Sentences with phrase «desperate things in»

Papelbon will be less expensive and likely easier to move the longer the Phils hold on to him, and teams have been known to do desperate things in July to get relievers if they think it will put them over the edge.

Not exact matches

The only good news about the big guys is that there is another group of them (think AOL and Yahoo for starters) who are so lost, so behind the curve, and so desperate to deliver something for their shareholders that they are constantly running around and throwing money at the shiniest new things in a panic.

«What really matters is that companies that don't continue to experiment — companies that don't embrace failure — they eventually get in a desperate position, where the only thing they can do is make a «Hail Mary» bet at the very end.»

i see your desperate need to communicate all the beautiful wonderous things in your head... * deep heavy sigh * being diagnosed with a mental illness puts you in the same category as the colorblind.

i see your desperate need to communicate all the beautiful wonderous things in your head...

Why do we spend so much time bouncing around from job to job, organization to organization — all in a desperate attempt to escape the very thing that makes these athletes legendary?

This is the thing we're all so desperate to see — at least I am — that God is there for us in our sorrow.

I'll refer to my good fortune as «blessings» when I'm around Christians and «luck» when I'm around non-Christians, (when the truth is I'm not exactly sure why I have so many good things in my life while millions around the world are desperate, hungry and lonely).

Within the next month or so, Senator Arlen Specter (R - PA) will introduce a bill in the Senate that does two things: (1) Closes off a loophole in the existing law that permitted «transplant tourism» ¯ desperate Americans seeking transplants overseas in often substandard medical....

Saying god exists does not make that so... of course the opposite is true as well... all the pundits here (and Hawking) who like to call things by descriptive names like «fairy tales» do so because they are desperate to be right in this matter... because no one can be proven right or wrong in this I choose to respect the faith that some have in Science as well as thos who have faith in God's existence.

Using the definition of «religion» that some theists appear to be using in their desperate attempt to equate atheism with religion, one could call all sorts of things a «religion» — like Capitalism for example.

This is a desperate error, or rather a desperate mistake, which overlooks (yes, and what is worse, it overlooks the fact that what it overlooks is pretty nearly the best thing that can be said of a man, since far worse often occurs)-- it overlooks the fact that the majority of men do never really manage in their whole life to be more than they were in childhood and youth, namely, immediacy with the addition of a little dose of self - reflection.

He was realistic enough to see that any such statement is absurd on the face of it and is denied by the way humans fail in loving and hence are in desperate need of the assurance that love is central in things.

This is a desperate attempt to recapture the masses as they move away from dogma and belief in supernatural things.

You're right when you say that you are in dark places — and that is not a bad thing but one (as I'm sure you know well) is cause for desperate dependency on God and the strength of other brothers and sisters in Christ.

Anyway, now I'm not so sure about the whole «sheep needing a shepherd thing» and whether we as Christians are in such desperate need of a leader to dictate our every move.

And when you have played its destructive force to the hilt, then suffer its awful consequences coming back at you, the desperate holding on at any cost to what you thought you had secured but which has turned to ashes, leaving in its wake not joy and freedom but the burden of guilt over those you hurt and ruined... But why not truth at the outset, and the love which hears, believes, hopes and endures all things?

By being there for folks who are lost and looking to be found or are desperate to say things they don't feel safe uttering at church or to their families, she attends to those in need.

I know I was pretty desperate for these transcendentals when I was in college, and the copies of First Things in our chaplaincy center were always comforting to crack open.

In view of the obsessing immediacy of national disaster, it is the more amazing that the high altitude of international vision and goodwill, surpassing all that had preceded it and standing solitary long afterwards, should have been reached in the desperate years of the Exile — «Yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.&raquIn view of the obsessing immediacy of national disaster, it is the more amazing that the high altitude of international vision and goodwill, surpassing all that had preceded it and standing solitary long afterwards, should have been reached in the desperate years of the Exile — «Yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.&raquin the desperate years of the Exile — «Yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.»

People's own experiences help them see the desperate need for ministry in this area, and if they have done some healing and they're not in crisis, they are perfectly positioned to do ministry to other people who are going through the same thing.

Yet Toynbee holds that there may be (as there have been in the past) situations so desperate that the only thing a person with high standards can do is to withdraw from them, and that such detachment is then the necessary preliminary to effective action on the fourth principle, to which we now pass.

It's a good thing I got desperate with the zucchini that was sitting around and wanted to try a new recipe, or else I wouldn't have finally given in to the chocolate and zucchini marriage.

Hands up if you overdid things a little during the festive season, and are in desperate need of some FODMAP Friendly New Years help?!

I remember vividly reading a recipe that contained panko bread crumbs, and I remember vividly that I was nursing my second baby, and I remember vividly that I was hormonal and desperate, and the next thing I knew I was ordering panko bread crumbs from some market in Chelsea that the magazine recommended.

I remember when we were so desperate to offload Wenger that many wanted Martinez to get Arsenal job, funny how things can change in football...

In a Daily Mail report this week the Pole was quoted talking about his own issues in front of goal and his determination to put things right, just as the whole Bayern Munich team are desperate to prove themselves by beating us in the return fixturIn a Daily Mail report this week the Pole was quoted talking about his own issues in front of goal and his determination to put things right, just as the whole Bayern Munich team are desperate to prove themselves by beating us in the return fixturin front of goal and his determination to put things right, just as the whole Bayern Munich team are desperate to prove themselves by beating us in the return fixturin the return fixture.

The one thing that I can see that could give us an advantage is the fact that we are definite underdogs, which normally means that you can play without fear as there is less pressure on us, while Bayern will be desperate to get a big lead in the first leg.

... Things are really looking desperate, when we are hinging all our hopes on a team, who are fighting for survival in the 2nd division... That just about sums us right up!?

Let's hope he is another Sanchez that is just desperate to play and doesn't let things like new countries and languages get in the way of a good game of footy I'm looking forward to seeing him on the pitch.

I thought Wenger might do the recent thing and go out on a high but he looks desperate to cling on to what he believes in his own mind is his own club.

I remember even our own King Henry and one of the things i LOVED about him was that look in his eyes, not desperate, not sad, not happy, just a look that said... i missed this one but i will score son and that he never gave up,

I can't tell if that's a «we all did it all the time» thing or a «once in a while if we got desperate or the toilets were busted» thing, but I'll take their word for it.

My favorite thing to do each year in NCAA was to take the Power 5's worst, most desperate team and turn them around.

«He goes about his business, he comes in, he is always in doing extra training, he's desperate to do well and he's always looking for those little things to improve on,» Carrick told The Telegraph.

much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..

If things get desperate and a cb is secured jedinak would be a good cheap option, a true dm player whos tall, tough tackling, good in the air, a leader and cheap of course.

After losing four in a row, things are looking desperate now for Stoke.

A 6 - 0 hammering against Liverpool at Villa Park was seen as the lowest point in a desperate season so far but on Friday things went from bad to worse, as Villa's first team lost 3 - 0 to their Under - 21s!

Besides, there are several options to replace him: David Wheater is in desperate need of game time after returning from a lengthy spell on the sidelines, so the Wigan game is an excellent opportunity for him to get some minutes under his belt and continue to get back in the swing of things.

In the summer, he was desperate for players to come in and shake things uIn the summer, he was desperate for players to come in and shake things uin and shake things up.

But things have become so desperate that the forward, who joined from Lokomotiv Moscow in January 2015, has been brought back into the fold after being banished from the first team by Koeman.

Clearly the club was in a desperate state but messageboards and fans always ask why and express bafflement as to why things are so bad.

My 9 month old baby boy still wakes up in the middle of the night around 12 am and 4:30 am for feeding how can I make him break this habit.Another thing is he will take during the day a 10 minute nap fighting it, he will do this about 3 times a day during the day time.He goes to sleep at 8:30 pm and wakes up @ 12 am for feeding and again at 4:30 am How to put this baby to sleep thru the whole night?Please help a desperate mom!!!!

AND ANOTHER THING: Raise your hand if you believe Scott Boras is desperate enough in this Greg Maddux contract death - spiral to start wearing a nipple shield.

I'd decided not to have any formula in the house so that it would only be a possibility if things got really desperate and we went out to get some.

Completely on her own, she is in desperate need of things for her baby so it seems fitting that we should pass the baby bathtub along to someone else who is also ill - equipped to parent but trying to do right by her baby.

REBECCA: You know, I am one for... I consider myself an advocate for community organizing, and anything dealing with a desperate or a gap in community relations and society, and the natural, or the more realistic way to approach things.

But as time goes on you realise you can breastfeed in most things if you stretch out the neckline, if you're desperate enough.

I emailed her on the weekend because I was so desperate for help and wanted to be sure I came across her desk first thing in the morning.