Sentences with phrase «than an example of»

But He knew we needed more than an example of good behavior.

In the NT, There are more examples of the church meeting daily than examples of the church meeting on Sunday.

Inaugurated behind and in front of the camera by a promotional reel - cum - prologue in which Nick talks about towers falling down and needing to become the rain that washes the scum off the streets, Vigilante is never much more than an example of how people who really want to make a movie will go to any lengths to do so.

The experiences of the subjects in this study indicate that schools may fail to investigate these indicators of potential or may identify these indicators solely as problems rather than examples of motivation and ability to learn.

Re the $ 100K max non-taxable — is that amount reduced if some of the cash is used for purchase of a second home, rather than your example of home improvements?

One needs look no further than the example of Tommy Pickles, a former mill - pup who was saved by National Mill Dog Rescue, to understand just how much these groups are helping dogs.

In practice, this means that each animal is seen as a unique individual in our Chattanooga animal hospital, rather than an example of a particular disease.

Thus, for example, a work of art produced as early as 1958 might be decidedly «postmodernist» (if the artist has a very avant - garde outlook - a good example is Yves Klein's Nouveau Realisme); while another work, created by a conservative artist in 1980, might be seen as a throw - back to the time of «Modern Art» rather than an example of «Contemporary Art».

However, as detailed here by Dr. Barry Bickmore in a three part series, and by Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert at RealClimate, Spencer's attribution of the recent global warming to PDO is no more than an example of how to cook a graph.

This is nothing more than an example of DeepClimate exaggerating things in order to insult McIntyre.

This lack of vision seems to be more a sort of self imposed blinders than an example of the limits of human knowledge or imagination.

Look no further than the example of Akin Gump partner Michele Roberts, who spent the first eight years of her career at the D.C. Public Defenders» office, where she was counsel in over 40 jury trials.

Many of the examples given in the book were of change at BigLaw (including «skunkwork» initiatives that have come out of BigLaw) rather than examples of pure NewLaw initiatives.

However, the sample memorandum is more of an information gathering and reporting exercise than an example of legal reasoning.

Not exact matches

Rather than dwell on the problems, however, the magazine launched a special «Economy of the Future» series that aims to spotlight case studies of people and companies who were doing things right, and how they could act as examples to others.

So, rather than simply encouraging team members to get out of the office for meetings and private conversations, lead by example.

BuzzFeed, for example, is now worth more than $ 1.5 billion (theoretically at least) thanks to an investment of $ 200 million from NBC Universal, an arm of Comcast.

And, removing criminals raises far fewer civil rights concerns than, for example, locating and removing laborers through the use of workplace raids.

Take Uber, for example: The ride - sharing company has taken a foray into the world of food delivery, and the service — which, according to The New York Times, is available in 120 markets worldwide — sometimes earns more than Uber's original offering.

Take the (infamous) example of «Tay,» described by The Verge in a March 2016 article titled «Twitter taught Microsoft's AI chatbot to be a racist a — hole in less than a day» (the «a — hole» being my addition).

If a Desjardins customer's driving data shows they are a less risky driver than most (driving less than 15,000 km per year, for example, or driving primarily between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.) they can qualify for a discount on their insurance policy of up to 25 %.

However, technology also empowers smaller enterprises to do a lot more than they ever could before and the cloud is probably the best example of that.

Quebec, for example, launched a program in 2015 that covers 50 % of the costs of applying for a patent (or up to $ 25,000) for companies with fewer than 250 employees.

Washington, for example, is rbST - free yet maintains milk production of more than 10,800 kg per year per cow.

Soper points out that part of the variation comes from differences within regional luxury markets, particularly in the Greater Toronto Area where nearby cities like Markham and Brampton, for example, may attract different buyers than Toronto.

But she's keen to emphasize that innovation is about more than just technology, citing the example of a local female entrepreneur in the construction industry who couldn't find workboots for women and started a company to manufacture them.

There is no better example of this than the Japanese stock market.

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.

Much of this, it can be argued, is that HR analysis tends to focus on the past — for example how many staff have been hired, the number of days taken off sick and the volume of training delivered — rather than looking to the future to see what it may hold.

Some studies (and opinions) suggest that brand loyalty is a concept that's dying; for example, 79 percent of the millennials polled in one survey ranked quality as their most important purchasing decision, rather than the name brand involved.

When talking about doing favors, Natalie Zfat set a great example for parameters in her article «How To Master Networking» by saying that if something takes less than five minutes and doesn't jeopardize any of your client relationships, do it.

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

The top marginal tax rates of more than 50 percent that exist in some provinces are a good example.

She says too many of today's young aspiring entrepreneurs are fixated on founding unicorn startups, focusing on the handful of fabulously successful examples rather than the many, many more that don't make it.

Rather than making an example of a failure, make it an opportunity for the team to learn.

For example, Silver argues that a number of factors had more to do with the media's misunderstanding of what was happening during the election than any alleged errors in polling.

Rather than relying on high - profile examples that everyone is writing about, such as Steve Jobs, consider case studies of other successful people who may be under the radar.

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

For example, you could lease a photocopier for several hundred dollars a month rather than financing the entire $ 3,000 purchase price, or you could lease your automobile or van instead of shelling out $ 25,000 or more for the full purchase price of the car.

For example, many entrepreneurs pursue VC funding because 2 % of a $ 100 million company valuation is more than 100 % of a $ 200,000 company valuation.

For example, if you are a business located only in the UK, you are limiting yourself to less than 1 % of the world's population, which isn't really an ambitious plan for growth.

Even more vital to persuasion than Logos, says Aristotle, is Pathos, which includes the right - brain activities of emotions, images, stories, examples, empathy, humor, imagination, color, sounds, touch, and rapport, Price says.

While the launch of a new driving safety app, for example, might not grab readers, the fact that nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, and that more than 20 million are permanently injured, will.

A good example of a violation would be if the hydro provider made, say, one manufacturer's toasters work better than another or, worse yet, if it made its own toasters work better than anyone else's.

For example, in Ontario the majority of undergraduates are now effectively paying less tuition than they have been in a decade.

Earlier this year, for example, it launched a program in which more than 420 of its most active and influential community members sell products to their friends and followers; in turn, they receive a cut of the profits, as well as rewards that include sneak previews of products and trips to New York to visit Glossier and have dinner with Weiss.

For example, less than 15 % of U.S. audiences get news on Twitter.

There are plenty more examples such as Rihanna's Fenty Beauty, Pixar's Coco, and Warner Brother's Wonder Woman scoring major paydays, awards, and millions of raving fans as a result of delivering products that reached underserved audiences and celebrated our differences rather than ignoring them.

British - based GlaxoSmithKline, for example, conducts more than 100 studies a year in Canada, with the participation of some 10,500 patients in more than 1,000 medical centres.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).