Sentences with phrase «than acting as»

Rather than acting as a limited dual agent, you can choose to act as the agent of only one of the parties, treating the other party, with their agreement, as a customer.

You're not able to lean into the comforting arms of your relationship when emotional safety is lacking — in fact, your relationship ends up causing you pain rather than acting as a buffer against distress.

Notifications, quick settings, and quick toggles behave just like you'd expect, though they can open summaries and additional options rather than acting as strict toggles.

On the patent dispute front, Mordan insists his intellectual property team, headed by Jim Harrington and David Banchik, is generating revenue for Shire, rather than acting as a cost centre.

Often, these projects are part of an overall compliance program and function as training tools or «check the box» exercises as a shield against future compliance failure, rather than acting as useful decision support tools.

Whether, in hearing a moot case, the court will be straying into the legislative sphere rather than acting as an adjudicative body.

And some firms, such as Covington & Burling or Proskauer Rose have sports law practices, representing the leagues or teams rather than acting as agents for individual players.

In an accompanying statement, the artist writes about the struggle to find ways of making marks that look natural and at home on the canvas, that have their own personality rather than acting as a conduit for hers.

In these images, rather than acting as a backdrop to the human activity, the artworks function as characters in the scene, silent witnesses to the drama unfolding around them.

She stresses that being a female gallerist means providing support and guidance to your artists, allowing them to grow, rather than acting as a hardliner.

Rather than acting as a static façade, Lee Kit's paintings operate against his formal training — another political gesture — by facilitating, or contributing to the illusion of his minimalist assemblages.

These Munchers are actually part of the environment, rather than acting as a typical enemy, hence that they can't be defeated, similar to a Bill Blaster being part of the environment.

Call of Duty: ELITE is a disgustingly overpriced service for anything other than acting as a season pass for future DLC, and it would be nice to see Infinity Ward and Treyarch touch up their previous games by actually dealing with the hackers that populate them.

Unlike other heritage designs that ape the original watch, the Superocean wears influences from watches of yore rather than acting as a simple reissue of an old design.

Just as important, schools must support parents rather than acting as a barrier to work.

For many teacher educators, watching video clips and writing comments is easier than acting as a Subject Matter Expert for an instructional program.

Rather than acting as directive teachers, our faculty members were more like coaches in a student - led inquiry environment.

He's learning about her, guiding her to find herself, rather than acting as a restrictive guardian imposing random rules.

This is one of the best face creams I've tried by Lotus as it actually helps fix your imperfections from within rather than acting as a quick - fix.

Therefore the compound likely enhances your body's ability to make glutathione, rather than acting as a building block.

He felt like he was being dragged along by life rather than acting as the protagonist of his own story.

In addition, rather than acting as antioxidants, oxalates are prooxidants, so they encourage the oxidation of your fats, forming rancid fats in your body.

These resistant starches, rather than acting as a nutrient, behave similarly to dietary fiber and can help regulate blood sugar, improve appetite control and promote bowel health.

Yet according to Willem Hillenius, a physiologist at UCLA who is also a paleontologist, maxilloturbinals perform an even more fundamental task than acting as a filter: they permit mammals like us to be warm - blooded.

Rather than acting as an on / off switch, PAMs act like an amplifier, enhancing only the effects of the brain's own natural painkillers, thereby selectively altering biological processes in the body that naturally suppress pain.

Freyburger's designation will allow him to accept the animals, but he will not be paid by the town in any capacity other than acting as a shelter.

But Corbyn has been accused by some shadow cabinet members, most recently Michael Dugher, the shadow culture secretary, of sponsoring a faction rather than acting as a unifying figure in the whole of the Labour party.

He felt like he was being dragged along by life rather than acting as the protagonist of his own story.

Sirico describes as the «notable exception of abortion» should give him some sense that the bishops are engaged as bishops in genuinely offering pastoral advice based upon the Church's magisterium, rather than acting as Democratic pundits with miters.

Reason, rather than acting as the vehicle for truth has now become the means to untruth, for the rational structures which philosophy has long hoped to discover are now reduced to nothing more than products of our natural history.

If he knows the great tradition he will also know that it is his duty to represent it, interpreting the mind of the Church rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church members.

Women entrepreneurship is a competitive market on its own, but successful women business owners advise that nurturing and mutually beneficial collaborations can be much more successful for business growth and revenue than acting as a lone wolf.

Rather than acting as a middleman, DiversyFund manages all of its real estate projects from start to finish.

But by 2007, Barinskiy and Kravitz realized that they could make more money selling customer information directly to agents, rather than acting as a middleman.

Doing far more than acting as a data guru, the chief marketing technologist must also define strategies and set priorities for leveraging opportunities within the digital economy, as well as survey, assess and put in place emerging technologies crucial for growth.

Like you, I call myself a fallen Catholic rather than act as a cafeteria Catholic.

His job will be to ensure David Cameron and his ministers do no more than act as a «caretaker government» and to offer support to cross-party talks to form a government.

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

It does little more than act as a setting for the various action scenes, and those usually don't disappoint.

Anti-seize does a lot more than act as a lubricant.

Always on the charming side of irreverent and an engaging narrator, Bard does a lot more than act as a tour guide.

AK NotePad [free]-- AK NotePad does not do much other than act as a no - muss, no - fuss text editor.

It's better to know this fact and respect your dog's capabilities, comfort zones and boundaries just in case, than act as if the scenario could never pop up.

However, Woolly World perhaps tries a little too hard in catering to the old Yoshi's Island fans, rather than act as a unique, standalone game.

But while the Focus Attack had that appeal at first, the game's huge competitive scene didn't have to push it far to realize it could do much more than act as more accessible parry.

Rather than act as the final judge of an artistic practice (as earlier art historians had done), Sandberg preferred to test, directly within the spaces of the museum and through the reactions of its public, the capacity of the work of art to connect with people and its political agency.

The major corporate brands with which I was associated are perceived as entities that exist to acquire businesses rather than act as product innovators.

In such scenarios, a key consideration of the justice system is how to ensure that expert witnesses offer an unbiased scientific or technical opinion based upon their training and expertise, rather than act as «hired guns» who present unbalanced opinions unduly favouring the party that retains them.

He then went further, stating that there was «no reason» to suppose it would do anything other than act as an incentive to avoid egregious errors and eliminate the making of grievous mistakes [71].

All of these accentuate the content rather than act as standalone features, but they're nice touches nonetheless.