Betekenis van:
more often than not

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. More often than not, she had to go in person.
2. More often than not, he is late for school.
3. More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
4. More often than not I lay awake all night.
5. But more often than not, we came back empty-handed.
6. These flowers will live through the winter more often than not.
7. It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. ... Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.
8. More often than not, the task is transferred to a single body and, as a result, the assets are transferred in their entirety rather than being split up.
9. The elements concerning the complete system involve the most constraints, since more often than not they can and shall only be modified when complete restructuring work of the complete Energy subsystem of the line (re-electrification) is carried out.
10. The elements concerning civil engineering involve the most constraints, since more often than not they can only be modified when complete restructuring work is carried out (structures, tunnels, earth works).
11. In such a very small system, it is often not possible to have more than one generating facility per island, which makes the presence of competing generators very unlikely.
12. Accordingly, more often than not they carry out social plans which may include measures for the redeployment of staff, assistance in finding work, redundancy payments and even action at the local economic level, which go beyond the requirements of statutory provisions and collective agreements.
13. Even in this hypothetical case, experience in any case demonstrates that the rights and obligations of these establishments are systematically taken over by another legal entity governed by public law, more often than not the State itself, as shown by the numerous legislative instruments and examples identified by the Commission’s expert on the basis of the study carried out by S. Carpi-Petit .
14. The documents annexed to the Portuguese application give sufficient evidence that the objective of a competitive market in electricity is impossible or impractical to achieve given the very small level of production and the fact that the islands are also isolated from one another. In such a very small system, it is often not possible to have more than one generating facility per island, which makes the presence of competing generators very impractical.