Sentences with phrase «than by chance»

He was specifically talking about the frustration that comes from getting a spin that almost but not quite produces a jackpot, which happens 12 times more often than by chance, because manufacturers know that these little moments make people likelier to continue playing — it's like you've been denied what was rightfully yours and now you're going to fight for it.

If the game would explain what these power ups do in the moment rather than by chance in the loading screen, it'd do wonders to make those power - ups more viable.

I believe that this feature was left out deliberately rather than by chance because Amazon pays Sprint $ 0.12 for each megabyte downloaded.

So perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that in lab studies of lie detection most people only perform fractionally better than by chance.

«That's way more often than by chance,» says lead author Jenny Morton of the University of Cambridge, UK.

«Statistically this trend was far stronger than by chance, analogous to flipping a coin a dozen times and getting all heads.»

Not exact matches

By being more flexible and adaptable than your larger competitors, you have a chance to build your brand's reputation and customer trust.

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

Rather than leaving this collaboration up to chance, encourage it by adding some bar - height tables and stools where employees can mingle.

A 2016 survey by a national job portal found that more than 60 % of human resources personnel found that an applicant's appearance affected his or her chances at getting the job.

If you walk by our office, there's a good chance you'll see a group of us laughing about something other than work.

Taking Gilead's Truvada, a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) treatment, has been found to reduce the chance of contracting HIV by more than 90 % by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

By going to the Marines for four years prior to Ohio State he is able to enter university with a sense of purpose rather than seeing it as an escape and a chance to party.

Salaries have soared by more than 50 % in the last five years, but the number of available posts has remained stagnant at around 4,200, so chances are the only airplanes you'll get to order around are the paper variety.

A recent winner — a fund whose performance put it in the top quartile in 2013 among portfolios with the same investment objective — had only a 56 percent chance of doing better than average in 2014, barely better than you would expect by random chance.

After more than 80 rounds of matching and guessing faces to occupations, the researchers found that the participants were able to accurately pick out the business, military and sports leaders more consistently than if they were guessing by chance.

A tour conducted by someone other than you gives those people the chance to relax and show their true (and often positive) colors.

There are five reasons why this project stands a better chance of coming to fruition than rival Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline, which is due for a ruling by federal regulators before month - end.

In your book, you talk about how games make us happy by providing satisfying tasks, achievable goals and the chance to be part of something bigger than ourselves.

The PBO believes that the federal government has a better than 60 per cent chance of eliminating the deficit by 2015 - 16, 70 per cent or better by 2016 - 17, and a 75 per cent chance or better by 2017 - 18.

If the future retiree is making an above average wage, then there is a good chance the pension in and of itself will do more than get them comfortably by through the retirement years.

In March, analyst Gene Munster said there's a more than 50 percent chance Tesla will start operating its ridesharing fleet by 2023.

I don't mean to slight the incoming econ team; they deserve a chance and they're certainly inheriting a different economy than the one faced by the team I was on 8 years ago.

«The number of managers that can successfully pick stocks are fewer than you'd expect by chance.

Unfortunately, by then, most budget decisions had already been made and the chances that the Committee's recommendations (other than Liberal election promises) would have any impact on the Budget were virtually non-existent.

Applying with a co-signer can help you increase your chance of qualifying for refinancing, and could also help you get a better interest rate than you would get if you applied by yourself.

Manufactured homes (and personal belongings inside them) have a higher chance of being destroyed, for example, by a tornado than a traditional home.

If you're consistently forgetting to pay by the due date, if you're paying multiple annual fees but spending less than $ 20,000 on credit cards each year, or if you're not paying off balances each month, then chances are you have too many credit cards.

Bear's stock is selling at more than $ 2 for two reasons - one is that the market evidently believes there is some chance for the deal to be busted, either by Congress or by shareholder rejection.

Most economists are tipping the central bank will stay on hold until at least August, while financial markets are pricing in an only 8 per cent chance of a rate cut tomorrow, moving up to a more than 100 per cent chance of more easing by the end of the year.

These higher temperatures mean Indianapolis will see a likely increase of up to 15 additional deaths per 100,000 residents by late century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 31 additional deaths.

According to stats reported by Kickstarter, while 12 % of projects concluded having never received a single pledge; once a campaign reaches more than 20 % of their goal, the project has a 79 % chance of successfully reaching its funding goal.

The tail risk is more sobering: There is a 1 - in - 20 chance this metro region will experience more than 83 extremely hot days by century - end.

Looking at the tail risks, there is a 1 - in - 20 chance the Detroit area will experience more than 87 extremely hot days each year by the century's end.

At the same time, humidity will likely push the city toward as many as 23 days at HHSI Category III by the end of the century, with a 1 - in - 20 chance of more than 30 days per year at this level.

It has been described by both U.S. and Chinese officials as a chance for the U.S. to exchange views rather than a negotiation that would produce more tangible results.

As an investment, a drug that is in the discovery or pre-clinical stage is a very risky proposition, with less than a 1 % chance of getting to market (according to an industry report published in 2003 by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America).

By the New York Fed's calculation, this means there is less than a 5 % chance of a recession in the United States in the next 12 months.

These investors may accumulate long positions in a heavily shorted stock if they believe its chances of success are significantly higher than believed by those who are bearish on it.

Believers who are driven with a very stong sense of compassion are out there on mission trips.Believers are far more motivated to perform than those that are here by chance.

By creating a complementary currency to power commerce through the sharing of excess goods and services, Bagga and his team have given business owners a chance to create cash - free lines of capital for little more than their incremental cost of goods sold.

If humans were not designed by a higher authority, how can each individual's DNA be uniquely different among the human species, especially different than the other animals; how can the life sustaining elements be constantly available and exist in exact formulations: O, H, C etc. water is always 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen; sugar, fats, grains, and any bio-chemical products can be broken down to their simplest forms of elements, but can be re-constructed with specific (not by chance) formula.

While to someone immature like you, this may sound the same, but when you do grow up, get married and by some odd, but unlikely chance are able to stay married for more than 20 years, you will appreciate what Muhammad said a lot more than you do now as an immature inexperienced and I assume young person.

Lots of people cite statistics according 2 which many more people die of doctors» actions than of firearms by chance.

You can argue that the original organism had better eyesight than others of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to occur in the first place, and if there was a change in the first animal the interconnectedness of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the chance change — which by the way required the loss of genetic material — to have happened regardless of the amount of time you had.

The chances that your spirit for want of a better word will live on, is more likely going to be your the form of energy either in another dimension or with another life form from a distant planet who by most accounts from so many writings and drawings all across our earth has a higher probablity than some guy named jesus or his never caring ignorant father or a holly ghost (remember when that was the real name).

To believe that God created a mature universe and that everything was designed is actually easier to believe than to believe that everything just happened by chance, that matter just appeared from nothing and that present DNA was not designed.

Although it is controlled by men rather than «time and chance» it still shows how traits and mutations can be selectively enhanced.

Here's the Mormon logic behind baptisms for the dead: (1) Bible says you have to be baptised to get into heaven, (2) lots of people died without any chance to get baptised, (3) the Bible mentions baptism for the dead, which was practiced by early christians but isn't practised by anybody now (other than Mormons), and (4) God lvoes everybody but he is also truthful, so baptism for the dead reconciles the statement that everybody must be baptised with the unfair situation of not everyone being able to do so.

By which, my children likely know that I mean «you might want to rethink that thing you just said / did because this is not my first rodeo, child, and you know better than this so here is your chance to get it together.»