Sentences with phrase «less places of»

Frequently, our bedrooms are less places of peace, sleep and rest and more zombie zones where we scan bug - eyed at emails that could wait until tomorrow.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

The ER was less a place of Victorian - style contemplation and more one of constant turmoil and compromise, so Lewin struggled.

The free - admission policy allows the museums to be «much more the living room of a community and much less a place of exclusivity,» argues Indianapolis director Maxwell Anderson.

Not exact matches

Delta largely won the online conversation by adopting a more relatable, less corporate tone than airlines often take when placed at the center of the controversy, Geller said.

So, if there's a lot of global slack, that will make them less concerned about inflation pressures, but by then, if a lot of places are at relatively full employment and seeing target inflation, that will make them want to make sure that we're not going into an overheating kind of mode.

This type of crazy - making scenario can easily place a salesperson on the defensive, making him or her much less effective in negotiations.

So if you like the idea of spending a year or two less of your income on a home, Monrovia is a good place to buy.

If not, a free tool like SocialMention.com is less comprehensive in terms of the results, but does a decent job and gives you a single view across all the places you might want to engage — blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter, comments, images and videos.

Instead, people who fall into this category place less value on personal relationships, and are more likely to advance their own interests (read: pay and promotion) even at the risk of upsetting social harmony.

They have been less successful on the extremes, in countries with strict gender roles, and also in places like France, where infidelity is a long - recognized feature of the political classes and a staple of media coverage.

If Facebook allows publishers to just add all of the same kinds of things that made their own sites less appealing in the first place, then Instant Articles will quickly become useless.

Even worse, 3 % of our retail economy takes place online — less than half of that of the United States and one - eighth of the levels in the United Kingdom.

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Meanwhile, the whole idea of regulating TV in the first place is becoming less practical in an age of online viewing and cord - cutting.

An up - and - coming place that has long been in the shadow of San Francisco, Oakland is less expensive and less chilly than its more famous neighbor.

Like Steve Jobs (who was so insistent that employees bump into one another that he placed Pixar's single bathroom at the center of the building), Pogue recommends motivating people to leave their normal workspaces by making life a little less convenient.

Small touches like flowers, paintings, and area rugs are meant to make the office feel less like a place of work and more like a home.

For example, studies show customers buy less when their arms are full — which is why placing empty shopping baskets or carts in the middle of a retail store can dramatically increase sales per customer.

One of the main drawbacks of a safety razor, and what makes it slightly less capable of getting a perfect shave when compared to a straight razor, is that the head locks the blade in place and keeps only a certain length of the edge exposed.

«Button - down» here refers not to the buttons on front of the shirt, but rather those on the collar, which is typically softer and less structured than collars found on more formal dress shirts and thus has buttons at the corners to keep it in place.

While strict mortgage - lending laws were in place before he took office and they came at a cost — less home ownership and slower economic growth — the state's conservative rules, as WSJ notes, «largely prevented the state's residents from signing the types of dubious home loans written in other markets across the country.»

If you look at the actual money raised, less money by far than Joe Khan [who placed second and was the frontrunner at the beginning of the race], less institutional support than Joe Khan, who in many ways was the mainstream liberal candidate.

Some people said the screed, directed at CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, drew attention to prevalent wage issues in the area; others accused the employee of acting entitled and failing to find better or more work or a place to live that costs less than her current $ 1,245 rent.

Mancunians of all faiths came together less than 24 hours after the attack took place at Manchester Arena.

A recent study found that shoppers outside high - end retail stores are less likely to stop to help a stranger in need compared to people in places devoid of haute couture.

Meanwhile there are dozens of great places to eat less than five minutes away in the quaint and lovely town of Healdsburg.

«If Muslims get less happy with their place in the world, more resentful of their treatment by the West, support for radical Islam will grow, so things will get worse for the West,» he wrote.

While we haven't yet got to the point where Canadian oil production is literally stranded — shut down for lack of a place to store, let alone ship it — our product is selling for far less than the North American and world benchmark prices that continue to make filling up your car an expensive proposition.

What this means, of course, is that there's one less place you and your drone can go together, including national parks, Coachella, Spring Training in Arizona, the Super Bowl and the Idaho Falls Nuclear Training Facility.

«If the CEO of a company tells you it's a great place to work, that's going to resonate a lot less than if an actual employee says it,» Castellan explains.

For both Clinton and Trump, the divisive race came to an end on Tuesday night at rallies less than two miles apart in New York City, the same place where both candidates launched their campaigns within days of one another in June 2015.

Since CEO tenure is decreasing and the pool of available CEOs is small, directors need to be certain that their companies have real succession plans in place and that they take care to groom less senior executives for higher - level jobs, Larcker says.

He said a small and slow - growing population, low median after - tax household income and a tiny group of high - income earners made it a less desirable place for the NHL to relocate than, say, Hamilton or London, Ont.

Of course, Marathon and COP were trading at different places when they announced their decisions to split up, with Marathon (MRO) trading at around a 20 % discount to other integrated oil companies, while COP was trading more or less on par with its peers.

«Filling the place of smart money venture capitalists are investors with less experience in the market, such as mutual funds better known for public - market investing,» states The Information.

(ii) whose income in the preceding 12 months is not less than S$ 300,000 (or its equivalent in a foreign currency) or such other amount as the Exchange and the Book Depository may prescribe in place of the first amount;

Other requests were less typical of the place.

A diversified portfolio can also be a good place to invest excess cash, knowing that if markets continue to advance, you can reallocate some of your gains to assets that are expected to be less volatile, like high - quality bonds.

Like other small states, such as Delaware, the cheapest places are not all that less expensive than the rest of the state.

but do places that accept non accredited investors like fundrise have less liquidity for longer periods of time?

The U.S. housing boom and subsequent bust might have been less severe had a set of macroprudential measures been in place at the time to limit the degree of leverage and speculative activity in the housing sector.

I've placed them on separate scales since the duration of 10 - year bonds is smaller, and has much less volatility than the duration of stocks.

You will place less of a burden on the sales team to find new clients if you can hold on to the ones you already have.

This is most visibly seen in infrastructure, while China also recently surpassed Germany as the main exporter to Russia of machinery.121 Combined with Western sanctions policies that have made Russia a less attractive place to do business, China's growing clout in Russia suggests that Chinese companies are able to undercut Western competitors in Russia.

One of the things that we have been seeing is that with more urban development, which leaves less space for water to go, and when water falls on concrete and streets it has [fewer] places to go rather than it falling on a wetland.

In his study of welders» performance, Rothe noted that supervisors tended to «demonstrate relatively less leadership» when incentives were in place.

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Starting from a place of knowledge will likely improve your returns, and it will make you less vulnerable to fraud.

There is nothing close to adequate funding in place to pay these costs, much less the forbidding costs of global warming.