Sentences with phrase «about appeasing»

It's about appeasing environmentalists and crony capitalists whom the President is counting on for his reelection campaign.

Sounds like we need climate scientists who chew about science and not about appeasing their leftist paymasters.

Then it needs to go off at a tangent and show us it has some balls and isn't all about appeasing shareholders with OEM sales of Operating Systems and office software — real people do read the SEC filings too, you know.

A very light local multiplayer only party game about appeasing the gods and holding their large heads on consoles as well as PC.

These are developers who don't sacrifice quality for quantity, nor do they have to worry about appeasing their shareholders.

«Clearly, Cuomo and the Assembly Democrats who voted against our amendment are more concerned about appeasing the public sector unions that get them elected than they are about doing what is right for the developmentally disabled.»

At family meal time is where we would experiment with solid foods — but the solid feedings were more about eating together as a family, and not so much about appeasing his hunger (since he was breastfed ahead of time).

If this whole sorry saga was about the battle to see if player power really existed and whether the game has moved towards being all about appeasing individuals with mind blowing salaries, then Wayne Rooney has won the war.

Or is the manufactured huffing and puffing just about appeasing the Pitt community and distracting them from his shitty teams and worse on - field performance?

It's all about appeasing the far right wing nut base.

It's not about appeasing a religion one hates; it's about protecting the religions one likes.

Not exact matches

While the move will surely appease many angry customers, it does mark an about - face from a pledge two years ago by General Mills to remove artificial colors and flavors from its cereals.

Valeant, which has about $ 30.77 billion in debt, also had to appease creditors after missing deadlines for filing financial reports, triggering default notices.

The FDA's intent with Canada Drugs could be to restrict sales of erectile dysfunction drugs, appeasing the pharmaceutical lobby angry about lost sales of popular products, without targeting the sale of heart medication and similar life - saving drugs so as not to punish low - income Americans.

People then find themselves in survival mode, where they don't care about the product, the company or the customer experience; they only care about keeping their jobs and appeasing their boss.

As conversations have multiplied, especially in recent months, about the gendered expectations that pressure women into engaging in unwanted sexual behaviour to appease men, Daniels's inner monologue sounds painfully familiar.

The currently largest operator has offered to sell approximately 3 million of Time Warner Cable's 11 million video subscribers to keep its share of the overall market to about 30 percent in an effort to appease regulators.

«If the Church is ever mentioned» in such debates, he pointed out, «it is in the gratitude expressed that we have not attempted to «appease» the Church or the Church hierarchy, or else in the (unintentionally) patronizing allusion to those who care about the University's relationship to the Church as implicitly conceiving the University along the lines of a seminary.»

It was NOT done to appease anyone or change anyones mind about us, because that will not happen.

Ah, the irony, this woman writes an article about people leaving the church and it appeases the elders!!

Instead, every human philosophy and religious system is filled with ideas about working our way back into the good graces of whatever deity is being worshipped, and about pleasing and appeasing the gods who are angry with us.

I can do what I like with my holiday, and I don't have to rename and reconfigure it to please one side or make it about something I don't believe in to appease the other, neither Jesus or Saturn or any other myth that was once attached to the day.

I care about the life people like you are attempting to force in to this world, you care about what appeases your god - big difference when you really don't care or consider the child only what your imaginary friend god wants and yet your god cause abortions all the time... you care about a clump of cells, not the actual life of the child and that's much worse than me supporting the rights of a woman to have control over her body, especially if the clump of cells couldn't survive outside of the host.

Over the past 72 hours, I've been engaged in various debates about the contents of our newly minted - health care system and the effects of the executive order that was issued to appease Bart Stupak and his ilk.

To appease the atheist, how about leaving an empty space beside the cross so that they too have an equal amount of exhibit space as Christians?

Instead, everyone hunkers down, ignores the problem and hopes it goes away, defends the attacker, and / or tries to appease the attacker in hopes he or she won't turn and attack them (there was even an article about how to appease a narcissistic church leader in Christianity Today's Leadership Journal this week).

Isn't the point of this post about people who would rather dismiss portions of the Bible because it isn't politically correct or appeasing to the palette, so that same logic should be applied to areas that we are struggling with today?

Doctor Martinus said a great deal about witchcraft, about asthma and hobgoblins, how once his mother was pestered so terribly by her neighbor, a witch, that she had to be exceedingly friendly and kind to her in order to appease her.

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

The only thing a politician cares about is appeasing to the majority.

All this proves is that you care about nothing other than appeasing the imaginary... a sincere insult to humanity.

Furthermore, there is a kind of embarrassment in talking about sacrifice in catechesis, not only because it is seen as something negative in itself but also because it can conjure up what is often seen as the Protestant view of the angry God who seeks blood to be appeased and is only fully appeased when Jesus dies on the cross, shedding His blood in our stead.

He also inisted that he didn't buy Perez and Mustafi just to appease the fans, but he's glad they are happy about it (well some of us anyway lol!)

Are you really naive enough to believe that Wenger would bring anyone into this current locker room that is going to be given a strong voice... have you not been watching, listening or reading about our club for years... Lehman is a blind Wenger follower, which is the only reason he was even considered... just for a second think of all the strong personalities that have played for this club that have never been seriously considered even though they have expressed legitimate interest in participating in the coaching process... even worse, think of all the former greats who aren't even allowed on the same pitch as Wenger because they have offered their advice and / or criticism to the infallible one... I dare you to find a manager that has distanced himself from his former players as much as this man... it's the very reason why only one player I can think of has ever returned to play for Wenger and that was Flamini, which was hilarious considering we were desperately looking for a top quality defensive midfielder but Wenger could somehow find no one better than Flamini in the whole wide world... let's face it this club was simply trying to appease it's disgruntled fans by declaring that Wenger would no longer be given Ca rte Blanche when it came to the backroom staff so they probably asked him to give them a list of those who he would allow in the locker room... on that list he wrote Lehman, Pires and Bergkamp, likely because the first two are the only former players who haven't publicly questioned his horrible decision - making and the last one because he won't get in an airplane

Kind off looks lame this old chestnut about a panic buy to appease the fans.

The win puts Liverpool back in the Champions League hunt and Rafa will hope that the convincing nature of the win will appease the fans and stifle speculation about his future as Anfield boss.

Off topic am sad about our transfer window but am glad that the club did not panic buy to appease us.

But that still may not be enough to appease unhappy fans who are concerned about Wenger staying on while the club also face uncertainty over their biggest two stars.

I feel particularly bad for guys, not only because they bear the financial brunt of the day — the typical guy will shell out about $ 168.74 on Valentine's Day this year — nearly twice as much as we gals will — on clothing, jewelry, greeting cards, stuffed teddy bears holding puffy satin hearts with «I Love You» embroidered on them, lacy Victoria's Secret teddies, etc., but because they'll be doing it to either appease their sweetheart — do guys really love V.D. like so many women do?

The one I want to explore is why Margot misrepresents herself and her desires in order to appease a man, how all too often women are raised to be people pleasers, something I've written about before because, hey, I am one.

Until very recently, no one else cared about the issue so that it made sense for legislators to appease the few, but that is changing.

More about when they cry and you can't appease with them with treats x

O'Neil appeased the disbelieving audience, asking about numbers as high as 600 before ending the exchange with a thud.

But here is the problem for Cuomo... while he would like to appease environmentalists, sources say he is very concerned about his veto being overturned by the legislature.

WASHINGTON - House Republicans took the wraps off their long - anticipated tax bill, revealing a few attempts to appease GOP lawmakers from New York and other high - tax states concerned about the proposed elimination of state and local tax deductions.

Channel 4 News has learned the government is to raid a housing hardship fund to appease Tory backbenchers in urban areas, concerned about benefit cuts.

He is an old rival to Ken Clarke (they have fought against each other for the Tory leadership and disagree on Europe) but his place in the cabinet should appease rightwingers who are sceptical about the Lib Dem presence.

Lawmakers who have demanded that Mr. Zuckerberg testify before Congress about Facebook's relationship with Cambridge Analytica were not appeased by his statement.

And often the easiest way to appease someone's fear about the blog, is simply giving him access to it.

And now we finally have a trailer for the movie about the widow who spent her life building a never - ending maze of a mansion designed to either trick or appease the many spirits she believed haunted her.