Sentences with phrase «by losing touch»

Don't let potential profits slip away by losing touch with old clients.

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Through a network of volunteers, Miracle Messages does just that, by letting people film video postcards to reach out to family that they've lost touch with.

«We were suddenly lost in conversation and hours and hours slipped by,» Gates recalls in a touching blog post commemorating the anniversary today.

Tech companies here, staffed mostly by white and Asian men, fear they will lose touch with the diverse nation — and world — that form their consumer base as demographics rapidly shift.

Although it has nothing to do with what to eat, it helps many people lose and maintain weight by getting them in touch with feelings of fullness and hunger.

waaahh... baby didn't want to lose to a girl... probably thought he'd pitch a tent by touching a girl for the first time too.

We are witnesses when we allow ourselves to be touched by folks who are lost and afraid.

The danger here is that such speculation will lose touch with actual experience and lead a life of its own, unchecked by reference to concrete reality.

He says that the human rights movement is in trouble because, by its manipulation of the UN and other international organizations, it has lost touch with any constituency that gives it democratic legitimacy.

In response to the first claim, Pelikan quotes Lionel Trilling: «It is probably true that when the dogmatic principle in religion is slighted, religion goes along for a while on generalized emotion and ethical intention — «morality touched by emotion,»» but it «then loses the force of its impulse and even the essence of Its being.»

Tolkien's reference to «ancient shepherds» seems to carry with it an implicit criticism of «modern» and «urban»; that modern man, surrounded by concrete and reliant on mechanical devices, has lost touch with nature.

Also, I have touched upon his tendency toward sin as a free, rational spirit who is seduced into idolatrous loyalties both by fear of losing his life and by fascination with special advantages he can gain for himself by calculating self - aggrandizement.

But while neighbors rejoice, a son and brother in the family most touched by the drama of lost and found is unable to celebrate.

By falling to acknowledge the natural human openness to promise, our theologies have sometimes lost touch with the actual lives and dreams of real people.

When you are driven first and foremost by the audience awaiting your updates, you can lose touch with the God you're always tweeting about.

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I'm hoping that I haven't lost my touch and things will turn around by next week.

Total touches (282 rushes, 26 catches) with only one fumble by Mike Hart, who didn't lose the ball the last 230 times he had it.

Poor performances by Giroud and Cazorla today, Giroud poor touches and losing possession, Cazorla not providing a threat and not seeing the ball enough.

Sumners skated terrifically — at times one could see touches of Peggy Fleming in her graceful arabesque, hints of Sonja Henie in her serpentine sequence — and lost by only one - tenth of a point.

However, Davies has managed to get his career back on track despite Birmingham's struggles on and off the pitch by making over 100 appearances for the club and scoring 12 goals, proving that he hasn't lost that goal - scoring touch.

@ MONEYTALKS Not only they will not be sold, but they will be offer Contract extensions by sugar daddy WENGER, meanwhile he sold RVP to our main rival, result they won the Title...... this man lost his touch a long time ago, is pathetic watching him completely clueless sitting on his arse watching Donkey Giroud missing opportunities while OX and Walcott are rotting on the bench...... it's getting old year after year having this debate instead of looking forward to a title or be contender in the CL

During these transitions Brazil lost the ball several times due to bad decisions or poor touches mostly made by Paulinho.

As the graphic says: it indicates ball retention by looking at the number of touches per lost ball,...

By the time we reach adulthood, we've often lost touch with our own needs.

Homeless advocates want the roadmap to touch on the issue, and McCray has said that mental health problems are exacerbated when people are stressed about losing their home, but the city's power to solve the problem is limited by how much it is willing to spend, and a distant relationship with the Cuomo administration.

More often or not they are intoxicated by the opium of power, they become deluded, they lose touch with reality and they are blinded by -LSB-...]

He was seen as imperious and intolerant by backbench opponents concerned at the threat to local postal services («he seemed to have lost touch» one commented after a meeting), and the plan was abandoned by the Cabinet as unlikely to pass the House of Commons, as the Major government's majority had dropped to 14 by then.

A strong Conservative statement by the prime minister shows his backbenchers that he has not completely lost touch with his own party and understands an issue that reassures them there is still a Tory in No 10.

Mr Burnham, 40, will also call for a clean break with the Blair / Brown era by claiming the party has lost touch with its core voters.»

Democrat, do not allow yourself to be bullied by extremists who clearly have lost touch with reality.

The comet lander, lost since its tumultuous touch down on the comet on November 12, 2014, turned up in images taken by the Rosetta orbiter on September 2.

Sadly, these discussions were prompted by another tragedy: Recently we lost a friend and alumnus who was a phenomenal scientist, mentor, activist, writer, and drag performance artist who touched hundreds of lives.

NSF, which in contrast to most other agencies has no intramural researchers of its own, relies on rotators to provide a welcome (even necessary) injection of scientific perspective; an agency run by lifetime public servants could easily lose touch with what's happening in the trenches.

However, if the mice were prevented from touching the urine with their nose by a mesh screen, the place seemed to lose its attractiveness.

This includes pollen that is removed or collected by the bee via grooming and the pollen that gets lost e.g. during flight activity or touching non-stigmatic floral parts or stigmas of interspecific flowers.

Quantum particles can exist in a superposition of states, yet as soon as quantum particles are «touched» by the outside world, they lose this quantum strangeness and collapse to a classically permitted state.

In a world in which we're constantly surrounded by people, traffic and electrical devices, it can be easy to detach from what is real and lose touch...

You can start by picking up a childhood hobby you've lost touch with, or try something entirely new; you might be surprised by what you learn about yourself!

At 77, Loach hasn't lost touch with this balance, as proven by his enjoyable period drama «Jimmy's Hall.»

The touching story of a stay - at - home parent who finally gets her degree is a worthy moral, but by the time Christina Aguilera shows up, it's been lost in the noise.

The otherwise naturalistic dialogue and bleak settings are invested with a touch of poetry through the integration of some simple but effective metaphors — Iris» alienation is figured by a scene where she finds herself literally disconnected by the telephone services, while her disorientation is visualised by her wandering dreamily through the storage corridors of a Lost Property Office where she has begun working, just another neglected object waiting to be found and loved again.

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Just when he thinks he's lost his touch, a series of famous comedians drop by to help him rekindle his artistic and comedic spark.

The interstellar superheroics of the original «Guardians of the Galaxy» become even brighter and zippier in the sequel, which puts Chris Pratt's Peter «Star - Lord» Quill in touch with his long - lost father, a planet - sized immortal named Ego (perfectly personified by Kurt Russell).

If the Kongs normally touch a Tucks from any side but the top, they get slapped by the enemy and lose a heart from their health bar, which brings them closer to losing a life.

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The first film I saw by Refn was Valhalla Rising, an expressionistic telling of the Odin myth — the part where he spent time on Earth (went missing, basically) before returning — that touches on the scourge of Christianity and how that relates to feeling lost, or losing what you believe in.

Adam is working for a floundering cell phone company run by Nicolas Wyatt (Gary Oldman), a once powerful man in the industry who, Adam tells him during a presentation that could get he and his friends out of their entry - level jobs, has started to lose touch with his customers.

However, at the same time, the film loses the human touch by making it refined and beautiful.