Sentences with phrase «than nothing though»

It's better than nothing though.

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There's nothing special about NYU in this regard, though they claim more «greenness» than more purely commercial places I've worked.

Eighty - two percent of participants said that they would do the word puzzle only if they'd receive more money than those doing nothing — even though the puzzle would be a more fulfilling use of time.

You may think your solution would feel like an organ transplant to the client when they feel as though their problem is nothing more than a hang nail.

It's becoming clear, though, that whatever compromise emerges from Congress, it will be a short - term fix, nothing more than a bit of breathing room for lawmakers to hatch out a better agreement on spending and tax reforms.

Especially if the drug cost 3,000 % more than it did a decade ago, even though nothing about it had materially changed in that time (or for that matter since its creation in the 1950s).

Though it's easy to suspect shortages are nothing more than cynical manipulations by corporations, it's also lost revenue.

In his famous book, «The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,» Keynes writes, «a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation, whether moral or hedonistic or economic... if the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die; though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before.»

Even if the economic benefits of a limited program would be muted, though, isn't something better than nothing?

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

The «War on Christmas» is nothing more than a device Fox News uses to real in viewers so they think they are being persecuted (even though they are the majority), and to try and marginalize others who disagree with their views.

You can't kill millions in the name of atheism though because atheism doesn't stand for anything, it is nothing more than the lack of theism.

Though we might not always appreciate the ongoing challenges that are part of every community, they are nothing less than God's mercy and provision for us.

The most painful part of the process, though, was when friends and well - meaning mentors dismissed my questions as silly, or, even worse, questioned whether my doubt was nothing more than an attempt to justify some sort of secret sin in my life, usually pride.

Shatter, my God, though the daring of your revelation the childishly timid outlook that can conceive of nothing greater or more vital in the world than the pitiable perfection of our human organism.

This difficulty lay like a great sorrow upon all theologians whose last norm of belief was nothing more certain than private interpretation of the Bible, and while it broke the faith of some, it serves also, paradox though it may seem, to explain how it was that so many non-Catholic exegetes found it easy to strip themselves of theological vesture and to plunge wildly with the higher critics into the maelstrom of that speculative free - for - all and devaluation of Christian dogma which followed.

This does not mean that such discussions have accomplished nothing, but it does mean that no exact and reliable estimate of what they have accomplished (though it is, I believe, a great deal) is possible until we have granted full «belligerent rights» to second - type theism, as a no less qualified contender than either of the others.

So that even though the end result can only happen on a personal level, it is definitely better than nothing and it's not like for those others that getting their own perspective through study plus prayer plus trying out the gospel principles is unavailable because it is it available; quite available.

Some people see nothing more than the headline and even though it is a small thing it creates a misconception that creates divisions and contention in our society.

It was at the behest of the Catholic church that Christmas became an accepted tradition, though it is the combination of the Roman festival Saturnalia (observed from Dec 17 - 24) and the celebration of Mithra, Persian god of light (observed on Dec 25) The Catholic church continues to observe this pagan celebration, rather than following God's words to «touch nothing unclean».

You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds of life forming by natural processes to be estimated less than 1 chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions of years full of random mutations would result in the impossible.

This need not contravene the idea that God in some way creates the world, though it will suggest that God creates «out of chaos» from a beginningless past rather than creating «out of nothing» from a finite past (McDaniel 1989a, 36 - 37).

Their oars had no more effect on the turbulent sea than toothpicks, even though some of them were fishermen, They were accustomed to wind and wave, but to nothing like this.

The persecution of people of «the way» has begun, and though we may wish to only show love we will eventually be pushed into taking a stand, much like those in Muslim countries who are being confronted with death for nothing more than saying they love Jesus.

If what unites us is our pretending to agree, even though we don't agree, then we have nothing more than pretend peace and unity, with undercurrents of tension and backbiting».

Obviously Jesus and the writers of Scripture treat some sins as more severe than others (see pp. 5 — 8 of this article), even though Eichenwald mocks anyone who thinks this as showing «that they know next to nothing about the New Testament.»

If it is spent on something that uses up as much or more energy per dollar as the original reduction, nothing has been gained in the energy budget at large (though this person may now own a more desirable mix of goods and services than before).

For the man of twofold vision nothing could be more illusory than the goal of success, nothing more false than money, and a long line of Protestant preachers in the 19th century continued to say so, though, by the end of the century some of their voices began to quaver.

Although his general observation is interesting at best, the problem though, is that all of his supporting arguments are nothing more than judgmental in the most narrow - minded way.

By this interpretation, it seems to me, nothing is more wrong than to treat the Human as though it has been biologically stationary since the ending of the Ice Age.

The faith - religion distinction, though a clever invention by Christians, is nothing more than simply artificial.

Even though the voice's enthusiasm for the world of higher motion seems to have suspended my own doubts, it is disturbing to think how easily a skeptical oyster could argue from all this that ballerinas do not exist, but rather are nothing more than a distracting hypothesis invented by oysters who can not face the grimness of existence without flinching.

Nothing shows more clearly than the contrast between the death of Socrates and that of Jesus (a contrast which was often cited, though for other purposes, by early opponents of Christianity) that the biblical view of death from the first is focused in salvation - history and so departs completely from the Greek conception.

For Novak, however, nothing could be more disastrous for Judaism than to admit Socrates, Plato, the Stoics, Grotius, and Kant into the operative logic of Jewish jurisprudence, for not only did the ancient advocates of natural law such as Plato and the Stoics lack a doctrine of creation, but even Grotius and Kant» devout monotheists though they were» imported a false philosophy into God's sovereign dealings with the human race:

other than that, the little tornadoes do come though, but nothing like Joplin MO..

Thus the new entity is nothing without the inclusion of those past entities, even though it is more than those past entities.

Atheism is nothing more than a lack of belief in any particular deity (it technically doesn't even deny the existence of a deity, it just doesn't actively believe one exists, though I suppose we could get into the whole «weak atheism vs strong atheism» thing if we wanted to).

Though Jenson is often thought of as an ecclesiastical conservative — and with good reason — this aspect of his appropriation of Barth's theology is nothing less than radical.

He is saying that it as though God can not see the evil, because nothing is being done about it, just as he says in the next verse that it is as though men are no better than fish and creeping things, since it seems God is doing nothing to help them.

Even though I don't care for Osteen his message seem to be nothing more than a cafeteria selection of positive thinking, Pentecostalism, and the good ole American Health and Wealth Gospel.

There's nothing worse than not having control over our body - both physically and emotionally - I can only imagine what you are going though.

Even though I say nothing is more comforting than cornbread in a cast iron skillet, this was the first time I ever had such.

For what it's worth though, there's really nothing more enticing than cheese bubbling out of a dish!

It seems as though there is nothing more important to nourish than our gut.

That said though, if the contact wasn't enough to send him down, then going to ground so easily was nothing more than simulation.

You'd have to think there was at least one offer on the table that would have made more sense than nothing at all, though.

For me though it would be nothing more than escapism from West Brom and the doldrums, a journeyman looking to resurrect his career whilst getting a half decent wage at the same time.

a good indication of the harshness of the tackle is the commentary on MOTD where whoever it was just saw a clumsy tackle and nothing more... the elbowing in the face of mustafi (twice) was actually way more violent and went unpunished... though i hate the blaming the ref mentality of wenger the guy yesterady was worse than poor

Mr. Philip Rhodes, a naval architect for 36 years, had already figured it out, even though the boat so far was nothing more than a set of drawings and a three - foot model fixed to a towing carriage in Stevens» 106 - foot - by -9-foot testing tank.

Aguero before he came to City, played for a team with variable results in the league, even though he won Europa League with them, he was nothing more than an exceptional talent, like Hazard (Hence why Ferguson was not willing to pay # 34M for the belgian)