Sentences with phrase «serve more as»

Yet as time goes on, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies often serve more as a store of value than a replacement for cash.

Bennett notes that the app was cobbled together in «20 minutes,» and is meant to serve more as a proof of concept in its current stage, but it does more or less work.

Meet the Google Nexus 7 — the first Google - produced tablet, the first device with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the first to serve more as a direct portal to Google Play (as opposed to a tablet that just runs apps), Google's first major push into the magazine and television market, the first device to ship with Chrome as its default browser... and that's just the start of the superlatives...

Do you think that vertical farming can realistically replace current farming practice, or do you think that it would serve more as a supplement to existing farming?

These landscapes serve more as a portrait of the American ideology to constantly build and reinvent itself.

And then there's Jacob Kassay, who, now that his estimates seem to serve more as target practice than as sales guideposts, doesn't seem to warrent much mention.

Although primarily consisting of various household objects, such as blankets, books, potted plants or the occasional Tecate can, these paintings serve more as an archive of personal identity.

Figurative elements are always present, but often seem to serve more as vehicles for painterly abstraction than for specific narrative.

Trailers may be saying a bit much as they serve more as a demonstration of the game's engine alongside a couple of random songs from its soundtrack.

He later went on to serve more as an executive producer of the series, as well as many of Square's other games.

This pattern of female sidekicks who serve more as gameplay devices, door openers, and ego boosts than as people is a design approach rooted in the idea of games as power fantasy; players get to feel powerful and important, sometimes issuing orders that are obeyed without hesitation or doubt, sometimes being told that they're doing a great job.

For dogs who pull on the leash, a regular collar may serve more as a power play than as a deterrent.

The news isn't too surprising, since it has been speculated for some time that Amazon's tablet would serve more as a conduit to its digital media ecosystem, than a device to give Amazon a huge profit in sales alone.

Details on the film itself are still pretty slim but from what we've seen throughout last year was that this one is most likely going to serve more as a sequel / standalone film, much like the approach that Fede Alvarez took with the Evil Dead remake.

The script uses the basic horror movie design, many characters who serve more as numbered victims against a villain they don't understand and can't stop.

The rest of the story is fleshed out with mostly forgettable NPCs and a range of side quests — you'll solve criminal mysteries, be sent out to kill specific enemies, and help characters find what they need for recipes and artisanal work — that serve more as motivation to keep exploring the game's huge and captivating realms than meaningfully expand our understanding of this imaginative world or the people who live within it.

All the voice talent from the first film — including Jack Black and Angelina Jolie — are back to lend persona to the lovable heroes, but in the sequel they serve more as background to the repetitive chase and fight sequences.

Singlesnet was purchased by Match.com, and it is one of the more ordinary dating sites — , member profiles serve more as an introduction as opposed to an in - depth personality search.

In today's society old women seeking young men to serve more as an equal partner than a silent one.

This allows the fat bomb to serve more as a dip, which might make it a little easier to go down.

ASCs are short - lived, because they serve more as scouts than as combat soldiers.

It will serve more as a Playoff Scenario / Preview...

It will serve more as a Playoff Scenario / Preview as far as seeding goes instead of Rankings.

This Week's Power Rankings will serve more as a Playoff Preview than anything else..

You could also serve it more as a guac / dip alongside tortilla chips!

Moreover, the results seem compatible with the hypothesis that religious values serve more as standards for condemning others or as standards to rationalize one's own self pursuits than as standards to judge oneself by or to guide one's own conduct.

I do believe they serve more as warnings and cautionary pieces meant to address our behaviors (kind of like a look in the mirror and see where we stack up).

Momentary flashes of light are better than no light at all, but they serve more as a warning of the traveler's predicament than as a useful guide out of it.

The lives of the saints, in Karl Jasper's words, serve more as «beacons by which to gain an orientation» than as «models to imitate.»

Until we see more pro-growth stimulus and structural reforms (especially in the labor market), we think QE will serve more as an economic stabilizer than a solution for Europe's chronically slow growth.

Instead, he predicted they would serve more as a «tap on the brake» that would lead to a «slight, additional slowing of a market that's already slowing.»

The Fascist regime itself, whatever its negative features, probably contributed to that «passive revolution» in another of the senses in which Gramsci used the term, in which important social changes can go on even under reactionary and repressive regimes — the gradual erosion of particularistic and traditional authority structures and the development of more egalitarian social forms — though it may be in the nature of the less effective Italian Fascist regime to have served more as a guardian for such structures and less as a corrosive to them than in the more efficient fascist regimes in Germany and Japan.

It was served more as a side dish, but boy was it scrumptious.

Tonight I made it using a 28 ounce can of tomatoes and served it more as a soup without the topping but with baguette, sliced horizontally, drizzled with olive oil, topped with parmesan cheese and broiled.

Modified it and served it more as a side dish than a stew.

Our son is only 2 1/2, and a lot of the stories in this book apply more to kids who are a little older, so it has served us more as a warning before we have a chance to send many messages that we don't mean.

It served more as my purse than a diaper bag, although I did carry baby's Wild Animal Safari cards, rattle and books in it to entertain baby with during the workshops.

The narrator is the same one that's in his first ad, which served more as an introduction to the political neophyte.

As such, it serves more as a marker of interest in the topic than as a detailed road map for legislators to follow.

I intend this soup to be served more as an appetizer than the main course as it is a sweeter pumpkin soup than you may be used to.

Raw foods are healthy, however, most goes undigested through your colon and serves more as a fibrous cleanse.

The story serves more as a way to unlock new maps, characters, and costumes so you can have more fun playing with your friends.

When the film begins it feels like the real pulse of the film is this job that Travis gets at the beginning, but as the film continues it becomes apparent that the job serves more as a way to feed Travis» psyche and give him a reason to believe and do the things he does.

It's obvious that in adapting the book, the focus was placed on telling a tale of unlikely friendship between two dreamers, with the disastrous production of The Room serving more as setting and comedic relief.

The bad guy, a malevolent peacock (voiced by Gary Oldman), wasn't as menacing this time and really served more as a metaphor for the dichotomy between progress (gun powder) and tradition (Kung Fu) than as a genuine threat in his own right.

The comedy is supposed to be grounded by Aaron's relationship with his med school sweetheart Daphne (Elisabeth Moss from «Mad Men»), but it serves more as a distraction than as a source of heart.

Don't misunderstand me, there is an underlying comedy here, but it serves more as a form of tension relief than the purpose of the film.

The Kid is less uproarious than later Chaplin efforts, serving more as a testing ground as it offers a charming yet tough - minded tale in which the Tramp locates an orphaned baby amidst the tenement rubble and, after much deliberation, elects to raise the child as his own.

But like the film's Joker, for which Heath Ledger received a posthumous Best Supporting Actor statue, the rule change served more as an agent of chaos than a unifying alteration.

Damon has outgrown this franchise in many ways, which isn't surprising that he serves more as a figure head to lure ticket buyers back to the franchise.