Sentences with phrase «less than the masses»

Sociologist Edward Castranova says: «We're witnessing what amounts to no less than a mass exodus to virtual worlds and online game environments.»

He has called for nothing less than a mass uprising so large it could set itself against Mugabe's army.

The two panels to the left are for galaxies with stellar masses less than the mass of 1000 billion suns.

By trading less than the masses of struggling traders, you will gradually improve your consistency over time and you will also reinforce the positive trading habits of discipline and patience.

Your figures only confirm the mystery of why the solar angular momentum is so much less than its mass would suggest were the condensing rotating mass theory correct.

Not exact matches

In addition, optimists had significantly better blood sugar and cholesterol levels, exercised more, and had healthier body mass indexes, and were less likely to smoke than pessimists.

The company is also tied less to the housing market than most would think because the company targets the mass consumer.

Twitter is also far less of a mass medium than YouTube and Facebook.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

«It was less than a year ago that we revealed the Bolt EV concept and promised to deliver a long - range electric vehicle attainable by the masses,» GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said in a statement.

From 1966 to the Valentine's Day that my school proved to be less than bulletproof, nearly 1,100 people have been killed in mass public shootings in the U.S..

While the mass migration to the paywall model may be a seismic shift for the news consumers, for the news industry it's less an end than it is a beginning — the start of a mad hustle to find revenue from readers in as many ways and as many forms as possible.

And America sees a lot of these horrific events: According to CNN, «The US makes up less than 5 % of the world's population, but holds 31 % of global mass shooters.»

An era when less than 10 percent of voters respond to pollsters, and where mass opinion changes rapidly, will be one where Election Day is again a day of drama.

For most cryptocurrency use cases, mass user adoption is still years off: «Less than 10 million people «use» crypto today, and aside from use as «digital gold» or «payment rail», other use cases won't have meaningful traction for 18 + months at fastest.»

Less than two weeks after the worst mass school shooting in Florida history, teachers and staff returned to the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the distance.

He is not trying to be smarter than his fellow investors but simply trying to be less irrational than the mass of speculators who insist on buying after the market advances and selling after it goes down.

the number of xtians persecuted compared to the total number of grisly mass murders and genocides in human history if probably less than 1 %.

A postmodern critique of the Catholic Church would find less grist in current controversies than in modern elements already present in the Church: the substituted vernacular mass, or the presence of national flags on church daises.

Church becomes the place where a few spiritual leaders minister to the less able masses, rather than all believers mutually edifying one another.

(No less logical than the Buffalo dance, burnt incense, the bells at mass, red vestments (or white vestments),....

Also small scale production often needs far less energy than mass production.

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

«The animal appears to be less sexually conscious, certainly less sexually addicted, than the mass of mankind».

But even that significant action will probably receive less attention in the history books than John Paul II's trip to Poland in June 1979, when millions of his compatriots ignored official disapproval to attend masses and other Catholic services — and so accelerated, or maybe sparked, the shaking that eventually brought down state - communism in Eastern Europe.

In July, the physicists of the LHC experiments announced that whilst the Higgs boson had not yet been discovered, they were specifying tighter limits upon what its mass could be - which is about 300,000 times less than that of the electron!

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.

He undertook a systematic sifting of a great mass of Traditions, said to number 600,000, but ended up with selecting something less than 9,000 as authentic.

We now know that the heavier, terrestrial elements compose less than one per cent of the sun's mass, the rest being essentially a mixture of the two lightest elements, hydrogen and helium.

There is far less day - to - day casual violence in middle - class society than when I was a teenager — and there are far more incidents of cold, senseless mass murder.

A truly apostolic Church may indeed address presidents, legislatures, kings and dictators as the prophets and Paul did of old; but like them it will be less inclined to deal with the mighty than with the great mass, with the community as it exists among the humble.

Historian Philip Jenkins in Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way has gone so far as to assert that the alternative gospels tell us less about the beginnings of Christianity than about «the interest groups who seek to use them today; about the mass media, and how religion is packaged as popular culture; and... more generally, about the changing directions of contemporary American religion.»

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

But the flavor is certainly there, even more so, because it's much less sugary than standard mass - produced peanut butter.

The pepper content is higher than you'd find in the mass - produced cousins (42 % versus 15 % or less).

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

But as we can see, from the way transfers are reported, football fans are treated as having less memory than goldfish by the mass media, the bloggettas and indeed the whole Commentariat.

After adjusting for the mother's height, age, body mass index and other factors, they found: - Mothers who drank more than 5 ounces of milk a day had bigger babies, on average, than those who drank less.

found that kids who slept less than the suggested daily number of hours tended to show «higher values of BMI, body fat, waist and hip circumferences and fat mass index... [they] were more sedentary... and spent more time watching TV.»

Items that are handmade in small quantities are less damaging to our environment than mass - produced items made in large factories on the other side of the world.

To participate in our egg donor program and receive egg donor compensation, you must be between the ages of 21 and 31 and have a body mass index, or BMI, of less than 27.

Running a government isn't easy and masses aren't necessarily any more (and possibly, quite less) informed about the big picture than the representatives are.

One more thing: while mass identical emails are almost always going to be taken less seriously than individual constituent / customer contacts whatever the target, they CAN demonstrate that sheer numbers of people have their eyes on a topic.

To put the figures into perspective, even if England's urban areas were expanded by ten per cent, this could be achieved by only using less than one per cent of the total land mass.

More than two - thirds of voters think New York should fund both downstate mass transit and upstate roads, for similar amounts, although there is less agreement on how to fund infrastructure spending.

With less mass transit options than the other boroughs, about 82 percent of Island households have at least one car.

With less mass transit options than other boroughs, Staten Island residents rely heavily on driving, and 82 percent of households in the borough own at least one car.

The NYPD said in a statement that «crime in city parks is less than 1 % of all reported crime in New York City,» while «City parks represent 14 % of New York City land mass, which makes them one of the safest places in the city and the country.»

The longtime campus cop at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has been nationally ridiculed over the last week for his response to a mass shooter on campus — including by no less than President Donald Trump, who on Monday proclaimed that he likely would have charged in himself, even unarmed.