Sentences with phrase «more of a number of things»

Troy explained that people leave jobs because one or more of a number of things is likely happening.

Not exact matches

Hybrid devices like Surface Pro and iPad Pro, on the other hand, still need to iron out a number of things before becoming both great laptops and great tablets at the same time — and, also, potentially much more.

According to Emma Seppala — science director for Stanford University's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education — there are a number of things you can do to replenish your mental energy that don't involve drinking more coffee or high - caffeine sodas.

I have constraints in that I have to meet quarterly numbers, which is a good thing — it's certainly good discipline — but it's a bad thing as well because if I wanted to invest, for instance, a $ 100 million to just make my brand name more accepted for two quarters and in the third quarter I'll get traction, that's not an option I would consider without a lot of pull.

Here's a number of more mundane things that kill legions of people annually, but get little mention on the nightly news.

In the industrial and consumer world, the Internet of things is pressuring chipmakers in a number of ways, even as it represents a huge opportunity to sell more silicon into more devices.

With more than a century of experience, you can expect that T. M. Lewin knows a thing or two about shirting, and this crisp white cotton and linen number is the one you want to reach for when the sun comes out and it's time to retire the twill.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

He suggested the upcoming presidential election could also be playing a part in «exacerbating things,» which makes it more difficult to truly evaluate the numbers until week 10 or 12 of the NFL season.

Bose owns a number of important patents related to noise cancelling tech, and in general seems to have made that more of its thing.

With the growing number of connected things in our lives, we will all become more in tune with our own data (a la Nike Fuelband) and start to expect more personal interactions with brands and retailers.

Verne Harnish, co-founder of Entrepreneurs» Organization, the largest association of top entrepreneurs in the world: «Your job is to find that front domino, that number one thing that if you could accomplish, [that] will knock over the other 98 and get more done than the other 98 combined.»

The move also comes as a number of retailers stake a claim in the growing «smart home» industry which centers on tech that does things like let people turn off the air conditioning remotely: Best Buy (bby) recently announced it was giving more floor space at 700 of its stores to better showcase Amazon's Echo as well as Google Home.

Their goal was to make marginally more correct decisions than their competitors, in the long haul, and to do so they implemented an analytically rigorous system that not only processed all of the bleeding edge metrics they could find or create, but also heavily incorporated data from old fashioned sources: scouts, who could see things about a player's potential and character that numbers couldn't.

The average number of autonomous miles between «bad experiences» — things like jerky motions or hard braking, which are more likely to cause discomfort than damage

And I warned at a number of junctures in 1999 before the Internet bubble, and again in the winter of 2007, that the main thing we had to fear was the lack of fear itself, precisely because a sense that everything is stable is a self - denying prophecy, because if there is a sense that everything is stable, -LSB-...] people will take on more risk and that will then create the conditions for future instability.

H&R Block's Charney notes that last - minute surprises may become more common as larger numbers of Americans earn self - employment income from things such as driving for a ride - sharing service, renting out a room in their home, or performing consulting services.

This is likely to make things more convenient and streamline payments in a number of ways.

One thing more, RIM should accept the fact that the number of apps make impression on the folks mind what Apple and Google are presently doing.

Furthermore, it provides a warning to investors that having more information is not always (some would say usually the opposite) a good thing and to not take comfort in masses of numbers and facts.

I guess the only thing you got on me is more people believe in yours than mine, but we both know that even if 99.99 % of people believe something to be true it doesn't make it true (See the earth being flat) so I guess the numbers game doesn't help.

I feel and I am convinced of one thing: that nothing is more dangerous for the future of the world, nothing moreover less warranted in Nature, than the affected resignation and false realism with which in these days a great number of people, hunching their shoulders and drawing in their heads, predict (and in so doing tend to provoke) a further catastrophe in the near future.

17 Again he says: «For we are wont to say that time wears, that all things age in time, all is erased by time, but never that we have learnt or that we have grown young and handsome; for time in itself is more truly a cause of destruction, since time is the number of movement, and movement undoes that which is.»

The more encouraging messages from readers, and especially from the growing number of readers of college age, are those that say they discovered in First Things a perspective that enabled them to turn the cacophony of impassioned opinions into the paths of robustly constructive conversation.

Sometimes I wonder if perhaps the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous have, at some point in its 76 year history, contained individuals who possessed the ability to do great things — cure cancer, revolutionize politics, or contribute other great things to society — but whose minds became so polluted with AA propaganda that they shut off their own brilliance and chose to spend the rest of their lives «making their sobriety their number one priority» and believing humility to be more valuable than fulfilling their potential and allowing their greatness to shine.

However, what «Whitehead said could mean a number of things, not the least of which is that he is not worried by Bergson because Whitehead is in more or less full agreement with him, just as he reported in 1919, and as Laguna said in print.

The worldly view always clings fast to the difference between man and man, and naturally it has no understanding of the one thing needful (for to have that is spirituality), and therefore no understanding of the narrowness and meanness of mind which is exemplified in having lost one's self — not by evaporation in the infinite, but by being entirely finitized, by having become, instead of a self, a number, just one man more, one more repetition of this everlasting Einerlei.

Everything we do has more value if we do it deliberately, if we consciously choose to do it rather than any number of other things.

This exact thing has been perpetrated on members of the Baha'i Faith in Iran for more than 150 years and in far higher numbers per capita than Christians.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

how many more mistakes are you American people going to make 7/11 shook your country to the core allowing a mosque near or on this site will make you a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and the small number of muslims who think terror is right will think thay have one yet another chapter on ther fight against the west so on that ground only i think the best thing for the site would be a peoples park where people from all walks of life and religious back ground can be as one A.R WATTS, E ngland

Just across the river was our «twin» city, Minneapolis, which back then touted itself among other things as the capital of the Bible Belt and whose radio stations, in earnest of this claim, carried a more than modest number of fundamentalist preachers.

In the beautiful departure speech in the 14th chapter of John, we hear, «In nay Father's house there are many dwelling places,» and at the end of the Gospel, John brings his witness to a close by noting that in addition to the things he has told us, there is so much more that if it were all reduced to writing, there wouldn't be enough space in the world to contain the number of books that would be required.

Why, just today I heard that there's been an increase in the number of cosmetic surgeries being done - a sign that people are feeling more confident about the economy and are willing to spend some money on things they want, not just things they need.

-LSB-...] «Without any doubt it is a great thing to add innumerable other stars to the immense multitude of fixed stars that until today it has been possible to discern with the natural faculty of sight, and which exceed by more than ten times the number of ancient stars already recorded».

1989 was the same summer that Spike Lee's race - relations film, DO THE RIGHT THING came out, I had just read Malcolm X's Autobiography for a class, my IVCF chapter was more and more seeking to explore the implications of «multi-ethnicity» for campus ministry, and as a college radio DJ I had been exposed to more of the best rap than most white suburbanites — that is, a number of threads came together for me at that time to allow me to be a right - on - the - sidelines spectator of the rap youth culture phenomenon.

I have some similar statistics somewhere on my website, but am always looking for more documentation and numbers on this sort of thing.

What would have been a much nicer, kinder and probably more balanced thing to say would have been this: A generation or two ago you had a number of very visible Christian leaders and preachers.

There are a number of reasons for believing that the disciples of Jesus, and, for that matter, of Buddha, and Confucius, and Mohammed, remembered with substantial accuracy the more important things their Masters said and did.

On the whole, throughout the period we have been considering, it was recognized that while «religion is every man's general calling,» «it hath pleased the divine wisdom to call forth a select number of men who, being delivered from those entanglements [of worldly affairs] and having their minds more highly purified and more peculiarly fitted for the offices of religion, may attend continually on that very thing.»

Hartshorne writes in Chance Love and Incompatibility:» «The first step toward a more intelligible view is to recognize with Scholz and a number of other logicians that absolute identity of the concrete or particular is given in an event or occasion, not in a thing enduring through time, like a person or a body.

Using a processor makes a plant based diet way more versatile as it really increases the number of things that you can make at home with fresh, natural ingredients.

They are just the thought of thing I would set myself a certain number on a plate then keep going back to the freezer for more!

-LSB-...] I figured out that eating healthy was more about whole, fresh foods than the number of calories or the sugar content, things got a little easier... and -LSB-...]

Since all kinds of things can affect the way a chile pepper grows, the heat level is more of a range than an exact number.

Yes Wenger is ultimately responsible and yes he has messed up on a number of things but I do find the general failure among supporters to make players more culpable and responsible for crap, inept performances quite worrying.

More good work from Giroud really should have seen things leveled up in terms of numbers not just goals, and Eric Dier certainly should have been given a second yellow for a blatant shirt pull on the Arsenal forward.

Sure, you could gamble on boring things like the point spread or the game MVP — bets that can be based on stuff like «stats» and «logical reasoning» — but it's way more fun to risk large sums of money on the wholly unpredictable: the number of times the announcers say «12th Man,» the color of the postgame Gatorade shower, whether Michael Crabtree mentions Richard Sherman on Twitter.

the injuries: whether they're due to training, hard ground, our playing style, smaller more technical players, or the attitude of other teams & refs to us: its probably the NUMBER ONE thing we need to sort out.

Formula 1 introduced personal race numbers at the beginning of the 2014 season to give things a more personal touch and make drivers more distinguishable from their teammates, but some people still don't think it's enough.