Sentences with phrase «bane for»

«Meanwhile, very lean inventory continues to act as a boon for home prices and a bane for affordability, particularly among potential first - time homeowners.

We thank Yvonne Summers and the members of the research team for assistance in conducting the study and Mary Bane for help in preparing the manuscript.

The internet has sort of been a bane for creative types — including musicians — due to the largely unenforced or maybe even unenforceable copyright violations that go on with photos and music.

So it's hard to argue — and frankly, a pretty arbitrary point — that Palin's presence is more boon than bane for environmentalists.

Unplanned outages are a bane for every wind farm owner and operator, entailing the financial cost of repairs and maintenance, and the opportunity cost of revenues lost through asset downtime.

The PS4's DualShock 4 controller might not have the most robust build quality (those flaking thumbsticks remain a bane for all), but it's still a forward - thinking pad that has all the features it needs to keep you in control of a modern console beast while retaining that all important PlayStation heritage.

How to deal with movement has been a continual bane for VR game development.

Between the soap suds and abrupt jets of water, bathtime is a common bane for many pooches (and their paw - rents).

Apart from price, the ease of availability of apps that proved to be a bane for Surface RT will also be crucial for the success of the Nokia tablet.

There are fewer large spaces between words, something that has been my bane for a while, but in order for it to really shine Amazon needs to launch their new typesetting engine.

While the automatic takes away the task of shifting (gears), it is a bane for the real fast guys.

Audi's speed - sensitive steering has been a benefit and a bane for some time.

He is also very close to his mother, which can be both a blessing and a bane for a new partner.

This not only promotes better endurance and health in general, but also lowers levels of LDL cholesterol that become a bane for many.

Method to divine one person's DNA from a pooled sample is a boon for forensics and a bane for privacy advocates

So is private funding a boon or a bane for American science?

This has been our bane for long.

With RS we can set clearly defined buy and sell signals, taking the emotion out of the investment process, which has proven to be a bane for most investors.»

In a recent public statement about the move, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler — who happens to be a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association — said that for too long, the set - top box has been a boon for cable and satellite companies but a bane for users.

One of the biggest banes for runners is injuries.

Not exact matches

Tracking time and attendance: «Buddy - punching» — when employees manually punch each other's time cards to falsify their work hours — has been the bane of small businesses for decades.

After successfully silencing the tug boats whose tooting tormented her on the porch of her Riverside Avenue mansion, Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, the wife of venture capitalist Isaac Rice, founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in New York in order to combat what she called «one of the greatest banes of city life.»

Famous in Germany for not talking to the press, the Albrechts have passed their tightlipped ways on to their U.S. business: Trader Joe's and its CEO, Dan Bane, declined repeated requests to speak to Fortune, and the company has never participated in a major story about its business operations.

Central American countries are also enjoying ripples from growth in the US, and for them, lower oil costs are more of a boon than a bane.

Religion is the bane of man — responsible for more wars and deaths and holding us back from our true potential.

A bane because there is so much lousy thinking out there, for people who misuse their minds and don't «think» about the issues, or don't use their noodles effectively (the irony is that someone like yourself would say your brain is «god given»... in my opinion, this god would smack you upside the head for not using it as he intended).

Fiona Banes, executive director of Time for Marriage, believes modern living has made getting married more unattainable.

Many of the Reformers, for example, instruct us to boldly express our liberty before such diseased religion, for it has been the bane of the church throughout.

The brain - dead, entertainment, pop culture crowd is going to associate Bane, DC's famous fire - breathing, four - eyed whatever - it - is villain, with the Republican candidate for the presidency.

The very cardinal nature of our faith is paradoxical — «Semper simul peccartor et justus» — we are simultaneously justified and sinner (Luther)-- but that truth must be expelled or certainly hushed when the construction of checks and balances which morally fence us from the bane of «the world» (dangerous ideas) become the goal for the «common good».

You dumb phucks have been a bane of humanity for way too long.

Remember when I was talking about how a gluten free brownie recipe was the bane of my existence for FOREVER because, no matter how hard I'd try, the recipe would never turn out?

Human resources aside, kitchen fires are another shared bane of the restaurant and hospitality trade, with the U.S. Fire Administration reporting «cooking» as the cause for the majority of fires during the 3 - year reporting period.

For many people, boiled brussel sprouts are the bane of Thanksgiving dinner, they are bland and boring.

-LSB-...] I mentioned in my last post, gluten free brownies have been the bane of my existence for the entire year + that I've been -LSB-...]

Healthy Gluten Free and Vegan Brownies have been the bane of my existence for the past few months; I've tried so many times to make the perfect recipe, but they've ended up grainy and freaky.

Olden and Bane are too small to play small forward for long stretches and not good enough ball handlers to run point against pressure defense.

Slow play has been the bane of golf long before Kevin Na became the poster boy for the problem and probably since the first Scotsman hit a pebble with a stick.

We have better right backs for a start with Dave and Bane.

Summitt might be less thrilled to learn that Parker's favorite female player was Connecticut's Diana Taurasi, the bane of the Lady Vols for four seasons.

A renowned practical joker, his pranks were often the bane of his teammates, but such was his talent that they often overlooked his mischievous streak in return for a clean sheet in the next game.

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

The international break, usually the bane of the Leeds United existence, could not have come at a better time for the club.

There's a reason pointless possession was the bane of Zdenek Zeman's existence; eventually you're found out, passing and holding for the sake of it is a temporary tactic, not an ethos; sooner or later, your lack of creativity and initiative will be your undoing.

and to say the Queen supports Arsenal makes it worse for us as we are never seen as an English team irrespective of our success in the EPL, CL, etc. that has been the bane of English football.

It was former Inter men that proved to be the bane of Luciano Spalletti's existence Sunday as Inter Milan failed to gain ground in the race for a Champions League bid in a 1 - 0 loss at Torino.

But the former Rangers and Birmingham City manager opted for 32 - year - old Charlie Mulgrew as his captain at the heart of defence, alongside Grant Hanley — a player who has long since been the bane of many Scotland fans» sporting life — and in front of the tried - and - somewhat - failed expertise of 36 - year - old Allan McGregor.

Swelling has been the bane of my existence for as long as I can remember.

Housework is basically the bane of my life and Husband has offered on more than one occasion to pay for people to come and make my life easier — although I usually refuse out of pure stubbornness and by annoyingly over-blown sense of frugality!

It can also be very difficult — see, for example, the many accounts of Sir Montagu Norman's autocratic rule in the early part of the 20th century when he was the bane of all chancellors of any political colour.