Sentences with phrase «rather than the capacity»

Why has there hitherto been an evolutionary advantage in developing human potential for aggression rather than the capacity to love?

The limiting factor is now our ability to share and analyse these vast quantities of data, rather than the capacity to generate them.

Some of the draft indicators, for example measurements of building healthy communities and families, tend to focus on negative measurements (crime, abuse etc) rather than capacity building.

Not exact matches

They typically react (slowly at best) to three outside drivers: (a) their competition brings a new offering to market, and they need a quick competitive response; (b) their customers see and begin to adopt new processes and solutions, and the customers demand that their products and services conform to the new ways of doing business; or (c) they see a new tool, product, or service in the market offered by a new player and they quickly determine that this is a game - changer which they need to own (rather than try to build themselves) because they lack the internal capacity to do otherwise.

Currently the global steel industry is facing difficult times and over capacity, and countries need to work together to address the problem rather than resorting to protectionist measures, the Ministry statement said.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

There is an option here where Facebook, in many capacities, can sponsor responsible journalism rather than be known for brazen garbage.

Most safety net programs are currently administered at the state or federal level, rather than the local level — meaning that states have a greater capacity to cover independent contractors through government safety net programs.

Unfortunately, disasters cause economic disruptions, and rebuilding replaces rather than adds to productive capacity.

«Timing and strategy shifts for cell and module manufacturing were either as a result of wanting to increase the capacity of the facility or transition our focus to Solar Roof rather than traditional panels,» a Tesla spokesperson says via email.

Debt, in this case, must be rising faster than debt servicing capacity, in which case Beijing's true debt level is not the nominal debt level but rather the nominal debt level plus estimates of contingent liabilities likely to rise as a consequence of wasted investment.

Rather than setting out to create a class of entrepreneurs managing companies efficiently, the plan helped managers strip Russia's assets and engage in capital flight while transferring ownership of Russia's raw - materials export capacity to U.S. and other Western investors.

Because the amount of bad debt in each period is almost certainly a growing number, it must follow logically that the GDP growth number observers really want, rather than the one they have — that is, GDP growth as a systems output that can serve as a proxy for debt - servicing capacity — is a declining number, and perhaps even a quickly declining number.

When a student has FAFSA independent student status, the federal government considers the student's financial capacity to meet the obligations of paying for college rather than those of the parents.

Rather than superior intelligence, Buffett confided, it is the capacity for unconditionally rational thought — followed by proportional action — that separates the winners from the also - rans.»

Since the industry consolidated and management incentives changed to being based on returns on capital rather than growth, capacity (supply) growth has tracked GDP (demand) growth closely, free cash flow generation has been significant and consistent, and the companies have consistently paid down debt, bought back stock and paid dividends.

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

We have to bring together all of the social forces including in those countries where the national traditions mean that it is mainly the associations and NGOs which are active more than the trade unions which tend to be stuck on a professional level rather than in a wider capacity.

The conceptual growth, that is, growth in the relevant capacities, needed to apprehend God must be guided by interests in God rather than interests in God's solving persons» problems or liberating them from their bondage; but that does not exclude such interests.

Theology, on the other hand, has truncated its capacity to deal with those important issues it does raise by giving the appearance of authoritarianism or special pleading rather than participating from its own resources in free and open discussion.

Images and patterns are the stuff of the imagination, which is the capacity that unifies data into wholes; it does so by means of patterns rather than abstract concepts.

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

Rather than diminishing the Church's reputation, formally rejecting past errors increases it by demonstrating that the Church has the capacity for self - correction.

So we tend to preserve and defend rather than push our capacity to receive God's next creative lead.

As Arminian doctrine or Arminian attitudes spread among many of the popular revivalists, the stress was on a change of will rather than a radical rebirth, on man's capacity to reform himself rather than the need for death to self and new birth in Christ.

Yet it can not be our only task, for the problem of organizing the technical civilization of the western world upon a new basis of economic and international justice, so that the anarchy and decay that have characterized our life in the past three decades will be arrested and our technical capacities will be made fruitful rather than suicidal, is one which must engage our best resources.

Since pastors are free to make political endorsements as individual citizens, just not in their official capacities as leaders of the church, supporters of the Johnson Amendment contend that rather than restricting political speech, the rules protect nonprofits from lobbying interests.

It was, I said, «good and hopeful stuff, which encourages one to hope that he will be using his obvious capacity to work out what's going on in a particular secularised culture to help the Church here to begin the fightback, in the most effective way open to him - that is, by helping the Pope to appoint bishops who will do everything they can to implement rather than to undermine the Holy Father's agenda.»

Courage requires the active capacity to attack problems, rather than dodging or ducking them.

Jürgen Moltmann has pointed out that one amazing ramification of Christianity's peculiar doctrine of the Trinity is the way it transcends the patriarchalism implicit in Jewish monotheism as well as the matriarchalism implicit in pagan pantheism.49 Using sexual terms in a metasexual rather than a literal, genital, and bodily sense, the feminine dimension of personality refers to the receptive, passive, self - effacing, care - receiving capacity in us all that contrasts with the initiating, aggressive, self - assertive, self - sufficient traits we associate with the masculine dimension.

With de Lubac, and against postmodernity, the Church must restore to the human person a sense of the natural human capacity for the universal, and with it the possibility of an ennobling unity based on shared metaphysical truth rather than the negative peace of nonjudgmental tolerance.

However, his definition of sexuality here is beautiful in that it relates to one's relational capacity rather than physical gratification.

Rather than sweeping women's peculiar moral perspective — which is intimately tied to their reproductive capacity — under the rug, these feminists celebrate it as an equally valid or even superior kind of rationality.

To put it another way — with a nod to Reinhold Niebuhr, whose work appears even sounder as it ages — we need a greater capacity to be at ease with limited and partial solutions to problems, rather than continually seeking permanent «peace and prosperity.»

Teilhard concluded that the mandates of progress and Christian charity would require society to give priority to those who demonstrate a capacity for development rather than to «life's rejects» (Human Energy [Collins, 1969], pp. 132 - 133).

Focused inward on containing man's capacity for evil through a pattern of small habits, it runs the risk of atrophying into dry ritual rather than enriching civilized life to the fullest — but that is the worst it does.

Hunger is due to social, economic and political conditions rather than limitations on agricultural productive capacity.

The new brewery will give the business a big step up in capacity as well as efficiency as it begins to make its product locally rather than import it.

Rather than lose the year on a medical redshirt, he decided to play at partial capacity, sitting out many practices to preserve his body for game action.

The Portuguese tactician may well get his wish as The Daily Mail report that rather than push forward with plans to expand Old Trafford and make it an 88,000 capacity stadium, the club are ready to use funds in the transfer market instead.

I think even he, with the right force of instruction of playing for the team in team mode rather than Giroud mode could also keep Arsenal ticking over, if used in an interim capacity behind Sanchez, Ozil and Lacazette (the three ZZZ's).

Also of note is the finding that the best performing young footballers who will go on to play the sport professionally display superior dribbling skills, endurance capacity and tactical awareness compared to their peers, from as early as 14 years of age.9 17 These differences appear well before it is possible to accumulate 10 000 h of practice, but allow predictions of which players will go on to achieve best performances in adulthood, suggesting that the effectiveness of and response to training, rather than simply training, determines success.

The focus of the workshops is support for «team parenting» — mums» and dads» capacity to work well together as parents, rather than pulling in different directions or assuming one of them (usually the mother) needs to take responsibility for doing and / or organising the caring.

Contemporary research at the interface of developmental psychology, neuroscience and genetics demonstrates that children develop the capacity for emotional regulation, cognitive resourcefulness and overall mental health when caregivers respond to the meaning of behavior rather than the behavior itself.

Indeed, with the capacity to keep milk fresh for days rather than hours, America plunged into a near - obsession with milk - drinking that came to be part of the national character: Three glasses of milk a day turned into a staple of the diet for city dwellers along with farm families already close to the source; kids with red - and - white milk cartons became as common in school cafeterias as mystery meat.

As I have worked with children over the years, I have seen the diminished capacity for true play and a loss of the sense of wonder in their world as children are groomed to be consumers rather than citizens.

The extent to which help and assistance enhances or compromises parenting competence and confidence depends to a large degree on the ways in which help is offered and provided.20, 3,21,6 Consequently, efforts to provide supports and resources to parents need to be done in ways that enhance rather than diminish parenting capacity.

If you have big kids, or see your kids using this double umbrella stroller for a while, it will make more sense to get a stroller that has higher weight capacity (i.e. 55 pounds rather than 35 pounds).

Our ultimate goal is to facilitate your child's innate healing capacity and lead him / her to true wellness, rather than simply putting band - aids on symptoms.

«Our challenge is to sustain and spread forces of individual empowerment more equally while enhancing rather than reducing capacity for collective action to tackle shared risks.»