Sentences with phrase «rather than a natural one»

New challengers, powered by human capital rather than natural resources, are now catching up.

Ordering your life around the Lordship of Christ will increasingly seem an exotic (if salvific) alternative for a select few, rather than a natural step for responsible Americans entering adulthood.

It is natural that those who personally have traversed such an experience should carry away a feeling of its being a miracle rather than a natural process.

Human sexuality, rather than a natural means of self - giving, becomes a way to manipulate and exploit others.

It would seem to many that writings about Jesus might better serve worldly mankind if they addressed the Spiritual (Holy) aspect on the Christ (Gk; Anointed one) rather than the natural aspects of his hard life serving mankind.

(Henceforth we shall be using the term «history» in the sense of human history rather than natural history,)

But that is what the church did, and as a result marriage was made a vocation rather than a natural necessity.

Now a congregation of devotees of Spirit, rather than the natural family, is the setting in which nurture for spiritual maturing takes place.

Second, it engenders a passive submission to paternalistic authority as our natural condition, rather than the natural freedom and equality of all rational beings.

Since man's activity is then in the moral rather than the natural category, God is understood to have provided for him a moral law.

Similarly, mass market retailers, rather than natural food stores, are now the top sales channels for organic food.

I really don't understand what you're saying here — to play Sanchez through the middle you need AMs out wide, rather than natural wingers?

Childbirth became viewed as pathological rather than natural; unnecessary, and often dangerous or unproven, medical techniques and interventions became commonplace.

Tickling can make children feel powerless, and causes involuntarily laughter, rather than the natural - tension releasing laughter that helps sleep.

Because childbirth is viewed as a medical condition rather than a natural process in most countries, preparation is essential to having a natural birth.

Peter Mandelson «doesn't keep his trap shut and can't bear not being the centre of attention», Yvette Cooper is «bright and pleasant but a swot rather than a natural talent» and Keith Vaz «an utter lightweight».

Outlier memory is often the result of using mnemonic devices rather than a natural capacity.

Want a dry dog food that provides the real thing rather than natural flavors?

But rather than natural diamond, Silvera and Dias used two small pieces of carefully polished synthetic diamond which were then treated to make them even tougher and then mounted opposite each other in a device known as a diamond anvil cell.

The gene frequency of blue eyes may have increased by chance, too, rather than natural selection.

The researchers, from the University of Reading and University of Iowa, found that large parts of the projected changes in AR frequency and intensity would be down to thermodynamic changes in the atmosphere, rather than the natural variability of the climate, suggesting that it is a response to anthropogenic climate change.

A U.N. panel of scientists says it is at least 90 percent probable that manmade greenhouse gases are the main cause of recent warming, rather than natural variations.

With help from the computational modeling scientists at the University of South Florida and the University of Campinas in Brazil, the team discovered that PETase looks very similar to a cutinase, but it has some unusual features including a more open active site, able to accommodate human - made rather than natural polymers.

Although, he adds, critics have pointed out that the tests use artificial light from lasers, rather than natural sunlight.

«Phil Johnson has gone for the throat with these anti-SIV immunoadhesins rather than natural antibodies.

NEWS: Climate change rather than natural causes is the main driver of state's glacier loss, which is set to speed up, US scientists say

This measure would help prevent endangered wolves from becoming habituated to preying on livestock rather than their natural prey.

There was a lot of information that was basically like, «listen to your nurses, they know what's best,» and really making childbirth out to be a medical issue rather than a natural process.

Most progesterone hormone therapy side effects occur when people use synthetic progestin rather than natural progesterone that is biologically identical to the hormone produced in the body.

Liquid Aminos are produced through a chemical process rather than a natural one, like fermentation (how soy sauce and tamari are made).

Meats became unhealthy when fed corn and soy rather than their natural diets of grass (for cows) or bugs (for chicken).

Just about every pregnant woman is told to supplement with synthetic folic acid rather than the natural form folate.

It is possible that the oxidative effects associated with a higher intake of meat are increased when the meat source itself has been fattened on a corn / grain - based diet high in Omega 6 rather than a natural grass based diet higher in Omega 3s, and has less to do with excess non-heme iron than excess commercially - raised meat.

A road map or route map is a map that primarily displays roads and transport links rather than natural geographical information.

When Bill and Diane trek morosely through a field of reeds in search of their missing son, it feels like a borrowed reference rather than a natural outgrowth — all indie - flick house style atop the shakiest of foundations.

And although the Marvel Cinematic Universe's version of Proxima does have some blue war paint on her face, it's very much a minor detail rather than her natural skin tone.

However, the overt nature of this feels forced rather than natural.

The Confucian philosophy of learning and achievement places primary emphasis on nonintelligence factors — such as personality traits (e.g., motivation, perseverance, effort) and environmental factors (e.g., parental and familial support, teacher and school instruction)-- rather than natural ability as the most important prerequisites for desired performance (Chen & Stevenson, 1995; Rosenthal & Feldman, 1991; Shi & Zha, 2000).

A shocking percentage of white Americans believe that they are discriminated against racially and that their dwindling demographic majority is an actual threat rather than a natural outcome of a changing society.

I'm awed by Porsche's pace of development as each one feels like a mini-revolution rather than a natural process of evolution.

Besides being too soft and small to wear teeth down properly, processed food pellets require less chewing time, and cause the rabbit to chew in an up - and - down motion rather than a natural side - to - side motion that helps to grind the teeth down.

I was surprised, ultimately by how much the images referenced digital, rather than natural space.

Is it not the case that if the relative lack of El Niño's and predominance of La Nina's is in fact due to global warming, rather than natural variability, then the current increase in the rate of warming of the ocean below 700m may continue.

Might it be speculated that a change in ENSO (more frequent La Niñas) is an aspect of global warming, rather than natural variability?

The two threads of evidence together — from data and from computer models — suggest that climate change is affecting El Niño, rather than a natural variation in El Niño causing trends that may appear as if they are the result of man - made climate change.

These calculations are made assuming that each year's temperature is an independent draw from a stable distribution, and so their extreme unlikelihood is more of a statement about the model used, rather than the natural vs. anthropogenic question.

If the unmanaged predator range is limited (by fiat rather than natural barriers), this will lead to a prey species deficit and probably inward migration.

The surprisingly rapid decline in air - sea partial pressure difference (ΔpCO2) is primarily a response to an elevated water column inventory of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), which, in turn, reflects mostly anthropogenic CO2 input rather than natural interannual variability.

In reality we've seen about 0.5 — 0.6 °C of warming above mid-20th Century temperature, so perhaps at the 5σ level or 99.9 % confidence that the warming is due to external forcing (principally CO2) rather than natural variability.

The chart was used as evidence at Hansen's testimony hearing in the Senate, during which he stated that he was 99 % certain that the warming was a result of trapped carbon in the atmosphere rather than natural variation.