Sentences with phrase «less practiced in»

The geo - engineering debate proves once again that while our technological society is adept at exploring the how, we are less practiced in pursuing why and whether.

Day - Lewis» John Proctor is uncharacteristically but deliberately sedate for much of the film, suggesting a character who's less practiced in bottling up his emotions than Newland Archer and someone who's projecting a sense of being the sole voice of calm and reason in a frenzied arena.

When everyone presents a respectful uniform appearance it prevents anyone from being singled out as atheists or followers of religions less practiced in America.

Children who lag behind in their reading skills receive less practice in reading than other children.

Not exact matches

The company has worked to create a premium brand — a practice that's commonplace in the retail world, but less so at the wholesale stage.

Whereas successful companies have «experience navigating the lending landscape, more available credit and frequently monitor their business cash flow,» according to the report, underperformers suffer from «less knowledge about financing products, lower personal credit scores, less access to financing and fewer formal financial management practices in place.»

However, according to a recent survey she conducted, less than 2 % of over 5,000 business presenters in Fortune 100 companies actually conduct a dress rehearsal and practice their presentation aloud.

Hiding the emotion in your voice might be a less practiced - or harder to master - skill.

Members of the cluster specialize in environmental issues such as recycling old airplane parts, decreasing the weight of planes so that they require less fuel, and encouraging the military to adopt these «green» aviation practices.

Some of their other projections feel less futuristic and more like a return to some of the practices (promoting strong values and building smart partnerships) that have made companies great in the past.

Unfortunately, this can be tricky to set up, and this has meant that many VoIP and UC solutions in practice settle on the less secure RTP protocol instead.

Doing more with less is common practice for most businesses in an economic slowdown and the state's architects are no different, with many adapting and evolving their services to win work.

Shared networks are great in practice, but they can also easily lead to less competition and investment if not carefully overseen and managed by authorities.

While short - term stock price movements should normally not be a concern for boards, nearly halving the value of the stock in less than nine months warrants some attention — and a look at the board's practices.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

«When you initially learn mindfulness meditation practices, you have to cognitively work at it — especially during a stressful task — and, these active cognitive efforts may result in the task feeling less stressful, but they may also have physiological costs with higher cortisol production,» Creswell explained.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

Whether these extensions were well - crafted remains to be seen, but Morneau's approach is clearly less risky than inventing new tax definitions never before seen in practice or in law.

«Because Verizon's go90 competes in a less developed segment of the marketplace than AT&T's DirecTV Now, the current magnitude of any anticompetitive effects of Verizon's practices may be smaller than AT&T's,» the FCC wrote.

Cisco Canada has put in several practices to help facilitate a less top - down approach to information - sharing, including a reverse - mentoring program in which corporate leaders turn to younger recruits for tips.

If the person slicing up the Black Forest ham is wearing the same white coat as the one reading your prescription, the pharmacist seems just a little less special, and so does the place he or she practices in.

By engaging in these activities while you search for a job, you won't have gaps on your resume, you'll be practicing new skills and potentially make side income so you will be less desperate for a job, which makes you more attractive as a job seeker.»

Physicians in single - specialty group practices are the highest earners, while those in solo practices are third from the bottom, making an average of $ 51,000 less than those in groups.

Even in the startup mecca of Silicon Valley, guns remain less regulated than startups, and early stage companies continue to have their feet tied together with red tape, bureaucratic practices, and strict government regulations that limit their potential for growth.

Clubs should cost far less than they do in the summer, and you'll have plenty of time to practice your swing before next year's season begins.

However, jobs at those entities do tend to pay less than working in private practice.

Well, instead of having to claim all their practice's income in a given fiscal year, they can leave it in the corporation, pay less tax, and then either reinvest it or dividend it out to shareholders — particularly those who are in lower income tax brackets.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

I like Jill's blogs and newsletters because she focuses on driving more sales in less time, which is also a philosophy I practice as I help my clients successfully -LSB-...]

Revisions in Twitter's privacy policy made its policies and practices about its tracking of users across the internet less clear (P9).

One form of this model was practiced beginning in the 1930s by the Soviet Union, which more or less invented it, although we also see similarities in German economic policies during the same period.

In practice, the microeconomic cost of regulation is determined by two factors: the size of the regulatory burden and the degree to which less - regulated alternatives are accessible.

In contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.&raquIn contrast to other prominent banking institutions, some of which are interested in exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.&raquin exploring other use cases for the blockchain, Carstens did not appear impressed by technologies related to digital assets: «In practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.&raquIn practice, central bank experiments show that DLT - based systems are very expensive to run, and slower and much less efficient to operate on conventional payment and settlement systems.»

But market - making practices are clearly evolving, putting upward pressure on bid - ask spreads and trading costs, and causing activity to concentrate in the most liquid instruments and move away from the less liquid ones.

Although it's true that financial repression has traditionally been practiced using the stick of high mandatory reserve requirements, whereas the Fed has instead been employing carrots in the shape of ON - RRP and IOER interest incentives, the ultimate result — more credit for the government, and less for everyone else — is the same.

They entail significant risks that can include losses due to leveraging or other speculative investment practices, lack of liquidity, volatility of returns, restrictions on transferring interests in a fund, potential lack of diversification, absence and / or delay of information regarding valuations and pricing, complex tax structures and delays in tax reporting, less regulation and higher fees than mutual funds.

In practice, however, few ventures have the combination of the scale, skills and business practices required to make business intelligence systems a worthwhile investment.This limits the penetration rate to very large organizations that make up maybe less than 1 % of all businesses in the developed worlIn practice, however, few ventures have the combination of the scale, skills and business practices required to make business intelligence systems a worthwhile investment.This limits the penetration rate to very large organizations that make up maybe less than 1 % of all businesses in the developed worlin the developed world.

Those investing in the program and committing to Social Security planning as a key practice differentiator deserved no less.»

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

Epidemiologists have found that when the incarceration rate rises in a county, there tends to be a subsequent increase in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, possibly because women have less power to require their partners to practice protected sex or remain monogamous.

Our son's family are members of a community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached on putting faith into practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.

But while I agree such practices cut against political ideologies of both the Left and Right, it is less clear how they do so, or if they do so in the same way.

If priests aren't taking a stand against the practice of having children kneel in front of lesser men... they are just wasting time and allowing the abuse to continue.

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.

Only legislation (or, less pleasantly, revolution) can change the laws and policies that keep a system which in practice only supports having two parties.

Without such a means of assessing Catholic practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the life of the parish.

Over the years, I've decided that it's less about the rules we keep and the boundaries we maintain and the principles we practice in this marriage.

He opposed discriminating among living things in terms of more or less value, although in practice he was forced to engage in such discrimination.

Fourth, although there is a fixed canon in most religions, it is also true that there is often a body of supplementary literature which, while theoretically less sacred, does nevertheless constitute a highly important source of direction for faith and practice.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.