Sentences with phrase «be the dead weight»

I get that bonds are supposed to be volatility reducers, but they shouldn't just be dead weight either.

Because they're essentially trying to be a dead weight.

I have nothing against religious people — but if you are regressive, and refuse to believe in science, you are a dead weight on our country holding us back from competing in the world.

One result of this technical approach is that the classical theological disciplines are dead weights in the seminary curriculum.

We Are Moving Foward & he's dead weight.

The other factor other teams do not have are the dead weight of Arsenal moaning, entitle fans who make playing at home a difficult.

Walcott is dead weight.

He's not Andrea Pirlo, mind you, but nor is he dead weight.

Rent seeking involves significant expenses that are dead weight loss to society.

This is a pivotal year for a state groaning under economic duress and crying out for leadership that will overhaul a government that's a dead weight on 18 million people - and corrupt to boot.

Actually, there is some dead weight in Thomas Ian Nicolas» dull Kevin character, but thankfully he's little more than an extra here.

The first act is dead weight: Watch how Lorenz stages an inexcusably long expository scene between Goodman, Lillard, and Patrick as a shot / countershot roulette, following a botched master shot.

I thought Ed Harris was dead weight in The Hours.

They may appear to be dead weight, but keep in mind that if they're out there cutting loose, it might not let the player feel as satisfied.

In contrast to the calculating policemen, Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is dead weight — an out - of - shape alcoholic has - been detective with a gimpy leg.

There's some heft to the wheel, but it's a dead weight that doesn't draw you into the driving experience like a performance car's steering should.

I don't think it's dead weight — it's just considering what work you want to make a priority when you describe yourself at your site, on social media, and elsewhere.

If B&N gave up on the ebook market, they would be giving up on the future of books, in which case they might as well just file for bankruptcy now, because in the long run, paper books are dead weight.

In other words, the characters either tell me the story or I push them through the story as if they were dead weight.

That's a dead weight loss.

With an above - average introductory bonus, credit statement, annual fee waiver for the first year, and other nice benefits, the Gold Delta SkyMiles credit card won't be a dead weight in your wallet.

Perhaps the debate should center on narrative, which in adventure games usually leads the player to the exploration of locations and identification with a lead character, while in a fighting game the very code that holds the story is dead weight on the disc or cartridge.

They may appear to be dead weight, but keep in mind that if they're out there cutting loose, it might not let the player feel as satisfied.

Additionally, a player who is a really high level may get stuck with a player of a lower level or vice versa, and the one with the lower level will usually be the dead weight on most of the later levels.

But frequently 50 % or more of the content is utterly useless - it is dead weight, consuming storage capacity and obscuring the genuinely valuable content, burying the essential digital needles in terabytes of useless haystack.

Your goal is to analyze your employees to see who is dead weight and who is going above and beyond.

From the top executive to the lowest rung of the career ladder, if you aren't continually seeking to learn how to increase your effectiveness, you are dead weight.

«Let's have fun» can be a dead weight around the neck of an outing by a noncustodial father visiting his child.

My last blood test I actually sat up and had it done but I had to fast for 12 hrs but it was about 10 am in the morning by the time I dropped the kids off, found the place I had to go and sat in the queue so I fainted once she started... when I woke up with her slapping my face gently I said did you get it» and she replied» no... because you are dead weight when you faint so she had to look after me rather than the needle..

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It's showing that we're going to shed this dead weight and be productive.

You can't be carrying dead weight — employees who are half - hearted about your mission, eyeing the clock.

If you want to take your business to the next level, you can't be pulled down by the dead weight of bad clients.

If profitability is your goal, it may be time to cut some dead weight.

It's calculated that after two years of use, one - third of a pillow's weight is dead skill cells, dead dust mites, and other less - than - desirable leftovers.

Simply, it is economic dead weight without any taxpayer value.

If I've learned anything from William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, or Donald Hall, it's this: Life is far too short and the mind is far too small to carry around the dead weight of incoherence.

But at the same time that I was learning to engage with God as a hungry, growing young Christian, the realization dawned on me like a dead weight sinking in my stomach that no amount of spiritual growth seemed to have any effect on my sexual preference... There was nothing, it felt, chosen or intentional about my being gay.

The edifice thus erected and defended for twenty centuries gradually has been seen to crumble to ruins under the multi-directional assault against a theism unable to sustain its own dead weight.

Men go to God when he is sore bested, Find him poor and scorned, Without shelter or bread, Whelmed under weight of the wicked, the weak, the dead; Christians stand by God in his hour of grieving.25

No wonder the peer - reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association concluded: «Clearly, the weight of the historical and medical evidence indicates that Jesus was dead before the wound to his side was inflicted.»

That's one question the film subtly explores — Oyelowo is marvelous, no doubt, and Young places him dead center in the frame over and over, thereby conveying the weight of the movement depending on him.

Grains like rice, millet, sorghum, teff, and amaranth are typically dead weight in gluten free dough.

The problem is there is no point in buying dead weight so he has to be class and that means we have to rotate the squad.

There are 15 spots on the roster, of which I would classify as follows (FA): Core — Embiid, Simmons, Fultz, Saric, Covington, Redick Bench — Johnson *, Ilyasova *, Belinelli *, McConnell Prospects — Korkmaz, TLC, Anderson, Holmes Dead weight — Bayless

I hope come next season all of the dead weight is off this team.

Considering the dead weight they have from their # 100 million outlay last summer (Balotelli, Lambert, Lovren), Liverpool will struggle to make the Champions League and likely be mired in the Europa League with the Swanseas and Southamptons of the world.

any chance they'll absorb Absolution; maybe Shed the fifth Wheel (whoever needs a Face turn or is considered dead weight) and comprising the bulk of Raw's Female Heels dominates the Division... setting up a «Cross-promotional Feud» with the Horsewomen come Survivor Series

Here's hoping that they have the balls to do everything they can to drop the older dead weight and let these guys younger guys play in the NHL next year on bottom 6 roles.

There's a fair bit of dead weight to fund the reported # 7m pay rise.

There is too much dead weight in the squad.