Sentences with phrase «hindrance than help in»

According to some experts, the traditional form of real estate might be more of a hindrance than a help in today's market.

Your total ignorance of science makes your support more of a hindrance than a help in such disputes.

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Unfortunately he was more of a hindrance than a help, and Clippy was discontinued for Microsoft Office in 2007.

Despite the price the human being had to pay for this in terms of body energy (the brain being very energy hungry), the mutation was retained as more of a help than a hindrance.

For gardeners who live in warm zones, the summer sun can be more of a hindrance than a help to getting high yields.

Arsenal have a much better squad than Newcastle, even through Wengers failures to address our short comings in the transfer market, just a manager who doesn't appear to know what he is doing at the moment, behaving more like a hindrance than a help.

Porto decided to bring him back on loan last summer, but after just two games there he returned to Villa Park in January, where he has continued to be a hindrance rather than a help.

The anomaly of quantum physics suggests that, in the case of a scientific revolution where established knowledge can be a hindrance rather than a help, the trend might reverse.

This and other juicy tidbits find their way into the journal, but it proves more of a hindrance than help when the journal is stolen by a reporter and struggling screenwriter (Bai Ling, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) that has been P.O.'d that Jack has refused to answer calls or acknowledge the screenplays sent in.

Luckily, while Mary's friends occasionally prove to be more of a hindrance than help, her housekeeper (Cloris Leachman) is a voice of reason — and one of the truly enjoyable characters in the film.

I tried moving away from having the 30 desks in rows, but I started to notice that the desks themselves were more of a hindrance than a help to my students as they transitioned from one lesson activity to the next.

Even experience off - roaders will find the technology more help than hindrance, assisting the 2370 kg (kerb) Everest in scaling some pretty challenging terrain.

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If you have no experience in disaster relief, there are valid concerns that while the area is still flooded, well - meaning advocates will be more of a hindrance than a help.

Its camera can still get lost, Talion's free - running can often be a hindrance rather than a help, and the UI can sometimes bug out for no apparent reason in menus and the main game.

As a result, sitting in a room with a large group of people all much more prepared for the gaming experience we were about to share made me feel out of my depth and I worried I was about to be more of an annoying hindrance than any kind of help.

Used clothing donations are more of a hindrance than a help, in the eyes of the East African Community.

Susan Munro in her excellent Slaw article Pulled in Both Directions, rightly makes the point, of course, that sometimes publishers over-engineer their output, providing the highest quality research capability, when such a standard can be more of a hindrance than a help.

In contrast, the application judge found there was insufficient evidence that Mr. Noel contributed positively to the relationship: «Mr. Noel was more of a hindrance than a help.»

In particularly intense bidding wars, digital technology can be a hindrance more than a help, she says.