Sentences with phrase «than a leading act»

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Fast - forward to the first half of 2014, and Next Big Sound was following more than 1 million acts and tracking 3.3 billion fan - to - band connections, slicing and dicing the data to help labels determine which social interactions are leading indicators for ticket, merchandise and download sales.

The takeaway: «Small, concrete goals designed to improve the well being of others are more likely to lead to happiness for the giver than are acts with large, abstract goals — despite people's intuitions to the contrary,» and keeping that fact in mind can provide a considerable boost to your well being.

«The groupthink that results from believers who act together out of their fears rather than their trust in Father, will lead to even more disastrous results.

At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Understanding why religious liberty became politically controversial requires more than just identifying....

Some time fears and acts of fears leads people to what you fear most to happen... so it is how it will be played that will determine the future... so as BO said that to show good feelings and give a helping hand will make you less enemies than if go on the bases of power and superiority...

Not to preempt, I take the Cain and Abel story as a struggle to please God through sacrifice (a religious act) where the differences led to conflict, though later it is written that obedience is better than sacrifice, as it ever was.

This new presence can make us brave, and bravery — even more than theoretical acumen — is the antidote to oppression because acts of bravery lead to new perceptions; in contrast, acts of shrewdness, even when they are subject to correction, lead only to new tactics and so can not adjust their essential aims or lead to new empirical discoveries about the world.

«The unification must be accomplished before a man undertakes some unusual work,» but any ordinary work that a man does with a united soul acts in the direction of new and greater unification and leads him, even if by many detours, to a steadier unity than he had before.

But when actions were seen in terms of motives and attention was directed toward the motive rather than to the act, such an uncomplicated understanding of responsibility led to immense difficulties.

Johannesburg (CNN)- Miffed by a visa delay that led the Dalai Lama to cancel a trip to South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu lashed out at his government Tuesday, saying it had acted worse than apartheid regimes and had forgotten all that the nation stood for.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

Rolt began his study with a rejection of the traditional understanding of power as compulsion or «brute force,» which leads to the realization that «the mind is brought at last to One Who is yet stronger than the universe itself, and Who... by the act of an almighty will, which nothing can resist, bends all things to His purposes and compels the whole material system to obey His irresistible commands.»

There is some point in the view that Augustine had much to do with fastening a negative and morbid attitude toward sexuality upon the Christian church, but we want to find what it is in his view of love which led to this.12 We have to go deeper than the familiar point that Augustine thought of the stain of original sin as transmitted through the act of procreation.

A great many different motives may lead to an action of this kind; indeed in cases where it is an act of despair, performed in circumstances of extreme human or economic destitution and misery, the guilt may often lie rather with the community than with the individual.

The view that actuality is activity rather than primal act of being leads Leclerc to his final disagreement with the scholastic, and hence Suarecian theory: his notion that form is distinct from actuality.

Effectively, this was the first formal act of major political authority leading to the dismemberment of the univocal structure for the Church throughout Europe, other than the East.

For if the Spirit is not leading us to save her soul, than no matter how good an act or compassionate or loving it is, it is still walking and fulfilling the things of the flesh not the things of the Spirit.

The Victorian Health Department says it acted promptly and appropriately to contain the outbreak, which first came to authorities» attention in mid-December and led to the recall of more than 100 products.

And last, Rosicky's «foul» that directly led to the final goal was nothing more than a tap, and Barton dropped like he'd been hit in the back of the head with a cricket bat swung by Vinnie Jones in a bad movie — it wasn't even good acting.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

school of parenting, one that creates fear rather than respect for parents, and often leads to adults who have trouble thinking for themselves while too often acting out of rebellion and insecurity.

Clearly, the stress of the holidays can lead many kids to act out even more than usual.

Interestingly though, this has not by definition led to a further distancing of the actor from the act: the drone pilot is simultaneously further removed, yet closer to his target than a previous generation of pilots.

This «wasta» leads to distorted «rules of the game», where the prevalence of informal institutions associated with neo-patrimonialism influences actors» cost - benefit calculations in a way that makes it more promising to act according to the informal, rather than formal, rules of the game.

Yet rather than act this Tory - led Government is letting energy firms overcharge millions of families who are struggling to pay their ever - rising energy bills.

There is pressure to act, but regional resources are limited and some countries would prefer a UN intervention rather than one led by ECOWAS.

That's more saying it's important to avert a shutdown now than in September 2013, just before a budget fight over federal funding for some portions of the Affordable Care Act led to a partial government shutdown.

«We pray for those who are piloting the affairs of the country in his absence, more than ably led by the Acting President.

With 99.6 percent of precincts reporting, Singas, the acting district attorney, led Murray, the longtime Hempstead Town supervisor, by 16 percentage points — or more than 30,000 votes, according to results from Nassau County Board of Elections.

And two - thirds want to keep the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, rather than adopt the repeal and replacement plan approved by the Republican - led House of Representatives.

We fight for fairness, we fight for justice, we act first, we lead by example,» he told the crowd cheering activists in rain slickers and carrying union signs, sounding more like an Occupy Wall Street protester than the fiscally conservative governor who has often aroused liberal ire.

And the ECIDA will invest alongside other investors to round out a company's financial needs, rather than act as the lead investor.

Mitt Romney leads President Obama in the district 49 - 45 — the exact same margin by which voters support both the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and eliminating tax cuts for those earning more than $ 250,000.

«The rural Native American children, who so often are described as less talkative than their peers, were actually more likely to talk and act out activities with the diorama than children from the other two communities,» said Karen Washinawatok, lead author of the study and former chair of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

Further tests revealed that the elevated CO2 was responsible, rather than the reduced pH. Although it's unclear exactly how the elevated carbon dioxide leads Daphnia to lower its defenses, the researchers suggest the CO2 acts as a narcotic and blunts the senses.

Rather than trying to catch females in the act, a team led by behavioral ecologist Ben Sheldon of the University of Oxford, U.K., let the eggs tell the story.

After more than six years of research, the research team led by María Soengas, head of CNIO's Melanoma Group, showed that RAB7 acts as an orchestra director, determining the fate of melanoma cells: at high concentrations of RAB7, cellular autodigestion is very active, and this allows tumor cells to obtain energy, prevent the accumulation of toxic components and thus divide and proliferate; when RAB7 is reduced, cells use endosomes to recycle metastatic proteins, favouring their dispersal throughout the body.

They can also explain more than half of the warming recorded over the Antarctic Peninsula, because «anomalously strong westerlies should act to decrease the incidence of cold air outbreaks from the south and lead to increased warm advection from the Southern Ocean.»

«I'm not sure that creative writing and crafts were the most challenging controls,» he says, pointing out that classes in acting or sports — which also require group efforts rather than individual projects — might have led to results similar to singing.

«While many Americans believe supplements to be safe, government regulations (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) require less safety evidence to market products than what is required for conventional pharmaceuticals» explains lead author Dr. Victor Navarro, from Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia.

Women with asthma who only use short - acting asthma relievers take longer to become pregnant than other women, according to international research led by the University of Adelaide.

This contradictory behavior explained that Cyclin D1 acts as a negative regulative protein under some conditions rather than a positive regulator in the cell cycle, i.e. the modest increase in Cyclin D1 expression could hasten the G1 phase while the overexpression may lead to block the progression through the S - phase [28, 29].

Just as investing money in multiple stocks can provide more stable returns than investing in one stock, having multiple sub-populations that act independently can lead to a more stable overall population in a natural system, a phenomenon known as the «portfolio effect».

When you are executing these exercises with a proper form, what you are basically doing is strengthening these tissues which act as support structures rather than inflicting damage, which in turn leads to increased muscle growth.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

I thoghut it would be better than a lead charecter who acts like she would rather be doing something else, and is afraid to scream to loudly.

Larson is normally an outstanding support act (she was one of the only good things about Scott Pilgrim vs. The World), but Short Term 12 proves that she can more than hold her own as a lead actress.

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

Eric Kohn, IndieWire: «More coherent than Age of Extinction, the third act of which took place in Beijing for no other apparent reason than to outsource the production to China, The Last Knight lands a lot of good laughs with its cartoonish robots and equally over-the-top chemistry between its two leads.

Of the young leads, only one, Armand, is older than 20, and most are in their first acting roles.