Sentences with phrase «less of a favor»

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He says the Lendio survey is somewhat disingenuous, particularly because total payback amounts tend to favor small business lenders who push loans of less than a year.

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

The rebounding economy, low interest rates, less expensive technology and the state of regulation are all fair winds blowing in favor of new small - business owners.

«There are a great many young people considering forgoing the traditional post-secondary education route in favor of less debt, more employer - sponsored training, and more employment opportunities [according to the Universum research],» said China Gorman, newly installed as Universum's chairman of the board for North America and former chief operating officer and interim CEO at the Society for Human Resource Management.

It can help you differentiate between a less - than - perfect stock that is selling at a high price because it is the latest fad among stock analysts, and a great company which may have fallen out of favor and is selling for a fraction of what it is truly worth.

She is currently trying to assemble a coalition and her ultimate choice of a ruling partner could have significant ramifications in terms of whether Germany is in favor of more or less EU integration.

With a somewhat hamstrung and less - than - competent opposition the Harper government was able to push through legislation which brought some shifts of income in favor of higher income brackets.

That's the primary reason why so many salespeople stop using their company's CRM in favor of more familiar — yet less effective — methods for managing their sales process.

Efforts to open up AR to wider audiences by Google, Apple and Facebook have real consequences for advertisers, which have largely passed on AR experiments in favor of less risky approaches like conventional branded mobile apps and immersive in - person activations.

It tilts smaller than our benchmark, with less of a value focus, and it makes a lot of sector bets, especially as it heavily underweights financials in favor of industrials, consumer cyclicals, and tech.

The answer is not, as such histrionics imply, to do less for the elderly, most of whom depend on Social Security and Medicare (Dean also makes the point that you don't do the young a favor when you fail to adequately support their aging parents).

Gawker Media president and general counsel Heather Dietrick thinks that it is «more likely than not» that a jury will find in favor of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan — but also that they'll award him significantly less than the $ 100 million he's seeking.

Who isn't in favor of Oliver's commitment to «sustainable and balanced global economy», especially since the global economy is actually heading in the opposite direction by becoming less and less balanced and less and less sustainable?

Like the Anti-Federalists of yesterday, today's Republicans generally favor less government, less centralized control over the economy, less regulation and control over the private sector, less spending, and lower taxes.

Despite the cost of monthly student loan payments, many are spending just as much as their less - indebted counterparts, choosing instead to cut back on savings in favor of other expenses.

If our favored stocks outperform the indices, either by rising more or by falling less, we enjoy positive returns regardless of the direction of the market.

Assume two assets, each with identical return and risk, the co-variance matrix would lead you to favor the asset class that is less correlated with the rest of the portfolio.

That may not sound particularly controversial, but some immigration and labor activists are calling out FWD.us for favoring a specific type of immigrant: White - collar tech workers whom tech world titans could pay less than their American colleagues.

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square is much less committed, in terms of size of position at least (but still a sizeable swing at 9 %), and has chosen to purchase the common shares of both Fannie and Freddie (although he has been rumoured to be selling common in favor of the prefs).

Since the financial crisis, investors have eschewed exotic fixed - income securities in favor of low - risk government bonds, which are less profitable for banks, and overall trading volumes have dipped.

Over time the funds typically decrease holding of stocks in favor of less volatile investments such as bonds, inflation - protected securities and the least volatile of them all — cash.

Aetna has benefitted in the past five or six years from industry and government efforts to tamp down costs and declining hospital inpatient admissions in favor of less costly outpatient services, he said.

, now they have 9.7 percent of Allergan's shares, which they can vote in favor of their deal, making it more likely that the deal will happen and less likely that someone else will come in to outbid them.

But I will never believe in the religion, nor its hypocrisies, outdated dietary rules, misogynistic origins, brutal treatment of baby boys, nor the silly practices + clothing favored by the orthodox, much less the Hasidim.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

One of the so - called tools that goes along with this hermeneutic principle of using scripture to interpret scripture is to favor clear scripture over less clear scripture when comparing similar themes and concepts.

Instead of creating a false god in your mind to mock, perhaps you would do yourself a favor to spend your mental energy considering the type of outside and eternal power that is required to create anything, why that power would create anything, why that power would give its created beings a will and ability to ponder existence, how that power would communicate with its creations, and how anything less than that power could co-exist with it in eternity.

Actually Saraswati, you abandoned your original position that America is a «two party system which only legislation is likely to change» and supported everything I said, which is that legislation is not required, and the number of parties is not designed into the system, and it's not likely to happen because people here prefer to abandon their true beliefs in favor of a lesser evil that might win.

I recently sat in a carpool line behind a Toyota 4 - Runner whose backside was plastered with no less than 22 bumper stickers, three proclaiming the driver's pro-life views, and three more in favor of gun rights.

Although I dunk that Gewirth's proposal is subject to the criticism of nonteleological ethics I suggested summarily near the outset, anything approaching a decisive resolution of this issue in favor of teleological ethics will require nothing less than a more or less complete case for a metaphysical proposal.

She therefore eschews privacy in favor of revealing more or less everything about the details of her personal life — from awkward and sometimes horrifying sexual encounters to her anxieties about body image to the infamous and arguably abusive episodes with her sister that caused such a stir in the press last fall.

This shift was marked, however, not so much by clearly defined phases as by the less frequent occurrence of controversial stands (in favor of socialism, for example) and by a more consistent focus on spirituality.

So, to me, the real question becomes do you, as a devout Christian, vote for someone that has rejected the Bible and its Christian tenets in favor of a different path to salvation, or someone that actually does believe in the Bible and its Christian tenets but interprets those tenets in a less literal way that seems to run counter to your more literal beliefs?

Generally the children bear the racial designation of the less favored of the parents» races, in order that the dominance of the «superior» group may not be threatened by those who cross race lines in sex relations.

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

So, because most Christians are in favor of less govenment and social programs from the government, means that we have left the basic of caring for the poor is at the least a misstatement or misunderstanding.

In this way the ideal of equality of opportunity may be furthered, the more favored sections of the nation helping to lift the heavier educational burden of the less affluent sections.

The author is in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Thus I remain in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Rather injustice would stem from the partiality of an individual or of a group (or of God) which accepts that certain less favored groups or individuals may suffer so that more enjoyment can accrue to the more highly favored groups or individuals.

But many people who attend church, but are at best only suspect believers, seem to move on from the churches that do preach the Word in favor of a less convicting enviroment.

To abandon an organization whose geographic boundaries are coterminous with the metropolis in favor of an amalgam of organizations whose boundaries run haphazardly hither and yon is less than brilliant.

That's why there is now in some evangelical Christian churches the promotion of «wealth» theology (the rich are rich because G0d loves them... not because the Devil favors them) and coffee bars for thirsty worshipers and bowling alleys for entertainment and the idea of charity, self - sacrifice and submitting your own wants and ego to the betterment of others less fortunate takes a backseat.

3At present, for example, the well - entrenched neo-Darwinian hypothesis of «gradualism» (biological evolution occurs slowly, and more or less continuously as the constant interplay of random variations and natural selection over vast periods of time) is confronted with a somewhat more radical and neo-Lamarckian theory of «punctuated equilibrium» favored by Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Williamson, collaborated by fossil discoveries of paleontologist and cultural anthropologist Richard Leakey in Africa.

«At this point we grow far more corn and soybeans than we need, and far less good food than we should; we have far too few people on the farm; and it's all the result of government policy favoring industrialized agriculture.»

Not only must she receive unheard - of personal favors and spiritual graces from her Saviour, but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally, and use her expertness to give instruction to those less privileged.

As long as you embrace these nutcases whose goal it is to throw out scientific research and knowledge altogether in favor of the BIBLE as a science textbook, the less likely you will EVER see the inside of the Oval Office again.

But the solution, Sasse cautions, is not to bypass — much less to change permanently — the conventions of the House or Senate in order to bring about the political results currently favored by the majority.

In the first place, the quiet but drastic step taken by Robinson between the publication of his book and his essay, of abandoning the concept of an existential encounter with Jesus mediated by a modern historiography in favor of something much less dramatic, is an absolutely essential step to take.

Second, ask yourself if there would be this same outrage in favor of company's that were led by people of less popular faiths, say Jehovah's Witnesses.