Sentences with phrase «of lesser consequence»

Since everything runs off of the Internet, the type of device you use to gain access to content, edit documents or other data is of lesser consequence.

Where is clean label of less consequence?

Opinions about who deserves entrance — and who should be barred from Cooperstown's halls — remain, but whether or not things work out the way I prefer is of less consequence now than it used to be.

Because the battery is replaceable, that's of less consequence since I'll have a second one ready to go.

Not exact matches

There are obvious consequences to drinking on the clock: A study from the Journal of Consumer Psychology found that prospective hires who ordered a glass of wine during an interview were seen as less intelligent than those who abstained — even when the interviewer was indulging in a drink.

We tend to overestimate the dire consequences of less - than - successful bids to be creative.

He says the actions of central banks «attempting to spark economic growth» are «severely punishing the world's savers and creating incentives to reach for yield, pushing investors into less liquid asset classes and increased levels of risk, with potentially dangerous financial and economic consequences.»

As a consequence, the chief source of political pressure on healthcare became less and less Trump, and more and more the ideological concerns of his fellow Republicans.

But school officials claim the results are less likely a sign of collusion than they are a consequence of familiarity.

Negroponte argued that, as a consequence of electronic distribution, «videocassette - rental stores will go out of business in less than ten years.»

But two surprising consequences of Taggar's decision suggest that entrepreneurs who check email on the go all day might be creating less than ideal side effects for themselves and their businesses.

In the case of the regional airline industry, 1110 made it much easier for airlines to make consequence - free escapes from their leases after rising fuel costs made their 50 - seat jets less economical.

On the one hand, it may be that postponing a rapid resolution protects us from the most damaging consequences of a crisis, when slower growth and a rising debt burden reinforce each other, while giving us time to rebalance less painfully — the Great depression in the US showed us how damaging the process can be.

Efforts to open up AR to wider audiences by Google, Apple and Facebook have real consequences for advertisers, which have largely passed on AR experiments in favor of less risky approaches like conventional branded mobile apps and immersive in - person activations.

: It is always very tricky to try to time an entry point into any long - term investment, but I think that the consequence of a mistimed investment would be less of a concern in an adaptive strategy than a static strategy.

A more efficient industry in one country can easily succumb to a less efficient one in another as a consequence of policies that distort capital flows.

Whether it saves money this year or not is less important than avoiding consequences from having your finances entangled in a tax return which might not hold up to the scrutiny of an audit.

This is, in the purest of senses, privilege: the ability to avoid the consequences that most anyone else in the same situation would have to endure — and, along with that, the ability to walk all over less powerful people in order to avoid those consequences — due to one's own power and social position.

As a consequence their leadership style is more di use and they are less hands - on in the day to day running of the business.

Calling unemployment a «fickle indicator,» the group warned that if Carney was wrong, «the bank could be required to backtrack on its guidance, with the likely consequence of reduced credibility, and as a result, less scope to operate monetary policy flexibly in future.»

Central banks are nearing the limits of extraordinary monetary easing, as monetary policy is becoming less effective in boosting growth and additional easing measures may have diminishing returns — and unintended consequences.

«Imagine if [the Daniels affair] came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,» he said, apparently under the impression that linking the story to its potential electoral consequences would make the money seem less connected to the election.

This process is can often be completed in 30 minutes or less - a small amount of time to spend when you consider the consequences of poor plan design.

In their world, the only way to earn a return greater than the market is to take more risk, and likewise, the consequence of taking less risk than the market is earning a lower return.

In the Biblical tradition, justice is the identifying characteristic of Yahweh and the first prerequisite for a peaceable society.15 A philosophy which does any less is inadequate to our religious insight and will prove counterrevolutionary in its consequences.

The Catholic destabilization following the Council was advanced by liberal and progressive forces in the Church, but it had the unexpected consequence of making Catholicism, in the view of evangelicals, less the monolithic threat that they feared.

Other Christians who observe the actual consequences of the global economy are much less enthusiastic.

In consequence one is the less disposed to reject as unscientific the idea that the critical point of planetary Reflection, the fruit of socialization, far from being a mere spark in the darkness, represents our passage, by Translation or dematerialization, to another sphere of the Universe: not an ending of the ultra-human but its accession to some sort of trans - humanity at the ultimate heart of things.

In my view the relation of deeds and consequences is less orderly than traditional Buddhist teaching affirms, but Buddhists are right to reject notions of externally imposed punishment.

Freed by nature from the consequences of their sexuality, probably both less fitted and less interested by nature than women for the work of nurture and rearing, men need to be acculturated to the work of transmission.

Even those who work with the calculation of consequences, however, know that the facts are never all in, that calculations often have to be made with less than adequate evidence.

The reason for the present Republican surge is that this isn't change that most Americans believe in, although it is change they voted for (at least if any of them gave a moment's thought to the more or less inevitable policy consequences of their votes for Obama and a Democratic Congress).

If, as I think orthodox Christianity ultimately teaches, and as Solzhenitsyn's «Father Severyan» plainly teaches in November 1916 (excerpted here), that humans are inherently prone to violence (and that the lesser evil of state - derived war is the price we pay for living not in anarchy but in «sword - bearing» states), then not only is 1) contrary to the New Testament's real teaching, but 2) is impossible and 3) requires a coercion that will bring with it very deleterious consequences.

I'm not saying those Christians are intentionally not good, but it's a known trait of humans (ask any insurance company) that they are less careful when they are protected against negative consequences of their actions.

The cheetah is a nice example of the consequences of low genetic diversity; however, it should be noted that a founding pair of two would invariably produce far less genetic diversity than we see in modern cheetah populations.

But as time or quality material are less crucial for Twitter, you can find him there (@kruegertw) tweeting maps, puns, and occasionally something of consequence, like gender, faith, and culture.

Intensely aware of, but disturbed by, the pattern of self - segregation among young Korean American evangelicals, Ecklund is less interested in understanding the roots of their religious behavior than in analyzing its consequences for American civic life.

In consequence, the next decade will enable the churches to bring together that which, at their best, they tend to do well (providing persons with a faith perspective from which to cope with the enduring problems of life) and that which they do less effectively (corporate and social ministry).

While some focus on its potential to inspire a bloody «cycle of violence,» the most potent critique of anger is actually made by those less concerned with drawing attention to its negative political consequences.

The reply given by the Johannine Jesus appears at first to confirm this by saying, «If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life», but then proceeds to add quite a new interpretation of the resurrection power of Christ in the words, «and no one who is alive and has faith shall ever die».13 C. H. Dodd concludes that «the «resurrection» of which Jesus has spoken is something which may take place before bodily death, and has for its result the possession of eternal life here and now... The evangelist agrees with popular Christianity that the believer will enter into eternal life at the general resurrection, but for him this is a truth of less importance than the fact that the believer already enjoys eternal life and the former is a consequence of the latter.»

The problem arises not only in the dramatic case of atomic energy but in thousands of lesser cases in which an application has significant consequences for society.

According to the index, the world has become less peaceful in the last eight years, and one of the consequences is that more than 50 million people have been forced from their homes as refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs).

Because they were concerned with their own impotence in good works and with the harm they were doing to others, they were not less altruistic than those who were concerned only with doing good, and inattentive to the evil consequences of many good works.

Our hatred of sin should manifest itself in a love that warns sinners — compassionately, but no less clearly — of the dire consequences their sin demands.

These problems are less severe for black theology, as a consequence of contributions from scholars with long tenure in the academy such as Archie Smith and Edward Wimberly.

Less fascinated by the sane and clothed state of the man, the people are horrified by the costs and consequences of the salvation Jesus brings.

Of course, if a government punishes sexual promiscuity in a certain segment of the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention on the reality that aside from the immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequenceOf course, if a government punishes sexual promiscuity in a certain segment of the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention on the reality that aside from the immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequenceof the population with death the people will become less promiscuous since it focuses everyone's attention on the reality that aside from the immediate pleasure, there can be serious negative consequences.

The movement from theoria to theory, which has as its goal nothing less than the complete rationalization of experience, is one consequence of this identification.

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.

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.