Sentences with phrase «less than a change»

She said it involves nothing less than a change of culture.

«You may not be comfortable with Jesus talking of «changing his theology» but in this instance he did nothing less than change the story of Israel» (JT)

You may not be comfortable with Jesus talking of «changing his theology» but in this instance he did nothing less than change the story of Israel.

Like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Kim Il Sung, he believed it was his task (appointed by history, destiny, or whatever sanctioned his willfulness) to do nothing less than change human nature.

The project's goal is nothing less than changing the lives of thousands of children in Harlem, starting at birth and continuing until they go to college.

But the organisers of the Earth Summit, one of the largest gatherings ever of the tribal elders of Homo sapiens, want to do nothing less than change the direction of our economic development.

The change in the heat balance of Earth is in such case much less than the change in the average surface temperature.

If the models show a lack of skill and need tuning with respect to predicting (in hindcast) even the current climate statistics on multi-decadal time scales (much less than CHANGES in climate statistics), they are not ready to be used as robust projection tools for the coming decades.

The second is because the global average temperature change is less than the change at high latitudes, where most glaciers are found (Section 9.3.2).

N.b. this diverges from the commonly used «Charney sensitivity» which describes temperature change over the next century or so, and which is less than the change expected over the multi-millenial scale of dwindling ice sheets and vegetation changes.

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The changing market dynamics might also suggest that if you're looking for investment capital to fund your business, or if you're hoping to be acquired, you might get less than top dollar.

While the shift may be a bit less dramatic than predictions claim, big changes are definitely inevitable.

Thomas added that Ripple's own digital currency, known as XRP, is less vulnerable to forks or unpredictable changes because, unlike bitcoin, it relies on voting measures that favor users more than miners.

The biggest change to the Mac's operating system in the last few years was the integration of the Siri virtual assistant — which is still less helpful than Microsoft's own Cortana.

While he would have liked to have seen more investor - specific changes — «it's always nice to have more rather than less,» he says — he thinks it's unlikely we'll see any reductions in capital gain taxes or major increases in TFSA room until at least 2015, when the government says it can balance the budget by.

In dozens of interviews on my podcast, I've found that changes depend less on their size than if you act.

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

Research by the Bank of Canada that Poloz unveiled in his lecture suggests that if Canada's companies have spread out across the globe, rather than simply doing the bulk of their work at home, then the domestic economy will be much less responsive to subtle changes in borrowing costs and the exchange rate.

It's not because I'm any older or less smart than other people, it's just that the pace of change is so fast.

But in October — less than three months after its launch — Jet changed its business model and dropped its $ 50 membership fee it once said would be its sole source of profit.

Nike CFO Andy Campion gave some extra clarity about future orders on the company's conference call, saying there had been less correlation between orders and revenue than in the past, and thus Nike would change how it would report those figures in future quarters (likely to de-emphasize Wall Street's attention to those numbers).

It's not every day that a startup looking to disrupt one of the most change - resistant industries in the country manages to raise $ 150 million less than five months postlaunch.

The second conclusion is this: my guess is that, outside the sales field (which attracts people who are motivated by incentive pay), the percentage of people who find bonuses an incentive to change their day - to - day behavior is less than 10 %.

Among other changes at the firm, Jon Rubinstein, who joined the company less than a year ago, will step down from his co-CEO position.

But the world has changed a great deal since the height of OPEC's power in 1979, when member nations accounted for 50 % of global oil production, compared with less than one - third today.

page 116), a dreamer who went into business less to make money than to change the world.

Even the best strategy in the world — even something that could change the world — is worth far less than something far simpler that a team can actually execute on.

«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

Chinese firms have been less acquisitive in Canada (the Asia Pacific Foundation's investment monitor records less than $ 1 billion in tech deals since 2010) but that's expected to change.

The BP spill led to more regulation (although not as much new in the U.S. as some would like) and less investment in the U.S. offshore oil industry than would have otherwise been the case, and these changes were likely compensated for with increased investment elsewhere.

According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

While meal kits represent less than 1 % of total food and beverage retail sales in the U.S., the nation's largest food manufacturers are paying attention to how this new subcategory can change how people buy their food.

Businesses that have been in operation for less than three years are the most likely to change their financial institution.

According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, 38.3 % of Americans would see a tax increase or a change in their taxes of less than $ 100 in 2019.

Certain announcements are stronger than others, and partnership announcements, change of location, new staff or funding announcements of less than $ 500,000 are unlikely to get picked up in a leading publication.

The company had responded to aggressive new competition and low - cost delivery systems by changing their entire business in less than a decade.

He is aiming at no less than a revolution in how work gets done, one that would change the economics of labor.

By the time the boy arrived, I was quite familiar with the diaper bag, though perhaps still less than a master of the mobile diaper change.

But after a few years of rubbing elbows with tech bros and wannabe visionaries, I've found there's often more to learn from founders with ambitions less grandiose than changing the world.

He changed the musical direction again on 2007's «Graduation,» and while it sold less than its predecessors, 2 million copies isn't exactly bad.

There's less pressure to flip an inventory than there would be for, say, a retailer of rapidly changing high - tech products.

«We are changing the rules for three per cent of private corporations, because the wealthiest Canadians should not be able to use private corporations to pay less tax than the middle class,» Morneau said.

Still, critics panned the proposed changes, arguing that anything less than a full repeal of the law falls short.

I still had butterflies, but a few less than I did with some of my earlier career changes.»

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The agreement comes after recent changes by Industry Canada allowing telecom companies with less than 10 per cent of the market to have no restrictions on foreign investment.

And we're actually even less bothered by the problem than we were ten years ago before the iPhone and Facebook changed all our lives.

Even if Le Pen wins, she'd likely have less freedom to act than President Trump, who has signed a number of executive orders calling for sweeping changes.

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

WITH State legislation before the Parliament in preparation for the introduction of Australia's new tax changes — now less than nine months away — there is also a need to ensure the Government is GST compliant by next July.