Sentences with phrase «become crutches»

Take care, though, that relationships don't become crutches.

They become a crutch and distract you when the going gets tough.

They can become a crutch on which he leans to dispel guilt for undone work he did not want to do anyway.

The late Lucy Dawidowicz, distinguished historian of the Holocaust, declared that there should be a moratorium on the very use of the word «Holocaust» — that it has become a crutch and an excuse and a cheapener of memory — and what she said is undeniably right and healthy.

As great as De'Runnya was, his size advantage often became a crutch for the offense and QB to lean on and limit what it could do.

I didn't want breastfeeding to become a crutch for either one of us.

So, if a child can not fall asleep without a parent feeding him to sleep, the feeding becomes a crutch.

A few minutes in a moving swing or bouncy seat can soothe a fussy baby, but don't let it become a crutch.

The small potty will become a crutch that will be difficult to take away, not unlike having to train your child to stop using their pacifier.

«The therapy becomes a crutch instead of a tool for personal growth,» she explains.

The best rule is look at anything that's become a crutch for you and start weaning off of it.

It is recommended to alternate days between using the egg and not using the egg during regular dynamic practices, so the egg simply helps bring awareness and train the muscles of mula bundha and does not become a crutch in learning to use them correctly.

There's nothing wrong with that — until it becomes a crutch, like getting stuck in a rut of always wearing makeup because no one has seen your bare face.

Also, meeting people only in a virtual environment — which is something herpes dating sites give you the opportunity to do — can become a crutch sometimes.

It is particularly important that manipulatives are used as a temporary tool for achieving understanding rather than becoming a crutch for pupils.

they can become a crutch, instead of using them to enhance content, they become instructional design «ornamentation»

They can become a crutch for weak management teams that aren't active enough in looking for organic growth opportunities.

I encourage everyone to look past the use of the words «emergency fund» because it becomes a crutch.

You see, by their very nature, credit cards become a crutch when we want something that we can not afford.

I don't mind when developers add the extra stuff, but it is increasingly clear that they have become a crutch for average, sub par and downright mediocre game design.

He pointed towards hint systems in adventure games, which can quickly become a crutch for players who are too persuaded into cheating, rather than solving it themselves.

I think that this would become a crutch however, and it would be depended on more and more while playing.

As I grew older, FFVII would become my crutch.

To date da Cunha's work has reinvested these prosaic semi-retired objects with a sense of purpose such as the hockey stick that becomes a crutch or the old t - shirts and golf clubs that become a tent.

With no intention to fuel the age - old Android vs. iOS debate, the fact that Android allows more freedom to its developers, sometimes becomes a crutch rather than a helping hand.

Cookies become a crutch and before you know it, your resolution list is sky high and overwhelming.

«We were in marriage counseling for years, and in some weird way it became a crutch.

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China has become a country that can innovate, but it is unwilling to give up the crutch of economic espionage and will never do so unless it is pressed.

So many atheists make the same mistake: assuming that Christians are a «monolithic» group: that they all became Christians either through indoctrination as children or because they need a «crutch,» particularly as the result of fear of mortality.

I don't see it as a crutch unless it's overdone and becomes blinding.

Alcohol employed as a frequent means of interpersonal adaptation often becomes a «glass crutch.»

Apparently, The Atlantic Wire has put together a fascinating list of the most common «crutch words,» in the English language; a plight that is becoming exponentially more serious of late.

People can and should use the crutch of religion until they can take ahold of their own spiritual life and become the person they KNOW they should be.

If a child gets enough «wise love,» love that is as free and accessible (and as important) as the air he breathes, he will become a healthy, loving, and self - reliant person, a person who does not need to use alcohol as a personality crutch.

From the perspective of a nutritionist to be, having an emotional relationship with food and using it as a crutch is obviously a hazard, but for someone who loves to cook and enjoys food and sharing the eating experience, certain meals become staples in our repertoire for more reasons than great taste.

The problem is that there comes a time where these sleep crutches become more of a bad habit then something that actually helps them sleep.

I just can't seem to get her to go back to sleep in the am unless we pat her to sleep (we don't do that anymore because it had become a sleep crutch) and she has yet to go back to sleep on her own... she gets up once a night at 1ish for a quick meal and gets put back in her crib awake.

Any new pattern that he comes to depend upon for going to sleep could become a new sleep crutch that you will need to wean him off of later on.

Once she learns stop doing it for him which becomes the new sleep crutch, as Ashley can attest to!

«These are not negative or bad behaviors, but they become a problem — or a crutch — when they're so closely linked in the child's mind with slumber that he can not drift off without them.»

If you stay in one spot for more than a few days, your baby will grow accustom to your being there, and this will become her new sleep crutch.

Rest: Unpainful movement of the area is important, but avoid putting weight on the injury for a prolonged time, perhaps by using crutches, until it is less painful to use Ice: Apply ice, not heat, to the affected area for 10 to 20 minutes every hour or two throughout the first 24 to 72 hours or until the swelling subsides Compression: Wear an elastic compression wrap for the first 24 to 36 hours to help minimize any swelling Elevation: Rest the injury above heart level for two to three hours per day to reduce the amount of swelling that collects in the body's extremities Stabilization: Especially if medical care is not readily available, like in the wilderness, stabilize the injured area until care becomes available

The «guy on crutches» became Mike, a returned Peace Corps volunteer with a civil engineering background.

Instead of approaching it from a functional standpoint, coffee became a mental and emotional crutch.

With that crutch removed, I was forced to become self - reliant.

Lay off the bread, especially wheat, for the famous «staff of life» can easily become the «crutch of death.»

For younger New Yorkers, Tinder has become a way of life — or at least a crutch to get through lean times in love.

And Then There Were None is commendably put - together — and its cast gamely embodies the opposing personalities of the source material — but along the way its seriousness becomes a handicap, its blunt storytelling a crutch.

I've see enough of TLC's My Strange Addiction to know that habits like this can become alienating crutches (for instance when you prefer eating sofa stuffing over human connection) but I still think that there's something so hilariously endearing about embracing one's crazy, external opinions be damned!

That becomes something of a crutch in The Cut, his decade - spanning, continent - hopping look at the aftermath of the Armenian genocide, because the film's narrative requires that its embattled protagonist, a refugee named Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), navigate a whole slew of unknown territories and political ideologies over the course of a few decades in the early 20th century.