Sentences with phrase «than clear about»

«I was less than clear about my meaning» is all I can get from you being utterly off base and in an elementary fashion.

There are one or two points of Calvinism which John Calvin is less than clear about in his writings.

The Court was less than clear about the precise contours of the «high duty» it imposed on other government officials.

Not exact matches

All companies, and especially small firms, must be clear about more than just their budget before they can start designing their offices, says Richard Shugar, the principal and owner of 2fORM, an architecture firm based in Oregon.

But I want to be clear about what our priority is: protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits.

Studies show that writing down your goals, making clear action steps and sharing those goals with supporters makes it 78 percent more likely that you'll achieve a goal than simply thinking about it.

Often as we get older we get a little clearer about what we don't want in our life, perhaps more clear than we are about the things we do want.

Many of us get about an hour to an hour and a half less sleep per night than we need... Naps of 90 to 120 minutes usually comprise all stages, including REM and deep slow - wave sleep, which helps to clear your mind, improve memory recall, and recoup lost sleep....

Spearheaded by more than two dozen lenders and small business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand terms.

In the past, Facebook has been less than clear - cut when it comes to keeping their customers informed about data management.

Start to act like an entrepreneur — someone who is clear about what product they provide, who their clients are, what their time is worth, how their product is better than the competition, who the competition is, what makes them competition.

And, as was made clear at the recent Starbucks Annual Meeting extravaganza in Seattle, nobody is more excited about community service and helping others than Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

«It was clear to me,» Knight says «that to see name athletes wearing Nike shoes was more convincing than anything we could say about them.»

By attacking thousands of troops, @realDonaldTrump makes clear that he cares more about extreme ideology than military readiness.

It also becomes clear that Pete and Trudy and Ken and Harry and Jennifer know and think a lot more about Betty than she thinks about them.

The research for this one is less clear cut, but if you're facing a potentially tough negotiation or other situation where you need to keep your wits about you, spot lies, and counter manipulation, stony - faced determination is probably better than smiles.

«If the answers show a consistent theme of talking about BS factors rather than a clear line toward being able to do interesting work related to their field, it's hard to project them as passionate in their field,» cautions Dunn.

«We're looking for opportunities to do more, and there will be boots on the ground — I want to be clear about that — but it's a strategic question, whether you are enabling local forces to take and hold, rather than trying to substitute for them.»

Earlier in the day, Phelps's close friend, training partner and fellow U.S. co-captain Allison Schmitt had talked about how she had never seen a happier smile on Phelps than after his 200 - butterfly win on Tuesday night — but made clear that he was as intensely focused as ever.

«I want to be clear about what our priority is: Protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits.»

Now, more than ever before, it's clear that any of us with a Facebook profile has surrendered an unknowable quantity of information about our lives, our interests, our locations, our aspirations — and about our friends, our friends» interests, our friends» locations, and our friends» aspirations.

Makes it a lot clearer than just reading about abstract concepts.

Winterberg says advisors have to offer an equivalent robo - advisor service but also make clear that they do much more than just «turnkey asset management and stock selection... This week of all weeks they should be saying that to clients, how they create financial plans and go beyond just investments but talk about cash flow, taxes, estate plans and college planning.

Near the close of his written testimony, Zuckerberg writes: «I want to be clear about what our priority is: protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits.»

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

In such situations, you can not give views about the direction of policy — you can not say more than you honestly believe — and that will often disappoint people looking for a clear guide to future action.

Early on, we had some indication that she would be highly emphasizing the plight of the underemployed, for example, and also there were some chances she would think about approaching the inflation target from above rather than below, essentially delaying rates until it was clear that inflation was above target.

I think they're actually between a rock and a hard place and at some point they're going to have to implement replay protection and then it's going to be clear that it's a contentious hard floor and we're actually talking about an alt coin rather than an upgrade to bitcoin.

Going back to our example at the beginning of this article, someone who types in «men's Nike tennis shoes» has a much clearer idea about what they're looking for than someone who types in «men's shoes».

The Fed subsequently changed its tone and gave its clearest sign yet that it might raise rates in December, but investors seemed to have become relatively more relaxed about the prospect of higher US rates than they were throughout the middle part of this year.

The message to home buyers is clear: You might want to think about buying sooner, rather than later.

They were slippery, cunning, and didn't care at all about the shareholders (it wasn't even clear they knew any shareholders other than themselves).

Nobody should be shocked by what Mueller has said about building links, but they should also be careful not to read any more into this than is already clear from Google's webmaster guidelines.

Considering that Canadian MSMEs represent the vast majority of businesses in Canada, employing more than 7.5 million Canadians — about 70 per cent of Canada's private sector labour force — it becomes clear how critically important they are to the growth of the Canadian economy.

Yandex disclosed more about what the rules are and how they are enforced (F3) than actual data about the content or accounts the company restricted for violating its own rules (F4), and did not make clear whether it notifies users when content or their accounts have been restricted (F8).

Kraken's CEO pointed out the short turnaround time requested by the Attorney General's office, and the public nature of the request, making it clear that the Attorney General's request is more of a public relations campaign directed towards cryptocurrency exchanges rather than an honest attempt at getting information about the companies» operations.

Let's be clear about this: Musk has no statistical grounds to state categorically that autonomous systems are safer than human - driven vehicles.

From what I have said about the Bank's approach, it should be clear that any differences between our judgments and the markets» judgments can occur not only because our inflation forecasts might differ, but also because our basic objectives are much broader than the markets», and our horizons are much longer.

Gelernter is not altogether clear about this, but as elite universities become elite - making rather than elite - serving, the intellectual life itself becomes part of the elite kit in a way it wasn't in the past.

To be clear, you explained why this happens (although I dispute your comments about females becoming «ripe» — «But understand that females at hotter areas become ripe at earlier age and if body was built well enough and had her monthly period coming early age than she is ready minimum 9 years old...»), but I'm more interested in whether or not it is accepted legally, morally or according to islam.

It's clear that rather than read a history of the movement you pretend to be an expert about, you would have us spinning in circles for another generation because you are too uninformed, too inexperienced in life, to learn about the history of your own accord.

On the reading I propose, the Reformation schism was brought about instead by contingent human choices in a confused historical context defined less by clear and principled theological argument (though that of course was present) than by a peculiar and distinctively sixteenth - century combination of overheated and ever - escalating polemics, cold - blooded Realpolitik, and fervid apocalyptic dreaming.

Nothing could be simpler or clearer than Jesus» promises about prayer in the Bible.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

It was clear that their paper was substantial and reflected far more than how they felt about nuclear war after eating breakfast one morning.

In this instance we may be clearer about the meaning and the consequences than about the «facts» in themselves, but this would be true of other momentous events in history.

What about the fact that there were «more important lines of differentiation within any of the recognized Protestant denominations than between them,» as the then - current fundamentalist - modernist struggles made all too vividly clear.

Not to mention, this entire post is one long and contra - biblical argument that you / we shouldn't argue about theology, without ever setting forth clear and logical propositions that NOT arguing (again, fill in whatever verb you're more comfortable with, the result is the same) theology honors God more than standing in the gap and defending the truth he has set forth once and for all.

The reason they are mnot saved is because of lawlessness rather than being obedience to Gods word they believed in Jesus Christ but because of there hearts did not walk according to the word and because it speaks of signs and wonders it seems more about them and the works that they did.Of course none of us are saved by works.How do you understand that passage as some are saved and some are not it seems clear that to be saved we must believe and also walk in obedience to Gods word.brentnz A Tree and its Fruit mat 7: 2Many will say to Me on that day, «Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?»

It is difficult to be very specific or clear about this, for it is a suggestion that raises enormously complex problems; but it is possible in some cases that the facilities relevantly associated with particular conceptual competencies are musical, painterly, graphic, or mutely behavioral facilities rather than verbal facility.