Sentences with phrase «want of a better term»

I'd agree that the Bible is a reflection of «the human condition» (for want of a better term).

First, it presses toward the elimination of any distinction (philosophical, political, and eventually legal) between relatively clear crimes against property and bodies and crimes against (for want of a better term) individual psychological well - being.

The difference is in that God predates (for want of a better term) time, logic, and natural order.

And this same standard — «noble wisdom,» for want of a better term — was the foundation and mortar of Roman civilization.

For want of a better term, I call it the Whig narrative.

I use it for want of a better term, intentionally implying an ultimate mythological background for much of the material in Gen.1 - 11, but recognizing at the same time the thoroughgoing way in which Israel «historicized» all of her myths.

They are, for want of a better term, emigrants of the spirit.

One of the most striking features of Benedict's time in office is how frequently he has been assailed and disparaged by certain members of the «Catholic left» (for want of a better term)» often harshly and bitterly.

The second strand is what, for want of a better term, I call peer - solidarity.

Perhaps, for want of a better term, it might be described as an «ethic of cocreation.»

Ranking Member of the Communications Committee of the house, ABA Fuseini, told Ekow Annan that: «For want of a better term, the Speaker has exhibited gross levels of bias that is unbelievable.

I've heard supporters of Jeremy Corbyn describe (for want of a better term) the Centrist Labour members as neoliberals; but I never expected a member of the «Soft Left», who voted for Burnham and Cooper, to call them the «Hard Right».

And this disease, for want of a better term, may be emerging in places far from the Great Barrier Reef.

It's often what you wear it with to suit your body shape that's not necessarily «on trend» (for want of a better term) but works for you.

If you can find love online which is, for want of a better term, «true love» then you will have found a real relationship with someone in which you completely trust the other person and he or she completely trusts you, a relationship based on shared goals and experiences, a relationship in which the other person's well being really is more important to you than your own.

One of the things that makes this quasi-science fiction mystery so different from not only most US independents but cinema from anywhere, is its reliance on imagery, sound, editing and music to transmit what we might, for want of a better term, call its «story».

Speculative capitalism — for want of a better term — is a globalized casino of high - frequency trading and market manipulation that produces nothing.

Do mongrel dogs (for want of a better term...) actually have more adaptive skills even, than some «well bred» pedigree dogs.

«It's much more iPod - like for want of a better term,» said game director Josh Tsui in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, calling the prototype black board the «Darth Vader of skateboards.»

Whereas for many abstract artists geometry suggests rationality, with Key I almost want to say that her geometry denotes the opposite, though I realise that this is entirely interpretive on my part and it could simply be that I am inventing a link between her abstract work (she would say «for want of a better term»), and some of her more figurative paintings, (and again one could say «for want of a better term»).

The «volcanic eruptions», which we may for convenience compare to the infra - visual activity of such substances as radium, take place usually in the «evening» are stimulated by the smoke and industrial combustions of the «day» and are intensified in certain places which may, for the want of a better term, be called «dark places».

What has always intrigued me in this whole debate, is why the skeptics (for want of a better term) always pick on Mike.

The split within the scientific community on this is deep and bitter, and finding judges satisfactory to both technologists and environmentalists (for want of better terms) might often prove exceedingly difficult.

(Before my question — I'm IPCC - friendly for want of a better term) The final GISS chart with the tramlines shows an increase of around 1.1 deg.C from 1970 to 2040.

Gleickists (for want of a better term) act on the presumption that when dealing with skeptics, almost any dishonest and underhanded action is okay, or even honorable.

I call this, for want of a better term, global blinding, and, whatever it is called, it will have consequences.

As you point out, there is no question that adding CO2 to the atmosphere affects what I call the «radiative balance» for want of a better term.

I simply call it a social movement for want of a better term, and to use a neutral term.

Not exact matches

For business leaders, increasingly this means balancing two very different perspectives: shareholders who expect executives to deliver better short - term financial performance and stakeholders who want more attention paid to the longer - term human and environmental consequences of business.

Rosekind, the scientist who studied the benefits of naps and developed a «fatigue countermeasures» program for NASA, put it in terms business people can understand: «Which person do you want on the job, the one with 34 % better performance [after a nap] and 100 % more alert — or the other guy?»

The Scottish government wants to keep it in the long term as well — as a key prop of stability amid the uncertainty independence would bring.

«We want to make certain our bids come from well - established insurers who are going to be around to fulfill the terms of their contracts with us,» he says.

And the second is just to have clarity in terms of knowing what you're good at, knowing that you're going to enjoy doing it over time, and really just understanding that there's a market for what you want, and being confident in knowing you can take a piece of that market.

While sitting in your hotel room with the air conditioner pumped all the way up can feel good in terms of body temperature, you don't want to be stuck in that room forever.

Puffed up with the bravado of the dotcom bubble, most people wanted to hold out for better terms.

The best idea is that, both in business and our overall lives, we are often drawn to things that provide gratification and positive reinforcement in the near term, such as wanting to answer all of the emails in our inbox before we leave for the day.

«Companies that have the long - term view of things will want to get the results but also have the good work - life balance,» says Jay Starkman, CEO of HR outsourcing company Engage PEO.

The best CEO candidates will only want to join if they believe that the board is truly independent, without any agenda other than the long - term success of the business.

This means you must think not in terms of why you want to sell your service or product to them, but why they want to become a customer and how you are going to make their life better.

Then all of sudden when you get a strong lead term sheet everybody wants to chuck in «just $ 250K» and before you know it the round is $ 3.5 million and the founder starts thinking, «Yeah, $ 3.5 million would be better than $ 2 million.»

In a deposition related to the case, he said: «These are the people who I want and — and who I think will serve the company best, and I think that the compensation plan that we have is doing its job of attracting and retaining them over the long term.»

They want more sophisticated options until they can get a better long term prognosis of the economy.

In simple terms, if you want to get a higher quality shave, you'll need to use one of the best shaving gels, creams or soaps.

On top of comparing terms and interest rates, you'll also want to cross-check origination fees to ensure you're getting the best deal.

That seems high, and while we have every confidence that this is a short term phenomenon — namely, Segwit2x and / or Lightning, or some other solution will come along to ease the pain; we wanted to provide a couple of options now in order for our members to better minimize transaction fees when opting to remit in crypto.

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We could take the $ 16 billion we have in cash earning 1.5 % and invest it in 20 - year bonds earning 5 % and increase our current earnings a lot, but we're betting that we can find a good place to invest this cash and don't want to take the risk of principal loss of long - term bonds [if interest rates rise, the value of 20 - year bonds will decline].»

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«We might like some help to transition, we might like better rules of the game in terms of taxation and in terms of copyright, but we don't want the government to make us into coal mines in Britain and support us in perpetuity.»