Sentences with phrase «rather than increases»

This reduces, rather than increases, the effect on global temperatures from a doubling of CO2.

It usually causes coughing rather than increases in respiratory rates but once in a while it can cause panting or rapid shallow breathing.

Sure, there might be some years where your investment balance decreases rather than increases.

Debt characterized as «bad» would be an item that depreciates rather than increases in value.

A higher percentage report cuts rather than increases in essential funding such as district funding and building funds, while technology funding is barely staying even: 40 % of respondents had cuts in district funding versus 6 % who had increases, and 42 % saw cuts in their building funds versus 4 % who had increases.

It blocks rather than increases understanding.

Cuts rather than increases have been the recent historical norm.

Conservative swings in London in 2005 were larger than in just about any other part of the country — albeit mainly because of large falls in the Labour vote rather than increases in the Conservative vote.

And some studies show that the herb decreases rather than increases lactation.

Giving a recipient more than one call - to - action reduces rather than increases your response rate.

Rather than increasing the risk of losing skilled employees to competitors, research shows that WLES makes employees more likely to stay.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney warned in a letter to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke the rule could actually «reduce global financial resilience rather than increase it.»

Rather than increase the supply of road per driver, public transit affects the demand for road space.

Unit labor costs, the price of labor per single unit of output, fell at a 1.4 percent rate in the second quarter, rather than increasing at a 0.5 percent rate as previously reported.

«Because we found a general trend toward smaller cup sizes, we made the choice to reduce the size rather than increase the price,» company spokesman Michael Langdon said.

The trend has been for companies to use retained earnings to buy back shares rather than increase their dividend payouts.

This is a zero - sum game, since currency movements switch demand from one country to another rather than increase it globally.

So it is surprising that the adjustments to nominal GDP decline over the medium term rather than increase as one would expect.

The economic literature has generally found that rather than increasing homeownership, the mortgage interest deduction encourages people to buy bigger homes and by taking on more debt.

First, society should be organized to promote the creaturely good, inclusively conceived, rather than the increase of wealth.

If it had ended, then it would seem appropriate to ask what policies are now needed if our concern is to improve economic welfare of people rather than increase production for its own sake.

OMG Even our foods are day by day became more artificial to face increasing market demand rather than increasing farm lands and production globally to assist avoiding the famine and that way they created jobs, hopes and fed with out being effected by global changes as a hungry man is an angry man!

Many from the global South oppose the concern of the North about population on the grounds that it is the over consumption of the North rather than increasing population in the South that is the chief cause of global environmental deterioration.

In some places where words do not translate directly, scholars will look for some simple modern term rather than increasing the length of the text to give an exact meaning.

My resume has as many gaps as jobs, and our meager belongings have shrunk rather than increased over the past four years.

Obviously, this is not good news for the gluten intolerant, but in any case, rather than increasing your protein intake (which many vegans believe they are doing when eating things like vegan sausages or burgers), you may actually be eating more empty carbs than proteins, leading to dietary imbalances that ultimately cause problems like hair loss, brittle nails and duller skin.

Studies both in sports and in business show bringing in someone from the outside usually results in a drop in performance rather than an increase in performance.

In Texas, the Appropriations Committee is talking about budget cuts across the board rather than increasing the education budget.

The global nature of the increase suggests that it is due to a global factor, rather than the increase in a particular diagnosis a dramatic change in specific risk factors.

The land - cash ordinance enables the city to draw money from builders of new housing developments to support the expansion of those services, rather than increase...

By not allowing this to happen, and giving a bottle instead, your body will not receive the message and most likely your milk supply will drop rather than increase.

This is not the time to give your baby extra bottles of formula as this will reduce your milk supply rather than increase it, unless you pump your breast milk at all feeding times.

Dr Osei believes revenue collection is inefficient and said strengthening the country's current systems to boost tax collection should be considered rather than increasing taxes, which, he feels, will be a disincentive for people to invest.

They should be more efficient in collection rather than increasing».

In a BBC interview, Mr Osborne pledged to reduce Britain's borrowing by cutting public spending — rather than increasing taxes.

The government continued to argue that regulation needed to be «improved» rather than increased.

We have therefore agreed that there will need to be: - a significantly accelerated reduction in the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction borne by reduced spending rather than increased taxes; - arrangements that will protect those on low incomes from the effect of public sector pay constraint and other spending constraints; and - protection of jobs by stopping Labour's proposed jobs tax.

He says he entered into the program rather than increase taxes or implement layoffs.

It is doubly unfortunate, then, that the biggest and most important digital politics conference in this country for many years should have chosen, in the makeup of its speakers, to reflect the institutional prejudices of leftwing parliamentary parties rather than the increasing inclusivity of online politics.

We will significantly accelerate the reduction of the structural deficit over the course of a Parliament, with the main burden of deficit reduction born by reduced spending rather than increased taxes.

The current government's focus is on getting people into work rather than increasing benefits, however.

Loeb points out that much of the concern over cancer risk is that, as part of standard therapy for advanced prostate cancer, tumor growth is decreased by drugs that drastically reduce rather than increase male hormones.

The researchers separate six key strategy areas for reducing water stress into «hard path» measures, involving building more reservoirs and increasing desalination efforts of sea water, and «soft path» measures that focus on reducing water demand rather than increasing water supply thanks to community - scale efforts and decision - making, combining efficient technology and environmental protection.

Recent research also shows that levels of dissociation decrease rather than increase — as suggested in the article — during trauma - oriented treatment when following treatment guidelines.

About half of the children diagnosed with ASD in the new report had normal or above - average intelligence, compared with a third of children 10 years ago, suggesting that a significant proportion of the new cases are due to more sensitive diagnostic measures rather than increased incidence, she says.

New strains including multidrug resistant E. coli were seen to emerge within the collection over time, but these quickly reached a balance with other strains in the population rather than increasing over time.

The ATRAP group, Gabrielse says, made the choice to increase the number of atoms in the trap rather than increasing the sensitivity of the instruments to detect small numbers of anti-atoms, as ALPHA has done.

(The power number is negative because it reflects a decrease rather than an increase in the number of events as death tolls rise.)

Like van Schaik, Henrich and Muthukrishna believe that innovation should benefit from diminishing, rather than increasing, costs of failure.

The Montreal Protocol had no impact on cleaning the air, it stopped the growth of CFCs which are powerful greenhouse gases (in addition to their role in depleting stratospheric ozone), therefore it slowed global warming, rather than increasing it, and we aren't trying to save ground - level ozone.