Sentences with phrase «than an act of»

Despite its intelligence, it's dreary and uninvolving, more an exercise in style than an act of love.

In what appeared more like a «Saturday Night Live» skit than an act of cybercrime, a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers put up for bid on the Internet what it called a «full state - sponsored toolset» of «cyberweapons.»

Do remember the Credit Card pre Approval process is notably more important than the act of applying itself so getting your affairs in order will definitely make you eligible for getting approved for a credit card.

By doing so we make the cross an act of compulsion rather than an act of love.

Note that act of becoming L is immediately later than act of becoming K just in case (1) K is earlier than L and (2) there is no act of becoming that is both later than K and earlier than L.

He agrees with Pannenberg that the content of faith is foundational for the act of faith, and not vice versa; what we believe is more important than our act of believing it.

Before you settle into self - assigned relationship martyrdom, ask yourself if your search for the ideal Christian partner has morphed into idolatry rather than an act of submission to God?

And so it follows that the opus humanum laboriously and gradually achieved within us by the growth of knowledge and in the face of evil, is something quite other than an act of higher morality: it is a living organism.

They called for ingenuity and adaptiveness rather than any act of creation; they were no more, in each case, than a new sail hoisted to catch a new wind.

The first thing to remember is that the use of the term «conservative» (as much as the use of «liberal») is a political act rather than an act of description.

Faith is more than an act of will, though it involves a decision of will.

From the article: He said: «The sin of lust isn't just a mistake, a mess - up or a problem... it is no less than an act of sin that is reprehensible to God and nothing short of honestly confessing and repenting of that sins is good enough for God.»

The sin of lust isn't just a mistake, a mess - up or a problem... it is no less than an act of sin that is reprehensible to God and nothing short of honestly confessing and repenting of that sins is good enough for God.

In my experience, masturbation has more to do with sowing to the flesh than an act of love.

The action produced by the interactings of A and B will be other than A or B, more than they are, and also more than the acting of either A on B, or B on A, taken individually.

He supposes that the minima do act on each other, and not only act but react, in such a way that their composite acting is greater than each or than the acting of each.

In the last resort it is already transcended when I speak of myself, for I myself, my real self; am no more visible or ascertainable than an act of God.

I'd rather it be luck than an act of God, because if it were an act of God, then God would be cruel and unfair.

The mechanics of diminutive Tim Lincecum — looks 18, throws 98 — are more than an act of violence, they're a marvel of modern science.

In practice, not speaking about these nuggets may prove much harder than the act of deciding not to.

Nothing less than an act of Congress, say some observers.

There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a part of one expression of purpose and beingness.

Getting dressed is more than the act of putting on clothes.

Instead, the film closes on a positive note of contentment, not comedic catastrophe, displaying a gentle nature that lasts longer than any act of piercing punctuation.

Even those of us who aren't ardent patriots can enjoy it without feeling guilty; the film is celebrating the individuals who represented Britain, rather than the act of representation itself.

In the end, his deadliest weapon turns out to be other people's trust, something with grimmer philosophical implications than all his acts of violence combined.

It's more an exercise in creativity than an act of creation; it's all tell and no show.

The Look of Silence is almost equally incredible, though the only thing that even slightly holds it back is that it is slightly more conventional than the Act of Killing from a filmic perspective.

He has come to trust his material on an instinctual level; «Silence» feels less like a feat of adaptation than an act of artistic submission.

For me it was always more that I found I can't think of a more fundamental human act than the act of learning or the act of teaching.

While maker education is often defined in terms of 3D printers and Arduino boards, it's really the culture around making, rather than the act of making, that makes it essential to learning.

It will be interesting to see how this evolves, because under current law, while sexting is clearly a very serious issue, it can currently have more serious ramifications in terms of criminality than the act of a child having underage sex.

And while much of this might seem like nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several ebook retailers incorporate the Goodreads» API into their sales pages, effectively posting book reviews that many in the Goodreads community knew to be false, and nothing more than an act of revenge against an author; real - world sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these reviews.

Many people turn to angel writing services because they feel that 5 or 6 Skype interviews, however long, are a much better use of their limited availability than the act of typing out thousands of words.

According to Kiplinger, there is more to preparing for a down payment than the act of saving itself.

But what if every week at an animal shelter was fraught with the same kind of crises, requiring the same level of resources, creating the same level of anxiety, except the cause was man - made rather than an act of God?

Yelling, squirting a water gun, or startling your cat with a loud noise when he scratches teaches him that your presence, rather than the act of scratching, brings punishment.

Yelling, spanking, or shaking a can with pennies in it is too directly associated with the person rather than the act of scratching.

Naturally, these methods of partial creation are infinitely more demonstrative of artistic integrity than the acts of asset flipping shown earlier.

There isn't any known cure other than the act of rewriting FOXDIE's code and hoping it doesn't go viral in the meantime.

These pyrotechnic prognostics can make fights go on for entirely too long, making each win feel like little more than an act of luck than a hard - fought victory.

Now, we know that when someone watches someone else playing a game, they fixate more on the graphics than the act of truly playing it.

By the late 1970s, Winters had begun experimenting with Process Art, a movement stressing that the work of art itself was less important than the act of creating it.

It is rather measured and deliberate, as if premeditation had a greater role than the act of painting itself.

Therefore mitigation is nothing more than an act of faith.

This is the heart of the discussion on whether the largest recorded earthquake in Oklahoma history was manmade rather than an act of nature.

That is certainly praiseworthy but nothing more than an act of not paying which could be reversed by him or someone else else in the future.

There ensues a buying frenzy in which the actual gift matters less than the act of giving.

... we are literally in the fog, and assuming that the anthro emissions have negligible impact would be no more than an act of faith.

Nothing less than an Act of Parliament is required to kill a longstanding head of claim.