Sentences with phrase «rather than the possibility»

It really encourages one to focus / speculate more on the possibilities of existing stock ideas, rather than the possibilities of new stock ideas.

I'd be excited too, but the language is reminiscent of acquiring a PS3 exclusive rather than the possibility of a multiplatform port.

To date, 47 states have adopted post-conviction DNA testing statutes; some have imposed additional limitations that hinder applicants from obtaining testing, such as prohibiting applications from those (1) that have plead guilty; (2) that have admitted to guilt in order to obtain parole; (3) whose attorneys did not request testing; (4) convicted of crimes for which relief could be sought; (5) who are sentenced to death; (6) who are able to establish a likelihood rather than a possibility the testing will be exculpatory; (7) where there are clear and convincing evidence that the new results would be significantly more discriminating than the results of previous testing; or (8) that fail to provide adequate safeguards to preserve biological evidence.

Failure may be a result of many factors, including: flawed design, being ahead of its time, our tendency to stick to «good enough» solutions we are comfortable with rather than the possibility of something better, solutions in search of a problem, being too expensive, poor execution of a good idea, poor marketing, being user unfriendly, and simply not as good as other solutions to name a few.

If you price the two products they same, value judgements will be made, and it forces an either - or situation, rather than the possibility of selling both formats.

Not exact matches

While I was exploring the possibility of franchising, colleagues posed the question: Why would I choose to pay a franchise royalty fee, rather than starting a business from the ground - up?

Of course, there's always the possibility that Markle will have a tiara custom - made rather than borrowing one from the family's collection.

Party leader Salvini said Monday that a referendum on the euro was not a possibility but said people, rather than bureaucracy, needed to be at the heart of Europe.

When workplace optimism is present, employees believe in possibility rather than idolizing problems.

Disney CEO Bob Iger has talked about this as a long - term possibility in the past, but his recent comments suggest that such a service could come sooner rather than later.

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.

For now, this possibility seems to be more of a conjecture on tech blogs rather than a real problem, but you can bet someone is working on a related scam.

How can businesses offer employees discounted access to services, i.e., rather than pay for a set kind of insurance, can they offer a menu of different options for employees, such as pet insurance, a specific kind of medical insurance (like cancer insurance) or any other possibilities?

The network still has almost 92 million subscribers, and simple math tells you they could recover the lost three - quarters of a billion dollars by charging a subscriber fee of something like $ 7.09, rather than $ 6.41, per month — a large increase, but, with live sports still king, not out of the realm of possibility.

While the Times reported that the leak didn't come from Trump's legal team, it didn't rule out the possibility that it came from people close to or affiliated with it, rather than from Mueller's team.

With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.

Rather than playing into an «us - versus - them» competitive dichotomy, this new space age hinges on exploring the possibility of economic expansion off - planet — a notion bolstered by the innate human urge to push the boundaries of what's possible.

One factor that could have influenced the carriers decision to suspend, rather than exit, certain products is «the possibility that interest rates might rise quickly later on, making those products suddenly viable once again,» says Robert Hanten, president of Solidarity Financial, Plymouth, Minn., and also president of NAIFA - Minneapolis.

What if, rather than seeking answers in books, pastors and ministry leaders opened their minds and hearts to the less certain possibilities that emerge when we let go and let God be God?

It's amazing how much people will distort their view of reality rather than face the possibility of being mistaken.

This solves the problem of the possibility of prehending the Consequent Nature, but it is clearly a change from Whitehead rather than an interpretation of his texts.

One drawback of these developments is that they have tended to be confrontational, with punch - and - counterpunch tactics on both sides, each dedicated to defeating the opponent rather than to exploring the possibility of rapprochement.

At the moment, I would much rather see the U.S. military intervene in Israel and Palestine to provide security for both peoples and the possibility of building a democratic and peaceful Palestinian state than engage in a highly personalized invasion of an «evil» country yet to be proven a threat to anyone.

But whereas Justin was eventually able to reconcile his sexuality with his faith and with Scripture in such a way that has left open the possibility for a relationship with a man in his future, Wesley says that «my own story, by contrast, is a story of feeling spiritually hindered rather than helped by my homosexuality.

Their distrust of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility of a primary kind of perception in which beauty, value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data of experience rather than products of wishful thinking.

Good lives are made rather than found, he insists, simply because without overriding values for human life, the possibilities of a good life are highly variable.

It is as if all these new possibilities have opened up and rather than being afraid of it, I think it's wonderful: a whole new world of ideas to explore

This is an infinite which expresses itself in a narrative vision, not a predetermined narrative nor one which intends to include only a particular kind of people or a particular reality, but a story which is much more open than the old story used to be — a story, indeed, with many strands rather than with one, and a story which is not going to any predetermined place but which is constantly open to the best possibility that is relevant for it.

Rather than choosing between sinful - but - scrumptious indulgence on the one hand and godly - but - tiresome obedience on the other, the challenge is to select between enslavement to unwholesome and distasteful foods — bondage to Boston cream pie is one author's illustration — and deliverance into the possibility of living a truly energetic, salubrious and meaningful existence.

Rather than insisting that J. B.'s repentance and acceptance of life is some third possibility opposing those offered by the Godmask and Satanmask, the new ending leaves our interpretation of his actions open.

Where Whitehead and Santayana are strikingly similar is in holding that the spatio - temporal world is ultimately atomic or quantic so that what constitutes the world at any one moment, or a piece of history, is a system of facts, events, natural moments, or actual occasions, whose relations (or perhaps rather possibilities of relations) constitute space and time (as opposed to their being as mere possibilities of relations) rather than are in them as containers (see ED 27).

Still, Banning does not give serious enough consideration to the possibility that Madison's republicanism arises from his liberalism, that it is an instrument rather than an end in itself.

The existence of an old local tradition and of families whose ancestry seems ancient and indigenous, rather than of foreign immigrant trading stock, are factors which suggest the possibility of an early evangelist in the country, but the dependence of all traditions on the Edessene Church prevents us considering those factors conclusive proof that this early evangelist was St. Thomas.

Rather than, Berkeley like, explaining this as a result of the whim of God, it seems eminently more rational to me to eliminate the possibility of immediate prehension of noncontiguous actual occasions categoreally, which is what I propose.

We are often dominated by the impact of the previous experience and tend to repeat it rather than scan really new possibilities.

That one so relates does not exclude the possibility that the value is a product of the love rather than its independent condition.)

Not too long ago, a student asked me during a final exam if he could write an essay on a topic of his own choosing rather than on one of the three possibilities provided by the test.

Perhaps then the Church will even consider the possibility that God wants it to table the debate for a time, rather than to continue it.

The truth is that a God of unlimited intelligence would loses no providential advantage anticipating possibilities rather than a single certainty.

And when people project this limitation onto God, they assume that a God who faced possibilities rather than a single certainty has much less control over things than the God who faces a single certainty.

I also believe your «hope» and «faith» has ZERO to do with any reallity outside your small mind that would rather force scientific discoverys to conform to a preconcieved genesis account or throw them out the window all together than open your mind to possibility you are wrong.

Whiteheadian categories may provide a uniquely suitable vehicle for expressing this belief rather than a foundation for a demythologizing rejection of its truth; at least there is that possibility (LG chs.

There are other scholars who defend the substantial historicity of the tomb pericope, and since we must reckon with this possibility, we now turn from the literary form of the story to its content to see in what way the latter may point to historical reliability rather than to legend.

5 This is a remarkable anticipation of Whitehead's view in Process and Reality that God's primordial ordering of the world's possibilities (the eternal objects) is the ultimate source of novelty in an emergent universe, except that Thornton understands these possibilities to be everlasting rather than timeless.6 This reification of what for Whitehead is purely possible, needing concrete embodiment in the actual world, leads Thornton to conceive of the eternal order as absolutely actual in its unchangeableness, identical with God.

Ever since the first apostles said «We must obey God rather than men» this has been a possibility.

As the Polsters declare: «The major problem of good living is to keep up to date with the possibilities which exist rather than being stamped on the ass for all time by experiences which were only temporary.»

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

What we need at this point is an interpretive framework permitting us so to specify the possibility of the objective reality of the risen Christ that Paul's experience may be approached as a vision rather than as an hallucination.

I would rather risk being called an alarmist than deal with the consequences of being timid, just as I would rather alert my neighbors to the possibility of a fire based on seeing smoke than remain silent until flames engulf their entire house.

A large part of the difference between scientists and the general population may be due more to religious upbringing, rather than scientific training or university pressure to be irreligious, although these other possibilities should be further explored.»