Sentences with phrase «than optimal situation»

The idea worked well, because it created a safe space for kids to communicate with their parents, rather than feeling stuck in a less than optimal situation.

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They relate their hypothesis to life - history theory, which talks of balancing the preservation of one's health and the production of offspring that will survive to reproduce themselves, and theorize that «early life stressors may predispose an individual to adaptively suppress fertility when situations are less than optimal, leading to periods of fertility difficulties even following previous births.»

Obviously, natural birth is optimal whenever it is possible (and it is possible much more than the 30 + % that it occurs now) but there are times where it is legitimately not possible to deliver vaginally (like my placenta previa) and there are ways that we can make the best of that situation for mom and baby.

In the case of the pelvic floor muscles, a position longer than the optimal length is more akin to a situation where the muscles h...

hehehe, I could probably pretty much fall asleep anytime I've been sitting in the same place for more than 5 minutes, which is good or bad, depending on the situation... but bed + a pillow is definitely more optimal!

It won't eliminate glare entirely, but it does have less glare than the iPad and Nexus 7, making it easier to use in less - than - optimal lighting situations.

My point is, what appears to exist now is hardly optimal, it's clearly ripe for change and in this situation and for these purposes, I reckon market forces might produce a better outcome than... [more]

Conversely, how does the employer know when a candidate's poor grasp of the legal principles in a given situation leads her to give legal advice that doesn't result in an obviously bad outcome, but a less - than - optimal result?

Equal parenting will become the default custody arrangement as the optimal situation for children; the resultant decline in adversarial legal battles will diminish false allegations of abuse by women and punitive support - withholding by men, both of which punish children more than parents;

Contrary to the posturing in the last sentence of the pro-joint custody advocates, above, children in the more optimal joint custody situations (the ones that endured) did no better than those in sole custody (a group which commenced containing the most problematic cases and also which accrued those thoroughly impossible joint custody situations that failed), and so, if all ended up «no different,» then those who remained in their joint custody situations were unnecessarily worse off than they had to have been.