Sentences with phrase «than the results of»

If anything, this is arguably worse than the result of an inadvertent technical failure.

«Responsibility remains so diffuse, and top executives so insulated,» Holder said in 2014, «that any misconduct could again be considered more a symptom of the institution's culture than a result of the willful actions of any single individual.»

This Israeli - Arab conflict seems more like a 1400 year family feud than a result of eye for an eye philosophy.

He may have no eyebrows, but I would believe that was due to excessive plucking he did himself in preparation for the notorious drag balls the Vatican is world renowned for, rather than the results of some botched medical experiment, intended or not.

But if there has always been a realm of finite actualities, and if the existence of such a realm (though not with any particular order) is as eternal and necessary as is the existence of God, then it also makes sense to think of eternally necessary principles descriptive of their possible relationships... [T] his correlation between freedom and intrinsic value is a necessary one, rather than a result of divine arbitrariness (PTE 711).

My lack of belief in God is more a result of Christians being just normal people like me, rather than a result of a few Christians being mean.

First, it is possible to view the Christianity of the Hellenistic world as more fundamentally a product of that world than a result of the impact of the Jewish Jesus.

He argues convincingly that for all the neo-Darwinian atheists» claim that man is no more than the result of blind scientific forces, they have to wriggle to claim, as they do, some place for justice, equality and political fairness.

To those who would find such conceptual wavering unlikely; Ford's answer is that Whitehead never actually abandoned the concept of God as formative element in Religion in the Making, the fourth and last part of that book, where Whitehead writes about God as the conceptual valuation of the realm of ideal forms, is nothing else than the result of «a theistic projection based on the revelation of Western religions» («Growth» 11).

For example, the sense of obligation does not unquestioningly attach to the breaking of a solemn promise simply because the results of breaking the promise would appear to be slightly better than the results of keeping it.

persecutions were local, sporadic and often caused by mob action than the result of definite state policy Tertullian's idea that «the blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church» became a terrible reality in the life of many Christians during this period.

nope, its nothing more than the result of diddlying around in the transfer market all summer.

That Mayasich is little known outside his home state is an accident of time and place rather than the result of any limitation in his skills.

More worrying for Spurs fans than the result of today's Barclays Asia Trophy game with Sunderland was the sight of Jan Vertonghen being stretchered off, just six minutes into his second half appearance.

City have now been undone again after being closed down and forced to defend, so Pochettino could reasonably argue that December's humbling was simply a bad day and a one - off rather than the result of flawed tactics or the start of a new, one - sided dynamic between the clubs.

He is now the player who has committed the second most fouls in the Premier League after Kevin Davies and has eight yellow cards, most of them professional fouls committed out of desperation whilst chasing back, rather than a result of a desire to enforce himself physically in the middle of the pitch.

Sorry, but it seems like the British Election Study data are just data from their studies (surveys and such), rather than the results of the elections.

Kelly has taken a broad 5th amendment claim, refusing to discuss anything more than the result of the Super Bowl.

This retrospective tax will be more impactful than the 10p fiasco: «The result of this change will be more dramatic for taxpayers than the result of the 10p tax rate fiasco.

Our results don't really allow us to accurately predict the size of the effect — they're more about providing evidence that the relationship is actually causal, rather than the result of confounding or common risk factors.»

Some theorize that material changes to a society's resources or subsistence strategies lead it to become more hierarchical; others believe that hierarchy is the cause rather than the result of these changes.

In the aftermath of the burst of the new economy bubble in 2000 he said, «We probably should have not done anything because the result of our action would probably have been worse than the result of the bubble and the crash itself.»

The scientists were able to use a test scenario in the Greenland Sea to demonstrate that ALES + returns water levels for ice - covered and open ocean regions which are significantly more precise than the results of previous evaluation methods.

«Hence it is more likely to be the cause than the result of cancer.»

They propose that aneuploidy is a driver of cancer rather than a result of it.

Could plaque buildup in the brain be the cause rather than the result of the debilitating neurogenerative disorder?

In fact, he says its slowing could be mainly due to natural variability, rather than a result of climate change.

As Motzer pointed out, those results are better than the results of phase 3 trials for the existing drugs approved for the treatment of RCC.

«But the effect of caffeine seen in this study is more likely due to what the caffeine is in, rather than a result of caffeine itself,» Roslin suggested.

The «flu» is nothing else than a result of starving the body of carbohydrates.

The «flu» is nothing else than a result of starving the body of carbohydrates in order to enter ketosis.

BODY CONNECTION I say this often to my yoga students: the emotional and psychological suffering we regularly experience is usually nothing more than the result of a disconnection from the body.

Researchers maintain that HIIT results in excellent health benefits that include improved metabolism and fat burning, or increased insulin sensitivity that is more effective than the results of a conventional continuous exercise.

We provide an overview of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and explore nutrition as a «symphony» of interactions rather than the result of individual nutrients or mechanisms.

Some experts have argued that even a simple glance at a person is a better metric for what many would deem as ideal weight rather than the results of any mathematical formula.

We know very little about Luke other than that he comes from a rough background and doesn't like to play by the rules; by the end of the movie, alienation seems to be his actual goal rather than a result of his circumstances, and despite the number of times (too many) that Rosenberg positions him in Christ - like poses of agony, we're not sure exactly which of our sins he's dying for.

When the movie is in its plot - spinning mode (which is the majority of the time), these characters act in its service, and even their actions are more motivated by Gaghan making a statement than the result of what they are like as people.

While Burack argues that global education's believers «exercise a strong degree of influence among textbook publishers,» many of the problems he describes with the treatment of global diversity are a reflection of the textbook production and marketing process rather than the result of a conspiracy among educators.

These qualities are more the product of the environment in which kids grow up — the climate in the home and in the classroom — than the result of specific lessons.

The education secretary says there is more to school children's performance than the results of the international Pisa tests.

A key assumption in this analysis is that the movement in and out of schools by effective (or ineffective) teachers is a cause of subsequent student achievement more than a result of past school effectiveness.

It was something that happened rather than the result of active planning and tireless pursuit.

Both results (especially the graphics score) were lower than results of similar equipped tablets with Intel Atom.

So not pirating is a conscious choice based on good nature and availability of legitimate purchase options rather than result of DRM.

«This slowdown continues to be largely the result of massive delays in processing foreclosures, rather than the result of a housing recovery that is lifting people out of foreclosure,» notes RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio in a statement.

This average figure was useful for ironing out the frequent ups and downs of the business cycle, and it was thought to give a better idea of the company's earning power than the results of the latest year alone.»

This was a breach of a billion - dollar site, rather than the result of unprotected PINs, exposed sensitive personal documents or shopping online on an unsecured site.

Note that the following succinct review of recommendations has appeared in the literature and been presented at national conferences over the past several years; however, the recommendations have not consistently been subjected to scientific scrutiny and often represent expert opinion rather than results of published studies.

If your dog's decreased appetite is a behavior problem caused by pickiness or a discomfort with mealtime, rather than the result of a medical condition, there are a number of things you can do to encourage your pet to eat.

The lower diagnostic specificity of this qPCR assay may be the result of the lower limit of detection of this assay compared with the gold standard rather than the result of detection of true false - positives.