Sentences with phrase «seems less influenced»

Curiously, the film seems less influenced by Raiders Of The Lost Ark than another Steven Spielberg event movie, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, from which it filches the primo trailer - hanging - off - the - cliff sequence, minus the hair - trigger suspense (and, of course, the dinosaurs — boy, could this movie use some dinosaurs).

Not exact matches

For Qoheleth, God seems remote and uncommunicative, and we can not hope to understand, much less influence, God's activity in the world (3:11; 8:16 — 17).

Theological nuances aside, Pastor Bernard seems to have always been on the less supportive end of the spectrum but joined the president's advisory board anyway, hoping to be «a minority voice at the table to help influence policy, ideas, and initiatives.»

When this world began to become more complex, pluralistic and morally ambiguous and it also became clear that influences other than those which could easily be understood on Main Street decided the course of events, both the old teachings and the institutions that taught them began to seem less relevant.

Jesus seems to have been less concerned with the Greco - Roman influences.

I do feel that is unfortunate that RD's in schools may seem to have less power over influencing how school lunch programs are run, often because they have less oversight and are often guided or trying to follow the school nutrition standards.

Under the twin influences of religion and philosophy, the problem of relativism lost its force and seemed more or less banished from Western culture for centuries.

It seems that men are therefore less influenced by the opinions of others when assessing a party programme.

-LSB-...] It seemed desirable to extend the work on the digestibility of raw starches to see whether complete digestibility was characteristic of other starches and to determine whether the less complete digestibility of potato starch (78.2 per cent on an average) was influenced by the amount eaten and also whether it was characteristic of the starch from other roots, tubers, and similar sources.»

Certainly it seems absurd for him to claim that his parents had less influence on his eventual academic success than Mr. Harris, who first encountered him only late in high school.

To some extent, the finding that school - level deprivation does not influence teachers» desire to leave seems to contradict the idea that these areas are less attractive places to be employed.

He owns many more stocks than I do — and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on him.

Warren Buffett had this to say about Walters Schloss: «He knows how to identify securities that sell at considerably less than their value to a private owner; And that's all he does... He owns many more stocks than I do and is far less interested in the underlying nature of the business; I don't seem to have very much influence on Walter.

Midwestern artists seem more likely to develop their own individual and idiosyncratic ways, less influenced by current trends.

Kelly's stylistic difference from Abstract Expressionism seems less indicative of influence than of personality.

In the past, some of the comparisons appeared tenuous, less a matter of influences than affinities; the Reinhardt / Smith counterpoise seems more cohesive and direct with regard to influence.

From the perspective of the UK, it has often seemed that the much contested field (and term) of Latin American art has been far less evident as a self - sustaining category than in other countries where histories of intervention and the consequent demographic influences have demanded it.

Toward the end of the 1930s, as Gorky came under the influence of the work of André Masson, his work seemed to depend less on explicit references verifiable to the spectator and more on a felt memory expressed in his developing, vibrant palette.

It seems to me that deducing heat content from altimetry is less accurate than from direct measurements, as altimetry is influenced by wind speed and barometric pressure too...

As for the possibility of migration to better climes, you assuredly would be made most welcome in Australia because over here we give credit where its due and we are, as a nation, less than impressed with pomposity and the trading in influence that seems to prevail in selected areas of the NH (which shall remain nameless so as not to offend anyone's sensitivities);).

It would seem to me that if you want to argue that «skeptics» are, as a group, less influenced by identity and emotion in their reasoning about climate change than «realists,» you should be able to design some kind of mechanistic hypothesis for why that is the case, come up with some experiment methodology for collecting and analyzing data that would support your theory, and then collect the data and write it up.

A few years ago the best estimate for the share of human influence was well less than 100 %, now it seems to be approximately 100 %.

Similarly, in videos made by Cambridge Analytica's research wing, the Behavioral Dynamics Institute, the group describes strategies for appealing directly to people's underlying fears and desires in ways that are continuous with the insights of behavioral economics, but that seem less scrupulous about employing lies or half - truths to influence System One motivations.

The lesser device has been tracked with an Exynos 7420 (the Exynos processor found on all Galaxy S6 generation flagships) while the SM - N935 seems to go with an Exynos 8890 — seemingly eschewing any Snapdragon influence at all this time.

So it seems to matter less to men that they have influenced their wives and thus helped them to be happier than just that their wives are happy — with themselves, with their relationship, with their husband.

Probably personality factors influence how well you can cope with different types of stressors, some people seem to be less likely to develop PTSD, 2,14 they are better educated, and have experience of coping with life stressors.

Therefore it seems obvious to conclude that those families who are less financially sound, perhaps have more children, and who are unable to consistently punish their children will have a greater likelihood of promoting an environment that will influence antisocial or delinquent behavior.

Because the role of the father is less defined in Western society than the role of the mother, influences such as those listed above seem to have a more significant impact on how involved a father is.

«Although nowadays living spaces in the home are less defined than they were in the Victorian period, and far more multifunctional, it seems the tradition of families sitting down to eat together may be impacted by longer working hours, more hectic social lives and the growing influence of technology.»