Sentences with phrase «anything substantial in»

Many people feel the banking sector has profited long enough without giving anything substantial in return.

As for the new shoulder buttons, they feel good to press and stick out slightly more than L / R to minimise finger arching, but they aren't yet used for anything substantial in any games I've encountered.

Your unique hooks might be dogs or cats, swimming, small town living, anything substantial in your book.

The gameplay is quite basic and unfortunately fails to deliver anything substantial in this world of fighting games such as Tekken and Dead or Alive.

While Dead Rising 4 offers a story just like the past games, it is easily the weakest aspect considering how lackluster it feels, and how it fails to provide anything substantial in term of stroytelling.

So when Shapps handed the left an opportunity to bash the Tories despite the fact there wasn't anything substantial in the Budget they disagreed on, opposition spinners were fervent with gratitude.

That he was unable to change anything substantial in the tactical approach is a stark indictment of his leadership and suitability for a job at the very highest level.

The Irish football team has not won anything substantial in recent history; I guess they have been taking lots of selfies

Not exact matches

There is nothing intrinsic or magical concerning increasing resource revenues from exports — as money is fungible - and any substantial increases in inflows from a rise in any exports (mfg or resources or anything else exported) will place upward pressure on the exchange rate.

In this context, a risk is not anything bad that you can imagine, but rather, it is an uncertain or infrequent event that could cause substantial harm.

But as I see it, few are really putting anything really substantial out there, I mean here in the way of serious books, with serious backing and support that might get them into the mainstream.

And the «audience», the «market» for what they are peddling, are those that want that, obviously, and aren't interested in anything more substantial, reasonable, or «real.»

Political correctness has many forms, but they are united in a shared repudiation of anything solid and substantial in public life, whether in the form of nationalism or strong affirmations of constraints that human nature places on any healthy society, constraints that get articulated by all forms of traditional morality.

If Suarez could not accord an act taken as an action of change even the status of a real accident, but located it in the sphere of potential and relative being, then he surely would not have held that formed action could constitute the substantial being of anything.

I live in Africa and over the past few years, I have traveled to the emirates stadium trice to watch my team play, despite not winning anything substantial.

The former Manchester United captain's return to Everton in the summer seemed purely a romantic move, it was unlikely he would actually be able to offer his hometown club anything substantial.

In my investigation, I was not able to find anything more substantial since this response either.

[6] Others claim that at that point in time Blair preferred short - term ideas to anything more substantial, [4] and it was another decade before the inception of Blair's major reform to welfare — the replacement of Incapacity Benefit by Employment and Support Allowance.

If anything substantial emerges from this episode, apart from a byelection defeat, it may be a change in the party's culture that has been far too slow in happening.

«Nobody had done rapid - response drilling in the ocean, nobody had drilled anything substantial under 7 kilometers of water, nobody had placed an observatory in a fault that deep, and nobody had retrieved a string of instruments from that deep,» she said.

Festive season preparations dominate any spare time in the lead up to family and social celebrations leaving little time to do anything substantial about changing your single status.

Most people who have things going their way will not be interested in anything substantial.

In the absence of anything substantial to cling to, the movie tries to amuse with extraneous things.

Editing can't be blamed, either, as there is no indication in the commentary that anything substantial was cut out outside of the scenes featured in the supplements.

Plenty of other female critics, besides me, are flagging the problem, which includes a scarcity of substantial and complex female characters in narrative films, whether Hollywood or indie, that fail to pass the Bechdel test (at least one scene with two female characters who have names, talking to each other about anything other than a man).

Try though the film did to give each of the characters individual ways in which they were «broken,» and give Lena some meager backstory flashbacks, none of it really amounted to anything substantial.

Before it's over, the movie serves up a startlingly substantial celebrity - as - himself cameo that somehow rings as true as anything in the movie.

It's all played for laughs but in reality it's plum revolting, and while Vaughn and frequent collaborator Jane Goldman's (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children) try to soften things by making Eggsy ambivalent about the task at hand, if anything this only acerbates that grotesque nastiness of the situation a substantial degree.

The production of Universal Soldier, given its strange history as a franchise and the apparent idiosyncrasies of this new iteration, is well - worth exploring in detail, but, to that end, a talky commentary track from John Hyams and co-star Lundgren provides more substantial context and on - set anecdotes than anything in the stand - alone featurette.

Maybe its diminished status is due to its director's failure to follow it up with anything more substantial than 1979's More American Graffiti (Norton has worked extensively in television for 30 years.)

If Mr. Talton could provide two random assignment control - group studies of the attitudes of parents who have actually used a private school - choice program showing anything less than substantial improvement in satisfaction with their child's school, I offered to buy him a steak dinner.

Perhaps more pointedly for those who won't settle for anything less than an overtly coupe - like body shape to their SUV, the BMW X6 has a substantial edge on performance and efficiency, has even more incisive handling and costs roughly the same after you've added some extras that the GLE gets thrown in.

Forced induction is largely responsible for the substantial increase in peak torque (295 lb ft versus just 143 lb ft in this Type R's predecessor), although it doesn't arrive with anything like the smooth swell of a comparable Ford or Volkswagen unit.

«But more than anything, with reduced pricing for the range topping 335i and new 328i and a huge increase in standard equipment for the 320d, it offers a substantial improvement in value, both compared with its predecessor and its direct rivals in the market.»

They need to present the information in a substantial way and not compromise on anything.

So far, little progress has been made on either, and anything substantial is likely going to happen in 2018 at the earliest.

I have less than $ 30k in savings total between my IRA and savings accounts, so it wouldn't be anything substantial, but I still like the idea of putting my savings into the highest yielding option.

I didn't really want to follow his instructions, but, in fact, I had a hard time eating anything more substantial.

Extra polish is always nice and free DLC is a lovely gesture (the DLC in the first wasn't that substantial or anything and very short so this is perfect).

Many early naysayers prematurely critiqued the inclusion of the Titans in the game as glorified killstreaks that wouldn't really add anything substantial to the game.

Even the two members of LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule, Kareem Ettouney and Kenny Young, who were on - hand to oversee the competition and assist in the judging, doubted that anything substantial could be produced in such a tight time frame.

You can easily pull off a ground - to - air combo by simply button - mashing light punch, for example, whereas in past titles as recent as MCV3, there was a lot more button combinations and decent muscle memory needed to pull of anything substantial.

However, with the announcement from Gearbox today taking away any hopes of players getting to see anything related to a new game in the series at E3 2018, fans will have to continue to be patient to see anything substantial regarding the future of the popular first person shooter franchise.

History shows that the U.N. mostly fails in accomplishing anything substantial.

AR4 did in no way «essentially retract» much of what said in TAR — for anything substantial concerning the nature of late 20th C warmth the conclusions both in the NAS report and the AR4 report strengthened the TAR conclusions (see the statements above).

Of course, in a country with an overbearing government, those kinds of market and cooperative governance may be driven out so only Leviathan is left to do anything substantial.

-- We can't be certain that atmospheric CO2 is really going to cause any substantial harm, but we can be reasonably sure that anything that raises the price of energy (e.g. mitigation, that is reducing emissions at the source) will impact improvements in lifestyle that most of the world wants.

If Florida gleaned anything from Hurricane Andrew, the intensely powerful storm that tore a deadly trail of destruction across Miami - Dade County almost exactly 25 years to the day that Hurricane Harvey barreled into the Texas coastline, it was that living in areas exposed to the wrath of Mother Nature can come at a substantial cost.

The issue of tropospheric temperature trends is very difficult and has received a great deal of attention by researchers and also assessment reports; the problems are much worse for humidity and few people have even attempted to do anything with tropospheric humidity trends owing to inaccuracies in the radiosonde humidity measurements and substantial uncertainties in the satellite retrievals.

Anything going on in southwest Asia has substantial global security issues, since this is the backyard of the Taliban and al Qaeda.