Sentences with phrase «less than a matter»

It is nothing less than a matter of national security (can't get much more patriotic than that) to lift the burden of supersti - tion from the masses and free them from the vice of religion.

Not exact matches

If you agree with Bannon and Yeh that going full on all the time isn't just unhealthy but also bad business, there is still the less than minor matter of actually banishing the guilt you feel when you switch off.

Chris Gibson, executive director of the federally funded Oregon - Idaho High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, said the distinction matters less than the fact that marijuana continues to leave Oregon on planes, trains and automobiles, and through the mail.

Generational factors matter less than the willingness to invest time and energy in understanding and using these tools.

It builds a personal relationship - no matter how short - lived it may turn out to be - for far less than their competitors pay to achieve the same goal.

The legislation is stricter and offers far less clarity than expected: it expands the definition of state - owned enterprises (SOEs) to include any company that is «influenced, directly or indirectly» by a foreign power or, for that matter, any person under government direction.

For the skeptics, it was a simple matter of 20 % margins being less than 40 % margins.

Whether it's $ 5,000 or $ 50,000 matters less than things like your ability to manage a growing operation.

If your taxable income (after all those business expenses that you get to keep) is less than $ 157,500, or $ 315,000 if you file jointly, then it doesn't matter whether your pass - through business is in the special category or not.

We certainly are less than perfect when it comes to household matters.

But the answers matter less than how you reply — how well and how quickly you explain yourself, and how self - aware you seem.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter, that the bids were expected to be $ 2 billion (# 1.3 billion) to $ 3 billion (# 2 billion)-- significantly less than previously expected.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials,» explained CNBC's Jim Cramer on Wednesday.

And while list posts tend to provide less substance than fully fleshed - out editorials, this doesn't always matter.

While Tristano sees the industry moving toward an emphasis on fresh ingredients and preparation — a move that benefits fast - casual restaurants more than major burger chains — the specific trend matters less than the effect it has.

We all wish we lived in a world where who you know matters less than what you can do, but that's often not reality, and not always for unhealthy reasons.

White represented Morgan Stanley's (ms) board in an engagement that lasted less than one week, according to her deposition testimony, in which she was hired to do «due diligence on [John Mack's] possible involvement in an insider trading matter involving Peqout.»

The 416 number is factually accurate but completely irrelevant for analyzing the policy; New Democrats have correctly pointed out that what matters is not how many federally regulated workers made minimum wage, but rather how many would be making less than $ 15 an hour.

«When the defense contractors get slammed by a big sell - off, they should be right at the top, No. 1, of your shopping list because the things people are worried about — like the Fed possibly getting too aggressive — matter a lot less to the defense industry than, say, to the industrials.»

I resisted reading it for a long time because I figured it would be full of self - affirmational claptrap, and there is some of that, but it's mainly about a simple financial truism: no matter how much money you make, the only way to get rich is to spend much less than you earn.

This development is important to our discussion because it is far less emotionally taxing to «pull the plug» on a text - based chatbot, no matter how advanced, than it would be on a machine with a discernable face.

He noted that how much a product costs matters less than the service someone provides when selling it.

So after hustling nonstop to get a Silicon Valley internship of his own, he took matters into his own hands and started personally brokering intros for his classmates to Bay Area companies, earning $ 60k in referral bonuses in less than one year and paying his way through college.

As with all asset allocation decisions, the numbers matter much less than your personal disposition and ability to stick with the one you decide on.

The loans can have annual interest rates that are as much as 15 percent, although a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the interest rates on the loans are typically less than 15 percent.

But Kroger offered less than Boxed's $ 470 valuation and the potential deal dissolved, according to people with knowledge of the matter who spoke with Fast Company.

No matter how much wealth you have accumulated, divorce will likely leave you with less income and fewer assets than you previously enjoyed.

Other approaches that can create a barrier to entry like economies of scale, regulatory expertise, intellectual property and brand still matter, but they are relatively less important than they once were, especially in the case of software startups.

These classifications do matter, but in some ways they matter less than how a bond performs once you buy it.

But those outcomes strike us less as evidence that by - elections matter than evidence of just how overanalyzed, overblown and overrated they really are.

No matter where the price ends up when the Option is executed, you can not «win» more or less than $ 65 and you can not «lose» more or less than $ 100.

Kenney may have been less popular than his main rival Brian Jean overall, but as former MP Patrick Brown's own victory in the last Ontario Tory campaign demonstrated, the capacity to bring one's supporters inside a party tent matters more to the outcome of a leadership vote than one's standing in the outside world.

But this matters less than the possibility that some Canadians will use such room; that allows those individuals and families to better save for retirement or other expenses.

From a high of $ 800 billion to less than $ 300 billion in a matter of weeks; that's more than a 60 % reduction in value!

But here again they encountered opposition from progressives, including Bryan, who was no less opposed to reforms that smacked of European - style (or, for that matter, Bank of the United States - style) central banking than he had been to asset currency itself.

In most corporations, less - than - 20 % ownership positions are unimportant (perhaps, in part, because they prevent maximization of cherished reported earnings) and the distinction between accounting and economic results we have just discussed matters little.

For most investors, these clauses buried deep inside offering prospectuses matter less than growth prospects, valuations or burn rates.

The results of the Asset Quality Review «AQR» and stress tests released October 26 were mostly benign, yet their specific conclusions matter less than their symbolic importance.

In your 20s, all stock index fund investments might seem like a fine idea, as short - term volatility matters less than long - term appreciation when a portfolio has decades to grow, says Phillip J. Deerwester, portfolio analyst and chief compliance officer at TGS Financial Advisors in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Bitcoin has also declined: after surging from less than $ 400 to $ 650 in a matter of weeks, it has dipped back close to $ 530.

But the most important lesson is that no matter what's our profession, nor our salary if we live a frugal lifestyle, if we cut out the waste, if we spend less than we earn and then invest that money on low - cost index funds and ETFs, Anyone has the opportunity to become financially secure.

But the interesting thing is that in the eyes of many investors, Apple's quarterly iPhone sales numbers seem to matter less now than they have for years — at least relative to how much cash Apple is generating and returning to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks.

If your enterprise is less than a year old with little revenue, it'll be tough to find a loan, no matter your credit.

Further complicating matters, millennials seem to have an expectation that they need a lot less for a down payment than they actually do.

However, for many years, it has been evident that there is less than half of the amount of matter in the universe to account for a flat universe.

No matter our faith community we can tend to «reduce» the Bible to much less than what it really is, God's revealed Word to mankind.

The details of law and the vital debates over the personhood of the fetus mattered far less than the success of a continuing ideological war to liberate women from male domination, orthodox religion, and oppressive notions of traditional sexual morality.

No matter who wins, it's another sure sign of shifting political lines, in which political parties are shaped less by policy than identity.

The confusion on these matters, writes Zinsmeister, may have less to do with economics in the usual sense of the term than with psychology.

My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....