Sentences with phrase «rather than the agent»

4 Some interpreters regard the Bergsonian self as a memory only, a collector rather than an agent.

Yet in 1311, the church's Council of Vienne condemned their lifestyle and returned them to their place as objects rather than agents of ministry.

We portrayed ourselves as a political prophylactic, rather than an agent of change.»

Too many Labour councillors are passive administrators, rather than agents of radical political change.

In a field where teachers are too often treated as the recipients, rather than the agents, of reforms, Board - certified teachers are natural advocates for students and the profession.

I appreciate that sometimes there's a fine line between the two but shouldn't the focus be more on the work rather than the agent's tastes?

The public will now decide what is good rather than the agents and publishers.

Osgemeos's comic character with a yellow face, painted on top of a tableau of portraits with partially hidden physiognomies, looked like a funny bogeyman rather than the agent of any particular menace, and as such provided commentary on how terrorism is being exaggerated for political gain.

Some experts say that military members are actually better off with direct writers, such as USAA or GEICO, rather than agent - based auto insurance for two reasons.

The negative reviews cite issues with the company's car insurance rates rather than its agents or service.

Secondly, it may be the brokerage, rather than the agent personally, that has the ultimate obligation to collect any commission from the seller.

«Sellers handicap themselves when relying on past appraisals rather than their agent's data.»

I want to see our industry become more consumer centered rather than agent centered.

I suspect you'll find that all that time spent would be better served financially, being a full time investor rather than an agent.

Not exact matches

Rather than congratulating the agent on saving the day, he asked whether she'd gotten a receipt for the fare.

You want to make the playoffs, so rather than recruiting young talent to build a winning team for the long term, you blow the budget on free agents.

FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals... [T] he FBI, Justice Department, and the White House held off on asking for Petraeus» resignation until after the election... FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.

Its first product, Just Mayo, uses protein from yellow peas rather than egg yolk as an emulsifying agent.

Rather than helping to create opportunity in impoverished communities, some microloan programs have stymied growth as lending agents have pocketed much of the cash raised and placed borrowers in an inescapable cycle of debt.

The drugs were sent through the local postal system, then via U.S. Mail rather than couriers, which were more likely to be intercepted by U.S. Customs agents.

But by 2007, Barinskiy and Kravitz realized that they could make more money selling customer information directly to agents, rather than acting as a middleman.

So rather than talking about the benefits and features of what you offer, next time think of yourself or your sales team as agents of change and prepare your pitch from that perspective.

This way, rather than pushing customers to email them or call them on the phone, they can interact with a human support agent over Messenger chat instead.

Flat Fee Selling Agents — There are many companies out there that will list your property for a set fee (from $ 99 — $ 1000) plus the buyer's agent commission (3 - 3.5 %) rather than the typical 6 - 7 % due on normal transactions.

Accompanying the suite itself is a tablet - based application designed by FOX that allows a leasing agent to literally design a future tenant's office on - the - fly, helping to secure the lease and ensuring that a client can receive a move - in - ready solution in days, rather than in weeks or months.

As a suggestion, it is better to ask recommendations from family members, relatives, friends, neighbors, and colleagues rather than from the real estate agents.

This automatically pushed a large part of the cost of distribution to the agents rather than expend their resources to build a distribution network.

But there seems no doubt in his mind that keeping more experienced agents rather than loading up on first - years with higher washout ratios is the way to go.

Rather than telling agents how to create the best online 3D property listings, one specialist has created a website to show just what can be done.

Rather than getting excited about getting 50,000 likes on the corporate website, carriers should be focusing on getting their agents to post local content and getting people to «like» it...

Their goal is the establishment of God's kingdom on earth, and they hold that Jesus who is believed to be God's first creation rather than one person in a trinity is God's agent in this plan.

Through the churches, Chinese Christians are becoming active agents in society rather than passive subjects controlled by the government.

Revolutionary feminists employ a variation of the Marxist use of history as an agent of change in the revolution; they assert that history is a means for transformation of the feminine self - image, so that women may increase their self - esteem and actualize themselves fully rather than be suppressed as during patriarchal history.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

Within the common tradition, both in its political and ecclesial expressions, authority belongs to agents rather than to «things.»

Primitive man understood himself as constituted by his participation in a larger whole, rather than conceiving of the whole as composed of individual men who are the final agents of action, decision, and real individuality.

Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.

One of the standard criticisms of virtue ethics is that it is weak when dealing with issues in applied ethics, in contrast to deontology or utilitarianism, and this because virtue theorists focus on good or bad agents rather than right or wrong acts.

Here, too, consciousness functioned as conformation to the given as much as, or more than, as a constructive agent, for reasoning was discovery of what was there in the forms rather than a creative act.

The nations involved would therefore consider themselves agents of the law of nations rather than merely allies of the U.S..

They must let them treat those they traditionally have been treating — rather than becoming screening agents for them.

To explain it is to show how the agent concretely experienced the situation rather than to show what, from a more objective vantage point, the situation actually was.

Arrowroot powder falls in the category of starches rather than binding agents — so it is most similar to cornstarch, tapioca flour, potato starch, etc..

It's made from chestnut flour and olive oil and has no raising agents so is dense and rich, rather than fluffy like the cakes you're probably used to.

Until modern times, ginger was only employed as a medicine or dyeing agent, rather than a spice.

When Woolworths started sourcing Australian - made deodorant from an agent in Singapore for 60 to 75 per cent of the local list or wholesale price, it claims the manufacturer, Unilever Australasia, shut down the source of supply rather than negotiate over-pricing.

Rather than use traditional animal - based «fining» or filtering agents, such as egg white, gelatin, isinglass or casein, vegan wines employ plant - based alternatives to remove bacteria and improve clarity and taste.

Chen is already complaining about «greedy» Australian agents and urging farmers to consider the long - term future of the trade rather than short - term profits — near identical language to that used by steel mills and government officials when Chinese demand was supercharging the iron ore price eight years ago.

Investing in quillaja and yucca plantations, rather than relying on wild harvests, will guarantee a more sustainable supply of these natural foaming agents, says international supplier Desert King.

Maybe it's that they feel more comfortable evaluating players with professional experience rather than pretending they have the resources or desire to properly vet international free agents and players hitting with aluminum bats.