Sentences with phrase «arguing over a piece»

They take a long, long time to complete and there's quite a backlog demand for his work (there are stories of collectors arguing over pieces Stefan Simchowitz has Instagrammed).

Sometimes it's advising a client that arguing over a piece of furniture (in the long run) will only cost them more than the piece might be worth.

Not exact matches

In GMOs most recent letter, Jeremy Grantham leads off the piece with, «At GMO these days we argue over three very different pathways to a similar dismal 20 - year outlook for pension fund returns... A problem for investors following GMO's writing is which of these three alternatives to choose»

The best part of all this discourse is that it serves as undeniable proof that God does exist and He created you all; if you truly believed that there is no need to worship God because He is a made up piece of fiction, would you actually spend this much time arguing over some ridiculous fallacy?

Arguing with Bob is like playing chess with a pigeon.No matter how skilled a player you are, the pigeon will roam aimlessly around the playing surface, knock over the pieces, sh!t on the board, and then do a victory strut.

My family devoured the loaf of bread in one sitting, arguing over the final pieces.

Extend playtime by talking about food and arguing over who's going to eat the last piece of pie!

He argued that this tactic — hyping preliminary adult stem cell research and other alternative strategies at delicate political moments — has been a set piece in the national debate over stem cells since the Bush decision in 2001.

Three middle - aged siblings argue over their late mother's estate, which includes the house and rare art pieces.

It's not like Duesenbergs or Cobras, where every piece of the car is argued over and lawsuits are filed as to whether Fred and Auggie, or the coachbuilder, or Carroll Shelby ever really used that particular hood widget or muffler bearing.

Slate «s technology columnist, Farhad Manjoo, tries to pour cold water all over Richard Russo's NYT opinion piece, «Amazon's Jungle Logic,» which argues that shopping at Amazon endangers local businesses.

While actual scientists are trying to piece together every little part of an otherwise almost un-piecable long term chaotic and variable system in response now to a massive increase in net lower atmospheric energy absorption and re radiation, Curry is busy — much like most of the comments on this site most of the time — trying to come up with or re-post every possible argument under the sun to all but argue against the basic concept that radically altering the atmosphere on a multi million year basis is going to affect the net energy balance of earth, which over time is going to translate into a very different climate (and ocean level) than the one we've comfortably come to rely on.

As the debate over Farrow's piece expanded on Twitter, sociologist Zeynep Tufekci — an expert in the impact of social - media on conflicts such as the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt and the more recent demonstrations in Turkey — argued that even free - speech considerations have to be tempered by the potential for inciting actual violence against identifiable groups:

Spending $ 1,000 on lawyer's fees arguing over a $ 500 piece of property benefits no one except the lawyers.