Sentences with phrase «rather than the length»

«It's consistency rather than length of session that is important for exercise, so I do 15 to 30 minutes of yoga every day, just in my living room with a yoga mat and iPad yoga app.

It is a kind of life rather than length of life.

Police pay should reflect officers» skills and performance rather than length of service, an influential thinktank has argued.

In a new study, researchers find that seniority - based layoff policies — the norm in public schools — lead to higher numbers of teacher layoffs than would be necessary if administrators were allowed to make effectiveness the determining factor in issuing layoff notices, rather than length of service.

It's just that their particular health problems tend to affect their QUALITY of life, rather than its length.

Rather than the length or the supportive nature of the relationship, what was determinative was the existence of a public undertaking, carrying with it a body of rights and obligations of a contractual nature.

A functional resume allows younger and older workers to emphasize their skill sets and potential rather than the length of time they've been in the workforce.

Nowadays, more concentration is put on the quality of the information on a resume rather than its length.

There are some great alternatives to a traditional resume format that allow you to focus more on your skills and accomplishments, rather than the length of your career.

Not exact matches

Given the restrictions of character counts, post lengths and the like it seems to make intuitive sense to reference existing content rather than trying to represent your brand with such tight restrictions.

You need to write to the length that allows you tell your story successfully rather than to a predetermined format or word count.

However, rather than having a fixed payment for the length of your loan, your payments start small and increase over time.

By contrast, the Eurozone and Japan are still in the midst of extended programmes of quantitative easing (QE) intended mainly to keep interest rates low along the length of the yield curve (rather than directly to boost the rates of growth of money and purchasing power), and hence to stimulate the two economies.

This year, Buffett talked at length about how most investors are better served in low - cost index funds rather than high - fee hedge fund investments.

[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.]

Compassion is the determination to oppose suffering; it functions at arm's length, basing itself on the rejection of suffering rather than the acceptance of it.»

In some places where words do not translate directly, scholars will look for some simple modern term rather than increasing the length of the text to give an exact meaning.

I was heartened to read James Tolhurst's article on «The Nature of Heresy» (July 2009) and only wished he had expounded further at length and also got right back to first principles quoting St. Augustine of Hippo and the great St. Paul that the inimical core of all heresy is: «worshipping the creature rather than the Creator.»

But now at last he has considered the question of the modern crisis in language at length, and we can follow his thinking in ordered steps rather than in scattered, specialized bits.

Slamming NAB for rendering Psalm 23:6, «I will dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come,» rather than «forever» with RSV or «for length of days» with Douay - Rheims, Neuhaus makes the extraordinary claim «that there is nothing in the Hebrew that requires or even suggests a change» of the traditional translation «forever.»

Rather than dictating a specific speed of play, the easiest fix is enforcing what's already there: the prescribed length of the game itself.

Because their legs are curled up against the torso for much of the pregnancy, making a full - length measurement difficult, babies often are measured from the crown to rump (from the top of the head to bottom the buttocks) rather than from head to toe.

I know that he has bladder control because of the length of time that he holds it in, he would just rather go in his pants than on the potty.

This kind of interference may increase the length or strength of the night terror rather than alleviate their fears.

As for his weight, take a look at his weight in relation to his length, rather than his weight for age.

From now on, to give you a better idea of your twins» growth, the average length measurements will be from head to foot (crown to heel), rather than head to bottom (crown to rump).

Because of the length restrictions, worksheet collections may tend towards being a mass of trivia, rather than an education.

A later study confirmed this.70 Length of stay is reduced for infants who cup - feed.71 Preterm newborns are more likely to be exclusively breastfeeding at discharge when they have been cup - fed rather than bottle - fed.65

However, there is now a new legislation that runs alongside this previous law called i - size which takes into account the length of the baby rather than weight.

Child's height / length — i - size uses the child's length to determine if the seat fits the child, rather than their weight which is what R44 uses.

i - Size uses the child's height / length to determine if the seat fits the child, rather than their weight.

Really successful social networking - based campaigns generally seem to work with the strengths of the medium rather than treating it as just another broadcast tool — organizers engage their friends and followers one - on - one and at length, fostering commitment among (at times) relatively small but strong groups.

Sharpton criticized the length of time that each grand jury has been working without a decision and what he termed grand jury roles that «appear to be improperly expanded to where it is about trying to prove or disprove the accused rather than to see if there's probable cause to go to trial».

There's some truth in that — it allows us to slide into a system which has worked out all the mistakes of an arm's - length relationship with the EU over decades rather than making them all over again ourselves.

Also, Newsday's Reid Epstein correctly reports the buy isn't completed yet, although the issue appeared to be the length rather than the concept.

Several teachers attending Monday's event spoke at length about the impact of Common Core testing requirements, saying they result in more «teaching to the test» rather than substantial learning and mastery.

Jacqui Smith, the former home secretary, proposes that prison officers be rewarded for their ability to prevent reoffending, suggests victims should, within limits, be able to recommend the length and type of sentence, and proposes directly elected crime commissioners to represent part of a force area within police authorities, rather than a single crime commissioner for each police authority.

It will be weeks rather than months in length and the idea of compulsory service has also been dropped.

If you would rather wear a short wetsuit than a full - length one, we recommend checking out the Phantom Aquatics «Shorty» Wetsuit.

The temperature dependence of the isothermal compressibility and correlation length extracted from x-ray scattering functions showed maxima at 229 K for H2O and 233 K for D2O, rather than diverging to infinity.

Rather than leaving patients sedated, doctors now wean them from sedatives once a day to test their progress — another trick proved to reduce the length of stay.

The study, led by scientists from the University of Chicago, uses a novel method to measure genetic predisposition for telomere length, rather than physiological measures which are confounded by factors such as age and lifestyle.

«We may be able to improve outcomes in brain - injured soldiers and civilians,» he continues, «and reduce the length of their mandatory rest periods before returning to duty, making the difference between requiring only days rather than weeks or longer to recover.»

Rather than use a single threshold for earthquake magnitude, he ran several statistical analyses using different magnitude thresholds, looking for patterns in quakes over various intervals ranging in length from months to years — and found nothing.

«It is alcohol rather than acetaldehyde that is associated with a shortened telomere length.»

The government's concern, she said, was with the «overall average» rather than individual lengths of courses.

And because the comb measurements can be averaged over the entire path length rather than relying on a few spot measurements, the comb method is better matched to the scale of atmospheric transport models.

In contrast, in slightly wetter parts of Mongolia the largest glaciers did date from the ice age but reached their maximum lengths tens of thousands of years earlier in the glacial period rather than at its culmination, around 20,000 years ago, when glaciers around most of the planet peaked.

Peacock spiders and other jumping spiders use internal hydraulic pumps rather than leg muscles to leap 30 times their body length.

When they stained brain samples taken from human Huntington's victims, they found that the characteristic globs consist of full - length mutant huntingtin, rather than peptide fragments from the mutant.