Sentences with phrase «abandoning a lot of»

And Fargeat's film breaks that mold in an exciting way by abandoning a lot of the tropes that make these films such a chore to sit through.

More than that, Doom abandoned a lot of the storytelling conventions and cutscenes we've come to associate with modern games: about 30 seconds into the first level, the main character physically throws the plot across the room and shoots a demon in the face.

The Carter Center was then a field of kudzu and haven for homeless, the indigent and abandoned lots of old - growth trees.

If you're not taking action, you could be abandoning a lot of sales.

Not exact matches

While Ford is putting a lot of focus on its delivering goods, the company isn't abandoning its inevitable future of using driverless cars to also deliver people.

But there's a lot of pressure to abandon QE, and I doubt Ben Bernanke enjoys the bullying so he won't cave lightly.

With an estimated 20 square miles of vacant land, Detroit's abandoned lots are roughly the size of Manhattan according to the Detroit Future City Report.

But the citizens of Asbestos can call it money saved on highway signage and stationery by not having to change their town's name to the equally descriptive Abandoned Lot Next to Drummondville.

I don't see a lot of people preparing to abandon Trump over this.

People don't want to wait that long, so a lot of people abandon news before it has loaded or just don't even bother tapping on things in the first place, even if they wanted to read them.»

Also in L.A., a woman said her Uber ride took her to an abandoned lot instead of to her home.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

Southern Company has been making a lot of the right moves in my opinion from abandoning the Clean Coal Project to looking to position themselves as a clean energy company.

There are lots of paths to explore when you pray, or you can abandon all paths and just simply wing it by opening your heart to God and saying what's on your mind.

We become easily fixated on lots of eye - catching, buzz - causing externals and great photo opportunities: A Pope who abandoned the red shoes - that were never an official part of the papal wardrobe!

I believe a lot of the anxiety religious people feel toward some secular ideas is that they will have to completely abandon all their current beliefs at once (like this pastor) before they can embrace new ideas.

Not all Christians will follow the lead of the new monastics to create intentional communities in abandoned places of empire, but those that do, such as the folks at Camden House in New Jersey, can teach the rest of us a lot — for example, about environmental racism.

There's lots of evidence that Paul abandoned that strategy, although not to the extent of directly alienating those groups.

A lot of people think that when you become a Christian, you have to leave behind and abandon all your skills and interests.

That means abandoning one - size - fits - all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained.

A lot of people today are deceived by the devil because they abandoned God.

He won't admit to it but a lot of the Catholics» Sunday contributions are going to pay for all the pedophilia settlements another good reason to abandon the RCC.

Just a lot of «grasshppers» at a «disco»; as we died in Vietnam; rode as Freedom Riders at the risk and sometimes cost of our lives; were killed, beaten, imprisoned, and then abandoned by Rev. Moon: as he made billions taking everything out of the sea in illegal trawling nets: while no one was watching...

Seeking to understand the true teachings of Christ by reading the Bible is a lot like trying to understand the lives of pre-historic humans by reading their abandoned camp sites using the science of paleontology.

I live in one of the most economically devastated neighborhoods in Philadelphia, in the post-industrial wreckage with hundreds of abandoned factories and houses, and with a lot that is broken in our lives and in our streets... and in our schools.

I think I could dive deeper into other aspects of this theme - exploring public versus private content creation; or why so many people start sites and quickly abandon them; or ways to think about evolving a site as you're evolving as an individual; writing for yourself versus writing for an audience... it's a lot to think about, a lot to consider.

«A lot of people, probably including myself, look at the period when I got back - to - back 50s as the height of my career,» King would say later, staring at the abandoned practice court from a dilapidated stage.

Granted, a lot of those sites had been abandoned and broken already.

Point guard Mark Jackson's black Ford Expedition has sat, abandoned, in the parking lot of Denver's McNichols Sports Arena since Feb. 15.

Fed up with the city «s broken promise to remove abandoned cars from a lakefront parking lot, the president of the Chicago Park District board wants to withdraw an offer to the city to use the lot for holding cars towed under winter parking restrictions now in effect.

With safe haven laws in effect, lots of newborn babies are now being abandoned, both «safely» and unsafely.

In the 1400 block of North Monticello Avenue, residents persuaded the Park District to lease Metra property and convert an abandoned corner lot into a pastoral refuge.

The WFP does engage in a lot of saber rattling, but there is some precedent for the party abandoning a Democratic member of Congress on the issue of health care reform just to make a point — even if that means losing a seat to the Republicans.

There has been a lot of sniping among four of the five Democratic AG contenders, with words like «insider,» «reformer», «Republican» and «progressive» being lobbed about with great abandon.

The lot at 61 - 50 Metropolitan Ave. is the site of an abandoned newsstand and convenience store.

They pumped a lot of money into the system and saw no improvement then just abandoned the district.

But if Cuomo ever falls from power, a lot of the people currently supporting his reelection will abandon him like a broken - down subway car.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, the Unison general secretary suggested the Labour leader can no longer count on his union's automatic support when he said he still has «a lot to get right» and should abandon the strategy of only issuing «reasonable statements».»

New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin said, «Instead of vacant lots and abandoned houses, the JOSANA neighborhood is now a place where residents can find good, affordable, and attractive homes.

Anis» case received lots of attention in the Somali media, after the UK authorities were forced to abandon a previous attempt to deport him midway through the journey to Mogadishu.

Avella stood alongside state Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi (D - Forest Hills) and residents last week in front of an overgrown, abandoned lot in Flushing to announce a bill that would require DOH to capture and release non-rabid raccoons.

City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) laced up his working boots Tuesday morning and took to the vacant lot near the intersection of an abandoned corner property, at 24 - 19 Francis Lewis Blvd. in Whitestone, alongside property owner Robin Singh to help spread -LSB-...]

«There's a lot of abandoned mine sites in the Colorado mountains.»

A lot of properties have been abandoned due to repeated flooding, said Parfait - Dardar.

But we know psychopaths» relationships are impersonal, that they favor the strategy of having a lot of children, and then abandoning them.»

For Columbia University epidemiologist Charles Branas, one answer is a relatively simple and inexpensive infrastructure improvement of derelict or abandoned city lots.

But the new data showing that a large fraction of epigenetic signatures of ethnicity reflect something other than ancestry suggests that abandoning the idea of race and ethnicity altogether could sacrifice a lot of valuable information about the drivers of differences in health and disease between different communities.

A lot of lecterns are fitted with plenty of drawers and cupboards, but a quick check of the one in our main science theatre last week revealed a jumble of forgotten handouts from a conference, an expensive but chalky calculator, several well chewed pens, some overhead projection transparencies with print so minute that I took one and frightened my students with it, a pair of prescription spectacles (abandoned, perhaps, because their owner couldn't read the words on the screen?)

Their idea is that there are all these exciting new types of reactors, [which] actually were abandoned in the 1950s for good reasons, that if we just built a lot of them would be cheap enough that they could be economical.