Sentences with phrase «rather than a couple»

The whole day is more of a «Friend's Day» rather than a couple's day.

You wouldn't say that to a movie - goer who watches the whole movie in one sitting rather than watching 20 minutes each day, or someone who reads a book in a couple of sittings rather than a couple of pages a day.

If one has a high enough savings rate this might only take a few months, rather than the couple years of full - time work it would take to get to 100 % FI based on passive income generation alone.

You and / or your spouse have income - based student loan payments (payments will be based on spouse's income rather than couple's combined income)

But of course the act of larceny can become far too repetitive for it's on good, mostly thanks to the developers cramming areas with a myriad of small yet relatively worthless items rather than a couple of more valuable ones.

With as many Mario & Sonic At Your Mom's Olympic Games games Sega continues to pump out, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Olympics takes place every six months rather than every couple years.

I understand what you mean about the lag, but I'm not sure this means no response for a couple of decades rather than a couple of decades to finish responding.

Magnetic resonance charging, which has a radius of a couple inches rather than a couple millimeters, is a little more like it.

So rather than a couple of numbers guiding my future career prospects, it'll be work experience and determination.

Similarly, interventions to strengthen relationships and encourage marriage among cohabiting couples with children would be most profitable if focused on couples with a first child, rather than couples with children from prior relationships.

He gave us common keywords and phrases that get Googled — anxiety therapy, divorce counseling, marriage counseling (rather than couples counseling, which is our preferred language set).

We also tell clients that research indicates that the chance of divorce is greater if clients engage in individual therapy rather than couple therapy (Bray & Jouriles 1995).

Not exact matches

Rather than look 20 years in the future to see what China holds in store, the world would be wise to cast its gaze back a couple of decades instead.

Now Aviary.com was marketing to a couple of thousand companies rather than tens of millions of consumers.

We became like buddies rather than a romantic couple and broke up over that.

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Relatively faster performance when the task involved moving the manikin toward the gay male couple was taken as a sign of implicit attraction, rather than aversion, toward homosexual men.

Concretely, this viewpoint involves seeing problems as collective to the couple, rather than the domain of one partner.

Rather than implementing prohibitive rules that make for distracted and unhappy employees, it's far better to prepare some sensible guidelines for your company to cope with the relationships that will inevitably arise, and in a manner that is helpful to everyone, from the couple's managers to their colleagues.

So rather than fretting that your business isn't saving the world, or worrying about the overall life satisfaction of a friend, simply focus on buying a co-worker a coffee, introducing someone to a new acquaintance, or cracking a couple more jokes.

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.

For example, customers can use consumer credit to pay off large ticket items or a holiday shopping spree over the course of a couple months rather than in one lump sum.

This year cast doubt on the sustainability of these returns, and coupled with high fees, a 2 % annual management fee and a 20 % cut of the profits, many have opted to take control of their own investments rather than trust in crypto hedge funds.

HXT is much smaller and not as liquid as XIU but has a couple of advantages: its annual MER, at 0.07 % ($ 7 per $ 10k), is less than half of XIU's; to defer taxes, rather than paying out, it reinvests its dividend.

These last couple years it seems like my summers are more about getting projects and work done rather than enjoying the beautiful weather and summer vacations.

Marriage penalty: The additional tax that some married couples pay because they must file as a couple rather than separately.

The YC documents are probably fine in situations where the investor (i) wishes to purchase equity rather than convertible debt, (ii) is otherwise somewhat indifferent on terms other than percentage ownership of the company, liquidation preference and right of first offer in future financings, (iii) is investing at a fairly low valuation (i.e. a couple of million dollars), and (iv) is only investing a small amount (i.e. a couple hundred thousand dollars or less).

A couple of weeks later, Trump followed up with an executive order directing Commerce to complete the investigation within 50 days rather than the 270 specified in US legislation.

In Belgium, elderly couples have been euthanized together because they would rather die than face future widowhood.

We tell couples that just because they wait, their sex life will be great, rather than preparing them for the potential issues that might arise along the way.

Rather than saying his magic words to save a couple bucks, I'd rather not even support his busRather than saying his magic words to save a couple bucks, I'd rather not even support his busrather not even support his business.

What is left out is not the pleasure, not the togetherness, but an openness to something beyond the couple that places them on the trajectory of self - gift, rather than on the trajectory of self - indulgence.

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.

I was just thinking over the last couple of days that one's integrity speaks for itself and I would much rather be able to hold my head high knowing that I fought for what was right than to have given in to the status quo that harms.

The aim here is to live from God's will rather than from some autonomous agreement between the couple.

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

Adultery fares no better, with many couples embracing what psychologist John Gottman calls a «conditional commitment» rather than the risky, come - what - may promise cherished by the church.

There will be no future healing if a couple delude themselves, through a pastor's misguided attempts to provide loving support, into thinking that their divorce is a momentary inconvenience which is best forgotten rather than a broken relationship which will exert continuing influence on their lives.

Catholic canon law declared that the mutual consent of the couple, rather than the will and manipulations of powerful parents, was the defining essence of marriage.

more recently, a couple of people in different ways have challenged me to give people a chance, to make each encounter with them a clean slate, rather than holding on to the things that have hurt me... If I could really do this, imagine the potential for understanding and goodness.

Many couples would not need to divorce, or to live in a de facto divorce of a dead relationship, if they could face and resolve their angers rather than let them accumulate.

You're kind of like all the soulless monsters who attack the couple who brought their baby to the theater in Aurora, rather than blaming the shooter.

When couples have tried unsuccessfully to communicate, over a long period of time, they often begin to use words mainly to con - fuse and attack, rather than to attempt to transmit meanings.

Rather than make their case from scripture, the couple have approached the issue from another angle, as DeVon explains: «There's a tremendous amount of science and research been done to show there's value in practising delayed gratification.

Indeed, it would probably seem to him that taking a couple of years out of a life that has not yet reached full adulthood, spending them on a few of the nation's lighter household chores, so to speak, and then being rather handsomely compensated for it would more accurately come under the heading of perk than of citizenly offering.

At this point on Earth with 7 billion people, coupled with a lack of food and resources to provide for everybody therein, perhaps it's not such a bad idea to let people submit to their respective desires rather than chastise them.

Sometimes we listen to Jeremy's podcasts and a couple of others while we sort clothes for the homeless, but we too try to «be» the church rather than «go» to church.

Furthermore, as Russell Moore himself has observed, even married couples who identify as «complementarians» are functioning as equal partners rather than forcing a hierarchal pattern onto their relationship that is highly prescriptive regarding gender.

(Wait, they can disagree but only if it is to take a more strict rather than less strict view — the people who think one drink is sin are allow to say so where the couple who think sex outside of legal marriage isn't sin aren't allowed to say so.)

The growth approach aims at helping a couple actualize hope by learning new skills for nourishing rather than starving their love!