The phrase
"than technique" is an idiomatic expression that means "more than just skill or ability."
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In the beginning, learning to listen to his body and being able to use the toilet independently is more
important than technique.
The simple explanation for these arm movements is related to the direction of the leg and foot motion in skating, which is a little different
than the technique used in running.
The technique may one day allow doctors to spot the development of breast cancer much
sooner than techniques used today.
In psychiatrist Eric Berne's terms the leader mobilizes the members» Adult sides by refusing to play Parent / Child (leader / follower) games.2 This is more
than a technique for developing group - centeredness.
A constructive image of evangelizing requires a review of contemporary methods like revivalism and mission, and leads to the concept of the Christian, whether minister or layman, encountering others, whether as individuals or in a group, in a discussion of their expressed needs, and depends more on
attitudes than techniques.
His hands probably aren't as reliable, but I think that's more a focus
thing than technique or unwillingness to extend away from his body.
MRI is ideal for medical imaging because it's
milder than techniques like CT scans or X-rays since it's not as invasive and does not rely on ionizing radiation.
Other teams have used fluorescent molecules to map temperature in human cells, but the Harvard thermometer is at least 10 times more
sensitive than those techniques, Maurer says, detecting fluctuations of as little as 0.05 Kelvin.
But making chimeras with human organs whose development can be studied is more likely to
succeed than the technique researchers have been trying for years: coaxing stem cells growing in lab dishes to become three - dimensional, functional tissues and organs.
The audits commissioned by the charter schools use general auditing techniques rather
than techniques specifically designedto detect and uncover fraud.
Even so, upon reading Fried's essay some years later, I decided to drop the term «minimal» when discussing my work, largely to avoid confusion and to return to the literal notion of «hard - edge,» using it less to denote a style of
painting than a technique.
Guided pathways through information are not really much more
than a technique manifest by any airline that you interrogate on flights to a certain place on a certain date at a certain time.
Neuberger & Partners suggests there are much easier ways to frame someone using
DNA than the technique outlined by the Nucleix study.
It is not a good idea to pick babies up by the ears or to drop them, but the history and theology of infant baptism are far more
important than the technique, though not unrelated to the method used.
But unlike De Palma, who tends to undo his movies through over-directing and loving style over character, Tarantino almost undoes this film by under - directing and loving his script
more than his technique.
«Ministry is mostly learned through apprenticing,» he said, comparing it to an art to be mastered rather
than a technique to be memorized.
You don't say how tall your son is (the better to reach the toilet properly), but my feeling is that right now, focusing on the potty training itself is more important
than his technique.
Kabat - Zinn, Myla and Jon EVERYDAY BLESSINGS: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting Hyperion, 1998 Written by the parents of three grown children, this book focuses on the thoughts and feelings, rather
than the techniques, associated with parenting children of all ages.
Although there are always parents on the playground who brag they trained their child in a day, the study — published in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of Pediatric Urology — found timing was more important
than technique.
However, this high - intensity program has attracted controversy because of its emphasis on results rather
than technique, which critics feel poses an unacceptable risk of injury, especially in inexperienced participants.
While gamification has been met with some criticism, it seems that it's more the application that is the problem rather
than the technique itself.
Studies have also shown that positive reinforcement is at least as effective if not more so,
than techniques that rely on punishment.
AVSAB endorses training methods which allow animals to work for things (e.g., food, play, affection) that motivate them rather
than techniques that focus on using fear or pain to punish them for undesirable behaviors.
Our focus is on ideas and aesthetics rather
than technique.
Do these groupings of artists by demographics rather
than technique, subject matter, or formal concerns inadvertently limit the artists» narratives to their biographies rather than their artistic accomplishments?
The former dancer Leanore Ickstadt, who had once studied in a New York course of Black Mountain teacher Merce Cunningham, reports that also for him the experiment was more important
than techniques.
«Passionate Marriage is about resilience rather than damage, health rather than old wounds, intimacy and eroticism rather
than techniques, and human potential rather than trauma.»
This shift from the familiar «sensation - based» approach to an intimacy - based approach emphasizes the «tone» and depth of connection rather
than technique.
A refreshing and innovative approach that treats parenting as a vocation rather
than a technique... provides parents with the hope that believing in themselves and becoming optimistic parents is, in fact, the Holy Grail to effective parenting.