Sentences with phrase «than a great many»

Of course, a 1 million - pound plane needs greater lift to get off the ground than a great bustard.

Other than the great recognition inside Inc. magazine (my favorite magazine and my business bible since we started), we have also received more press from other media outlets.

Great business leaders know it takes more than a great resume and glowing references to determine whether a candidate will help drive your organization into the future.

But beached by technical ailments and rendered toothless by advancing technology, it was ultimately more guppy than great white.

As any entrepreneur will tell you, there are few things in the world of business that are more valuable than a great network.

Proving that California has more to offer than great weather, the city boasts 14 fast - growing, women - led companies.

If you're thinking of taking the plunge, you'll need more than a great idea to stay afloat.

I always share with employees this quote from basketball coach John Wooden and it's mentioned as part of my company's core values: «A player that makes the team great is better than a great player.»

More advice from the same guy: «A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.»

If the amount available under the Asset - Based Revolving Credit Facility is less than the greater of (i) 12.5 % of the lesser of (A) the aggregate revolving commitments and (B) the borrowing base and (ii) $ 60 million, NMG will be required to repay outstanding loans and, if an event of default has occurred, cash collateralize letters of credit.

If the amount available under the Asset - Based Revolving Credit Facility is less than the greater of 1) 12.5 % of the lesser of (a) the aggregate revolving commitments and (b) the borrowing base and 2) $ 60 million, we will be required to repay outstanding loans and, if an event of default has occurred, cash collateralize letters of credit.

The number of mini flash crashes experienced during the test window relative to other 9:30 — 9:33 windows is abnormal because (a) the thirteen mini flash crashes during the test window is 2.6 times greater than the greatest number of mini flash crashes experienced during any other 9:30 — 9:33 window; (b) the eleven unique equities that experienced a mini flash crash during the test window is 2.2 times greater than the greatest number of unique equities which experienced a mini flash crash during any other 9:30 — 9:33 window; and (c) the frequency of mini flash crashes normalized by the number of trades executed is greater during the test window than it was during any other 9:30 — 9:33 window.

The number of mini flash crashes during the test window on Oct. 15 is 2.6 times greater than the greatest number of mini flash crashes experienced during any other 9:30 — 9:33 window.

The number of unique equities that experienced mini flash crashes during the test window is 2.2 times greater than the greatest number of unique equities that experienced mini flash crashes during any other 9:30 — 9:33 window.

That's the idea that advertising campaigns need more than great material — they need to be centered around your customers and relate to their interests, desires, and personal challenges.

There are fewer people in Finland than greater Toronto, but you'll find hundreds of Finns just north of the Big Smoke for FINNFUN.

Testing - Nothing worse than the greatest idea in the world that does not work.

Great cameras don't take great pictures any more than a great paintbrush painted the Mona Lisa — you need creativity, and you also need to know how to use that camera.

a director (or an immediate family member of a director) serves as an officer, director or trustee of a tax exempt organization, and the Company's contributions to the organization, in any single fiscal year, are more than the greater of $ 1 million or 2 % of that organization's consolidated gross revenues, provided that such contributions do not exceed the limits set forth in Paragraph A. 5 (c) above and that disclosure is made in the Company's annual proxy statement;

Your restaurant becomes more about volume than great food and remarkable service.

So we're in more than a Great Recession.

To what extent should a country impose austerity and even depression on itself — more than a great recession, an entire lost decade on itself — simply to pay interest to bondholders who've been financing a fiscal system that hasn't really taxed the rich in Greece?

Ray Dalio says it took more than great returns to turn Bridgewater Associates into the world's largest hedge fund.

In the 1st edition of my book, Time of the Vulture: How to Survive the Crisis and Prosper in the Process (2007), I predicted a financial crisis even more devastating than the Great Depression was about to happen.

Other than that a great stock all around.

Shareholder Approval Requirements: NYSE American requires a listed company to obtain the approval of its shareholders for certain types of securities issuances, including private placements that may result in the issuance of common shares (or securities convertible into common shares) equal to 20 % or more of presently outstanding shares for less than the greater of book or market value of the shares.

Honest sermons are far easier to speak than great ones.

The individual here is a small percentage of gay men and women that care more about themselves than the greater good.

We actually have a good bit of evidence - more than a great many known historical persons from the ancient world, and with a lot more detail.

The problem is not with biblical Revelation, the problem is when the Church or individuals within the Church interpret it as either a metaphysical treatise or a moral manual rather than the greatest Love Story ever told.

Jesus» original disciples likely never thought of him as anything more than a great rabbi, and some might have thought him a good rallying point for a revolt, they could have even whispered that he was anointed by God, but the idea of his being divine only seems to enter into the gospels around the time many Greek educated folks had converted, bringing their own views of what a «son of God» means into the faith.

This is what the famous astrophysicist Sir James Jeans meant when he said many decades ago that «the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.»

From Mark: In these theological / political times, where it seems so important to be in the right «camp» lest we be cast out from fellowship with others because we do not hold the «correct» views, how do you suggest moving forward toward greater unity, rather than greater division?

You shall not bow down or worship anything less than the great I am, Yabweb.»

But when we derive the conclusion that the internal degrees in a triangle are one - hundred and eighty degrees from the principle that a triangle has three sides, the conclusion is not really a separate truth since it is nothing more than greater insight into the principle.

It makes us think we are okay with God, when we may actually be further from Him than the greatest of sinners.

Do you think that the greatness of an achievement makes it unnecessary for it to ask about a trivial wrong, that is, do you think that a wrong might exist which would be something of no significance, although as an obligation it is infinitely more important than the greatest achievement!

He said: «What we mark today, is nothing less than the greatest shame of our nation.

The reason it is better to be least in the Church than the greatest in the world is because of the gifts we find in verse 11.

It is better to be the least in the church than the greatest in the world.

They were the squishes, and the country - club types who imagined themselves better than the great unwashed pro-lifers, and the financial conservatives embarrassed by religious believers.

«Unfortunately,» said Pro Mundi Vita of the Vatican's attitude toward the Latin Americans» lay - directed renewal, «the church's efforts have been directed more toward preserving discipline, order and doctrinal purity than the great work and challenge of being evangelical.»

But the God - aimed eternal spirit that is a human being longs for more than a greater quantity of this life.

«More than any great Christian leader before him,» Niebuhr observed, «Luther affirmed the life in culture as the sphere in which Christ could and ought to be followed; and more than any other he discerned that the rules to be followed in the cultural life were independent of Christian or church law.»

The prophets from Amos on are forced to reinterpret the meaning of the present in terms of an immediate future to be charged with tragedy — but a tragedy no less the result of divine action than the great formative event of redemption from Egypt.

Yet there was in early Christianity another path from Jesus to the church, less dramatic than the great theologian and missionary Paul, but more pervasive in the actual life of early Christians: the Gospel of Mathew!

For Kierkegaard there is no «solution» to this paradox, other than the greater paradox of the God - man, who, without ever making the leap into sin, became sin for us, i.e., accepted his human solidarity with us, so that in him we might be reconciled with God through the Atonement.

Lesser men than the great scientists too readily assumed that all new knowledge must be made to fit the «scientific» dogma, just as earlier it was expected to fit the ecclesiastical dogma.

It is also Holy Scripture and I think that makes it a different sort of book than the great works of literature,» she said.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.