Sentences with phrase «of less significance»

On interim applications the need to achieve economic self - sufficiency is often of less significance;

Makers were of less significance than they are now: names like Chippendale and Sheraton were freely applied, without the precision made possible by the later development of furniture history.

Although Black Panther is a fictional character, the role is ostensibly of no less significance than the historical figures Chadwick has played in the past.

Pizza and chicken nuggets might not be healthy for their bodies, but according to parents like Siegel, the ideas that fuel their minds are of less significance.»

It is of less significance to know how many of such optimistic or resigned «wisdom» sayings were really spoken by Jesus, than to see that the view of man set forth in this proverbial wisdom is in general accepted by Jesus.

It is still a common experience for the missionaries in a pagan land to find the divisions of the Christian church of less significance than in the place of their origin.

It would be hard to find a more commonplace starting - point or one of less significance from the human standpoint.

This is why ministry leaders almost never «feel the leading of God» to go to smaller ministries and places of lesser significance.

Unreconstructed economists would find the claim of the lesser significance of comfort, relative to a good such as the spread of learning, inappropriate.

The fulfillment of personality is thus a form of communion, whether it be with the God a man worships; or with nature under some aspect; or through intimate communication with ideal things, the inexhaustible quality of beauty or truth that pervades the universe; or with some cause that calls into action all one's powers; or even with things of lesser significance so long as they satisfy the human craving for union.

While I do not believe that Arsenal need a world - beater of a centre - half to come in, perhaps a young prospect like Holding could be brought into the side and be given opportunities during games of lesser significance or when there's an injury crisis.

They can ensure that everyone involved knows where the sensitive buildings are, which needed to be treated with care and conversely which are of lesser significance in heritage terms.

In addition, there was a shift upward within the two to four children range although this was of lesser significance for the baby boom than the rise in the proportion having two children and the shifts in the timing of births.

Of lesser significance perhaps is of Wolters Kluwer's acquisition of Effacts, a Netherlands - based provider of legal management software.

Not exact matches

As for the significance of handholding, Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, told The New York Times in 2006: «It's less about sex than about a public demonstration about coupledom.»

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

The significance of the post-exilic period, however, resides less in external events than in the process by which the life of the Jewish community was built up internally.

But while Lindsell obviously intends to meet these concerns, his book is actually a repristination (and often less subtle than earlier expressions) of a particular timebound formulation of biblical authority that is being seen by increasing numbers of evangelicals not only to have outlived its usefulness but to have become a positive hindrance to the understanding of the fuller and deeper significance of the Scriptures.

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

Or taking a less precise definition of beginning, one might consider the whole period, from the Declaration of Independence to the inauguration of Washington under the new Constitution, as the origin time of the American nation, America began as the result of a series of conscious decisions, The acts embodying those decisions have a kind of absolute meaning - creating significance.

It is a warning to all teachers that motion pictures using biblical themes often have less religious significance than secular ones that deal with the real issues of life.

The significance of the myth of the end - time for us must be no less cosmic than it was for the ancients, whose breadth of vision, when carefully examined, is little short of amazing.

The more limited a sphere of knowledge is, and the more peripheral its philosophical significance in relation to man, the less directly, therefore, it concerns man himself and what essentially defines his own existence, the more readily of course the teaching of the faith can be viewed as a mere norma negativa in regard to that science.

Less consistently the second alternative is exemplified in the book of Revelation, where the whole process of salvation tends to he associated with the future advent of the Messiah, although the expiatory significance of Christ's death is constantly in the author's mind.)

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.

Such naïveté is now impossible, for Freud taught us what the Bible knew — that the closer one gets to matters of decisive significance for the self (in this case, God), the less able he is to think disinterestedly.

In case he did not know this definitely, then he has not made the infinite movement of resignation, then, though his word is not indeed an untruth, he is very far from being Abraham, he has less significance than the tragic hero, yea, he is an irresolute man who is unable to resolve either on one thing or another, and for this reason will always be uttering riddles.

As I hope is evident, none of the above meant to reduce or dispute the cultural significance, much less the real orientation towards peace of «A Common Word».

They undoubtedly have no essential spiritual significance, and although their presence makes his conversion more memorable to the convert, it has never been proved that converts who show them are more persevering or fertile in good fruits than those whose change of heart has had less violent accompaniments.

The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation of new denominations on the basis of national, ethnic and class differences — as well as differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many of these differences seemed to be of even less enduring significance than they were at home.

When that lesson comes home, nothing else of religious significance will matter any less, but learning to love will matter more.

Indeed the infinitely active and inexhaustible nature of the subjects of theology reduces to relatively small significance the distance between the more and less mature members of the community of inquiry.

With the proclamation of the Kingdom by Jesus on the one hand and this parable on the other, we are justified in arguing that Jesus, for all the claims he made and implied about the significance of his ministry and message, none the less looked forward to a consummation to which this was related as seed - time to harvest.

It would indeed be startling if Jews were seeking to inject religion into the public life of the nation when for American Jewry as a whole religion has less significance than ever.

Agriculture may be less than 3 % of Australia's GDP, but to understand its significance only through an economist's eyes is unbelievably naïve and short - sighted.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

If we wanted a highfalutin theory as to why the League Cup semifinals, we might suggest that the trappings — nighttime knockout football under lights — combine with the unusual significance — huge because it's a semifinal, but less than even a straightforward league game since it's only the third cup — to create an occasion that sits slightly outside the normal flow of the season.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

By comparing heavily bet games (more bets tracked than the daily average) with smaller games (daily average or less), the significance of this statistic becomes painfully obvious.

Similarly, the unadjusted difference of 8 points between children who were breast fed for less than 3 months, compared to those who were breast fed for six months or more, is unlikely to have clinical significance in a population with a mean IQ at age 5 of 109 points.

The politically conscious spend their days nervously worrying about the significance of the fact that, increasingly, most people couldn't care less.

In proportional - election systems, where political parties are represented in proportion to the total numbers of votes they receive, gerrymandering has little or less significance.

• He played down the significance of Philip Hammond replacing the less Eurosceptic William Hague as foreign secretary.

«Today David Cameron tries to pose as a champion of the people but in truth he wishes to restrict the British people to a choice on a narrow question about a treaty of far less significance.»

Asked about the Wandering Dago case and whether the importance of emails can be assessed in 90 days, he said: «There are any number of situations that have arisen in which a record, or for that matter, a judicial decision might appear to be less than significant but would take on additional significance with the passage of time or the occurrence of events.

Less likely to conceive were women in the age group over 37, and here some differences in outcome were observed, though not of statistical significance.

To claim a Higgs discovery, physicists need to extract from this mess the gold standard signal — one with a statistical significance of 5 sigma, meaning the chance of producing it from background events alone is less than one in a million.

«But the larger significance will possibly be one less reason for any person, male or female, to argue that women are not as capable as men in the role of scientist,» she said.»

Although alcohol is the most important risk factor, less is known about the significance of different patterns of drinking.

The real significance of this research, Mavrikakis says, is less about basic chemistry and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials, with the ultimate goal of replacing platinum and palladium with more affordable metals.