Sentences with phrase «for hand wringing»

Anyhow, not the point, the reason for the hand wringing is that what has happened in the last decade was not predicted, not expected and todate can not be explained by the processes and models that were thought to be indicative of this planet's climate.

Rachel Curley acting director of ATL Cymru, said: «This is not the time for hand wringing or panic in response to the Pisa results.

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For example, pacing around, tapping your foot or wringing your hands can make you seem nervous and unconfident.

The deal for the Canadian miner was one of the biggest takeovers of a Canadian corporate household name and prompted much hand wringing about foreign ownership.

For example, a drone crash - landed at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in September, causing significant hand wringing by law enforcement but no injuries.

The difference between Brent and a barrel of Western Canadian Select, the benchmark price for oil sands product, was even more significant, a fact that had caused considerable hand wringing in downtown Calgary as well as on Parliament Hill.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield touched 3 % last week for the first time in more than four years — inciting much hand - wringing.

Pastors assured the parishioners that God didn't do any of this and was wringing his hands on the sidelines, and feeling bad for us, like a maiden aunt with the vapors.

On the other hand, Mormons complain about Christians saying Mormons are not Christian, and many of the same people who wring their hands over proxy baptism call for Christians to accept Mormons as their own.

Just when you were starting to get used to no bitter fighting, mudslinging or hand - wringing from the White House, here comes the new nominee for Secretary of Defense.

We go to him, shaking in our shoes, wringing our hands, begging for a better life, or for things to work out, or simply for Him to hear our prayers.

In his book God's Lesser Glory, Bruce Ware went so far as to describe the open view of God as a God who «hand wringing deity» who «can do nothing more than hope for the best.»

I decided to take a different approach than the usual hand wringing and calls for increasingly intense efforts at population control.

Predictably, however, the whole death and dying discourse began to develop into a sort of trendy psychobabble for nurses and chaplains and therapists who sat wringing their hands over someone stuck in stage three, saying things like, «If only he could move past it.»

Let the zucchini drain for 15 minutes, then squeeze out as much moisture as you can with your hands (or roll it up in a clean kitchen towel and wring it out).

Until this week, that is, when my hands — without permission from my brain — grabbed a container of hummus from the grocery store, paid for it, carried it home, spread it on a (wheat - free) pancake, fed it to my son, and watched, hands wringing.

Winemakers are wringing their hands over the 2011 harvest, branding it absurdly large for a nation still grappling with too much wine.

Aside from a few fringe elements, there appears, despite all the angst and hand - wringing, a sense that we are closer than we have been for at least 8 or 9 years to achieving something.

There will be much wailing and hand - wringing that Arsenal's season has now definitely come to an unhappy conclusion as the gap to Leicester City now looks insurmountable, but with six games to go Arsenal still have much to play for.

Not enough for that level of hand - wringing.

Waiting for Wenger to wring hands we lost Mbappe, but smile and say we have top striker in Giroud, Welbeck is healthy, and Theo's potential will materialize this year.

The hand - wringing is inevitable, to an extent; being without Harry Kane would be bad news for any team and concerns among their support are entirely understandable.

The prospective fathers at an adoption information picnic exchange derisive asides as their wives anxiously wring their hands and angle for the best caseworker.

Well, at least it is for alarmist, hand - wringing, nervous - stomach, neurotic mothers like me.

One thing is for sure: in this fast paced, instant gratification world of social media, being an online person who disappears for a few days apparently results in some digital hand wringing.

It was even worse because he would pace back and forth in his room weeping and crying and mumbling while wringing his hands for up to an hour.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

Now Peter Mandelson has advised that the time for hand - wringing is over, and his former Labour colleagues ought to «fight for the party's future» against a leader who is apparently an «intentionally divisive figure», using «very unconventional means» to strengthen his grip (some of this may sound familiar).

The international community has wrung its hands over the Syrian civil war for months but now finds itself confronted with a new level of horror.

Environmentalists will gather next month for a general hand - wringing.

Hands have been wrung about what these allegations could mean for Depp's career - the subtext being that a women should stay silent to protect the men they allege have abused them.

But it's become clear that despite much hand - wringing, there is little scope for united action around the world.

You will earn no respect for your hand - wringing over the civil rights of other people.

Assemblyman David Weprin announced tonight he will not run for his brother's soon to be vacant City Council seat, ending days of speculation and hand - wringing among some Queens Democratic insiders.

Oh, for sure they wring their hands and have no trouble finding a TV camera and a microphone and boasting how great they are and how terrible the opposite party is..

There's already much hand - wringing, finger - pointing and abject denials in the wake of Susan Zimet's nominating petitions for state Assembly being

Secondly, I doubt there will be any such hand wringing when, right on cue, USDAW and Community deliver their support for Liz Kendall by an identical method.

If the former then how much does that involve crapping on the working class and poor from a great height as countless Labour councils have been doing for years now by implementing cit after cut, job loss after job loss and without even bothering anymore with some ritual hand - wringing — I assume a great deal given Corbyn and McDonnell have made it very clear that local councilors must not fight back.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

However, most science policy analysts are wringing their hands over the tiny increase sought for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a small rebound for the National Science Foundation (NSF) after a cut in 2005, and reductions in the science budgets at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the departments of energy and defense.

Because it is true in education that what gets tested gets taught, ATC21S is preparing for the international hand - wringing from low - ranked countries by offering videos of classrooms where the researchers say teachers and students are getting it right.

However, this is not one of those sentimental green tomes that wring their hands about the rape of mother earth; it is a sober account, and none the less shocking for that.

Except when it is used to select and screen embryos for certain characteristics, the procedure brings along little ethical hand - wringing today — even with its hefty financial rewards to female donors.

How can we take seriously the daily hand - wringing about fraud, non-replication, and biased statistics when in so blatant a case of data manipulation (where flawed predictors were the basis for surgery and chemotherapy regimens) we read: «Respondent neither admits nor denies ORI's findings of research misconduct»?

The Honolulu City Council's budget committee restored money for the Office of Climate Change after much hand - wringing last week.

If your hands cramp up or get tired, stop for 30 seconds, wring and shake them out, then resume.

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