Sentences with phrase «equivalent of trying»

IMO that's the RE equivalent of trying to protect the general public from Nigerian email scams.

That's generally the equivalent of trying to fit the pieces of a puzzle together by trial and error.

it is equivalent of trying to cook fish fingers, while still in the freezer, by putting a light on in the bedroom upstairs, and hoping that the lightbulb will just do.

It's the equivalent of trying to make a pie by throwing all of the ingredients into a pie dish and expecting it to come out looking like the pie in the bakery window.

It's the obnoxious equivalent of trying to have a serious conversation with people who are high out of their minds.

It's the equivalent of trying to convince us that Santa exists.

Adam explains, «Trying to solve the problem of high priced textbooks by focusing only on new technology is the equivalent of trying to solve the problem of expensive airfares by putting all your resources into developing flying cars.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the corporation has been conducting town halls across the country in recent months, trying to gauge public reaction to the prospect of significant reductions in service levels, especially in those older urban areas where homeowners still get (costly) delivery to the door (equivalent of about 40 % of households).

If you offer some stuff more cheaply than other equivalent stuff, or at a higher speed, you are trying to steer people in the direction of a certain product.

Perhaps most notable, according to the July 6 notice, is the fact that the IRS is only trying to obtain records on users who have conducted «at least the equivalent of $ 20,000 in any one transaction type (buy, sell, send, or receive) in any one year during the 2013 - 2015 period».

This is how your sales team will know when they've hooked a Lenny — or your exclusionary persona equivalent — so they don't invest copious amounts of time trying to close the deal.

I tried to find an equivalent listing to our home in terms of size, features and age (just for grins) in SF and there was ** nothing ** under 2 MILLION.

He is eager to declare the Bible inaccurate, and that is equivalent to saying God is a liar, and saying that God can not be trusted, and saying that man has better answers, which is the same as deniers do, except for the ones who are afraid to admit their hate of God, and instead try to hide their hate behind ignorance and the atheism label.

There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419 to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic Church went to war against followers of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master at Charles University in Prague who had tried to reform the Church, condemning its sale of indulgences, which were the equivalent of a «get out of jail» card in the game of Monopoly in that the Church sold them as a means for believers to get out of Purgatory.

Paul Root Wolpe, the director for the Center of Ethics at Emory University, said Mourdock's comments were the equivalent «of saying you shouldn't pull people out of the rubble because God intended the earthquake to happen or we shouldn't try to cure disease because it's God who gave us the disease,» Wolpe said.

Philippians 3:12 is perhaps the biblical equivalent of what U2 were trying to say: «Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.»

This week I happen to be trying to figure out why, when a man consecrates a woman (a prerequisite to full marriage), he may, if he chooses to consecrate her monetarily (two other methods, by document and by intercourse, are available), use either hard currency or an article of equivalent value.

A man who has stepped into a void in order to defuse a bad situation, OR a man who is an admitted bigot, who is openly trying the equivalent of blackmail and thinks it is OK to burn books.

It is out of the question to try to grasp God through sight (which is the equivalent of reducing truth to reality), to claim that what one sees can be God (in this case one converts reality into truth), or to make a representation of something in the spiritual realm (which is the same as consecrating a religion, since religions always belong to the visual realm).

Al - Jumuah is written for Muslims trying their best to live in America and not become whatever equivalent of mainline Protestantism exists for Islam.

One more try, to all you fundie nutters that believe a womans right to choose an abortion is equivalent to muder of a child, please answer the question,,,, What would you do with / to the 1.2 million women per year that you accuse of the most serious crime of murder for having a legal abortion?

Christians trying to solve the economy crisis is the equivalent of this.

And when we go on to key words like justification, redemption, salvation, grace (and others) we confront the problem of finding English equivalents (see Chapter m) and, more important, of trying to delimit the range of meanings.

I somehow miss read about the ginger a put a tbsp equivalent of fresh ginger and it was incredible you should try it!!

I've only ever tried it with just the tails, but if you have a large lobster with an equivalent amount of meat, that should be fine

what is the equivalent of whole wheat pastry flour here in europe?May I try with «semi-integrale» (demi - whole wheat)?

I've been improvising variations on stuffed tomatoes for years (inc. versions stuffed with risotto / and equivalents), so let me say — you must try this (or one of its cousins) with GREEN TOMATOES.

There was a comment about not weighing our ingredients in the US, there are alternatives, try to find a US set of measuring cups and spoons, they should be very reasonably priced... look on the internet for equivalents... or you could use the ounces equivalent for the cups measure.

I wanted to make the buns again and had a devil of a time trying to ascertain what the equivalent was...

I'm weird about using too much almond flour because it means eating the equivalent of soooo many almonds... might have to try it and sub in some coconut flour.

I haven't tried it so I'm not sure... If you try the recipe out, the 3/4 cup of egg whites should be equivalent to 3 tbs ener - g + 3/4 cup water.

Try adding a couple of spoonfuls of cornstarch (or whatever the local equivalent is) to your flour.

Since I haven't tried this with flax or chia «egg» I can't say with 100 % certainty, but I'd suggest the equivalent of two eggs.

Q: Hi Dave, My question is as follows: When trying to use habanero powder in place of fresh habaneros in a recipe, how much powder would be equivalent to one habanero?

Trying to get a guy fired whom you've never met is the equivalent of throwing a shoe at George Bush thinking it will make him withdraw troops.

and frankly we might deserve this fate because we've let it go on so long... Gazidis is the equivalent of a prison bitch, Kroenke is the destroyer of all sports teams he touches and their are way too many complacent fans who believe we are the only club in the world that can't find a suitable replacement (try explaining to fans of clubs like Bayern, Barcelona and Real, who have had more manager changes in the last 4 year than we've experienced in 35 seasons)

This is the culture that is unique to our sport; it has no equivalent, and we want to share it with whoever will take the leap of faith to come try the best sport in the world with us.

In that era before wall - to - wall sports news, if you had missed Sports Report or its slightly earlier TV equivalent following the revolutionary teleprinter showing the final scores, you had to rush down to the local newsagent that evening to try to get a copy of the Green Citizen or Pink Times (both titles might have a different connotation today) before they sold out or the shop closed to find out results, sometimes only to find that your match of interest had been a late kick off and its final score hadn't made the print run and you just had to wait for the Sunday newspapers because you were certain to miss Sportscene / MotD.

We appear to have now turned into the equivalent of Blackpool a few years back, trying desperately to score more than the opposition due to the fact our defence have more holes in it than Oscar Pistorius» next girlfriend.

The ten percent of already - struggling women out there who will be hearing and reading the reports of this study, especially after they've been filtered through the Daily Mail or its equivalent, are going to hear that their currently out - of - whack brain chemistry is something they could have fixed, if they'd tried harder, or if they'd wanted it more.

It's the boardgame equivalent of facing the bowling of Mitchell Johnson, trying to return Novak Djokovic's serve or attempting to save a penalty taken by Mario Balotelli.

Browsers are no more tolerant of lapses in (my) memory when rendering (my) code, and this kind of stuff will make you nuts: in some older versions of HTML you could use «clear = all» to solve a couple of problems, which trips me up when I'm trying to remember the modern conceptual equivalent, «clear: both.»

The Church of Wales may have received a temporary scare, which will make it think twice in the future about trying to ride on the coat - tails of its established equivalent in the east.

Cries of «answer the question» echoed round the House as Cameron tried to squirm out of addressing the fact that Labour's equivalent set - up, the Future Jobs Fund, wasn't quite as dastardly as his government had once suggested.

The most ridiculous part of this morning's Today interview with Nick Clegg was when he tried to claim that those opposing change were lickspittles of the British establishment, while he and his band of heroic rebels were the modern equivalent of the liberators of the Bastille.

I'm interested both in the current state of the articles, as well (or even more so) editing history, e.g. did someone try to introduce such equivalent statements / material and it was edited out; since the former reflects on individual contributor views and the latter more on Wikipedia's powers that be editorial policies.

I vaguely had a project in mind, to try to write some sort of political equivalent of Freakonomics... Something about the law of unintended consequences in political decision - making, and how some problems, especially social ones, just get dumped, almost by default, in certain places.

Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether such an education was «substantially equivalent» to secular public schools.

«We are trying to develop the basic working unit of a quantum chip, the equivalent of the transistor on a silicon chip,» Vuckovic said.

Wang said the researchers are now trying to find the human equivalent (orthologue) of the MMC9 cells they found in their mouse models.