Sentences with phrase «a pinch of»

But companies are still feeling the pinch of the massive glut of oil worldwide, which has brought down markets and remains a major policy discussion among international producers.

Pinpointing the right part of your recipe (campaign) to bring out the flavor of your content or to build your following may need a pinch of this, or a dash of that but the recipe is still the same.

While other entrepreneurs sprinkle a pinch of green into their product lines, Surace's phalanx of the climate - change army is waging a war — a «third industrial revolution,» in his characteristically exalted vernacular.

The investment will help Wal - Mart target China's fast - growing online market at a time when largely brick and mortar retailers are feeling the pinch of competition from online rivals and a slowing of t...

After the penny - pinching of the financial crisis, a larger number of Canadians grew more comfortable purchasing cheap products, leading dollar stores to meteoric growth.

When Bartley D'Alfonso began to feel the pinch of trying to live on Social Security in the States, he moved to the highland university town of Cuenca, Ecuador, for a stress - free lifestyle on the same sum.

Just add 1/4 of a cup of the oats and a pinch of salt (1/8 of a teaspoon if you must measure it) to each baggie.

And now that Obamacare remains the law of the land under a hostile White House and Congress, insurers may be feeling the pinch of uncertainty over what the future holds for Obamacare's marketplaces.

With a pinch of skepticism and a dash of fun, The Salt covers food news from the farm to the plate and beyond.

Mortgage bankers are feeling the pinch of less refinance business, and some predict they will, in turn, have to get more competitive on the purchase side to make up for the lost business.

Best Buy joins other retailers that are feeling the pinch of more shoppers making purchases online and giant e-commerce rivals such as Amazon.com Inc. stealing business.

Those who owe the larger balances are feeling the pinch of their debt load — many are racking up interest faster than they can knock down the principal on their loans.

Saudi Arabia's private non-oil sector grew at its slowest pace in at least nine years, as it continues to feel the pinch of the government's...

The reasons are not obvious, and it takes a bit of understanding of the nature of business, mixed with a dash of technological know - how and a small pinch of economics to fully understand how a mere 10.1 % decline in miner commitment could spell disaster for Segwit2x.

While it's true that a number of brokers also provide their own signals, you have to take these signals with a pinch of salt.

These include companies such as GrocShop, PepperTap, LazyLad, MovinCart and Aagaar, as they felt the pinch of a slowdown in funding and couldn't find sustainable growth models in a segment plagued with wafer - thin margins, high logistics and customer acquisitions costs, and fierce competition.

But as more and more borrowers felt the pinch of student loan debt repayment, a new industry was born to help make it a bit more manageable: student loan refinancing.

My aim, in sharing the following criticisms is to help readers understand the important limitations in using SWRs and to know when and how to take these calculations with a pinch of salt.

I don't go to their conferences and workshops, nor do I listen to their advice without a pinch of salt.

So here's my question — now that everyone is talking about the economy and feeling the pinch of unemployment and financial ruin, can we have an honest conversation as the church around what an economy in Christ could actually be?

If through consumer boycotts and other mechanisms publishers and booksellers begin to feel the pinch, it is the pinch of democracy in action.

While some principles in the story are still truths, everything should be taken with a pinch of salt, no?

What I really did not know was that my spiritual ignorance, my inexpert yearning for God, was a hidden treasure, a pinch of yeast leavening my life.

From the reign of Domitian onward for over 200 years, Christians were killed for refusing to offer a pinch of incense to the religion of the empire.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This is a book addressed to those who have felt the pinch of a misfit between their expectations of theological education and the realities of a theological school.

Of course, if you reject the theory of Evolution on the premise that it's «ridiculous» and then turn around and tell me man was made from a pinch of dust by a super-wizard 6,000 years ago... well...

Your lackiness of whackiness is a wondrous breathe of succulent delirium with a pinch of cascading dementias

So, yes... I «can» argue with it / you... and anyone else who is unfortunately, as quite often the case committing the logical fallacy of «circular reasoning» with a pinch of «begging the question.»

The attention it does receive is often thin theologically — a pinch of God in a broth of dated managerial theory.

So taking the results with a pinch of salt because the rate wont stay constant, it still shows us how the percentage will grow.

If there is even a pinch of truth in the glimpses of Jesus that emerge from the research of the Jesus Seminar, then the historical churches of Christianity have much to answer for.

I believe we are electrochemical machines interacting with other ones and the environment, with perhaps a pinch of quantum behavior thrown in.

It seems to be a closet, neo - Darwinism with a pinch of God thrown in.

Whether giants, medium - sized or dwarfs, the stars are curiously similar in mass (from one to ten times the mass of the sun), which proves, incidentally, that they must vary prodigiously in their mean density — 1.4 in the case of the Sun, but 50,000 and even 300,000 in the case of the dwarf stars (a fragment the size of a pinch of snuff, brought from one of these to Earth, would weigh a ton!)

All it takes is a dash of reason, a pinch of logic, and a small dose of common sense.

I became obsessed with those personality tests that tell you more about yourself (ESFJ, 2 wing 3, Woo and Maximizer, and Leslie Knope with a pinch of Donna).

A pinch of salt can flavor a whole meal.

A little pinch of spice!

As a skilful cook says of a dish in which there are already a great many ingredients: «It still needs just a little pinch of cinnamon» (and we perhaps could hardly tell by the taste that this little pinch of spice had been added, but she knew precisely why and precisely how it affected the taste of the whole mixture); as an artist says with a view to the color effect of a whole painting which is composed of many, many, colors: «There and there, at that little point, it needs a touch of red» (and we perhaps could hardly even discover the red, so carefully has the artist shaded it, although he knows exactly why it should be introduced).

He calls it The Pinch of Spice:

Humanly speaking, what a painful thing, thus to be sacrificed, to be the little pinch of spice!

He estimates that the organized working class will soon feel the pinch of a hi - tech development under TNC auspices which increasingly excludes them from sharing in the scheme of economic production and distribution.

The Moses narratives, then, are certainly not a mixture of an indistinguishable pinch of history with the massive stuff of a wild, undisciplined, freely ranging popular imagination.

We can assume that The Shack has struck some sort of deep vein in our theological consciousness, and that dismissing it as kitsch will do nobody a pinch of good.

To describe the world with all the various feelings of the individual pinch of destiny, all the various spiritual attitudes, left out from the description — they being as describable as anything else — would be something like offering a printed bill of fare as the equivalent for a solid meal.

That unsharable feeling which each one of us has of the pinch of his individual destiny as he privately feels it rolling out on fortune's wheel may be disparaged for its egotism, may be sneered at as unscientific, but it is the one thing that fills up the measure of our concrete actuality, and any would - be existent that should lack such a feeling, or its analogue, would be a piece of reality only half made up.

At some point virtually everyone involved in the enterprise feels the pinch of a misfit between yearnings and expectations that are important (and vulnerable) parts of one's personal identity, on one side, and on the other a set of unexpected, often unintelligible, frequently frustrating «givens» that appear to be important (and invulnerable?)

Dust with a pinch of Cayenne pepper and garnish with cinnamon sticks, or dust with grated chocolate and garnish with dried red chiles.

Add onion, a pinch of salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, and thyme / oregano / marjoram, if using, and saute for 5 minutes, until onion is translucent.

For now I'll have my steel cut oats for breakfast with a bit of maple syrup, a pinch of sea salt and a big handful of blackberries and a juicy peach!