Sentences with phrase «harder than the act»

In practice, not speaking about these nuggets may prove much harder than the act of deciding not to.

He long recognized that reining in emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide would be much harder than acting to phase out ozone - destroying chlorofluorocarbons, for which substitutes had been developed and which had no substantial relationship to the economy.

Not exact matches

It's hard to believe that a gender bias still exists in the workplace, more than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act.

«Brokers are working harder than ever to keep their jobs with the Affordable Care Act and they are not going to lose to Zenefits, too.»

This simple act of allowing is harder than it seems.

But this word is harder to speak, more difficult to formulate, more implicating for his being, more binding for his life, than any great act, even a miracle, could ever be.

It's really hard to sub cassava flour one to one with another flour as it acts differently than other flours.

Lemar is class act but do nt expect it arsenal is a club buys one exceptional talent each year and lose two this year they have already got two saad and laca its just rumour created to show fans how hard they r working in the window lemar is better than other lads in monaco he is going no where this year he will get monaco full price of the money if he comes in arsenal they will be champions of champion only one condition when Sanchez leaves he will be in otherwise no

Great champ and fighter but it's hard to like his personality when he acts like no one is worthy to fight him unless they are more famous than him.

It's hard to feel good as a parent when you can't even get his socks on, when every word you've said to him has been a reprimand, when the innocent act of serving tuna casserole instead of the expected tacos incites a riot, when you realize you've left more public places in a huff with your child in five years than most parents do in a lifetime.

I have a really hard time believing that breastfeeding into the toddler years is anything more than an act to fulfill some need of the mother.

To claim that the Women's Equality Act would do anything other than ensure women have the hard - won rights and protections they deserve is simply untrue, and Sue Serino should be ashamed of herself.»

No corner of the health care system would be harder hit than Medicaid, the federal - state health insurance program for the poor, if Republican leaders in Congress round up the votes to repeal major portions of the Affordable Care Act.

Smooth surfaces act as acoustic mirrors, the team says: Up close, they reflect sound at an angle away from the bat, producing fuzzier, harder - to - read echoes than rough surfaces do.

Smooth surfaces act as acoustic mirrors, which could present a problem for a bat: They reflect sound at an angle away from the bat, producing fuzzier, harder - to - read echoes than rough surfaces.

We had to work hard to make sure we still act romantically with each other even though we see each other's gross side more often than not.

It's harder than I thought, it doesn't really act like other flours, but I'm really enjoying adding it to my flour mixes because it gives great texture and flavor but also adds tons of nutrients into the mix.

Though the first installment is a bit choppy, the second and third are filled with the kind of surprising stories, nuanced acting and hard - won redemption that make the show feel more like a mini-movie than a mere hour of TV.

That is because Duncan is an introverted teenager who is forced to put up with his mother's (Toni Collette) overbearing boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell), a man who is constantly trying too hard to act like a father figure towards Duncan but ends up being much more condescending than affectionate.

So while comparisons to the undercover nature of Rogue One's third act last year are inevitable, it's hard to think of a more poetic way for Finn to prove himself, once and for all, as a loyal member of the Resistance, than by making him return to the side on which he was originally raised and trained to serve.

He has always been more appreciated than Stallone or Schwarzenegger, because Die Hard proves he can at least act.

Black Mass, directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace) and starring Johnny Depp as the murderous Mr. Bulger, isn't quite as rarified; Depp acts harder and better than he has in many years, but other than his performance, the film isn't anything special.

As the report noted, the original «Terminator» and «Die Hard» films in the 1980s were rated R, but their most recent sequels were rated PG - 13, even though the updates actually contained more violent acts than their predecessors.

It's an effectively nasty piece of work, well - acted and filmed with a blue - gray pallor that sometimes made the DVD image (2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen) hard to make out on my portable player but is more than apt under the circumstances.

It was not so much the indisputable fact that she's a much better vocalist than thespian, but that she was considerably calmer and thus more natural, not trying so hard to prove her «acting ability.»

Director Jake Kasdan (Orange County, Zero Effect) continues the kitchen - sink - dark - comedy trend he established in his previous effort, Walk Hard, though in both cases, things only seem more funny on paper than they actually are when acted out.

It's hard to imagine a less exciting Lara Croft movie than what directors Simon West and Jan De Bont cooked up at the turn of the century, but «Tomb Raider» 2018 comes worryingly close — especially in its third act — distilling a routinely rousing video game franchise into its least essential cutscenes.

This would be an overt act of theft rather than a covert one thorough Academies, and consequently harder to pull off without reputational damage.

I drove that truck harder than I would most any vehicle in those conditions and it never acted up or underperformed.

Competitively priced tablets sporting entry - level specifications may be popular among users who are finding themselves limited by their spending power, but the act of choosing such a tablet that actually fits one's needs is usually much harder than what many make it out to be.

I'm not saying this is a bad idea but it's something that requires more research than a 90 minute tour allows with 60 minutes of hard selling so don't fall into the «act now» trap.

This is because hard money lenders can act so much quicker than a bank and are much more flexible.

Do not ignore the situation, it is hard, but nothing is harder than the phone calls, letters, and likely the effect on your credit score if you choose not to act.

A heavily soaked coat will then act as an unnecessary extra weight, making swimming harder work than it needs to be.

«Turning a destitute dog into a desirable pet is an act of faith mixed with an aura of magic, backed up by a lot of hard work and sometimes more than a little money,» she wrote on page 110.

Maybe we are just going harsh on it because Faster Than Light is such a hard act to follow.

These pyrotechnic prognostics can make fights go on for entirely too long, making each win feel like little more than an act of luck than a hard - fought victory.

However, Woolly World perhaps tries a little too hard in catering to the old Yoshi's Island fans, rather than act as a unique, standalone game.

Broken Age 1 was really good and I'm interested in seeing how the story wraps up and also if the talk of the 2nd act being significantly harder than the first (I'm shit at adventure game puzzle solving, and I had no trouble with it) is true.

In short, both acts of the game ended up costing much more than originally estimated, a sign to some that Schafer somehow swindled loyal fans out of their hard - earned cash.

The Warriors of Legend music and voice acting are culled from the twenty - five episode run, and while it might be a bit hard to read the subtitles when playing, it's undoubtedly better than a stilted delivery would have been.

At Art Basel Miami Beach in 2004 he had no less than six, and sold them all, so he will be a hard act for Zwirner to follow.

The motivations behind this act of obliteration are hard to understand today, but seem to be more about control of public space, than aesthetic considerations.

Ranging from photography to drawing to installation, the more than four dozen works in the exhibition include: critically acclaimed videos by Marilyn Minter (Green Pink Caviar, 2009) and Kate Gilmore (Between a Hard Place, 2008), who credits Minter for teaching her to «be bold, honest and to never, ever relax»; a new large - scale sculpture by Marianne Vitale (Double Decker Outhouse, 2011), who says seeing Hungarian flimmaker Bela Tarr's 7 - hour epic Sátántángó confirmed her need to be an artist early in her career; and the latest project from Lisa Kirk (Backyard Adversaries (Ashes to Ashes), 2011), who sees a «sublime level of alchemy, the act of making work that is not only inspiring, but is revolutionary» in David Hammons» Fly Jar (1996).

Otherwise — and the rise of UKIP suggests this may be closer than many assumed — the hard - won cross-party consensus on climate change in Britain, enshrined in the Climate Change Act, could be undone.

Much uncertainty currently exists because: it is commercial companies (rather than the state) operating technologies that are potentially invasive; this data can sometimes be generated and distributed from another country — making it harder for an individual to protect their privacy rights; and the application and adequacy of search warrant laws like the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

Presumably however until s. 88 withers away the statutory protection offered to treaties by the opening words of s. 88 of the Indian Act will continue (see R. v Sioui, [1990] 1 SCR 1025)-- leading to the anomalous situation that statutory protection of the Indian Act is more complete and hard edged than that offered by the Constitution.

It's hard to imagine a bigger socio - political flashpoint, post-Schiavo, than the Workplace Religious Freedom Act.

To act like a professional in this respect means taking the advice of Atticus Finch: Consider the perspective of the people you are working with and try not to make their jobs harder than they have to be.

It's hard to imagine a more difficult experience in life than losing a loved one due to an accident caused by the negligence or wrongful act of another, and the Wisconsin wrongful death lawyers at Hupy and Abraham understand this.