Sentences with phrase «lends a more serious»

Not exact matches

Whether the county exec will lend more than lip service to Zimet's campaign — meaning a serious cash infusion, or at least the loan of a contributors» list — remains to be seen.

Their comedy is, admittedly, rather hit - and - miss, ranging from welcome relief to being a bit too much on the slapstick side but it ultimately lends the film the more light - hearted nature it needs in comparison to the far more serious Lord of the Rings stories.

They're inherently terrifying, which lends itself to more serious genre fare, yet we often see them portrayed in horror comedies like Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and Zombieland (just to -LSB-...]

The crime rate applies more where you looked at things like serious predatory lending and inflated home values — where older people were talked into refinancing their house that was worth about $ 40k for a loan of about $ 80k so they could lower their payments by $ 75 / month, or those who really didn't understand what they were signing were talked into majorly inflated prices for homes in areas not worth it.

Don't let the game's cartoony visuals and monster collecting premise fool you — this side story has plenty of serious moments that lends more weight to the main conflict at hand.

Yet one of these allegorical, socially progressive artists working prior to 1848 is worth examining more closely, if only to lend higher relief to the truly advanced qualities of Courbet's postrevolutionary Studio: this is the little - known Dominique Papety (1815 — 1849), for a time one of Chenavard's assistants, dismissed by Baudelaire in his 1846 Salon under the rubric «On Some Doubters,» as «serious - minded and full of great goodwill,» hence, «deserving of pity.»

But given the nascent nature of China's solar domestic market, this 500 MW program, which comes just a few months after the landmark solar roofs program, send a strong signal that China is serious about developing its domestic solar market, and will undoubtedly stimulate more activity in domestic deployment by enterprises outside of the subsidy program (like what the Solar Roofs prorgam did), and lends further support to my earlier prediction that 2009 will be remembered as the Year of Solar.

What's more, who's to say the hacked e-mails brouhaha (the term «climategate» only lends it a status and importance it really does not deserve) is the last controversy, or perhaps even the most serious one, to arise in the field?

Today, in the face of serious challenges from all corners — from the banks making lending and short - sale decisions to the regulators and legislators who set our tax and housing policies to the companies that would like to commoditize what we do for their profit — our unity is more important than ever.

Yun said that overly strict lending standards are holding back more robust sales: 2010 - vintage mortgage originations have a lower serious delinquency rate than in 2002, when serious delinquencies were barely above 1 percent, and 2011 is shaping up to be another stellar year in delinquency rates, but lenders are still requiring extraordinarily high credit scores and putting up other hurdles to obtaining financing.

This decline in the serious delinquency rate among more recent vintages of mortgage originations partly reflects tighter lending standards as represented by credit scores associated with mortgage originations.