Sentences with phrase «habit of piling»

«We have this habit of piling on more and more regulation as opposed to thinking about how they all interact and thinking about what the unintended consequences might be,» he says.

Although he's generally quite good at keeping his room presentable, boy «stuff» has a habit of piling up, corners get bashed and, before long, redecoration became a must.

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A long period of lacklustre wage growth suggests the only way households can satisfy their spending habits is to keep adding to Canada's record pile of private debt.

I'm not going to add my weight to the pile already atop the prominent Atlanta law firm that walked away from the defense of DOMA, though I may alter my carbonated beverage purchasing habits somewhat (a bit hard to do in Atlanta).

Piles of laundry are blocking the bedroom door, there's a new shade of pink crayon on the couch, deadlines are piled up on my desk higher than the husband's mountain of stinky running shoes (that's bad), and the dog's obsessive licking habit has officially caused yet another grey hair on my head.

Little moves like that can cause dead money to pile up and it's one of Hurney 1.0's bad habits that seems to have found its way into version 2.0.

But if they were to slump out of the top four, it would pile up with last season's climax — they almost managed to manufacture a two - horse title race, then came third — and this season's European campaign to suggest that here is a team capable of occasional brilliance, but with an unhappy habit of blowing the crucial moments.

I'm trying to get into the habit of shredding right away rather than letting paper pile up.

I have a bad habit of bringing a huge pile of basic tees and tanks that always go unworn.

«It is a hard habit to get into,» added Schlie, «but I have also come to realize that it cuts down on clutter and having to go through piles of papers looking for something I was supposed to do.»

-LSB-...] time, we talked about our reading habits and whether the price of an ebook affects its ranking in our to - be-read pile.

As technology and reading habits change, having both print and e-book versions of books available for the media makes it easier for a book to get to the top of the pile.

Chances are you've developed a lot of bad driving habits over the years, especially in light of all the automotive technology that has come along since we were pimply faced students piled into the back of a driver's ed car.

Bad eating habits also causes excess weight of course, but cats that do not exercise enough will not burn the calories and so pile on the pounds.

Revelle put the manuscript at the bottom of his document pile, as was his habit with colleagues» work that he hoped might quietly go away.

I've started doing many of these over the past few years and it has taken just about that long to make them become actual habits that I do without thinking now, but the piling of papers to be shredded «later» is one of those things I just can't seem to get around!

Get in the habit this month of putting time - sensitive papers in the folders rather than in a pile on the counter.