Sentences with phrase «leave little ability»

Massive deficits leave little ability to respond to economic downturns, making an inevitable future recovery exceedingly slow and painful.

Not exact matches

This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

Unfortunately, organizations can put too little emphasis on any individual's abilities or accomplishments for fear others will feel hurt or left out.

Pots de crème were a staple of restaurants, along with crème brûlee, tiramisù, panna cotta, and cheesecake for their ability to be made ahead, kept chilled for up to several days, and served up with little fanfare, leaving the pantry free to prepare more complicated salads and cold appetizers to order.

For all his ability to move easily between worlds, Boulud is such a New York figure that it's always a little surprising that he doesn't dematerialize when he leaves the city limits.

CaughtOffside Says: After today's resounding win, no doubt Spurs fans will be a little happier about their ability to be the first side to play for 3 years without a left midfielder.

Now, Kemp isn't the worst given how little time is left on his contract, but he's still owed over $ 50 million through 2019, the offense isn't returning to the levels that got him paid in the first place, the little defensive ability that used to be there is gone, and the only thing keeping him from having a deal as bad as Sandoval's is the fact that he could at least slot in as a DH somewhere and work out the remaining days of his contract.

Mo Elneny has always impressed me since joining the club from Basel, and I feel he hasn't been given a fair throw of the dice by Arsene Wenger, and his recent outings at centre - back leave me a little bemused by the use of his ability.

I initially realised Wenger was never going to accomplish anything with Arsenal when he sold rvp to united, under no circumstances should this have happened, i think van persie, nasri and cesc were opinionated players and them leaving caused wenger to appoint players with little to no character and now we have no real leaders, at least anyone who can back it up with ability.

I think it would be a mistake to focus too much on the little Spaniard, because then we would be leaving too much space for the likes of Nasri, Fernandinho, Lampard or Navas and they all have the ability to really hurt us.

Renowned for his attention to detail and organisational ability, Nuno leaves little to chance.

You can always draw the pictures of the bedtime routine activities yourself, but if your art ability leaves a little something to be desired, search the internet for free photos or clip art that you can download and print off of your home computer.

You can't teach a baby to walk before his little muscles are developed enough; you can't teach him to talk before his oral structures and the brain wiring that enables this are present and he won't be able to truly «self soothe» no matter how long you leave him to cry himself to sleep, until he has developed the brain structures and cognitive skills that enable emotional regulation — in other words, the ability to calm himself when he becomes upset.

That base is not nearly large enough to power a single candidate to victory, and split between Dietl and Malliotakis it leaves both with little ability to pose a real challenge to Mayor de Blasio.

In any event, a prime minister who is forced to leave office due to scandal or similar circumstance will usually have little if any ability to influence his party on the final selection of a new leader and anyone seen to be having close ties to such a prime minister will have limited if any serious prospect of being elected the new leader.

Thanks to hippos» stunning wound - healing abilities — perhaps related to the antibacterial properties of the creepy «red sweat» that coats their skin — all the surviving animals were able to return to their feces - infested communal pools within hours of the surgery with no negative consequences, just a little bit nicer than when they left.

It is a life - changing experience for the better and grants one the ability to feel that they are finally in control of their lives, even when it feels as if they have little left to hold on to.

It's so amazing how it's grown Ashley — I need to spend more time on my little account but there's just not enough hours in the day at the mo — plus the leg brace is severely impacting on my style and ability to leave the house!!

Otherwise, we have to accept that Transformers: Dark of the Moon is little more than a «leave your brain at the door» film for audiences with the dubious ability to stop themselves from thinking.

The perk system also leaves much to be desired as most the perks simply buff what you can already do or give some little ability that barely makes a difference.

Both films possess the ability to make the viewer punch - drunk, leaving the theatre bleary - eyed and a little hungover.

Cooper has the ability to find good lead actors to keep his films afloat (Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart, Christian Bale in Out of the Furnace, Depp and Edgerton here), but that seems to be all that concerns him, leaving little left over to sustain anything beyond the force of its central performance.

And Joe's ability to end the entire drama via his own hitherto unexplained ability to make the creature realize he should leave, was also more than a little far fetched and convenient.

Revealing fighting abilities that would leave even Bond a little shaken and stirred, Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) presents himself in this telling as much more of an action hero.

But what would happen if people were to lose this ability of all sudden, forced to survive with what little is left from the past, waiting for the inevitable end?

Our students face many risk factors once they leave us — peers who do not always encourage good decisionmaking, bureaucratic educational institutions, employers who do not always treat them well, family members who do not necessarily believe in their ability to succeed, and a society that has too little regard for low - income black teens.

All but the wealthiest districts receive their funding entirely from the state rather than from local taxes, a consequence of the 1978 Proposition 13 tax initiative that left local authorities with little ability to raise revenues.

The ability to set the steering wheel when entering a corner on a mountain turnpike, and just leave it there throughout the turn, is a little eerie.

THAT»S when I realized that I could support an author for entertaining me and giving me the ability to leave my troubles behind, even for a little while.

I'd just returned from a short trip, four days away on business, and I swear that Agustina was fine when I left, I swear nothing odd was going on, or at least nothing out of the ordinary, certainly nothing to suggest what would happen to her while I was gone, except for her own premonitions, of course, but how was I to believe her when Agustina is always predicting some catastrophe; I've tried everything to make her see reason, but she won't be swayed, insisting that ever since she was little she's had what she calls the gift of sight, or the ability to see the future, and God only knows the trouble that's caused us.

However there is a little problem in that if you do not make the other payments Amazon has the ability to deactivate the tablet and you are left with a device you can not sell on or use.

Considering I didn't struggle to defeat Calamity Ganon with the standard powers, and I have very little left do in the main game, the upgraded abilities felt slightly underwhelming, but greatly appreciated nonetheless.

Goonies II was eventually completed, with a little help from my father, a Zork sorta - guy, who dug the ability based roadblocks and the first person, leave your reflexes at the door, puzzle rooms.

But what would happen if people were to lose this ability of all sudden, forced to survive with what little is left from the past, waiting for the inevitable end?

After leaving a soul crushing office job for the simple life in the countryside (perhaps a little nod to why these games are so appealing) the player character ends up in the struggling hamlet of Pelican Town — presumably with the ability to reinvigorate the local economy through the power of locally sourced produce and artisanal goods.

Trying to do all those things and work on my upcoming show was leaving me a little frazzled and drained, so I unplugged (to the best of my ability, anyway).

The creek is heartening to see because it shows the ability of wild things to fill in gaps and thrive amid some of the most heavily trammeled human habitat if we leave just a little room for nature — what Thoreau called «the swamp on the edge of town» (as pointed out to me by the «renegade naturalist,» Daniel Botkin).

An unintended consequence of this strategy is that there has been very little left over for true climate modeling innovations and fundamental research into climate dynamics and theory — such research would not only support amelioration of deficiencies and failures in the current climate modeling systems, but would also lay the foundations for disruptive advances in our understanding of the climate system and our ability to predict emergent phenomena such as abrupt climate change.

Of the objections raised on the face of the petition two points only seem to be capable of plausible or, indeed, intelligible expression, and they have been urged before their Lordships with as much force as was possible, and as fully and completely in their Lordships» opinion as it would have been if leave to appeal had been granted, and they have been dealt with by the judgments of the Court of Appeal in Manitoba with a patience, learning, and ability that leaves very little to be said upon them.

If your job prevents you from spending quality time with your family, prohibits your ability to enjoy outside pursuits, leaves you impossibly stressed at the end of the day, consumes your every waking moment, bores you completely, challenges you less and less, feels out of synch with your interests and abilities, or presents little opportunity for growth, a career change could be in order.

Unfortunately, the increase in litigation related to the potential for defamation and how much information an employer should divulge has left employers with little more than the practical ability to verify previous positions and dates of employment.