Sentences with phrase «than functioning as»

Climate studies seems to encompass a very wide ranges of scientific disciplines but the field of computing seems more to do with the gathering and manipulation of data rather than functioning as a separate discipline in itself.

Madison has a continued interest in artwork's self - sufficiency: rather than functioning as an inert image the work becomes an event that is impossible without the viewers» collaboration.

First, it is embedded inside the Diocese of Memphis rather than functioning as a separate 501 (c)(3).

He's much stronger in Spielberg's A.I., in which emotional ambiguity serves the story rather than functioning as a smokescreen.

The show seeks to explore the breadth and heterogeneity of this noble color rather than function as a kind of essentialism or distillation.

With the emphasis on creating an intensive working situation in which workshop leaders produce art alongside other participants rather than function as teachers in the traditional art school sense, the Emma Lake Artists» Workshop became the model for a number of other workshops.

Not exact matches

More than two - thirds of chief marketing officers don't think the role gets the same respect as other executive functions.

The ATF defines a machine gun as «any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.»

But as political scientist Francis Fukuyama has shown in his research on how democracies function, it's often much more important to pay attention to bureaucrats than politicians when evaluating how well governments function.

As ever, the causes of the cryptocurrency's fortunes are less than clear, but some experts reckon it might have something to do with the approach of April 17, the deadline for filing taxes in the U.S. Others think it's a function of geopolitical fears and sanctions.

While it is important to function as a non-profit in legal terms, the most successful charities are well - run organizations, no different than for - profit companies but with a different business objective.

More than an engrossing collection of historical true - crime stories, though, the book functions as an unlikely financial history of the young United States, as it grew «from a patchwork of largely self - governing colonies to a loosely assembled union of states and, finally, to a single nation under firm federal control.»

These numbers function as limits — as in, most adults simply can't juggle more than five super close relationships at once.

How do we go about changing ourselves so we can have a fully empowered, fully integrated, and committed workforce, sowe all function as a team rather than «us versus them»?»

Many people pointed out that Roku has a powerful multi-service search function (the company claims to include more than 100 providers) while others highlighted useful third - party search options such as reelworld.com and canistream.it

Also called strong AI, it has full cognitive abilities to function as well (or even better) than a human mind.

They act as if they are still operating in an environment where the function of a physical store is to drive transactions, rather than to provide an immersive physical experience, build personal relationships and upsell.

The Army functions this way so that it can work as a team — when you are loyal to those around you and those you serve under, you think in terms of the plural rather than the singular.

Business blogs are often measured by very different metrics than blogs that function as media outlets.

Very different than my double edge razors, probably closest in function to my TTO, where the head and handle of the razor remain attached in order to change the blade (the handle does twist off if needed), however it seems as though changing this blade would be a bit more cumbersome than with a TTO.

Users seeking to remain truly anonymous have already jumped from exchanges like Coinbase to peer - to - peer services, such as Localbitcoins, that require little more than a functioning email to register and use their site.

The main function of those foreign workers is to expand foreign sales rather than to cut costs by replacing U.S. jobs, but some of the output produced abroad is in the form of intermediate goods that are imported into the U.S. and show up as part of our «final output.»

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

The product of SegWit2x's cancellation, BCH, which functions more like a business than a decentralized network and even has a CEO, seized the opportunity to increase its standing as a major opponent to Bitcoin itself.

Third and finally, the traditional story misses the real function of private banks, which is to solve an information problem in the purest Hayekian senses. That is, banks are or should be specialists in risk assessment and risk taking. They should know their client, understand the local market and have their pulse on the broad economy. Arguably, if properly structured, they can and should do this better than other entities such as governments. In other words, the proper role of banks should be underwriting — lend money, hold the debt, and bear the risk. Which is a long - winded way of getting to the main point of this post.

This was largely a function of the coincidence of high real interest rates and high asset price inflation over much of the period — more so, perhaps, than the exercise of exceptional investment skills as such.

I like the idea of it functioning more as an assistant than completely automated.

Even as other corporate functions — logistics, sales - force management — were being given the «moneyball» treatment in the early 2000s with powerful predictive software (and even as airlines had fully weaponized airfares), retail pricing remained more art than science.

The company functions more or less as a broker and if we consider it to be one than NADEX is at the moment the only regulated broker operating in the US.

As a simple function of the PageRank algorithm, pages that are linked directly are given more authority than indirect links, such as links to a site's homepagAs a simple function of the PageRank algorithm, pages that are linked directly are given more authority than indirect links, such as links to a site's homepagas links to a site's homepage.

This is a truly absurd amount that totally defies reality and any binary options broker that traded with such a user would find themselves insolvent within a matter of weeks (remember that in binary options the broker functions more as the house in a casino rather than a true broker and that a customer's gain is their loss).

In October 2011, Litecoin was released and became the first successful cryptocurrency to use scrypt as its hash function rather than SHA - 256.

In this manner, bitcoins are functioning more like the limited quantity of shares made available in an initial public offering (IPO) than as a unit of currency like the US dollar, the total number of which varies constantly.

The reason for Australia's third - ranking iron ore miner traditionally being seen more as prey than predator is a function of its once sky - high debt levels, uncertainty about its ore grade, and a belief that at some point Forrest would be tempted to cash out of the company he created.

With the decrease in infant and childhood mortality and the extension of life expectancy by modern medical technology; perhaps the unitive function of genital sexuality will begin to be valued as much as or more than the procreative function.

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

I have had to function as an individual rather than being a part of a community that will take care of me when I need help.»

For, while Hartshorne allowed for the reality of structured societies and only specified that their unity as compound individuals was effected through the presence and activity of a dominant personally ordered subsociety, Ford equivalently wants to eliminate the reality of structured societies altogether, at least insofar as they function as compound individuals rather than as simple aggregates of occasions.

Marriages were typically based on economic considerations, not love, with wives holding a higher position than slaves in the household, but still functioning in many ways as the property of their husbands, who could do with them as they willed.

In the New Testament, besides Jesus, only John the Baptist is praised as much as Mary, yet in spite of her scriptural credentials she has functioned less in my Protestant theology than has John — and certainly less than the Old Testament prophets and such remarkable Old Testament women as Miriam and Deborah.

I know plenty of people who would describe my marriage with Dan as «unbiblical» because it functions as a partnership rather than a hierarchy, with our roles determined by gifting rather than gender.

Many Americans view the United Nations as a threat to our sovereignty even though, in fact, it has functioned more as an instrument of United States» foreign policy than as a challenge to our power.

Let others, fulfilling a function more august than mine, proclaim your splendours as pure Spirit; as for me, dominated as I am by a vocation which springs from the inmost fibres of my being, I have no desire, I have no ability, to proclaim anything except the innumerable prolongations of your incarnate Being in the world of matter; I can preach only the mystery of your flesh, you the Soul shining forth though all that surrounds us.

I would like to see elders perform more of a regional oversight function, than seeing them as absolutely necessary for each individual gathering of believers.

Re ``... the sacraments as objective acts of God which function ex opere operato, rather than just subjective acts of humanity which yearn for, invoke and somehow evoke the divine.

Missionaries were heroic figures in our eyes, and, unlike today, when they often function as little more than ecclesiastical social workers, their animating purpose was to win souls for Christ.

How can we believe at all against the fact that historically our religion has functioned as an opiate for the oppressed and that it is, as a cultural phenomenon, neither appreciably better nor essentially worse than any other religion?

Yet the decisiveness of the act is partially a function of God's activity, which is in one sense different here than in other places, for the particular ideal aim given here is such as to give particularly apt expression to his being.

As for your «righteous» ruler... well, if you think the function of the President is to «rule», you're even more of a lost cause than anyone had imagined.

Apparently, the inclusive family ethic articulated in mainline congregations functions more as an identity marker than as a guide to congregational practice.