Sentences with phrase «specific characteristics rather»

Instead, analysts heard about prosaic plans like McDonald's new organizational structure (it will lump international markets together by specific characteristics rather than by geographic proximity), its intention to sell many more restaurants to franchisees than originally planned, and to cut costs to the tune of $ 300 million a year.

Not exact matches

It will not often help with specific sayings, but rather with general motifs, and consequently will tend to be more useful in arriving at general characteristics of the ministry and teaching of Jesus than at specific elements in the teaching itself.

Form for Leclerc is neither act taken as the static first act of the scholastics, nor even act taken as activity, the scholastic second act, but rather the specific character and structure of an activity — for example, the character of the activity which gives rise to the peculiar geometrical shapes characteristic of different molecules (PN 142 - 49).

With an AMG sports suspension featuring a specific front axle and modified ESP characteristics, the A 250 Sport behaves rather differently than its standard sibling, handling-wise.

There is actually no specific breed that is a Pit Bull, rather it is a term used to describe multiple breeds with very similar characteristics.

Sorcerer's Flame (skill): a fiery explosion that deals more damage if the user's physical strength is low; God's Judgement (skill): a rather impressive thunderbolt; Dragon Kill (characteristic): greatly increases damage dealt to Dragon - type enemies; Item Drop Up (characteristic): greatly increases your chance of getting an item drop from enemies, making it easier to get specific rare items.

She writes, «Rather than organize our exhibition on a specific set of artists, the paintings were selected because they exhibited the following characteristics of Precisionism: carefully edited, hard - edged architectural elements within static, balanced, and smoothly painted compositions of interlocking designs.

Some authors have argued that the nature of the child's disorder is not important in determining its psychological consequences, because children with chronic physical disorders face common life experiences and problems based on generic dimensions of their conditions, rather than on idiosyncratic characteristics of any specific disease entity (e.g., Stein & Jessop, 1982).

The meta - analysis suggests that programs with stronger effects on children's social and emotional development share three characteristics: (a) the program targets children with a specific need that has been identified by the parents, such as a behavioural or conduct disorder or developmental delay (also corroborated by Brooks - Gunna; (b) the program uses professional rather than paraprofessional staff; or (c) the program provides opportunities for parents to meet together and provide peer support as part of the service delivery approach.