Sentences with phrase «better a bit shorter»

And it's a good bit shorter than a Final Fantasy.

Roughly, I'd guess the debates over global climate change took place largely between 1981 and 1995; a good bit shorter than the debates over continental drift, but then there was less radical about the idea of global climate change — it was already known that the planet's climate had changed in the past, so the idea that it might be changing in the present was less radical than the idea that the vast continents might, in fact, be drifting like huge floating islands.

Not exact matches

It tells us that as soon as we are just a little bit better than another person, we can stop trying, even if it means stopping short of our potential,» Achor notes.

It's becoming clear, though, that whatever compromise emerges from Congress, it will be a short - term fix, nothing more than a bit of breathing room for lawmakers to hatch out a better agreement on spending and tax reforms.

For the (luckily) uninitiated, the debate is whether longer more in - depth content is better or shorter more bite - sized content is more worthy of your marketing efforts.

«All bad news for the shorts and a bit of welcome good news for the longs.»

So, we wanted to see just a bit more confirmation that the broad market was headed lower as well before entering the EEV (which is an inversely correlated «short ETF»).

The federal Budget changed the rules a bit re the taxation of passive investment income in private corporations, but falls well short of what was promised in terms of extra revenues and more tax fairness.

In addition to exiting all long positions at the ideal time, our market timing model prompted us to take on a bit of short exposure as well.

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

The short stories fare better, from the stories of The Company She Keeps to «The Cicerone,» a Jamesian tale of Americans in Europe that features a biting portrait of Peggy Guggenheim.

My black shorts fared better than my slippers which may now look a bit more brown than white.

I have been buying Mamma Chia for the past few weeks now, and then the other day I stumbled across your article, whilst trying to figure out a way to bulk order the drinks to save some money, and after a bit of research into some other recipes to make it taste more like Mamma Chia (3 tbl spoon chia seeds + 1 cup of water + 1 of your favorite juice) and a short trip to Whole foods, I'm now enjoying my own Chia juices from home at a much better price!

I also added about 2 or 3 tablespoons of Gorgonzola cheese that I had left over because I was a bit short on the parmasen and I wanted it to have a good kick.

Nothing sounds better on a chilly winter night than a hulking plate of braised beef short ribs, luxuriating in each bite of meat that slides off the bone.

-- Cook for a shorter time on the second side; a little bit of translucence at the very centre is a good thing.

«Really good ghee made from high - quality, grass - fed butter has quite a bit of vitamins A, E, and K2 and twice the short - and medium - chain fatty acids that butter has,» Dave Asprey, the founder and CEO of Bulletproof Coffee, tells me over email.

This traditional Spanish sauce has a similar texture to muhamarra, but it's a bit chunkier, which makes it better for tossing with shorter pasta shapes like campanelle (trumpets) or rigatoni or even bowties (hate on, bowtie haters).

Now this week we are heating up the oven a little more with the stovetop, but only for a short bit, to bring together a summer plum jam and the best classic vegan scones I have yet to experience (right up there with the carrot, coffee, and chocolate scones from last fall).

My first attempt tasted good but was short on black beans and a bit watery.

The fact that you have to pay so much money today to get a bit quality in proves that that football is short in good strikers nowdays.

He will begin his career as a dangerous goal line / short yardage option, and if he learns to read the field a bit better, could blossom into a dependable two down back.

Its not that we can chnange it anyway as our team is a bit short in good players.

For Team Golman, they came up a bit short but played well in their final Game of the season.

He said, «Well, I'm a bit shorter and not much lighter.»

I would also stop well short of calling it a great pitched game... but it was certainly effective, and I think to chalk it up as mostly luck and bad performance by the Nats is selling Bettis short a little bit.

Theo's first three or four seasons at arsenal were quite disappointing saw glimpses of what he was capable of but always seemed to struggle then I think he stepped his game up and had a couple of better seasons 2012 - 13 season he was brilliant 21 goals off the wing had a really great season 2013 - 14 started the season strong but wasn't getting the goals he got the previous seasons had a bit of an injury then looked better than ever for a short period before his injury.

Paul is 6» 0 exactly at best, and maybe a little bit shorter than that.

It's a team which is massively short on quality so it will be all down to work rate and hoping some of their players don't show up... Iwobi out is good Ramsey in brings in a bit more energy but no ability to dominate middle of park which is where we we will struggle... Chambers xhaka bellerin and mustafi will need to play out of their skins which has hardly been the case all season and kos will need to show leadership skills but if wilshere ozil and aubemayang click there could at least be a forward threat... An honest assessment 3 1» to them

He has got a good short back - lift on his shots (a bit like Podolski) which are often accurate and dangerous for a finish.

Arsenal have been a bit short but these were actually razor close contests over the past 3 years vs. one of the best teams in Europe — NOT blowouts at all.

The shorts on the home kit look a bit plain tho I think a bit more detail would have made the whole thing look better.

Lacazette is a class CF, he has never played outside of France so he may take a bit of time to adapt to a new league and language... Please remember that it took TH14 a short while to get going in the red and white, if Lacazette doesn't hit the ground scoring a hattrick then please support him, if he can replicate what he does for OL for AFC then Wenger can make him a better CF.

Wenger motivates the team, Alexis doesn't seem short of motivation so maybe we have to also consider the attitude of the individual players as well, maybe a bit of a clear out is needed to get players who are mentally motivated as well to match the team and managers ambition... This will require transfers and Silent Stan has final say on profit... I mean players.

A) the new players aren't good enough to be better than the sum of their parts and MP isn't able to overcome lack of talent on scheme alone, tanking the season; or B) The Lions are victims of their own success, where the cheap bit players that MP has schemed in find more money elsewhere due to improved stats, and we're stuck playing roulette on cheap, short - term guys again.

And it could have been so much better for the Gunners if only football matches were just a little bit shorter.

We are always short on players to win it, just spend a little bit more and we might get a good chance to have a go for it.

Woods saved his best bit of short - game wizardry for his final save, at 16.

its funny sometimes a good couple of big wins can change a lot around in a short space of time, lets get to the end of august first, then we will see the lay of the land a bit better overall.

The boss has revealed that it is a calf strain this time and even though it leaves us a bit short for the Chelsea match on Saturday with Xhaka suspended, Cazorla injured and Elneny away, do you think we might actually be better off without Ramsey?

Yeah i thought that was a bit of an overstatement there... Ospina hasn't been bad for us, has been a good shot stopper and his distribution improves game to game but he is still sketchy coming for balls (mostly because he is short)... As much as I dislike United have to say De Gea best keeper in the world at the moment, one of the few that single handedly wins his team points on a regular basis

Good win yesterday... need something to give us a bit of confidence... But lets not get ahead of ourselves yet we need to get a good run going... with Ramsey out Wenger has no excuse not to play Campbell who put in another great performance all over the field and his assist for Walcott's first was nothing short of Ozil lGood win yesterday... need something to give us a bit of confidence... But lets not get ahead of ourselves yet we need to get a good run going... with Ramsey out Wenger has no excuse not to play Campbell who put in another great performance all over the field and his assist for Walcott's first was nothing short of Ozil lgood run going... with Ramsey out Wenger has no excuse not to play Campbell who put in another great performance all over the field and his assist for Walcott's first was nothing short of Ozil like!

you cant blame Campbell for being a bit nervous after all he was been scouted by Galatasaray for a possible January transfer and at the same time he has had no game time this season and still did well, his passing ideas was good but he was a bit short on delivery.

But I believe as well, once you go into the rotation and you have so many tight games with such a short period of time, we play Sunday, we play Tuesday, you're a bit of a prisoner of that.

It is part of the football philosophy of Arsene Wenger to try to build from solid foundations and while we sometimes get a little bit frustrated with the boss not seeming to focus enough on short term success it is hard to argue that having a good academy is not important.

At 6 feet 1, Goodrich is also a bit short for All - America casting, and some people say he is All - America simply because he is the best - known player and the highest scorer (23.3) on the team that is defending champion and very possibly will win again.

An injury prone team with maybe 2 world class players and can't even finish 4th at best yet Wenger is still insulting us loyal fans the man is completely out of touch and if he stays I can guarantee it will be a summer like every summer linked to every player in europe get some player we do nt need get thumped on the opening day then Wenger realizes we're a bit short after all and send the infamous Dick Law out to find a deadline day panic buy.

They have had a tremendous season thus far and they got caught in a tight Game with another very good Team, and just came up a bit short.

They haven't done as well in Softball and came up just a bit short against 2x Defending Champs SigEp in Week 2.

Team AEPi battled Team DKE FR2 in well played Game on Sunday Night but just came up a bit short..