Sentences with phrase «much less reason»

Because people have been killed for much less reason than hundreds of billions of dollars.»

@FrankVisaggio First, that seems more like an answer than a comment much less a reason to downvote.

Teachers hired after 1996 had much less reason to stick around, so theory would predict they'd have higher turnover rates.

In Only God Forgives, Gosling is similarly near - mute and reliably mesmeric - yet we've much less reason to like his character.

The same kind of scrutiny has been given to St. Francis and St. Clare, though for much less reason.

The wild people on this blog showed so much less reasoning then everyone else?

Leaving aside the fact that Denman's scietific expertise doesn't really give him any insight into «addiction», much less the reasons for policy failure, and that this should give us a clue about his understanding of how science should be applied to society, I was also struck by this recent cartoon, published this week, and wondered how it chimes with Ehrlich, Nurse and Deman:

Not exact matches

The reason behind this is the fact that public networks are considered to be much less secure than your home network, primarily because there is usually a large number of people connected to the network at the same time.

Moreover, one possible reason for Uber's reticence to share information is concern over leaks — something which is much less likely when dealing with a single outside shareholder.

It's much better to create at least a 15 percent buffer, so if less jobs are created for any reason, your investors do not suffer by losing out on the jobs required for their green card application to be approved.

I have ignored reasons that might justify lower discount rates or higher GDP adjustments for China mainly because the purpose of this essay is to explain why the U.S. multiple is so much higher than China's, and of course these reasons exist, but I think whatever the correct ratio should be, there is no question that advanced economies always justify higher multiples than developing economies because they tend to be economically more diversified and politically more stable, and they usually have institutions, including clearer legal and regulatory frameworks, more sophisticated capital allocation processes, less rigid financial systems, and smaller state sectors (which make smooth adjustment, one of the most valuable and undervalued components of long - term growth, more likely).

But the reason is not what you may think, because it has much less to do with skill or acumen and much more to do with their lack of hunger, drive and dedication.

The reason why valuations are so tightly correlated with 10 - 12 year returns is that extreme deviations from historical norms tend to wash out over that horizon, and because interest rate fluctuations have a much less durable impact on market valuations than investors imagine.

If the reason banks fail is because free markets in banking don't work, how do you explain the lack of the problems you claim plague free markets in the much less regulated pre-1934 Canadian banking industry?

Much of the reason that safety razors are so great has to do with the double edge razor blades themselves, as not only are they relatively inexpensive (even the best ones typically cost less than 50 cents apiece), but they are also generally made of much higher quality steel than the blades found in disposable razMuch of the reason that safety razors are so great has to do with the double edge razor blades themselves, as not only are they relatively inexpensive (even the best ones typically cost less than 50 cents apiece), but they are also generally made of much higher quality steel than the blades found in disposable razmuch higher quality steel than the blades found in disposable razors.

Second, the gold market is much larger, with a value of more than $ 7 trillion versus about $ 100 billion for bitcoin, no doubt one of the reasons why it is much less volatile.

However, the man is not a literature specialist, so what reason do I have to seriously consider what he has to say about «fairy tales,» much less about «philosophy» and «theology» when he hasn't even so much as an undergraduate degree in either of those areas.

More mormons outside of the United States than in it... there is a reason why they focus so much in other countries... and prefer the less educated ones.

I believe that man is, by nature, an exile and will never be self - sufficient or complete on this earth; that his chances of happiness and virtue, here, remain more or less constant through the centuries and, generally speaking, are not much affected by the political and economic conditions in which he lives; that the balance of good and ill tends to revert to a norm; that sudden changes of physical condition are usually ill, and are advocated by the wrong people for the wrong reasons; that the intellectual communists of today have personal, irrelevant grounds for their antagonism to society, which they are trying to exploit.

Your animus toward Hawkins is presumably due to one of his other observations — that there is no reason to believe in any god, much less the Judeo - Christian god.

It makes sense and seems much healthier to accept reality and learn to cope with it, even when it's less pleasant than fairytales that make a lot of promises there is no reason to believe.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

Of course, one of the reasons religion disappears as we approach the present is that contemporary societies are much less religious than previous civilizations.

The inference is that natural rights reasoning is insufficient to establish an enduring constitutional jurisprudence, much less one capable of protecting human life.

But in the last 30 years of the 20th century for some reason or set of reasons, we began to be much less connected with our friends and neighbors and communities and churches.

Three of Aquinas» proofs involve infinite regress and there is no reason to think that god provides a terminator, much less the Christian god or any other god.

Any one who cavorts with reptiles, for any reason, much less to put on a religious demonstration, should be thrown into a pit of starving gian lizards.

This «how much more» argument is a recognized form of reasoning in the rabbinical literature, where it is known as «light and heavy, i.e., arguing from the less to the more important.

By reason of his own system and its premises, Mikhail Gorbachev was unprepared to believe, much less accept, Reagan's offer to share any workable missile - defense system.

PPP, you're not following anything, much less logic or linear reasoning.

Or if the criminally insane will ever be convicted much less executed when they are not competent and «not guilty by reason of insanity»???

But we should be confident that if we reflect more deeply on deeper themes connected with the Gospel — creation, providence, marriage, celibacy, sin, redemption, resurrection, etc. — we will find the resources for understanding Paul's teaching on homosexuality, even though Paul himself does much less than many of us would like to explain the reasons behind the prohibition.

I definitely do not condone this type of response but it makes me wonder if this is the reason why Americans fear to portray, much less mock Mohammad in any way.

The only other reason I can think of is that she is intentionally being deceptive because she knows that the typical On Faith reader (secular, liberal, atheistic) isn't going to know any better, much less care whether she is accurately conveying Jesus» meaning.

This is for two reasons: first, the minister by the detachment of his vocation knows less about the layman's problems than laymen do; and second, such groups too easily run into one more discourse to which by long conditioning it is customary to listen passively without being very much stirred to action.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Justice John Paul Stevens (joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) stated: «Although much ink is spilled today describing the gruesome nature of late «term abortion procedures, that rhetoric does not provide me a reason to believe that the procedure Nebraska here claims it seeks to ban is more brutal, more gruesome, or less respectful of «potential life» than the equally gruesome procedure [D&E] Nebraska claims it still allows.»

He seemed to be too much the Lutheran antinomian, too fearful that Kant's categorical imperatives were merely bourgeois, and too protective (for less than theological reasons) of Dionysian excess without fret about Apollonian constraint or long - range consequences.

But it may be of interest to note that Lord Acton, who can hardly be accused (as Kagan is) of advancing a «secular» view of history (still less of being a deconstructionist), has the highest praise for Pericles, and for much the same reasons as Kagan.

Rauch, at least in this article, doesn't say that there is anything wrong with polyamory, much less what is wrong with it; nor does he provide reasons for not giving polyamorous «families» some form of recognition, as the «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage» signatories demand.

Today changes are coming so rapidly and the economic, social, and cultural opportunities for Americans of many ethnic backgrounds are so much alike that we can expect to see the particular sociological reasons for Catholic aggressiveness become less important.

There is no reason to think that the larger body necessarily has intelligent awareness or particular control of the smaller body, let alone would the grandparent body have awareness of the much lesser body that resides inside it's child.

Pork tenderloins are one of my favorite proteins for many reasons: they're quite mild, so they are very much a blank canvas and work with a multitude of flavors; they cook pretty quickly; they're lean and healthy; one tenderloin is pretty much the perfect size for us, with my husband eating a bit more than me and my son eating a bit less.

Chicken jerky is less popular than beef jerky for the same reason most people will choose a rib - eye over chicken breast — on its own, chicken doesn't have that much flavor.

In addition to requiring less sugar, another reason I like using kuri squash is that the purée does not need to drain the way homemade pumpkin purée does: it doesn't contain much moisture which makes it ideal for pie making.

One of the reasons I love these so much (there are many) is that the dough for the base is the same dough used for the crumble, so there's less bowls to dirty, less things to measure.

I find the organic kind to be much less liquid - y for some reason.

The jam is also the main reason I enjoyed these «cat's eyes» cookies as well, the jam was tangy and that made the whole experience less sweet, I really did not enjoy sweets much as a child.

I didn't used to buy much organic produce at all as I reasoned that I would rather use the money to buy more fruit than have to buy less but more expensive organic produce.

The second reason is because I enjoy making snacks that I know others can make in less than 10 minutes (most of the time) and prefer those that don't require too much oven time.