Sentences with phrase «of lesser light»

I think it's a question of lesser light versus greater light.

Pull down the idols of the tribe, debunk the status of the proud and powerful, desanctify the saints and desecrate the holy places: as the blinding sunlight of their glory fades, the gathering dusk reveals a hundred thousand points of lesser light each with a glory of its own.

Bill Veeck's Chicago White Sox have given Southern hospitality a new meaning by asking a rent - a-star and a horde of lesser lights to train with them in Florida

A number of lesser lights are in the field but most national GOPers seem to be waiting on state party chair Sue Lowden to make up her mind about running.

I agree with the sentiment expressed by both you and Jim C, but I don't think Jim's «someone who really matters... com [ing] out with a clear and unequivocal statement,» or your «a steady exodus of lesser lights» (this has already started) will make much difference.

This means she is having an impact and judging from the weasely nature of the lesser lights, actually reinforces my view that Judith is on the right track here.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

When you have a drink before bed, «sleep is lighter, and you have less REM (the deepest stage of sleep),» says sleep expert Dr. Lisa Shives.

Twelve to 18 months of cash is a yellow light, and less than a year of cash is a flashing red light.

But if you're looking to pay less for a product that's available now, there are a variety of light - based alarm clocks for sale on Amazon, including the sunrise alarm clock by Mosche ($ 32.99) and the sunrise simulation snooze alarm clock by totobay ($ 27.99).

On the other hand, someone who considers themselves in a variety of lights — as a mother, sister, doctor, surfer, crossword - puzzle wiz, etc. — has less emotional dependence on any single one of these identity «baskets.»

The company is also experimenting with turning down the volume of music (or as Abercrombie's president mistakenly called it during the conference call, «noise») played in stores, turning up the lighting, and generally making its retail locations feel less like a bizarre form of torture.

Softer, lighter and less reliant on external power, future robots could interact more safely and predictably with humans, go where humans can't, and do some of the robotic jobs that other robots still can't manage.

The bulb An 8.5 - watt LED bulb produces 600 lumens of light, about the same as a 50 - watt incandescent bulb, but uses up to 80 % less power.

Of course, given the lighter price tag, the Samsung is plastic, less powerful and not quite as thin or light, but it does boast the same 1,366 - by -768-pixel screen resolution, black keyboard and sleek design.

Some of its notable features are its virtual keyboard, built - in Wi - Fi and light weight of less than 1.5 lbs.

The data from the Prius dashboard gives drivers real - time feedback on their fuel consumption, which leads to a series of behavioral micro-adjustments in how they drive — a little less pedal to the metal at the traffic light, a little more coasting on the downhill.

A study in the «Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine» found that employees who weren't exposed to natural light at work slept an average of 46 minutes less a night than their peers with windows — and the sleep they did get was less restful.

LED light bulbs can last around 20 years, use less energy to work, and provide a purer source of light.

Another way to look at that is if those in the audience who know what covenant - light loans are, which are loans without a lot of stuff tied around you, back in» 06,»07 less than 20 percent of the debt was issued cov - light.

Nonetheless, stories from RT are likely to become less visible to Americans in light of Google's recent decision to «de-rank» them in its search engine — a move that drew the ire of Russia.

Since VisiCalc was introduced in October 1979, other software authors and publishers have seen the light and begun to produce programs that make all sorts of mundane business tasks easier and less boring.

The store bustles with lunchtime shoppers and, like most of Dollarama's locations, is brightly lit, clean and entirely lacking the dank scent of stale spices, candles and lemon cleaner common to lesser dollar stores.

A study found that people who work in offices filled with natural light experience substantially less eye strain, headaches and blurred visions, all of which deter focus and performance.

The search provider switch came as Mozilla announced Firefox Quantum, a faster, new version of the browser that company says is 30 percent lighter than Google Chrome in that it uses less computer memory.

There's one huge reason locating posh digs for bigwigs in the actual corners of your office is a terrible idea (beyond the fact that having them holed up in there isn't awesome for communication): «It's less democratic to locate private offices at the perimeter, taking all the natural light and views,» Toronto architect Heather Dubbeldam tells Undercover Recruiter.

The FBA Small and Light program added thousands of items less than eight ounces priced under $ 10.

One spot shows a Miller Lite can set on top of a Bud Light coaster, while a voiceover plugs Lite as brewed with «more taste, less calories and half the carbs.»

Online PR is a perfect solution for a topic that shines less light on tactics du jour, althought linkbaiting still works well, and more on leveraging the media and centers of influence online.

What matters much less is who builds the lease and supplies all of the rental components such as matting, camp, light towers, wellsite trailers and the myriad of other parts and pieces certainly required to drill the well, but which ultimately have no bearing on the quality of the wellbore or the well's future production.

To those of us who are perhaps less familiar with the practical applications of communicating with light, it can seem almost like magic how fiber optics work.

It can take time and effort, but if you can look at everyone in this light, you become a lot less phased by the prospect of being judged.

However, if you do wear cologne, it's best to go with the lightest scent possible, or better still, with an unscented soap — otherwise you risk the smell of the soap and that of the cologne mixing together into something much less pleasant.

The lighter model prevailed, but with engineers developing and testing two competing concepts, they had less time to figure out how to cram all the electronics into a thin slab of aluminum that would hold together.

Provincial sales tax remains steady at 6 % but the PST exemption has been eliminated for used light vehicles with the exception of used vehicles sold privately and purchased for less than $ 5,000.

The Capital Weather Gang forecasts: «Light showers are likely to scatter through the area much of the day, but in most spots amount to less than a quarter - inch.

Because these types of razors are less likely to cause irritation or nicks during a shave, they are perfect for men with very sensitive skin or men with lighter / weaker beard growth.

The brand has been going squarely after Bud Light with spots that tout Lite as having «less calories» and «half the carbs» of its larger competitor.

It simply makes no sense in light of a trend like the one seen below (which incidentally masks quite a bit of internal weakness in less liquid stocks to boot).

This was a devastating blow to many people, especially in light of the fact that the average income is less than $ 3,000 a year in Nigeria.

«I am not personally boycotting any of the other companies, but it has made me view Elon Musk in a less positive light,» Sean Muirhead, who also deleted Uber, told Recode.

Neither light reading nor cheap (it's hard to find online for less than about $ 75), this book is the most thoughtful and objective analysis of the long - term returns on stocks, bonds, cash and inflation available anywhere, purged of the pom - pom waving and statistical biases that contaminate other books on the subject.

There are six tiers of maker, taker and auction fees that range from 1 % for light traders (less than 5 BTC or 50 ETH over the last 30 days) to 0.1 % for takers and 0 % for makers when trading more than 2,000 BTC or 20,000 ETH over the last 30 days.

@Lawrence of Arabia, «The Bible tells us that the stars were created to mark the times and the seasons, and to provide the lesser lights to govern the night.»

After all, nineteenth - century Lutheran theologians like Ritschl and Harnack were leading lights of what Troeltsch later called «Neo-Protestantism»; they were followed in the twentieth century by the likes of Bultmann, Ebeling, and lesser imitators fighting at all costs to save Lutheranism against Karl Barth's new orthodoxy or Dietrich Bonhoeffer's call to discipleship.

Allison Vesterfelt is a writer, speaker, thinker, dreamer, and the author of Packing Light: Thoughts on Living LIfe with Less Baggage (Moody, 2013).

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

As new information has come to light, this conflict of interest has become less, but has not been completely answer satisfactorily.

They, the power brokers, would not listen to those outside the inner circle about hiring a new pastor in light of the congregation being less than 200 active members and their want of two pastors, when two families have continually I played catchup with the unpaid bills.

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.