Sentences with phrase «than a means of»

Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of both Square and Twitter, has said that he views bitcoin as more of an investment vehicle than a means of payment.

Rather than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.

It had become an instrument and tool of death, rather than a means of restoring life and giving health.

Leviticus, taken only in its literal sense, is more of an obstacle to faith than a means of exhortation or edification, as Origen once observed.

In a word, the whole essential meaning of Christianity is not less, or more, than the meaning of Christ.

Most of all the Christian might rejoice in this vision, for it may well embody a recovery of what the Christian has long since lost: that is, nothing less than the meaning of the Gospel, the meaning of Jesus» original proclamation of the triumphant dawning of the Kingdom of God.

For your heart: If you're looking at these tickets as a lottery ticket, rather than a means of locking in some profit, you could absolutely let both tickets ride this week and have a fantastic hedge opportunity with the Saints in the NFC Championship Game.

Having suffered with anxiety, OCD, and depression intermittently throughout my adult life, I am aware that, for me, breastfeeding is much more than a means of feeding my child.

We have a leadership that tends to see the state as a problem, rather than the means of solving problems.

YOU and the DEMOCRATS are neo-SOCIALISTS who see government as nothing more than a means of supporting your sloth.

Irradiance in 2010 is about 0.1 W / m2 less than the mean of the prior three solar cycles, a decrease of forcing that would be restored by the CO2 increase within 3 — 4 years at its current growth rate.

Accept that your life involves more than your means of income, and just because you're not being financially compensated to do something else, that doesn't mean it's not worth your time.

The meat - and - potatoes style of Sacco and Vanzetti seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.

There quickly followed his indie adoption farce «Flirting with Disaster» (1996), and the more mainstream, but no less subversive, Gulf War adventure «Three Kings» (1999)-- and now Russell has turned his mind to no lesser topic than the meaning of life itself, and the result is the relentlessly off - the - wall «I ♥ Huckabees», a deep plunge into the shallow end of existence, and a film whose quirky intelligence establishes him, along with Charlie Kaufman and Paul Thomas Anderson, as one of the most inventive writers working in cinema today.

It aims to provide more information on the Pell proxy's limitations by making the proxy the focus rather than the means of the analysis.

Up to now, California schools have placed a greater emphasis on teaching the state's 1.5 million English learners the parts of a sentence rather than the meaning of a sentence.

Shalom Auslander's absurdist comedy explodes from that outrageous premise to take on nothing less than the meaning of our tenuous existence and the painful fragility of our most...

In a recent commencement speech at Hampton University, he said, «With iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.»

posted at Ian Martyn, Science Fiction Writer, saying, «Blogging for a writer is much more than a means of getting your name out there.

The t - statistic test simply measures the likelihood of that the average or mean of one small data set is different than the mean of another data set due to something other than simple randomness.

Displaying nano - tanks as nursery tanks may inspire people to try breeding fish and raising coral, thereby doing more to make their tank ownership a real hobby rather than a means of decorating an office or bedroom.

Dogs will be on leash, however, the goal is that the leash becomes superfluous ~ simply a measure of safety, rather than a means of control.

gives players their first look of how Pokémon are fully incorporated into daily life as pets or assistants rather than a means of battling one another.

Whereas the mainline games have lost sight of, and arguably never fully grasped, the concept of actually caring for Pokémon, Detective Pikachu gives players their first look of how Pokémon are fully incorporated into daily life as pets or assistants rather than a means of battling one another.

«To us silver is nothing more than a means of creating shapes... We are looking for the shapes that invite touch.»

As a child of two linguists, Alia believes that the interpretation of verbal and written language has dis - served particular communities and presents more of a threat than a means of understanding.

I think I'm reading the trend chart wrong, but is the mean of the models higher than the mean of all 10 data sets?

The multimodel mean is not intrinsically worse in this regard than the mean of 5 realizations of a diffusion process, the mean time lapse of 4 atomic clocks (as was used in an experiment testing a prediction of general relativity), or successive measures on an industrial process.

The Ensemble II mean of 5.19 million km2 is somewhat lower than the mean of Ensemble I (note that the optimization increases the predicted mean by about 0.07 million km2 compared to the uncorrected Ensemble I mean of 5.12 million km2).

At least 90 % of solar radiation passes through the thin transparent surface layer, so you can't assume it receives more than a mean of, say, 80W / m ^ 2.

Irradiance in 2010 is about 0.1 W / m2 less than the mean of the prior three solar cycles, a decrease of forcing that would be restored by the CO2 increase within 3 — 4 years at its current growth rate.

Models averaged 3.2 and I picked something less than the mean of the models.

Not exact matches

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

Many actually find they prefer being «hired when needed» as it means they can offer their services to a variety of employers, rather than just one.

My goal here is to amass as much bitcoin as possible for less than I can buy it at market price — within my means, of course.

The contract meant Thomas made more than some of the league's highest - profile QBs.

The median earning for Uber drivers is just $ 155 a month, meaning that half of Uber drivers make more than that amount and half make less.

This means your customer service will be more knowledgeable and more personal than that of a larger company with many products and employees.

This means that less than one woman out of every 100 with an IUD will become pregnant: an impressive stat when compared to those of condoms (18 out of 100) and the pill (five to nine out of 100).

That meant policy makers had to move sooner than expected to stay ahead of inflation.

So if you have a work habit you've been meaning to start with the best of intentions — getting in earlier, whipping your inbox into shape, getting up from your desk for an hourly stretch — the day after Labour Day is a better time to start than most.

Financial data is always at the back of the business plan, but that doesn't mean it's any less important than up - front material such as the business concept and the management team.

It does mean that you should think of your content as leisure reading rather than as professional updates.

That means employees who are currently exempt from overtime pay who earn less than this threshold will become nonexempt — employers will suddenly be required to pay overtime to over four million more employees within the first year of implementing the new rules.

The supply side is a lot bigger than we've seen happening at a time when the Fed is pulling back so the net impact of supply going up and the Fed support of that going down, means a lot more issuance.»

The family behind Loblaw may have more money than just about everyone in the country, but that doesn't mean it's willing to part with any of it.

Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said increased costs from the delay means that Bombardier will need to sell more than 800 aircraft to break even, or 12 per cent market share over the next 20 years.

AMOLED means it should have deeper colors than the LED screens of devices like the iPhone, though it's not the bezel-less type of screen you'd find on a Galaxy S8.

The WHO estimates that in 2016 more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, with more than 650 million of these being obese — meaning a body - mass index greater than or equal to 30.

While the high level of existing debt means rate hikes will have a stronger impact in cooling demand than they did in previous years, it is still too soon to know just how much of an effect the bank's three rate hikes have had, Poloz said.