Sentences with phrase «than they actually»

Although it may be easier for some professionals to quickly hit «delete» rather than actually reporting a message as spam, continuously hitting the trash button can take up more time than you think.

A second group of participants judged the profiles, and the result was that profile writers thought the judges would like them more than they actually did.

As a business owner, you often think that addressing a problem is going to be more difficult than it actually is - firing that problem employee, correcting a broken process, or making an uncomfortable phone call to a customer.

Every business owner I work with thinks their project will take less time than it actually does.

It was always more comfortable to go back to complaining about what wasn't right or was missing in my life than actually doing something about it.

«The market is pricing in more bad news for the sector than actually exists.»

Bluffing is not about saying something that isn't true; it is more about showing that you are more than confident and capable than you actually feel on inside.

The challenge with this is that some pooper scoopers can't rake through the grass so you end up smearing more of the poop than you actually collect.

For instance, evidence shows that physicians consistently think their patients are feeling less pain than they actually are.

It deserves more innovation and more engineering skill than actually the product itself.

«Ambient scent may lead to an enhanced subjective experience for retail shoppers... the time consumers spend examining merchandise, waiting in lines, or waiting for help may be made to seem shorter than it actually is by introducing ambient scent into the environment,» the study read.

Notably, scientists are closer to developing these kinds of technologies than actually merging your computer with your brain.

Here are some of the most popular products you probably thought were far healthier than they actually are:

She once told me a meeting started 30 minutes later than it actually did, just to reprimand me in front of the whole room.

These occurrences are terrifying, so we remember them instantly, tricking our brain into thinking they happen much more often than they actually do.

If you're tired and undernourished, a poorly written email can seem like a much bigger deal than it actually is.

So, it's more about interpreting signals than actually having a conversation with your plants.

Dunn's legal troubles began after he was accused of making Nortel seem in better shape than it actually was.

You don't want to come across as spending more time complaining than actually getting your work done.

Some people are more interested in helping launching something great than actually receiving a cool product.

Unfortunately, the study also found that small employers believe their employees to be more engaged with their jobs than they actually are.

Instead of focusing on moving the business forward, my time was spent elsewhere, trying to make the firm look like a bigger entity than it actually was.

Long hours, in other, words are often more about proving something to ourselves than actually getting stuff done.

Case in point: the estimates indicate that hospitals will purchase 10 to 20 percent more portable equipment than they actually require for operational needs.

She filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming that the school made its employment data look more promising by including jobs such as part - time waitressing, misleading potential students into thinking that their job prospects in the legal sector were more favorable than they actually were.

It's a common theme with the iPhone camera, where it wants to make photos appear «warmer» than they actually are by adding a yellow - ish tint to the photo.

We often believe that we understand the way the world works far better than we actually do.

People assume they do this more than they actually do,» he said.

He considers, for example, our brain's tendency to think it's smarter than it actually is.

Finally, and most significantly, Canadians are forced to buy far more coverage than they actually need.

But rather than actually change compensation, bank compensation committees generally relied on workers inside the bank (i.e. risk management personnel) to bless their existing plans.

«It's been clear in our conversations with the NTSB that they're more concerned with press headlines than actually promoting safety.

«The concern is whether the prestige associated with reaching a sky - high valuation fast drives companies to try to appear more valuable than they actually are,» she said.

But his plans mostly involved cutting jobs and media holdings rather than actually making money from Yahoo's websites.

Whether they were omitting an expense or counting revenue that didn't recur, they were all convinced they had more money than they actually did.

From Bill Cosby's now - legendary social media missteps, flippant tweets that resulted in firings, to Facebook official relationships sometimes carrying more weight than actually committing, social media is what you make of it, either on purpose or by accident.

It may sound totally ridiculous, but simply telling yourself that you feel more perky than you actually do can apparently give you a boost when they're feeling exhausted.

Here, that's used to convince a volunteer that a magician predicted which card he'd choose from a deck — the magician distracts the subject, then convinces him that events unfolded differently than they actually did.

Audible is the fantastic tool that allows you to consume books faster than actually reading, and during those times when a person couldn't typically read: walking the dog, driving to work, etc..

Instead they guessed smaller tasks would take longer than they actually do, and expressed overconfidence about how quickly they could finish larger projects.

Moreover, Republicans may find that it is much easier to criticize and produce legislation to repeal a less than perfect bill when they know it is ultimately not going to be signed into law, than actually producing a new law that will accomplish all that Obamacare did plus address its imperfections.

A study from Applied Research in Quality of Life shows that the process of planning and anticipating a trip can make you happier than actually taking it.

Survey data shows that more millennials would like to be living in the suburbs than actually are.

The clothes - sharing service continues to expand, capitalizing on the fact that women care more about feeling great for an event than actually owning the dress they wear.

Citing census data, an equity research analyst claims Facebook is once again inflating one of its key metrics, this time grossly over-reporting its ability to sell ads and effectively inventing millions more young Americans than actually exist.

More specifically, the overall unemployment rate might seem artificially lower than it actually is if fewer U.S. citizens are working or actively looking for a job.

Upon submission, the name would be registered, and make it look like Reddit had more users than it actually did.

They are the maximum and minimum effective federal funds rates in any given month spanning from 6 months before the recession began to 6 months after the recession ended, with only one exception: the end period extends to only the official end of the 1980 recession in July of 1980, and not 6 months afterwards, because rates began rising afterwards and including those months would have made the drop appear larger than it actually was.

While a 0 % introductory APR card can be very helpful, it's important to remember that these cards don't make you more liquid than you actually are!

Your school might approve more loan funds than you actually need for tuition, fees, and other educational expenses (cost of attendance).