Sentences with phrase «rather than a desire»

When you have a business that fulfills a need rather than a desire, you have to prove your value over the competition.

Though the books and film adaptations continue remain popular in certain circles, other evangelicals criticize the rapture mindset for fostering an escapist mentality toward the world rather than a desire for its redemption.

Ginsberg has been able to produce his offbeat perceptions — has been «lightning in a bottle,» as Ted Chaough once said — because with respect to women, he has been curious and admiring, rather than desiring.

Marriage vows make fulfilling the minimum requirements of a stable household a debt of justice to one's family and set the bar of spousal behavior at benevolence rather than desire.

I over cooked this one a bit in that it was about 155 when I pulled it off rather than my desired 145, but that's OK.

However, Mourinho's decision to recall CBJ seems to be motivated by his lack of recent game - time at Moline Stadium, rather than his desire to fast - forward his return to the first - team scene at United.

At the moment, it seems roster arithmetic led to Marshall's ouster, rather than a desire to sign Bryant.

In conclusion, punishment does work in the short term but it creates a desire to avoid punishment rather than a desire to make good choices.

If children are constantly praised for minimal effort or mediocre results, the words of praise become the ultimate goal, rather than the desire to learn and improve.

But as the pleas from local people in Lewes show, making decisions based on party interests rather than the desires of local progressives can easily backfire.

Weddings in the United States were once based out of commodity, rather than desire or love.

The interest comes mostly out of convenience and opportunity rather than desire.

Since Benson's characters are almost frighteningly sincere and truthful, the slight discrepancies that crop up in their overlapping scenes seem owing to tricks of memory rather than a desire to deceive.

Anchorman 2 feels like a search for movie patron gold rather than a desire to tell a second tale with this cast of characters.

The previous Accent was the kind of car that you bought out of necessity rather than desire, but the newest...

If those two words inspire dread rather than desire, take heart; a new crop of books offers advice and wisdom, whether you're out there looking for The One, long married and bored with your sex life, or downright heartbroken.

As with Akita owners, Shar - Pei owners interviewed cited a lifelong fondness for dogs rather than a desire to impress their neighbors.

You might actually find you can save money by flying on a different day rather than your desired one.

That leaves me feeling reasonably confident that both the publisher and the developers behind Dreadnought are going to keep the game balanced and trust that players will want to support the title by choice rather than a desire to remain competitive.

So Stella's use of 3 - D imaging has been driven by artistic need — part of his lifelong need, in fact, to come to grips visually with space itself — rather than any desire to be an early adopter of cutting - edge technology.

But make no mistake about it Bariloche is consistent with where both the UN and the OECD have been wanting to go for decades as they act as the tax free salaried administrators of a world «in which human needs and human rights, rather than the desires to consume and accumulate wealth, would become the basis for resource allocation.»

Climate science has unintentionally become one of the most significant fronts in the socioeconomic - political struggle to develop a sustainable better future for humanity, a struggle to correct incorrect developments that have developed powerful defences, particularly through regionally temporarily successful misleading marketing appeals to developed temptations for more potential personal benefit rather than desiring to be more helpful to others and the future of humanity.

Those who point out the problems of making arguments for policy on the back of PR stunts and junk science are labelled as «sceptics» or «deniers», motivated by profit, «ideology» or simple bad - mindedness rather than the desire for a sensible debate about our relationship with the natural environment and concern about development.

Northrock's argument was rejected by the Court of Queen's Bench, which held that ExxonMobil had negotiated the right to transfer assets to subsidiaries and was motivated by tax considerations, rather than a desire to frustrate the ROFR, when it made the decision to transfer the assets to its subsidiary.

That, rather than a desire to avoid his support obligations, was his principal motivating factor.

We've built our experience around those insights, rather than a desire to simply «Kayak» it.

In what ways can we express our worth (rather than our desired salary!)

If the separation is due solely to your spouse's imprisonment rather than a desire to divorce, the court may consider the separation involuntary and deny the divorce.

It's hard for couples to approach this any other way: even the diagnostic manuals used by physicians and therapists conceptualize sexual desire as eagerness for sexual behavior rather than desire for your partner.

Our biggest error is that we express wants with demands, rather than desires.

In conclusion, punishment does work in the short term but it creates a desire to avoid punishment rather than a desire to make good choices.

Significant correlations were also found between religiosity and the endorsement of specific items on the measure of egalitarianism, such that women should be regarded as less capable of contributing to economic production than are men, and that they should be more concerned with duties of childbearing and house tending, rather than desire professional or occupational advancement.

Many claims for joint custody by fathers are based on a desire to share in decision - making, rather than a desire to share in the day - to - day caregiving of children.

Our budget is tight with one in college about to get married and the other preparing for the mission field — so any redecorating happens when it becomes necessity rather than desire or luxury.

Not exact matches

My prediction is that small businesses will continue to challenge and at times beat the large enterprises (perhaps sooner rather than later), simply because they will appeal to the consumers desire to support the up and comers, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs that are often much easier for people to relate to.

Because option values can be difficult to understand, boards have tended to issue a certain number of options from year to year, regardless of the grant's dollar value, rather than calculate a desired dollar value and vary the number of options.

Too often, business owners feel the desire or the obligation to guess what customers need rather than carefully listening first.

As I've argued before, when you are as massive a media entity as Facebook (despite its desire to avoid that label), it is incumbent on you to address your responsibilities directly, and possibly even ask for help, rather than just waving at the algorithm behind the curtain.

A media commentator told the Tribune that this odd placement probably showed the NRA's desire for broad reach, rather than the targeting of any specific audience.

Futurpreneur Canada works with aspiring and established young entrepreneurs, with many citing a desire to rely on their own skills and persistence rather than an uncertain job market.

After all, one of the main drivers for the new regulation is the desire to let the companies deal with one unified set of rules across Europe, rather than with varying legal interpretations from 28 different member states.

They also see their desires as demands rather than requests («My flight was late so I must have a voucher for a first class ticket!»).

A good board leaves its own desires and its selfish concerns at the door and works together to reach the best decisions for the company rather than pushing or promoting choices that serve other outside interests -; including, sometimes, a board member's own investment objectives.

As human resources staff gain comprehensive knowledge about the most popular desires of their employees, they can communicate more frequently about those items — ideally to a targeted audience — rather than deliver a canned, generic presentation about all benefits once a year to all employees.

Moreover, females expressed a stronger desire that their loyalty be acknowledged with recognition, rather than blanket material rewards, implying that a company should have knowledge of them as individuals and that each of them has a relationship with the brand.

He has backtracked on lambasting China as a currency manipulator and expressed a desire to reform rather than destroy NAFTA.

At the end, you exhort your professional colleagues to come up with some new ideas to combat secular stagnation — an excess desire to save rather than invest, with consequent drag on the world economy.

Too often, business owners feel the desire or the obligation to guess what customers required rather than carefully listening first.

In other words, focus on keeping your portfolio balanced between your desired mix of stocks and bonds, rather than which stocks and bonds to choose.

By understanding the desires of the company rather than wasting time and money trying to come to one decision, the marketer can begin showing results faster.