Sentences with phrase «rather than the reason»

«I look for excuses to throw things away rather than reasons to keep them.

Though these times are frustrating for our shareholders — and, remember, that includes all of the portfolio managers — these periods of weak performance have been opportunities for additional investment rather than reasons to give up on our investment philosophy.

These are matters of feeling rather than reasoned demonstration.

I believe the world views the conflict as one of purely religious, but I think the religious aspect is a justification of the violence rather than the reason behind it.

It is human freedom rather than reason that is clearly affirmed as the essence of human reality.

The question seems to be why God has chosen faith as the basis of relationship rather than reason.

That is why science and religion / spirituality conflict, and there is no avoiding that conflict as long as religionists and spiritualists rely on faith rather than reason and evidence.

But since this type of judgment is basically a matter of feeling rather than reason, only a change of feeling can correct it.

He joins faith with practice, thinking with doing, thus answering the problem of evil with deeds rather than reasons — with his whole personhood, not with his mind alone.

they're contempt for not winning a title in over a decade causes them to express themselves through emotion rather than reasoning... that emotion mainly being directed at Wenger to the point where they can't even celebrate beautiful play or trophies...

However instead of that, many will see this news as being positive rather than a reason to complain!

My quarrel on this site has always been that emotions rather than reason dominate the site.

More often than not the contributors to these columns speak out of emotions rather than reason.

One woman next to me looked as though she was ready to explode, as though she'd just heard a diatribe from Nick Griffin rather than a reasoned speech from a fellow progressive.

By tracing the development of what we now call the «scientific method» — an approach, developed over centuries, that emphasizes experiments and observations rather than reasoning from first principles — he makes the argument that science, unlike other ways of interpreting the world around us, can offer true progress.

«Most artificial intelligence research today concerning vision focuses on recognition, or labeling what is in a scene rather than reasoning about it,» Forbus said.

Rather than reasoning our way back to the beginning, we have to plumb the history of our universe to figure out how it evolved, step by step, into its present form.

«European GM policy has been made on the basis of unfounded fear rather than reasoned scientific evidence.

It's what happens when anger drives decisions rather than reason.

I understand that the question talks about the effect of ZIRP rather than the reasons, but we should all be clear about that.

However, the researchers cautioned that this may have been due to learning rather than reasoning: because they didn't give the dogs rewards for choosing «correctly» on this task, the younger dogs — the more flexible problem - solvers — may have reacted to this lack of reinforcement by choosing randomly earlier than older dogs did.

Similar to his earlier work of children, this series explores our predilection towards imagination and emotion, rather than reason.

In contrast to the universal values espoused by Neo-Classicism, Romantic artists expressed a more personal response to life, relying more on their senses and emotions rather than reason and intellect.

The vision of a Midwest Dustbowl is a scary one, and the author appears intent to instill fear rather than reason.

Yet once you adopt a risk - management perspective, then uncertainty becomes a reason to do something rather than a reason not to do something.

tt, what biography could Nic write for you, that would cause you to give up the belief that his motives, rather than his reasoning, are what cause him to reach the conclusions he does?

They aren't examining the data any more, but either believing or not believing, based on an emotional or ideological position rather than reason which is attached to a true skeptical mindset.

And some people still choose to question the notion that climate scepticism tends to be far more motivated by rigid ideology rather than reasoned objections to the science?

But when debates are rehearsed simply for debate's sake, and when dogma, rather than reason, drives the conversation, it's necessary to re-examine the terms of our conflicts and the assumptions upon which they rest — such as the support of so many environmentalists for renewables over a zero - carbon energy source like nuclear, or the deep - seated resistance to biotechnology and machines when it comes to food production.

Their stated pessimism about the cost of climate policy is essentially a political ploy rather than a reasoned economic judgment.

Trouble is, Monckton makes a jumble of politics, ideology and goodness knows what else, all of which is irrelevant to the science; only the advances on the scientific front are relevant to the question of anthropogenic global warming, and on that issue Monckton makes wild assertions rather than reasoned argument.

That this was not the result owes much more to the fact that H had died, rather than any reasoned rejection of the principle.

Volokh argues that the women may have trouble proving that firms did not hire them because of comments at Autoadmit rather than reasons such as lack of merit, not a «fit» for the firm, etc..

Rather than reasoning from the general to the specific (deductive reasoning) or from the specific to the general (generalizations), analogy requires reasoning from the specific to the specific.

In what is a bit of a rant rather than a reasoned analysis, Venezia advises:

«To say that s 51 (xxxi) is irrelevant to such a law is correct, but it is to state a conclusion rather than a reason for the conclusion.

The US Justice Department may have tried to hit below the belt and appeal to emotion rather than reason by painting a gruesome future.

However, many of these problems are actually the result of the number of broken homes, rather than the reason for them.

Focus on the reasons you should try to keep your marriage rather than the reasons to leave.

Not exact matches

For all these reasons, I choose to stand by my local stores rather than taking my business down the road to the megastores, and I will continue to think twice when that option to choose credit or debit pops up.

Typically, open opportunities at the acquired company are filled by individuals from the acquiring parent company who need to be «protected» for some odd reason rather than laid off.

«When we create reasons for ourselves to become this person kind of person rather than that, we wholeheartedly become the people that we are,» Chang says.

After all, if the only reason people started their own businesses was solely to make money, then entrepreneurs would only launch businesses in proven profit sectors, rather than creative industries or even restaurants.

Municipal officials also have every reason to want to share transportation data rather than hoard it, because it will inevitably make their own jobs easier.

'' [S] ome individual fighters, and perhaps some elements, within Nusra today have undoubtedly joined for opportunistic rather than ideological reasons: they saw Nusra as a strong horse, and they haven't seen a credible alternative, as the moderate opposition has yet to be adequately resourced,» he said, according to CNN.

But to the extent to which they are intuitions, rather than conclusions reached based on careful reasoning, we ought to be wary of them.

The reason to push fibre out to households rather than to nodes, then, isn't just to make those gigabit speeds possible, it's also to create fatter pipes so people aren't constrained in how much they can use the Internet, which they will be if copper wires are part of the plan (Update: one network expert tells me that FTTN doesn't necessitate data caps, although that hasn't stopped providers of it from enforcing them, especially here in Canada)..

All the more reason to make sure that, if and when the market does turn, any moves you make will be driven by a long - term plan rather than the emotions generated by the last thing you heard on CNBC.

But the reason they're expecting to do well this year has more to do with their marketing efforts, rather than the recovering economy or other factors like low oil prices, according to a small business holiday survey from Constant Contact, an online marketing firm in Waltham, Massachusetts.

SAAS and B2B companies are the vanguard of the «content machine» movement, but we can hope that other companies follow suit and begin «writing for a reason,» rather than wasting readers time with meaningless content.