Sentences with phrase «by being bad»

Dating is, perhaps, the only activity you get a reputation for being good at by being bad at it.

The team describe current agriculture funding models as «perverse subsidies»: promoting negative actions in both the long and short term by being bad for the environment and costly to the economy.

In the course of his studies, he was struck that children «were very, very distressed by being bad at maths.

«Soon we will be the only state where honesty and hard work are trumped by being a bad criminal.

It's one of the nifty tricks of indoctrination — teach people that by being bad to others who are deemed unworthy makes them look good in the eyes of their god.

It's way too easy to try and show the Bible has inconsistencies by being a bad interpreter of it.

I've learned a few helpful tips by doing the opposite of what this passage says — by being a bad friend.

He's always felt second best, and tries to give himself something to live for by being bad.

though I am not sure if socialization by itself is bad... God did create us with a need for community.

Interestingly enough, narcissists can also get that superior feeling by being the worst; the most wrong; or the most ill, upset, or injured for a period of time.

The original California compounded these aesthetic issues by being badly detailed and full of clumsy touches that only made the tail look even more ungainly.

Not exact matches

The scarcity of illegal guns is reportedly so bad that stolen antique guns are frequently used by gangs, and U.K. law enforcement officials now estimate that only around 1,000 guns are in use by criminal elements in the entirety of the U.K.

It's the un - and under - employed that are hit worst by a stagnant economy.

«The business community, by and large, has consistently communicated to lawmakers at every level that such laws are bad for our employees and bad for business.»

Four Middle Eastern nations — Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman — are tied for «worst» in this category, since each had a «0» in TOE contributed by renewables.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said any move by the United States to impose tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum would be a «very bad idea» guaranteed to disrupt trade between the two nations.

Before you enter into any partnership, you should be willing to take the vow: Will you stick by this person through the ups and downs, the successes and failures, in good times and in bad?

The new study will be led by outside researchers including the Dangerous Speech Project, a research group that studies how public speech could incite bad and even violent behavior.

This looks particularly bad for Tidal because, from the moment it debuted, the promise made by its founders — a group that includes Kanye West and Carter's wife Beyonce — was that Tidal would be different from other services because it was run by artists.

It's a really bad time to be a gadget maker, if the steady raft of poor sales reports is anything to go by.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

Brasch's claim is bolstered by other Google initiatives, including the launch of a powerful new search tool for uncovering so - called «prior art» references that can help attack bad patents, and prevent them from being issued in the first place.

Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world.

But it's worth keeping in mind that November 2009 research by Covergys, a Cinncinnati company that provides call - center services, has shown that a bad review on social media can cost a company about 30 customers.

The superhero reboot has been troubled by bad reviews and negative buzz, only opening to $ 25.7 million last weekend, and so far, it's only earned about $ 42 million domestically.

Even brand managers who embrace social media can find their efforts are met with lackluster response or, worse yet, can find themselves in a crisis from an online misstep caused by spreading oneself too thin.

By many accounts, venture capital funding in Canada has been shrinking for years, which on the face of it is very bad news.

If you've ever seen a stranger behaving badly — a mother yelling at her kids in the grocery store or someone who's inebriated in public — you may have reacted by silently judging this person.

Asked if the political morass in Washington was as bad as it looked, the former treasury secretary drew laughter with his answer at the 2016 Delivering Alpha Conference sponsored by CNBC and Institutional Investor.

By focusing on our health, understanding and planning for worst - case scenarios, cultivating trusted friends, and rewarding ourselves periodically, we're making an investment in the future of our business.

The results were the usual horrorshow we've come to expect by now, if not worse.

Here the best and worst of 135 countries according to World Health Organization (WHO) and International Energy Agency data, which was shared with Business Insider by The Eco Experts, a UK - based solar energy comparison site.

On appeal, he argued that the Houston jury was biased because the area, and thus the people living there, was heavily affected by the company's bad dealings.

But with an airdrop, he added «almost 100 % of the source term -LSB-...] ends up on the land» — so a salted weapon blown up over a target would «be many, many orders of magnitude worse than the fallout produced by an underwater detonation» several miles from shore.

The North Korean malware program WannaCry did serious damage to computers around the world last year, but it would have been much worse if not for the rapid discovery of a flaw in the attack found by young British security researcher Marcus Hutchins.

You want to be an entrepreneur so badly that it has become your second nature to evaluate the income — minus the overhead cost — of every business you passed by on the street.

By accepting your emotions, and «taking the good with the bad,» people were found to be happier and healthier.

The economy was saved from a worse fate in the first half by consumers.

We weren't bored by dinosaurs; we were bored by bad storytelling.

That kind of behaviour is obviously bad for one's personal finances, but Canadians are doing it anyway, and the main reason is that debt, by historical standards, is dirt cheap.

By preparing yourself for what it's going to be like and making agreements from the get - go, you're more likely to come out better should the relationship take a turn for the worse.

There's not much most of us can do to look good on video, but at least we can make sure we don't hurt ourselves by looking worse.

A top Wall Streeter thinks the government is hurting the economic recovery by unfairly constraining banks and continuing bad policies.

Your best move, say the Ackerly brothers, is to take every sensible precaution but, by installing their software, you have the Steve Martin option when the worst happens.

Many of the fires were caused by firefighters who used dynamite to demolish buildings to create firebreaks, but only made matters worse.

According to data cited by Dove, 54 percent of women worldwide confess to being their own worst critic of how they look.

And it's really bad for the Canadian economy, which needs young women to fill both our population gap (by having babies) and our skills gap (by putting their considerable educations — women now make up nearly 60 % of new university graduates) to work.

The experts aren't shocked by this — particularly bad outbreaks of flu are often trailed by another strain of the illness known as «influenza B» — but it's a bummer for the rest of us who were hoping we were finally out of the woods when it came to flu misery.

So by trying, even if you fail, you're not any worse off.

But I'm disturbed by the glee with which so many people celebrated the fact that he lost his job — his source of income, his means of supporting his family — as a result of his drunken bad behaviour.