Sentences with phrase «amount of arguing»

Talking about what turns you on and makes you feel loved can cut down on the amount of arguing you do in this important area of your relationship — in a way that feels good for both of you.

This is a given fact and no amount of arguing can change this.

There was the usual bit of silliness, a fair amount of arguing and we even managed to talk about some car stuff.

Your child needs to learn that their bedtime is set in stone, and no amount of arguing will change it.

When I was young we were taught that the referee's decision is final, and no amount of arguing or screaming will make a blind bit of difference and should not be tolerated in the slightest.

Not exact matches

Advocates argue that subsidized daycare pays for itself (and is better for the economy): More women are able to enter or re-enter the workforce, increasing families» purchasing power and the amount of taxes paid.

As Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert says, «I would argue that in some cases your performance can be enhanced by generating in yourself just the right amount of illusion about your own performance.

Ferguson slammed the massive amounts of government spending in the U.S., arguing it would push up interest rates and lead to stagflation.

Wolff, for one, argues that James Murdoch has bigger fish to fry than meddling with a property like Fox News that is generating huge amounts of revenue.

And thanks to the compounded interest, he argues, that payment is likely to be much larger than what they would have gotten by putting a comparable amount of cash into an annuity — a common strategy among income - seeking retirees.

Thompson and others, however, argue that given the amount of resources Facebook is throwing into video, it is bound to solve these problems eventually, and doing so will make the platform — as well as other strong contenders such as Snapchat, which claims 10 billion video views a day — far more competitive when it comes to bidding for traditional consumer ad spending.

Absolutely, especially when you consider the amount of money they are arguing about.»

But false equivalence is also a danger, and arguing that some private conversations that amount to virtually nothing but political scuttle - butt on a range of boring political issues is the same as what Trump has done is ridiculous.

US C - SOG argues that by using modern technology and weapons, including shotguns, Tasers, and body cameras, officers can use a more exact amount of force and ensure they never apply more than necessary.

They argued that the reliance on Steele's material amounted to an improper politicization of the government's surveillance powers.

Apple has been under an increasing amount of pressure as of late, with some critics arguing that the company seems to have reached an innovation ceiling.

As well, companies like Bell argue that prices for individual channels will go up while the number of available channels will decrease, leaving customers paying the same amount of money or more for less TV.

Ebert argued the earlier agreements were invalid because they amounted to restraint of trade but Superior Court Justice Frederick Myers granted summary judgment in favour of Mars Canada in November 2016.

In fact, I've found that slacking off makes me more productive because I slack strategically — meaning that I take breaks at designated times, for regular intervals, in ways that sharpen my focus when I sit back down to work,» she argues, asserting that «strategic slacking has enabled me to dramatically increase both the quality of my work and the amount I get done in a given day.»

She has long argued that an extraordinary amount of monetary stimulus would not lead to runaway inflation because economic activity was so depressed.

This, he argues, indicates that Obama is self - assured and leaves a healthy amount of emotional distance between himself and his leadership role.

Segal argues that companies have invested huge amounts of time and money into understanding every nuance of their customers, but put in comparatively little to understand their own operations.

Writing for Quartz, author Richard Koch argued that history has shown that greater amounts of time spent at work do not correlate with greater prosperity.

Marc Bevand, an investor and entrepreneur, was skeptical of de Vries» tally of Bitcoin's energy use and argued that the real global energy footprint of mining was likely closer to 15 terawatt - hours, which is still a huge amount of electricity, but half of the estimate on Digiconomist.

Conservatives argue that the bulk of a tax cut should go to the wealthy since they carry such a disproportionate amount of the burden; besides, they're more likely to invest their tax cut instead of spending it, and investment is where economic growth comes from.

I have long argued that as long as China — or indeed any other country — has the debt capacity, it can get pretty much generate any amount of economic activity it wants.

They argue that activists seek too much power given the size of their stakes, which amount to as little as 1 % in some cases.

In fact I have always argued that I consider a moderate amount of sustained CPI inflation as a good thing, indicating that China is really rebalancing.

In the process, the prime minister spent a serious amount of time arguing that Andrew Scheer was little more than a Stephen Harper clone, with nary a sentence on the NDP and its rookie leader, Jagmeet Singh.

The previously unreported incident is the first sign that serious concerns about Ronny Jackson's conduct had reached the highest levels of the White House as far back as September — months before White House aides furiously defended Jackson's professionalism, insisted he had been thoroughly vetted and argued allegations of misconduct amounted to unsubstantiated rumors.

In a pair of federal complaints, Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group, argued that the settlement amounted to an unreported in - kind contribution to Trump's campaign.

That change would have raised revenue to help Republicans offset the losses from the massive rate cuts, and some proponents of it argued that the state and local tax deduction (known as «SALT») amounted to a federal subsidy of high - tax states.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varufakis confirmed on Friday that negotiations are being conducted with Greece's European partners to discuss ways of addressing these liquidity problems, while expressing confidence that the parties will eventually reach a solution, arguing that the whole issue was about a «small amount» of money.

Some opponents have argued access to the 1 1/2 - mile - wide river, with its potential to dilute vast amounts of pollution, would let Georgia - Pacific increase production and create more waste without running afoul of environmental laws.»

Of course one could argue that the model was not back tested far enough and needs to be back tested against a larger amount of time but it is interesting none the lesOf course one could argue that the model was not back tested far enough and needs to be back tested against a larger amount of time but it is interesting none the lesof time but it is interesting none the less.

Short argues that a potential merger would unlikely result in a large amount of forced divestitures from regulators.

However, Geithner argued that many employees of the IMF, where he was a senior executive at the time, were confused about what they owed and neglected to pay the full amount.

You can argue that the original organism had better eyesight than others of his species and therefore the change increased his ability to survive, but you ignore that the change had to occur in the first place, and if there was a change in the first animal the interconnectedness of the related bodily functions makes it impossible for the chance change — which by the way required the loss of genetic material — to have happened regardless of the amount of time you had.

And one could argue that this screenplay, even more than the average Mad Men screenplay, amounts to a shuffling of characters and themes.

The classical response to nonmoral evil we have been discussing begins by affirming «C» omnipotence in relation to humans and then argues that there do exist good reasons to believe that such a moral world would include instances of genuine nonmoral evil and plausible reasons for assuming that such a world would have the types and amount of genuine nonmoral evil we presently experience.

Working well will do much more to re-Christianise society than by «any amount of distributing leaflets or organising meetings», he argues.

The attempt to argue that the extraordinary rite could be celebrated on the traditional holy days is in fact causing «problems»: and there seems to be a certain amount of creative disobedience going on.

The young theologian named Frenzel amassed a remarkable amount of sources and argued that the indissolubility of marriage was not contained in scripture, nor in the utterances of the Fathers nor the councils and could therefore not be regarded a dogma.

I find it rather comical that one argues that there can not be an eternal being who created our universe, yet there can be an infinite amount of universes created from nothing.

I shall argue that Whitehead did in fact badly misinterpret Aristotle's concept of substance, as Eslick claimed, and I shall suggest that, far from amounting to an inconsequential error in historical exegesis, this misconception was a strong influence in turning Whitehead's metaphysics in the direction of an epochal theory of becoming.

One can argue Paul wanted them kicked out of the church but what Chick Fille and Billy Graham want amounts to persecution of gays whether they are in the church or not.

Both sides in this debate argue away from the assumption that a rather rich education, and a pretty fair amount of experience in the world, would be required of anyone who might plausibly be designated author of the Shakespeare corpus.

Dreihaus, part of a group of Democrats that supported a ban on taxpayer funding of abortion yet — when this provision failed to pass — still voted in favor of the final health care reform bill, argued that, given his pro-life beliefs, the ad amounted to defamation.

One could argue that the recent spate of books on the stresses of motherhood amounts to just so much whining by a bevy of privileged, highly educated women with a surfeit of professional options and material wealth.

Secondly, they argue that the amount of evil in the world suggests that God is not a very persuasive leader.