Sentences with phrase «as a crutch»

I feel like most supplements are either utterly useless, supported only by hype - filled marketing tactics, or are misused, either in situations they're not intended or useful in, or used as a crutch for poor nutritional habits.

It is the question that needs to be addressed as the crutch of whether or not a case was reported in print passes into history.

The right travel medical coverage can protect you from paying thousands of dollars for foreign medical services, such as emergency response and hospital care, medication and tools such as crutches.

If parents can focus more on teaching their children to make good decisions based on the wisdom that can be found in the Bible and in the advice of trusted friends and family, the children will grow up more prepared to make good decisions without having to use God as a crutch when they feel less than confident about the next step.

Maybe people are not «fence - sitting», as you so inelegantly stated, but rather like myself have made a firm intelligent decision that religions are the cause of some of the most devastating periods in man's brief history on this planet and hopefully one day we will get past the need to use religions as a crutch for a weak mind and instead select lifestyles such as Buddhism to evolve.

You use god as a crutch and an excuse as all religious people do.

rip on Pit's irrepressible naïveté, and make extremely bad puns, but the game never uses humour as a crutch in place of character development.

Teachers generally start telling children to stop counting on their fingers around the end of first grade — they're learning to do math in their heads, and finger counting is sometimes seen as a crutch or even a sign of weak math ability.

The Farrellys probably exhaust almost every possible joke that can be told featuring conjoined twins, many of them quite clever, and they rarely need to resort to crass envelope pushing in order to achieve humor, which they have relied on as a crutch more often than not in the past.

People mistakenly use supplements as a crutch instead of diet / nutrition as there primary focus and starting point.

Am I using the driving line as a crutch because I'm too lazy to put in the practice laps to learn the tracks without it?

If something wasn't working well for them, they had the courage to address the problems head on, and create happy, meaningful lives that didn't require food as a crutch for happiness.

If you do find that you're using the credit card as a crutch, this method might lead you down a dangerous financial path.

There was a real, palpable tension to the moment and the way Nathan acted as a crutch for the injured character looked fantastic; it felt like two characters actually interacting, rather than a couple digital models with collision detection.

If she's returning to drugs as a crutch (not turning to them just now), it sounds like she has deeper issues that need to be addressed.

So the anti-monumental memorial now entails a documentary program that, among other things, serves as a crutch in the absence of effective symbolism.

«they used Wall as a crutch to avoid making the hard decisions that were obviously desperately needed, given that Grunfeld had built the culture that enabled players to such an extent that they brought guns to work.

For nine days, I battled the worse flu of my life with rolls of tissue, too many doses of Theraflu, gallons of Hot Toddy, a rescue inhaler doubling as a crutch, and hours upon hours of Hallmark Christmas Movies and Gilmore Girls (yes, them).

I shouldn't need alcohol as a crutch.

If you are going to use supplements as a crutch, you will fail.

Let's not use our color as a crutch anymore, but rather as a pole vault stick to get over all these barriers.»

Bad Moms is one of the more pushy raunchy comedies you'll likely come across, a film so reliant on using vulgarity as a crutch it has characters drop F - bombs at their children's schools and during PTA meetings because without them, the makers of this film feel like they won't get a laugh from audiences prone to guffaw just because they heard harsh language.

Am I using the driving line as a crutch because I'm too lazy to put in the practice laps to learn the tracks without it?

They do not see technology as a crutch, but as a propellant.

Instead of turning a new leaf, it uses Kirby's signature moves and style as a crutch for a new quest with a few wrinkles sprinkled in along the way.

Seriously people, stop using the whole «waiting for Zelda» excuse as a crutch.

You need to be able to present your case without notes and without relying on your graphics as a crutch, while also speaking to and effectively using your demonstratives for support and persuasion.

If you focus on making a difference for the audience and know your material without needing your slides as a crutch, then you won't feel nervous.

Don't use the 401k as a crutch.

Anyone who does that or thinks of their EF as a crutch is just fiscally irresponsible, and they'd spend their money irresponsibly no matter what they called call the account.

I have to whole - heartedly disagree with other posters» assessments of how people use emergency funds as crutches and excuses to buy.

It will be remembered as a crutch for the weak.

So, the front page Easter message is, «Christians weren't really persecuted as much as we thought,» and «modern Christians use the concept of martyrdom as a crutch?»

for luck in the future, the band isn't using success as a crutch.

People like you that use the Bible as a crutch make me glad I gave up religion.

These frauds use the bible as a crutch to force their beliefs on others.

If being weak minded means that I trust Christ as my crutch to take me to heave (and much more than a crutch) than I would rather be weak minded than to be strong like Sue... and spend eternity in Hell.

Then I read Marx, Freud, Weber and Durkheim and decided that Christianity is a social construction that sometimes operates as a crutch, is sometimes politically repressive, and in its finer moments is a source of moral challenge and social cohesion.

Most scholars are lost when it comes to the book of remembrance, not bible, and miserable people use name calling as a crutch, its looking juvenile on you, so called educated one, good example you have here.

quit using that crap as a crutch and take responsibility for your own actions, instead of blaming your imaginary friend!.

But Onthelevel, WE are Calling the Shots in our lives and using god, the dog, or even drink as a crutch is the problem.

Don't use the candy as a crutch for a hard day.

Salmon with Hot Sauce Vinaigrette and Pickled Veg We use vinaigrettes as a crutch.