Sentences with phrase «lesser figure»

It could take hours to calculate your income and expenses, much less figure out how much you were spending eating out, buying clothes, or wasting on bank fees and interest.

I discovered I could not even define this word, much less figure out what it should be for me.

Hawn began her acting career playing the ditz on TV comedies like Good Morning World and Laugh - In, but by the end of the»60s, her bubble - headed persona became less a figure of fun and more a love - generation ideal.

The names of those with whom he corresponded reveal the scope of his influence, not only among theological colleagues but among both prominent and lesser figures in many other arenas.

This week no less a figure than Kevin Durant suggested that the whole thing was a waste of time.

The mighty sluggers of history are all portrayed here, alongside accounts of memorable swats by lesser figures.

The facts on the ground today are that INEC has cleaned its register and came out with less figures — Kano, for instance came down from 7Milion to 3.5 Million voters.

Finally, it is intriguing to note that, biographically speaking, both philosophers exhibit a profound personal paradox that, to my mind, is not emulated in the other, considerably lesser figures of 20th - century British thought.

Lesser figures cite Lincoln's better angels to distract from the flaws in their own reasoning and integrity.

If the outfit is fun, it is OK to be less figure flattering.

She also requested less figure hugging school shirts, which seemed reasonable.

But throughout, he is less a figure of derision than a poignantly high - minded, if blinkered, human being.

In a remarkable statement this afternoon, the Department for International Development revealed that among those Patel met in Israel was no less a figure than Benjamin Netanyahu, the country's Prime Minister.

Russian officials admit that terrorist teams managed to carry out reconnaissance on two nuclear warhead storage facilities and two nuclear - weapon transport trains in 2001 and 2002, but the teams never came close to being able to steal them, much less figure out how to use them.

Given that the organizations had a previous relationship, Lesser figured it couldn't hurt to reach out.

Williams studied literature under some legendarily distinguished scholars — W. P. Ker, of Epic and Romance fame, R. W. Chambers, and no less a figure than A. E. Housman for Latin, which might account for the fact that though Williams's English is often wonky, his Latin, when he breaks into it, is rather good.

Plus I note that the Times still retains a critical edge: just after chief commentator David Brooks writes a column ranking Mr. Obama among the greatest presidents, he surprises (and disappoints) you by writing another suggesting that he could be ranked among the lesser figures.

Physics professor and frequent First Things contributor Stephen Barr discusses the implications of quantum physics at Big Questions Online: No less a figure than Eugene Wigner, a Nobel Prize winner in physics, claimed that materialism — at least with regard to the human mind — is....

Now that we have the «fast» part more or less figured out, it's time to focus on the «food» half of the equation.

While I really liked the idea of having individual serving desserts I was not too keen on the flavors, my family was, I wasn't, never the less I figured I post the recipe for all the peanut butter and chocolate lovers out there: --RRB-

As a consequence we may see a lesser figure than Wenger in charge until changes above our manager occur.

In February 2009, no less a figure than Jeremy Hunt, then Shadow Culture Secretary and now Health Secretary, lamented the number of pubs closing, blaming the Beer Duty Escalator for «making a bad situation a whole lot worse».

If the Tories there can overturn Labour's majority of 1,101 they will oust no less a figure than Ed Balls, Labour's shadow Chancellor.

As far back as ancient Rome we find no less a figure than Martial, the father of the epigram, outing a rival as a self - haircutter and taunting him with a nasty Numquid tonsorem, Gargiliane, times?

Before I took this coach training I thought I could more or less figure out anyone's profile, but when I saw the assessment results of a good friend I was... [Read more...]

Tim Robbins ranks among contemporary cinema's most acclaimed and provocative voices; a multifaceted talent, he has proved so adept at wearing the various hats of actor, writer, and director that no less a figure than the legendary filmmaker Robert Altman declared him the second coming of Orson Welles.

Even if you've more or less figured it out before the halfway point, you don't mind seeing Hazel and company reach the conclusion you have and try to stop the death count from escalating.

Since attracting rather a lot of attention, and some well - earned praise, from the film scoring community after writing an effective score for John Frankenheimer's enjoyable thriller Ronin (and replacing no lesser figure than Jerry Goldsmith on the film), it seemed that Elia Cmiral was destined for big things.

At Princeton — where no less a figure than Albert Einstein once taught — applicants are so anxious that they wait by their mailboxes when letters of acceptance, rejection and waiting list are expected.

Then we have no lesser figure than Ofsted's boss Amanda Spielman criticising schools for narrowing their curriculum, and doing exactly that to game the system.

School business administrators did not have to sort out terms such as wide area network, bandwidth and teleconferencing, much less figure out how to stretch taxpayer dollars to pay for them.

The name of no less a figure than the Duke of Wellington appeared 17 times.

Somehow, the action - RPG genre was still a slippery one, but developers had more or less figured out that to be a big success with them, you had to make them easy to play...

Balancing the two at the pivot point is no less a figure than Nathan Drake, from Uncharted, cracking jokes, and flashing his most charismatic smile at Lara, while she sits there shivering, and complaining about the cold.

It has left him a lesser figure in a great movement.

When he was informed by a friend that one of his paintings had been bought by no less a figure than Sir Elton John, Aitchison had to ask who this person might be.

He was enthusiastically championed by no less a figure than Augustus John who arranged a solo exhibition for him in London, which received wide press coverage.35 John also wrote a flattering article on Walters for American Vogue in 1927 and may have helped him to secure prestigious portrait commissions.36

No less a figure than Freeman Dyson opines that he's looked at the climate models and finds them riddled with bogus assumptions and arbitrary constants.

Losing his own authority, in the way that Klein does, Grantham searches for it by establishing his very own institute at the London School of Economics, supporting no lesser figures than Lord Stern and his cronies.

No less a figure than climate scientist, Professor Mike Hulme, founding director of the Tyndall Centre, joined the debate.