Sentences with phrase «in lost causes»

When other follies, like tulipmania or eugenics, were at their height of popular obsession, the belivers in those lost causes acted the same way when confronted with uncomfortable ideas as you do defending AGW.

Irina, with her «inability to invest in lost causes,» struggles with the private suffering brought on by the knowledge that her life will be truncated by disease, while Aleksander fights against what seems an equally inevitable public destiny.

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«We don't pay for landslides and we don't invest in lost causes,» Christie said, according to NJ.com.

When asked if he'd campaign in New York, he added, «We don't pay for landslides and we don't invest in lost causes.»

Perry's arrival to New York comes after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the chairman of the Republican Governors Association, said it was unlikely the group would provide financial assistance to Astorino, telling reporters this summer he didn't want to «invest in lost causes.»

When asked, Christie also said he would not campaign for Rob Astorino, the Republican challenging New York's Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, saying he doesn't invest in lost causes.

On Monday, Christie said he's repeatedly told candidates he doesn't «pay for landslides» and he doesn't «invest in lost causes.»

Christie, who just returned from a trip to Iowa and plans to spend time in Colorado this week, said he's repeatedly told candidates he doesn't «pay for landslides» and he doesn't «invest in lost causes.»

«We don't pay for landslides and we don't invest in lost causes,» he added.

It may sound a little harsh but Giroud's goals generally come in lost causes or those against smaller teams.

This is the problem with our fans, we accept dominating the game even in losing cause.

Russell, who is actually only 34, scored 17 points in a losing cause and said, «It's cool.

Similarly, too, both won their spurs early in 1983 in losing causes.

Because as much as people would proclaim how good he is at holdup play, sometimes his lack of mobility upfront leaves him isolated in games where he faces the good defenders, The John Terry's and The Kompany's its obcious Giroud's not stronger than them, and the fact he is not the most skillful or fastest taking on defenders means more than often in those games having him on in a lost cause.

Saha has earlier opened the batting for Kings XI Punjab and even scored a hundred in a losing cause during the 2013 IPL final against Kolkata Knight Riders.

The few bright spots included their brave young fan Bradley Lowery's presence at several of their games; his favourite player — Jermain Defoe and his goal scoring exploits in a lost cause, and equally futile — Jordan Pickford's brilliant goal keeping, which combined with Defoe's heroics in attack, dangled some...

Although Jeremie Boga found the back of the net with an eye - catching goal for Granada, it came in a losing cause as they were thrashed 5 - 1 by Las Palmas.

Why invest time, money and careers in a lost cause?

As David Miliband's campaign manager, he fought hard in a losing cause.

It's easy to fall in love with your ideas so much and that's what keeps you stuck in a losing cause.

Don't fall in love with your ideas so much that it keeps you stuck in a losing cause.

Rather than invest in a lost cause, female doges will often reject an abnormally small puppy from birth, to conserve energy for feeding and caring for her remaining puppies.

Not exact matches

On a list like ours, it's easy to get lost in the politics — the pinpointing of causes on a spectrum of left to right, blue to red, black to white, male to female.

But both Twitter and GoPro have something else in common: They're in the midst of a stock price slump that caused both CEOs to recently lose their status as paper billionaires.

Despite its advantages in number of troops (many of them under - armed and malnourished) and artillery, the North has no real ability to fight and win a war against the South, though it could surely cause a lot of damage in a lost war.

It remains to be seen whether Breitbart's audience will see the Fields incident and its aftermath as a reason to lose trust in the site, or whether they will simply view the departed staffers as traitors to the cause and move on.

Because so much of its business is tied up in a few particular styles, a single manufacturing error — like the one that forced executives to recall the near - seethrough women's pants in March — can cause millions of dollars in lost sales.

Even though tenants would obviously get upset if the plumbing was leaking, it is false data to suggest that owning apartments causes people to lose interest in buying apartments.

Investors were dismayed by the earnings report, causing Apple's shares to drop 3 % in midday trading on Friday to $ 162.35, on top of losing 7 % in the previous two weeks.

Getting lost in a new place causes serious stress for 18 percent of road warriors.

Yet a glimpse at American and European banks is enough to cause some to lose faith in the wisdom of the herd.

(In contrast, the recent firing of eight executives before the closing of the Microsoft (MSFT) deal — they'll lose their chance at million - dollar payouts — caused quite a stir.)

And feeling like a loser can cause you to lose money in other ways, asserts Koslow.

If you have an online service that's supposed to be supplemented with easy to use mobile apps, and they're filled wiht bugs and glitches, this could cause you pain in the way of complaints and lost customers.

However, Kaepernick has also battled injuries in recent years (including some that caused him to lose a surprising amount of weight), can be overly reliant on the run, and inaccurate in tight windows.

However, he also lost his favorite son in the war, which caused him to fall into a «drink - fueled depression.»

In my view, the Chinese would not be terribly upset to see the US dragged into a war that would weaken Washington if it lost and would cause massive casualties on all sides if it won.

One lost hour doesn't seem enough to cause drowsy driving, but if that were really the case, why then does the number of traffic accidents shoot up the day after daylight saving time begins in both the northern and southern hemispheres?

If you think of the switch to daylight saving time at all, you probably just consider it an annoyance that causes you to lose some sleep or be late for lunch because you forgot to reset the clock in your living room.

The relationship between homeownership and wealth held true even in the years surrounding the mortgage crisis, which wiped out trillions of dollars in home equity and caused over 4 million Americans to lose their homes, researchers for Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

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OPEC wants to keep oil prices relatively higher than they have been in recent years, having lost $ 76 billion in 2016 due to cheap oil caused by rising American and Iranian oil production, according to a report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

Researcher Andrew Hafenbrack and his team at INSEAD in Singapore, as well as the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, have concluded that 15 minutes of mindfulness meditation daily can reduce people's tendency to persist with lost causes because of past investment.

The upgrade failed to cause much stir in the markets, leading many commentators to proclaim that S&P has lost influence with investors.

«While some existing unicorns have held highly successful follow - up funding rounds, low valuations may cause others to lose or fail to attract financing in the quarters to come.

RIM will not be releasing its next generation of BlackBerry devices until next year, and recent management stumbles are causing investors and analysts to lose faith in the company's ability to deliver.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

In fact, content pieces that don't follow the Stark law can cause publishers to lose payments from Medicare billing.

The populist rebellion in America, Europe, and elsewhere, has many causes, but workers» losing out to technology is seemingly the main reason.»