Sentences with phrase «than a contemporary one»

On average, members of this group earn 32 percent less than their contemporaries with college degrees.

Dissident feminist Camille Paglia finds more pleasure in the shoe department than a contemporary art gallery.

This stream is thought by Wells to be less susceptible to «dalliances with culture» than its contemporary cousin: «The simplest way to state this difference is to say that in classical spirituality what is moral is central, and in postmodern spirituality it is not.»

His intention was to make fun of Edwards and his picture of God as both supremely angry and merciful, But Edwards came off better than the contemporary preacher.

I certainly did not fail to let the meeting be friendly, I did not treat him any more remissly than all his contemporaries who were in the habit of seeking me out about this time of day....

«And there is a real hunger in the postmodern culture to be rooted in something more than the contemporary.

By what right do we, who seem to disagree with him more strongly than his contemporaries did, now honor him?

Fourth, Bonhoeffer's situational ethic is better than some contemporary writers, but there are still questions to be asked.

The setting, to be sure, is first century rural Galilee with its small towns and open farm and grazing land rather than contemporary urban America.

Nor is she merely voicing the customs of the tribe — at least not if we are to believe Aristotle, who seems a safer authority on the Greeks than our contemporary skeptics.

In the past half century, perhaps no other Christian ministry innovation has been more influential and polarizing than contemporary worship.

Thus my judgment is that the traditional view of the past as a living resource is more adequate than the contemporary one which Dr. Altizer, along with many others, so eloquently represents.

Scripture, rather than contemporary culture, always needs to set the course of our critical reflection... Our modern culture must not determine the outcome of any cultural / trans - cultural analysis of Scripture.»

The nation's founders far more than our contemporaries saw themselves as acting under the judgment of history.

(To the extent that he is still thinking within a framework of concepts which is far more medieval than contemporary, he is correct.)

Process theology, or what Charles Hartshorne prefers to call neo-classical theology, has links with the theology of the early church fathers who were influenced by Greek thought, Socinus in the sixteenth century and the philosopher A. N. Whitehead of this century, who took science more seriously than his contemporary philosophers and theologians.

And biblical writers held a much more complicated view of human sexuality than contemporary debates have acknowledged.

The voice of these texts is louder than contemporary reasoning.

However, his goals to games ratio is far more favourable than contemporaries such as Mario Gotze, Mesut Ozil and Toni Kroos and currently, Reus averages around a goal every other league match for Borussia Dortmund.

She believes infant massage helps produce toddlers and older children who act out less than their contemporaries.

The Midwives Model of Care ™ is a fundamentally different approach to pregnancy and childbirth than contemporary obstetrics.

Yet at an epoch, Greece would appear even more debauched than contemporary Nigeria.

But did Zwicky give people a harder time than his contemporaries could stomach?

Ex-postdocs who take nonacademic employment start out earning less than contemporaries who took jobs right after their Ph.D. s, and their incomes never catch up.

He asserted rather grandly that physicists generations hence would value his efforts to look for unification more than his contemporaries did — even if he never succeeded.

«I immediately saw that the sites are significantly larger than contemporary communities.»

His carbon pattern shows he ate more meat than his contemporaries, possibly in stews.

The rudolfensis specimens have large brains in conjunction with megadont postcanines, and without postcranial evidence it is unknown whether these features are due to a larger body size than contemporary habilis specimens.

Was Price's book more of a Study report than a Contemporary Nutritional Guidebook?

Plus, because the podcast covers general trivia rather than contemporary events, you can listen to old episodes (all the way back to 2012) without getting bored or confused.

Older men are more confident, self - assured, and emotionally stable than the contemporaries of the younger women.

Older men are more confident, self - assured, and emotionally stable than the contemporaries of the young woman.

It has more in common with those awful English indie dramas of the noughties than contemporary French cinema.

Perhaps in the early 1930s when the film is set, things were not so radically different for women than they were in the early, pre-suffragette 1890s when Oscar Wilde wrote his play — but, without wishing to suggest that the battle of the sexes is now definitely over, things have certainly moved on, and the film's preoccupations with womanly virtue and womanly repute is of more historical interest than contemporary relevance, leaving the distinct impression that this «updating» of Wilde has been done only by half measures.

There is probably no significant society on earth that possesses less of an objective picture of itself — and is therefore more vulnerable to disoriented, delusional acts — than contemporary America.

Most of these films, however, focus on elderly people behaving like young people, little more than contemporary non sci - fi takes on «Cocoon».

The shoe - leather dimension of reporting has always been more dramatic than contemporary scenes of investigators staring into their computer terminals.

Outside of their historical perspective (and, some would say, overall better quality than contemporary cinema), studio era films are worth exploring for a lesson...

«Children Of Men» For a film which is, ostensibly at least, science fiction (it creates one of the most coherent, fascinating futuristic dystopias ever seen on screen), «Children of Men» sums up our War - on - Terror, immigration - panic era better than any contemporary drama could.

He had been directing films for 13 years, and in that time made more than his contemporaries could plan in a full lifetime.

But here is this great classic film that's easy to enjoy and fun to compare to its remake getting more widely seen than its contemporaries and raising some awareness and interest in the eldest chapters of Warner's rich catalog.

Lohan and James Deen are a dynamic onscreen couple that embody Los Angeles's glamorous - cum - dingy aesthetic well, and both actors acquit themselves much better than contemporary critical reaction would lead you to believe.

Threat of nuclear war is not as prevalent today as the 1950s, thereby making Edwards» Godzilla a more diversionary spectacle rather than a contemporary social metaphor.

As it is, even with this tighter compression and less visual ambition than its contemporary counterparts, Emperor's is demonstrative of how splendid animation can look on DVD.

Mind you, that's way better than the contemporary alternative.

However, both the NASUWT union and NUT Cymru have voiced concerns that the changes could lead to teachers in Wales being paid less than their contemporaries across the border.

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

DeMatio agreed and further posited that the problem could be one of perception: «Perhaps the 5 - series of the late 1990s was so much better than its contemporaries that it still sticks in our minds as being incomparably brilliant.»

These details underscore that the Riviera had a look all its own; it seemed to have come from a more tasteful automotive universe than its contemporaries.

The M5's final figures were 278bhp at 6500rpm, while torque was rated at 251 lb ft.. These numbers may sound meek compared to supersaloons of today, but the M5 was more powerful than the contemporary Ferrari 328 and its Tipo V8 engine.