Sentences with phrase «than helpful in»

He was more than helpful in guiding me through any documentation I didn't understand.
Indeed, Samsung wants to guide the users more than ever without the pesky dialog boxes that used to appear out of nowhere and incessantly, which was more annoying than helpful in the past.
The partners at my firm are more than helpful in response to my questions.
I also found that both elected and appointed (staff) people in state legislatures and congressional offices were more than helpful in teaching me the ropes and e had some successes.
The owner was more than helpful in sharing his family's secret hideouts, including private beaches and hidden natural caves filled with bats.
To the contrary, both of those agencies at the time were, to be kind, less than helpful in achieving Austin's no - kill aspirations.
in young dogs) is more damaging than helpful in the long - run, but also gives recommendations as to the treatment using safe, gentle home remedies.
According to the forum thread, Asus representatives have been less than helpful in diagnosing the problem so far, telling at least one individual to turn on Wi - Fi to assist the GPS reading, but the company has indirectly acknowledged the issue by removing «GPS» from the Transformer Prime specifications page at its US website.
They were more than helpful in making my book an Amazon # 1 Best Seller.
Add in the increasingly polarized nature of politics at the federal level, the general disdain Hillary has long had for Obama, and the failure of the current administration to build a strong political base for Democrats at the state level, and Hillary, being the political animal she is, likely sees embracing reform as more nuisance than helpful in building her political legacy.
So no, your circular, self - serving logic is less than helpful in addressing the activities that are the subject of this article.
One point that Burtchaell did not make (and is perhaps ignorant of) is that some schools still associated with a denomination find that link to be harmful rather than helpful in the struggle to maintain biblical fidelity.

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The biggest change to the Mac's operating system in the last few years was the integration of the Siri virtual assistant — which is still less helpful than Microsoft's own Cortana.
So, in a sense, they might be even more motivated to be helpful than a traditional VC.
I've read a couple from this list and countless books on business strategy and planning in my time but none more helpful than The Institute Way.
One of the most helpful resources for your future career is someone in your industry with more experience than you.
In short, you as the boss might just want to be helpful and supportive by offering up these best practices, but nearly half the time your employees feel they know how to do their jobs better than you and feel held back by your dictates.
In a time when Americans are working more than ever before and taking less time off, it's helpful to see how the U.S. arrived at its «standard» workday.
In a startup, you eventually learn that a quick and honest rejection is a lot more helpful in the long run than a grudging or half - hearted favor that ultimately does neither party any gooIn a startup, you eventually learn that a quick and honest rejection is a lot more helpful in the long run than a grudging or half - hearted favor that ultimately does neither party any gooin the long run than a grudging or half - hearted favor that ultimately does neither party any good.
If they actively opt in, people will tend to see this sort of monitoring as a helpful health intervention rather than creepy, Big Brother - style monitoring, Merchant predicts.
Rather than implementing prohibitive rules that make for distracted and unhappy employees, it's far better to prepare some sensible guidelines for your company to cope with the relationships that will inevitably arise, and in a manner that is helpful to everyone, from the couple's managers to their colleagues.
«This rule is more harmful than helpful,» said David Hirschmann, the head of the Chamber's Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, in a statement.
The underlying motive might be to boost their own ego, but because their self - worth is so wrapped up in their idea of themselves as saint - like this actually produces helpful rather than harmful behavior.
While it can be helpful to be able to have your parents borrow on your behalf, keep in mind that interest rates on PLUS loans are higher than on subsidized and unsubsidized federal direct student loans, and also carry a one - time loan fee of nearly 4.3 percent.
You just need to ask the right questions to the right people, and present that information in a helpful way so the people in your business can get to know your persona (s) better than the backs of their hands.
In reflection, this book is even more helpful, to more people, than it even gives itself credit for.
To summarize, native advertising doesn't disrupt the user experience and offers helpful information in a format similar to the other content on the site so users engage with it more than they would with, say, a banner ad.
For some, this might be an argument in favor of going online, however, there are sometimes situations when speaking with an actual person is more helpful than trying to get your home loan over the Internet.
If your company is in the early stages, it's especially helpful — this money is much better for your finances than new lines of credit, so reinvesting not only gives the company a cash injection, but it also saves it money in terms of interest in the future.
Some investors are luckier than others based on when they're born while others are forced to invest in markets environments that aren't very helpful.
If Spotify, last valued at more than $ 20 billion in private secondary transactions, falls sharply below that valuation, it probably won't look like such a helpful roadmap to follow.
There's nothing more helpful to me than to read a blog post that teaches a new concept and then to jump over to YouTube and see that concept in action.
Each of these can cause us to be more critical than normal and often manifest as false critique in the form of «Church would be better if...» The problem with better is that it is too subjective to be a helpful aspiration in this context.
These excerpts are most illuminating, but the reader sometimes feels that more detailed commentaries than the editors / translators provide in their short notes would be helpful.
Obviously, such groups can be less - than - helpful when they divide everyone up by age group and marital status, but I've also seen them represent what is most powerful about church as members become deeply invested in one another's lives.
More than half of the general public think using the word «extreme» isn't helpful in social and political discussion, according to a new study.
I should say that in public conversation today I do not think the word «myth» is usable, and it was probably less than helpful fifty years ago.
It will be helpful to the minister to acquaint himself with a more comprehensive discussion of the medical and psychological therapies than is presented in this volume.
(It is because of specific difficulty attached to learning how to use the moral expressions of a language that we find novels more helpful than explicit ethical reflection in teaching us how to live morally.)
Since there is no indigenous image of the ministry as reconciling, and since reconciliation suggests a process rather than a conclusion, contemporary models from group dynamics and marriage counseling are helpful in initiating and managing the process, particularly when reconciliation is not possible if both love and justice are to be served.
We appropriately celebrate rather than deny the presence of potentially helpful ideas in other religions, whether those ideas are confirmations of truths already contained in Christianity, or whether they offer something new and heretofore unrecognized by Christianity.
In my view, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content material as you did, the internet might be a lot more helpful than ever before.
This is helpful to some extent (although I would take exception to the dichotomy implied in his Third Rule - «State problems and solve them in terms of time rather than of space, «31), but Deleuze does not seek to integrate or interrelate the principles systematically.
But even if we could, such rudimentary indicators would still not speak to motive (my first point) so wouldn't ultimately be that helpful anyways in any attempt to prove who may be better (or act better) than others.
(I find this exercise helpful when I am investing excessive energy in a part of my body that is giving me trouble — for example, «I have teeth and they are causing me discomfort at this moment, but I am more than my teeth.»)
For example, students for the priesthood who could be expected in due course to engage in a more profound analysis of many, if not all, of the «ages» would find Fr Vidmar to be a helpful guide at little more than a few sittings.
What I have learned is about nurturing true self in order to be free to encounter love for God and others as yourself and escaping the clutches of a false sense of self from social influences and less than helpful personal choices.
Even though some questions can indeed, and perhaps should, be answered with a clear yes or no, in the field of ethics one comes across gray areas where clear - cut answers are less than helpful.
Rather than narrowing the focus of inquiry and polarizing discussion, a more appropriate and helpful function would be bringing to bear on a situation the sum total of perspectives, disciplines and facilities in order to form an adequate understanding of the options which can lead to solutions.
The label «unfree» rather than «poor» is far more helpful in defining what needs to change.
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