Sentences with phrase «more myopic»

A slightly faster lion, taller giraffe or better sighted hawk is more likely than its slower, shorter or more myopic brethren to live long enough to breed and pass on its genes.

A slightly faster lion, taller giraffe or better sighted hawk is more likely than its slower, shorter or more myopic brethren to live long enough to breed and pass on the favorable genes that gave it the edge.

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I get what you're saying and in essence, I agree, the church seems to the world a myopic organism, focused less on the work of the church in Acts which provided real spiritual and physical care for the masses, and more on church culture and agenda.

Karlstadt had in fact said just this about scripture more than two years previously but no one had bothered because it was said by a rather myopic officious academic whom nobody cared much about, and who never managed to project his message widely.

The game between Arsenal and Chelsea is the main talking point from the Premier League weekend, unsurprisingly, or more specifically the controversy surrounding Diego Costa, Koscielny, Gabriel and the myopic referee Mike Dean and his assistants that just happened to be making a cup of tea or something when it all kicked off.

Gallup is an investment in a different position, no tight end will ever be a long term starter at wide receiver obviously so who gets more yards in year 1 I think is myopic.

(Followed, of course, by the typical, myopic «more babies die in hospitals anyway.»)

A secondary, and perhaps more soluble challenge is the myopic structure of political systems, particularly in democracies where only the current set of voters has a real say.

Focusing solely on the presidential campaigns is a bit myopic, and I'm sure most of these sites will branch out as more campaigns (House, Senate, governorships, etc.) heat up.

More likely, commotions about singing the national anthem, or what he will wear at the Cenotaph, or even things like message discipline within the Shadow Cabinet, are for him part of a corrupt, myopic style of politics he has always rejected.

The kid actors are fine but asked to be little more than slapstick variations on the same old same old: the myopic one, the morbidly obese one, the one destined for bigger things, and the future writer.

As Brenneman explains, the company's «myopic focus» on costs had led to perverse tactics: skimping on cabin air conditioning and flying more slowly to cut fuel use; removing high - revenue first - class seats to squeeze in more passengers; and eliminating corporate discounts even for the airline's top customers.

This is unfortunate and myopic, especially since these other costs constitute more than half — and often as much as three - fourths — of the total cost of attending college.

That last point is significant as more people become aware of just how myopic it is to accuse charter schools of segregation when they serve only 5 percent of the nation's students while ignoring the systemic and indefensible politics of segregation that exist in traditional school districts.

New standards and tests with a myopic focus on text without regard for the reader (i.e. the child actually doing the reading), without regard for their interests, knowledge, and passions, will serve to further disengage children from the splendor of reading and give students more reasons to see school, and reading, as irrelevant.

According to a 2007 research paper by the credit rating company, Experian ¸ this tendency to be «financially shortsighted (myopic), favoring more immediate rewards rather than financial benefits in the future, leads to poor economic decision making.»

The independent resources to get you into both local and national bookstores are more and more accessible outside the stodgy, slow and myopic book publishing industry.

Although they are quite capable of seeing more than one word in a single fixation, most readers develop an optical muscle memory — a sort of myopic vision — that limits itself to individuals words.

Microsoft has to care a lot more about how they fit into THAT particular competitive landscape much more than they need to worry about the premature hystrionics of some myopic fanboys.

His being a man from the old order, whose relevance in the current political situation is perceived as little more than nothing, is certainly a fact the skeptical part of the audience used to deem this recurring presence in the show as a sign that McCarthy's work lacks urgency - a myopic gesture from an artist fossilized in revolutionary positions no longer sustainable.

I believe that «researching» a way to «more food production» represents a simplistic and myopic (yes, some can say «focused») perspective.

Th 14: BPL, you will hear me cheering from all the way across the pacific the day you become far less myopic, not so narrowly constrained and basically far less biased and more open - minded about reality.

Whether the threat of resource depletion and the state of environment are on a path that leads to a very bad outcome in far future (far might be 30 years or significantly more) or not the markets are too myopic to react.

You seem to generally accept WG1 as the «best available summary» of climate science today, while I am more skeptical, particularly with regard to its understatement of uncertainty, its myopic fixation on anthropogenic climate forcing, its superficial handling of natural climate forcing factors and its many exaggerations or distortions, which go toward making AGW look more alarming than is really supported by the physical observations.

Admiral (retired) Dennis McGinn said: «A nation that uses more than 20 percent of the oil that is produced globally every single year, that sits on at best estimates 3 percent of the known reserves can not drill its way out Continue reading Dangerous and Myopic →

«We've also made it a bit easier for our more mature readers...» You've obviously been reading Monbiot's recent article, claiming that all us global warming deniers are senile (and myopic) wrinklies trembling before the Grim Reaper.

However, this is mostly because the study there has been notoriously myopic, concentrating on finding more support for their theory, rather than on falsifying it.

We need to dissuade them from that myopic view and persuade them that the status quo makes sense commercially but more importantly that it serves the rule of law in all our jurisdictions.

Anyone who wonders why Congress is more unpopular than a myopic baseball umpire who hates the home team need only look on page 1,967 of the omnibus spending bill.

Knowing this, they can be more confident and focused in their search: attributes that will weigh a lot more heavily in terms of job offers than the myopic nit - picking of one's resume.