Sentences with phrase «all at the whim»

Audiences are much more informed about their options than ever before — that means you, your services and products are at the whims of other consumers» opinions and reviews unless you take charge.

Your phone will be the remote control for your life, and you will have a myriad of products and services available to you at your whim in a completely transparent and digital way.»

Trump is notorious for getting into — and out of — real estate and business dealings at a whim.

A common tick of the Bad Boss is to select an office scapegoat on whom he or she can dump any built up frustration / anger / aggression at whim.

This resilience shown by the S&P 500, which just last week hit a series of new record highs, goes a long way towards disproving the notion that the stock market is trading at the whim of the tech industry.

Plus, schools get to flip back and forth between Windows 10 S and Pro at whim, too, no fee required.

«As entrepreneurs we like to think that the world bends at our whim, but it doesn't work that way,» says Amos Winbush III.

Giant, wall - sized vending machines proliferated and then died out decades later, rising and falling at the whim of technological change.

That way the protections couldn't be put in place or taken away at the whim of whichever party had a majority in the FCC.

Sometimes, I feel like we're all at the whim of the latest social media trends.

The deal, though could also leave students, and maybe staff, at the whims of the real estate market.

«We are not at the whims of short - term shareholders.

«A growing underclass scrambling to make ends meet at the whim of increasingly picky and erratic employers, that number could balloon to 65 million within 10 years, or about half of the domestic workforce, warns Steven Hill in his troubling new book, Raw Deal.

I mean, think about areas outside of the United States that have high inflation rates, if you are a consumer there, in an oppressive regime, you want a way to have more control over your assets and not be at the whim of governments, so that's kind of how it all started.

Also, owners who lack financial sophistication and who think it's their bank's sole purpose to fund business growth at a whim tend to pull out too much cash from their annual earnings.

So you are not totally at the whim of the lender; you know from the get - go what the interest rate cap is.

Ethereum can hard fork at the whim of a few developers, as we've seen repeatedly.

«God doesn't mean for these to be relationships that we pick and choose at our whim among the many Christians «out there.»

That is an evil God, just because He created us doesn't mean we are His play things to torture at a whim.

It is led, sometimes seemingly, at the whim of the Holy Spirit and just natural connections.

Second, Congress has exercised lax oversight, bowing to the will of the executive, and framed such vague, inadequate laws that the intelligence agencies have filled in almost at whim the blank checks at their disposal.

At some point it stopped being about explaining the world and became about power and control... they got used to the money and moving armies at your whim...

Meanwhile we have believerfred that has his oh so supernatural god that can change the natural laws of the universe at whim; why because it says so in a 2000 year old book of myths, so there take that.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardener.

the Christians hijacked pagan rituals at their whim, including Christmas... and now we re not supposed to mess (make it more inclusive) it?

Yep, in Christianity people are as valued as a pot... we are nothing more than things to be disposed of at the whim of the potter.

This line of argument is actually a reversion back to the other prong of Euthyphro's dilemma arguing that whatever god does is good, i.e. good is at the whim of god.

Scriptural truth does not fundamentally change at the whim of the interpreter.

It just seems like to them, people are disposable «things» to be tossed away at their whim at the slightest offense or inconvenience... They are superior, and will make sure you know it.

We have moved from a place in which human rights have been guaranteed by virtue of some understanding of transcendent derivation, to a dispensation in which even the most fundamental rights are to be regarded as existing at the whim of the electorate.

A coerced whip - line vote that imposes a radical and philosophically incoherent agenda on a country not at all sure it wants to go down that road is «democratic,» whereas a free vote on whether the state can re-define a basic human institution at its whim is undemocratic?

On the other hand, being an atheist, she naturally espouses amoral behavior; a lack of moral principles — only those that are self - imposed and self - executed, and which are subject to change at a whim.

One day they are playing dolls, and the next they are the sex - slave of a brutal man to be used at his whim.

I am a bug that he can squash at his whim.

If ANY scientific laws can be broken at whim by a supreme, NO scientific results can be trusted.

But now we may be seeing the rise of white - collar and blue - collar countries, where the differing legal systems prevent the development of healthy workplaces and labor relationships, especially in poorer countries attempting to live at the whims of the wealthy West's consumption choices.

apparently YOU are incapable of controlling your mind... you are at the whims of other people..

Chaired by State President P.W. Botha, the SSC expands and contracts at the whim of the leadership from a central core of the ministers of defense, foreign affairs, police, justice and their lieutenants.

The ability of activists to do what they do while in the church, Toscano says, comes and goes at the whim of whoever is in charge.

However, more than look to what Jesus said to prove he as God, I look to the disciples, who were flawed me, ready to abandon Jesus at a whim and then came back to the fold and stayed consistent in their decisions to the end.

If there's going to be a law it needs to address all those cases, not be at the whim of individual judges who have religious motivations.

If God can change the laws of science at a whim, then science can not be used to prove anything.

Genders prescribed by biology are now discarded and transformed at whim according to the dictates of our disembodied wills.

I think I like that size because (a) it reminds me of the small country churches my grandparents attended (and my grandfather would sometimes «speak» at, since they often couldn't afford a full - time clergy, so were at the whims of circuit riders), and (b) because that gives me a «monkeysphere» (a folksy explanation of Dunbar's number).

Of course, the bandwagon is a slightly different beast for me since mine drives at the whim of food magazines.

«In the past that export volume was very much a commoditised approach, a trading mentality, and it was all about price and you were very much at the whim of the Australian dollar.

After years of progress on the cost - efficiency side of chocolate production, chocolate manufacturers could be forgiven for thinking they've finally hit the wall - that they are at the whim of the cocoa butter traders and that further cost savings are beyond their control.

«Some might remember that a couple of years ago, someone who is no longer involved in F1 decided it would be a good idea to change the qualifying procedure and at a whim that was done.

Why would WH or any team for that matter plan a season around a player who can be recalled instantaneously at the whim of the parent club?

Glasnow shouldn't be at the whim of the umpire who doesn't feel like he has «earned» those calls on the edges.