Sentences with phrase «than literature in»

Friends Diane (Diane Keaton, left), Sharon (Candice Bergen), Vivian (Jane Fonda) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) talk about more than literature in «Book Club.»

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Estimates for the effect of minimum wage are generally stronger than those in the U.S., and as Morley Gunderson notes in his 2005 survey of the literature:

The results suggest that the tax elasticity of retail activity may be larger than found so far in the literature.

At MaRS, we believe this approach makes more sense than the more comprehensive plans typically described in management literature.

An extensive literature in economics and finance has documented «home bias,» the tendency that transactions are more likely to occur between parties in the same country or state, rather than outside.

The leftover cash is typically used for college living expenses, but some wily students think that investing in Ethereum or Ripple may be a better investment than a bachelor's degree in comparative English literature.

In contrast, a long - standing research stream in brainstorming (psychology) literature has repeatedly found that people working in groups are actually less creative than the same number of individuals working separatelIn contrast, a long - standing research stream in brainstorming (psychology) literature has repeatedly found that people working in groups are actually less creative than the same number of individuals working separatelin brainstorming (psychology) literature has repeatedly found that people working in groups are actually less creative than the same number of individuals working separatelin groups are actually less creative than the same number of individuals working separately.

Shares in China Literature — the country's biggest player in the business, comparable to Amazon's Kindle Store — shot up more than 60 percent on their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange last week, after raising $ 1.1 billion in an IPO.

The evidence for the importance of board diversity is somewhat stronger than the evidence recommending board sizes of five or greater, in large part because there is a significant body of literature indicating that team diversity generally improves performance.

For example, François's new right - wing colleague, Godefroy Lempereur, introduces him to a nativist literature heavy on demographic studies purporting to show that «belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics.

• Kalidasa, Śakuntala (Abhijñānaśākuntalam): As Kalidasa was «Sanskrit's Shakespeare» (though older than the Bard by around a millennium), and as this is his masterpiece, and as it was the German translation of this play that first inspired in Goethe the concept of «world literature,» one really should read it at least once.

I mean, it's okay & even lovely in a few passages, but not more so than other poetry & literature.

But it is always more than composition; it always requires a substantial amount of reading in English and American literature.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

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.

This vision of childhood, in which the role of parents is to trust children and the role of children is to keep that trust, to be honest and good and, above all, not duffers, is to me a purer, sweeter, and infinitely more potent vision than any other a child is likely to encounter in literature.

«In general,» says Dr. John Peters, «throughout the later literature the exclusive idea rather than the ethical idea is prominent.»

The Reformation, as Butler shows in his review of the literature, countered that heretical «supernaturalism» to less effect than Protestants liked to claim.

Assertions that heterosexual couples are inherently better parents than same sex couples, or that the children of lesbian or gay parents fare worse than children of heterosexual parents, have no support in the scientific research literature.

The fourth theme in the literature comes from philosophy and theology rather than from education.

North American publishers other than Orbis, Fortress and Eerdmans are showing little interest in the avalanche of theological literature that has been produced in Latin America — because it has a limited market.

Although it has become part of the conventional wisdom in much of contemporary anti-colonialist literature, both Eastern and Western, it is an oversimplification to dismiss the missions as nothing more than a cloak for white imperialism.

On the basis of my working with poor people over many years and of my study of the relevant literature, I believe that «consumption» is a better indicator of poverty than «income,» much of which is unreported, and undetectable except as evidenced in consumption.

In contrast, much of what is said in sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they havIn contrast, much of what is said in sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they havin sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they havin Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they havin the families they have.

Nothing Paul wrote shows his great gifts as a pastor more clearly than these letters, and his words on spiritual gifts in I Corinthians 12 and 13 and his ode to immortality in I Corinthians 15 are among the finest things in all literature.

When Christian diet literature underwent its initial boom in the 1970s, Charlie Shedd again led the way: his 1972 book The Fat Is in Your Head remained on the national religious best - seller list for 23 months and sold more than 110,000 copies by 1976.

Despite its considerable currency, the idea of religion as sacred canopy seems not to have been grasped in more than a superficial way in much of the literature.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

Step literature is filled with this: You DO NOT have to believe in God, just something greater than yourself (the group, nature, common good, ethics, etc.).

In reading great literature, as in worship, the participant - reader becomes a thousand men and yet remains himself while transcending himself, and never more himself than when he doeIn reading great literature, as in worship, the participant - reader becomes a thousand men and yet remains himself while transcending himself, and never more himself than when he doein worship, the participant - reader becomes a thousand men and yet remains himself while transcending himself, and never more himself than when he does.

But it is in order to ask whether there is not an imperative in every age for the production of «sacred» literature which will express — possibly better than the ancient writings — the deepest religious insights and experiences of civilization.

That several books or bodies of literature of crucial importance for theology appeared in close proximity to one another still impresses me as coincidental or providential rather than subject to a single sociological explanation.

Here, and in other egalitarian literature, principle is given priority over application; admonition is given preference over description.34 What is dangerous in such a procedure, though it admittedly works in many cases, is the implied epistemological claim that objective, impersonal statements are of a somehow higher order of trustworthiness than the more personal and relational aspects of Scripture.

Literature itself (no less than religion) is, in this view, an ideology, with the most intimate relations to social power.

He would be the Caesar of a Jewish empire no less universal than the Roman; though it would be fair to say that the program drawn up for the «Son of David» in literature not far in date from the time of Jesus has more about justice and moral reformation than about bread and circuses.

His influence was felt in both contemporary criticism and creative literature, but his presence was there more often «in the nuances of stress and intonation than in the form of documented reference.

We see the same sort of symbiosis in postmodern literature, which makes precursor texts a part of itself rather than rejecting them.

In the end, he would contribute more than 20 books and 200 articles to the academic literature.

It is likely that not all four gospel accounts fit in the same way the requirements needed for a Greco - Roman biography (Luke, for instance, is more Hellenistic than Matthew, and John can not be understood without the Jewish Second Temple literature).

Scientific naturalists who take this line sometimes add that they do not necessarily object to the study of creationism in the public schools, provided it occurs in literature and social science classes rather than in science class.

He pervades the Gospels much more than in other literature of the...

Indeed, as far as I can see, literature does little other than inculcate in our future leaders a sympathy for the downtrodden, the oppressed, the marginalized.

Real literature, including the Bible, rather than just the latest thing, could nurture them in much more useful ways.

Here she encountered pressure to choose: the literary classicists understood their task to be «philological and to some extent aesthetic» rather than philosophical, while the ethical theories she encountered in studying philosophy were in different ways and for different reasons «hostile to literature.»

And one searches far to find in any literature a more moving passage than his plea to the wronged brother whom he does not recognize.

In the twentieth century, though we are more biblically illiterate than in any previous day, the Bible still makes its impact upon our literaturIn the twentieth century, though we are more biblically illiterate than in any previous day, the Bible still makes its impact upon our literaturin any previous day, the Bible still makes its impact upon our literature.

No literature of any people reflects a keener concern for social righteousness than is found in the writings of Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, and Micah, and in a different setting in Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

Nowhere in literature has the intoxicant been more lyrically described and exalted than in this ninth book.

At least Jesus is thought to have existed without any evidence whatsoever other than literature that has so much excluded and content that has been lost in translation that it's almost impossible to be a genuine Christian because no matter what you are ignorant to so many other facts... assuming everything is true.

In Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Barbara Christian points out that «a persistent and major theme throughout Afro - America women's literature [is] our attempt to define and express our totality rather than being defined by others.»