Sentences with phrase «with less significance»

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Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.

It is a warning to all teachers that motion pictures using biblical themes often have less religious significance than secular ones that deal with the real issues of life.

Less consistently the second alternative is exemplified in the book of Revelation, where the whole process of salvation tends to he associated with the future advent of the Messiah, although the expiatory significance of Christ's death is constantly in the author's mind.)

The fulfillment of personality is thus a form of communion, whether it be with the God a man worships; or with nature under some aspect; or through intimate communication with ideal things, the inexhaustible quality of beauty or truth that pervades the universe; or with some cause that calls into action all one's powers; or even with things of lesser significance so long as they satisfy the human craving for union.

With the proclamation of the Kingdom by Jesus on the one hand and this parable on the other, we are justified in arguing that Jesus, for all the claims he made and implied about the significance of his ministry and message, none the less looked forward to a consummation to which this was related as seed - time to harvest.

I like to think of myself as a fairly rational individual, which is why what has and is going on at Arsenal confounds me... little wonder people have gone so far as to suggest that Wenger is actually sabotaging the club... one only needs to look at our starting 11 to stoke the flames of conspiracy... just think of the perceived importance of this game, considering the loss to Stoke, the historically significance of the two teams involved, the controversy that swirled around our two meetings last season, the proximity to the closing of the window and the general disdain being directed towards the manager once again... how is it even possible that you wouldn't come to Anfield with all guns blazing... not a single shot on target, with the back - up keeper in no less... where were the new signings?

If we wanted a highfalutin theory as to why the League Cup semifinals, we might suggest that the trappings — nighttime knockout football under lights — combine with the unusual significance — huge because it's a semifinal, but less than even a straightforward league game since it's only the third cup — to create an occasion that sits slightly outside the normal flow of the season.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

By comparing heavily bet games (more bets tracked than the daily average) with smaller games (daily average or less), the significance of this statistic becomes painfully obvious.

Similarly, the unadjusted difference of 8 points between children who were breast fed for less than 3 months, compared to those who were breast fed for six months or more, is unlikely to have clinical significance in a population with a mean IQ at age 5 of 109 points.

They may be less able to intimidate vulnerable communities with violent threats and instead face more non-violent resistance from a civil society reassured by the prize's moral significance.

Asked about the Wandering Dago case and whether the importance of emails can be assessed in 90 days, he said: «There are any number of situations that have arisen in which a record, or for that matter, a judicial decision might appear to be less than significant but would take on additional significance with the passage of time or the occurrence of events.

To claim a Higgs discovery, physicists need to extract from this mess the gold standard signal — one with a statistical significance of 5 sigma, meaning the chance of producing it from background events alone is less than one in a million.

The real significance of this research, Mavrikakis says, is less about basic chemistry and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials, with the ultimate goal of replacing platinum and palladium with more affordable metals.

Instead, young children with autism look less at the eyes because they appear to miss the social significance of eye contact.

For retention block 4, we compared the median latency and median excess path length for navigation to store locations that had been learned while stimulation was applied with those learned in the absence of stimulation during blocks 1, 2, and 3, using the Wilcoxon signed - rank test, with a P value of less than 0.05 considered to indicate statistical significance.

Although the effects were less dramatic than in db / db mice, WT mice also responded to TE and WBV with reductions in hepatic lipid content, but these did not reach statistical significance in post hoc comparisons [Fig. 4 (a)-RSB-.

The prize aims to foster scientific excellence and to encourage the continuation of innovative research projects with high added value and of more or less immediate practical significance in the treatment of disease.

Therefore, most of the remainder of Jaminet's post that deals only with potential risk to health of glucose levels takes on less significance, but let's look further for more clarifications and explanations.

Regarding carbohydrate source, a diet with a low versus high glycemic index can be used to reduce HbA1c moderately (by ∼ 0.5 %).13 Case series and pilot studies reveal more substantial improvements in HbA1c and other benefits (less hypoglycemia and reduced glycemic variability) with a very low — carbohydrate diet (VLCD).14 — 21 Although varying to some degree among studies, a VLCD is typically defined as ≤ 20 to 50 g per day of carbohydrates or ≤ 5 % to 10 % carbohydrates as a proportion of calories.22 — 24 In T1DM, small sample sizes and methodological issues limit the significance of VLCD benefits, and little is known about prevalence, practice, and sustainability.

On the mountain, there are the mountaineers: Clarke's Hall, Josh Brolin as the man with the dark cloud following him, John Hawkes as a man on his last climb, Jake Gyllenhaal as one of the gung - ho owner of a competing guide company, Naoko Mori as the woman who wants to climb all seven summits, Michael Kelly as the journalist, and others of somewhat less significance.

For instance, De Palma's prom scene, which features tense, split - screen moments of suspense, is replaced with cheap snafus that culminate in the climactic moment being replayed from different angles no less than three separate times, in case we missed its significance.

Run Lola Run for the Lincoln Plaza sect, but with less pop and significance.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

Maltin contextualizes The Mickey Mouse Club by recalling the significance of a one - hour daily children's program in a simpler age with much less media to choose from.

They can ensure that everyone involved knows where the sensitive buildings are, which needed to be treated with care and conversely which are of lesser significance in heritage terms.

But the publisher also made another set of announcements with less new story significance if not more muscle in expanding its digital footprint overall.

Engulfing patterns that occur on the monthly chart are stronger than those which occur on the weekly chart, which are stronger than those that occur on the daily chart, and so on..., with the significance being less and less as you go to lower and lower time frames.

«In man, social intercourse has centered mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.

Anthropogenic change has been detected in surface temperature with very high significance levels (less than 1 % error probability).

It seems Poole's point, however, is less that this congruence has any major significance, but that it's riddled with contradictions and inconsistency — as so much nature - worship surely is — and is a bit, well, daft.

«Warming during the past half century can not be explained without external radiative forcing Global Extremely likely (> 95 %)[1] Anthropogenic change has been detected in surface temperature with very high significance levels (less than 1 % error probability).

* According to the Berkeley group, the Earth's surface temperature will have risen (on average) slightly less than what indicated by NASA, NOAA and the Met Office * Differences will be on the edge of statistical significance, leaving a lot open to subjective interpretation * Several attempts will be made by climate change conformists and True Believers to smear the work of BEST, and to prevent them from publishing their data * After publication, organised groups of people will try to cloud the issue to the point of leaving the public unsure about what exactly was found by BEST * New questions will be raised regarding UHI, however the next IPCC assessment's first draft will be singularly forgetful of any peer - reviewed paper on the topic * We will all be left with a slightly - warming world, the only other certitude being that all mitigation efforts will be among the stupidest ideas that ever sprung to human mind.

«Given the significance of email and the productivity (and other) issues with surfing the internet, it doesn't seem likely either of these is going to become less frequently monitored.

While I was less aware at that point of MLB's significance and its singular role in the creation of much - needed regional reporting series, I had the pleasure later on of learning the history and of collaborating with MLB in yet another example of their commitment to supporting professional and public access to the law.

There are variations in the depth of the reporting, but the significance of this point becomes less important with every passing year.

The major study limitation was the possibility that Black youth with more severe symptoms may be systematically less likely to be given the opportunity to participate in research trials which may affect generalizability and statistical significance.

The difference in negative interaction between Mellow Babies and waiting - list control group approached significance, with less negative interaction observed between mothers and infants who attended the group.

This focus on relationships in all of their diverse forms aligns with the message of Fred Rogers, who spoke about media, technology and children in a far less media - saturated time: «No matter how helpful they are as tools (and, of course, they can be very helpful tools), computers don't begin to compare in significance to the teacher - child relationship which is human and mutual.

If parents listen to their child with full attention, they may be more likely to correctly discern their child's behavioral cues, more accurately perceive the underlying meaning and personal significance of their child's verbal communication, and become less reliant upon the use of the cognitive constructions and expectations that can cause coercive cycles or automaticity in parenting (Dumas 2005).