Sentences with phrase «bit of a favor»

And some managers / players have small little tricks that can tilt a bit of favor in there way.

As far as the bank appraisal is concerned, frankly, the appraiser was probably thinking that they were doing you and the bank a bit of a favor.

Not exact matches

Partly as a result, Black has noticed that Gen Zers are a bit more inclined than Gen Y to favor the idea of developing skills and building career in one place, rather than hopping around from one employer to another.

But, add the dividends to the good feelings of Christmas holidays and it sweetens the pot a bit in favor of December.

Throughout his election campaign, he consistently eschewed conventional politics in favor of sensationalism and sound bites, in contrast to Hillary's more measured approach.

Funny thing is that many things Christians do (deny civil rights to women, ga • ys and minorities, preach intolerance towards other religions, etc) would seem like something Satan would be in favor of... go figure, a bit ironic.

In his biting dissent Justice Antonin Scalia charged that Justice Stevens» unusual approach was a result of judicial bias in favor of abortion.

With EV, the group was larger, so you'd think the conspiracy was weaker, which is where the parallel causes one to wonder if EV itself wasn't thrown under the bus in favor of JoPa to help cover what happened here, but at the moment that might be a bit speculative.

On the plane back, I wrote a bit about my friends in the Assemblies of God, returning a favor from Earl Creps blog here.

He claims that there is a decisive bit of evidence in his favor, and that is found in Whitehead's 1937 response to John Dewey (reprinted in ESP 122 - 31).

Another bit of prima facie evidence that might be considered in favor of Hartshorne's «personalism» is that in Virgilius Ferm's 1945 classic Encyclopedia of Religion, a work to which Brightman contributed forty articles, 14 and in which Brightman had particular editorial input, 15 the article on «God, as personal» was written by none other than Charles Hartshorne.16 This, along with Brightman's review of me Divine Relativity (cited below), suggests that Brightman himself considered Hartshorne a personalist.

I also hold that your definition of Grace is not sufficient in and of itself to dismiss «unmerited favor» I DO agree that it (unmerited favor) is also incomplete and a bit misleading.

Jessica: You have the right to believe whatever you want, but please do yourself and your child a favor and further your education and spend a bit of time outside of North Carolina.

Yeah, «punch him» was a bit much, but NOT advocating in favor of the LGBT community, or supporting their lifestyle, is just as legitimate as the opposite.

Clearly if we found that this chemical were released whenever the bird began to sing, this would be a strong bit of evidence in favor of our hypothesis.

This tart was inspired by Amanda of Food52; we make our respective tarts a bit differently, the biggest difference being my tendency to favor butter over olive oil in pastry cases, but the main idea stays true

Sometimes I still get complaints, but I kind of think I'm doing everyone a favor because who wants to bite into a coconut - filled chocolate when you wanted caramel?

TIP: There is a bit of chopping to do in this recipe, so do yourself a favor a get out your food processor to make quick work of it all.

Lustrous silver almonds are the perfect party favor for silver - themed celebrations; they also make a fancy addition to candy buffets that could use an extra bit of oomph.

Tradition has weighed in favor of a turkey as the main course for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, but what if we changed it up a bit and instead, served a nice roast for Christmas?

If we get our tactics right and play to our strengths, with a bit of luck and some dodgy calls in our favor I think we can nick this one.

While +150 may be a bit steep given the uncertainty of this situation, I agree that they should be favored.

That we ate into it a bit with # 1 swings it somewhat back in our favor, but it's their benefit we are carving out of.

it's worth mentioning that the game stylistically favored the Heat quite a bit, in that Miami has taken a ton of FTAs this series despite being one of the lowest FT drawing teams during the regular season.

With all of the hype Stranger Things received, I'm surprised it isn't favored a bit more.

Many horsemen are in favor of using Butazolidin in order to get every bit of run out of their horses.

There's also a chance Jordan is misremembering a bit, and he's talking about this scrimmage covered in - depth by Sports Illustrated, which featured a Jordan - Malone - Ewing - Pippen - Bird five against Magic, Barkley, Robinson, Mullin and Laettner (although a 40 - 36 final score in favor of Jordan's team hardly constitutes a «killing.»)

Im in favor of drafting Vita Vea, bit that does nt mean i do nt love Roquan Smiths game.

«There's a little bit of apprehension out there, I think a little bit of fear of failure, and the one way to rid ourselves of that is to just pin your ears back and give it everything you've got, and then things will fall in your favor and we'll develop that confidence and learn how to win again.

The second half wasn't exactly as glamorous — especially after Milan went down a man following Manuel Locatelli getting his second yellow card of the night — but I guess it's only natural to ease up a little bit knowing you've got the advantage in your favor.

The mismatch was made worse by a bit of schedule congestion that saw the S2 staff decide to rest all of their first string field players in favor of Academy Players and First Teamers seeking match fitness.

Interestingly, I've never seen those who favor circumcision express the slightest bit of concern about being «fair» so any circumcision opponent who champions «fairness» in the misguided belief that their «fairness» will be reciprocated are going to be very disappointed.

I figured since your writing gave me a little bit of comfort it's almost selfish of me not to try and return the favor.

But I also point out that I had a few things in my favor, like a private office for pumping at work and the freedom to choose when and how often to pump; access to a hospital grade pump at no cost to me; a generous milk supply; and in 15 + months of nursing I have never had mastitis, clogged ducts, thrush, or biting.

As their cognitive and communication skills advance, most children stop biting in favor of more acceptable social behaviors.

But as I've talked about quite a bit on The Lunch Tray (starting with my very first post), it does concern me that our menu is currently still weighted almost entirely in favor of «kid food» (or what one source in Janet Poppendieck's Free For All calls «carnival fare»).

Although others may come up with favors and party game ideas, I know for a fact that many couples sort of just throw the party themselves, perhaps with a bit of help from a few friends or family members.

But as I've talked about quite a bit on The Lunch Tray (starting with my very first post), it does concern me that our menu is currently still weighted almost entirely in favor of -LSB-...]

Which wise government spending (see: investment in technology and other productivity - enhancing measures) can help that last bit, which is one reason I'm all in favor of spending on alternative energy research (I'm a little sick of sending hundreds of billions of dollars per year overseas for hydrocarbons; I'd rather employ Americans to maintain windfarms, solar plants, not - on - the - table - now - but - maybe - soon thorium reactors, etc.).

His desire to turn over gambling in NYS to a Malaysian gambling conglomerate, his stealthy attempts to undercut the estimable AG Scheiderman and the very honest Comptroller Di Napoli are so obvious it's pathetic; and he cares not one bit that the tax code in NYS favors the 1 % and corporations to such an extent that property taxes are going to destroy the rest of us.

GOP gubernatorial candidate really got two bites out of the Helen Thomas scandal, first using it to curry favor with Jewish voters and now, in the wake of her retirement announcement, suggesting his Democratic target, AG Andrew Cuomo, was AWOL on the issue.

This has the appeal of a man bites dog story — de Blasio a favored candidate of many unions and the Working Families Party, would seem an unlikely politician for developers to embrace.

Voting in favor of a practice that represents the polar opposite of equal treatment (which would, by definition, only be achievable through color - blindness) seems a bit contrary to any idea of «equal treatment.»

«We need to get someone who is fresh who is new and who will take the chance and focus a little bit more on the East Harlem community, which in my opinion has been ignored by the Harlem machinery... in favor of Central Harlem,» said Morales.

«It looks a bit like politics, and favors,» said Alissa Taff, 66, of Huntington, head of the Civic Association of Sweet Hollow.

The horse fossil comes from a spot along an ancient lakeshore where no stone tools have been found, a further clue in favor of damage from croc bites.

«In many ways, we're saying we expect a bit of magic to occur,» says Chris Field, a climate scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who instead favors drastic emissions reductions.

Fortunately, progress in stem - cell research can still continue through non-federal funds, and the prevailing zeitgeist does seem to favor an eventual nullification of the decision: Yesterday, another overreaching legal case bit the dust when an appellate judge dismissed a lawsuit that claimed CERN's Large Hadron Collider risked destroying the Earth.

So ignore the facts in favor of trusting your gut and you'll start to learn a bit more about who you are.

Delevingne is a big believer in the power of crystal energy and she reportedly ditches stiletto shopping sprees in favor of something a bit more spiritual.