Sentences with phrase «more of a certain kind»

The more of a certain kind of passion varsity athletes have for their sport, the more favourable their attitudes towards the use of performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs, according to a recent study.

Not exact matches

That jibes with what Stewart suggests, that certain kinds of books — genre stuff like fan fiction or romance — work better digitally, but print is still a more desirable way to digest the really good meaty writing.

The more Facebook tries to move beyond its original role as a social network for sharing family photos and other ephemera, the more it finds itself in an ethical minefield, torn between its desire to improve the world and its need to curb certain kinds of speech.

Over that kind of longer time horizon, equity returns are more likely (but not certain) to average out to something that resembles their historical record.

«We do have people living the more totally organic life around here: aging hippies, home schoolers of a certain kind, a few professors, and others too.

Other social sciences, concentrating on certain limited kinds of human activities, together afford a more detailed picture of man's culture and social organization.

It is not unusual therefore to find pastoral care «overlooking what was mildly wrong,» in order to take seriously what matters more urgently.7 Effective pastoral care must be free to exercise a kind of tolerance for vice, allowing a certain compulsion to continue while deliberately reducing another more dangerous one.8

It was more the fear that the administration would ban a certain kind of gun.»

Note the following quotations from Hartshorne's various writings from 1952 through 1984: God is that one in whom prehensions are «wholly concrete... without eliminations of any kind» (ReM 7:109); «what we once were to God, less than that we can never be» (JR 32:101; also LP 252);»... if we can never be less than we have been to God, we can in reality never be less than we have been... That there can be no subtraction is, in my opinion, more certain than that there can be no addition» (JR 32:102, LP 253); «What in us is extremely partial, feeble retention of the past may in God be complete, ideally vivid and adequate retention» (OOTM 34).

We will not make this kind of move until we really decide that happiness is more important than the quantity or quality of the goods consumed, and that the latter is not, beyond a certain point, a significant contributor to happiness.

This kind of faith plays no part in my life, and the other definitions are more a synonym of trust, or a certain expectation.

Young people who volunteer or participate in certain kinds of service are more civically engaged as adults, and there are movements afoot to increase these kinds of experiences among youth.

Conditions make certain kinds of decisions more likely and more possible.

The arguments against evolution have been so explicitly and thoroughly expounded in the Catholic theology of the last eighty years, that it is not to be expected that later on they will become even more evident, in relation to the Church's awareness of what she believes, than they are now, and so become capable of providing new and certain grounds for rejecting the theory of evolution of a kind that have been declared to be not yet at present available.

A more fully developed example of the same kind of reasoning is the fashion, quite common nowadays among certain writers, of criticizing the religious emotions by showing a connection between them and the sexual life.

It is something more than just learning a certain kind of conduct and possessing coherent religious justifications for that conduct.

Another kind of position about the ministry, which now seems likely to be adopted to a certain extent by the Roman Catholic Church, is to create a group of subministers, who are permitted to perform nearly (but not quite) all the functions of the priest, but who will be trained much more quickly.

Remember how I said there's a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism — Eliot is of this type.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

If all this added up to certain kinds of discomfort that would have seemed somewhat peculiar to our Eastern big - city cousins — childhood friendships, for example, that unspokenly and mysteriously evaporated in adolescence — in some respects we were also far more at ease than they.

«Trump's more black - and - white description of these kinds of things — good guys / bad guys, «these are bad hombres» — plays to the security issue and is a definite contrast to President Obama's policies and to a certain extent, Mrs. Clintons»,» said Waller.

Survival needs would seem to require no more than a little arithmetic, some elementary Euclidean geometry and the ability to make certain kinds of simple logical association.

One does not have to believe that certain styles of music are inherently religious in order to be convinced that some kinds of music are generally more suitable for worship than are other kinds.

Over and over I go back once more to the same memories, none available in this way to any other stream of experiences; always, if I want to, I can recall that I had such and such a mother and father, brothers and sister, went to such and such schools, read certain books, etc., etc., through countless items of the kind.

Also, there are different kind of atheists, and I would tend to listen more carefully to some than others... just like there are certain Christians I would tend to listen to more than others...

I kind of feel that you do frequent certain sites more which only spout those constant negatives regardless of anything else, which is your right if it suits you.

So an example of that is if you have a mother whom has a premy in NICU there are certain cards that you can put inside of the pump and it will create or try to stimulate stronger suck support you know more milk because you're not going to have a lot because you have premy and it you know kind of stimulates what the premy will do at breast for your breast.

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This is the kind of habit that only gets worse as your baby grows, because they're stronger, louder, and more stubborn about certain things.

However, you should be aware that girls may be more susceptible to certain kinds of injuries, such as ligament tears in the knees.

Robin Kaplan: And plus it would be hard for your body to know what your child is nutrient deficient in, however, you know, babies are born..., we talked about this in one of The Boob Group episodes, that babies are born with you know, sufficient iron stores for example until they are a certain age, and then they start needing more iron - rich foods, for example and that's kind of when, that six months to eight months, kind of introducing solid foods at that time is there for a reason.

I was hoping for some more detailed and nuanced information, for example differences in populations of available children, differences in ability to discriminate against certain kinds of potential adoptive or foster parents (e.g., single, non-Christian, gay, etc.), differences in whom prospective parents work with (attorney?

It's more expensive than milk, but kids generally like certain kinds of cheese.

It made certain kinds of coverage more expensive while using subsidies to pay for Medicaid expansion and subsidies for individual health plans.

So although a year or more of teaching experience will help you get certain kinds of jobs, the time away from research is likely to hurt your chances at jobs where research is expected and supported.

Steve: This is really interesting material, I think, because perhaps many of the listeners are familiar with older research, for example, that found that the aldehyde dehydrogenase enzyme is not available for certain people, and that for them, drinking in excess is really uncomfortable, so they tend not to, but that's more of a direct genetic biochemical kind of a system related to the alcohol molecule ultimately as it gets metabolized.

Spontaneous remission is more likely with certain kinds of cancer, such as melanoma and renal cell carcinoma.

This property allows quantum computers to perform certain kinds of calculations more quickly.

Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.

The much more detailed kind of predestination implied by closed timelike curves, where it seems that we simply can not make certain choices (like walking away after meeting a future version of ourselves), is bothersome.

Research has shown that certain kinds of risks are more frightening because you are not in control.

What's more, by selectively deactivating certain PAMs within the matrix, the team mimicked the kind of damage that happens to the heart muscle under certain disease conditions.

The first study of its kind to examine perception after plastic surgery finds that women who have certain procedures are perceived as having greater social skills and are more likeable, attractive and feminine.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

I think you can certainly drop it into the big category of physics articles that illuminate the universe by telling us that it is indeed much more deeply complicated and counter intuitive than most of us would think; that when you start to look at the fringes of what we understand about physics and how the world works, you really get the sense that we are locked in [to] certain set of perceptions that do not necessarily apply; that our kind of common sense, everyday [intuitions] are not a very good guide to understanding how the universe can behave at certain scales or under certain conditions.

People tend to care more about certain kinds of species.

Certain kinds of tumors have been found to be more aggressive and associated with less than favorable prognoses compared to others.

While it has always been important for tissue donors to have some control over what procedures are done with their samples — some donors might be comfortable with certain kinds of research, and others might not — informed consent will be more important than ever once a simple cheek swab provides the raw material for someone to be a mother or father.

Ashtanga teaches you to be more patient and kind to yourself — just like in other aspects of life, you'll learn that you will get certain things when you are ready.

«There's some evidence that people who are more impulsive or more reward - sensitive tend to eat more in certain situations, but there haven't been too many imaging studies looking at this population and looking across different kinds of stimuli,» Ely explains.