Sentences with phrase «rather than a plan»

Rather than planning for a retirement end goal, I think it's healthier to think more about taking a series of sabbaticals in your life.

The charity received $ 2,222,279 last month rather than the planned $ 1 million.

Rather than plan to split every six months, plan to split every eighteen months.

The relative benefits and risks of birth in different settings have been widely debated in recent years.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A problem when trying to evaluate the effect of birth setting on perinatal outcomes has been the use of actual place of birth rather than planned place of birth to define comparison groups.

Before we can expand on the benefits of the parent - controlled feeding plan, we first need to put to rest the second misconception stated at the top of this chapter: that a non-scheduled baby is happier, healthier and generally more secure when the parents react to his or her cries rather than a plan.

If you work all week, try to have calmer relaxing weekends, rather than planning lots of activities.

Rather than planning a long visit, it's best to have a brief, casual meeting with few expectations.

In an analysis based on actual place of birth rather than planned birth location, they found no significant differences in fetal, neonatal, or perinatal mortality between in - hospital and out - of - hospital births.

«While we welcome the decision to end the arbitrary retirement age, raising the state pension age over this short timescale is clearly driven by a desire to cut spending rather than a planned approach to introducing more flexible retirement,» he said.

«What we in NDC do is always talk to people to canvass for their votes rather than plan to rig the election... the people of this country have said that they want a party that's progressive and have the young at heart and also, do what's right», he stated.

The priority should be to target swing voters rather than planning alliances with other parties.

Lord Wood spoke about the various crises at the heart of the EU, whose current focus is the survival of the Euro rather than planning implementation of a further grand vision.

He also asked that an expedited director's report be used for the Corps» internal review, rather than a planned, more burdensome chief's report.

Monserrate, who served in both the council and the state Senate, has joined Lewis to push for more affordable housing at Willets Point, rather than a planned mega-mall.

Royal Mail's operations director Paul Tolhurst said: «We urge the CWU to abandon strikes and the threat of strikes, and focus on providing customers with the service they need and expect, rather than planning to hurt them with the threat of more strikes.»

Last month, a small group of Democrats broke ranks and voted for a Republican budget proposal rather than a plan negotiated by Democratic legislative leaders and Malloy.

In this case, the mixing is unintentional rather than planned.

«The fact that they're decentralized and independent, the fact that they have limited and local sensing, the fact that they're reactive rather than planning ahead, and the fact that they coordinate using the environment rather than direct communication.»

we're doing major work on our house (um, knocking it down, putting in a new foundation, and building up) and rather than planning paint colors and furniture first, i'm doing the wall art / decor.

Sometimes rather than planning a lavish meal, simplicity is best for a first date.

Rather than planning year - long objectives, follow this weekend date idea and set small goals with your love, like exercising five days each week, scheduling regular date nights, and planning ahead for your weekly meals at home.

Worse, most definitions focus on inputs, not outputs — what will be «covered» rather than a plan for what learners should be able to accomplish with learned content.

The fuel - economy claims also match that outlandishness, and it's well worth sniggering at the 3.0 L / 100 km NEDC figure rather than planning your fuel stops around it.

This makes freeway entry an event that can now be simply executed rather than planned for.

Business plans made practical The reason authors, and would - be authors, should attend my interview next week with Tim Berry is that Tim's Plan - As - You - Go Business Plan makes business planning practical for impatient authors and entrepreneurs who — in general — are more comfortable writing and acting rather than planning.

You should be cautiously optimistic at this stage rather than planning to put all your eggs in the Forex trading basket and dreaming of life styles of the rich and famous.

Rather than plan your retirement around market ups and downs, I suggest that you look at all the different ways you can deal with some fluctuations in your spending.

Variable rates are not evil in and of themselves; home owners simply get themselves in trouble by focusing only on the low interest rate rather than the plan to actually pay back the loan before the bank raises the rate or the market changes cause an increase in the monthly payments of a home owner.

Employers, rather than plan participants, will bear this extra cost.

The upshot: rather than planning as if you'll live to a specific age — and running the risk that you'll have little or no savings left if you live longer than that — you're better off considering the chance that you could still be alive and kicking at different ages, and basing your spending on that possibility.

The location is very obviously an afterthought rather than a planned airport lounge and it looks like Heathrow has turned an access / service area into a thin lounge to eek out a bit more rent.

While it is a nice area, I soon got bored of wandering around, and after a quick dinner, decided to head to the airport at 7 pm rather than my planned 9 pm.

While some goals are standard series fare (eavesdrop, follow, break - in), there are also moments where you'll be averting attempted assassinations rather than planning them.

Hot off of the tails of rumors and speculation on the same subject, Bioware has officially announced that their highly - anticipated role - playing property, Dragon Age: Origins, will be shipping in November, rather than the planned October 20th launch date.

I was constantly concerned about my immediate needs rather than planning for the long term.

Overton is known for creating each of her works through a process of trial and error rather than planning things out, and wants each piece to respond to the precise space in which it was placed.

In my creative endeavors it is better to ponder these issues as reflection rather than a plan, for in planning I would likely over-focus, with superficial and gratuitous results; so for me it will be better to ask, «In what degree was I?»

If the products of this regurgitation are notable for their aesthetic subtleties, and a finely tuned sensitivity to geometry, color, and volume, Costa's is an aesthetic in crisis, one in which formal decisions feel inevitable rather than planned, and works are not finished so much as posed as ongoing questions.

There is, in van Velde's work, a quality of indecision and incompleteness, of being improvised rather than planned, of being left in a transitional stage, in other words, of Provisionalism — as defined by Raphaël Rubinstein in his now famed article from 2009 — which makes it relevant to today's state of affairs in abstract painting as well as to the young painters loosely grouped under the name of New Casualists.

Wonderfully complex and totally superfluous structurally, it gives a sense of how he sorted out the forms of his sculpture as he worked rather than planning a sculpture out ahead, as did many of his Minimalist peers, then having it fabricated.

Rather than planning the work, their collages reflect on it.

Robin I suppose my take is life on the planet rather than planning for how it affects our assets which makes this off topic.

And because of the troubles you get with crystalising Killians sorts of plans, which suggests he might be right to talk more about principles, rather than plans as such.

Legal practices can anticipate outcomes based on real - world situations, rather than plan responses based only on stated program objectives.

Comparing premiums rather than plans — Every health plan has a different premium and basing the buying choice only on the plan with the lowest premium is foolish.

A therapist with this view will expect a new and hopefully more useful narrative to surface during the conversation, but will see this narrative as spontaneous rather than planned.

«We took a different approach — rather than planning homes and then the golf course, we did it the other way around.

When I actively sold I was simply amazed at how many realtors would waste money on print... I do believe it can act as a compliment to your over all marketing plan but should be utilized wisely and again as a part of a plan rather than the plan itself.

The problem: Trying to keep your head above water, you focus too much on handling the small day - to - day complications rather than planning your future success.

She believes metro Vancouverites end up in a position of having to rent out units because the units built are expensive and only «serve to promote Vancouver as an investment commodity rather than a planned community.»