Sentences with phrase «of using less power»

And the model assumes that everyone makes the best choice given the economic environment — that power generators choose the least expensive means of producing electricity, while consumers conserve energy as long as the money saved by buying less electricity exceeds the cost of using less power in the form either of other spending or loss of convenience.

The report cautions, however, that even those states on the list haven't fully tapped into the power of using less power.

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It requires less mining of virgin material to be used in the manufacturing process and reduces the amount of batteries consumers need to power their devices, which results in less waste.

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.

AlphaGo Zero also uses an order of magnitude less compute power than the previous versions of AlphaGo, suggesting that it's the algorithmic advances that lead to more progress than compute power or data.

In another experiment, rather than prime participants for particular roles, testosterone levels were used as a marker of which study subjects were inclined towards dominating power structures and which less interested in leading.

New research from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder finds that steep declines in the use of coal for power generation over the past decade were caused largely by less expensive natural...

Two years ago, I gave away an old Plasma TV because it used so much power (400 watts per hour of use) and replaced it with a bigger LED LCD TV that uses less than half the power.

Expenses are growing at less than half the rate of revenue, and it's a clear indication of Facebook's pricing power as an advertiser, a testament to its data culling prowess for advertisers, and an indication that businesses are eager to use Facebook's advertising services.

Trump proposes to use his power to line the pockets of steel and aluminum companies and workers, who number less than 150,000, with money taken from hundreds of millions of other people.

Indeed, a «sociological imagination» is slowly transforming all theologies — sometimes with unsettling and explicit power, as in the use of critical social theories in political and liberation theologies; sometimes with more implicit but no less unsettling effect, as in the increasing use of sociology of knowledge to clarify the actual social settings (or publics) of different theologies.

I. David Pierce, in his doctoral dissertation on cognition and theology, found that a sample of theologically liberal women were less inclined to use polar dimensions — such as «human effort» versus «divine power» or «instrumental» versus «relational» «-- than either a sample of men or a sample of theologically moderate or conservative women.

It has learned the art of using its power in ways that are more socially acceptable but no less in operation.

To highlight this usage is not deny some of uses of power are oppressive, but rather to suggest that exercise of power, especially state power, needs to be evaluated by some criterion other than whether the person who is on the receiving end of a powerful action has less power than the persons acting against them.

This use of power may appear more bloody, but it is less coercive and less destructive than the power to prevent change.

Hansen's assessment is simple: we need, as a planet, to be emitting less carbon dioxide inside of ten years — an enormous task given that China and India are finally beginning to use power in appreciable quantities (and not for luxuries but for the second light bulb or first refrigerator in a house).

Norman Fairclough, in his fascinating study «Language and Power ``, says that because institutions have been forced to use less direct ways of securing and exercising power, that many institutions have launched a counter-offenPower ``, says that because institutions have been forced to use less direct ways of securing and exercising power, that many institutions have launched a counter-offenpower, that many institutions have launched a counter-offensive.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptiveUsing some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptiveUsing its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptiveusing condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

Husbands and fathers are assumed to be dishonest and struggle to prove the contrary; less than honest affidavits and statements are regularly sworn by vengeful parties; and wives and mothers are encouraged to demand to the full the use of the very liberal and ample powers that the courts now have to oust fathers from their own homes and deprive them of any but the most minimal contact with their children.

I also made a «peanut butter» roux to thicken it, but had to double the amount of flour I used, as roux has less thickening power than uncooked flour.

I like it because it's simple and uses less oil, due to the thickening power of the tofu.

I personally believe that Wenger didn't push to have the contracts of Sanchez, Ozil, Ramsey and Ox renewed earlier because he was going to use it as leverage when renegotiating his own deal... so far that tactic has backfired as we know little more about this squad moving forward than we did in May and Wenger clearly misjudged just how important his staying would be to both Sanchez and Ox... I like Lacazette, but I liked him a lot more 2 years ago at 20 million less... Sead might come good but once again he wasn't a necessity buy, except that he was a free transfer and was signed early... another «wag the dog» tactic employed by the powers that be... as for the rest of the roster, very little has changed, except that it's way too big and lacks the cutting edge to take this club to new heights.

Summer is the perfect time to simplify family life, says Kim John Payne, author of the book, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids.

Kim John Payne gave a talk about using the extraordinary power of less to raise calmer, happier and more secure children.

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, More Secure Kids.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

Kim John Payne, founder of the Simplicity Parenting movement and author of Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier Children, suggests in his book that «boredom is often the precursor to creativity.»

Payne's latest book, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids (Ballantine Books / Random House, 2009), pulls together his central ideas into one tight, smart, and compassionate argument: Just slow down.

From one of my favorite books, Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids by Kim John Payne:

I used a lot of the strategies Schafer suggests and my daughter is a lot happier and there's less of a power struggle.

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids Kim John Payne, Lisa M. Ross

Instead of wasting electricity using ovens and pans, you should try slow cookers as they need less power to run.

Beginning last October, two groups of parents from Hartsbrook and beyond have been gathering monthly at our school to explore the themes of Kim John Payne's book Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids.

Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!

The lawyer who spoke passionately about the issue said, she was attracted to the way Mrs. Bawumia excelled in the campaign and so in the same vein, she should use the power and influence for the benefit of the less privileged.

@RazieMah - The US uses money and military power to manipulate countries it thinks of as lesser and not a real threat.

The groups say they hope Cuomo will make use of the bully pulpit during his State of the State address in less than a month, and his budgetary powers, to get a head start on advancing the Moreland Commission's proposals.

The use of petrol and diesel engines to power cars will also need to be «much less dominant» and replaced with electric power and biofuels, a policy meeting in the House of Commons heard.

He should've used all of his considerable power to suspend him, his pay, transfer his staff, whatever, to force that jerk out, much less taking it to the ethics committee as he failed to do.

LED lights use 40 to 80 percent less power and last six times longer than other types of roadway lighting.

- 95 per cent of touring caravans on UK roads are actually made in Britain - In many caravan parks, great attention is paid to protecting the environment, with e.g. use of solar power to heat communal shower blocks, wildlife areas, recycling points etc. - Water and power usage during the holiday is often less than in a hotel.

He noted that despite winning an «outright majority,» the Senate GOP is continuing its «historic coalition» with the IDC, though he did not mention that the terms of that relationship have been modified to provide the breakaway Democrats with less power than they used to have.

«As if the palpable odium of intiating a vacuous criminal charge against a whistle - blower, no less a person than a distinguished senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not bad enough, the prosecuting authority, obviously urged on by the Inspector General of Police, threw pretension to adherence to democratic tenets of the rule of law when it sought from the court, albeit most illegally, to obtain summons against Senator Misau, while deliberately witholding service of the copy of the charge on the Senator, an obvious stratagem conceived to frame up all manner of false allegations tailored to suit the obvious purpose of yet another gestapo strategy to use state powers to swoop on the Distinguished Senator and keep him out of circulation»

«They want them there just as an ultimate level of security, but they'll be roughly 90 percent less polluting than the existing ones... With just the diesel generators you can only power a couple of lights and maybe one elevator but if you actually wanted to use this as a shelter for an extended period of time you would need the cogeneration plant,» he said.

He subsequently blamed much of the scandal on poor controls over the procurement process used by the nonprofits, and has proposed stepped - up oversight such as the creation of a «chief procurement officer» within the Executive Chamber — though that concept has been criticized by some as duplicative of the powers of the state Comptroller's office, only less independent.

The innovative thing about OLEDs (for organic light - emitting diodes) is that lots of tiny OLEDs can be «printed» onto a single big sheet, allowing engineers to make a digital display that uses less power than a plasma screen and offers higher contrast, a wider range of viewing angles, and richer colors than an LCD screen.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Astronomers have now used the power of ESO's Very Large Telescope to explore one of its lesser known regions.

Astronomers have now used the power of the ESO's Very Large Telescope to explore NGC 2035, one of its lesser known regions, in great detail.