Sentences with phrase «much less material»

It just uses so much less material, so much less embodied energy.

As compared to a conventional woven cotton slings, the JPMBB needed much less material to have a proper adjustment on a baby.

For all the media's demands for Church «reform,» however, one wonders whether they would welcome it, if it actually led to an increase in holiness, and offered much less material for them to write lurid headlines about.

Not exact matches

The comedians, all seasoned pros, had great material and stage presence, but truth be told, I've laughed harder and longer at individuals with much less polish.

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

But though he gave up his claim to conscience, he by no means gave up his claim to material wealth; Homo Sovieticus was on average much poorer than Western man, but certainly no less consumption - oriented.

And don't even mention the material in Dead Sea Scrolls much less ask about them.

There has been much discussion whether the sociologist of religion is right in viewing his material from a special point of view and handling it according to a special method, or whether he has a more or less well - circumscribed field which he can call his own.

It's true that Chad's God has not provided him with enough material to frame an argument for its existence, much less its identity as Creator, or qualities of omnipotence and omniscience, or even status as a necessary being.

The material progress of industrialization would have caused much less psychological suffering if it had been informed by agrarian values.

There is no need to be concerned about Arsene Wenger's material wellbeing into the future as he has earned tens of millions as managerof this club so everyone can rest easy on that point, however, the future of the club is much less certain given the mismanagement is has suffered for some time now.

If the prices of my materials goes up and the new price means the goods won't sell for that much then it's me who has to come up with a lower price not the shops they won't take any less markup not matter what.

Because classic baby carriages are typically prohibitively expensive — ranging from $ 250 USD to over $ 2000 USD — many parents opt for the less expensive, albeit less fashionable, baby stroller that often has much more in the way of bells and whistles, with large storage compartments, cup holders, reclining positions, easy folding and durable materials.

It's much harder to swaddle the baby safely in those, and they've got material that's less breathable should it come up near the baby's face or mouth.

Montessori aside, toys made of natural materials like wood, cotton, and wool are much gentler on the environment and less likely to contain dangerous toxins like those found in plastic.

Only about 40 percent of used electronics are currently collected for recycling, and much of that is «down - cycled» into materials of lesser quality, but the computer company aims to change that.

Artifacts made of organic materials like wood — much less likely than stone to survive the millennia — give us «another window to the past,» Lee notes.

Dell's Plastics - Recycling Program Earns Green Electronics Award Only about 40 percent of used electronics are currently collected for recycling, and much of that is «down - cycled» into materials of lesser quality, but the computer company aims to change that.

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, the researchers note that the ancient Earth harbored a mantle that was as much as 200 degrees Celsius hotter than it is today — temperatures that may have brewed up more uniform, less dense material throughout the entire mantle layer.

In directions roughly perpendicular to the plane of the Milky Way, such as toward the Big Dipper, we look through much less obscuring material and get an open window to the larger universe beyond.

Bacteria break this material down much more quickly when it is warmer and less of it falls.

A dirty bomb — radioactive material by a conventional explosive — «is much less of a problem to detonate and if successful would render a large swath of a big city uninhabitable for years,» he says.

This contains much less sulfur and doesn't require oil as the starting material.

But in the case of photovoltaic (PV) materials, Kurchin explains, it is actually the minority carriers — those that are far less abundant in the material — that are the limiting factor in a device's overall efficiency, and those are much more difficult to measure.

Although much attention has focused on manufacturing, less is known about working conditions at the mines that supply raw materials for phones.

But every serious study concluded that the elevator's track could not be built, because no known material was strong enough to support itself, much less legions of freight - hauling elevators, over such a yawning expanse.

By contrast, in an industrial setting the focus is more directly on research, with much less focus on infrastructure issues, such as securing lab space, administrative support, and the funding of material costs.

Less than two years ago, Kanatzidis and his team, with postdoctoral fellow Lidong Zhao as protagonist, identified tin selenide as a surprisingly good thermoelectric material; it is a poor conductor of heat (much like wood)-- a desirable property for a thermoelectric — while maintaining good electrical conductivity.

Similar islands of material in the early universe could have held as much water vapor as we find in our galaxy today, despite containing a thousand times less oxygen.

Analyses revealed that, compared with activated carbon, production of the hybrid material consumed less energy («embodied energy») while leaving a much lower carbon footprint.

At first, Sagittarius A-star appeared much fainter than expected, and astrophysicists concluded that there must be less material around the black hole than they previously thought.

The technique can also be used to predict how much materials will expand when heated and contract when cooled, which will help engineers build chips that are less prone to breaking at points where one material touches another, such as when a two - dimensional material chip makes contact with a wire.

Up to now, materials that could act as single photon emitters in these wavelengths had to be cooled to liquid helium temperatures, rendering them much less useful for ultimate applications or scientific purposes,» he said.

«Caterpillars whose digestive tracts are nice and full with other caterpillars are less likely to eat as much plant material, so the plant benefits from that perspective, too,» says Orrock.

This difference will allow HDST to utilize lower - cost optical materials, incur less thermal stress in the structures, simplify component and system design, manufacturing and qualification, and lower the costs of system integration and testing, much of which had to be done under cryogenic conditions for JWST.

Although materials scientists have much less data than email providers or online stores, there is still enough publicly available data about atomic properties such as electronegativity, atomic radius and bonding geometry as well as the geometric and electronic structures of various materials that the same analysis tools are still useful.

Except for very special science libraries containing collections of rare and ancient materials, science libraries now are underutilized and increasingly seem unnecessary; since maintaining traditional libraries necessitates spending quite a lot of money every year, it is easy to predict that they will be converted into much less costly fully digitized libraries.

Not only is the water / alcohol ice mixture inside reusable, but the materials cost much less than store bought ice packs.

We have and consume twice as many material goods than we collectively did 50 years ago, but statistically we are much less happy.

Jus as most tires do, frequent and heavy use and less durable material cause Swiss balls to lose their burst resistance much faster.

Because vegan protein is not derived from animal sources it benefits from much less exposure to toxic materials that can have adverse effects on health.

I don't doubt that I could learn many things from him, and the video clip that was suggested is interesting, but because I'd have to check his facts and inferences extra carefully, and because the lectures don't do a particularly good job of citing primary source material, the learning process would likely be much less efficient.

I am always very much in favour of Sportmax, a bit less conservative than Max Mara, well designed, nice material and usually rather timeless.

While other kinds of dresses could be less costly they could be made from cheap material and much more vulnerable to show deterioration and never last as lengthy.

It means less parties, less material, and much more truth.

What I love about H&M is that you can get a doppelganger of a much more expensive piece for significantly less and in quality materials.

Faux shearling is aesthetically a really good dupe if you'd prefer to avoid the natural material — it's also much less expensive!

Recently a research study on newly married couples done by the University of Iowa showed that providing too much support in the form of advice, emotional comfort, confidence - boosting and financial / material help is associated with less marital satisfaction.

But it also seems unlikely that «Real Steel» was ever going to be more than that, no matter who sat in the director's chair; it's hard to imagine that Spielberg himself would have tackled the material differently, much less better, since key to its appeal is playing directly into that melodrama, and then milking it for everything it's worth.

The actors are more or less on the same page, trying as much as possible to underplay this overheated material.