Sentences with phrase «rather than a flat»

Without President Donald Trump's Tweets, the company's growth would be down rather than flat, he said.

Yes, there are some pretty cool features on the iPhone X: the high definition OLED screen, infrared facial recognition to map the 3D surface of the face rather than a flat image like a photo, and improved cameras with image stabilization, and built - in capabilities to support augmented reality apps.

The left / right typology would be less problematic if it were triangular rather than flat and linear — right, left and apex rather than right, left and center.

If you've produced cake layers with wavy rather than flat tops, hot spots are the problem.

Cutting the paper tube with this technique will help keep the... MORE paper tube round rather than flat.

In the past few election cycles, Democratic consultants have generally taken a percentage of television ad buys rather than a flat fee, creating an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to determining how a campaign should spend its money.

I suspect that the millions of Americans who are trying very hard to live lives that revolve around individual people rather than flat stereotypes will be fascinated to read it, and I hope the internet carries your words far and wide.

The government is considering plans to charge motorists according to how far as well as where and when they drive, rather than a flat road tax fee as is currently the case.

«It's best to do it with a circuit breaker rather than a flat rebate,» she said, referring to an industry term for targeted property tax breaks based on a percentage of income.

It appears the government may now be looking at a percentage levy rather than a flat rate tax.

The computer industry is exploring technologies that in essence are drop - in replacements for transistors with improved characteristics: different designs such as the fin FET, a 3 - D rather than a flat configuration on a computer chip, Aidun said.

Rather than a flat sheet of hexagonal carbon atoms, LIG is a foam of graphene sheets with one edge attached to the underlying surface and chemically active edges exposed to the air.

They discovered that if they maintained the cells in a three - dimensional culture, rather than a flat dish, and used a new mixture of signaling molecules, they could maintain the NPCs for more than 15 months.

That makes them more like the claws of a bear rather than the flat, grasping claws of an eagle.

Consider for example, the discovery that the Earth was round rather than flat.

As a result of gravitational interaction with the nearby galaxies, it has a notable S - shaped warp rather than a flat disk.

Depending on your height, it's possible that your heels may be up off the floor rather than flat.

This pushing uses the abs differently and will actually make those little blocks of muscle pop more, giving you that washboard look, rather than the flat, undefined look that regular crunches give.

And you'll always look taller wearing a heel or a wedge rather than flats.

A simple compliment such as «you have beautiful eyes» or «what a great smile» is always lovely to hear for either gender, but anything sexual in nature, or repeated compliments can make someone feel nervous rather than flattered.

While the engine wasn't identical to the unit originally found in the back of the 308 - it uses a cross-plane rather than flat - plane crank for one - it lent the 8.32 a healthy turn of pace and a kudos alien to other Themas of the day.

And rather than the flat single - frame grille of older Audi models, the Q7 shows off some new design thinking with a more sculpted front end.

It differed from the basic 6G74 in many ways apart from its unique fuel injection system — it had a crown - curved rather than flat combustion chamber, upright intake ports rather than angled, and a 10.4:1 rather than 10.0:1 compression ratio.

However, drive it briskly rather than flat out and it does a good impression of the S - MAX with meaty steering that you can sense weighting up as a corner unfolds, while the suspension is supple enough to deal with potholes, but doesn't feel too bouncy over lower frequency undulations.

Paying by the hour, rather than a flat rate the publisher sets for all manuscripts, ensures that you will get everything you need.

Pages they can flick through, rather than flat pages printed from your design document, or viewed on screen.

Fishing, writing and card playing are all tough ways to make a living, but with writing, at least, the money tends to dwindle, rather than flat - out disappear.

The buttons have changed across the waistband, so rather than the flat finish, the Curve 9320 has more pronounced keys, which we think are better for fast thumb navigation, accessing menus, copy and pasting and so on.

It's a steady climb rather than a flat sprint if you're in for the long haul.

Why are companies like Amazon charging writers a percentage of the price of their book sales rather than a flat price per book sold?

Hachette won the first round, doing a deal with Apple and forcing Amazon to accept an agency agreement, rather than a flat rate that gave publishers more control over prices.

Rather than a flat cash back rate, the Chase Freedom ® offers 5 % cash back on spending categories that change every quarter.

- Tortoises with more curvaceous shells, rather than flat shells, were more able to right themselves.

Fatty tumors are different than normal fat because they form lumps rather than a flat layer under the skin.

It also earns 2 % back at restaurants, supermarkets, and gas stations, rather than a flat 1 %.

Rather than a flat $ 100 fare, Hawaiian Airlines offers both a one - time 50 % discount on a companion fare and a $ 100 discount on a companion fare after each cardmember anniversary to those with its Hawaiian Airlines World Elite MasterCard from Barclays.

This solution is very similar, but the interlacing takes place on the horizontal and rather than flat - out ignore the «off» lines it uses a software solution that fills in the line based on the previous frame + the current lines next to it.

You will see improvements to textures, foliage density, and draw distances, when developers focus their efforts on physical upgrades, rather than flat resolution bumps.

Focusing more on psychological horror rather than flat out jump scares, this is a game that will really get under your skin.

Since the game is 2.5 D you have more of a plane that the characters stand on rather than a flat surface.

The paint handling is soft; the surface of the linen is rubbed or scraped flat and smooth, but the color is dappled rather than flat, which lends a slightly nocturnal or surreal cast - these may have been painted by day but they were conjured by night vision.

This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so, rather than a flat trend from the 15 yr «pause».

From what I have seen, your central «no hockey - stick» contention is that long term change in the past temperature history on the scale of 1000 - 2000 years is slowly decreasing rather than flat.

It seems like the best thing to do would be to measure the difference between the measurement of choice (daily high, presumably, since we're in the business of talking about black - swan high - temperature events this time of year) and the trend line rather than a flat baseline.

«This shift and the subsequent slight cooling trend provides a rationale for inferring a slight cooling trend over the next decade or so, rather than a flat trend from the 15 [year] «pause»,» she added.

Not that we need proof of that, but then law firms will insist on trying to run themselves as if they are «normal» businesses (rather than flat, low - hierarchy collegial collectives) so these days I don't shy away from pointing out this curiosity.

This is most common with contingency based services rather than flat fee.

For example, since 2008, if you operate a motor vehicle in Texas, you have the option to pay for your auto insurance based on the actual number of miles you drive rather than a flat 12,000 or 40,000 miles a year.

Amazon also covers the newer Dot in a glossy black or white finish rather than the flat black of the Echo and the first Dot.

HTC's design team could have made it feel a little smaller by using 2.5 D glass on the front rather than the flat Gorilla Glass 5 panel used here, but then again — this isn't HTC's true flagship smartphone — the U11 is.