Sentences with phrase «rather than information»

The economic growth was mainly due to durable goods manufacturing (high tech semiconductors), rather than information, which is what drove national GDP growth.

When you write a cover letter, it should be «your own», rather than the information picked up from half a dozen cover letter samples.

Some of it was based on Robidoux's own observations, rather than information provided to her.

However, verification is probably not a wise option if your individual account is dominated by tweets about when you brush your teeth rather than information of interest to potential clients.

This can be a frustrating disconnect: the lawyers I meet invariably are interesting, insightful, and well - rounded, yet their online bios are often stiff, stilted, and one - dimensional, providing readers with trivia such as year of call and source of law degree rather than information that clients can really use.

Perhaps, inasmuch as they might want to deal with these markets, where the customers / end - users are corporate managers and officers, they would prefer to offer them software solutions rather than information / research.

As one poster noted, with this subjective definition, it seems like the test for whether something is a black swan is run on the audience in question, rather than the information itself.

Rather than information — which «people have a right to know» — we get drama, like the pointless focus on the Fukushima power plant when the real story — and a genuine Black Swan — was the shear power and unusual nature of the earthquake that generated the tsunami.

Rather than some information on a notepad, it's in code form that the Google spiders understand.

Are the current courses taught in primary schools more appropriate to the industrial age rather than the information age?

If our measure was just capturing random noise in the data rather than information about true principal quality, we would not expect it to be related to teacher quality and turnover.

According to Finkel, «developers of matching algorithms have tended to focus on the information that is easy for them to assess, like similarity in personality and attitudes, rather than the information that relationship science has found to be crucial for predicting long - term relationship well - being.

When we profile people, we often make poor decisions about them because our decisions are based on generalities rather than information about each individual person.

Improper public to private communication might seem trivial in an environment as open as bond markets but the truth is that private actors are poorly informed and, in more cases than expected, react to media reports rather than information from the Spanish government or other official sources.

The focus on character rather than information transfer, the need for high expectations and encouragement, and the emphasis on personal relationships and mentoring are integral for raising up the next generation.

The collapse of what I called the big story has raised the question whether there is any sense in talking about the span of man's life as a little story, and with the collapse of the little story it is a severe question whether the new does not become noise rather than information.

Perhaps we need to explore reforming all our communications to make them (1) competitive to all other communications in terms of their usefulness to members» lives; (2) made easily accessible for when members want to use them, rather than thrust on them involuntarily; and (3) the accessibility advertised rather than the information given.

Yet we also see very strong inflows into junk bond funds, based on the belief that these high yields represent value rather than information about default probabilities.

An fMRI neuro - imagery study shows that when evaluating brands, consumers primarily use emotions gathered from personal feelings and experiences rather than information given about a brand.

With Obama's support, Wheeler in 2014 pushed to classify broadband as a telecom service under Title II of the Communications Act rather than an information service.

But in its 2015 rules, the agency redesignated broadband as a telecommunications service rather than an information service.

Not exact matches

Apple uses NFC to send a «token» with encrypted details about the transaction, rather than the actual account information of the cardholder.

Rather than circulating reports among fund managers and investors behind closed doors, so - called activist short sellers are adept at deploying «shock and awe» campaigns by publicizing information and allegations on Twitter.

The acceptance of HTML by Web page designers has allowed them to think of a document as a way of accessing information, rather than a collection of static pages that can only be read when downloaded.

Rather than have to search around for what people are saying about your brand, Brand24 delivers real - time information on what's been said as well as what is going on with your competition.

Rather than rush through customer interactions, he suggests keeping a notebook handy and taking customers» contact information or simply adding it into the computer system to give them more personal attention after the rush.

I was disappointed to see no new information on issuing green bonds to finance projects, rather than simply using standard bonds.

Rather than showing small icons for each application, like the iPhone, Metro presents you with animated squares that off er constantly updated information about your friends, the weather — whatever.

Rather than using tired mail merge and template emails, employ data - rich information to make marketing messages more personal and make them stand out from the clutter.

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Rather than leave employees to fend for themselves in a noisy industry, choose a wellness program that will arm them with accurate information and give them the tools they need to get — and stay — healthy.

Rather than panic, Wojcicki reverted to her Wall Street analyst self, gathering vast amounts of information, certain a solution was hiding in plain sight.

It's also meant to help improve accessibility to the visually impaired — those looking at a screen - reader for information can hear their friends identified by name rather than simply by description.

When it comes to remembering large amounts of information, we tend to recollect it better when it is displayed visually rather than verbally.

(Note that TREB asked about the two pieces of information together, rather than separately.)

Rather than the single horizontal line of channels found in the previous interface, the look is now grid - like, with much more information on - screen at once.

Rather than relying on traditional news sources, they get their information from social media feeds — algorithmic streams on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other networks that aggregate preferences from their friends and followers.

One interesting takeaway is that investment banks are now in an information business, rather than a capital business.

The entrepreneurial salesperson is a master listener, pulling information about the customers thoughts and feelings rather than always pushing.

«With the Sodium Mandate, the Board has required the disclosure of just enough inaccurate and controversial information about sodium in certain food items to cause far reaching negative consequences rather than help consumers and reduce public health risks.»

Tool kits and resource lists are another form of information product but one that offers the means to achieve a goal rather than the knowledge to achieve a goal.

«When I'm creating branding for a client the main information I seek is what is the essence of that business, rather than a particular product / service they offer.»

«Unfiltered [and] unscheduled information... leads to better decision making rather than just [going to] scheduled meetings every half hour or every hour,» Ramakrishnan says.

In all of the above cases the entrepreneur who is susceptible to the confirmation bias will look for information and analyze it in a way that will yield: 1) fewer competitors rather than more, because it increases the viability of the start - up, 2) underestimation of the capabilities of the competition because stronger competitors will make life harder for the entrepreneur, 3) view of the company's product as fully addressing the needs of the customer because otherwise the start - up is at a weaker position in the marketplace, and 4) need for less resources rather than more because it generally makes raising the money easier.

Rather than going it alone, College Financial, a 50 - employee Northbrook, Ill., provider of information on sources of student financial aid, hired C&E Street Promotions, in Upper Darby, Pa., for nationwide distribution of 53,000 «Free Money for College» posters.

For example, he insisted it enables volunteers to enter voter information they collect on door steps on tablets rather than with paper.

But the fact remains: the more our economy depends on intellectual rather than physical capital — that is, the more it depends on information and new products and specialized services rather than on warehouses and big factories and centralized paper processing — the stronger will be the centrifugal forces impelling people toward small companies.

While the technology is still learning about its users, it eventually will «push» resources — say, information on government - buying programs for women - owned business — rather than people aimlessly searching for them.

You've heard a lot of social media experts stress the importance of having a genuine voice (as in sounding human rather than corporate) when posting links or information to your company's social media pages.

Rather than poach a leading researcher and their students, as many tech companies do, Element AI has taken a «visiting researcher» approach, allowing university researchers to work at the company and even publish their research as long as it does not include proprietary information from clients.