Sentences with phrase «than my attempts at»

fcs25 This article is not a joke and rather than an attempt at humor in the way God speaks to his children, it lays out the many ways God uses to speak to us.

In reality, the bible serves as a better ethical guide to life than an attempt at getting people to believe in a hearsay Godand his son.

This allows for grace and mercy to speak louder than our attempts at fixing and silverlining.

Moreover, it must be remembered that the Gospels are the records of early Christian preaching and teaching rather than attempts at objective historical narrative and are thus more immediately valuable as sources for the faith of the primitive church than for the biography of Jesus.

If just scoring points was the goal, then there ya go they kick that one to appease you, but the goal was to win the game and those 3 points at the 3 yard line were worth much less than the attempt at getting 7 (or 6 or 8).

Feigning surprise and seeking to blame the Seneca Nation for understanding and following the Compact to the letter is nothing more than an attempt at distraction from the truth,» he said.

Why, only last week Assembly Speaker - since - January Carl Heastie let it be known than any attempt at expansion of open - meetings laws would not include his house of the legislature.

Meyers is in her element when the movie plays like classic narrative cinema, unafraid to go for the corny sentiment that she does with more conviction than the attempts at zeitgeist comedy.

If it's a conglomeration of Raymond Carver stories reworked into a three - hour movie, then the joining of the stories is probably more as a way of tying things together to economize characters, rather than an attempt at a common thematic goal.

Such efforts may feel like small ball to a president for whom «huge» denotes high praise, but over the long haul they are likely to accomplish more than any attempts at sweeping measures.

This set of comparison pics showing the Kindle and iPad displays at high magnification is really more the result of curiosity than an attempt at making a point.

I haven't been a regular flyer with United for over a decade so the headline to this post is actually a genuine question rather than an attempt at hyperbole.

The exhibition of 20 works, held in SAF Art Spaces with its intimate courtyard, is more an introduction to a new audience than an attempt at a retrospective and concentrates on his tapestries and sculptures.

In this debate, I suspect inductive learning will be better than attempts at deductive learning.

This works infinitely better than any attempt at medical treatment.

When claims are made that are of no real consequence (moot), it's nothing more than an attempt at a spin!

Not exact matches

While few career paths, or should I say titles, are as desired than that of an entrepreneur, often people turn to freelancing for their first attempt at being in charge of their own destiny.

Startup founders aren't especially worried, though, because they see the law as a nod to change rather than a realistic attempt at reform.

The Daily, an abortive attempt at a tablet newspaper launched by News Corp. in 2011 (at an estimated cost of more than $ 60 million) was updated several times a day.

A source familiar with the White House emails on the Benghazi talking point revisions say that State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland was raising two concerns about the CIA's first version of talking points, which were going to be sent to Congress: 1) The talking points went further than what she was allowed to say about the attack during her state department briefings; and, 2) she believed the CIA was attempting to exonerate itself at the State Department's expense by suggesting CIA warnings about the security situation were ignored.

In addition to the aforementioned tanks of yeast, the tie is a good vehicle for casually referencing scientists» previous failed attempts at mass producing spider silk (a valuable material that is tougher than regular silk and can be machine washed.)

Bitcoin has slumped more than 20 % this week amid increased regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Japan, an attempted theft at one of the biggest trading venues, and news that the bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox has started selling the now - defunct exchange's holdings to repay creditors.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

Independent security researcher Harri Hursti said past attempts at tokenization have encountered exceptions that make the idea of disposable, proxy account numbers much more complex than it may seem at first glance.

Turkish forces have reportedly killed more than a hundred civilians, mutilated US - backed SDF fighters, and even indiscriminately shot at displaced civilians attempting to flee into Turkey.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

Like DirectTV - Dish at one point attempted to merge and those two competitors would have raised a whole different set of issues than this would.

Kwak notes that Obamacare is a market - oriented approach to universal healthcare, and is ideologically far more conservative than Bill Clinton's 1993 attempt at healthcare reform.

Mr Baumgartner, whose Red Bull Stratos mission was watched by more than seven million people around the world, also took aim at Sir Richard Branson after the Virgin boss hinted that his company could attempt to break the Austrian's record.

After more failed attempts than I would like to admit at the perfect hard - boiled egg, I discovered this little beauty — perfect every time and you never end up with egg on your face... or your desk.

His early attempts at building an aerospace business saw him dealing with less than enthused Russian entities that refused to sell him any rockets.

Our generation would rather have dared than not attempted at all.

At some price you will attempt to manage market risk rather than name specific risk.

That said, some tasks felt sluggish, especially if I attempted more than a few at a time.

But companies have to make more than halfhearted attempts at collaboration: Instead, they're realizing only half of the value of collaboration by creating better ways to discuss ideas, but putting fewer of them in place.

In recent years, other regulatory attempts at strengthening online privacy rules have also had little effect at chipping away at the power of the largest tech companies, ultimately aiding internet giants rather than hurting them.

As the U.S. takes aim at Canada's dairy sector as it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decade.

This set of more than 5,000 cases was used to train the machine to identify those at risk of attempted suicide compared to those who committed self - harm but showed no evidence of suicidal intent.

Then, in this technical trading commentary published one day later, we stressed why the most profitable swing traders are those who learn to merely react to the market's price action that is presented to them at any give time, rather than those who attempt to predict the direction of the next move.

Clocking in at more than 200 pages, the Liberals» latest attempt at democratic reform might be a case of too much too late.

A decline much more than 2 % below that average could provoke coordinated exit attempts by trend - followers, at valuations nowhere near the point where value - conscious investors would be eager to absorb those shares.»

The company, which at one point owned more than 60 percent of Activision, was attempting to squeeze cash out of the company any way it could.

«I do know that when I am sixty, I should be attempting to achieve different personals goals than those which had priority at twenty.»

In addition, large families will usually be frustrated in their attempts to find more than two or three award seats available at the lowest mileage levels.

Arguing that OPEC «has not failed at all» in its attempt to drive oil prices up, Oreshkin said that the price of oil is now much higher than it was this time last year, before the cartel and 11 non-OPEC producers led by Russia struck the initial output cut deal.

This means they are constantly buying and selling stocks to attempt to time the market and capture gains, studies suggest that they fail at this miserably over time and lose more than just keeping the funds in a passive account which is periodically re balanced.

It's possible that if the company gets too undervalued, a buyer might make a bid for the company and attempt to take it over, sometimes at a price lower than your original purchase price per share.

An attempt at creative camera work turned into a rescue effort rather than the inventive imagery the photographer had hoped for, fire officials said.

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.

Just look at Bank of America, which faced more than $ 60 billion in settlements tied to its mortgage practices following the Great Recession, and attempted to charge debit cardholders a monthly fee in 2011.