Sentences with phrase «instead of slapped»

The season is just around the corner and, while we too will be celebrating a very simple and frugal Christmas, planning now can make it a beautiful season instead of a slapped together, stressful one.

I'm willing to wait for better built apps and more partnerships instead of slapped together apps that could damage my unit.

Instead of slapping together a description of your goods, use this five - step plan to create listings that draw in customers.

It's sort of like a real - life version of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, except instead of slapping away at a series of buttons — an act that has just about zero relation to the real thing — you're strumming away on an actual guitar.

«I'm not suggesting for a second that there isn't an employer or two that may be misusing the program, but we should be going after them instead of slapping all sorts of new rules or potentially abandoning the program for a giant sector of the economy.»

Instead of slapping the label «bragging» on it and walking away, what if we start with the lesson of being gracious towards others?

Instead of slapping himself on the back, the Chancellor used yesterday's positive growth figures to send out a message that he intends to create the conditions for private sector job creation outside the south east.

2) When you meet with people and they don't have their pet licensed, offer to license them on the spot for them instead of slapping them with a $ 75 fine.

If they really wanted to appease those people they should have just included the original game on the cartridge, instead of slapping together a mediocre second graphical option.

Instead of slapping a new coat of paint on Infinity 2.0, the teams at Avalanche and Sumo digital have painstakingly re-worked and well taken care of this game.

Instead of slapping an S at the end of those models, Apple will call them the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, according to Troughton - Smith's firmware discovery.

Not exact matches

«Instead of senior executives being forced out or even criminally sanctioned, the firm receives a fine that amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist.»

Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.

Instead I suggest what Jesus was saying, and by doing so slapping the Sanhedrin in the face while doing so... was that God commands any ruler caught attempting the above was to be killed out of hand.

living a life of delusion is AWESOME until REALITY BIOTCH slaps you in the face and pops the sheltered bubble of the priveledged happy life you live and heaps misery onto you and your loved ones and all you can do / say / think is... god has a plan... yup a plan to make you suffer for a reason you can't understand... from my VAST knowledge of the world and human nature i know how to make choices that avoid MOST of the misery and suffering the rest of you shlubs endure, can't avoid everything, but instead of wasting time with religious b and s i think about avoiding misery and suffering... 35 years and so far sooooooo goooood...

I like the other reviewer's suggestion to make a dozen instead of 9 (they're really too filling to eat at this size anyway, and you will want to slap the hand that dares to throw away such culinary artistry) and put them in a larger pan.

Instead of trying to slap something together and get back to working or couch - flopping, I put some music on (we just watched True Detective and right now I am LOVING The Handsome Family, the group that sings the theme song), rolled up my sleeves, and had a much - needed and very therapeutic two - hour zone - out while I put it all together.

Instead of doing it all fancy and reroasting it in the skins I just slapped down parchment paper and cooked it on that.

Instead of just slicing a fish and slapping it over some rice and giving it your best shot, the kohada is a very delicate, very small fish — you must first butcher the whole fish and butterfly it perfectly.

Not much you can do when the referee is so shockingly bad and the opposing team would rather slap people in faces and be diving and acting champions instead of playing football.

Buying this kid is Bullsh!t he's there for the money making potential Meanwhile EVERYONE else is buying up players that will make a difefrence on the pitch instead of sitting on thier hands the very fact that Van Persie is or maybe a potential buyback is an astounding slap in the face for the arsenal fanbase what next I ask?

A key point in the NFL's argument was that Rice had said he «slapped» Palmer instead of «hit.»

Now 30 years later we get another donor who instead of doing what is right for the school long term supposedly dictates terms to force the school to live within the same outdated footprint with the same outdated capacity and then he slaps his name on the building so the school continues to look like a small time program despite our recent on - the - court successes.

Instead, Auburn was the one climbing on top of the younger sibling, slapping him with his own hand, and saying, «Stop hitting yourself.

In another slap at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last night he'd support legislation to shut down Rikers Island, which he called a «snake pit,» within three years instead of the 10 - year plan the mayor has suggested.

«I feel youth court is such a good program because instead of a child getting a violation or — it's usually violations or minor crimes — instead of sort of getting slap on the hand, you're incorporating restorative justice into their lives,» Ms. Maccagli said.

Instead the leader of the House of Commons received a slap on the wrists in the form of a letter «making clear that failure to report on time is a serious matter».

In another slap at Mayor de Blasio, Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday night he'd support legislation to shut down Rikers Island within three years instead of the 10 - year plan the mayor has suggested.

Instead, he recalled an occasion in 2003 when he was scheduled to give a speech calling for higher taxes and was slapped down by other members of the government.

I read somewhere that they started attacking almonds due to salmonella outbreak and instead of dealing with the source of contamination and cleaning up manufacturing practices, they simply slapped on a law that required them to mess with a perfect whole plant food.

It would have been easy to create a simple button masher and slap the UFC label on it — instead, THQ have created a detailed fighting engine that is not only a blast to play but gives you wonderful insight into the depth of MMA combat.

Instead, it's all monkeys slapping Stiller... again, a tedious repetition of a «joke» that wasn't funny the first time around.

Instead, it feels almost like Fox took an existing script for an original sci - fi film and just slapped the names of the characters from the comic in there.

It's always helpful to understand the reasons behind car trouble instead of just slapping on a quick fix.

The only way we could get a rise out of it was slapping off some rev - matched downshifts with the seven - speed S - Tronic dual - clutch gearbox, but U.S. - market cars won't have that transmission; instead our 3.0 T will use an eight - speed automatic.

Many folks take a DIY approach to this today, and there are ample libraries of eBook files out there, but when we really have figured out the business of publishing knowledge rather than simply text, there will be new, as - yet unrecognized but forehead - slapping obvious enhancements to text that most people will pay for instead of doing it themselves.

Instead of embracing readers (i.e., their customers) and thinking of ways to make their reading or purchasing experiences better, publishers have been raising e-book prices, delaying e-book releases, slapping on restrictive copy protection (DRM) that confuses and limits readers, blocking features like lending, and, perhaps most egregiously, blocking text - to - speech.

Instead of a small bump in processor speed, an improved camera, and 4G LTE, Samsung ended up slapping in a dual - core CPU, Honeycomb 3.2 with Touch - Wiz, Bluetooth 3.0, and an IR blaster.

But instead of adding high quality meat protein to the food, they just slapped the amino acids in to plug the nutritional holes in the food.

It is a much better feeling to get a lump sum of rewards after making a large purchase instead of worrying about being slapped with a lump sum of interest from a store credit card with a special financing agreement.

Grab a coldie from the min - bar, prop yourself up on one of the chairs on the balcony and relish the scenery, and when it gets too warm, drag yourself upstairs to the fabulous pool with the waves stretching out below, however be sure to slip, slop, slap as it's very exposed or laze in a shaded sun lounge instead.

Some issuers are putting the numbers on the back of the card (instead of the front), so those digits aren't visible when you slap that card on the counter, says Chen, «It's another way the banks are helping people protect their personal information,» she says.

I like that they actually added some content instead of just slapping 1080p, solid 60 fps and giving it a ridiculous price tag like other remasters.

Not only is it a slap in the face to go from gorgeous 32 bit graphics from MM8 or even the decent 16 bit visuals for MMB to the cruddy 8 bit style, but they don't even bother to base it off the colorful, more dynamic levels from Mega Man 6 that really showed that the NES could still do impressive colors, instead going for Mega Man 2 of all things due to people's nostalgia.

We can do these things, but instead we bicker on the Internet and then grovel at the feet of the publishers, soaking up their marketing and slapping down pre-orders, granting money and numbers used to please shareholders and drive the deadline culture.

Because numbers are actually meaningless and distract the reader from the thoughtful content of the review... and also requires the reviewer to write a thoughtful review instead of just slapping a number down and cwlling it a day.

Fighting games have never really delivered a proper story mode and instead, have been content with just having an arcade mode with cutscenes slapped on in the beginning or end of them.

With Rose & Camellia, we came up with the idea for the game first, and we argued over what story - based reason there would be for the ladies being polite enough to take turns slapping each other instead of going all - out and having a wrestling match.

I came to play a game, but what I have found instead is a mutated hybrid of other media haphazardly slapped together.

All Respawn had to do was leave out the concept of a story and we would not be faced with the impression that the developers truly did not care to make a plot, but instead slapped the word «campaign» onto a couple of static multiplayer missions assuming it would suffice to appease the players who wanted a story in their game.