Sentences with phrase «of less pressing»

The IPCC was established in an age of less pressing urgency.

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But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

The Independent was created in 1986 as an alternative to the existing British daily press, and for a time it was a successful business, but as the pressure of a declining print market continued to grow it faded rapidly from a readership of about 400,000 to less than 50,000.

'' [W] e expect it to be much less expensive than the prime mission while still providing new and exciting science,» John Grunsfeld, chief of NASA's science mission directorate, said in a press release.

He who controls the mint or the printing press, after all, realizes a profit by putting money into circulation (the term is seigniorage), since the cost of making a coin or banknote is usually less than its face value.

At the heart of Google's (GOOG) AMP project is a custom - made version of the ubiquitous HTML code that's cleaner and less bulky than what software publishers typically use, Google executives explained during a press event.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Tim Christiansen, the owner of Vino Per Tutti, an independent wine shop in Bozeman, Mont., said in a press release from the Seattle - based Main Street Alliance, that he, as well as the vast majority of his small - business owner compatriots, make less than $ 250,000 a year.

From the sound of it, the Trump administration is going to be spending a lot less time with the White House press corps and a lot more time pushing their message out directly.

Galloway said companies like Uber — with a valuation of $ 70 billion according to recent company press releases — would likely be worth much less if subjected to the scrutiny of the public market.

Airbnb gets less press than Uber, but in some respects its even more radical: understanding how it works leads one to question many of the premises of modern society from hotels to regulations.

Only a small minority (roughly 15 to 20 per cent) of middle - income Canadians retiring without an employer pension plan have saved anywhere near enough for retirement and the vast majority of these families with annual incomes of $ 50,000 or more will be hard pressed to save enough in their remaining period to retirement (less than 10 years) to avoid significant fall in income.

The press often highlights his Eton education, but overlooks the less traditional aspects of his upbringing.

Besides polluting the free flow of ideas, manipulations such as these are nothing less than subversive: they undermine the United States and its institutions — universities, the press, charitable groups, foundations and the churches — by exploiting the legitimacy they may inherently possess, in order to gain for insidious designs credibility which the CIA would not otherwise be able to command.

«In a crude and offensive way of trying to make a point that their vodka is high quality and inexpensive, the billboards evoke a Jewish holiday to imply something that is cheap and of lesser value when compared to the higher value of a Christian holiday,» said Ron Meier, the ADL's New York Regional Director, in a press release.

The doctrine of the ascension may have been given bad press because of its popular meaning, which seems related to ideas like «ascending to the third floor,» and less often to «ascending to the place of power.»

Less noticed than references to homosexuality in Pope Francis» widely circulated remarks to the press on the Rio - to - Rome papal airplane was this comment on developing a theology of women: The role of women doesn't end just with being a mother and with house work... we....

Beyond that, as long as you aren't at my door or the door of my congressmen, trying to press your beliefs on me, I really couldn't care less.

Each person has a unique blend of these needs — with certain needs that are more insistent and others that are less pressing.

Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92Less ambitious, and for that reason more persuasive if less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92less dramatic, is the statement by A. Wilder that «true metaphor or symbol is more than a sign; it is a bearer of the reality to which it refers» and so the parables are to the disciples»... Jesus» interpretation to them of his own vision by the powers of metaphor» (Amos N. Wilder, Language of the Gospel [New York: Harper & Row, and London: SCM Press (as Early Christian Rhetoric), 1964], pp. 92 f.)

She therefore eschews privacy in favor of revealing more or less everything about the details of her personal life — from awkward and sometimes horrifying sexual encounters to her anxieties about body image to the infamous and arguably abusive episodes with her sister that caused such a stir in the press last fall.

A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny Oxford University Press, 4 volumes in one, 1,456 pages, $ 120 If those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it, those ignorant of the history of philosophy are even less fortunate: They're likely to do no more than struggle to make....

See Carl Hausman, A Discourse on Novelty and Creation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1984); this is a reprint of the book issued under the same title in 1976 by Martinus Nijhoff, but Hausman (more or less) affirms in 1984 what he said in 1976.

If the latest study on the subject by UNESCO (in 1953) is still valid, less than 10 percent of the world's population lives in countries the press of which has available to it both the western wire services and that of TASS.

Not far short of two - thirds of the world's population has available to its press only the point of view of the western wire services and the remainder — a bit less than one - third — has available only that of TASS.

Two less technical works by American representatives of the school are John A. Mackay, A Preface to Christian Theology (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941), and Edwin Lewis, The Faith We Declare (Nashville: Abingdon - Cokesbury Press, 1939).

On the other hand, as Harvard professor Robert Coles wrote in a famous essay addressing a crisis in the field of psychiatry, «I think our most pressing concern is less the matter of our work than the manner of ourselves.»

Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.

The structures of control within the U.S. media are different from the institutionalized formal censorship we might expect of a government - controlled press; they are less visible and more subtle, not monolithic yet hierarchical, transmitted to the many by those who work for the few, essentially undemocratic and narrow in perspective, tied to the rich and powerful but not totally immune to the pressures of an agitated public, propagandistic yet sometimes providing hard information that is intentionally or unintentionally revealing..

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

This feeling for the deep significance of the suffering and death of Christ is constantly present in Mark, as the quotations just above will have indicated (as well as the familiar «to give his life a ransom for many» [See F. C. Grant, The Earliest Gospel (New York and Nashville: Abingdon - Cokesbury Press, 1943), pp. 78ff], and is only less important in Matthew and Luke - Acts.

As our culture grapples with pressing moral questions, it's a bit deflating to reflect that our strengths may lie in the long game of childrearing, and not in quicker, less onerous avenues of persuasion.

Flows of world news are carried across the globe by the major printed news agencies (Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France Press) and the leading agencies for visual news (Reuters Television and World Television Network, and to a lesser extent CNN and the BBC).

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff Princeton University Press, 212 pp.

The media isn't exactly fond of us because we don't make inflamatory remarks that generate lots of comments, so we get a lot less press.

Their second stint in power has disappointed international business periodicals such as The Economist and the Financial Times as well as much of the English - language press in India, which complains periodically that economic reform in India has more or less stalled since 2004.

The press played a role — though a less significant one than it likes to imagine — in ferreting out the Watergate crimes, and it has never recovered from those moments of glory.

Given how much ink has been spilled on the subject by an obsessed and advocating press, and the strong moral certitude with which Democratic (and occasional Republican) members of the House and Senate are making their evolutionary pronouncements, it is difficult to remember that at this time last year, the issue of gay marriage had much less energy surrounding it.

One could say that Obama should treat the liberal press just as Jesus did the moneychangers and throw them out of the temple (country) as they really do less to support our nation thsan they do to try and reduce it to items of curiosity.

In today's intellectual climate, where so many who invoke science in support of Christianity seem to do so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of modern science points unambiguously to the existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.

It is unfortunate that so much of the press, especially someone like CNN relegate themselves to propaganda, worth less than a supermarket tabloid prior to any election.

I am less interested here to press my description of the particular values that inhere in academic life than I am to insist that, whatever their identity, they are built into the institution's spatial and temporal forms, its patterns of behavior, and its ideological set; and that value, both systemic and sentient, has a profound socializing effect.

The predictably less colourful pastoral letter of the Archbishops of Westminster and Southwarkwas, admittedly, probably better calculated to be taken seriously by the liberal press: they could hardly have called it extreme or obscurantist.

The harder and longer you press, the less chance you'll end up with granola instead of granola bars.

Rudi's Organic Bakery uses cold pressed high oleic sunflower oil because less nutrients are lost in the cold pressed extraction of the oil.

George Foreman made a household name for himself showing how an indoor grill could cook meat with less fat in half the time, yet his gourmet gadget — as well as other two - sided countertop grills, such as panini presses — offer an unlimited range of speedy, tasty veg options.

Maybe my focus should be less about swinging the pendulum in the absolute opposite direction — and expecting a collection of perfectly concocted, cold - pressed juices to be my cure for malaise — and more about simply finding a better balance.

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Tell me I'm not alone in this: You saw Ratatouille, fell in love with Remy (though you still jumped a foot in the air when you saw a significantly less - charming rodent scamper across your path on the way home) and found yourself with a pressing craving, not for the heavy and too - often soggy traditional Provençal ratatouille, but that kaleidoscope of spiraled colors they served to the haughty and (spoiler!)

1 tsp neutral oil (olive oil or refined coconut oil) 1 package of extra firm tofu, drained and crumbled (no need to press) 3 shallots diced or 1/4 cup of a yellow onion, diced 2 - 3 cloves of garlic, minced 1 small zucchini, cubed or 1/3 of a medium zucchini 1 small bell pepper or 1/2 of a large, diced 1 cup of black beans, drained and rinsed 1/2 jalapeno, diced (seeded for less heat if you prefer) 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder 1/3 tsp of smoked paprika 1/4 tsp chili powder 1 tbl of water