Sentences with phrase «much less understand»

Most homeowners are not even aware that short sales exist, much less understand how they work.

When you are in the midst of changing times, it can sometimes be hard to see the changes that are occurring, much less understand where things are going.

We can't even seem to get straight whether or not there was a Mideval warm period, much less understand the last glacial maximum.

Affleck stars as the story's hero, CIA agent Tony Mendez, depicted as just about the only man in Washington who could find Iran on the map, much less understand the history and culture.

The two form a bond that their respective circles can't condone, much less understand.

Many of us don't even know we have a lymphatic system, much less understand how to care for it.

So we have not been able to see how different conditions affect the particles, much less understand how we can tweak the conditions to get a desired effect.»

Thus, it must have fairly restrictive laws to allow residents time to understand what citizenship is all about before they decide to pick up a firearm, much less understand it's not for hunting deer.

As the government shutdown continued for its second day, one thing was clear to both sides of the negotiations to end it: The president was either unwilling or unable to articulate the immigration policy he wanted, much less understand the nuances of what it would involve.

It makes us creationists look like idiots who can't be bothered to read anything scientific, much less understand it.

It's well - known that people lose muscle mass as part of the degenerative aging process; it's much less understood that fat mass, too, begins to decline in the fourth decade, albeit more slowly — and it's a decline that can't be explained just by reduced energy intake.

However, if the Sun's magnetic field arrives at Earth with a certain orientation aurora can occur at higher latitudes, and the origin of these auroras are much less understood.

Yet, while many Americans are aware of the importance of pre-reading skills, they have much less understanding that children who fall behind in early - literacy skills often do not catch up to their peers in elementary school, according to a report and polling data released last week.

there is no reason at this point to believe that climate science has well described the system, much less understands it well enough to make predictions and especially now well enough to manage the climate.

The natural flux is much larger and much less understood than the anthropogenic portion.

Not exact matches

Once customers understand the benefits of your product or service and the value to them, it's much easier to make a sale, and you will also find that the customer is less likely to try to negotiate the price down.

No organization can function, much less grow, without trust and trust only thrives where people understand what each other is willing and capable of doing.

Others develop epic mission statements, which are never truly understood, much less read, and hence fade into the background like last year's nature wall calendar you refuse to take down.

Entrepreneurs love babies as much as anyone (and are just as understanding of the stresses of new parenthood), but they're also more likely that corporate bosses to lack the money and manpower that makes losing a key employee for weeks or months anything less than terrifying.

By having a thorough understanding of your risk appetite, the purpose of each investment in your portfolio and the implementation plan of your strategy, it allows you to feel much more confident about your investment plan and be less likely to make common behavioral mistakes.

My understanding is that until the mid-1950s, Treasuries were much less volatile than they have been since then.

But while we understand that the world around us is changing, we are much less willing to undertake any significant changes ourselves.

Only when I began to think for myself and to question what I had been told, did I see that the «other side» had some valid points — I simply didn't want to hear them, much less attempt to understand them.

For Qoheleth, God seems remote and uncommunicative, and we can not hope to understand, much less influence, God's activity in the world (3:11; 8:16 — 17).

Shakespeare's play informs the evangelical pastor especially that understanding, much less guiding, sinful humans is an exceedingly complex, frustrating, difficult, all but impossible proposition.

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.

I am not sure even perfectly understand what light is much less all of its behaviors.

When understood this way, prayer become much less of a mystery about how to pray and what to pray for and who can pray and where to pray, and much more like a conversation we have in everyday life.

People must be free to make their own choices, according to their own lights, and the rest of us are to be understanding and not «judgmental,» much less condemnatory.

This involves selection and distortion which, because it often is made unconsciously, automatically, without intention on the part of the selectors, and also because usually many individuals are involved in the selection process (writer, cameraman, director, editor, producer, distributors, sponsor, audience), it often is impossible to detect, much less to analyze or to understand.

Don't understand why a little cross that takes up so much less space bothers them.

She was far too young to understand the meaning or gory details of any crucifixion — much less the implications of the crucifixion of Jesus.

I didn't understand everything I was hearing, much less agree with all of it.

You said «My point is that your tiny sliver of Existance, much less your limtied understanding of our physical world and all the laws of physics is hardly enough to refute the Existance of its Creator.»

Legalisms, of this day's timeliness, dare I say convolutes and discombobulates the suggestiveness recognitions upon physicalities of the very timid bunglings of inward inter-fractals of cosmological paradigms not fully understood by the masses and seldomly aspired upon by science abridgements being too nauseatingly complex to be meaningfully understood by laymen and much less so by the commoners who could really care less.

My point is that your tiny sliver of Existance, much less your limtied understanding of our physical world and all the laws of physics is hardly enough to refute the Existance of its Creator.

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.

Do not also the atheists have faith in much of sciences theories that many atheists can less understand yet do remain faithfilled by thoughtless amalgams in obscured relativities?

The secular substitute — the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures — is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.»

In today's culture the language of spousal love is unlikely to be the most obvious way in which a young woman will understand or express her love for Christ, much less His relationship to her.

Most don't have this ability to understand the spirit that is inside of them much less the work and voice of the Holy Spirit in their lives.

No one will ever know enough about science, life, death, love, God, or even themselves to fully understand it, much less predict what the future holds.

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.

In those churches that do promote it, many of the members who have been affected by some substance abuse are not able to understand the one - shot message, much less discern how to help themselves.

And he needed no less, Gleick might have added, what three centuries ago Giambattista Vico was calling fantasia, that faculty of imaginative understanding so conspicuously lacking in the Enlightenment absolutists who, as Isaiah Berlin has pointed out, did so much to create the rift between the sciences and the humanities.

David Bohm spent most of his time on something called relativistic quantum field theory — which I can not understand, much less explain.

The reality is that physicians, though they are classically understood to be professionals, have themselves become much less professional by this understanding.

I would have no way of understanding what was said, much less being able to remember it and tell it over and over by the campfires for hundreds or thousands of years before it was written down.

If, in consequence, many married couples do not understand or recognise the dangers of concupiscence, and so do not endeavour to contain or purify it, it can dominate their relationship, undermining mutual respect and their very capacity to see marriage essentially as giving and not just as possessing, much less as simply enjoying, appropriating and exploiting.

Luther depicted the Franciscans as «snoring brothers who perchance have sometime seen a master of arts but have never known one personally... You never read anything, much less do you understand anything, and yet you claim to judge of doctrines.»