What we say is less important than what we do.
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Whether that is true is less important than the assertion.
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No battles are deemed more or less important than others.
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Even friends were less important than her budding acting career.
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But the motivation here is less important than the result.
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But his motivations are far less important than his actions.
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Surely, buying a sponge is less important than my vote?
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The content was much less important than the leak itself.
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But the date is less important than the dynamic, ever widening.
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Justifying my own past is less important than protecting the vulnerable.
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It's less important than the hard facts about Trump and Russia.
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Trump's political views were less important than his approach to hiring.
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The technique is less important than the feeling and the intent.
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The amount of the tax is less important than its existence.
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Government is more, not less important than it used to be.
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So I think the manner is less important than the facts.
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So let's treat them as no less important than Trump's tweets.
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This is a debate that's rather less important than it sounds.
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Its contents are less important than its status as a coveted thing.
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The exact numbers are less important than the overall trends they indicate.
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But their motivations are less important than the information they've provided us.
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Even climate policies are seen as less important than impeaching the president.
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"The overvaluation is less important than it was a year ago," he said.
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What's real and what isn't becomes less important than what action you take.
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For Republicans, it seems, rule of law is less important than partisan loyalty.
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The language of Trump's subsequent tweet is less important than his ready acquiescence.
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Here are a few things that are less important than we might think.
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After the smartphone began its ascent luxury became far less important than usability.
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How they did so is less important than the fact that they did.
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For the Islamic State, Wilayat al-Furat is no less important than Mosul.
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How we price carbon is less important than how we use the revenues.
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The art object was less important than the experience of looking at it.
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But this swing in public sentiment might be less important than it appears.
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For some gun safety advocates, the amounts are less important than the principle.
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Everyone thinks its No. 290, it's not, it's less important than you think.
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Even the legendary Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960 was less important than people think.
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Magic was less important than the political scheming and violence between warring human factions.
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But in reality, demographic characteristics, like education, are often far less important than geography.
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The nature of the issue is often less important than the "exercise" you get.
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But that could be less important than the things he chose not to say.
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He knows that, in this genre, the script is less important than the optics.
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But a lot of people think it's less important than a good rock song.
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CP: Well, first of all, we're all less important than we think we are.
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Yet as another hurricane season approaches, blame is less important than learning from failures.
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But these economic considerations are, I'd argue, much less important than the political aspects.
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Try this: Point out that surface differences are less important than the underlying message.
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Higher education seems less important than continuing his fight at the front lines, anyway.
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Working to maintain privacy is no less important than working to keep us safe.
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It succeeds in making George's emotional coldness less important than his enormous artistic warmth.
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The price was less important than the fact that "Jorge buys the lot," he said.
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But the number of rockets SpaceX launches is less important than its consistency, Caceres said.
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And the timing is less important than the ways Home will test Google's modus operandi.
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The precise lands in play here were less important than the larger principles at stake.
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And he's leading Republican voters who think experience is less important than they previously thought.
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Whether a hotline actually works is less important than whether people want to use it.
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The Big Lebowski is a grower because the plot is less important than the characters.
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Baldwin's right to consult on judges for her state any less important than Sen. Johnson's?
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For many company funds, financial gain is less important than finding the next big idea.
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Nick Wingfield ECONOMY Why is this Federal Reserve meeting less important than most Fed meetings?
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It's not much to look at, but the visuals are less important than the sound.
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"A toy is not less important than a painting," said Anne Monier, the exhibition curator.
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For Trump, the veracity of McCullough's charges is far less important than their sheer existence.
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But all the bells and whistles are less important than this: My plants seem good!
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The surface rationales for Libra are less important than the long game Facebook is playing.
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Demographic characteristics, on the other hand, seem to be less important than people's policy opinions.
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The level is less important than them rising quickly off of the all-time low.
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THRUSH: --but my vote is somewhat less important than my participation in this capacity, right?
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But what voters think will happen is less important than how they plan to vote.
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For somebody in my line of work, intelligence is less important than a sharp intuition.
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Why are the American public's constitutional rights less important than special favors for Wall Street?
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For her, knowledge was less important than following what delights you and makes you curious.
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Why is their ability to feel safe at work less important than his second chance?
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Formal or aesthetic concerns, though not absent, were far less important than catering to potential buyers.
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Apparently, Donald Trump's own promises are less important than his knowing best what voters care about.
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The faces in her portraits are blurred, making the subjects' identity less important than their thoughts.
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In some cases, winding up an a universe with low entropy is less important than others.
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The form of the post-seed round is less important than the performance of the company.
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But the point was clear: mental illness remains a disease considered less important than physical disease.
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But the question of intent is far less important than the questions of effect or aim.
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On the media's hierarchy of priorities, then, truth is far less important than imagery and narrative?
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But agreeing sanctions before Trump's May deadline may be less important than actually getting them approved.
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But as with so many of Trump's speeches, the content was less important than the tone.
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The loss felt less important than the health of two of the team's most important players.
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It's a zero-sum game in which victories are less important than the other side's defeats.
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Emerson said that what is disclosed publicly is less important than taking action within the organization.
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Jazz, rock, electronic—attempting to distinguish genres is far less important than the following the changes.
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But many physicians "consider it to be relatively less important than other risk factors," he continues.
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The size is less important than what the child does with the money, Mr. Almonte said.
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Its relaxed approach to historical accuracy is less important than how it reflects the political mood.
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It was cathartic, theatrical and less important than blocking any unwise legislation hatched at her bidding.
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Facts are less important than desperately clinging to a disproven conspiracy theory that keeps Trump happy.
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Tellingly, the real nature of the foreigner is less important than its existence as a scapegoat.
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I think that friends are a little less important than family, because family is always first.
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"Even the risk of heart attack is less important than erectile dysfunction for some men," Nangia said.
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If everything matters, nothing is more or less important than anything else, and the Resistance becomes futile.
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Of course, the box is less important than the TV experience, and man, does it look good.
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"The why, of why these particular words were used, is less important than the what," said Filbin.
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But the interests of such carriers are far less important than those of the wider tourist industry.
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It may sound boring, but it is no less important than the opening night of a show.
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Timing is a lot less important than simply making it to the gym in the first place.
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Moreover, the move to web-based apps made the distinction between operating systems less important than ever.
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How one gets to yoga -- through meditation, chanting or physical exertion -- is less important than getting there.
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But to some, those risks have become less important than the uncertainty stemming from the Fed itself.
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The amount of debt a student has is often less important than the college or the degree.
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When this happens, it makes us feel much less important than whatever is happening on the phone.
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Protecting their human rights is no less important than getting a commitment from North Korea to denuclearize.
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No less important than the mandate and resources of the OIG is the credibility of Horowitz himself.
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But my voice will be less important than the voices of those who will be directly affected.
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Whether the Bible stories were historically factual, he said, was less important than the values they conveyed.
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Hands-on is less important than onscreen: They wanted him either railing against or defending the president.
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But fairness to her, while important, is less important than moving the courts in the right direction.
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To me, the marks left in skin are less important than the marks left in your mind.
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The specific outcome is less important than causing upheaval and conflict between different groups in the country.
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"The likelihood of prosecution is much less important than understanding any vulnerability in their products," he said.
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But in the face of a wildfire, a home's appearance becomes much less important than its durability.
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That is, the physical device might be less important than what the software inside the phone can do.
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The kids, apparently, are less important than making that money to pay Frankie's debt, so Vinnie moves out.
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Safeguarding children was less important than the reputation of the church and the wellbeing of the abusive monks.
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The precise far-right cause in question often seems less important than the broader resort to inflicting harm.
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"Medical knowledge and clinical experience may be less important than personally feeling comfortable with transgender people," Shires said.
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Recent polling reveals cutting the corporate rate is far less important than a low rate for small businesses.
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But Judge Persky's fate, whatever it is, may be less important than the reaction ignited by his sentencing.
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Historicity, in this exhibition, seems less important than symbolism, celebrating the witch as a symbol of maligned womanhood.
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The second goal of economic nationalism is no less important than being prepared for the exigency of war.
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What you have or have not done is less important than how your sensibilities align with the cycle.
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When it comes to politicians, of course, what they say is much less important than what they do.
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The static quality of the images was less important than their placement and the space allotted to them.
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The beauty of the attraction is less important than the fact that people are flocking there to daka.
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It certainly seems that overly delicate feelings in the citizenry are less important than a $19 trillion debt.
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" Photo via Wikipedia "It might seem less important than the music itself, but you need to have decent artwork.
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What Trump thinks counts as a "wall" might, ultimately, be less important than what the Breitbart editorial board thinks.
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As formal guidance is focused on revenue and operating income, we view guidance as less important than reported results.
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Still, that math should demonstrate how much you can save is less important than when you start doing so.
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Usually, the creative sum of the music is less important than the statement it makes about the individual artists.
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But the logic of Trump's tweet is less important than the message it sends to his most hardcore supporters.
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Still, that math demonstrates that how much you can save is less important than when you start doing so.
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That's less important than forward estimates as Amazon has clearly sacrificed earnings in the past while focusing on growth.
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They tend to say that fair elections are less important than smooth relations with the Communist Party in Beijing.
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On a phone it's a little less important than on a tablet, but nevertheless really helpful in a pinch.
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Russian cheating has been covered up, regarded as less important than "the arms control process" and as militarily inconsequential.
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When it comes to the peplum, costumes are less important than projecting the fantasy of a pre-Christian civilization.
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Whether these difficulties make sense is less important than the creativity and the determination with which they are overcome.
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This particular disparity sent a clear message that the State Department is less important than DOD or the CIA.
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In fact, trade is less important than the truly massive investment relationships that link Europe and the United States.
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The wedding photos are far less important than the commitment, the marriage, and the magic of the day itself.
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It's not always clear why the presidential vote is more important in some districts and less important than others.
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The fact that the teacher here is chemical is less important than the fact that growth and learning occur.
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That you're going to be communicating with the masses, which is less important than being innovative within your field.
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Like both, the goal of the game is less important than how you spend your time getting to it.
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The assumptions students make are less important than their realizing that they are making assumptions and providing reasonable estimates.
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But in both Washington and Tehran, the test itself was clearly less important than the symbolism of the moment.
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Less important than a scorecard of accomplishments, Ms. Goodwin said, is the leadership style demonstrated in the early days.
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When he says that "the content was much less important than the leak itself," he is making Bellman's point.
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"It's less important than what it's going to cost or what [your] state is going to do," Feirstein said.
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On the other hand, we don't want to say some people's lives are less important than other people's lives.
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The second is substitution, the idea that the overall rate of taxation is less important than what you tax.
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Having every single vase in the world is less important than having the best one, curated by an expert.
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For Jaar, it's all a cycle, and the answer is less important than keeping us guessing along with him.
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In this production, there is real flesh too, albeit less important than the naked talk, the wild, denuded souls.
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But organizers said getting a raise was less important than taking a stance against what they call school privatization.
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Whether or not any of these allegations is true is less important than the fact that they shouldn't matter anyway.
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With the law still working itself out, the details of the case are less important than the overwhelming political logic.
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For the purposes of this conversation, what happened is less important than interrogating why things have escalated to this degree.
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It's clear that to Blair, the violation of this woman's privacy is less important than Blair's growing platform and ambition.
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The iPad accounts for just 10 percent of total sales, so it's far less important than the iPhone, said Daryanani.
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"A new system becomes less important than what capabilities you can add to that which you already have," O'Connor said.
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Yet it is not necessarily less important than our more soothing relationships—and we might need it all the same.
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What the Koch brothers and Republicans learned is that these individual races are less important than underlying state legislative contests.
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In fact, the stated amount is less important than what it's used for, Heath told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Tuesday.
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The distinction might seem pedantic, but it helps explain why passing a "budget" is less important than it may sound.
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Whether the subject was pork loin or marriage, the topic at hand seemed less important than the state of togetherness.
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Political oppression, though, is merely background punctuation, less important than the smuggled Western albums that cram the movie's living spaces.
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Those subjects come in annually for their tests; the initial score is much less important than a pattern of deterioration.
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Moral and ideological considerations, for Kissinger, were less important than cold, hard evaluations of what could advance America's strategic position.
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Everything you need to know about the Iowa caucuses, and why they may be less important than ever in 2020
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But they did find that students who'd completed a gynecology clerkship thought consent was less important than those who hadn't.
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The infinite worth of every person outprices autonomy: What you and I want is less important than who we are.
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"Many AI advances are quickly being commoditized—so who develops the technology is somewhat less important than who adopts it."
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But to them, the immediate goal of a 2017 title is less important than maximizing their chances to win several.
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But he said the question of who first wrote the playbook is less important than how the plays were run.
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What we can be reasonably sure of is that it will find human needs less important than its own needs.
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"Retention comp is important, but that money is less important than real commitment to make this work," said one person.
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I say this a lot, but the name is a lot less important than the weight that many people give it.
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BECAUSE FOR THE UNITED STATES, DIRECT LINKS WITH CHINA ARE MUCH LESS IMPORTANT THAN THE ROLE OF CHINA IN THE WORLD.
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It shouldn't need pointing out that Talese's credibility should be less important than the rights, and lives, of Foos's motel guests.
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What Sabathia does on the field is less important than the resilience he's shown in coming back to do it sober.
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Nuclear theory and strategy were deemed outdated and less important than the non-state actor challenges of the brave new world.
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Experts say sometimes bystanders see the victim as less important than the person committing the crime, who appears to wield power.
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But now he welcomed the chance to engage his critics, because his own ego was less important than communicating with others.
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No one wants to be stuck, but getting the car moving is a lot less important than stopping or steering it.
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"It says to your partner, 'You're less important than my phone,'" said Rhonda Milrad, a marriage counselor in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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What happened overnight may present an obstacle to the GOP agenda in 2018, but that's arguably less important than tax reform.
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The cost to Qatar wound up far exceeding $360 million, but ultimately cash was less important than the deal's political dimension.
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President Donald Trump again attacked CNN on Twitter, accusing the network of being "fake" news and less important than Fox News.
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Back then, he said, television was considered less important than movies, and movies were considered a lower art form than sculpture.
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What a president knows, or thinks he knows, in a severe crisis can be less important than what he doesn't know.
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Critics of the deal worry that Obama might downplay Iranian transgressions, arguing they are less important than preserving the overall agreement.
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Conference tournaments are odd events, when who wins the title is often less important than the result of a midafternoon quarterfinal.
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Seen from that perspective, the behavior of individuals in this system is far less important than the need to reform it.
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And the change is environmentally neutral, since air in the U.S. is no more or less important than air anywhere else.
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But less important than whether they are true, is whether the president is convinced by Giuliani's findings and acts on them.
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But in the tax code envisioned by Republicans, the amount you make may be less important than how you make it.
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What your investments did this year is far less important than what they'll do over the next decade … or two, or three.
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This means that at a place like Facebook, where experience is less important than skills, women could be doing themselves a disservice.
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But that's less important than this little reveal: Wilhelmina Venable (also played by Paulson) is the head secretary to these two douchebags.
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"I think focusing on the number after 30 is less important than focusing on using enough sunscreen and reapplying it," she says.
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Selumetinib is viewed as less important than AstraZeneca's recently launched cancer drugs Tagrisso and Lynparza, and its closely watched experimental product durvalumab.
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Monaco, the slowest of street circuits with its tight and twisty layout, is next up with outright power less important than driveability.
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" Pickett argues that a commitment to free speech is less important than the question – "whose speech is being protected by these policies?
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And in a future when traditional networks are less important than untarnished brand names, that was a trade-off not worth making.
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Whether Trump gets re-elected in 2020 is less important than whether Trump's views (or lack thereof) becoming definitional for the GOP.
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The possible risks of bankruptcy—for the city, state, even the federal government—seemed less important than bringing New York to heel.
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The document said that improving racial and gender diversity is less important than making sure conservatives feel comfortable expressing themselves at work.
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Out of a neuralgic concern for confidentiality, Mrs Clinton overrode rules that her advisers considered to be less important than they were.
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The content of the tips is less important than the fact that people are eager to send them in the first place.
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These are viewed as less important than the manly things the president does, in no small part because they are woman things.
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One's stance on immigration is far less important than a willingness to personally invest in the lives of immigrants and their families.
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So you're a photographer, you're an editor, you're a designer, and the editing and designing is no less important than the photography?
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"The consent of the governed is less important than the imprimatur of the monarch," explains Gregory Raymond of the Australian National University.
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The details are less important than the fact that you're being persecuted, you're being victimized by people that you loathe and fear.
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Today, more people believe that projecting great power and military might is less important than a fair society and people's well-being.
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Still, strategies for surviving an attack are often less important than just following basic safety guidelines for a day at the beach.
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This approach also centers the story not on the title character but on Tamara; the Demon is less important than her crisis.
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This means that at a place like Facebook where experience is less important than skills, women could be doing themselves a disservice.
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"The commodities that are in these containers are no less important than the cargo that was consigned to FEMA," Ayala told CNN.
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In the Regime of Covenants, making the right one-time selection is less important than the ongoing action to serve the relationship.
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But debates over the virtues of aggressive protest are far less important than understanding the roots of the current moment of rage.
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"One thing I've learned is that your physical comfort is much less important than your connection with the people around you," Menéndez said.
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Before Trump, conservatism was a movement: While it nominated individuals for the presidency, everyone was less important than what the party stood for.
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For Prince Muhammad, it seems, Palestinian aspirations to statehood are less important than countering Iran, which has extended its influence in the region.
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The details Google will reveal this week about the phones themselves are "much less important than the marketing and distribution", said Mr Dawson.
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But extrinsic validation is far less important than the private, extravagant culinary ambitions that beautiful kitchen tools such as these excite in you.
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But according to the study's authors, the specific results are less important than assessing the general suitability of VR for testing ethical scenarios.
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But as platforms like Facebook and Google give companies unprecedented access to consumer behavior, they may be less important than they were before.
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Whether visitors understand the connections and images, she said, is less important than how they react to the cushions themselves, and use them.
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As Congress considers how to proceed, it should recognize that taking action promptly is less important than addressing the mandatory labeling issue properly.
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Indeed, some campaign operatives say live viewership of televised political events can be less important than whether their candidate secures a viral moment.
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The mystery of C. auris's emergence remains unsolved, and its origin seems, for the moment, to be less important than stopping its spread.
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The whole thing is orders of magnitude less important than multiple scandals involving her opponent — remember, Donald Trump never released his tax returns.
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Old-fashioned badges became less important than experiences, particularly annual cookie sales, which were heralded as teaching money management and other business skills.
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There's little or nothing to prove it any less important than vision, and we can actually sift through billions, possibly trillions of odors.
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There is a theory that what presidential candidates say during a debate is less important than the way they look while saying it.
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"The presence of a Starbucks is far less important than whether the community has people who consume Starbucks," Glaeser writes in the paper.
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Saudi Arabia felt the Obama administration considered Riyadh's alliance with Washington less important than negotiating the deal to rein in Iran's nuclear program.
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And, unlike some observers, I don't believe that means the Fed is any less important than it has been in the post-crisis world.
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Yet as survival strategies go, size is less important than the ability to offer what streaming services typically do not: live news and sports.
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Because when it came to raising her kids, my mom knew that her voice was less important than allowing me to use my own.
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And the migration of labour from field to factory was less important than the migration of resources from state-owned enterprises to private firms.
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It also gave hope to those who think that the old left-right divide is less important than the one between open and closed.
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Indeed, most scientists obsessed with CRISPR say this potential use of the technology is much more scientifically challenging and less important than other applications.
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To many fans, Sunday's Super Bowl victor is less important than their daily fantasy sports wagers and the very real cash they could win.
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There's bitcoin as a currency, which I think too many people are focused on and don't understand is less important than the bitcoin technology.
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Where you work will become less important than how good you are at your job, and how flexible you are at improving your skills.
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"The 'horserace' is less important than that the president's approval numbers are in the low 40s," said Jill Alper, a Michigan-based Democratic strategist.
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"It may be that the LDL level is less important than how it gets changed," said Dr. Paul Thompson, a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital.
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The current effort and desire to get the Pentagon's budget in order is critical but no less important than the Department of Education's budget.
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I was hoping, maybe even planning, to discover that how you look is less important than how you feel, or something else vaguely platitudinal.
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Indeed, there is already a movement within liberal policy circles arguing that debt and deficits are far less important than most lawmakers have assumed.
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The sport itself has always seemed something of an afterthought, what happened on the field somehow less important than the beauty of the stadiums.
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While saving for retirement might seem less important than some of your others financial goals, getting yourself settled for the future is still imperative.
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They are damaging because they create a culture within his administration in which telling the truth is less important than making the boss happy.
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But scholars suggest that precedent might be less important than the brazenness with which Trump's all but daring the judiciary to rein him in.
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That's great, but the specifics are less important than the fact that one of the greats of baseball might be back to his old self.
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The society also uses wholesale funding, but this source is less important than for some of SBS's larger peers and consists mostly of secured funding.
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Her plays, which have just earned her a MacArthur "genius" grant, acknowledge that the text of an exchange is often less important than its subtext.
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The plot is less important than its portrayal of weird feelings and surreal moments that would be impossible to pull off in any other format.
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"How you do it is less important than your commitment to use whatever platforms you have to speak to the issues that matter," he said.
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The mechanics are less important than the simple fact that if you're looking for porn on Tumblr, it's easily found, but seemingly isn't being policed.
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I find it hard to tear myself away from his daily outrages, even when I know they're less important than other things I could cover.
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Classes were less important than meeting Debs Marx, his girlfriend, when they were both 2000 (Marx is currently the company's only other full-time employee).
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Surely this is more the purview of people with villas or jobs less important than ours, we tell ourselves (while scrolling, zombielike, through social media).
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Talent and effort are likely to be less important than circumstances in the sense that he could not have been so successful without the latter.
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I would say for me, knowing how much time I have for the interview, it's less important than knowing I have 15 minutes or something.
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"I think the 'horse race' is so much less important than who you are, why you're running, what your vision is for the country," she says.
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According to Chemical & Engineering News, White House budget documents for fiscal year 2018 suggested the agency's mission of preventing industrial disasters was less important than deregulation.
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A record-setting opening weekend is less important than staying strong over a longer time period, Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore, told CNN Business.
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But the technical details are less important than how Google approaches photography: it is treating photography like a data problem instead of just a light problem.
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Republicans favor uncritical support for Israel; they see its enemies as America's enemies, and see a Palestinian state as less important than Israel's security from terrorism.
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The people I spoke to disagreed about the degree to which this status quo bias was more or less important than whatever role money might play.
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"Except for a few nations which are perhaps less important than Russia and Saudi Arabia volume-wise, I don't see anybody wanting $33 oil," Tornqvist said.
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"Most investors are focused on F18, which means the next few reports should be less important than usual," Milunovich wrote in a note to clients Monday.
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Dr. Simon Bronner, a professor of folklore at Pennsylvania State University, says that the origins of the game are less important than the fact it persists.
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What the Vietcong and ARVN troops are fighting for and against is less important than the notion that it's not the right fight for American troops.
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For Nadler, these are no less important than his mandate to counter the momentum toward autocracy and to shore up democratic institutions and practices under siege.
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The essential players: Along with their current dominance of Chinese commerce, that fact makes BAT no less important than the government in fundamentally reshaping Chinese society.
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In this way, we are shown that one person's issues are less important than the extent to which those issues resonate with his or her neighbors.
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This is due, in part, to European elections being widely viewed by voters — and even by the politicians taking part — as less important than national elections.
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" This movement informed a generation that mainstream media couldn't be trusted, journalistic objectivity was a farce and factual truth was less important than a "deeper truth.
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As much as Bridenstine wants to see the first crewed flights come soon, he believes the schedule is much less important than the tests that remain.
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"Social or economic class seemed to be less important than knowing the latest hip-hop hits, or wearing the right kinds of clothes," Ms. Mutongi wrote.
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We should ensure that every girl knows that politeness is less important than her career, her rights and her ability to decide who touches her body.
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But for Mr. Trump and his allies, the final conclusions might ultimately be less important than the months spent speculating about what those conclusions might be.
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If Democrats nominate a progressive like Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, will wealthy Democrats decide that defending democracy is less important than keeping their taxes low?
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But what is or is not in the heart of a radio talk show host is much less important than what comes out of his mouth.
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However, Karwoski said the method of enforcement is often less important than simply having the policy in place because "most gun owners are responsible," he said.
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The effect is almost novelistic, where the overall story of the war is less important than the smaller stories of survival and struggle that comprised it.
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Or can you acknowledge that sometimes, a movie being perfect is far less important than if it can inspire that incredible stomach swoop over 30 perfect seconds?
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We have to have sanctions and he wants to denuke, but he wants to just do areas that are less important than the areas that we want.
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The exact number is less important than knowing that, in a pinch, quieter music will, surprisingly, squeeze a little more time out of your near-dead phone.
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And whether or not this year's Notebook 9 Pro is ultimately a success may be less important than the foundation that it's hopefully laying for future designs.
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Trump said Assad is much stronger now than he was three years ago and said getting Assad to leave power was less important than defeating Islamic State.
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Actually, given the importance of momentum in politics, the reason voters in this safe Republican seat voted for a Democrat is less important than that they did.
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First, the MCU is so much bigger now than it was in Phase 1 that its central trio is slightly less important than it was back then.
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In the effortful world of prog, there was not much room for charming naïveté or happy accidents; improvised solos were generally less important than composed instrumental passages.
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When those first nuclear devices were exploded, the potential effects of radiation or contamination, even when known, were seen as far less important than the arms race.
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However, in spite of the title, the sword-and-shield battles are less important than the conflicts created by language, specifically the tension engendered by Joan's rhetoric.
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And in that "season of hustle," many entrepreneurs would agree that short-term balance is less important than doing everything they can to pursue their biggest goals.
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Lastly, what you can write off as a business expense will impact taxes, too, although this is much less important than many first-time business owners assume.
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"I'm not here to tell you that housing discrimination is any more important or any less important than any other issue facing black America today," Warren concluded.
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Adams also only averaged 8.0 points and 6.7 rebounds in just over 20.03 minutes per game last season, but raw stats are less important than overall impact.
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But the money seems less important than what else might be on offer: the sort of serious love interest that was missing from his first two cases.
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It's a damning vérité portrait of a man who's both far more important than his detractors hope and far less important than he might like to believe.
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Other former Middle East diplomats said the decision to delay the embassy move was far less important than the symbolic weight of Mr. Trump's statement on Jerusalem.
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"This is obviously a big deal to me emotionally, but in the grand scheme of things, it is very much less important than a pandemic," she said.
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My take is that the strength of the mandate is far less important than the generosity of the premium and cost sharing subsidies in incentivizing maximum enrollment.
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Even when he is mugged or breaks up with his girlfriend, the surface of incident is less important than the underlying, ineffable undertones of destiny and character.
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Ultimately, the optics of Monday's summit are less important than the follow-through by European countries, said Andrew Stroehlein, the European media director at Human Rights Watch.
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"This new market form declares that serving the genuine needs of people is less lucrative, and therefore less important, than selling predictions of their behavior," Zuboff writes.
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These are really important decisions, but less important than the really, really important decision of whether the United States should maintain its deep engagement strategy in general.
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Money is in the short term, always insignificant, being far less important than the actual job that will put you where you want to be in five years.
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For a minute, Tumblr meant that you could care about sex, among other things, and that those other things weren't any more or less important than the sex.
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Paik and others came to CTL for help with their work, and as their installations aged, shaping the future of media became less important than preserving its past.
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"Earnings are less important than the order backlog," another of them said, adding he would expect the group to sell for about 7 times its estimated core earnings.
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But in this gentrification debate, the cost of new berths is less important than the architecture of the ship — and whether they ever served as actual commercial ships.
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Ms Alberini says that drivers seem to see road taxes as less important than fuel efficiency, in part because refilling their cars frequently reminds them of the cost.
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" The following month, Paul Waldman at The Week called TV ads "less important than ever," concluding that "this election must surely make TV advertising a less appealing tool.
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"Do not for one minute think that what you do is any less important than what I do here in Washington — even though it is," Franken, 66, quipped.
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In that respect, the mortgage interest deduction is far less important than tax savings for small-business owners, like homebuilders, who could increase production if costs were lower.
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His studies gave him an intellectual scaffolding that was no less important than what he had learned from his father about the moral and practical obligations of faith.
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For Robert Walker, a retired truck driver in the Bronx, an urbane appearance was less important than pain relief once he began having an issue with his teeth.
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In that America, people with dark skin aren't guaranteed the same rights as people with white skin, and a violently warming planet is less important than corporate profits.
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What he's saying in the video (about the GOP proposal to give the Trump administration $500 billion to bail out corporations) is less important than how it looks.
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And overall, the wall's effectiveness is perhaps less important than its existence, which allows the president to truthfully say he has made good on a signature campaign promise.
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How the bomb gets to where it's going is less important than the decision to cross the line into nuclear use and, thus, risk escalation and global destruction.
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At the end of the day, the label is less important than a person understanding their experience and deciding what they want to do with their understanding of it.
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There is an equalizing force in this virtual realm, one that deigns citizenship and nationality and its arbitrary awards of rights and privileges less important than in real life.
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Saudi Arabia had viewed with unease the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, which it felt considered Riyadh's alliance with Washington less important than negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.
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He compared corporate governance to star footballers washing their hands after going to the toilet: a nice idea, but less important than recruiting the best players for the team.
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It will be fitting that the group of voters Boehner and Ryan decided was less important than party loyalty could be what finally forces a long overdue Republican reckoning.
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Because being the data geek he was, he knew that people were actually using this new feature, and what they said was much less important than what they did.
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Look at that paragraph above and it's a trite Hallmark story, a Readers Digest heartwarming bit of pablum that feels way less important than what it meant to me.
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North Carolina: North Carolina awards its delegates proportionally, so it's less important than the other states, which are either winner-take-all or winner-take-all by congressional district.
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And while Apple has always been coy about the actual specifications of their devices, hard numbers for processor speed, RAM, and battery life are less important than ever nowadays.
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What is included in each plan is less important than the ability to group health care services in ways that are somewhat homogeneous and responsive to similar market forces.
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She wrote often about what was then called 'the domestic sphere,' as if what takes place between parents and children is less important than what happens in a boardroom.
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That's a very Rauschenbergian organization, and you see it, too, in Cunningham's choreography: Dancers to the sides of the stage are no less important than dancers at the center.
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Saudi Arabia had viewed with unease the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, whom they felt considered Riyadh's alliance with Washington less important than negotiating the Iran nuclear deal.
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In the end the debate over artistic freedom seemed less important than the intensity of the anger: the speed and starkness with which it illuminated white obliviousness and entitlement.
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The limits on stockpiles are less important than those on the level of enrichment, which reduce the time it would take to create enough nuclear material for a bomb.
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Or to put it another way, in some of the game's modes, how good you are at Destiny is less important than how much time you've invested in it.
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While support from Republicans clearly remains key to Trump's chances for success, the survey reveals that party is less important than the cult of personality encouraged by Trump's communication style.
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But the question of its effectiveness as a ploy is less important than what it says about the totalizing effect Trump has had on the race and the Republican Party.
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And while the most obvious reason to worry turns out to be less important than is widely assumed, the deepest challenge posed by the populists has so far gone unnoticed.
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But whether the replicants and the hosts eventually rebel against the larger world seems less important than the realization of how much the humans who created them have already lost.
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They are the clearest example yet of a global trend: that the old divide between left and right is growing less important than a new one between open and closed.
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As with Trump's base throughout the country, the Hasidim that spoke with VICE News saw some of his more controversial comments as far less important than what the candidate represents.
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Economic peril was emphatically less important than the European Union's lack of accountability (its famous democratic deficit) and the British government's failure to follow through on promises to restrict immigration.
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" He added: "What people think of me in light of this is far less important than what people think of women who continue to come forward to tell their stories.
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Exactly. What the heads of state do — in diplomacy in general but this kind of diplomacy in particular — is important, but it's less important than the work of faceless diplomats.
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Your teammate's skin color becomes less important than how hard he hustles, his religion is secondary to how good his curveball is, her gender matters less than her work ethic.
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Mr. Toscano called the selection of the next House speaker "the question of the night" but added that who holds the gavel is less important than deciding which legislation advances.
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Marriage rates are declining as several millennials find marriage less important than it used to be, Rachel Sussman, a psychotherapist and relationship expert at Sussman Counseling, previously told Business Insider.
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His inflammatory, aggressive language captures and channels the grievances of red America, but the specific grievances often feel less important than the primordial, mocking incivility with which they are expressed.
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Maybe we can more easily afford to believe that one's political impulses and passions are less important than the ability to shake the hand of someone who disagrees with you.
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Hicks' title is far less important than how Trump regarded her: as a trusted loyalist who had been with him when everyone else thought his presidential candidacy was a joke.
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His inclusive message -- he said that theological differences were less important than Christian comity -- angered some fundamentalists, who fulminated when he shared the stage with Catholic or liberal Protestant ministers.
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Those who consider convenience less important than human misery are invited to engage in a shopper boycott for the duration of this fake holiday—or better yet, cancel your Prime membership.
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Commentary: When the FBI confronts the White HouseCommentary: With Trump, nuclear brinkmanship is back The truth behind the allegations, innuendo and rumor is less important than the problems they are causing.
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The exact figures USFS came up with are less important than the pattern: In other words, the mine extensions make sense from a local perspective but not from a global perspective.
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But the C.I.A. has concluded that Cuba is far less involved and its support has been far less important than senior officials in the administration believe, according to a former official.
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Nevertheless, as the British drug market has become more of a free-for-all—a vast network of firms with myriad specialisms—ethnic ties have become less important than they were.
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Between the lines: In tech's antitrust battles, the outcome is often less important than how broadly the process distracts the targeted company or deters it from moving aggressively in new directions.
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The technical details are less important than the fact that these apps do what they claim to: help you get your pokémon to the Bank, making them visible to Pokémon Home.
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The self, he believed, was being dissolved by the increasing speed and pace of modern life — the individual was becoming less important than the techno-capitalist system it found itself in.
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Many other economists disagree with his conclusions, but that's actually less important than understanding what his conclusions say, namely that immigration has been bad for the wages of high school dropouts.
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As to the question of who killed Faisal Deepan, I realized the answer was less important than untangling the web of Islam, fanaticism, political rivalry, history, and power that had dominated Bangladesh.
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A 2003 paper by UChicago's Jeffrey Grogger, for instance, found that time limits imposed by welfare reform were less important than the EITC both in increasing employment and in reducing welfare usage.
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By contrast, the mystery that's surrounded William's identity has always made justifying his specific character evolution less important than revealing the next layer of that evolution for the sake of plot twists.
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But if sharing her story starts and ends with this tweet, it doesn't make her experience any less important than the women and men who have shared many details about their experiences.
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I think the crucial lesson of the Trump era is that democratic norms and customs are far more important than we imagined, and that institutions are perhaps less important than we thought.
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Yet the number of troops deployed is less important than their mission: If service members are doing work that is vital to America's security and Afghanistan's stability, then let's talk about it.
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Bastardilla: Poverty, violence and women's issues are not isolated issues and not more or less important than climate change, extractivism [economies reliant on the extractive industry], discrimination, migration, indigenous issues and education.
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Alabama race will impact Republicans nationally For the Republican Party nationally, though, the contours of the contest are far less important than what a Moore victory could mean for the party's brand.
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Saudi Arabia had viewed with unease the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama, whom they felt considered Riyadh's alliance with Washington less important than negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran in 2015.
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This means that measures that increase potential supply by promoting flexibility are therefore less important than measures that offer the potential to increase demand, such as regulatory reform and business tax reform.
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For all the meeting time spent on print cover lines, they are now far less important than trying to create a social-media moment that will bring readers to the Cosmo website.
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One of the biggest surprises may be the resurgence in voter interest in the European Parliament, long seen as second order and framed across the Continent as less important than national politics.
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"The growth in flexible working also means employees are no longer spending every day in the office, meaning the location of the company is less important than it once was," she added.
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Sunnis in Iraq no longer view the ISIL radicals as liberators, and the Shi'ite role in the fighting is less important than it was a year ago, officials in Baghdad told Reuters.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said on Saturday that the government must fulfill its commitments to the International Monetary Fund, adding that his fate was less important than the country's.
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Some political commentators had speculated that Mr. Trump's focus on the magnitude of his support would fade once he took office, as the election became less important than the issues facing him.
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But the historical accuracy of the action feels less important than the overall statement the film makes on women and power: Much has changed in the last 431 years, but not nearly enough.
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However, speaking at the same conference as Visco, he said boosting growth was "no less important" than meeting public finance targets, and promised to fight against any euro zone reforms that penalized Italy.
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It should first be noted that the reasons behind the Fed's about-face are less important than its predictable propensity to revert back to a dovish posture at the first sign of trouble.
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The amount of money someone has is far less important than their inner energy: Whether you are happy in your work as a lawyer or a janitor, that salary will be happy money.
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In the digitally enhanced multimedia era, the mark of the artist's hand is far less important than the concept, which means the collaborative work of creation is often a complex feat of engineering.
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Perhaps, but Canada now has scheduled elections and news channels and the internet, so politics is always in the air and I think the actual campaign is less important than in decades past.
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Finally, there are a few public intellectuals — less important than the plutocrats and ideologues, but if you ask me even more shameful — who adopt a pose of climate skepticism out of sheer ego.
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Credentials are becoming less important than job-seekers' willingness to learn new skillsOther top employers say it's easier to develop technical skills than it is to get on board with a company's mission.
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But Saudi officials have given Trump a pass on the strident rhetoric, which they consider less important than his hard line on radicalism and his disinterest in pressing human rights and political reform.
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The state's new leaders promise more meat factories will be shut in the coming days, and they say the blow to the economy is less important than the principle of protecting the cow.
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But determining who is right and wrong is less important than how you feel — if your conversation leaves you feeling bad or second-guessing yourself, that's what you need to pay attention to.
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Then there is the campaign itself: the Conservatives have fewer members than Labour but that may be less important than the number of supporters who can be mobilised at short notice—dedicated non-members.
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But you can at least imagine Donald Trump as a pseudo-head of state — an avatar of disruption and "outsiderness," whose agenda is less important than the message his election was intended to send.
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Winston Churchill, for instance, told his cabinet in 1940 that troubles between Hindus and Muslims were "a bulwark of British rule", and later dismissed famine in Bengal as less important than famine in Greece.
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And as "Lunch Bunch" ultimately suggests, lemon tahini goddess noodles with garlic broccolini are probably — probably — less important than what we owe to one another and how we live in fumbling, sustaining, necessary fellowship.
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The oscillating viewpoints (including an early focus on the hospital nurse, who turns out to be less important than this implies) can be disorienting, especially when accompanied by unexplained shifts in time and place.
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And since apps make money only when users are plugged in and absorbing ads, the number of monthly users is less important than how many users they get each day — and how long they stay.
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The storyline seems far less important than the long conversations about self-destruction and change, the flashbacks to Portman's marriage to a soldier played by Oscar Isaac, and the eerie, prismatic quality of the light.
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Pedigree seems less important than personality when picking what records end up on the Edible release schedule—which is why each tune so far is a certifiable dancefloor hit, rather than just another DJ tool.
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Inside-out tracking is still a somewhat finicky technology, and Oculus may have decided that pursuing it in the short term is less important than getting a very cheap self-contained headset out the door.
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At the start of a timeout midway through the third quarter, Durant and Westbrook shouted at each other—what they said less important than how they said it: Westbrook nodding violently, Durant kind of shrugging.
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Yes, having Siri on your Mac is nice and perhaps even a Big Deal — but to me, it's much less important than some other features that Apple is introducing with macOS Sierra (technically, version 10.12).
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During his appearance on "This Week," he voiced support for abortion rights and brushed aside the issue of same-sex marriage on the grounds that it was less important than matters like education and immigration.
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Castor hasn't made up her mind yet on the mechanics of how her party tackles the looming climate crisis, but she says that's less important than coming together and making the issue a top priority.
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Yet how these elements inform one another, as easy opposites of nature and culture or of life and death, is less important than whether they together can conjure an atmosphere of whispers, diversions, mistakes, vanishings.
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If history is a guide, those numbers are less important than Mr. Trump's approval rating, which is currently underwater: 44 percent of Americans approve of his performance, while 53 percent disapprove, the Times poll shows.
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Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt on Thursday said Republicans are admitting that ideology is less important than victory on the legislative front in regards to passing the Senate GOP's ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill.
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It is also the first to focus on a generation of Latin American women artists who've been largely elided because their work was long deemed "kitsch" or less important than that of their male peers.
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She artfully explains how the intense bond we experience as friends carries us through many different eras of our lives and dispels the idea that female friends are less important than romantic relationships, family, or careers.
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He continually downplayed the role of policy in enacting change and trotted out some libertarian garbage about laws being far less important than the encryption of electronic devices for the protection of freedoms around the world.
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"For the United States, direct links with China are less important than China's role in the world." it may be appropriate to lift interest rates further at some point to head off excessively high asset prices.
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But much like the EU's $2.7 billion fine against Google for antitrust in 2017, a record at the time, the fine may be less important than the potential changes to Google's business model that might follow.
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In a speech to a gathering of bankers in Rome, Tria said boosting Italy's economic growth was "no less important" than meeting its public finance constraints, and cautioned against euro zone reforms that could penalize Italy.
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Meanwhile, her opponent's genuine scandals and various grotesqueries were downplayed or whitewashed; but as Jonathan Chait of New York magazine says, the normalization of Donald Trump was probably less important than the abnormalization of Hillary Clinton.
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The idea was simple: to test the theory that what presidential candidates — in this instance, Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump — say during debates is less important than what they look like while they're saying it.
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" In their view, Zuckerberg had "deemed that the attacks on us are immaterial, that providing assistance in removing threats is too cumbersome, and that our lives are less important than providing a safe haven for hate.
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Smith's prediction — that economies of scale would be less important than the incentive effects of enabling workers to reap all the fruits of their labor — was defeated by industrial technologies that required massive accumulations of capital.
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In the end, the question of Mr. Kanders's staying or going may be less important than the discussion and protest his presence has raised, which should lead to further discussions about institutional ethics, and more protest.
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Exactly how does Jorah travel from the Citadel to Dragonstone and then up to Eastwatch is, I think, less important than what's happening emotionally, and that's [what] I think what David and Dan are focusing on.
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"The people that say we create precedent — well, what do you have, 56, or a lot of times — well, that's creating precedent, and many of those are far less important than having a border," he said.
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Without the ERA, and without the strict scrutiny that comes with it, the woman's right to cut all ties to her rapist is less important than the government's interest in forcing the rapist to pay child support.
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"This in my view was unnecessary and frankly, harmful," the Arizona Republican said, adding that the dispute was far less important than cooperation, including joint training missions involving US Marines in the northern Australian city of Darwin.
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THE chairman of Microsoft, John Thompson, occasionally reminds one of its directors, a fellow by the name of Bill Gates, that his vote in board meetings is no more or less important than that of other members.
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There are many technological fields like IT, for example, in which a diploma is far less important than what you know, what you can actually do, and it doesn't matter where or how you learned the skills.
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Comparative advantage is also a better predictor of math intentions than perceptions of math ability (women do perceive lower math ability relative to true ability than do men but the effect is less important than comparative advantage).
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The experience of the Great Recession has, however, convinced many people that the question of technically optimal targeting is less important than solving the problem of finding fast, feasible, and politically sustainable means of stimulating the economy.
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Protestants by and large see the "sacraments," such as communion, as less important than their Catholic counterparts (the intensity of this varies by tradition, although only Catholics see the communion wafer as the literal body of Christ).
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If what's important is standing up to Trump, that means picking some concrete fights and deciding that some things — perhaps including giveaways to the bank lobby — are less important than the stability of the American constitutional order.
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Its veracity is less important than its existence: Every election day, the story went, the Sénateur sent his goons around to the polling stations to offer the poll workers a cold drink, thanking them for their labors.
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It's just about growing up and learning that what separates people is less important than what unites them, because I think people have a lot more in common than they tend to believe, or want to believe.
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But with that being said, the FCC obviously has to pick a side eventually — and the commission has already been tempering expectations by noting that quantity is less important than quality when it comes to net neutrality arguments.
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Congress has ignored the importance of monetary policy and relegated monetary oversight to the sidelines, considering it less important than such matters as welfare spending, warfare spending, and who to tax and how much they should be taxed.
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As you destroy the German artillery and fight the reinforcements, you are doing so to protect a person close to you—the grand plan of the war is depicted as less important than the lives of individual people.
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In dismissing all other issues as less important than missile restraint success, Pompeo does not address that all other signers to the Iran deal continue to live within the confines established by the Iran deal and resolution 2231.
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"We don't know if this source got access lawfully or unlawfully, we just don't know," Krach said, but he said the provenance of the information was less important than the credibility of the documents and the public interest.
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O'Malley Dillon: Also, the national party was relatively thoughtful in how they supported this race and ensured that the resources they were spending and the services they were providing were less important than what Lamb was leading with.
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Today's young people were raised within an educational ideology that taught them that individual reason and emotion were less important than perspectivism — what perspective you bring as a white man, a black woman, a transgender Mexican, or whatever.
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Whether these factors are more or less important than extrinsic forces like globalization, automation and declining unionization remains unclear, but changing family structures are evidently leaving millions of men and women ill-equipped to ascend the socioeconomic ladder.
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The act of writing these things down with 100 percent accuracy is less important than having a way to objectively look at the data and what it says, rather than having to rely on your memory or feelings.
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To David Roberts at Vox, though, the question of whether PG&E operates as a public or private utility is less important than whether its incentive structure can be forced to prioritize delivering safe, reliable power over shareholder returns.
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She went on to argue that day-to-day politics between individual countries are less important than the fact that hackers now have sophisticated tools allowing them to wreak havoc on any part of the world at any time.
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The novels are radical because the reader sees everything through Elena's eyes (known by her nickname Lenú), and what happens in real time is less important than how these events shape her life and influence her relationship with Lila.
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In the past week, Donald Trump abruptly fired the FBI director and allegedly revealed classified information to Russian officials—big, big news stories that have made the internal politics of the federal bureaucracy seem even less important than usual.
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But the details are less important than the general picture—the deal is unnecessary; needlessly provocative to Moscow at a time when the U.S.-Russia relationship could use a redial; and potentially counterproductive to the administration's burden-sharing goals.
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So the role of influencers in the fan community, which was really prized by marketers and by entertainment companies at Comic-Con in the early 2000s, is now, I think, way less important than what the mass audience thinks.
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For Mr. Springsteen, whose last tour with the E Street Band sold an estimated $268 million in tickets around the world, the show's economics may be less important than the simple lure of playing to fans in close contact.
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But then again, whether the poster is fun to look at is way less important than whether the movie is fun to look at – and on that front, thankfully, Spider-Man: Homecoming seems to be succeeding with flying colors.
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I was braced by Reeves's book, but after speaking with him a few times about it, I've come to think the structural barriers he emphasizes are less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent.
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Specifically, he has argued that the I.T. revolution is less important than any one of the five Great Inventions that powered economic growth from 239.95 to 1970: electricity, urban sanitation, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, the internal combustion engine and modern communication.
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It's that recognition that it's all just a fun game in the end — that winning or losing is less important than the subtle, supremely human interactions you can have online with others — that makes Fortnite such a continuously enjoyable experience.
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If drone racing leagues decide that airing the sport live is less important than creating a compelling narrative of the race, they might stick with these tight follow shots, essentially giving the audience the perspective of whomever is not in first.
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Foer is older, but more importantly he is a proud neo-traditionalist who thinks Amazon is destroying literary culture, and during both of his editorships he treated digital work as less important than the job of editing the print magazine.
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If she is correct, preserving the body would have been less important than the process of wrapping itself, to sanctify the deceased — generally a high-status individual, since the bodies of ordinary Egyptians were not mummified — and treat them as divine.
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But this vote was also a rejection by my fellow countrymen, from my parents' generation to mine, of everything I cherished about Europe, Britain and my own childhood: the sense that our differences were less important than our shared experiences.
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Michael Cohen, head of commodities research at Barclays, said he had expected a six- or nine-month extension of the agreement, which is due to end in March, but he adds that the extension length is less important than the quota.
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The committee does consider conference championships as part of the selection criteria, but committee chair Kirby Holcutt said that metric is not any more or less important than things like strength of schedule, strength of wins, and head-to-head results.
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If voters sent any discernible messages in the contested Democratic primaries for New York City Council, they were that gentrification is bad, Albany legislators might be good, and a staunchly liberal vision is less important than a strong neighborhood constituency.
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The finals in New York this week determine the winners, but the competition is less important than what it makes happen: connecting aspiring ballet dancers with the directors of top schools and companies, who give out far more scholarships than awards.
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Whether people knew General Al-Saadi was less important than what he stood for, said Abbas Kadhim, the director of the Iraq Initiative and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who was visiting southern Iraq when the demonstrations started.
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And it's been such a joy to be a part of this onscreen romantic relationship that feels very positive: Two people being active and supportive of one another, and neither one being less important than the other in their journey.
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While there are still millennial couples who do things like their parents' generation, "marriage rates are declining — millennials are finding marriage less important than it used to be," Rachel Sussman, psychotherapist and relationship expert at Sussman Counseling, told Business Insider.
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A Wall Street analyst, Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama, said that because the infrastructure panel had yet to get off the ground, its demise was less important than the scrapping of the other two groups.
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But as Tsedale Lemma, the editor-in-chief of monthly news magazine Addis Standard, tweeted, the person who succeeds Desalegn — and the political party they represent — is less important than their capacity to regain the trust of a nation that has grown apathetic.
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In truth, the root of Trump's behavior is far less important than the outcome -- furthering already extant racial divides in the country through the use of deeply hurtful historical moments and rhetoric that rightly stings the ears of many Americans who hear it.
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When I look back on that decision and the work I have done since then, I realize that in an important sense, knowing with certainty why older adults are grittier than their younger counterparts is less important than simply acknowledging that they are.
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But in a deep, philosophical way, none of that matters, because the physics of how light interacts with a paint is less important than the biology and neuroscience of how the eye and brain turn that physics into an idea of color.
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Once a country where sectarian identity was less important than left and right, its Shia minority -- the Houthis -- are clinging to power in one part of the country, under bombardment by the UAE and Saudi Arabia, while al Qaeda prospers in another.
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While the impact of this slow-moving human ecological train wreck may seem less important than bringing down the cost of Medicare or reforming Social Security, it is actually part of the root cause and solution of both these policy challenges as well.
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"But we're far from becoming a cash-free society and despite the U.K. transforming to an economy where cash is less important than it once was, it will remain a payment method that continues to be valued and preferred by many," Jones added.
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And these moms who know slumber is less important than a chance to watch Nick Jonas on TV. And this mom who not only texted like a really cool mom, but knows that Jonas is always going to be her daughter's fictional husband.
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When it came time to choose a school for our boys, the diversity of its faculty was a factor, but one that I deemed less important than the quality of the school itself — the academic rigor, the approach to discipline, the community values.
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Hanlon said attendance at sports events was becoming less important than TV audiences because of the piles of money that advertisers are willing to spend on live sports, where advertisers can count on viewers seeing their ads instead of fast-forwarding through them.
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By including "animal rights" in the same sentence as a litany of other pressing issues — gender inequality, racism, queer rights, and indigenous rights — Phoenix elevated concern for the welfare of animals as something no less important than caring for fellow human beings.
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Yet, one of the most important lessons I learned during the Porteous case was that the legal standard for what constitutes a high crime or misdemeanor is less important than the practical and political standard that must be met in any impeachment case.
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What The Discourse chose as its specific object was less important than the fact that there was now some fixed object that users could rally around, and that object existed only insofar as there was a process that ritualized its mass reception.
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President Trump has threatened to abandon NAFTA in the absence of a new deal, and the changes are less important than the part that would stay the same: a free-trade area for most goods encompassing the three largest nations of North America.
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Sam Altman: My point is, I think the data question is easier than, less important than how do we actually have consumer choice in a world where we have these monopolies that are bigger than AT&T at the peak of it.
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Best-dressed lists have a long history, but they're less important than they used to be: As viewership for televised events like the Oscars (and the Super Bowl, for that matter) have declined, so too has the venerable institution of the best-dressed list.
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When Hardison takes listeners back to a time when the nationalities of models were even less important than the color of their skin, it's a stark reminder that, despite the progress she's brought forth in the industry, the needle has just begun to move.
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She wondered what Vicky's experiments might entail, wondered if her work was more or less important than Ashley's work and how could you even measure such significance and she felt her stomach seize, all appetite gone, and wondered why she was even wondering this.
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And the nitty-gritty of the details of how we should be involved I actually think is less important than building a platform where if people want to talk about that, it's really easy to talk about that and find different points of view.
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"During my painful journey through the justice system after I left the Governor's office, I came to the realization that politics and polls are much less important than people and policies," McDonnell, once a rising star in Republican political circles, said in a statement.
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Gates, who was then just 33 years old and still CEO of the tech giant, told NBC's Jane Pauley that job candidates' age and experience were less important than their enthusiasm for work and their belief in making computers more accessible for the average person.
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It was a fellow religion blogger, Mark Silk of Religion News Service, who first put this point plainly: as he noted, polls were suggesting that between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the God gap was much less important than the one between Adam and Eve.
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"The specific excessive maritime claims challenged in this case are less important than the need to demonstrate that countries cannot restrict navigational rights and freedoms around islands and reclaimed features contrary to international law as reflected in the [Law of the Sea] Convention," he wrote.
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Fiat Chrysler is facing investigations by the S.E.C. and the Justice Department over something far less important than the financial measure used by the real estate industry: a long winning streak of monthly increases of new-car sales that turned out to be exaggerated.
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The first sentence of the opening movement — "We see the heavens with our eyes, and know the world with our senses" — unfolded over several minutes, creating a sound world in which following a narrative proved less important than luxuriating in rich harmonies and reflective flow.
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"How the factor works per se is much less important than the clear signal sent by the PBOC that it would defend 7.0 at least in the next couple of months," said Larry Hu, head of greater China economics at Macquarie in Hong Kong.
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Despite being a system that is (as far as I can tell) ungoverned by any organization, there is nevertheless a hierarchy, an explicit set of tiers and levels of who is more or less important than Kassandra in this Grecian system of freelance labor.
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Here's what to expectIowa precinct chairs are having trouble logging into the app for reporting caucus results, and it might delay the announcement of the winnerEverything you need to know about the Iowa caucuses, and why they may be less important than ever in 2020
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"Tonight's speech from the president will be far less important than past presidential addresses for one very simple reason: This president has shown ... that there is a yawning gap between what he says and what his administration actually does for working Americans," he said.
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Facing off with panelists in a contentious and spirited 10-minute discussion on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the African-American faith leader offered a personal defense of Trump, suggesting that the Manhattan businessman's past incendiary comments are less important than his vision to improve the country.
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Although it is an unfortunate aspect of the news, in the end, even the issue of whether or not the film wins any of these honors is less important than the overall goal of expanding the boundaries and minds of Western filmgoers, according to Bong.
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But by putting the news of Ledecky's major record in much smaller font than Phelps's tie for a silver medal, the paper made it seem like even the most historic achievements of a woman are less important than a pretty good performance from a man.
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But even with just its opening weekend earnings to go on, the movie already shows the continued power of a fan base so devoted that how a film tells the story is less important than the fact that it tells the story at all.
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That may mean developers price their software higher on iOS as a result of the Apple tax, while at any moment, Apple could deem the 30 percent it gets from a third-party app less important than developing an alternative that's baked into iOS by default.
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Yet, we're still stuck in murky territory when it comes to harder questions around automation and the ways that AI could be implemented in areas like criminal justice, border patrol screenings, warfare, and other areas where performance is less important than the underlying governmental policy at play.
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In contrast, Eliza has the opportunity and means to do the kind of domestic work that she loves and is good at, but she lives in a world where this kind of work is not valued, because it's considered less important than the political work Hamilton does.
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"It's lost potential knowledge — but, of course, that's less important than keeping all the students and everyone safe," says Patisaul, who's spent the time leading up to the hurricane making sure the people in her lab won't be stranded weathering the storm in low-lying apartments.
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The latter serves to impress on women in music and who are fans of music that their safety is less important than the bottom line and that fans are willing to overlook abuse of women if they think the music an artist makes is good enough.
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In a now-infamous column, Brooks writes: I was braced by Reeves's book, but after speaking with him a few times about it, I've come to think the structural barriers he emphasizes are less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent.
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The reasoning is less important than the result — he's on the boat, with the lion Fraser and lots of scantily clad people and a man who claims to be God (who is played by the great stage actor Bill Camp, so he very well might be).
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Mr. Cress, who will be a high school senior this fall in Shelburne, Vt., agrees that the precise number is less important than the waste: "We use far too many straws than we need to, and really almost any number is higher than it needs to be."
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Of course, if you're a Trump skeptic who believes that only an earth-salting defeat will enable the re-emergence of a decent right, then trying to constrain a future liberalism will seem less important than rooting for the necessary disaster to arrive for Republicans today.
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" Tom Nichols, a Naval War College professor, wrote: "The memo itself is far less important than the fact that GOP Congressmen are now at war with our own law enforcement and intelligence community, something in a lifetime of being a Republican I never expected to see.
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Not everyone involved is driven by tribal resentment, not every Trump voter indulges in misogyny or racism, but every member of the current conservative coalition has decided that those things are acceptable, or at the very least, not disqualifying — less important than lower taxes or immigration crackdowns.
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That's why we'll be cheering the kids from Parkland on as they try to command attention on social media and plan marches backed by celebrities, but we'll find it hard not to lament that the daily deaths we face have long been deemed less important than those in Parkland.
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"I realized we spent a huge amount of time in the '90s on issues that were much less important than what was brewing in terms of terrorism," said Chertoff, who served as the lead GOP counsel on the Senate Whitewater Committee, during an interview with Bloomberg published Monday.
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And if I go on I will wind up once again pointing out that the worst possible approach is the one the president is taking — overturning the existing anti-warming regulations and shrugging his shoulders as if the whole issue was slightly less important than the weekend golfing schedule.
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WM: The degree to which his personal mental health was less important than to keep his team bathing in money was one thing, but there's also just how he was feeling the show was not doing the most it could in its depiction of black people and black culture.
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Whatever happens to President TrumpDonald John TrumpSessions says he still supports Trump despite ouster as AG House Republicans voice concerns about White House's impeachment messaging Giuliani consulted with Manafort on Ukraine info: report MORE is far less important than what happens to the structure of our federal government.
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Whether Johns is actually about anything (or nothing) in particular has been the central question of his work, and yet it is ultimately less important than his endless search for meaning itself — the mere act of the lone artist entering the studio every day and deciding to continue.
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As with all "fake news" that percolates through social media and across the political spectrum, the stories' accuracy is less important than their use as "a marker of identity, a way to proclaim your affinity with a particular community," as Judith Donath, a professor at MIT's Media Lab, puts it.
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Melissa Hanham, another well-known missile expert, told Reuters in May that the types of weapons North Korea was testing, weapons deemed by Trump to be less important than the intercontinental ballistic missiles the country was building and testing in 2017, were the types of weapons "that will start the war."
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But Issa and his successors, by virtue of right-wing-media megaphones like Fox News (which was in its infancy during the Clinton years) and Breitbart, were able to conduct investigations as a kind of post-truth theater, where proving charges was less important than making them, loudly and repeatedly.
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Obviously, we know that Jimmy will practice law again, so the question of how he gets back in the good graces of the New Mexico bar is less important than the question of what he does to achieve that end and of why he wants to keep practicing law in the first place.
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It continues: [A]s hotbeds develop, recruitment through social media becomes less important than via direct human contact, as clusters of friends and neighbors persuade each other to travel separately or together to join the Islamic State, Cases like Nivarlain's are very rare, which is part of what makes her story so affecting.
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The artist and his studio crafted these artworks from discarded food packaging, though this detail ultimately seemed less important than the way the mix of cheap materials and obsessive precision made the installation feel like a deliberately modest, sincerely over-the-top tribute to an ancient wonder obliterated by greed and vengeance.
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While the extreme behavior detailed by federal prosecutors this week could breed concern among families who intend to play by the rules, Mr. Mercer says his message to clients will remain the same: that the name brand of a college is far less important than finding a good fit for a student.
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What that means is that most of them have internalized some or all of the following ideas: We have to compete savagely with others, that nobody else can be trusted, that the health and wealth of our own nation comes first, and that long-term, collective thinking is less important than individual survival.
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"It strikes me that the Darwin trip is an alliance management — 'we're going to contain China and maintain a large presence in the region' where history is less important than the security issue," said Alexis Dudden, a professor at the University of Connecticut who specializes in the modern history of Japan and Korea.
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"Whether each of those dives achieved the record-setting number, I think, is far less important than the idea that humans have now demonstrated their ability to reach any part of the ocean with a submersible that can bring back real, meaningful improvements in our understanding of the deep ocean," he adds.
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Comparing relative importance is certainly possible; I think arts education is wonderful and important, but few would dispute that, say, funding field trips to art museums for rich US boarding school students is less important than making sure kids in extremely poor countries like Burundi, Afghanistan, or Haiti get quality instruction in math and reading.
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In the same way that we've moved away from the myth of the rapist in the bushes, it's worth examining how attempts to align men like Simmons' character with their history or likelihood to commit sexual assault might be less important than focusing on their actions and faulty perceptions of what is acceptable behavior.
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It goes without saying that the lethality of a round is, by any assessment, contingent upon the range, accuracy and fidelity of the sensors and targeting technology in place to provide guidance; accordingly, exact range of fire may be far less important than the range and relative resolution of on-board sights and sensors.
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"To be honest, I think it was much less important than how the media has portrayed it because I think it was nothing shocking or radically unexpected," he said Earlier this month, I had the chance to chat with Derakhshan at State of the Net, an international conference on just that held in Trieste.
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That it could not have been built without Western materials and engineers, that it became one of the few places where East Germans could get a glimpse of West Berlin, that crown jewels were antithetical to the young republic's guiding philosophy — these were minor details, less important than ostentatiously asserting the new state's identity.
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But Ms. Yovanovitch cast her own personal ordeal as far less important than the sweeping implications Mr. Trump's actions had for the United States' national security and the delicate balance of geopolitical forces operating in and around Ukraine, a struggling democracy and "battleground for great power competition" ever since the Russians invaded five years ago.
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As Representative Mark Sanford of South Carolina found out the hard way, in his surprise primary defeat, having a conservative voting record is less important than demonstrating total loyalty to Mr. Trump, who now enjoys higher approval ratings in his own party than any modern president except George W. Bush following the attacks of Sept. 11.
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Many of the questions that frazzle new parents and guilt-trip mothers, such as whether the child will be damaged if sent to day care while the mother works outside the home, are essentially meaningless, Ms. Harris suggested, because being in day care or having the mother at home is less important than the child's genes and social group.
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Because Trump and his allies had admitted that the goal of the so-called "travel ban" was to limit Muslims specifically from entering the United States, courts found that the details of how they tried to do that (which Muslim countries were on the list of banned passports, for example) was less important than the obviously discriminatory intent.
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Here's what they have to say: Evidence suggests that negativity in advertising can have a backlash effect on the sponsor (Pinkleton 1997) and that personally-focused, trait-based negative messages (especially those that are uncivil) tend to be seen as less fair, less informative and less important than more substantive, policy-based messaging (Fridkin and Geer 1994; Brooks and Geer 2007).
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When: September 13–November 1 Where: Kohn Gallery (1227 N Highland Ave, Hollywood, Los Angeles) Drawing inspiration from literature, philosophy, history, and science, the work of artist Enrique Martínez Celaya might seem like it requires erudite knowledge of these fields to understand it, but understanding is less important than allowing his images to confound and push against the impulse to make meaning.
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Whether or not the committee succeeded in meeting that objective is less important than the fact that Republican Chairman Bob Corker and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin decided to schedule the hearing in the first place — a decision that comes after months of groveling from both sides of the aisle that the legislative branch has delegated too much war-making authority to the executive.
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" (Update: You can now view the patent online.) She acknowledged that for many in the tech world, patenting an idea seems much less important than actually building a product that people want to use, but she added, "For us, it helps because this is going to deter certain parties from copying us, and it's symbolic — we get to own something we feel that we discovered.
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The particulars of the story are less important than the version that has lodged itself in our imaginations: the tape itself, a choppy cut of generically alarming images; the ringing phone, and the voice on the other end of the line whispering seven days; the inhuman form crawling out of the television; the waterlogged face peeking out from behind the wall of stringy black hair.
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Participants in an experiment who demonstrated mental speed were more likely to be regarded as charismatic by their friends than those who scored highly on credible measures of personality and IQ. "Knowing the right answer to a tough question appears to be less important than being able to consider a large number of social responses in a brief window of time," von Hippel explained in a press release.
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Nor is the current position of Ukraine, which gave up its nuclear weapons in return for guarantees from Russia and the United States, only to find that guarantee a dead letter in an age of Putinist aggression — which was itself encouraged by the American belief that a stable post-Cold War settlement with Moscow was less important than the expansion of liberal values ever further to the east.
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Former Vice-President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro, both Roman Catholics, would benefit from their faith stories and changing demographics in American culture that will eventually make white conservative evangelicals less important than Latino Roman Catholics.
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At the Giant Center, it felt as if the most essential product of Trump's candidacy, for the faithful, wasn't the prospect of him enacting these policies but what was happening right here in this room — as if whether he actually built that wall was less important than the fact that his call for it had made the world sit up and take notice of him, and therefore of them, and all that they were grieving.
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" So while it's probably true that Netflix was taken aback by the level of enthusiasm fans expressed for the show given its lackluster numbers (another thing we have to take on faith, seeing as Netflix has never revealed its viewership stats), a petition probably wasn't the crux of the streaming platform's decision to bring Sense8 back to life; as Wachowski acknowledges in her letter, fan love is still often viewed as "less important than the bottom line.
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Read more:Joe Biden has half the young voters Bernie Sanders does because of his &aposanti-millennial&apos stance, but the boomer candidate says he cares &aposlike the devil&apos about themEverything you need to know about the Iowa caucuses, and why they may be less important than ever in 2020Trump is trying to boost Bernie Sanders&apos profile to help him clinch the Democratic 2020 nomination, but it could backfireIowa&aposs biggest newspaper just endorsed Elizabeth Warren ahead of the state&aposs February 3 caucuses
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"The whole point here is, if it is just about winning — the point for Republicans in 2016 was it's just about winning, ideology is less important than victory," Stirewalt told anchor Sandra Smith in reference to many backing Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE as a presidential candidate.
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Confronted with the fact that the most admired moralists in French literature were actually hideously selfish and competitive men, Diderot replies by appealing to the long horizontal frame of history, and by offering the classic incrementalist antidote to cynicism—their shabby original motives are less important than their shining long-term effect: Let's view the matter from the only truly interesting perspective, and disregard for a moment our position in time and space, and look beyond to the centuries to come, to the furthest lands and the peoples yet to be born.
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" Among their critics was Professor Gitlin, who wrote in an email, "It's crucial to their Manichaean view of the world that the suffering of the Cambodians is less important than their need to pin the damage done to Cambodia in the 1970s primarily on the American bombing that preceded the rise of the Khmer Rouge to power — bombing that was indeed heinous, ruinous, and did contribute to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, but that was only the prologue to the horrendous crimes that followed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.
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King said on "Fox News Sunday" that he found court filings on Friday about former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen and former Trump campaign manager Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE to be "less interesting" or "less important" than the documents that laid out the extent of cooperation between Flynn and special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE.
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