Sentences with phrase «rather than stone»

The owner selected wood rather than stone because wood provides a warm ambience and is more resilient — kinder to the cook's back and feet and less likely to result in broken dishes.

Brooklyn interior designer Erica Feiger suggested the oak floor rather than stone — another family - friendly choice.

A student of George Fullard during the 1960s, her experiments with industrial materials are a result of his emphasis on sculpting with non-traditional material rather than stone or clay.

Rare Mokulito lithograph whose image Cathie Pilkington RA has printed from a wooden block rather than a stone or metal plate.

«As a consequence, in the new incoming biology, not only will people with motor handicaps like Stefania find themes for creative research, but paradoxically their handicap could make of them the architect, rather than the stone - masons, of the cathedral.»

There's just something joyous about typing in jack be nimble and watching your catapults throw villagers, rather than stones.

Not exact matches

«We intend to test the basic underlying claims that «Russians» hacked, stole, and disseminated DNC data,» Stone's lawyer added, «Rather than the various other plausible scenarios, including internal theft.»

Levie said the phases represent a general vision of where things are headed for Box, rather than specific plans that are set in stone.

And as noted above, the use of stone boundary markers rather than wooden or clay ones indicated that alienations of land to the public sector (usually to the palace) were irreversible, in contrast to communal land tenure.

Carats.io developed digital tokens that represent the polished diamond industry, rather than trading the stones themselves.

«There are solutions that deliver on this, and Minister Stone appears to be buckling rather than looking for these solutions, as he promised he would.»

For example, Kendra Scott is developing an experience with the look and feel of a store rather than an e-commerce site, where customers can browse drawers of a jewelry designer's workbench to select styles and stones.

I have decided that, rather than be someone who denies the existence of the mountain entirely — whatever that represents in the moment — or simply gives up in despair, that I will be a woman who picks up small stones and moves them.

In the Williams novel, it is a stone of great power, rather than a ring, but it has the same effect on those who bear it: They become its possession, not its possessor.

... All I know is MY GOD tells me that «VENGENCE IS MNE, SAYITH THE LORD»... and... «Those without sin should throw the first stone»... I guess these hillbilly fake Christians would rather tick off MY GOD than have love and peace intheir hearts.

You see this sort of language a lot in complementarian literature: «real men,» «real women,» «real marriage,» «hardwired,» «programmed,» «blueprint» — as if masculinity and femininity are rigid, set - in - stone ideals to which we must ascribe, rather than fluid expressions of our unique selves.

Such a feminist hermeneutics of liberation reconceptualizes the understanding of Scripture as nourishing bread rather than as unchanging sacred word engraved in stone.

Here's a thought: rather than following a group of men who play with little boys or believing in a religion which has you eating flesh and drinking blood every sabath or believing in a divine being that calls for you to stone disobedient children, why don't you simply think for yourself.

-- let us say an Aryan, a Hindu, a Greek, or a member of the Roman proletariat, something would surely be found to betray this fact in the diversified gospel tradition we possess; or if, say, he had had no connection with John the Baptist, or had not criticized the scribes, or had been stoned to death rather than crucified.

Guys, if you want to attract people for the kingdom of God, it may be better to emulate the good Samaritan who came along side the Jewish man who had been robbed and beaten, and helped him up... rather than those who took up stones to kill the prostitute.

Either we reject stone age silliness and embrace modernity, or sooner rather than later, we slaughter each other.

«The stone» refers to a large grouping of molecular occasions rather than to any single occasion of experience.

The first Implication is that a doctrine of God Inspired by emerging scientific models is speculative rather than dogmatic, not fixed in stone but open to new information and revisions.

Differences are so often Pharisee stuff — and a stumbling block rather than a stepping stone on our spiritual journeys.

If the liturgy has been hurled at us like a stone — an obligatory stone — for too many years, the solution is not to transform it into an action dependent upon our participation as a prerequisite for its meaning, rather than a response to God's meaning already present.

Largely absent from The Thanatos Syndrome is the redemptive humor of Percy's early work, in which he discerns that his own satirists need satirizing, that the gospel is not a divine stone flung angrily at the world, and that faith is God's comic gift rather than our own stern decision.

Rather than a standing ovation, Austin Stone suspended a pastor for his response to this situation in order to pursue an investigation.

The trick is high heat (500 ˚ F) and baking the pizza on parchment paper rather than on a baking sheet (I'm sure a pizza stone would also work, but I don't have one).

Since «actions speak louder than words», «pictures are worth a thousand words» and «sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me», I've decided to give you a glimpse into the life of the Peanut Butter Boy in pictures rather than words (or stones).

Mr O'Hoy, who is a director of Byron Bay craft brewer Stone & Wood, says the dilemma for the big brewers now as they try to tap into the independent, craft brewing sector, is the risk of killing off the very independence and creativity they are seeking to buy if they choose to acquire rather than build their own brands.

Rather than six loaves, I diveded mine into three 16 inch ones that I baked in my baguette pan over my stone.

Rather than use aluminum foil, and spray the crust, I use my round 13 ″ pizza stone.

Think of these as guidelines rather than rules that are set in stone.

It often took several weeks of geological prospecting to find a bowling stone with just the right heft, and even then the chances were that it, rather than the duck, would break up on the second pitch.

So many times the concept of a «Real Man» is interpreted as a stone cold brute who would rather die than shed a single tear in front of someone else.

If mistakes were made in the past, they should be corrected rather than set in stone.

WASHINGTON — In a feisty statement to be delivered to the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Roger Stone, President Trump's longtime political adviser, denies any collusion with Russia during last year's presidential election and accuses panel members of «cowardice» for insisting that he testify behind closed doors rather than in a public session.

There might just be something poetic to this situation, though: a campaign that seems to be calling out for an independent voice, on the grounds of a mission against Trump and the system rather than the usual political stepping stone, contrasted with the disgust at Schneiderman's behavior.

Modern European dogs still share heritage with Stone Age canines on the continent, hinting that all the pups came from a common source rather than separately domesticated Asian dogs replacing their European counterparts.

Choosing to use water from one of the world's largest aquifers rather than leaving it in the ground is not irresponsible, says Andrew Stone, executive director of the American Groundwater Trust in Concord, N.H. Like coal or natural gas, groundwater is a valuable resource.

Analysis of stone tools and ancient DNA suggests an indigenous population, rather than migrants from earlier agricultural communities within the Fertile Crescent.

Crows completed 4 of 6 water displacement tasks, including preferentially dropping stones into a water - filled tube instead of a sand - filled tube, dropping sinking objects rather than floating objects, using solid objects rather than hollow objects, and dropping objects into a tube with a high water level rather than a low one.

When criticised for his iconoclastic views suggesting catastrophic deposition for the Jurassic Sutton Stone conglomerate in Glamorgan, Wales, he dismisses the critics more than once on the grounds that they belong to the «Geological Survey establishment», rather than endeavouring to refute their arguments.

Stone Age seafarers may have transported red deer to far - flung Scottish islands from remote sites in Europe rather than from the Scottish mainland nearby, a new study suggests.

By hiding the stones and then trying to deceive zoo visitors into thinking that his intentions were peaceful, Osvath and Karvonen argue, Santino was actually anticipating and planning for a future situation rather than simply responding repetitively to a past one.

While millions of people are comfortable seeking help from a psychologist, psychiatrist, or other counselor, others — maybe you included — would rather pass a kidney stone than make an appointment with a therapist.

Says one investor in the company, who asked not to be named, «for the first time since we started investing, with this breakthrough it feels like the stone is starting to roll downhill rather than being pushed up it.»

In other words, sawdust rather than small stones is mixed in with the cement.

Furthermore, about 46,000 obsidian flakes were recovered from a Middle Stone Age site, indicating that obsidian was brought in as raw material and manipulated onsite, rather than imported as finished artifacts.

It is hard to argue that a simpler life with more exercise, fewer processed foods, and closer contact with our children may well be good for us, but rather than renouncing modern living for the sake of our Stone Age genes, we need to understand how evolution has — and hasn't — suited us for the world we inhabit now.