Sentences with phrase «less at the mercy»

If you publish a book with a solid set of editorial reviews, you are less at the mercy of the whims of Amazon customers and potentially malicious competitors.

And with such savings, you'll be less dependent on your job, less at the mercy of your boss, and overall a much happier person.

Not exact matches

Externally, it has put itself at the mercy of international capitalism, becoming a dependent region with an industry, a labor force and an agriculture developed as a function of the North American and (to a lesser extent) the western European metropolis.

By definition, mercy is punishing the criminal less than he deserves, and it does not seem clear at first why not going far enough is any better than going too far.

What an article, why would any world class player in his right mind wouldn't consider coming to Arsenal especially when you are guaranteed (a) not to win any top tier trophies (b) to be paid less than at a club where you would win top tier trophies (c) your career would be at the mercy of the tactical ineptitude of Arsene the dope.

«Loose stool is more formed and less frequent than diarrhea,» says Dr. Ashanti Woods, an attending pediatrician at Mercy Medical Center.

He earned less than $ 1,000 from his role as a senior lecturer at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry.

Replace the lead with its less toxic cousin bismuth and you are still at the mercy of the fluctuating price of tellurium, a metallic by - product of copper mining.

The less informed will always be at the mercy of those that are more informed.

Isabelle is at the mercy of chimerical fits like that cause her to chase her ex - out the door, barbs of intuition which once planted in her mind drag her hither and tither, these hard - to - define in - between feelings that are no less potent for lacking a proper name.

Rather than plead for mercy from the universe, she simply plows forward during what would be three personal - world - crumbling events in a lesser movie: her husband cheats and leaves her, her mother dies, and she is fired (or at least forced to move off her method) from the job she loves.

Other than the story's weak points, there's also the problem that, while Le Chiffre has a creepy gimmick in the form of tear ducts that bleed, Bond's arch-nemesis finds himself at the mercy of other, lesser characters more than once.

The electronics book - e-book is less reliable at best; its information could be wiped out with electromagnetic pulses - EMP in case of an all - out war or during an extraordinary solar flares or disturbances; it is subject to power shortage, hardware malfunctioning and software glitch and at the mercy of hackers.

You don't increase your chances of getting a deal by becoming less powerful and more at the mercy of Publishers.

It is by ad - hoc network constellation, not by simple formality, that I arrived at the Centre D'Art Contemporain for Feinstein's show, certainly feeling less than the sum of my anecdotal adventures and at the mercy of my carbonated mineral water.

Images of people struggling in nature are still compelling to me, but I've gotten less interested in people trying to control it than in those times when people are at the mercy of it.

Where Prose can pass judgment on testimonies, giving or withholding a stamp, Immordino Vreeland is at the mercy of her cast of starry talking heads — among them Larry Gagosian, John Richardson, Edmund White, Calvin Tomkins and Robert De Niro — who, being human, are no less likely to mythologise than the subject they have been invited to demythologise.

The length of time needed for a collaborative divorce is often substantially less than that of the traditional divorce process, where the parties are at the mercy of the court's schedule.

With police looking for validation and prosecutors who often have political motivations, people accused of criminal wrongdoing are often at the mercy of a system less concerned with justice than with a conviction.