Sentences with phrase «rather than in practice»

I scare easy — at age 24 I hid my copy of Silent Hill 3 under my bed so I wouldn't have to look at the cover — and some nights I found it better to appreciate Amnesia in theory rather than in practice.

Even if there were, throughout Islamic history, it has been observed in its breach rather than in practice.

Not exact matches

Rather than having your message misconstrued via a social platform or online chat, Howroyd says you should practice «circular, complete communication» in which you always talk to people directly.

Rather than always looking ahead at the end goal, immerse yourself in the daily practice of building toward it.

However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.

Put his maxim into practice: Next time you're in a meeting, focus on discerning the other person's needs rather than your own.

People must be measured in performance reviews against industry best practices, rather than previous results in your business.

If you're giving a serious lecture, practice in a mirror to ensure your furrowed brow is coming off as pensive rather than furious.

The GGSC suggests a practice adopted from Buddhist meditation and now backed up by science: «treating thoughts, whether negative or positive, more like smells, sights, tastes and sounds: things that arrive in your awareness, rather than things that constitute the essence of who you are.

Rather than calling for an end to the practice of overselling, Trump said that instead, there should be no upper limit to incentives carriers can offer passengers in exchange for their seats on overbooked flights.

Other characteristics that are shared due to the common methodology include: (1) The estimates encompass both transfers and changes in society's real resources (the latter being benefits in the context of the 2016 RIA but costs in this RIA because gains are forgone); (2) the estimates have a tendency toward overestimation in that they reflect an assumption that the April 2016 Fiduciary Rule will eliminate (rather than just reduce) underperformance associated with the practice of incentivizing broker recommendations through variable front - end - load sharing; and (3) the estimates have a tendency toward underestimation in that they represented only one negative effect (poor mutual fund selection) of one source of conflict (load sharing), in one market segment (IRA investments in front - load mutual funds).

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

Aitel suggested that, rather than outsource tasks or projects to particular individuals without security clearance, the government could allow private companies specializing in penetration testing — the practice of testing a computer system, network or application to find vulnerabilities that a hacker could exploit — to apply for security clearance and compete for a contract.

In practice, much of the decision - making appears to lie with NSA analysts, rather than the Fisa court or senior officials.

They find it absurd that Mr. Trump is risking a trade war with Europe, the United States» biggest trading partner, rather than joining forces to rein in Chinese trade practices they both oppose.

Scaling our positions in proportion to the market's expected return / risk profile, based on prevailing conditions (rather than trying to forecast market turns), is the essential practice.

In practice, the Fed may prefer (if it isn't forced) to shrink its portfolio according to a preset schedule, rather than at whatever rate it takes to compensate for a declining demand for Fed balances.

(Please note that I think that the default provisions in the NVCA documents are generally fairly investor - favorable and reflect east coast practice rather than Silicon Valley practice.

In language that hinted at what was to come, it declared: «We believe that planned parenthood, practiced with respect for human life, fulfills rather than violates the will of God....

Interesting, is it not, that this focus on the communal «conversion to love,» rooted in personal practices rather than institutional structures or rules, displays the pattern of Methodist ecclesiology?

Must academics always practice autoimmune criticisms of their faith and country rather than raising their voice in protest of the obvious violence against us?

Thus, to invoke the Russian Church's traditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries requires us to engage in historical reconstruction rather than to nurture beliefs and practices that are ongoing.

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

Countless college students aspire to be «personnel directors» or «counselors» in large organizations rather than to become entrepreneurs running their own shops (unless they plan to set up their own psychological «practices»).

Social canons of this sort eventuate in learned habits, in accustomed practices of such long standing and unquestioned relevance that they seem natural rather than acquired.

So, without theology, in practice rather than words, how would you propose that «we make [forgiveness] solid and real».

I am glad you are practicing a Bible study method which studies the Scripture in - depth, rather than just accepting whatever a certain Bible teacher tells you to think.

They want some big splashy teaching, like for instance — a course in miracles, rather than putting into practice in very practical ways with the people around them what the Isaiah says God requires (i.e. — love, patience, prayer, meditation, hopefulness, justice, etc).

If the new verbalizations of earnestness are causing a stylistic rupture, as I think they are, that may be because the Mad Men writers» room is highly practiced at making these characters go in circles regressively or statically — rather than, as here, progressively.

Would it not be better to continue with the practice of entrusting these children, «with prayerful hope», «to the mercy of God» (as we do in the funeral rite established for them) rather than putting forward our own presumptuous speculations on their fate?

They are opposed to the use of force, and although they are a bridge between Wahhabi and Sufi practices, they follow orthodox Sunni doctrines, rather than the usual Sufi teachings, and accept the school of Malik in the particular requirements of religion.

We should also admit in all honesty that in the general practice of the Church these distinctions are suppressed rather than clarified as far as the faithful are concerned.

Rather than spending the majority of our income on buildings, salaries, and church programs, so that only what is left over goes to help the poor and needy, maybe churches could reverse this practice, so that a majority of the money that a church receives goes toward feeding the hungry, helping the poor, and serving those who are outcast and rejected in society.

Recognizing that economic and political systems and cultural practices explain persistent poverty in LDCs, they might argue that personal conversion is a prelude to social reform, rather than the other way around.

That requires meaningful worship, worship in which people sense God's presence and grace - filled activity Similarly, rather than just supplying good food in the fellowship hall, one must provide meaningful opportunities for building and practicing Christian fellowship.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

Volf joins a widening cadre of Christian theologians who seek to anchor the nature and mission of the local church in trinitarian thought rather than the shifting sands of cultural practices or the muddy bottoms of tired cultic traditions.

Beliefs and ways of life, save in respect to certain minimal attitudes and practices without which social life could not successfully be carried on, are matters of private rather than public business.

The radical opposition of Grace to nature in classical Protestantism has resulted in a Western civilization that despises our humanity and ignores our responsibility to practice stewardship rather than exploit our natural resources.

What do you think it means to have no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God due to regular practice of the works of the flesh rather than the works of God?

- When I practice mindfulness in conversation, I listen to what others are saying rather than worrying about what I'm going to say next.

great job in realizing what they were formerly practicing was nothing more than another man's idea rather than following

Rather than being explicit and showing his hand, he practices slight of hand, distraction, illusion, and diversion in order to keep his customers entertained and paying.

Long before this time, Christians who faced martyrdom under the persecutions of the Roman emperors rather than deny Christ met this problem in practice, even as many of our contemporaries have been forced to in our own day.

A second group of leaders and churches (which do not practice these things) often accuse the first group of doing these miracles in the power of the devil rather than in the power of God.

I'd rather see no religious practices in the Capital Building than allow it to be used for Wiccan rituals or Atheistic teaching!

Rather than welcome diversity, however, some of us seem to think we have the only correct understanding, and in practice tend to isolate ourselves from the larger Christian community.

The authors of the chapters in this book come from all sorts of church backgrounds and traditions, but rather than focus on the things that separate them from each other or from people who practice other forms of church, this book focuses on the things that unify us and bring us together in Christ.

Conversely, they condemn any theory or practice that «results in the... Church standing in judgment over Scripture, rather than vice versa.»