Sentences with phrase «of less reliance»

«I think we've got a lot of things in place that try and support that trend» of less reliance on vehicles, he said.

Despite the prospect of less reliance on oil, electric vehicles are not proving popular with the car - buying public

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Even so, China's biggest oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, only provided 16 percent of its crude in 2014, less than half the U.S.'s reliance on Canada.

Air - pockets, panics and crashes had regularly followed these and lesser «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» extremes in every previous market cycle, and our reliance on that fact became our Achilles Heel during the advancing half of this one.

Some attention to physical training and consideration of footwear is prudent, but the pilgrim will also find that «less is more» and that setting out is a very small gesture away from the securities of daily life and towards greater reliance on providence.

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

She says the United States is in mid-recovery and because of that we are seeing less of a reliance on comfort foods that indicate a recession.

NYCFC has proven all season that it has way less of a reliance on David Villa to produce in order to find success, and going into Atlanta on short rest and emerging with a point thanks to a full team effort is a testament to that.

We need more cohesion in front of goal, better understanding between the defence and the midfield, and less reliance upon left - sided attack.

Parents and coaches will benefit from reduced reliance on honest self - reporting of concussion symptoms by athletes and of the less - than - perfect observational skills of sideline management in spotting signs of concussion;

Not surprisingly, reliance on less nutritious foods and limited physical activity have resulted in an explosion of childhood obesity which has, in turn, led to health impairments that can have devastating lifetime effects (diabetes, hypertension, asthma, anxiety, and hyperactivity).

And at a time when Ed Miliband and Ed Balls are arguing for a diversification of the economy, with less reliance on financial services and with a focus that is broader than just London.

The neighborhoods surrounding Interfaith are made up of lower - income, non-white families that typically have less access to primary and preventive care, which forces a greater reliance on the hospital.

Transparency was the focus of DiNapoli's February analysis of the 2016 - 17 executive budget, and on Tuesday in Syracuse he urged better oversight of the disbursement of economic development funds and less of a reliance on lump - sum disbursements.

Some of Gibson's positions, like his call for less reliance on U.S. military power overseas and more stringent civil liberties protections at home, have shown cross party appeal.

Viewed thus, the Strathclyde model amounts to a triple - whammy: it would permit the Government, just as it can at present, to shield parts of it legislative proposals from the full scrutiny that primary legislation attracts; it would substantially undermine the already lesser scrutiny to which statutory instruments are subject; and it would incentivise greater reliance upon statutory instruments as distinct from primary legislation in order to exploit the significantly weaker scrutiny regime applicable to the former.

Ms. Nixon has criticized Mr. Cuomo for his reliance on such large donors, pointing out that she has surpassed 10,000 donors to her campaign, 98 percent of whom gave less than $ 200.

«[T] he increased reliance funding agencies place on [such] classic bibliometric indicators» as short - term citation metrics and journal impact measures thus hampers the chances that innovative work will win support and constrains both the progress of science and the career prospects of innovative but lesser - known researchers, the authors observe.

This reliance may explain why humans give less weight to human life as the number of potential victims goes up.

«There is a potential risk that if you cool the planet by albedo modification, it could provide less incentive to reduce reliance on fossil fuels,» says Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist, current editor - in - chief of Science and chair of a committee that evaluated climate intervention techniques for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

As farmers spend billions of dollars spreading nitrogen on their fields this spring, researchers at the University of Missouri are working toward less reliance on the fertilizer.

The guideline provides advice on how people should be monitored for evidence of improvement or deterioration, encourages the use of a variety of treatments to ensure less reliance on steroids to control symptoms and provides information on which drugs to use for people that do not respond to initial treatment plans.

The move allowed Changizi to continue to conduct academic work with more intellectual freedom and less of a reliance on grants.

Some people are troubled that information gleaned online plays too large a role in their fact - access process, yet this reliance on external memory seems to bother them less if the information resides in the brain of another person.

The latest findings stem from an ongoing collaboration that is ultimately aimed at bringing farmers a more stable breed of the plant that has less reliance on water and is less vulnerable to climate change.

Spending a ton of money on supplements and physique - boosters has a short but proud tradition among modern bodybuilders, while reliance on real, whole food for the purpose of meeting the nutritional demands of bodybuilding seems to become less and less popular.

It may be that the vegetarians sampled were generally more aware of health and had less reliance on medicine to treat ailments or they were more likely to exercise more if vegetarian.

I'd like to see it sustain itself with less of a reliance on me as a face of a business.

That reliance is less engaging in the movie's interpersonal relationships, which, despite charming performances from Jackman (who manages to overcome his character's numerous flaws) and Goyo (who avoids the trap of becoming a grating «precocious kid»), are as rote as their development is inevitable.

The ever - growing reliance on home and mobile streaming entertainment thankfully do not neglect auteur content and MIFF is proud to support the work, less so the medium with Top of the Lake: China Girl; straight from a standing ovation in Cannes, this special Australian premiere of the entire second season, directed by Jane Campion and starring Nicole Kidman will show all six episodes in three concurrent two - hour sessions — a unique opportunity to see the series before its television premiere, turning this binge experience into an outright event.

We need less reliance on statistics to guide us, especially in an era of such divergence between the guilds and AMPAS.

Scripter John Hughes» sporadic reliance on elements of a decidedly less - than - fresh nature are, as a result, not as problematic as one might've feared, although, by that same token, it's not difficult to wish that certain superfluous elements had been either reduced sharply or jettisoned altogether - with the best example of this the continuing emphasis on Jack's wife's (Teri Garr's Caroline) continuing dealings with her lecherous boss (Martin Mull's Ron).

At the same time, the drawbacks of excessive reliance on state revenue are less widely appreciated.

In recent years, we have also seen the growth of competency - based learning, an approach within classrooms and schools that stresses specific skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and teamwork, and paired with less reliance on seat - time, allows students to advance upon mastering competencies at their own pace.

Ebooks will still have to be sold and marketed, just in different ways as there will be far less reliance on an upfront advance buy - in, but far more reliance on ongoing marketing through the use of content and metadata — as well as user - generated content and promotion tools to get the book marketed.

The Fund is subject to the special risks associated with investments in micro-cap companies, such as relatively short earnings history, competitive conditions, less publicly available corporate information, and reliance on a limited number of products.

As well, Oaken is helping Home Capital attract more depositors, which cuts its reliance on less - stable forms of funding, such as selling mortgages to third parties.

These dogs are bred to have more of a «pack» mentality with other dogs and less reliance on a master's direct commands.

Sony wasted 20 minutes talking about tv and Now and still managed to show a more impressive array of game footage than Microsoft, and with less reliance on CGI and footage that won't actually be part of the games.

As the contemporary practice of painting continues to expand exponentially, with many artists becoming less concerned with the physical medium of paint itself, Cain's practice — a combination of control, happenstance, and environmental information — is made unique through its reliance on space and the structural conditions of the locations in which her work is exhibited.

Less reliance on food production as a primary source of people's food security runs counter to the assumption that people's food security in Africa derives solely (or even primarily) from their own agricultural production (Bryceson, 2000, 2004; Bryceson and Fonseca, 2006).

Clearer awareness of the effect of integration across harmonics is needed (rather than reliance on rote memorization of procedures advocated by some for dealing with less well - structured time series).

Too much rain at the wrong time can flatten wheat fields, one of the reasons why the Irish shifted from a reliance on grains to less chancy potatoes.

More dramatically, fear of radiation led to extraordinary safety requirements for nuclear power plants, far in excess of controls imposed on other high - risk industrial facilities, which made nuclear power less cost - competitive and led to more reliance on coal.

Of course agreed and that makes many schools reliance on some «inconvenient truth» very disturbing indeed... «Steve's complaint was not that the less technical explanations are biased, it was that the less technical explanations aren't technical enough.

While solar energy won't entirely eliminate your company's reliance on carbon - intensive fossil fuels, a well - planned PV installation can play an important role in shifting your company onto a less - carbon - intensive track of growth — so that when regulators do throw the switch, you can hit the ground running.

The supposed purpose of doing so is to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, thus causing «less» harm to the environment and the climate.

On the other hand Chief and I would be more optimistic that small solar systems could be of significant benefit to third world counties and their inhabitants with resulting less reliance on the burning of wood and dung etc, which have implications for CO2 emissions.

In that case, the choice of an «objective prior» just is a blind reliance on an arbitrary mathematical convention and this choice isn't any less subjective (at best) than any other just because some mathematician has decided to call it «objective».

To those who don't believe CO2 is a problem, it's still a good idea — more efficient use of energy means less reliance on the Middle East, less push to mine coal...