Sentences with phrase «than ideal as»

Privacy & Comfort: Many therapists rely on back - to - back appointment scheduling, which is less than ideal as clients may see other as they enter or exit the building.

Even though Aerolineas was slightly less expensive than LAN, my experience with them is less than ideal as they frequently experience delays and cancelled flights.

The Compass» barren interior and groaning CVT also make it less than ideal as a daily driver despite fuel economy reaching up to 30 mpg in some models.

The system has a bunch of meters and graphics that tell you all the ways in which your driving is less than ideal as far as fuel savings are concerned.

When you're really on it the downshifts can be a little slower than you require but the shift comes just in time, rather than leaving you a ratio higher than ideal as you roll off the brakes and back on the throttle.

My digital management methods are less than ideal as well (as in, I have no methods!)

The slow digesting process also makes it less than ideal as a source of protein for post-workout recovery.

This is a cool strategy, and one that can earn you a decent ROI, but there are a handful of disadvantages for SaaS companies that make it less than ideal as a long - term marketing solution:

Not exact matches

They were a couple years older than me when I was reading them, so I also kind of read them as a fantasy ideal of what high school would look like.

The situation was less than ideal; Corcoran described the listing as a «dungeon,» and was confronted with the challenge of trying to rent out the apartment space for $ 330 a month.

Wasson had long wanted to improve the retail part of Walgreens stores (two - thirds of sales came from the pharmacy), and he saw Boots, which did more than half its business in retail, as the ideal laboratory.

«However, we are still well below ideal levels as VCs are still investing at greater rates than they are exiting those investments.»

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett famously read books constantly, and I see them more as ideals than outliers.

Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.

However, it's better to shoot for the ideal withdrawal rate that touches no principal and fail than be too aggressive as there is no reverse button!

CPPI rebalancing must be used in tandem with rebalancing and portfolio optimization strategies as it fails to provide details on the frequency of rebalancing, and only indicates how much equity should be held within a portfolio rather than providing a holding breakdown of asset classes along with their ideal corridors.

As you pick out some of your less - than - ideal leads and customers and learn more about them, you'll identify common characteristics and habits that will help you shape your exclusionary personas.

Since I prefer to sell short stocks and ETFs as they are bouncing into resistance, rather than on their initial break of support, the stalling action of $ EEM as it bounces into resistance of its 50 - day moving average now presents me with an ideal, low - risk entry point on the short side (click here to learn more about my short selling entry strategy).

However, rather than view Facebook as the world's largest potential billboard, advertisers should consider Facebook as a way to get closer to their ideal customers than they ever thought possible.

As the only licensed producer applicant in British Columbia's renowned «Golden Mile», our 290 - acre facility in the South Okanagan Valley is celebrated for its ideal climate conditions, honoring this region's tradition of excellence and a family legacy that has grown here for more than 120 years.

On the downside however, the user interface is more complicated than some other wallets, especially for beginners, so it may not be the ideal choice as a desktop wallet when you're starting out.

In some past monetary arrangements, most notably that of Scotland before 1845, banks came very close to achieving this ideal, thanks to the their freedom to supply their customers with circulating paper banknotes as well as with deposits, and to the fact that between them these two substitutes could serve every purpose coins might serve, and do so more conveniently than coins themselves.

The latest projections call for a 23 % reduction of scheduled benefits, and while that's better than getting no money out of Social Security, it's also far from ideal — especially given the number of seniors who currently, or will one day, come to rely on those payments as a key source of income.

Anatoly Koval, the head of a government commission charged with easing the frictions among the more than seventy religious sects that have sprouted in Ukraine since the collapse of communism, sees the sarcophagus as an ideal compromise.

@ Others: As for «the source» — I prefer the multitude, rather than a strained notion of some one ideal ONE.

Whether or not there is a heaven, as reward, I would rather strive to a truly higher ideal, than live down to a common «social norm» that degrades us to mere animal status, living for our own pleasure and telling us that our more base desires are good, natural and should not be considered something to be overcome.

This book sounds like the ideal read for people with curious minds, I would love to receive that autographed copy, but I think maybe George Porter should have it as he does have a curiouser mind than I do.

The love that Browning describes isn't Christian love, exactly, but it strikes me as a lot closer to that ideal than the amor civicus:

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.

At this point my larger concern is less with that emergency pastoral group (because it sounds as if, as I would have initially suspected, several of the people involved were not guilty of anything other than trying to do their best in a less than ideal situation) than I am with the follow - up afterwards.

Its status as ideal rather than actual, however, hardly dampens Dante's enthusiasm for the concept.

1 regard the five - day week as an unworthy ideal... more work and better work is a more inspiring and worthier motto than less work and more pay.

You see this sort of language a lot in complementarian literature: «real men,» «real women,» «real marriage,» «hardwired,» «programmed,» «blueprint» — as if masculinity and femininity are rigid, set - in - stone ideals to which we must ascribe, rather than fluid expressions of our unique selves.

To the militant Zionists who come close to worshipping the state when it facilitates their goals, but abhor it when it compromises, R. Lichtenstein preached a theocentric ideal that recognizes the state as a means rather than an end.

If the concepts of relational power and aesthetic value are accepted as more adequate categories for understanding human experience than those arising from substance metaphysics, then we must obviously change our images of ideal personhood and ideal communities.

If you were born to a different portion of the world than you were, you'd have a different concept of God because you'd have been exposed to different ideals as a child.

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.

These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

Consequently, the system ideal, like the notion of personal identity sketched in (ii), is perhaps better viewed as a regulative principle guiding philosophical reflection than as a philosophical reality that we can appropriate and elucidate in the present.

It is curious that the early days of clinical pastoral education, which has done more than any other movement to foster the present knowledge and skill in pastoral care, actually relied only in part upon interviewing methods and yet made the interview image dominant as the ideal.

Thus, he concludes: «The sense of human languages and practices as the results of experimental self - creation rather than of an attempt to approximate to a fixed and ahistorical ideal..

For both Catholics and Protestants, architectural ideals have often been stated as vague principles rather than definitive guidelines.

Whitehead always accepted experience as more fundamental than ideal objects abstracted from it.3

And as Feyerabend insists, we can not rule Out in advance the search for new unifying models (such as David Bohm's postulation of sub-atomic causal mechanisms), even though previous attempts have not yielded any new theories in better agreement with the data than quantum theory.11 Coherence remains an important ideal and criterion in all reflective enquiry.

Instead of seeing moral obligations simply as individual and social ideals externally related to the factual order of life and physical reality, I began to see them as demands on human life no less intrinsically real than gravitation.

Furthermore, even when the Christian ideal of love is taken as normative, it is impossible to say that Christian love is «higher» than Buddhist love.

The Kingdom of God was seen more as a principle of judgment on every society than as a realizable ideal that could be identified with the salvation that Christians seek.

The United States is the country where, more than any other, the ideal of a religiously tolerant political order has been enshrined in a constitution, and interpreted by the judiciary, in such a way as to attempt a consistent separation between church and state.

If a woman (without a man for her) is intent about talking in the ekklesia, she will either be blessed in wisdom to soon discover her approach as less than ideal (so to help from her sisters), or she may depart along with her pride by feeling that she's not being heard.

I think keeping ideals in mind is very good to keep us humble and hungering for more, but the risk is that people then appoint themselves apostles and church planters to the body of christ global and defend their expression of church as touching on gods purpose more than anyone else.