Sentences with phrase «something than gaining»

Humans are more motivated by fear of losing something than gaining something.

Not exact matches

Companies seem to be increasingly offering insurance on all manner of things in part because of something known as loss aversion, which is when people feel a more psychological impact from a loss than from a similar - sized dollar gain.

Not acquiring a gain means giving up something theoretical rather than actual.

Lose or gain more than a percent of body weight from one day to the next and something's wrong.

Companies seem to be increasingly offering insurance on all manner of things in part because of something known as loss aversion, which is when people feel more psychological impact from a loss than from a similar - sized dollar gain.

Brand managers are turning to video to gain audiences» attention, but you'll have to create something more interesting than average corporate fare to capture eyeballs.

In other words, when making decisions, people will typically exhibit greater sensitivity to the feeling of losing something rather than the feeling of gaining something.

Mining stocks are an extremely volatile asset class where the odds of any investor getting into a story, experiencing impressive gains, only to then take a round trip back to break - even... and finally into NEGATIVE territory are actually quite high (sadly)... In fact, that dreaded rollercoaster ride where you see all your once «hefty» profits in any single position later eviscerated into NOTHING is something that I've experienced more often than I'd like to admit...

And in return, the people who serve and help others gain a sense of satisfaction, significance, and joy, because they have done something more with their lives than sign their name on a check.

If it is spent on something that uses up as much or more energy per dollar as the original reduction, nothing has been gained in the energy budget at large (though this person may now own a more desirable mix of goods and services than before).

Gaining kindness is something she is doing, rather than something being done to her.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

First, what happened at CUA in 1967 — 68 was part of something much larger and more important than change in American Catholic Education, namely, worldwide, public theological dissent beginning around the time of Vatican II and quickly gaining control of most of the world's Catholic graduate programs and journals.

He should not press forward impudently and impute to them kinship with himself; on the contrary, he should be blissful every time he bows before them, but he should be frank and confident and always be something more than a charwoman, for if he will not be more, he will never gain entrance.

So, at the heart of the issue is a breach of trust for economic gain rather than being fed something unthinkable.

I'm sure that I read something about a EU member can gain residential in the UK if he / she earns more than # 64,000 a year?

Every team loses something, and it's rare to gain more than you lose.

It's surely more difficult for something original in sports to gain credibility than it is for new forms in any other part of the entertainment world.

Then something else happens, especially for women and it's more than just the weight we gain for childbirth.

First reach a point in life where you're more interested in building something greater than yourself — giving rather than losing or gaining — and are willing to make the sacrifices necessary for a successful marriage.

One mom described how people thought she was crazy given that she gave birth in her home, something even more uncommon than in the U.S., where the practice is slowly gaining ground.

Robin Kaplan: Yeah, absolutely so obviously with what Dan and Heidi were talking about the need for supplementation obviously breastfeeding does not have to be all or nothing and I would imagine that you would definitely agree with that so continuing Rose, what do you say to mom who come to you who are needing a supplement and feeling like they are not breastfeeding moms because they need to offer something other than their breast milk in addition for their baby to continue to gain weight?

She has just gained this precious life that she loves more than anything else, and the thought of something happening to them is almost too much to bear at times.

I think they hope that if something ever really emerges, they can gain more by attacking and stalling than outright silencing.

While Schneiderman's resignation signals the probable end of a career that many had seen as gaining quick national prominence — he had emerged as something of a liberal darling, filing more than 100 legal or administrative actions against the Trump administration and congressional Republicans — the legal fallout is most likely only beginning.

Considering we gain rights we used to not have, and lose ones we used to have, one could say that rights are just more like agreements, than something holy and untouchable.

Then there's loss aversion: it feels worse to lose something than to gain the equivalent amount, making us protect what we have rather than take a chance to make a gain.

«One of the things that the presence of large - scale science infrastructure does is that it increases the skills pool, and helps Africa to have something we have not seen on the continent in some time, and that is a brain gain rather than a brain drain,» she said.

«People with back pain may benefit more than others because they have something to gain, but people of all ages will benefit from Pilates.

I have not had any other weird symptoms other than weight gain but is there something that could cause numbers like this!?

When we eat something, we intake calories, and if the amount of calories taken is significantly greater than the amount of calories burned, we gain weight.

Green tea is more than just a refreshing drink, it's something your loved ones can sip up in order to curb the dreaded holiday weight gain.

Because, if I don't realize something is a weight gain food, I might eat more of it than I should.

If I wanted to gain weight I'd move slowly towards the 5000 cals threshold, because eating more than 3000 cals is actually a hella lot of work:) Then log your weight monthly while eating 4000 cals a day, 4500 cals a day, 5000 cals — always use something like cronometer to have a good estimate of your cals.

«You gain weight when you take in more calories than you burn — it's something that nutritionists have known, but a lot of the high - protein, low - carb diets have lost sight of that,» Vogel said.

The central question is whether the Dietary Guidelines should recommend something more than 30 minutes daily of moderate intensity physical activity for the specific purpose of preventing excessive weight gain.

When your clothes become more than apparel, more than something you just put on, you have gained memories that transcend the clothes.

It took something like 250 years for the automobile to become entrenched as something truly useful and an obvious improvement, and ~ 200 years past then invention of the internal combustion engine and it wasn't until the modernization of assembly that the automobile was actually able to gain that traction due to the cost being driven down so that they were affordable enough for people other than the super rich to purchase them.

The loss of gaining experience and gaining something from battles is so great that it makes battle something to avoid rather than take on and overcome.

Early in each chapter you gain the ability to build a large chest that automatically stores more items than just your small starting inventory capacity, so you're never left worrying about carrying too much and having to drop something or return to base to drop off a load of blocks of sand.

Pain & Gain is the first film that we see Bay trying to do something a little different than his normal effects driven films as he goes for more of a comedy mixed with a lot of brutal action.

In fact, ignoring any complications from test exclusions, Amrein and Berliner would report this as something like, «Just 23 percent of states posted gains on NAEP higher than the national average after high stakes were introduced.»

The gains from bringing all students up to minimal levels — something akin to NCLB but achieving its goals a decade later than originally planned — would imply a present value of aggregate gains of $ 32 trillion.

Levin and Feinberg, more than a decade later, have invented something very rare in American education: a way of teaching low - income children that actually works in 36 public middle schools, producing the largest and fastest learning gains around the country.

They would allow pupils to follow their own interests and gain recognition for what they know, understand and can do, and they would be flexible and allow each young person to gain a unique graduation certificate listing all achievements, something that would be more useful to future employers or for progression to higher education than grades in a few formal exams.

The team finished the season second overall, and the players gained the experience of being part of something bigger than themselves.

Four conditions that create engaged people as adapted from Glasser's choice theory are: 1) some component of fun, 2) the ability for the participants to choose and exercise an appropriate amount of personal power, 3) the sense of belonging to something greater than themselves, and 4) a sense that, although not yet able, they have a fighting chance at gaining competence at a given task.

I think what she saw in Scott was at first what she dreamt would be his future, due to unearthing his own desire to succeed as a writer, and inside that moment, she saw herself gaining the confidence to dare to be something more than what she was originally expected to become... a child bearing housewife with a full social calendar.

When it comes to purchasing something, people fear what they might lose more than what they will gain.

Microsoft has asserted for quite some time that they own patents that are being infringed upon by the Android operating system — and has often given the suggestion that it could all be made better if licensing was in place (read: Microsoft gains a revenue stream from something other than actually innovating their own mobile products).