Sentences with phrase «rather more an example»

But he shouldn't be surprised if that role involves comparatively few happy - clappy paintings and rather more examples of hard political resistance.

Not exact matches

Rather than creating a new series on startups, for example, consider focusing on a more specific area around which you can create value: perhaps family - owned startups or startups operating on a shoestring.

She says too many of today's young aspiring entrepreneurs are fixated on founding unicorn startups, focusing on the handful of fabulously successful examples rather than the many, many more that don't make it.

For example, you could lease a photocopier for several hundred dollars a month rather than financing the entire $ 3,000 purchase price, or you could lease your automobile or van instead of shelling out $ 25,000 or more for the full purchase price of the car.

Some even argue that, in some cases, it can do more harm than good — if, for example, it engenders resentment rather than understanding.

There are plenty more examples such as Rihanna's Fenty Beauty, Pixar's Coco, and Warner Brother's Wonder Woman scoring major paydays, awards, and millions of raving fans as a result of delivering products that reached underserved audiences and celebrated our differences rather than ignoring them.

More than just donating money, your company can be a platform for serving others who can benefit from your company's existence, whether it's the efforts and labor of your staff, the distribution of profits (check out Life is Good's Playmakers program), or just spreading important messages to your customers (for example, Patagonia, which has encouraged its customers to repair products, rather than replace them).

In a bid to encourage staffers at the streaming giant to take more time off, Hastings, who serves as Netflix's co-founder and CEO, is hoping to lead by example with his own rather ample vacation allotment: six weeks every year.

It is a hard concept to explain precisely and to quantify, but the idea of differing levels of social capital helps explain why, for example, French entrepreneurs (not to mention Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Nigerian) are more likely to create successful tech startups in the US or the UK than at home, or why it is easier to start a business in Sidney than in Beijing, or why technological innovation is not evenly spread out among countries, even among countries at similar development levels, but rather tends to cluster in a few areas in a few countries where tech entrepreneurs seem to believe that their work is made easier and the rewards greater.

For example, is my «How - To Guide» being used more at the beginning of the buying cycle — or rather to justify putting our company on the short list?

Salespeople who follow that example by seeking to diagnose a prospect's problems rather than pitch a product will be viewed as experts, trusted by prospects, and close more sales than those who don't.

For example, older generations are significantly more likely to say that minorities should make an effort to fit into Canadian society, rather than have society encourage cultural diversity.

Some businesses are more concerned about attracting a smaller niche audience, for example, rather than a larger audience.

For example, if Bitcoin is not a currency, then Bitcoin forwards and Bitcoin swaps that involve the exchange of Bitcoin for another currency will not fall under the statutory definitions of the more lightly regulated foreign exchange forwards or foreign exchange swaps.10 Likewise, retail trading of Bitcoin derivatives will be limited to designated contract markets, rather than subject to the retail foreign exchange dealer regulations.11 Treating Bitcoin as a commodity that is not a currency dovetails with the stances taken by other U.S. regulators such as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)(virtual currency does not have all of the attributes of real currency) 12, the Securities and Exchange Commission (Bitcoin investments are investment contracts because Bitcoin is a form of money) 13 and the Internal Revenue Service (treating Bitcoin as property for tax purposes).14

If that is more than the business owner would be want or be able to use they are better off getting a 2 % cash back bonus ($ 6,000 for this example) rather than a bunch of air miles he / she will never use.

Again, I agree there have been clear examples of erosion of individual liberty, but on the whole, the trend appears to be more of an expansion rather than an erosion of individual liberties within the time frame you referenced.

Rather, I want to live a Christ - like life and, by example, demonstrate why the moral code of Christianity leads so many to a more satisfying and fulfilling life.

We then tried to suggest that mathematical logic involved a more thoroughgoing critique of these presuppositions, and adduced the metaphysics of Whitehead as an example of a proposed solution conceived in terms of mathematical, rather than dialectical logic.

Though the Church can, for example, abolish certain existing prohibiting impediments to marriage, of purely ecclesiastical law, if it considers this advisable in the changed situation of today, it by no means follows that it would be equally possible for the Church to revalidate and sanction any invalid marriage whatever, if the Church were only rather more liberal and understanding.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

However, a more conservative interpretation of the Matthew text, taken for example by Mark A Yarhouse, author of Understanding Gender Dysphoria (IVP), is that «those who make themselves eunuchs» in this text «almost certainly refers to those who choose not to marry (rather than suggesting they were castrating themselves).»

It's worth noting that some are speculating that Labeouf's conversion may have actually been more of a rather dramatic example of method acting than a true conversion but, regardless, many Christians chose to focus on his language instead of his heart.

For example, many people choose work that they find meaningful, sometimes because it involves meeting real needs of people, rather than because it pays more.

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

It was this naive positivism that Kaplan accepted, rather than, for example, the much more sophisticated views of his philosophical mentor John Dewey, as the basis of his argument for religious naturalism.

And it is for that reason that when we ask our question about the value of religion for human life, I think we ought to look for the answer among these violenter examples rather than among those of a more moderate hue.

A glaring example of the problem this creates is the present state of television news on the TV networks; most people prefer its simplistic presentation over a more complex and demanding one, and, by pandering to this preference, TV encourages the least, rather than the most, from individual viewers.

Politicians in Scotland, for example, have pursued a «hearts and minds» campaign to re-educate society on its understanding of sexuality; will a Scottish state rather than a United Kingdom state make that more or less likely to continue.

For example, for the frequently used word «events» (used in describing natural phenomena in space - time coordinate systems) he substituted the term «actual occasions,» which for him gave a more accurate (and richer) picture of «real» or «concrete» happenings in the natural world.11 In this regard, he avoided the use of such commonly employed metaphysical terms such as «sensation» and «perception» — derived from seventeenth and eighteenth philosophers such as Locke, Berkeley, Hume and Kant — since for him they had a narrow psychological rather than appropriate epistemological meanings.

Bergson's favorite example of this is the; introduction of the calculus: «It is my belief, in fact, that the idea of differential, or rather, fluxion, was suggested to science by a vision of this kind; metaphysical in its origins, it became scientific as it grew more rigorous, that is, expressible in static terms» (CM 33).

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

Example: Cro - Magnons and Neanderthals were not 2 points in an evolutionary line, but rather two separate species of upright - walking hominids; they coexisted, but one was smarter and more dominant, and the other died off.

[10] Looking into these matters (for example the disputes between Jesuits and Dominicans about sufficient and efficient grace) is not always pleasant, but after we have studied the more abstract ideas ofpredestination and election, it is a relief to read Paul's saying that he does not live but rather Christ lives in him, his assurance that God wants everyone to be saved, and his confidence that while he does believe he will face divine judgement, he still can not see how anything can separate him from Christ's love.

But, as Howe puts it, the Democrats» version was «extensive,» based on amassing more and more territory, while the Whigs» was «intensive,» expanding American influence by example rather than conquest.

For example, I'd rather buy a huge bag of local grapefruits than organic kiwis flown in from New Zealand because the fresher the fruit or vegetable is, the more nutritious it is.

It just doesn't seem worth it — I would rather treat myself to something from WAGfree or Leon for example, where I would get more for my money and frankly better products.

Bale plays as a shadow striker, meaning he plays in the # 10 role but is more focused on driving at defenders with his pace and shooting (rather than the Ozil - way of playing the # 10 role for example).

Some examples are Alan Pardew's 8 year contract at Newcastle, Wenger's lifetime contract, Moyes at Everton where he was a legend despite winning nothing and managing one fourth place in 10 years, Tony Pulis at Stoke, despite a playing style more common to basketball rather than football, is another example and there are more.

This is on what these two are truly arguing; Wenger uses the cup as an example against Neville but Neville isn't really belittling our ability to win games, but rather, that in the long run of a whole season it is more likely for us to drop points due to relying purely on skill which is far more linked to form then something like physicality.

I said experiment because I am not sure how their chemistry would work out on the pitch as we do not see them everyday in training... for example I am not sure if Neny can play the defensive role as effectively as Coq, but since Coq is not performing at the level we usually expect of him anyway, I would pun for Neny there for now... Based on what I have seen so far, I would say Neny defensive game would be based on covering and interceptions rather than going in strongly for tackles like Coq but the plus is he runs and covers more ground than Flamini, and his movement and ball distribution is definitely better than both Flamini and Coq.

I'd rather make a contribution of 20 goals and 18 assists in all competitions to be crowned Bundesliga champion, DFB Pokal champions as well as be a strong contender in the UCL than score 24 EPL goals and 10 assists or more and still not make top four at the end of the season... ask Henry who left the club to win the UCL with a Barca... please can u give me ten examples of «other top teams»...

Yes, we could and should have scored more... Having said that, I'd rather have a 2 - 0 scoreline than a 3 - 1, or 4 - 2 for example.

For example, patients know that they will always see Dr. Sharara rather than a variety of doctors that they might find at a large, more impersonal practice.

For example, rather than teach a child anger management skills during a weekly therapy sessions, it's often more effective to teach the parents how to coach the child.

If you absolutely know you'll have a smaller child (planning a delivery earlier rather than later, for example) you might want to invest more in newborn cloth.

We divided the studies into four subgroups: unspecified or no direct contacts (for example in studies that involved staff training rather than direct contacts with women); less than four postnatal contacts; between four and eight contacts; and more than eight contacts.

Through targeted foreign assistance across Africa, for example, Kerry argued, the US can promote more reliable investment conditions «to help plant the seeds [of emerging market growth],» rather than «cede that power to others.»

To my mind, it makes more sense to learn from these more positive examples rather than to try and recreate some form of benign dictatorship that has rarely been successful in Africa in the long - run.

Here's a small but revealing example of how communications technologies can work differently once they leave the land of their birth: individual Twitter posts can express more information in Chinese than in English, because the Chinese writing system uses ideograms rather than an alphabet...

Would you rather I use another more specific example?