Sentences with phrase «than a race of»

But if they had no chance of being anything else, if in other words, they had no free will, we can see, even with our limited intelligence, that such a creation would be no more than a race of characterless robots.

Not exact matches

But political analysts tracking the races say that only a relatively small number of races — fewer than 50 House seats and just a handful of Senate races — are truly competitive.

The Republican frontrunner in the race to fill House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat in Wisconsin's 1st District raised more than $ 250,000 during the first week of his campaign.

Crude oil has helped the Saudi stock market race ahead of the rest of the world this year, but the rally is about more than energy, as reforms from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receive investors» endorsement.»

Ivanov's story is just one example of the serendipity involved in this small Canadian company's rise to the forefront of a worldwide race to harness nuclear fusion, a race that has been going on fitfully, consuming tens of billions of mostly public dollars, for more than half a century.

Sure, with more than 40 NASCAR race wins under his belt, the «Pied Piper of Daytona» is undeniably a legend on the track.

At the same time, Fillon's supporters prove to be more loyal than Macron's with 76 percent of them saying they are confident about their decision in the presidential race.

Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

For Vonn, who has four World Cup championships and raced in more World Cup events than any other American in addition to her Olympic medals, monetary success came in the form of lucrative endorsements.

They also drink more alcohol on average than women of all races, as well as more than men who are not white.

Though it's called the burn rate, that term doesn't really capture the drip - by - drip unease of spending more money than you're making as you race to build something that catches on before the cash runs out.

As a result, the race is on to make that business worth much more than the post valuation of the previous round.

When it comes to race, Asians make up the majority of Uber's technical engineers, hiring a larger percentage than Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter.

That gives people the opportunity to race at the highest level of the sport, and we don't want to lose that, but when you add new top teams... making sure that you have an equally attractive environment for pro-am independent teams is a challenge we're up to — but it's easier said than done.

When the presidential campaign results confirmed a tighter race than most expected, an influx of people decided to look up Canada's immigration site, causing the website to momentarily crash.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

A company made up of employees from diverse ethnic backgrounds, generations, genders, races and religions (just to name a few) has more creative energy to harness than one with a more homogenized workforce.

«My broad base of lateral thinking comes from being a mechanic,» says Reimer, whose Winnipeg firm, FXR Racing Inc., has more than doubled its sales over the past five years, earning it a spot on the 2014 PROFIT 500.

Spartan Race does not make revenue figures available, but entries to many of the races start at $ 100 and this year more than a million people will enter one of the 200 events in 30 countries the company will host.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Race.

It blames most of the positive coverage on the tendency to cover political campaigns like a horse race, rather than focusing on the issues.

The Brooklyn debate was testier than previous affairs, as both candidates continued the race's recent trend of more personal and nasty attacks.

Adgate admits that Colbert is «going to offer something different» in terms of the show's tone and he will likely score the occasional viral hit online — more so than Letterman, who essentially took a pass on packaging content for the web — but, it will likely, ultimately, be a race for runner - up.

If you look at the actual money raised, less money by far than Joe Khan [who placed second and was the frontrunner at the beginning of the race], less institutional support than Joe Khan, who in many ways was the mainstream liberal candidate.

More than 40 % of Flint residents live in poverty, and the majority are black, which raised the specter that both poverty and race played into why their concerns went unaddressed.

Rather than leading an automated race to the bottom, Boomerang's tools push retailers into the realm of game theory and psychology — anticipating what competitors» responses to their moves will be, and how shoppers will perceive them.

Even if only 16 Fortune 500 companies share detailed demographic information about their employees, it's important to point out that the data that is available represents the race, gender and job category of more than 800,000 people — everyone from the CEO through service staff.

Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, were the alleged perpetrators of the April 15 Boston bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260 near the finish line of the race.

Advocates have portrayed the District of Columbia measure as a civil rights issue, saying studies have shown that African Americans are disproportionately more likely to be arrested on marijuana charges than are people of other races.

A map from the pro-market American Enterprise Institute shows international trade counts for more than 10 per cent of the economy in numerous states with Senate races this fall including: Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Indiana, Tennessee, Michigan, Washington, Montana and North Dakota, among others.

She wasn't racing the field but the clock, spending most of the race more than a second - and - a-half under her own world record pace, set earlier this year.

For both Clinton and Trump, the divisive race came to an end on Tuesday night at rallies less than two miles apart in New York City, the same place where both candidates launched their campaigns within days of one another in June 2015.

That's exactly what international carriers are asking themselves as they race to fill up the pointy ends of their planes faster than their competitors.

True, on the financial disclosure forms Sanders released after announcing his entrance into the presidential race, he lists no assets of his own, other than a $ 5,000 annual pension payment from his stint as mayor of Burlington, Vt..

Trump was then declared the victor in Pennsylvania, and the Associated Press called the race for him at 2:30 a.m. E.T. Financial markets were already tumbling at the prospect of a Trump victory hours earlier, with Dow futures down more than 700 points at one point.

Why this should be so — why the success of the Jewish minority should be so particularly resented by other peoples — is a complicated question which is rendered more complicated by the fact that anthropologists are now generally agreed that the Jews are not a race in any scientific sense of the term — no more of a race, for example, than the Germans.

More than half of the 17 million American race finishers in 2015 were women, and Nike has projected that sales of its women's products will double by 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal.

If you — like so many folks — muse about the day you can leave the stress of the rat race behind, grab control of your life, and head off on an adventure abroad... with an income that went with you... That day could be a lot sooner than you think.

I would love to move to a state with enough land and a warmer climate for my sons to ride their race bikes, my daughter to have the horse she dreams of and me to finally be at peace, I also believe that there should be someone home with the kids no matter what their ages are and as a single Mom with no family support or father involvement being at home for me is even more important, especially now that they are teenagers, There are no more nap times or time outs and the things you worry about during this age are so much more dangerous than falling down and hitting their heads as toddlers.

If you start trading too much and risking too much, you will burn all your money and be out of the race quicker than the hare.

In his initial run for governor Scott and his family poured more than $ 70 million of their own money into the race.

The race for the next generation of wireless technology is heating up sooner than expected.

Uber says the gender data has about 99 percent participation while the race / ethnicity data represents more than 75 percent of the company.

If we want to be free from rat race of 9 - 5, we have no option other than to generate passive income, be it real - estate, entrepreneurship, dividends or other part - time side gigs.

So it's a great time to write to your reps reminding them you're far more interested in your privacy being protected than Facebook winning some kind of surveillance arms race with the Chinese.

2016.10.01 RBC and Youth Inc partner to bring RBC Race for the Kids to Lower Manhattan Youth INC and Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) have announced that more than 2,000 people are participating in the eighth annual RBC Race for the Kids in Manhattan...

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

2016.10.23 RBC Race for the Kids draws 800 participants in support of Starlight Children's Foundation More than 800 people walked and ran through Centennial Park on Saturday in the third annual RBC Race for the Kids in Sydney supporting the Starlight Children...

It was at the time the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history with total spending of more than $ 121 million.

We know from studies of horse racing than when handicappers receive more information about horses and riders, they become proportionately more confident even though they are no more likely to pick the winner.