Sentences with phrase «rather than a change»

Too many businesses run into serious problems because they waste time trying to make their circumstances fit their plan rather than changing their plan to fit their circumstances.

There are a few interesting companies I've been looking at in the last couple of weeks who have taken old industries and ramped up their functionality rather than change the business model altogether.

Rather than change its recipes, KIND removed the term «healthy» from the back panel of its packages and from portions of its website.

Another 2011 European law requiring websites to alert visitors to «cookie» trackers that collect data on browsing history has largely turned into a distracting annoyance rather than changing how companies operate.

Maybe that's just in the «stuff» happens category rather than changing the underlying wisdom.

Rather than changing the subject, which any normal person would have done, being a share nerd I asked whether any of the Barclays shares had ever been diversified into the wider index.

In «Faith on the Hill,» a study on religion in the 113th Congress released Friday by the Pew Forum, the story seems to be static rather than change.

Rather than change every instance of actual entity in part III to actual occasion, Whitehead simply stipulates: «In the subsequent discussion, «actual entity» will be taken to mean a conditioned actual entity of the temporal world, unless God is expressly included in the discussion» (PR 88 / 135).

A couple of research papers indicated only a decrease in abortion rates that is statistically insignificant (i.e. it could have been due to chance rather than the change in the law), but these have tended to analyse data on abortion rates for all ages, not specifically teenage abortion rates.

Healthy couples enjoy their spouse rather than changing or fixing them.

This is because the standard the Bible is burning their conscience and they can not stand it and rather than change, they change the standard this is the understanding that the devil counterfeits everything of God and is not happy till all that God has setup is destroyed or distorted.

You can change AA to suit YOU, rather than change yourself to fit into AA.

This extension of the old formula to cover the new case was to have been expected; in one realm or another every generation subsumes new facts under venerable theories rather than change the theories to conform with the facts.

Harold Lindsell, former editor of Christianity Today, has made the point clearly: «No one should succumb to the error of viewing prayers as a means of changing the individual and his attitudes rather than changing events, circumstances, and history itself Certainly «prayer changes me» — my outlook, orientation and my attitudes.

When persons watching television are motivated to change their attitude toward religious faith, even to make a religious commitment of some sort, most frequently they integrate that decision within their existing environment rather than changing their environment.

The difference between this figure and the 71 percent figure of the 1963 survey may reflect sampling variation rather than a change in drinking practices.

The sad thing is that many are throwing out the baby with the bath water, rather than changing from within.

If we do get new investment and owners who actually back his decisions then I think it better to keep the Spaniard at the club rather than changing both the board and manager at the same time.

I think a proper captain would help this team rather than changing every week.

yes mr wenger study Leicester's psychology rather than changing your attitude.

«It may be that American mothers are so desperate for power, recognition, and validation that we'd rather take on the burden of considering ourselves «expert» moms rather than change the circumstances that demand such an unreasonable role for us.»

Try to work out any problems rather than changing preschool teachers midyear, unless absolutely necessary.

I watched it several moons ago while I actually had been up on nights for parties rather than changing a diaper.

The independent information from the NHS on milks for older babies is swamped by the promotion from the formula companies — and it is disappointing that the Museum is prepared to profit from this by hiring out its facilities, rather than changing its due diligence procedures.

As Bettina describes in detail below, Change.org suggested we use Google Forms, rather than Change.

Most commonly, «colic», «gassiness» and crying can be improved by changing breastfeeding techniques, rather than changing the mother's diet.

Emphasize to parents that good feeding practices are a long term investment and will support healthy growth over time, rather than changing weight now.

Rather than change their marketing practices, their strategy is to try to hijack World Breastfeeding Week.

In some countries, such as Bangladesh, the reduction in the case fatality rate can be attributed largely to improved case management, rather than changes in water supply, sanitation, or personal hygiene.

Stay consistent and treat this as an actual regression rather than a change in schedule.

If school lunches are a problem, you may be inadvertently reinforcing your children's bad eating patterns rather than changing them.

It is similar to inventing cars that can be driven too fast and then, when the speed causes accidents and deaths, rather than change the cars or retrain the drivers, we invent speed bumps.

Despite this landmark change in representation and the composition of government, local narratives are profoundly about continuity rather than change, taking issues with the very notion of «transition».

In many ways, the Obama administration evidenced continuity rather than change in its foreign policy from the Bush years.

His government has tried to manage the country rather than change it.

Judy Wessler, former director of the Commission on the Public's Health System, said it would be much simpler to carve out a group of hospitals and increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate, rather than change the formulas or worry over which Affordable Care Act rules survive the next four years.

That would mean creating a change of direction rather than a change of personnel, and nobody is suggesting that is on the cards.»

The polls suggest Mr Brown's decision to call this Rochdale pensioner a bigot may not have changed public opinion that much, merely confirming existing views rather than changing minds.

They developed a technique known as «best - matching,» in which the motion of an object (for instance, the moon) is tracked solely by its changing distance from other objects (like the sun and the Earth), rather than its changing location against a grid.

The boost came from better retention of those students rather than changes to the student body, Renick says.

«This implies that the astrocytes could be reacting against the formation of amyloid plaques by modifying their function rather than changing position, concludes Galea.

Holdcroft believes that the changes in the brain are more likely to be the result of changes in the volume of individual cells, rather than changes in the number of cells in the brain.

Rather than change his position, Edison issued fatuous warnings about AC's «greatly enhanced risks to life and property» and became involved in a smear campaign that began with the public electrocution of dogs, horses, and cattle — experiments purporting to demonstrate the lethality of AC.

Using epigenetics triggers that change how the flatworms» DNA is expressed (rather than changing the DNA sequence itself) the group created a worm that has the body of one species of flatworm and the head and brain of another.

According to Rothstein, researchers knew that the C9orf72 mutation, rather than changing one building block of DNA to another, caused a stretch of six DNA nucleotides to repeat hundreds of times.

Rather than change his design, the homeowner just puts the septic tank on his neighbor's property.

Because the change in function is produced by a change in protein conformation rather than a change in DNA, it can readily be reversed by experimental manipulation.

Nuclear medicine is also different from other imaging procedures in that it determines the presence of disease based on biological changes in tissue rather than changes in anatomy.

That 1975 paper documented the 99 - percent similarity of genes from humans and chimps and suggested that altered gene regulation, rather than changes in coding, might explain how so few genetic changes could produce the wide anatomic and behavioral differences between the two.

But rather than changes in doublesex itself, these studies revealed changes in downstream targets of dsx, via changes to specific DNA sequences to which DSX protein binds in the cis - regulatory regions of the bric - a-brac and desatF genes and affecting sex differences in abdominal pigmentation and pheromone production.