Sentences with phrase «as lost causes»

Resulting in unprecedented success among students previously dismissed as lost causes and academic failures, the CREATE model has demonstrated that it is indeed possible to close the achievement gap, even in the most difficult cases.

It can also lead to undesired responses by teachers who may be tempted to think of them as lost causes.

Some see themselves as lost causes — they don't see the possibility of forgiveness.

The terrorist attacks set the stage for a decade of setbacks that have led many people to regard the stock market as a lost cause.

I'm nice to anyone who shows me the same respect and if religion never come up, no problem, but when it does and I get some type of zealot or another trying to preach I polietly excuse myself, and write that person off as a lost cause and remember to aviod them in the future.

Make no mistake, things would be much MUCH worse if we just gave it up as a lost cause... we would be putting «my life and families life in danger only then to be either killed myself or charged by police for taking action?

at one point I realized that my calling is to have faith like John the Baptist or the virgin Mary, to believe in God in a way that would cause every religious person to reject me as a lost cause for the rest of my life, for them to speculate and gossip about my breakdown or my backsliding, and to never defend myself because i am right where I should be and when you are right where you should be, you do nt defend yourself.....

I'm sure most people who knew me had already written me off as a lost cause, thinking I was doomed to a life of fast food and Velveeta; I might well have been if it weren't for a sudden explosion in my tastes that happened around this time.

While I don't think their performance actually merited a draw, it was reassuring to see the team in the game and fighting for one at the end when they could as easily just have given it up as a lost cause.

People didn't exactly think he was a world - beater when signing for Chelsea at the age of 26... Even Coquelin was given up as a lost cause before last year, way past the age of 18 2.

A loan to West Brom helped him a little, with the Mexican grabbing a couple of vital goals, but it is getting harder to see whether he remains one for the future or should be written off as a lost cause.

The missing fathers include young men, often unemployed, and sometimes seen as a lost cause by their child's mother, her parents and family services.

At the time, Perry posed with Astorino, then a candidate for governor in New York, after Perry's 2016 Republican presidential rival Chris Christie referred to the GOP candidate's bid against Cuomo as a lost cause.

The issue of gender equality continues to separate views, with some viewing it as a lost cause while others see the need for a law granting women equal rights as their male counterparts to be implemented.

Other than Sen. Mark S. Kirk in neighboring Illinois who lost his re-election bid, the Wisconsin Republican was the incumbent most of the GOP establishment had written off as a lost cause.

Did Republican Pete Crummey write off Ulster County as a lost cause?

The Republican running against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted Chris Christie on Tuesday for dismissing his race as a lost cause — and suggested the two Northeastern governors are in cahoots as they deal with the fallout over the Bridgegate scandal.

Though western medicine tends to write off these patients as a lost cause with «advanced maternal age,» with consistent treatment OM techniques can help to reverse the effects of aging and increase the likelihood of successful conception and healthy pregnancy.

As it stands, the only one who actually stands a real chance at pulling an Elizabeth Berkeley on Cody is Tony Gilroy, whose double - dip on Michael Clayton and status as a lost cause over in best director ensure a few votes from those who feel pity and from those who have apparently seen none of the myriad law - and - order TV dramas from which the film's ruinously clichéd plot resolution was lifted.

It would be easy to dismiss this irresponsible wild child as a lost cause, given how he not only stole, but forged checks to support his habit.

All that being said, just because BookBub is hard to get into, it doesn't mean you should write them off as a lost cause.

The first is that many have written off dendroclimatology as a lost cause, unless substantial new insights are made.

Some may look at Google's Pixel C as a lost cause.

Not exact matches

But both Twitter and GoPro have something else in common: They're in the midst of a stock price slump that caused both CEOs to recently lose their status as paper billionaires.

It remains to be seen whether Breitbart's audience will see the Fields incident and its aftermath as a reason to lose trust in the site, or whether they will simply view the departed staffers as traitors to the cause and move on.

Consolidation may also cause you to lose certain borrower benefits — such as interest rate discounts, principal rebates, or some loan cancellation benefits — that are associated with your current loans.

Researcher Andrew Hafenbrack and his team at INSEAD in Singapore, as well as the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, have concluded that 15 minutes of mindfulness meditation daily can reduce people's tendency to persist with lost causes because of past investment.

McGurk posted a photograph Wednesday of surrendering IS militants, saying: «once purported as fierce, now pathetic and a lost cause.»

As a result, mental health is one of the leading causes of lost productivity and absenteeism.

«There is no good cause for further judicial involvement where the court has now heard directly from Redstone that he has lost trust in Herzer, does not want her in his life and instead wants his daughter Shari to look after him as necessary,» the judge wrote in an opinion this morning.

Breaking your day into chunks helps you be the best you, as too much time spent doing one thing can cause you to lose focus, and interest.

In California, where Kardashian lives, he could face a variety of legal consequences as a result of his actions, including a restraining order that could cause him to lose custody of his daughter.

People hate flash crashes, and obviously they cause some people to lose money, but they have always struck me as sort of non-systemic, a technical glitch rather than a major fear.

[2] If she marries a man making $ 40,000 — whose 2016 income tax as a single person would be $ 3,984 — she would lose all of her EITC (the couple's income would cause the credit to phase out completely) but would retain her CTC.

If you recall, munis were under pressure at the start of the year as some observers were predicting that tax reform could cause some bonds to lose their favorable tax status.

Many would consider that a classic «black swan event» and the reaction would be «much more severe» than Brexit, which caused the S&P 500 Index to fall 5.3 percent in two days as benchmarks in Europe and elsewhere lost even more.»

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Look for a return of «Jingle Mail» as homeowner's who are underwater, give up the lost cause and send the house keys back to the mortgage holder.

The trade association said the tariffs would cause 23,000 installers, engineers and project managers to lose their jobs this year as billions of dollars in planned investment evaporates.

That could cause a downturn in the US economy and a spike in the unemployment rate that would undermine the very reason Trump is considering withdrawing from NAFTA; while some jobs would be created, more jobs would be lost as American exports grow more expensive for foreigners.

areas of higher sun exposure lead to humans having higher melonin levels as humans migrated following their food they moved into europe and asia where lower exposure to sun caused a lose in melonin content.

As more move towards this more genuine vision of our reality, the power and sway of these charlatan's who have caused humanity so much harm and suffering will lose more of their grip until they fade into obscurity.

Personally, the fear of God's judgement could cause someone to seek God, but if you say you believe and even fill a church pew the rest of your life, because of fear, but you really don't believe, I think you're just as lost as those who deny his existence.

@CM, you would run a failing business and cause all to lose their jobs with notions such as yours.

Death causes us to lose our footing completely in ourselves so as to deliver us over to the powers of heaven and earth.

The bill's proponents cite accounts of students being expelled from school, allegedly for coming out as gay or transgender, which consequently causes them to lose time or money invested in that school.

Ironically, it is the Emergent embrace of and then misuse of open and free - flowing communication techniques, like the internet, as well as the Emergent refusal to participate in existing church saccountability structures, that will cause the Emergent movement to lose all credibility.

Such a descent would immediately set its subject alongside those concerned to promote authoritatively the cause of religion and morals, and establish an immediate gulf between him and those of whom he spoke as «the lost sheep of Israel».

As for your «righteous» ruler... well, if you think the function of the President is to «rule», you're even more of a lost cause than anyone had imagined.

If, on the other hand, the fantasies are used as cause to harm others, or to stop people from seeking truth, then I pity those lost fools and I cry for humanity.