Sentences with phrase «frivolous at»

Plus, so many beauty resolutions aren't frivolous at all — they're essential to your overall health + wellbeing!

Cloning puppies — and learning how to give dogs IVF treatments — might seem frivolous at face value.

By the»70s, for reasons Piper feels are frivolous at best, the single wing had become as obsolete as the flying wedge and the six - man line.

i just used leek insted of onion as had none at hand, but next time round will be more frivolous at the ingriendents choice;) keep up the good recipe job:D daria

Not exact matches

Only Canada and three other OECD countries have no patient cost - sharing, where at least a nominal fee is charged to patients to minimize frivolous visits.

So I look forward to reading this to opposing counsel at the next deposition where I can tell them that I'm not afraid of appearing in court and I'm not intimidated into frivolous claims in search of shake - down money.

Much like the Brookstone iTOi (profiled in our Wednesday CES gallery), the Perfect Drink is a frivolous item, but one that will certainly delight at - home mixologists.

The main complaint thrown at courses like these is that they're frivolous and a waste of money.

Even though Facebook has dot.com at the end of its name, it shouldn't be discounted as frivolous or not influential.

His portal, FundFindr, was not geared towards consumers funding frivolous food projects — instead, it's a more serious endeavour, aimed at helping entrepreneurs make pitches to investors.

Now, more than ever, moving some money out of your home country makes sense; if you keep all your wealth within one nation, particularly the nation in which you reside, you're at the utter mercy of that nation's exchange controls, tax confiscation, frivolous litigation, and bureaucratic extortion.

If you spend the money on frivolous purchases, you will panic when you need the money at a later date.

But at best the story can seem frivolous, and at worst it can feel like a distraction from the damage done by Trump's policy decisions (like, most recently, appointing a man who has called for war with both North Korea and Iran as national security adviser).

We get 4,000 hot line reports a year and most of them are frivolous, but there are a few serious ones and the head of our internal audit looks at all those,» said Buffett.

When an airline epic fails at profiling passengers like this, they should at least compensate them With frivolous flyer miles.

They hope that the coin tossing, selfie - taking throngs of tourists, as the frivolous Western public at large, will be given pause, if only briefly, to contemplate the surging pattern of mass murder of Christians purely for reasons of faith, largely by Islamists.

Now that there are no lines at the gas pumps and the scare has faded, consumers are once again being encouraged to use energy in all kinds of ways, many of them patently frivolous.

It reminds us that studiousness requires the self - discipline to exclude frivolous pursuits (including the pursuit of frivolous knowledge); that the pursuit of knowledge is at its best when motivated by a genuine desire for the truth, not self - aggrandizement.

The truth is not such that it at once pleases the frivolous crowd — and at bottom it never does; to such a multitude the truth must appear as simply absurd.

They only make themselves and their cause appear frivolous by claiming that military force is immoral and futile, and, at the same time, wanting to have a political say in how such force is to be employed.

But Yahweh was far too sacred for Hebrew man to think of him at play or as engaged in frivolous pursuits.

Turning water into wine at a party almost seemed a frivolous action until I realized that here is Jesus» acting out» if you like, His identity as the Lord of Creation.

I hope somebody out there enjoys reading my thoughts (even if it's just to laugh at them), but more than that, I hope they make somebody think; yes, I do have far to much time on my hands tonight, but if I hadn't been writing this, I'd be doing some other writing exercise, so this was not really a frivolous pursuit.

Coming upon a UCLA football practice, one at first notices only tangential and frivolous details: the fluffy yellow pads the size of watermelons that defenders wear on their forearms, the nearly erotic ease with which Running Back Freeman McNeil absorbs the impact of the ball as he takes it from Quarterback Tom Ramsey.

Better opponents will chip away at Xhaka's weaknesses along with Aarons sometimes frivolous behavior.

But after appearing to swing an arm at Hull striker Fagan, the England centre - half picked up a three - match ban, which was then extended to four after the FA rejected the defender's appeal as «frivolous».

If the appeal board decide the player's appeal is again «frivolous», then Ferdinand will be ruled out of the Carling Cup final against Aston Villa on 28 February at Wembley.

West Ham United were a little more frivolous in their efforts to come out of the relegation zone and could only manage a draw with Everton at Upton Park.

It may seem frivolous, but choosing your wardrobe for flying with a baby or toddler (yours and theirs) needs a bit of thought if you're going to be clean (relatively) and comfortable when you arrive at your destination.

Let's start at one of the few frivolous items in a man's wardrobe.

Many of these tips might seem easier said than done at first, and a few may seem downright frivolous.

But here's the thing; I'm not sure you ever really do, at least not in the same way you used to (especially when normal was work, play, hangovers and being frivolous in a fantastic way).

Keith Simpson, the MP for Broadlands and PPS to William Hague, is waving colleagues off on their holidays with a reading list that is at turns frivolous, light - hearted, educational and enlightening.

But at the same time we should ask ourselves whether the culture we're immersed in is allowing frivolous headlines to run for days and pushing anything actually important off the news.

He took a swipe at some judges who would not sit on time and rise early and lawyers who file frivolous applications and employ other delay tactics as well as shoddy police investigation, and admonish them to desist from such.

Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said the governor had been working, dammit, and proceeded to upbraid me for taking a frivolous and deeply unfair shot at an industrious public official.

«From the very beginning we said this was a frivolous and politically motivated stunt that put the long term safety of Westchester residents at risk,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

He accused Astorino of «falsely accusing the state of circumventing a process and then doing an end - run around his own legislature to file a frivolous lawsuit that puts at risk the long - term safety of residents.»

Briefly, on Oct. 6 during the candidates» first major voter forums in the town of Bedford, Killian took her own crack at Latimer's use of money, briefly targeting him and other longtime politicians for using campaign funds for what she characterizes as frivolous expenses like food and gas; expenses of which there are dozens of in Latimer's most recent disclosure.

Joseph Boahen Aidoo, at a press conference on Wednesday to respond to reports of mismanagement at COCOBOD by the Minority in Parliament, said the erstwhile administration of COCOBOD led by Dr. Stephen Opuni, rather misappropriated millions of cocoa funds on frivolous activities, including the construction of an «unnecessary guest house» for ex-President Mahama to «enable him enjoy comfortable holidays during visits to his constituency.»

At the time, Bishop's campaign spokesman blasted Altschuler's campaign for launching «frivolous challenges.»

At least he didn't say «frivolous suit.»

According to Dr. Chambas, the request by 200 Ghanaians for asylum in Brazil though «unfounded, frivolous and regrettable,» was an indication of the «precarious state of the national economy at the...

Former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has condemned President Akufo - Addo's «frivolous» staff at the Jubilee House, and wants Ghanaians...

Universities, though, worry that laws aimed at curtailing frivolous patent suits will make it harder for the institutions to enforce their own patent rights.

Now maybe that does sound kind of frivolous, at first, but remember, influencing snowfall has a very big influence down the line on the entire water table in part of the west.

After all, these are very precisely targeted articles written by people for people; at what point do they cross over from the space of a merely frivolous or attention - grabbing article that a newspaper would run and into the domain of network misbehavior?

So it is simple... Why or why do the scientists NOT state the obvious... get rid of all the frivolous activities and manufacturing at least in our country....

Then look at how much of a time sink emails, surfing the internet and social media all play in your life and eliminate the frivolous.

A part of me was grateful to let go of my worries about being perceived as frivolous or materialistic and saturate myself in the kind of hyper - femininity so widely derided throughout a culture that at the same time requires it of women.