Sentences with phrase «less social interest»

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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.

Mentions of iPhone 8 and iPhone X on the popular Chinese social media platform Weibo, an indicator of consumer interest, were less than seen for previous launches.

But what's interesting is that the conversion rate for organic search engine traffic is actually less than the average conversion rate across all channels and second to last overall, only ahead of social media.

Battery's partners also more or less eschew social media, opting to rely instead on intensive research and aggressive behind - the - scenes networking to land the firm in interesting deals.

The breakdown of the Egyptian empire and the circumstances contributory to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, besides hosts of incidents from those days to the present, show that organized religion, strange as it appears, can be no less an obstacle to social and political advance than the reactionary policies of vested political or economic interests.

Less than a month after Facebook Inc. confirmed its interest in live - streaming the National Football League next season, the social media giant has withdrawn from the bidding for Thursday games, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.

A child may manifest his emotional problems by paying less interest in school or by having problems with social interactions.

«I would be less concerned and I am less concerned with the internal political machinations of who has political power and I'm more interested in social change, Brian, and I'm more interested in passing the Women's Equality Act,» Cuomo said.

A new governor will appoint people who are more attuned to the needs of the state — more interested in preserving the environment rather than selling it to developers, more interested in finding alternatives to the ever - expanding road building, more interested in serving the little guy rather than big business, and less interested in legislating social policy than planning economic development.

Also, as Cuomo's agenda has begun to center on numerous social issues, focusing less on economic matters, the Committee to Save New York, which is made up largely of business interests, has been sidelined to a degree.

Mr. Cuomo said the suggestion that he was trying to damage the Working Families Party was «really tortured analysis,» adding, «I am less concerned with the internal political machinations of who has political power, and I'm more interested in social change.»

But I would be less concerned, and I am less concerned with the internal political machinations of who has political power, and I'm more interested in social change.»

«We found that regardless of social background, people with higher levels of intelligence, higher levels of maturity and extraversion, higher interests in arts and sciences... tended to select (or be selected) into less computerizable jobs 11 and 50 years later,» they wrote.

«Infants born prematurely may show less interest in others: Eye - tracking holds clues for risks of early social cognition in preterm infants.»

«This is an interesting study confirming conventional wisdom that alcohol is a social lubricant and that moderate use of alcohol makes people happier, more social and less inhibited when it comes to sexual engagement,» said Dr. Wim van den Brink, former head of the ECNP Scientific Program Committee.

Older adults can become malnourished due to a variety of changes; taste receptors dull with aging; limitations in mobility make cooking more cumbersome, leading to canned soup or cereal as a «main»; losses of partners and peers lead to social circle diminishment and depression, making one's world smaller and less interesting.

Compared with real life, people who meet online actually display more initial social attraction to each other — they are more interested in hanging out with each other than people who randomly meet face - to - face — but they also display far less trust.

3) As we age, many of us are less interested in going to crowded social events and loud bars, once again reducing our opportunities to find like - minded people.

A social network site is becoming popular with individuals who are less interest in actual dating.

By the time Charlotte's hand is sliding across Alex's knee, it feels as if Mr. Brice is less interested in any larger social ideas than in a face - off between two old adversaries: the squares and the kooks.

While largely avoiding the Twilights and Divergents of the world, he's made interesting career decisions, weaving horror and indie films throughout his comedy roles, and largely using social media in a much more subversive and less thirsty way than some of his peers.

The film of 2012 that provided the most piercingly accurate gauge of our current ideologico - aesthetic situation was Kony 2012 with its canny manipulation of youth culture, the drive for a global community, child - like whimsy and Apple Inc. utopianism — all as part of a project that has less to do with real social activism and more to do with the self - interested exploitation of our common desire for a better world.

It reduces the novel from one of romance and melodrama to one of social argument, which is far less interesting.

It's not interested in tearing down cinematic much less social institutions.

The Social Network (Sony) Directed with typical technical fastidiousness and textural richness by David Fincher from a verbally dexterous script by Aaron Sorkin, this story of the creation of Facebook is less interested in how the website was created than in how a young, arrogant genius with no people skills managed to deconstruct and reconstruct the social experience as a web - based simulacrum: a club that even Mark Zuckerberg (or, rather, «Mark Zuckerberg») could thriSocial Network (Sony) Directed with typical technical fastidiousness and textural richness by David Fincher from a verbally dexterous script by Aaron Sorkin, this story of the creation of Facebook is less interested in how the website was created than in how a young, arrogant genius with no people skills managed to deconstruct and reconstruct the social experience as a web - based simulacrum: a club that even Mark Zuckerberg (or, rather, «Mark Zuckerberg») could thrisocial experience as a web - based simulacrum: a club that even Mark Zuckerberg (or, rather, «Mark Zuckerberg») could thrive in.

He's also repeatedly shown himself to be less interested in success, financial, artistic, and social, than with failure and what failure, regardless of age, does to his characters» ever - shifting perspectives on love, life, and everything in between.

For teachers and staff who stay less than five years, the state offers a money purchase plan, where teachers can get a full refund of their original contributions plus three percent interest, but they get none of their employer's 18 percent contribution, nor do they qualify for Social Security benefits.

Could it have something to do with the fact that powerful social interests have access to the State government, whereas the concerns of the ordinary populace are more or less irrelevant to the formation of public policy?

They are also less developed that the BlackBerry app — which features video and voice calling, and «social interest» channels where users can discuss topics with others.

Your communication may exhibit less curiosity and interest in others, and be more focused on book sales — not to mention you'll be entering social environments where you're a stranger in a strange land, unaware of the local «language», etiquette or history.

Once each individual reaches social maturity, they are very happy to see old friends but are less interested in meeting new dogs.

Females, on the other hand, become much less interested in physical play once they reach social maturity at about two years of age.

Not only do you have very easy access by public transport to the city center (a 20 ′ ride by metro, they go about every 7 ′)-- but it would give you the opportunity to explore the Bijlmer, a unique, but less touristic part of Amsterdam with a rich and interesting social history.

Many of the artists working in this era were less interested in marketing and branding itself, but instead how advancements in media and communications propelled brands into full - blown lifestyles, which is precisely how many companies employ social media marketing to make their billions now — by selling consumers an idea rather than just a product.

Toward the latter period of his documentary work, Siskind's growing interest in the poignancy of less referential images began to reveal; the repeat of windows perforating abandoned brownstone façades in Harlem translate more as an exploration of pattern and texture than as social commentary.

I am most interested in libraries as spaces that support learning and the general cultivation of thought in a social and political climate where fact - based expertise might be less valued.

(An example: Abstract Expressionism seems a false conceit at this late date — less a matter of shared stylistic interests than a convenient tag for a specific social subset.)

Afterwards, testing determined that «those who looked at the pictures of cars, electronics, and jewelry rated themselves higher in depression and anxiety, less interested in social activities like parties, and more in solitary pursuits than the others.»

Disposable income is total income less deductible expenses including income tax, mortgage repayments, rent, social insurance contributions, interest on loans, child - minding expenses and other items.

Social platforms generally have very strong performance when it comes to job ads — in part because employees can tap their networks and so inbound interest tends to be less random.

Battery's partners also more or less eschew social media, opting to rely instead on intensive research and aggressive behind - the - scenes networking to land the firm in interesting deals.

Although all districts have a social and emotional learning policy on the books, they are implemented to greater or lesser degrees based on interest and finances.

The reward can be huge on new networks as the «traditional» social media channels become cluttered and less interesting to the most influential users.