the next five years to 100 million households, and
as an economic
force they are poised to eclipse the impact of rising but
less - wealthy consumers: Their consumption is currently growing at 17 percent a year, compared to just 5 percent among emerging - middle - class and middle - class consumers.
Food inflation could
force the overall inflation rate to much higher levels
as we enter a new decade in
less than two years.
Our Pre-Stretched High Performance Films use
less film per wrapped pallet, while providing the same containment
force as Standard Performance Films.
[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits
as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor
force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward
less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.
Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets,
as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour
force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such
as research and academia, a
less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.
Based on government valuations, companies deciding to renew their concessions under MP 579, such
as Eletrobras, would be
forced to receive indemnity payments
as much
as 50 %
less than the book value of their assets.
People with disabilities demonstrate the same passion, independence and self - direction
as all Americans, and given certain characteristics — including being on average older and
less educated — it is not surprising that the rate of self - employment for people with disabilities in the labor
force in 2011 was about 50 percent higher than the corresponding rate for people without disabilities -LSB-...]
Could we see some of the world's largest corporations — some
less than 20 years old — fall to Darwinian
forces as they fail to adapt?
Over time, of course, this balance will change; the US will be
forced to save more and spend
less as it ages.
As more and more investors were
forced to bail, yields shot up 21-fold in
less than two months.
As a result, many brands are making this customer service tactic, commonly called «surprise and delight,» far
less random, and in some cases, it's the driving
force behind several nationwide, multimillion - dollar marketing campaigns.
You can hear life,
forced into a slow - down; life
less - deliberate; life lived
as it was for centuries, before the busy inventiveness of the last five decades: life acquiescent to uncontrollable nature, and hunkered - down.
Ezekiel Garragut imagines God
as a fierce
force rather like himself, a dark diviner of souls who delights
less in rewarding the pure with bliss eternal than in sinking sinners in an excremental hell.
@Amused, how can you possibly be taken seriously when you suggest TAKING
LESS BY
FORCE from the rich is the same
as giving to the rich and stealing from the poor?
Irenaeus championed this understanding explicitly: «The Father of all» [47] is no
less than «He who is impassible» (Against Heresies, 2.12.1).30 For Clement of Alexandria, this is true both for the nature of God (Stromata, 2.16) and for the highest achievable good of those who would truly embody the divine image: «Endurance also itself
forces its way to the divine likeness, reaping
as its fruit impassibility» (2.20).
Although Powell quite accurately notes that «Protestants were distinctively cool to this method of expounding the doctrine of the Trinity,» such philosophers
as G. W. Leibniz (1646 - 1716)(with his description of the Trinity
as force, intellect, and will) and Gotthold
Lessing (1729 - 1781)(who defined the Trinity
as an eternal act of self - knowledge) did go this route.
The question then is this: Why is one religious approach more or
less adequate than another
as a channel for the healing
forces which are available in the universe?
In Bosnia
as of mid-1998, for example, our troops represented
less than 20 percent of NATO
forces and only 10 percent of the International Police Task
Force.
Externally, it has put itself at the mercy of international capitalism, becoming a dependent region with an industry, a labor
force and an agriculture developed
as a function of the North American and (to a
lesser extent) the western European metropolis.
... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate
less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue
as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental
forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.
It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious)
forces is overlooked or denied,
as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or
less dedicated to economic determinism.
With this clue we can see that, whatever we may make of particular «miracles», the miracle - stories
as a whole are saying precisely this: that where Jesus was, there was some incalculable and unaccountable energy at work for the dispersal of evil
forces and the total renewal of human life; and that this was nothing
less than the creative energy of the living God.
The
forces of nature on which our existence wholly depends are made
less mysterious and more pliable by our perceiving them
as personal beings like ourselves.
I see the movie
as more of a product inspired by the book and
less of a
forced visual replication.
As The Washington Post notes, The lawsuit says, «Inexplicably, the Officers failed to contact any properly trained mental health counselors or make any attempt to use
less than lethal
force and ignored the established police protocols to make attempts to de-escalate the situation.»
But Bishop John did say he would support some sort of military action on the ground: «My own preference would be for a UN
force because that would have
less of an inflammatory dimension than a
force that could be perceived
as Western Christian.»
I generally put this down to very religious people (who have been raised with the concept that God is personally invested in them and is a central
force in their life) experiencing the thought of a person without a religious belief system
as being close to someone soul-
less: without morals and without any fear of punishment (hell), so obviously
less trustworthy than religious people who have a spiritual Big Brother and religious community watching their every move.
Arising out of what I have said, the diagram at the end of this chapter represents the state of tension which has come to exist more or
less consciously in every human heart
as a result of the seeming conflict between the modern forward impulse (OX), induced in us all by the newly - born
force of trans - hominization, and the traditional upward impulse of religious worship (OY).
According to the index, the world has become
less peaceful in the last eight years, and one of the consequences is that more than 50 million people have been
forced from their homes
as refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs).
Perhaps in this process we have some hint
as to the way in which the mind of ancient man,
less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen
forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.
That would
force a deeper recognition that, in our capacities
as consumers
as well, there is far
less correlation than has been supposed between the richness of human experience and the quantity and quality of goods and services consumed.
Although the military coup in 1973 that overthrew and killed Allende changed the situation in Chile radically, Christians for Socialism continued to be an influential
force in Latin America and to a
lesser extent in North America
as well.
My experience with Muslims is
less than nice and I believe that Black men who go from whatever religion they were born with (Baptist usually) turn into Muslims because they see the opportunity to suppress their own black women;
forcing them to wear scarfs and burkas and on their female children
as well.
Nevertheless, movement in a circle is the most «natural» movement; and the long arm of the lever, moving,
as it does, in the larger circle, has the greater amount of this natural motion, and consequently requires the
lesser force.
As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by
forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or
less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).
Dennis had been working under Frank De Boer
as his assistant manager, but since Peter Bosz has taken over the main role, the former Arsenal man has been
forced to take a
less hands on role, and is now coaching and training with the younger players.
As you study the artfully rendered autographs of Ted Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Mike Schmidt, you're
forced to reflect
less on each individual name and more on the most significant thing these men have in common: that at one time in their lives, each of them was the very best in the world at what he did.