Sentences with phrase «rather than of the past»

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... As a nation, we have been trained to look past the bad behavior of our rudest guests, especially the uninvited ones, and rather than cause a scene, we shall just go about our daily business as if nothing has happened.

That decision was made in a matter of days rather than the months it would have taken in the past.

At Egon Zehnder, we have learned in much of our work with many of the leading Chinese tech giants and startup unicorns what type of talent is likely to thrive in China, which prioritizes the more nuanced «soft» skills of adaptability, flexibility, and potential rather than simply the «hard» skills of language fluency and past work experiences.

Much of this, it can be argued, is that HR analysis tends to focus on the past — for example how many staff have been hired, the number of days taken off sick and the volume of training delivered — rather than looking to the future to see what it may hold.

A matter of focusing on the present moment rather than reliving the past or worrying about the future, this practice has been shown to reduce stress and improve performance.

And unlike in past years, the agency opted to litigate rather than settle many of the cases.

But unlike past recoveries, more Canadians are choosing self - employment, rather than as a means of escaping...

The incident appears to have triggered a lot of anger and resentment about the direction Reddit has taken over the past year, and in particular the movement towards making it more of a self - sustaining business rather than just an online community.

Rather than a political failure, the decline of manufacturing employment is a natural economic process that many industries, like agriculture, have gone through in past eras.

«With my respect to the Chairman of Leighton Holding he should look forward rather than to cry for the past.

And so, in 1917, while working in the Friends» Ambulance Unit on the Western Front, Richardson decided to experiment with the idea of making a numerical forecast - one based on scientific laws rather than past trends.

That means for the past week, the financial hubs of London and New York City have been only four hours apart, rather than the standard five.

The New York Times (nytab) has been criticized in the past for remaining family - controlled, and some have argued that the newspaper would be better off if it were run by a regular corporation rather than being operated in the interests of a specific family.

Over the past two years, a growing number of U.S. banks has capped their directors» earnings, but the ceilings are so high that they primarily serve to fend off potential shareholder litigation rather than control the pace of pay increases.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a point of saying the new shows — all of which will be supported by advertising, rather than a subscription paywall like YouTube Red — shouldn't be taken as a sign that the service is turning its back on its user - generated past.

«Today, rather than create results we won't be able to carry out like in the past, we should make good results by talking frankly about current issues, issues of interest,» Kim said.

On average, renters earn about half as much as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the study said.

I am a 26 - year old female entrepreneur and have spent the past 10 months developing an online marketplace where sellers post a video of their item rather than pictures and descriptions.

There are a lot of serious issues in the United States, and the inclination to try to stay serious and talk about guns, trade, Medicaid, or drug overdoses rather than reports of the president's alleged past affairs with porn actresses and Playboy playmates is understandable and, on some level, laudable.

While we have to say, and we actually believe, that past performance is no guarantee of future returns, we believe that Woodstock represents our clients» best opportunity to capture that equity - like return into their own accounts rather than negotiate it away in purchasing an investment product, because we believe we have done it.

Conclusion The behavioralists have yet to come up with a coherent model that actually predicts the future rather than merely explains, with the benefit of hindsight, what the market did in the past.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

We have strongly recommended in the past that the Government use the Department of Finance's economic forecast rather than the average of the private sector economic forecasts (see «Time to Make the Budget Planning Process More Accountable, Transparent and Prudent» November 2010: www.3dpolicy.ca).

The rally in oil prices over the past year likely had more to do with higher demand rather than merely the supply taken off of the market by the OPEC / non-OPEC Continue Reading

I find the Wizard books so thought - provoking because, rather than being just a collection of stories about past investments, they provide insights into how each manager thinks.

If oil prices ever move up, or stabilize, then we should get to a point of growing dividends (rather than the cuts and suspensions of the past few months).

GFI argues that though it is true that plant - based products already exist, there may be significant room for the improvement of plant - based technology, and improving plant - based technology may yield shorter - term traction, i.e., greater market share, than the cultured foods.119 Recently developed plant - based products already seem to seem to represent improvements from past products; for example, the Impossible Burger, released in 2016, has received favorable reviews from vegans and omnivores alike.120 GFI's fostering and promotion of the development of similarly popular plant - based products could cause a significant reduction in the demand for animal products, particularly if they focus on plant - based chicken and fish and if they convince institutions to serve the plant - based products rather than animal products.121

When we talk about the Bank of Canada offsetting rather than accommodating changes in fiscal policy, it is important to understand that we are talking about changing the nominal interest rate relative to what it would have been otherwise without the fiscal policy change, and not relative to what the nominal rate was in the past.

It is possible that the increased correlation is simply a short - term phenomenon, as experienced on several occasions in the past, rather than the start of a new pattern.

Computations of real interest rates should really be made by deducting an expectation of future, rather than past, inflation from the relevant nominal interest rate.

«It bears repeating that most investors extrapolate past performance, expecting the continuation of trends rather than the far - more - dependable regression to the mean.

Gelernter is not altogether clear about this, but as elite universities become elite - making rather than elite - serving, the intellectual life itself becomes part of the elite kit in a way it wasn't in the past.

I've really appreciated your work over the past year as I've gone through my own transition and found the kind of community that promotes health rather than just covering up the ugly in my life.

I have gotten rambling a little here but my question to you your thoughts on this statement: «If money or rather the established institution that is the world market, is the reason that throughout at leastthe past few decades, than it would be right to take from those who have much much more than they need and give to those who are at least the poorest of the world, those in need.»

With holiness, Faulkner's «past» might yet become a source of liberation, rather than the imprisonment it now often seems to be.

Many of us have spent the past months finding similarities between Francis of Assisi and Francis of Buenos Aires, who took up residence in a guest house in Vatican City rather than the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace.

One could argue that this had religious advantages from a Christian point of view, since it emphasized what God is doing here and now in and with us rather than locating God's action in the distant past.

This recognition encouraged openness to fresh ideas rather than clinging on to the past, and the initiation of new types of ministry.

One could appeal to the dominant assumption of historians that, despite constructionist theories to the contrary, 8 they are engaged in discovering and reconstructing aspects of what occurred rather than in constructing a past or bringing it into being.

But he interests himself in their vision of the past rather than in the question of the conformity of their vision to an objective past event.

What Pannenberg has done, in fact, is stand Augustine on his side: God timelessly embraces our past, present, and future but now is seen to do so ahead of us rather than above us.53

This interpretation of the cross as a permanent fact rather than a mythological event does far more justice to the redemptive significance of the event of the past than any of the traditional interpretations.

There is perhaps also more emphasis on what Christians might through the grace of Christ become, rather than on the legacy of past sin, whether inherited or original or actual sin.

Mainstream Christians tend to look to the past rather than to the future, and to search for ways to restore Christianity to its former glory, as manifested in the flowering of Christendom.

Communication analysis in the past has often focused on the effects of communication on the user, rather than on the communication process itself.

[It should be noted here that complementarian notions of manhood and womanhood tend to be based on culturally — influenced stereotypes, many of which project idealized notions of the post-industrial revolution nuclear family onto biblical texts rather than taking those texts on their own terms — a topic we've discussed at length in the past and will continued to discuss in the future.]

This need not contravene the idea that God in some way creates the world, though it will suggest that God creates «out of chaos» from a beginningless past rather than creating «out of nothing» from a finite past (McDaniel 1989a, 36 - 37).

The reenactment of the Eucharist would reclaim the sorry past, but in mercy rather than vengeance; transform the future without deforming the present; and extend charity outward to the needy, the stranger and the enemy, while it presses judgment and mercy inward to that dark comer where self - pity and malice fester.

These qualities are the outcome, rather than the presupposition, of a spiritual journey, sometimes prolonged and always painful, though a void, past an enemy, and into the presence of a companion.

Whitehead's philosophy requires a broader conception of time, for example, one which will allow for the reality of the past in the present, a concept that the traditional metaphysician would likely judge as intuitively false, leading to the additional judgment that much of human experience is appearance rather than reality, a position which we reject, having come to a greater understanding of Whitehead's metaphysics.