Sentences with phrase «less of a leap»

Knack might seem like even less of a leap in graphics than Killzone: Shadow Fall is at first glance.

Last year, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated the 1901 - 90 rate at 1.5 mm a year, meaning less of a leap to the recent rate around 3 mm.

Except of course is far less of a leap than any linear extrapolation, such as Monckton's really simple (and really pseudoscientific) linear projections.

Also of note is the relatively straightforward problem they're solving: unlike other Blockchain projects there is less of a leap of faith involved since the online marketplace for hotels does not need to be created, it just needs to be moved to a new ecosystem.

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Much of what we love about Slack is timeless: The problem the company set out to solve is one that Butterfield and his founding team faced themselves, and their product is less of a quantum leap forward than a stunningly effective set of improvements on what came before.

If we ask a customer to take one big leap of faith and complete an action, they are far less likely to be persuaded than if we'd started small.

Less than seven years after Kennedy's speech, on July 20th 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 landed the Eagle module on the lunar surface — and humankind took its famed giant leap forward into interplanetary exploration.

But I am concerned that late - cycle entrants into risk assets like stocks and high - yield bonds are taking a leap of faith at a time when there is less room for markets to move up and growing risks of them falling back.

The flip side of saving less is borrowing more, as evidenced by the leap in all consumer debt and debt service, both in relation to disposable (after - tax) income and relative to assets.

And while web typography is improving by leaps and bounds, email typography is less than ideal, constrained by the limits of current email clients.

but even if you were right, the simple fact that only one can be right, doesn't make the existence of God any more or less likely — your leap from a particular religion might be wrong to God does not exist is not maintainable.

Mr. Futterman's reference to quantum computers solving problems by a «leap of intuition» is therefore less a matter of sober scientific assessment than rhapsodic misdirection by a scientist who should know better.

Contrast this with John's gospel (90 - 100)- like Mark, no birth narrative, but no mere human either and we've moved up and out of the old neighbourhood... nothing less than the pre existent Word which is one with God.Now, that's a serious leap in real estate.Does this not suggest development rather than the monolithic thud of a «faith once given»?

A leading marketer, manufacturer and seller of organic and natural «better - for - you» products, Hain Celestial has grown by leaps and bounds since its inception in 1993 when its annual net sales were less than $ 4 million.

While consumer demand for all things organic is growing by leaps and bounds, less than 1 percent of U.S. farmland is certified organic.

Giroud converted a number of goals this season with an exceptionally high difficulty level that a striker with a less physical frame or leap would not have.

When we examined teams fitting this criteria that were also receiving less than 40 % of spread bets, our units won leaped to +51.25 while our ROI increased to 9.4 %.

We then make the big leap — a child, fatherhood and family, with our mate turning into a mom — and run into another stereotype: the notion that fatherhood is emasculating, that becoming a father, with all that diaper changing, baby talk, nurturing, etc. somehow make us less of a man.

«The collaboration of leading medical researchers at SickKids and the engineers at MDA has enabled the rapid creation of a platform to explore one possible way we can make the next big leap in less invasive treatment,» said Dr. James Drake, chief of neurosurgery and lead for the CIGITI.

Chapman thinks the leaping behavior seen in the U.S. is probably a function of crowding; a less likely explanation is the emergence of a genetic quirk.

«Making a leap from high - ability high school to college of lesser academic status can be a real downer: Students who are «undermatched» as they shift into higher education show a 27 - percent hike in symptoms of depression.»

Though Le Specs had previously collaborated with House of Holland in a similar capacity, Selman was far lesser known at the time and required a greater leap of faith.

But manifesting my future and caring less about what others might think of me has helped me leaps and bounds.

They apply for jobs, connect with friends and family, and find much of their entertainment online and so the leap to online dating is often less overwhelming and has fewer technical obstacles.

Relationships are built and surrounded by trust and the premise and stronghold around interracial dating is trusting the other person to take a leap of faith with you into the pit less ocean of knowledge, love and endless beauty.To willingly and beautifully open yourself up to your partner who is of another race immediately causes your relationship to be bound to last forever and ever.

For most of his action - movie career, he has come across as a less romantically nimble, less self - amused version of Douglas Fairbanks, the swashbuckler who leaped through the silent era.

It's funny how a «small» Spielberg film can feature an all - star cast led by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, much less leap into production on May 30 and be ready for audiences to see it by the beginning of November.

However, all of their films have still gone on to earn tons of money at the box office, and even their less impressive films are leaps and bounds better than 50 % of the animated films out there.

The 1.78:1 sequel has the less elaborate, more sterile appearance of a noughties DisneyToon Studios effort, but it too gains detail and clarity in the leap to high definition.

That Indy hasn't lost a step is an increasingly prominent facet of Crystal Skull, typified by a sequence in which he leaps into a car full of Russian soldiers and easily cold - cocks them all, though this vision of herculean strength has far less impact than a preceding image of a more vulnerable Indy jumping from a speeding car onto the back of a motorcycle and almost disastrously missing the mark.

An eight - year - old boy in Canada can have just as much fun playing as a 60 - year - old woman in Brazil, and for more or less the same reasons: The satisfaction of landing a perfect leap on a goomba, the pleasure of teleporting through pipes, the rewarding tinkling sound that comes with collecting coins.

She represented a different style skater, stronger, more powerful, with huge leaps but less of that long extension.

The Vantage S Makes Several Leaps Forwards In All Sorts Of Directions, As The Car Is Sharper And More Refined; Quicker Yet More Civilised; Better To Listen To At Full Exhaust Chat, But Still Less Intrusive When At Lower Speeds.

When it comes to how the Mazda feels from behind its leather - wrapped steering wheel, it leaps ahead of less - enthusiastic rivals.

Get back in the Golf, and even with its less - than - convincing Active Info Display instrument binnacle and pointless gesture control system, it immediately shows itself to be leaps about bounds ahead of the Honda.

If you're a GM or Ford loyalist, making the switch to a truck with a less desirable reliability and resale history might be a leap of faith too far.

A phenomenon is defined by a book that leaps from the high hundred - thousands into the lower thousands (or better) in the span of 24 hours or less, usually due to some concentrated marketing initiatives.

We're entering a new period in science, in which the rewards will come less from the breakthrough investigations of individual scientists than from fitting together the pieces of research to see what it all means... Social and biological insights are leaping together, part of a large and complex jigsaw puzzle to which the contributions of many sciences are essential.

Ch 3.9 Taking the Road Less Traveled * * Apologies to Robert Frost I'm preserving the original flavor of these two chapters (Taking the Road Less Traveled, The Secret Ingredient: Confidence) written just before my leap into indie publishing.

This provides an indirect CPU performance indication but so far Intel has been leaps and bound better than anyone else in terms of single - core CPU performance — today, a little less so.

And then there's the whole other concern of the people connected to the production and retail of print books... As Neil Postman points out, technological leaps forward always veil a darker, less positive side.

The reason less capital is required is because it costs less to buy 1 LEAP call option than it does to buy 100 shares of stock.

Buyers of LEAPS ® options have less time premium erosion to fight than buyers of shorter - dated options.

Stock below the break - even point If ZYX is trading at 34 at expiration, the unexercised LEAPS ® calls would generally expire worthless and the unassigned covered call writer would have a theoretical loss of $ 1,125 (a present theoretical loss of $ 2,750 on the stock position less the $ 1,625 premium received).

LEAPS ® Pricing Options pricing models contain five factors that are used to determine a theoretical value for an option: stock price, strike price, time to expiration, interest rates (less dividends) and volatility of the underlying stock.

They made the leap to become an entrepreneurial manufacturer of these products after wanting to find a less abrasive, natural method for pet parasite protection.

The South Lake Animal League's quest for a permanent shelter took a leap forward this week with the tentative selection of a site.The league is negotiating for a 10 - acre parcel on State Road 33 in Mascotte, said Beth McCabe, the league's president.The land is part of a frozen - out orange grove and league members said they are optimistic the negotiated price will be less than at two other sites they are considering.

Those moments — where I'd find myself traveling further than I set out to and in a surprisingly expansive world, no less — had me literally leaping out of my chair.

But at this point the gameplay would feel much less exciting than before, when sometimes you just had to make a leap of faith.

In the past, Spencer has often referred to annual generational leaps between phone releases, where you see an increase in the power and display of a phone year - on - year but the old model will still run almost everything the new model does, just in a less - powerful state.