Sentences with phrase «less than practical»

Much of this research is aimed at countering the seasteading movement's antecedents, which Friedman concedes were less than practical.

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As a result, bitcoin is less practical than ever and merchants (the few who accepted it in the first place) are bolting.

Results showed non-MBA graduate students ranked 12 % higher than MBA graduates when it came to working with people who have more practical experience but less formal education.

He went on to say that in his opinion «Canadians culturally are quite a bit more utilitarian, more conservative, more practical in some ways [than Americans]» which he points to as being the main reason why initial interactions with Tilt by Canadian users have been less robust than Tilt's experience with American users of the platform.

I enjoyed the resources industry because it really epitomizes the concepts of practical design: you end up engineering things on the run to be «fit for purpose», making do with potentially less equipment and materials than you'd prefer in some fairly remote and challenging environments.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

Some are valid... some are maybe less so, but there are practical ways we can make our devotion a habit rather than a chore.

Gottlieb's nonchalance toward this fundamental limitation of Mendelssohn's thought suggests that his own strong sympathy for Mendelssohn has less to do with the foundations of his philosophy than with its practical ramifications.

He conveniently overlooks certain other considerations favorable to socialism; when these considerations are given their due, even some practical people unafflicted by the need for a secular religion will find the alleged superiority of capitalism something less than obvious.

Recently, Singer repeated this assertion in an interview in the Journal of Practical Ethics, arguing that people with serious developmental and cognitive disabilities have less value than animals with higher capacities, strongly implying that we can treat them accordingly (my emphasis):

In spite of its areas of theoretical superiority, it seems probable that from a practical standpoint, Emmanuel was less effective than AA.

The whole principle of practical budgeting is simple: Spend less than you make (Proverbs 21:20).

He saw the students as less interested in real theology than in the practical element in Christianity.

Just as he denies in the speech that there are any potential tensions between our ideals and the practical demands of ensuring our security in an often less than ideal world, he simply rejects that there are any moral or political complexities born of out technological innovation that might justify some measure of political prudence, or even the admonishment of science.

Some Christians continue to characterize fathers who share parenting responsibilities or stay at home with their children as «man fails» and «worse than unbelievers,» instructing women to intentionally avoid earning more money than their husbands, even if it is less practical for their family to do so, or else they will injure their spouse's ego.

Of course, the practical difference can not be ignored: Hindus are an overwhelming majority closely associated with political, economic and social power while Christians are less than 3 percent of the population without any realistic chance of economic and political influence at a national level.

The upper income, well educated Catholic lay - men are much less receptive to clerical guidance as to the practical social implications of moral and religious laws of the church than are the lower income, more poorly educated Catholics.

The practical joker pulls the chair out from under the guest of honor, revealing that he, no less than the rest of us mortals, is a helpless subject of gravity.

Meanwhile, the philosophies of Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and others are less than adequate with regard to the practical institutions that would incarnate their conceptions in social structures.

This book is undoubtedly more religious in its emphasis than the others, but all through the Book of History and the Odes and the Analects (less here perhaps than elsewhere) is evidence that while Confucius was eminently practical and commonsense in his ethical outlook, he was also a deeply religious man who believed that there was a power beyond man whereon he was dependent.

well i get where you come from but i wouldnt call it less passionate but more practical, i just do nt like to be butthurt ^ ^ i am fan of arsenal to enjoy the time i spend on football but if it ends in failures i try to get over its and be constructive about it, and i am not a fan of people who cant control their anger pains and have to project their frustrations onto the people who could be held responsible but not in this scale, in my opinion of the society humans should be able to control their emotions a bit and never stoop as low as to be abusive and i do think that a lot of comments on justarsenal were abusive and sorry but i do nt think of it as passionate an extreme example would be ultras you could call them muuuuch more passionate than me but in my opinion they are just scum of football, but of course i do nt want to compare the JA - commenters to ultras xD i just tried to illustrate my opinion ^ ^

2) More practical to wait until Monday, when both Gwinnett and Atlanta are at home, both due to less travel difference and travel time (night game, then flying to Chicago early for day game vs. day game and then travelling an hour at most for a night game the next day) 3) Debuting at home is more meaningful than debuting on the road for some people.

It seemed more practical for our yard now that we have even less grass than before and would be a good change for the environment.

Open the book to any page and get a practical tip in less than a minute.

Practical Selection of Neonatal Resuscitators: A Field Guide This guide identifies reusable neonatal resusciatators at price points less than US$ 30 and more than US$ 30, and also describes the criteria used to evaluate devices, evaluation results for each device, and suggestions for choosing a resuscitator.

Therefore, the authors write, «the results of our trial indicate that it is possible and practical for weaning infants to consume [less than or equal to] 4 egg yolks / wk without effects on the intake of other foods such as cereals and meats.»

«The practical impact of Brexit on immigration is on analysis less than 12 % of the immigration total.

Add this to the practical «duct tape and bailing wire» problems Ethan Roeder has mentioned, and you begin to see why the members of Obama's data team frequently portray their operation as less of an unstoppable juggernaut than it appeared to many outside observers.

There is no problem after all is one Nigeria and Fulani dominated half of Benue and nasarawa state, in less than two years time Fulani will captured nasarawa and Benue state cos half of tiv and idoma have displaced out of the state to other part of Nigeria, while the rest serve as suya, ritual killing, killing for fun, killing for practical and pleasure for fulanis very soon entire tiv and idoma will be wiped out of nasarawa and benue state, that will be a great news to hear, just like kwara state a Yoruba kingdom where a Fulani man called sulu gambari is an emir and Yoruba are bowing down to him as an emir

And get this: Nuwave uses approximately seventy percent less energy than a traditional oven or stovetop, so it's practical and efficient, too.

The new ACS recommendation to stop screening older women with life expectancies of less than 10 years is practical and consistent with the increasing emphasis on functional vs chronologic age.

What I lacked in practical experience was less important than my preparation through previous laboratory training and my attitude.

The team's simulations estimate this slowdown effect results in a practical upper limit of 1 megawatt per square kilometer that can be generated — far less than previous estimates not accounting for the effect.

Results showed that participants who were told their views on recycling were based on morality were less likely to change their minds than those who were told their views were based on practical concerns.

A practical hydrogen tank should power a vehicle for 300 miles and take less than 5 minutes to fill; current technology does not come close.

The portable TNT technology weighs less than a hundred grams and is a practical tool that is applicable in the field; it does not need a hospital or a lab to apply the treatment, and it can be done fast in cases of emergency, reports USA Today.

In less than 5 years since the company was funded, EnerVault has developed its unique technology, advanced its low cost chemistry to practical use, established pilot manufacturing, and installed multiple systems of increasing scale at its headquarters.

The only problem with his way of building muscle is that it's very time - consuming and not everyone can allow to spend so much time in the gym on a daily basis, which makes it a lot less practical than other popular regimes.

As a practical matter, its fairly difficult getting less than 13 % of energy from protein eating a whole plant based diet.

It's not practical or necessary to bring food along on a run than lasts less than one hour.

From a practical, day - to - day viewpoint, these diets can be easier to follow, with a bit less regimentation than calorie - restricted plans.

It's also a must - have colour for spring and summer for very practical reasons — it catches much less heat than darker colours (it's 36 °C here in Sydney the moment I am writing)!

Less bulky than a day - bag, but more practical than a clutch, the loop - strapped wristlet is ideal for big parties, at which you're often standing.

But we can also look to Zappos and find some that cost less money, or feel better on the feet, or are more practical than suede.

Being a med school wife I have to be practical, so I was excited to find this dress for less than $ 28.

Something Ithat makes this item a 4 stars product t is the amount of product, I feel that I will finish the product in less than a month, I wish it had more quantity, another thing is that I am mixed skin and sometimes my eyebrows tend to be greasy or make product run easily, so I would have to seal it with some eyebrow powder, but I still recommend it, it's practical and fast and gives a natural finish, I feel that the whole line is for that, natural looks, fresh and radiant.

It's more extreme, less practical and more of an idea than something realistic for a 9 to 5 job.

One wishes that Ellen had been less standardly drawn as an exceptional artist waiting to blossom — the sort of thing that speaks more to Hollywood formula than practical experience and plays against Noxon's strengths.

But there is one thing I do grasp: when New Line Cinema puts Dwayne Johnson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in a movie where giant mutated apes who like to play practical jokes fight giant flying wolves and enormous armor - plated crocodiles, it is entitled to no less than three hundred million of your box office dollars.

Their negotiations are rigorously practical, but it's from this moment that the film starts to feel less like a crafty exercise in moderation than an early chapter of Survivalism for Dummies, or a particularly morose round of Settlers of Catan.