Sentences with phrase «less than the opposite»

Not exact matches

In states lacking non-discrimination policies for LGBT people, gay men tend to be penalized most, Klawitter's research indicates, with gay men in same - sex couples earning about 30 percent less than their counterparts in opposite - sex couples.

The unfortunate reality is the opposite: Electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn't burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1 % of their total vehicle sales.

Unfortunately for them, some founders are taking just the opposite tack, accepting less than ideal terms merely to push their valuations over the magical $ 1 billion mark.

It should be noted, however, that this relationship is not perfect; in certain environments, gold miner stocks and physical gold prices can move in opposite directions, and correlation between the two can be less than perfect.

We had to sprint from one goal line to the opposite end line and back in less than 50 seconds.

In the midst of one difficult season, I remember lying in bed less than a foot away from my husband and feeling as if we were on opposite sides of the Continental Divide.

The evil desire to invalidate someone — to make them somehow less than me and therefore less able to share in the blessings of God — is the opposite of the wisdom that comes from heaven, which is full of mercy AND impartiality (James 3:16).

Less than 20 % of Americans said they would be unhappy if a close family member married someone from the opposite political party and only 11 % said they would be upset if that person was of a different race.

That exactly the opposite has more or less come to pass suggests rather that the founders built worse than they intended, that the founding was in some sense ill - fated.

Indeed, in his personal life no less than his scholarly labors, George Williams was a coincidence of opposites.

The Poles were poor, poorer than the Irishmen who built St. Peter's less than a quarter of a mile away, and poorer even than the Italians who erected Holy Name Parish on the opposite side of town.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

Thus pattern maintenance is less characteristic of their life than the obliteration of cultural pattern, and integration less a present reality than its opposite, alienation.

He did not always treat them fairly and his point of view is one which has, of course, been opposed, and indeed detested, by men of the greatest courage and integrity: but I should be less than candid if I did not confess that it is a point of view that seems to me superior to its opposite [Personal Impressions (Penguin.

If the shift away from defined - benefit pension plans caused the increase in mortality, then one would expect to see the opposite relationship between education and mortality: there would presumably be an increase in mortality among the more - educated in this group of Americans than among the less - educated, given that it is the more - educated who have disproportionately lost defined - benefit retirement pensions.

A comfortable return to the England starting eleven for the Arsenal man, but he offered less than Sterling down the opposite flank.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Following on from Monday's list of 11 Great Players Who Failed As Managers we have decided to take a look at those that went in the opposite direction and became great managers after less than distinguished playing careers.

The Blackburn Rovers ace had very less time to react in the penalty box, and it appeared that the ball went on to hit his hand rather than the opposite.

What Bolton needed was a good start to the second half but they got exactly the opposite as Edin Dzeko seized on a flick from James Milner before holding off Zat Knight and drilling a shot past Jaaskelainen less than two minutes after the break.

The children we observed tended to be of higher socioeconomic status and were less likely to be of minority race / ethnicity than the children we did not follow up, which could have led to overestimates if the effect of breastfeeding on cognition was much weaker or in the opposite direction in those who dropped out, situations we find unlikely.

One, is that «leaner» ground beef (ie containing less fat) is always priced higher than ground beef containing more fat product, which is the opposite of what pink slime is, no?

Them vs us is a 100 % with or 100 % against perception (no middle ground between two polar opposites) and there is a strong push to equate anything less than 100 % capitalist to communism.

NOTE: here's an interesting thing... if # 1 is important for you as long term goal as far as «decent living for all» goal but not ideologically, libertarians would argue that their approach (less government control of economy) is MORE likely to lead to your goal than the opposite approach.

That patch of green, spanning less than two - tenths of an acre, lies opposite the Stonewall Inn.

At the opposite end of the scale, in Switzerland, the average annual remuneration for all researchers is more than $ 82,700, and a young researcher can hope to get slightly less than $ 40,000 a year.

Calculations performed by SINTEF, the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia, suggest that in many cases, this method is cheaper and less energy - intensive than competing capture methods, in spite of predictions that the opposite would turn out to be true.

Their finding that the lunar rocks are enriched in the heavier potassium isotope does not favor the silicate atmosphere model, which predicts lunar rocks will contain less of the heavier isotope than terrestrial rocks, the opposite of what the scientists found.

However, they found the opposite — these pups had less severe retinopathy and more normal retinal vascular development than pups born to control mother rats and placed into varying oxygen levels.

Closer examination of the facts reveals that what is happening is the opposite of war: computer breaches are less violent than old - style attacks.

«However, whereas in human females the masculine characteristics are less common within the population, in fence lizards, we see the opposite pattern: About three quarters of the females are so - called «bearded ladies,» making masculinized females much more common than their counterparts with little or no blue ornamentation.»

This year, the surface layer contains slightly less nitrate nitrogen than in the winter of 2014, but the opposite is true of phosphate phosphorus.

On the opposite extreme, independently operated coiled polymer muscles having a diameter less than a human hair could bring life - like facial expressions to humanoid companion robots for the elderly and dexterous capabilities for minimally invasive robotic microsurgery.

For example, the NuMA protein experienced less friction when being moved toward the minus end of the microtubule than when being moved toward the plus end, while the EB1 protein showed the opposite, a preference for the plus end.

The figures opposite and above show that latitude, terminal environment (calving or ending on land) and size exert the strongest controls on glacier shrinkage, with the more northerly, land - terminating, smaller (less than 5 km2) glaciers shrinking fastest.

The opposite is also trueâ $» stashing less than healthy options in cupboards reduces the chances youâ $ ™ ll grab them, either due to hunger, boredom, or habit.

Research has routinely shown that overweight individuals tend to under - estimate food intake (e.g. they think they are eating much less than they actually are) but in my experience «hardgainers» are doing the opposite: vastly overestimating how much they are actually eating in a given day, or over the span of a week.

On the other hand, if you do the opposite and give your body less calories than it needs, your body will convert your stored body fat into energy and use that instead.

The «boring» physiological reality is that meaningful weight loss requires eating less energy than you expend and meaningful weight gain requires the opposite (eating more than you burn).

If you consume less calories than your body needs to use, it does the opposite and uses stored body fat for energy instead (thus causing weight loss).

While less common than its opposite thyroid condition, hyperthyroidism still afflicts around 2 percent of women and 0.2 percent of men, including 3 to 6 million Americans.

Movie - theater popcorn drenched in butter is the opposite of a health food, she says, and some microwave and pre-popped varieties contain artificial or less - than - healthy ingredients — such as partially hydrogenated oils — that shoppers should be mindful of.

Nothing is less attractive to the opposite sex than a person with no confidence, hobby or personality of their own.

In 1987, he landed plum roles in two films that capitalized on the Brat Pack phenomenon, James Toback's The Pick - Up Artist, (opposite Molly Ringwald), and Less Than Zero, for which he won acclaim playing cocaine addict Julian Wells.Through it all, Downey cultivated an enviable instinct for role (and script) selection.

The more aggresive and less deep cousin of «Kessen» (the system's current champ for armchair generals who dig the strategy more than action, the exact opposite of «DW2»), and a fine way to kill an afternoon without having much to show for it.

The film over which this is heard is exhibited in both 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and fullscreen transfers on opposite sides of the platter; although the picture was shot in Super35 (as opposed to «scope), there is more horizontal information restored and less vertical information cropped than usual for the format, making the decision to stick with letterbox a definite no - brainer.

Likewise, Hanks was at one point thought a possible double nominee this year - for his very nearly career - best work in Captain Phillips and also for his supporting turn as no less an iconic figure than Walt Disney opposite Thompson's Pamela Travers in Saving Mr Banks.

It's fair to say this film is less dense than it first appears, the opposite of its sister film The Big Lebowski (a film superficially silly but deeply profound).

Nimoy was even less eager than before to come back — during this time, he had directed a film version of his one - man play «Vincent» (1981), in which he played Theo van Gogh, and gave an Emmy - nominated performance opposite Ingrid Bergman (in her last role) in the mini-series «A Woman Called Golda» — but agreed to come back with the promise that Spock would be killed off once and for all.

Gyllenhaal stars opposite Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson as astronauts who discover life on Mars — and it seems less than friendly to human visitors.