Sentences with phrase «to do anything meaningful»

But, he adds, publishers are not doing anything meaningful with it — yet.

So all the people who say you can't do anything meaningful in 140 characters — certainly not anything business - related — need to rethink that position.

They get adopted because they appear beneficial, but they are not, but once the harm manifests, it is too late to do anything meaningful about it.

If those estimates aren't radically revised upwards it also really calls into question whether the additional domestic supply really does anything meaningful whatsoever in terms of reducing dependency on foreign oil sources.

We found out that no one could do anything meaningful if you just join the current political structure or existing parties.

We were hardly ever in the house so we were perpetually behind on chores and too exhausted to run errands or do anything meaningful once the kids were down.

The remainder of the cast, which includes a number of great performers, don't have much of an opportunity to do anything meaningful with their roles.

However, they aren't really doing anything meaningful.

Right now corporations are not bearing enough taxation, so they have no incentive to do anything meaningful for Canada.

You are the reason this club is NOT going to win the EPL for the 12th consecutive year running and are farther apart agin from doing anything meaningful in the champions league.

Arsenal fans will make Jack Wilshere seem like he's Andres Iniesta yet he's injury prone and hasn't done anything meaningful in his time at the club!

But so far, most of these people have displayed a remarkable lack of willingness to even understand their own predicament, let alone do anything meaningful about it.

Fact is there's little indication that any Democrat in the New York senatorial or congressional delegations did anything meaningful to engage the majority to seek and support better terms.

«The real question is, will Cuomo, Silver and (Senate Republican leader Dean) Skelos do anything meaningful to change this culture?»

So the only way you could possibly do anything meaningful with Penn Station is if you find a way to vacate significant portions of the station that are currently being used.»

«But I question the capacity of «governments» to do anything meaningful within the 60 day period of the announced moratorium.

According to Klein, the frightening nature of the issue is the reason so many people have remained frozen, feeling powerless and incapable of doing anything meaningful to help, thus remaining unwitting accomplices to those who support the status quo.

Scientists expressed concern that the oil and gas regulations will fail to do anything meaningful on climate change given the federally - allowed expansion of oil sands developments, and the long history of broken promises on climate action.

Adding to that, it fails to do anything meaningful with VR, using it only to create tension through a series of fixed camera angles whose transition are jarring and disorienting.

«The largest carbon emitters and the ones who are emitting the most in the future aren't even committed to doing anything meaningful for two decades or longer.»

This probably means Russia would not support any UN intervention, and as a veto country they have the power to prevent the UN from doing anything meaningful.

He told the Telegraph last March: «I don't think we've yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle as complex a situation as climate change... The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.»

Many millennials will complain, «I was just a waiter» or «I didn't do anything meaningful.»

And right now I have five hours of it to burn before I can do anything meaningful in Dead Rising 2's $ 10 add - on title Case West.

But many of those losses occurred in the first few months of his presidency, before his administration could do anything meaningful to stem them.

«I can't see that you're going to do anything meaningful or worthwhile on this thing.»

I don't think Facebook is going to do anything meaningful on a voluntary basis.

I was thinking maybe someone like Nate or Tony who have nasty submission game from their back can do something and catch him in a submission, but the thing is Khabib dismantles you when he takes you down, the guy at the bottom is often trapped, not being able to even move both his legs or hands, making it close to impossible to do anything meaningful.

Who apart from the Eitihad FFP rule - benders have done anything meaningful this Jan thus far?

Additionally, leaving behind a highly active and service - oriented job might result in a feeling that «you're not able to do anything meaningful,» she says, which could add to depression and stress levels.

How people sit there doing nothing when they could've been playing with their kids or doing anything meaningful.

The app is free to download and join but to do anything meaningful you will need to pay for a membership.

We can't dump information on teachers and principals right in the middle of back - to - school season and expect they'll be able to do anything meaningful with it.

The Office app is a free download but that will only allow for opening and viewing documents; an Office 365 subscription is required to do anything meaningful, including editing or formatting a document or creating one from scratch.

If the markets aren't doing anything meaningful and there are no obvious setups from key levels or with trends, then close up your charts and get on with your day.

The enemy A.I. seems to struggle to do anything meaningful with their vessels, nor do they know how to combat them.

If we could all just take a deep breathe and put down the pitchforks for a moment, we might remember that technology has to endure an awkward puberty before it can be appropriately devastated, scarred, and socially re-built from the ground up, before it can do anything meaningful with its life.

Where some of these retro throwbacks have made for excellent games — just look at Fez, Super Meat Boy, and Cave Story — there are plenty out there which fail to do anything meaningful with the timeless 2D platformer template.

Alan K., Gavin is of course right — error - free data does not occur in nature — or at least it does not occur in a context where you can do anything meaningful with it.

What if we can't do anything meaningful to mitigate the warming (an increasing part of which human activity is the cause)?

No one is proposing any carbon use curtailment that would do anything meaningful to reduce the theoretical threat of carbon use.

As Eric says, «For many years I was progressively discontented, but was literally too busy to notice or do anything meaningful about it.»

They attack, we defend, the journalists deduce that there is a «controversy», and feel obliged to give the «skeptics» equal air time, which results in the lamentable situation that Joe Public is split 50/50 on climate change, which in turn extinguishes the enthusiasm of governments to do anything meaningful to address the problem of global warming.