Sentences with phrase «lesser capacity of»

Not exact matches

In less than a day, it took on some 150,000 acre - feet of water, The Sacramento Bee reported, filling to roughly 85 % capacity.

United typically oversells flights by less than zero to 3 % of the plane's seat capacity to account for no - shows.

At the time of highest impact — 1:40 EDT (10:30 PDT) when the eclipse is passing through Wyoming — the MDA solar forecasting system predicts solar generation potential across the country will decrease to less than 50 percent of capacity.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

The refinery is underperforming, operating at just over 60 % of its capacity in 2017 and getting less funding than in years past.

Consider that, in 2004, a bitumen mine was expected to cost less than $ 20,000 per barrel per day of capacity in today's dollars, according to the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI).

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

The auction, which will increase the capacity available to support smartphones by almost a third, raised nearly 1 billion pounds less than the sale of 4G airwaves in 2013.

Once the phone's 32 GB internal storage reaches capacity, the device automatically and intelligently moves your lesser used apps and content to the cloud where Robin owners have an additional 100 GB of storage space.

The country's first quarter - century of liberalization was preoccupied with attracting investment; its corporations had little motive (and less capacity) to invest abroad.

Opponents to the increase of Bitcoin's block size argued that this increase in capacity would reduce the number of full nodes on the network, subsequently making the network less secure.

It seems like a lot of the profitable web goliaths figured out what became their current money - making capacity only after their initial endeavors floundered (or eventually became less desirable — thanks to others offering similar / better services, etc.).

The current policy will flag a battery as needing repair if it retains less than 80 % of its original charge capacity.

But closing down unnecessary capacity can pay for itself, even if unemployed workers are temporarily put on the government payroll (causing debt to rise, but usually by less than it had before), but only temporarily as Beijing takes other measures to boost household income through wealth transfers from the state and so to boost consumption, a form of demand which is likely to be more labor intensive than the demand created in the process of over-capacity.

Total solar capacity in California (including both distributed and utility - scale systems) has grown from less than 1 GW in 2007 to nearly 14 GW by the end of 2016.

It would essentially backpedal to we would likely have the capacity to make all the more off of it and would require less upkeep.

It is the central premise behind inflation targeting, and central bankers — essentially without exception — assert that they have the capacity to affect or even determine inflation in the long term, but that they do not have the capacity to affect the average level of output, much less its growth rate over time, even though they may have the capacity to affect the amplitude of cyclical fluctuations.

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.

It suggests that as China demonstrates a stronger leading role in global security issues and its capacity to deal with security issues grows, expanded trade with China may be seen as posing less of a threat to Canadians.

The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

Officials of the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority (PRPA) expect that these improvements will result in no less than a doubling of the cargo - handling capacity at the terminal, already the busiest and most multi-use terminal at the port of Philadelphia.

In the mature stage of a long expansion, with less spare capacity than would have been the case some years ago, monetary policy needs to keep a close eye on future growth in demand.

Some of this new capacity is already under contract, but if oil prices remain low for several years, expiring contracts might be replaced with new deals for less demand, and at far less favorable prices.

And a reform of that system is no less desperately needed to limit the Fed's capacity for doing mischief to the U.S. economy.

At first glance it might seem appealing to argue that the mystery of God outstrips our capacity to delineate it, that every theology in its own way must fall so short of the truth that no position can, however seriously maintained, be markedly any more or less true than any other.

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):

If a life must be taken, and if instrumental considerations are equalized, it is best to take the life of the being with the lesser capacity for sentience, and hence the lesser degree of intrinsic value.

Its defect lies much less in what it tries to assert — careful training, attentiveness to the person, taking adequate time, and the like — than in what it denies — that people can also be helped in many less formal ways and that it is the inherent business of the minister to use the range of ways open to him in his representative capacity.

From this perspective, the essence of culture lies less in its internalized capacities for integration and motivation than in its communicative potential.

Here then is a second and less obvious explanation for America's capacity to generate a civil religion — the opportunity and inclination of its government agencies to use religious symbols.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.

It is a relatively minor matter whether God infused the transcendent capacity into a freshly made creature or an upwardly mobile hominid that had evolved through various transformations, from an amoeba to a tadpole to an assortment of amphibians and mammals until, as in the familiar diagrams and animations, it looks more or less like Carl Sagan.

If systematized these would fall into three main types: the beauty, sustenance, and orderliness of nature on which our lives depend; social relations in the family, community, nation, and all our past which have nourished and fashioned us; and, less obviously but essentially, the human capacity of thought, feeling, and will by which to live and act as morally responsible beings.

The pastor is less likely to be a critical factor in membership trends in churches of one hundred or fewer members because of the natural capacity of the small congregation to be like an extended family.

When it is less than this, confirmation rituals are a mockery of the spiritual capacity and hunger of teens to find a way of life that is an alternative to the nihilistic ways of «the world.»

«Bigness» is, moreover, a «powerful evangelistic tool «28 and provides the resources necessary for effective programs of worship and ministry.29 The local church is here viewed as a mechanism with the capacity for greater or lesser efficiency in doing the work of God.

Liberalizing world trade to the extent that smaller and less resource - rich countries open their services markets to outsiders, erodes the competitive capacity of people's own cultural industries.

Others are less sanguine about the capacity of reductionist physics to so explain the order of nature.

Very few people in the West grasp the reality, much less the magnitude, of this threat to what might be called «cognitive security»: the capacity of Western populations to see things as they are, including things going on in our own societies.

The progression from each stage to the next involves a process «of increasing differentiation and complexity of organization that endows the organism, social system, or whatever the unit in question may be with greater capacity to adapt to its environment than... its less complex ancestors.

If, in consequence, many married couples do not understand or recognise the dangers of concupiscence, and so do not endeavour to contain or purify it, it can dominate their relationship, undermining mutual respect and their very capacity to see marriage essentially as giving and not just as possessing, much less as simply enjoying, appropriating and exploiting.

That would force a deeper recognition that, in our capacities as consumers as well, there is far less correlation than has been supposed between the richness of human experience and the quantity and quality of goods and services consumed.

In his response to the many fine commentaries on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of The Naked Public Square (November 2004), Richard John Neuhaus states that he would now write less about «transcendence» and more about the human capacity for reason, including moral reason.

It is by no means clear why this egalitarian Eden, which relies wholly on human will power, is less illusory — especially in this blood - soaked century when human capacity is unmasked — than the Jewish apocalyptic hope for the coming of God's kingdom.The value of these books is not in what they say about Jesus so much as in what their saying these things prompts one to think about.

Women need to acknowledge that they have the same drives and temptations to sin as males have — not just sins of dependency but also the sins of dominance, of which they have been less guilty (not for want of capacity, but for want of opportunity).

Vegetables cut up in the fridge, hummus (lots of it) on hand, fruit basket full, raw nut containers refilled and yogurt stock at full capacity (see 50 Healthy Snacks... 100 Calories or Less).

Elneny has the lung capacity of a Kenyan long distance athlete, covering more ground, and with less injury timeout.

At less Arsene should use all of his brain capacity to learn from this season.

capacity of emirates is 60 odd thousand we allocate between 7 and 15 thousand for away fans so we need to drop our end down to less than 10 thousand it won't go un noticed..

As Farnborough's stadium had a capacity of less than 2,500 they agreed to switch the game to Upton Park.