Sentences with phrase «often more the rule»

In older cats, this is often more the rule than the exception.

Not exact matches

Companies on a major stock exchange are often subject to tougher transparency rules, giving more insight into the workings of a company they are putting their faith in.

Amidst the preference for social media and texting as a primary means of communication, it seems communication styles end up being more functional and less formal and often don't follow traditional etiquette rules.

This is often the case in law when you receive a preliminary ruling that does not support your case or, as is often the case, a ruling that makes trial more difficult for both parties.

Off the isle of Manhattan, it is more often the overall size that matters, although no authority appears to have committed these rules to paper.

Harrison's CN, by contrast, got lambasted for adopting a rigid rules - based system under which employees were more often suspended or fired for mistakes.

In the House, the Rules Committee often reports a so - called special rule that sets aside one or more points of order.

Those that do occur are often ruled more by politics than economics.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

This is the most legitimate concern over these structures in our view and while it could be a problem; these are more often the exception opposed to the rule simply due to the fact that markets will not invest in management teams that do not act in the best interest of the shareholders.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

We are occasionally totally selfish, but more often some combination of rule - abiding, generous, ambitious, cautious and lazy.

Under BJP rule, persecution of religious minorities, especially Muslims and Christians, has markedly increased, as the party often turns a blind eye to the actions of its more militant supporters.

In his essay «The Golden Rule in the Light of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor of more logical principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 2Rule in the Light of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor of more logical principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 2rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 226).

Too often the debate between a Bernard of Clairvaux and a Peter Abelard is read in terms of the latter's so - called heterodoxy when it was just as much about Bernard's progressive vision of a church disentangled from the control of secular princes over against Abelard's more conservative view of an ordered relation of patronage and rule between secular rulers and sacred institutions.

I am speaking generally, of course, but I think Christian women wrestle with these questions most of all, perhaps because in a religious culture that often puts forth narrow and contested definitions of womanhood, young women whose interests and personalities might lead them away from the list of acceptable rules and roles are subtly punished for not exhibiting a more «gentle and quiet spirit,» for not reigning in some of that ambition and drive.

The most effective houses are small (not more than twenty - five clients), have simple rules, maintain an atmosphere of homelike informality, and employ staff counselors who are recovered alcoholics, often former Skid Row - ers.

Especially in Jesus» time, under foreign rule, most of the rich people compromised with the pagan rulers and became worldly and irreligious, while the poor more often remained faithful.

On the other hand, debunkers have often claimed more than they knew when they ruled out all reports of the miraculous.

I'd like to use my freezer more often for left overs as I think that will be a great time saver for me (I'm not always the most motivated person when it comes to cooking) but wondered what rules you follow when freezing food.

Sometimes, general baking rules like those you'd find out of Ruhlman's Ratio just don't apply to gluten free cooking — one often needs to alter amount of liquid to dry ingredients, add more eggs, etc..

Blake assures WKS stays in compliance with all labor and employment laws — especially important for a company based in California, which has complex state and local employment regulations which are often more stringent than the federal rules.

If this is accepted by the nation's editors as an ironclad law in the world of workaday reporting, how much more applicable it must be to that world which could not even exist without its own often artificial but nonetheless carefully tended rules of fair play.

But it should also be noted that more often than not, those same arbitrary rules have led to your team being given spectacular opportunities, opportunities that more often than not you didn't take advantage of.

Injury problems over the years have also been a struggle, often ruling him out for large periods of seasons and limiting the Englishman to nothing more than a substitute role.

Silent Stan is a greedy mofo, he rents out his rapids team pitch DURING THE SEASON for a few extra mil a year, he tried to rent out our stadium more often but the courts ruled against it (luckily!).

It is bad enough that Arsenal continue to pick up injuries more often than Cristiano Ronaldo picks up a mirror, but we also seem to get a spate of players in the same area ruled out at the same time.

I think this is the real point; too often we see weak boards attempting to appease mob rule... Levy has more nous than that, but with Portsmouth turning us over in the cup an fourth place slipping away, I hope he holds his nerve.

More often than not these are matches ruled by fear as each team battles manfully to save themselves from the drop.

Of course it is facetious to suggest Arsenal have direct input but if a blood and thunder Aussie Rules knucklehead like me can come to love this game I promise you it is happening more and more often.

I'll definitely consider following that rule more often now.

Here is the reality of my divorce: Despite the fact that the court appointed custody evaluator ruled parenting during the marriage was joint, a vocational evaluation that concluded my ex-wife could make just as much money as me, joint custody of the children post marriage (although in reality they were with me much more often), pretty good evidence my ex-wife committed fraud and perjury and absolute evidence her lawyer maliciously lied in court, I am required by the court to pay her a massive amount of alimony until he day I die.

Nonetheless, I still feel there are many more troubling sources of sugar in school cafeterias, such as the ubiquitous, fiber - free juice often served at breakfast in lieu of fruit, as permitted by federal rules, or sugary breakfast entrees and a la carte snacks.

They spend more time with their children, set clear rules and consequences, talk with their children more often and engage them in back - and - forth dialogue, and provide experiences for them (such as high - quality child care) that are likely to boost their development.

While child support can be pretty formulaic with well - established rules for addressing different compensation concerns, spousal support is much more variable and often is not as straightforward as simply taking a number off a pay stub.

It can be frustrating for a mother who really does have hypoplasia / IGT to keep being asked «have you tried X or Y,» but each well - intentioned care provider who asks such questions seeks to rule out the causes for low milk production that are far more common (and for which there are often effective fixes).

Often, custodial parents have more rules because they are dealing with things like homework, bedtime on school nights and getting ready for school in the mornings.

Parents are often more anxious about attending to firstborn children and tend to let bedtime routines and rules slide.

The best cure for the acting out is to only enforce the rules that are actually important, try to facilitate communication as much as possible, and just hold on because in another 4 months you'll have a much more confident, steady, fluent child who is happier more often than frustrated.

Brown is generally pessimistic on this topic noting that «more often than not -LSB-...] revolution replaces one authoritarian rule by another» (p. 195).

Finally, the precise rules chosen to determine the number of additional seats aren't mathematically sound and will often increase the size of Bundestag more than necessary, while still allowing the allocation of seats to fall out of proportion with the party votes.

But Chung Sun - Sup, the head of corporate analysis firm chaebul.com, said major chaebol decisions on large - scale acquisitions or investments «are often endorsed by the patriarch of a ruling family», and with Lee in prison, the firm «may move more slowly than before».

Unless minority coalition governments were explicitly encouraged from the outset; established majority parties will discourage and disparage minority governments since the major parties would prefer to rule less often but completely, than rule more often but share power.

Mark - Viverito promised to be more approachable and inclusive than her predecessor, Christine Quinn, who was often criticized for ruling the Council with a heavy hand.

While a Con Con, as it is often called, would provide a chance for enacting reforms on things like government ethics, term limits for elected officials, modernized voting and voter registration rules, and more, it would open up the entire state constitution to change.

Females, however, passed it to their offspring only slightly more often than Mendelian rules would suggest.

Legal experts note that judges» opinions in environmental cases won't necessarily fall strictly along ideological lines, but that conservative judges are often more likely to reject arguments calling for more regulation or trying to fit climate change rules within the existing Clean Air Act.

Although the causes of lower back pain in school - aged children are most often benign, according to the literature, a thorough evaluation performed by the primary care physician can help rule out a more serious condition.

But when one or the other of these sets of rules is broken by a company or by a person in their employ — as happens more often than you might think — the interview environment can take a turn into uncharted territory.

«There's more freedom for people to do what they want without following the traditional, often now seen as outdated, social rules about who you're supposed to have sex with and when.»