Sentences with phrase «rather than reasonable»

Hundreds of environmental activists (described as «angry», as if that is their permanent state rather than a reasonable response to Will's column), but only a few scientists?

One more in the series of occasional guest posts written by skeptics of catastrophic man - caused global warming people who encountered character assassination efforts from critics rather than reasonable science - based debate.

The ability to slap so much fish into the market has allowed marketers to drive up Perceived Demand, lower prices, and make fish ubiquitous rather than a reasonable part of our dietary lives.

Not exact matches

Rather than trying to press his case, he asks for their thoughts on a more reasonable valuation.

Rather than setting one reasonable goal, we set five pie - in - the - sky ones.

Rather than saying you have to have this particular mobile device or accept an employee bring in any device they please, employers can give their employees a reasonable list of devices to choose from.

In the Principal Transactions Exemption, the Impartial Conduct Standards specifically refer to the fiduciary's obligation to seek to obtain the best execution reasonably available under the circumstances with respect to the transaction, rather than to receive no more than «reasonable compensation.»

They have had a positive correlation in 25 % of all periods, so I think it's more reasonable to say that stocks and bonds are not correlated, rather than stocks and bonds are negatively correlated.

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

Instead of having huge, multimillion dollar salaries they should have a reasonable salary (in the low hundreds of thousands rather than in millions) with the rest of their package made up of shares in the company (not options).

Seems doubtful so I would rather not waste my time trying to convince you that God, Christ, and Christianity are all far, far, far more reasonable than you or anyone else who is blinded by the old Devil (AKA «the father of lies»)

It was, rather, to show proponents of same - sex marriage that «the other side» is reasonable and that their arguments are worth engaging, rather than dismissing out of hand as irrational and merely or privately religious.

Rather than praise the college for warmly inviting President Bush to give its commencement address, Neuhaus chose to chide the institution because one hundred teachers (less than 30 percent of the faculty) published a respectful letter disagreeing with the very reasonable view that the Iraq War policy is not de-facto «God's will.»

The reasonable response to an incorrect assumption is to correct it rather than just saying that my assumptions are false with no actual indication of an assumption you think I made which is false.

I'd recommend such courses, since I believe education provides the antidote to creationism and that if people are exposed to actual science rather than the distored view I find usually presented by creationists they will be far better equipped to make reasonable judgments regarding the actual evidence.

Now when we compare these intenser experiences with the experiences of tamer minds, so cool and reasonable that we are tempted to call them philosophical rather than religious, we find a character that is perfectly distinct.

The most reasonable explanation is that it is characteristic of Jesus rather than the early Church, but that Paul knows the tradition preserved in Luke and, as a bilingual Jew, fully appreciates its significance.

In identifying specific causal relations, event A, is almost always judged to be the cause of B, (that is, when our judgment is reasonable) because of the prior conjunction of events of sort A with events of sort B, or analogous evidence, rather than on the basis of direct discrimination of a process in B, taking account of, flowing from, or forming itself by virtue of Ai (PNK 87).4

You said, «You may disagree, but you respond with attacks and insults rather than loving and reasonable statements.

Thus, given the proposition, «all relations are internal,» rather than debating the merits of this extreme against its polar contrary, «no relations are internal,» look for a reasonable principle according to which some relations are internal and others are external.

It seemed reasonable to treat all these latter nations as developing rather than developed and to inquire about their legal and religious circumstances.

If you have some patience and an open mind, you may get an answer one day that's based in observable fact and reasonable interpretation, rather than one that's based in 2000 year old mysticism.

«It's the supplier providing the subsidy for the promotion so it's reasonable that it be for that promotion rather than cannibalising full price sales at a later date.»

And @The Analyzer calling me «dumb and brainless» is not going to make you smart and is not going to make the point you are making more reasonable or correct.So no need for name calling, let us just dismiss (attack) the idea people are making rather than the people.

As I said, IF the players become available at a cost that is reasonable, he WILL buy, be it a CB, DM or ST. No I have not seen this player, and, that is why I said Wenger and the scouts WOULD have watched him, and, IF we do buy him, THEN I will see for myself, but, as I said, I would rather trust their opinion than yours on a player.

The problem is we hate other teams so much that we over protect our club and player rather than being reasonable some times.

There is a place in the game for people to boo but that such acts of disapproval should be reasonable and just rather than just a mindless gesture.

We might still even make the top 4 with that squad, could certainly be top 8 if we play well and have some reasonable strategies rather than AW's recent craziness in team selection / positions, (maybe even especially if we don't have CL or even any European football the following season), have an effective transfer season next summer, and make a serious badass run at the title for the next few years from 2018 - 19 plus.

If we wont pay him a reasonable wage Mancity chelsea, and other BIG clubs will.I would rather see him play for us rather than play against us.

It seems reasonable to suggest that rather than simply maintaining a high work rate until the RPE does rise to reach near - maximal levels, the exercising athlete would instead reduce the work rate under conditions of elevated body temperature8 — 10 or depleted muscle glycogen concentrations, 13 giving rise to the possibility that the regulation of self - paced exercise may utilise the RPE as an important mediator of pacing strategy.

It seems reasonable to suggest that rather than simply maintaining a high self - selected work rate until the RPE rises to reach near - maximal levels, the exercising athlete would instead reduce the work rate in certain conditions to prevent hyperthermia or substrate depletion from occurring before the end of exercise.

Napping can certainly be a reasonable way of trying to catch up on some lost sleep and to recharge your batteries, but you do have to have a smart strategy about how you nap, otherwise you could easily end up making things worse rather than better.

Because we are a culture convinced that kids are the ones who need fixing (thankfully this trend is changing), it's reasonable that parents place the discord in the home at the feet of the kids, rather than on the state of the individuals doing the parenting.

Aspire to good basic behavior (staying fairly quiet and not disturbing other people) and reasonable manners, but let minor transgressions go rather than getting into a battle of wills that could spoil the whole evening.

Another mistake is waiting until your baby crashes on his own from exhaustion rather than putting him to bed at a reasonable hour.

So, as time progresses it becomes more and more reasonable to leave your children to their own decisions rather than imposing the artificial consequences.

every reasonable suggestion that parents should bring their lifestyle to normal and stop forcing their child into doing the things he doesn't want to will most likely make the parents decide to look for another doctor rather than an attempt to fix their mistakes;

It is therefore reasonable for me to assume that the state of fear and panic that has engulfed us has more to do with how we have gone about this here rather than any remotely tangible evidence based on the experience of 55 countries that have accepted hostages, After all, ours is the one and only transfer that has generated such noise and fury in the citizenry and attracted international interest.

«Rather than define what is an acceptable level of fraud in any public programme the department should take all reasonable and affordable steps to drive out fraud,» the report noted.

Surely Lansley should be focusing on his contentious NHS reforms rather than prioritising a marginal issue - based on nonexistent evidence - which will alienate a minority of reasonable consumers.

We consider it a serious question that will be best tackled when we can tackle it in a calm and reasonable manner rather than waiting for a crisis.

So BBC chose [MPs] Sarah McCarthy - Fry, Julie Morgan and George Mudie who are hostile rather than Mike Gapes, Ann Clwyd and Karen Buck [who] are reasonable and supportive.

At a constituency level, in order for an MP or their agent to face sanction, a court would have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that there was «wrongful and dishonest intention» on their part, rather than merely a misallocation or misunderstanding between the local and national party organisation.

It requires only an «opinion» rather than a determination «with a reasonable degree of medical certainty.»

«Because Tdap provides reasonable short - term protection, it may contain whooping cough more effectively if it is administered to adolescents in anticipation of a local outbreak rather than on a routine basis at age 11 or 12.»

On the reasonable assumption that chimp and human laughter are homologous rather than independently evolved traits, laughter must be at least 5 million to 7 million years old.

Consciousness is one of the biggest themes in all of these films, and Hutter thinks that if consciousness is ever achieved, it's likely to be an emergent property of advanced AI rather than something that was explicitly programmed or activated: «In general I would say that if I have a system which is sufficiently complicated... if they display behavior we would interpret as emotions as humans, then there's a reasonable chance that it has emotions.»

Is it not reasonable to expect that such a prominent climate scientist might be willing to engage in a more reasoned discourse with his critics rather than paint them with the «denier» brush.

Often our weight loss goals are based on what we think we should look like rather than what's reasonable for our bodies right now.

After uni I then went a pretty drastic crash diet which restricted calories, but wasn't as clean still had a reasonable amount of white carbs and tined soups rather than homemade.