Sentences with phrase «mean fewer humans»

(Which means fewer humans have to listen to pitches that start with: «Imagine a jacket, but for your legs.»

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It's an emergency surgical intervention meant to undo damage caused by human activity both in the oceans and on dry land, and it has been shown to work — bringing dead reef sections back from the edge in just a few years.

The optimist's take on this trend is that robots help Amazon keep prices low, which means people buy more stuff, which means the company needs more people to man its warehouses even though it needs fewer human hours of labor per package.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

What Keats meant by that, I am not sure; but, sadly, some of the most sublime works of human genius must of their nature remain unheard by all but a few.

Few will deny, for example, that Paul's theology represents with something approaching adequacy the fact and meaning of sin in human life — the reality of moral evil, the universal blight it brings, man's hopeless entanglement with it, the perverse and rebellious pride, deep in our nature, which degrades us, distorts our efforts, mars even our best moral achievements, and from which we know God must save us if we are to be saved at all.

Yet at the same time, an unbridled, completely laissez - faire capitalist system can he as destructive to human life and to human value as any communist system might be, for unbridled capitalism will inevitably grind to that point where the capitalists are very few, owning all the means of production, and the masses are many, and they are being exploited.

Please forgive me if I take a few moments to explain what I mean by substance philosophy and to show how it has informed so much of modern thinking about human society.

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

So unless Andy can uncover something like an outstanding murder warrant, a few more of Paladino's human failings will likely mean little more to John Q. (Again, Paladino himself has already laid that foundation.)

Fewer rains and dried - out riverbeds could mean more conflict with humans and livestock, and have a devastating impact on Africa's wildlife, reports Adam Popescu

For the past few years, tech companies and academic researchers have been trying to build so - called neuromorphic computer architectures — chips that mimic the human brain's ability to be both analytical and intuitive in order to deliver context and meaning to large amounts of data.

This aquatic drone can crawl down abandoned pits to get the treasure that's too dangerous for humans to reach, which may mean a future with fewer new mines

Bioacoustics expert Bill Evans of Texas A&M University in Galveston calls the discovery «interesting,» as it means that dolphins are among the few types of vertebrates — the others being birds and humans — capable of learning new vocalizations throughout their lives.

Does this mean human civilisation has to restrict itself to using no more than a few hundred terawatts of energy?

For starters, regulators will have to come up with a definition of «safe» — whether that means the machines must drive flawlessly or simply break fewer laws and get into fewer accidents than human drivers do.

Over the past few years, several US states and local school boards have introduced measures that would mean teachers must include the views of those who are sceptical of a human influence on climate change in science lessons.

Zebrafish provide a similar tumour microenvironment to humans, meaning fewer tests need to be carried out in mice and any future experiments in mice will have been optimised to have minimal toxicity.

Using small samples of human blood might mean fewer animals are needed to check a drug's safety.

Interface of Genomics Research and Genomic Medicine Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies mean that it is now possible to conduct genomic analyses, including analysis of the entire genome of an individual human, that just a few years ago would have been too costly and slow.

As he wrote in his bestselling book Man's Search for Meaning, «It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make - up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds...»

The sweat glands offer one of only a few mechanisms that the body has to eliminate toxins and since the skin is the largest organ in the human body it is apparently a very good means for elimination.

... what I'm saying is that if we and all the other species on earth are the only life forms in the universe and if there are no gods and let's face it apart from a few tired scrolls written 300 years after the death of Jesus and his disciples there is no actual proof of a God or gods then we, the humans, who are meant to be at the height of the evolutionary tree, are in fact at the bottom because no other species on this planet is enslaved to the economy.

For humans, going to the spa once meant a few days of pampering, perhaps a luxurious mini vacation.

Many well meaning people start out feeding a few stray cats only to find themselves overwhelmed by cats and kittens who may have no interest in human interaction, but who have come to count on this generous impulse for survival.

As doggy / human communication goes, this is usually worth listening to as it often means they need to go outside, their water dish is empty, the house is on fire — you know, anything that they want you to deal with now, not in a few minutes.

Generally, your choices mean the difference between having a warm fuzzy feeling and a few extra points on your score for saving a fellow human being but ultimately it usually leads to your death.

In a society where advanced technology allows advanced androids to be of service to humans, the title follows the steps a few select characters take to becoming who they were meant to be in a world that created them to be less than what they are.

This show really is a mess, incoherent, a few examples of this and that, a deeply unsatisfying look at what working with or about human bodies and human subjects means today.

But what ties it all together is a few candid seconds of the artist's own face, alternately gazing into and ignoring the camera as she tries to capture the evasive reality of what it means to be human now, using herself in all her particularity as an example.

A few years ago, Kroeger shifted again from graphic design and public murals to canvas and contemporary art, creating «fictional portraits» composed of data fragments and machine parts, exploring what it means to be human in a digital world.

Can you tell me in a few words what this analysis means to you in the larger context of human / animal relations?

Use this post as a means of expressing your views on how to harness the Web to help shape the human enterprise in ways that lead to the fewest regrets.]

In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.

There's an old saying that both foxes and humans eat chickens, but more foxes means fewer chickens, whereas more humans means more chickens.

Even in wealthier nations where piped water supplies mean that water pollution poses fewer direct threats to human health, many lakes and rivers are polluted.

So the paleo data also quite likely missed past increases that occurred long before human CO2 emissions had any effect, such as the MWP, meaning that today's warming is quite likely not that different from what happened a few centuries ago.»

In the big picture it's quite simple: In a world with finite resources, fewer people mean greater levels of resources equitably available to all, while greater numbers of people mean there's less to go around without running into conflict over those resources or tragically and perpetually marginalizing parts of our human family.

We're people too, and at the end of the day, a human error got in the way of what was meant to be a great offer for a few lucky customers.

That means firms can get more done in less time with fewer human reviewers.

He goes far beyond the usual goals of therapy to show us what sexual potential may mean for the few fortunate humans whose struggles in the crucibles of life lead to differentiation, spirituality, and love.