Sentences with phrase «less talk on»

English professors have no basis to speak about climate change, much less talk on television about it.

There are less talks on the internet for cheap insurance options for mopeds / scooters than for auto or cars.

Not exact matches

I talk less about weather and traffic on the way over and more about common passions and how we can help each other.

«If investors spent less time listening to the talking heads on BNN and CNBC and more time studying history, they would realize that there is little value added by obsessing about economic growth,» Murray Leith, an analyst at Odlum Brown in Vancouver, wrote last fall.

The talks so far have largely focused on the three countries proposing their preferred language for less controversial areas, such as digital and cross-border services trade, according to government officials and industry representatives briefed.

Turkle is the author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technology.

In a talk last year at the London Business Forum the expert on learning and creativity argued that trying to be clever often makes us less creative.

In the wake of success stories such as Coolest Cooler, which raised more than $ 13 million on Kickstarter, I'm starting to hear talk that crowdfunding is making traditional financing less relevant.

During the second trial, prosecutors focused less on Kozwolski's opulent lifestyle and the notorious toga party and spent more time talking about accounting issues, The Times reported.

In talking about the two new planets, NASA focused less on Kepler - 80g and more on Kepler - 90i because it was found to be the eighth planet orbiting the only star in its solar system.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

And we are not talking just about the recent rise in lipstick sales at Estée Lauder, which is considered by some to be a hot - red indicator of economic trouble (at least on slow news days) on the horizon because consumers tend to turn to less expensive indulgences when losing confidence in the future.

It might take some work, but by remembering your talking points (instead of looking at a screen every five seconds), you can rely less on PowerPoint and more on yourself.

According to studies like this one, people who talk about their intentions are less likely to follow through on those intentions.

Less than a year later, it's closing in on $ 2.2 billion, if reports from buyout talks with Fox and Time Warner are to be believed.

Regulators talk sometimes about regulating the big bond mutual - fund complexes as «systemically important» institutions, on the theory that liquidity requirements, stress testing, regulatory oversight, etc. could make them less vulnerable to herding and the shock of redemption requirements.

It's hard to pinpoint why publishers» Facebook traffic has declined, much less get publishers to talk on the record about the subject.

The next time the premiers huddle together they should start talking about how to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels that the rest of the world has little need for today and will need even less of tomorrow.

Under Armour founder Kevin Plank was honored at an event at the company's «Make you Famous» wall on Wednesday and talked about the days when he was less than famous.

If Canadians become more focused on economic risks, the thinking goes, they will pay less attention to the Duffy scandal, and they will be more cautious when casting their ballot. In this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at all).

«If we're talking investment lending, if the banks had less dollars to lend I think they would focus on stronger loan applications, with lower LVRs.

In fact, I find Guy's book amazing because it talks less about value investing rules and more on a value investor's character development.

Even if we're only talking «evil» on a less horrific level — incarcerated criminals — we find the number of atheists and agnostics well below their demographic percentage of the population as a whole.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

Wow, you have too much time on your hands, a little less talk and a little more action please.

Shine on the red light runners Busy talking on their cell phones Shine on the Catholic Church And the prisons that it owns Shine on all the Churches They all love less and less Shine on a hopeful girl In a dreamy dress

I'm not Catholic, but this particular pope seems to have his head on straight and to actually be walking the talk on serving those less fortunate and trying to uplift rather than to divide and discriminate.

I'd like to see less time spent on «what do we rename ourselves» and talk more about how are we going to redefine the way we lead.

I think if these people had worried less about what others might be sharing, and just stayed focused on getting their own book done, maybe we'd be talking about how great their book is because it would be published, rather than all the lives they destroyed in trying to control others and make sure none of their ideas leaked out.

Plus, talking up religious liberty is likely less of a turnoff for moderate voters than is talk about bans on abortion and gay marriage, traditionally the top concerns of religious conservatives.

It was the day after Valentine's Day, and I was on national radio, talking about my less - than - stellar love life.

I could go on, following Ivan's fine lead, and talk about the most depressing thing America can do and has done to Christmas is to make it less joyful, to domesticate or banalize it, to turn it into «Happy Holidays» that are neither pagan nor Christian.

Nothing anyone has said on this site has made me doubt my faith any less, in fact, I'm more sure now than when I started talking to people on here

The bilateral conversations of Roman Catholics with Anglicans, Disciples, Lutherans, Reformed and Orthodox; the Lutheran - Reformed agreements; the World Council of Churches» near - consensus statement on Eucharist; numerous studies and talks of lesser scope — all these were ingredients which pointed to converging lines of theological interpretation.

If, on the other hand, someone told me that I need to «be more balanced» and spend less time thinking and studying and more time talking with others, I wouldn't so well.

He went on to talk of arrogant, moralistic sermons he had heard before he was ordained, preachers speaking as if their role granted them some moral perspicacity not granted to lesser mortals.

Armed with science, sociology and pluralistic awareness, liberals sometimes seem to offer rational reasons why evangelicals should take less seriously their talk about God's self - revelation on behalf of a lost human world.

I have a pile of essays downstairs, I suppose 15 or 18, which are more or less talks I've prepared around the country on all sorts of subjects, but mostly reflections on Indochina and also the nuclear arms race — sometimes from the scriptural viewpoint, sometimes from a purely political one.

This talk on education makes me feel less crazy about my school experience - straight A student who was fidgety and hated every minute of school, until college.

He concluded, «Ultimately, the future of missions to Muslims will be affected less by the flames of 9/11, or even the flames that started the Arab Spring, than by the inner flames that are ignited if we so follow our Lord, who modeled the basin and the towel, that our Muslim friends may echo the words of the disciples in Emmaus: «Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?

The difference between «event» and «duration» is that the earlier Whitehead was talking about the passage of nature, which you slice into events, with the fundamental property that one event can be taken as extending over a lesser one, and so on (Fig.

By naming someone and then calling them a troll is rather backwards... i already posted on this article and i believe it to be nothing less then a money making scheme... Me thinks you need people to talk to you so you feel less alone then what you really are.

But on this album we talk less directly about the poor than we did a few albums ago, and we say blessed are you if you're poor.

Among the younger generation who struggle with the idea of Jesus being the unique path of salvation, it is easy to find an «out» here from actually engaging in traditional gospel sharing... after all those on the cutting edge say «the church» needs to talk less and do more... «if necessary use words».

«Burning coals on enemies» head» is not correct for the text did not talk about more or less coals.

I tell people about this all of the time — vegetarians, even, who nod politely; my husband, who thinks it's cool, but perhaps a little less than I do; this old lady on the crosstown bus who heard me talking about them on the phone... But wait, there's more: not only do you only need three ingredients to make carnitas, the cooking technique is kind of brilliant.

A little side note here — something I have been talking a bit about lately (both on here and in less formal conversations) the idea of moderation and whether it's okay to eat something «not so healthy» once in awhile.

I could talk about how cold it's been here in Chicago and how I can't hardly remember what it feels like to step outside with less than eight layers on.

And I talk to my stuffed bear on occasion which is even less socially acceptable.