Sentences with phrase «than a building block»

Trump panned the bipartisan bill as little more than a building block for the «beautiful» and «comprehensive» legislation he envisioned would protect Americans from mass shootings.

But the way this protein chain is folded makes it act more like a signaling mechanism than a building block.

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It was that picture — capturing the helical structure of DNA — that refocused the thinking of James Watson and Francis Crick, who would announce their own discovery of the structure of life's molecular building block less than two years later.

Because the technology will be available through the Linux Foundation, developers at the DMV could find code for building a title - tracking block chain and adapt it to their needs at a lower cost, than hiring specialists to build it for them.

Quantum theory explains the behaviour of particles and energy at extremely small scales — smaller than atoms that were once considered the building block of all matter.

The idea may seem far - fetched but with self - flying drones available for less than $ 1,000, «the basic building blocks of the technology clearly are available,» said Mike Sinnett, Boeing's vice president of product development.

«RRSP's are seen as the fundamental building block of a Canadian retirement, so it is surprising to see so many who don't contribute, or contribute less than their maximum,» said Forum Research President, Dr. Lorne Bozinoff.

The Navy Yard also could easily spare the 100 acres — greater than 20 full city blocks — that Amazon said it would need if its second campus were to be built on an undeveloped «greenfield.»

Investing is an important building block for a sound financial future — and it can help you get higher returns on your money than you'd get from a savings account or certificate of deposit.

On March 29, ABC News broke the story that Pruitt received a terrific deal on a rental townhouse less than a block from the Capitol building, at 223 C Street, Northeast, for the first six months he lived in DC in 2017.

Our efforts represent the single largest block of community support in the history of New Orleans, contributing more than 54,000 volunteer hours and investing more than $ 1 million in local projects like painting, landscaping, and building playgrounds.

«It's way better than Toshi app... good move, but really, should be looking more at products built on BTC like Block stock.»

For portfolios that are invested in a selection of «building - block» strategies, rather than managed holistically, with full access to a wide range of investment tools and techniques, it is just as important to «look through» to underlying holdings to take account of factor exposures.

Just three blocks from City Hall — that gorgeous, gold - plated building where politicians are deciding how to spend more than $ 10 billion next fiscal year — sits a shooting gallery in broad daylight.

If the force of gravity varied by any more than this infinitesimally small number, then stars would burn either too hot or too cold for the chemical building blocks of life to form.

Falk wrote that the book contains many incorrect claims such as «Meyer correctly concluded that no RNA molecule had ever been evolved in a test tube which could do more than join two building blocks together.

But if we build a booth to them, erect a frame around them and enshrine them, we can end up worshiping those moments or memories or persons to the extent that they become a hindrance, a stumbling block or even idolatry — rather than unmerited gift from God and resource for service to others.

But more than that: the dominance of this paradigm with all of its built - in theological biases has also been recognized as a block to more inclusive approaches to the material.

Research comparing human and chimpanzee genomes, published in Nature, found that there are more than 40 million differences between the two species» base pairs, which are the DNA building blocks.

In contrast, my own Chicago parish church and elementary school are located on two city blocks that together take up ten acres, but those blocks include — in addition to the church and school — over 100 dwelling units in a variety of buildings two - to - three stories tall, more than 15 businesses, and nearly 200 on - and off - street parking spaces for the public.

We should be looking for ways to make our economy more family - friendly rather than getting our knickers in a wad over same - sex spousal relationships if we are really concerned about strengthening the emotional bonds necessary to bind family members together so that the family may once again become the primary building block for a healthy society.

After all, does Germany plan to build a beer garden two blocks from Auschwitz - the Naszis were at fault for Auschwitz, not the Germans, certainly there are fewer Naszis left than al quaeda - No, the Germans would never think of doing something so offensive

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Hydrocarbons and amino acids are more stable than some other compounds, and this adds up to mass quantlties of these «building blocks of life».

Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 people.

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

If you are looking to attain beautiful skin than start using superfood nutrition that cleanses your body and provides you with the key building blocks for healthy collagen production.

Vega Essentials gives you basic nutritional building blocks (faster than you can pour a bowl of cereal):

They surely aren't happy with their record right now but they truly have serious building blocks and more talent than many other Teams in the League.

This is Pelé's most cherished ideal: the simple life — life in a fairly modest apartment that is no better and no worse than the 35 other units in a pastel blue building one block from the beach at Santos; a life of fishing and hunting in the backwoods, away from the crowds, or listening to records at home; a life of cautious investing, of moderate spending and quiet dignity; a life, in short, that should be almost impossible for the most famous athlete in the world.

Arsenal definitely is one of a kind because we had to wait 8 long years with the same manager before we won another trophy, but I agree 100 % with the article because during that time, we had built a massive new stadium and also lost a lot of our best players, a major stumbling block in this transitional phase — YET Wenger was able to keep us in the top 4 and keep things afloat — a great achievement not many managers would be able to pull off and I really think he deserves our support until his contract expires because let's be honest, things are better than they were 5 years ago.

As used by Kelly, the read - option provides an offense with a multitude of advantages: It's easier to read a defender than it is to block him, the reads become built - in misdirection as the defense doesn't know who has the ball, and, as Kelly pointed out, a QB who is a threat to run alters the fundamental arithmetic of football.

The attacking midfielder has also been directly involved in four goals in his last four Premier League appearances against Manchester United (two goals, two assists)-- so if Arsenal were to get out of the blocks nice and early, they can not do worse than build their game around Mesut Ozil to hurt United's weak areas — behind the full - backs.

Although the formation was fluid and the style of play more dynamic than the club had seen in  two decades, the main building blocks of the last season's good form were: two players holding shape at the base of midfield and supporting play, occasionally moving forward to add an extra body in the final third, while a central defence of two or three held firm just behind.

Aubameyang would be a signing for here and now rather than necessarily a building block in a long - term plan and in that respect, an archetypal piece of January business

Together you've conquered Candy Land, eaten more than your fair share of mud pie and built the most excellent block towers this side of the Mississippi.

If you are looking for something a cleaner and less pointy than two sticks and some rocks, then building blocks are a classic for good reason.

The Green Toys Block Set is the world's most environmentally friendly basic building set — and now it's better than ever!

They can build anything they want, and it will hold together a bit better than blocks.

«Old - fashioned retro toys, such as red rubber balls, simple building blocks, clay and crayons, that don't cost so much and are usually hidden in the back shelves are usually much healthier for children than the electronic educational toys that have fancier boxes and cost $ 89.99,» says Temple University developmental psychologist Kathy Hirsh - Pasek.

Much more complex than what Realism mainstreamed as «human nature», insights from neurobiology inform us differently about the building blocks with which human beings encounter whatever environment they are brought into.

The group was joined by more than 100 grassroots community activists as they blocked off the State Street entrance of the Capitol Building in Albany.

«This is more than one affordable housing development - this is the building block of a stable, safe and vibrant neighborhood of the kind that will drive the revitalization of Niagara Falls,» said Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who took part in today's dedication.

VOCAL - NY, as you'll recall, staged the sit - in earlier this month on the first floor of the Capitol during which more than a dozen people were arrested after they blocked the escalators on the State Street side of the building and refused to move.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins will make appearances outside of the Albany Hilton, less than a block from the state Capitol building, where hotel workers have been demonstrating for better wages and benefits.

The bill Building Blocks NYC promotes has more than 20 sponsors, including councilmen Jumaane Williams and Ydanis Rodriguez.

The enormous range of scales (stars, the building blocks of galaxies, are each about one trillion times smaller in mass than the galaxy they make up), as well as the complex physics involved, presents a formidable challenge for any computer model.

«We're building a new molecule by putting together individual atoms like blocks of Lego, rather than traditional chemistry where we just throw a lot of things together and hope for a reaction,» says Lee Liu at Harvard University.

It's easy to use and is a good building block towards using a full bow, with more to offer than a toy bow at the same time.

This investigation of music's building blocks may be more relevant than you suppose.