Sentences with phrase «less of a drag»

«It is about taking our existing rules as they are and applying them in ways that are simpler, less burdensome and less of a drag on the American economy,» he said.

There's also the matter of the Demon Hand being able to permanently destroy these phantom replacements, so there are now new phases where Oni have to deal with their bits going missing — seeing them dragging themselves along with one arm and such is pretty neat, and the fact that most bosses naturally have smaller health pools than the first game makes extended fight sequences less of a drag.

«Housing has become less of a drag, but I don't think it's going to be that engine,» said Stan Humphries, chief economist at real - estate data company Zillow Inc..

Conversely, annual reinvesting costs are much less of a drag on investment performance.

We expect, given the finding that Retail taxes produce less of a drag on the economy than Income taxes that if a government decides it must raise new taxes (perish the thought), then it ought by the Precautionary Principle do so by reducing the Income Tax rate so low as possible and raising the Retail Tax rate to meet the needs of the state — for instance to pay off debt accumulated by fighting foreign wars.

Here you can sign up for online California traffic school, a course that is simple, convenient, and less of a drag than going to traffic school in a classroom!

The time period having carriages accesable makes getting arround the city less of a drag.

But it's clear that people's outlook on the economy is now becoming less of a drag on the housing market.

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«We'll jump on a problem with a lot less resentment and foot dragging than you would find in another company,» says chief financial officer Thomas Downing, who spent most of his career working for other companies.

It's been less than a year since United's mega PR - disaster, when a passenger was wrestled out of his seat and dragged, bleeding, down the aisle.

Latin American countries with less of a buffer against a global downturn, such as Mexico and Brazil, have also been a drag on exchange traded fund (ETF) flows.

American politics are nowhere near stable but having survived the fiscal drag and the sequester, so far at least, investors have become less apprehensive of the games played in DC.

Though Paul became an apostle through his encounter with the risen Christ, we might well reach into the future and drag him back to stand with John the Baptist under the cross, for his own preaching is no less Christologically ordered than that of John.

I dragged myself out of bed and into some yoga pants and a sweatshirt, and less than two hours later, I was tucking into a big bowl of homemade soup and binge - watching The Mindy Project.

At the lower, less visible levels of the sport, there is an endless supply of desperate fighters who drag their tattered bodies into the ring for next month's rent.

The suits are made of synthetic materials — the Adidas models are Teflon - coated — and purportedly have less drag in the water than even the most smoothly shaved human skin.

His greater value is in his positioning though: he's good at making himself available for a pass from the defenders (which is particularly useful with Holgate, who is brave on the ball but also has a tendency to play the first pass he sees, so having Schneiderlin as a simple option makes it less likely he gives it away cheaply) although more useful at distracting opposition players, moving wider to drag them away from the middle and opening up passing lanes for the defenders to pass into the feet of Rooney and Sigurdsson, or playing one - twos with Gueye so the Senegalese has space on the ball and can turn, face play and stride forward without immediate pressure.

Arsenal had to dig deep and with less than 20 minutes to the end of regular time pulled one back through a Matersacker header which found the back of the net bringing the game back on level terms before dragging the game into penalties and then Goalkeeper Fabianski brought the magic out of him with two outsatanding saves to see the gunner through to the final.

Mexico, like South Africa, embarked upon an exhaustive pre-tournament schedule, with coach Javier Aguirre dragging 17 players out of the Mexican championship early and overseeing no less than 12 friendly matches since the end of February, culminating in the superb 2 - 1 defeat of Italy in Brussels last Thursday.

As hard as it was to drag my body out of the bed with less than 3 hours sleep on a 3 hour time zone difference between Arizona and Florida, I did it.

If you have kids older than that, though, this book will give you a nice framework for thinking about all the areas of family life so you can assess what you can control and streamline things so you can process the chaos as it happens and spend more time enjoying life and less time feeling like it's dragging you around.

We had an appointment planned for the Thursday in half term, but decided to postpone it as the idea of dragging Sausage to London during half term, on Halloween no less, then trying to get her home on the tube during work - kicking - out time just didn't appeal, especially as she's not a huge fan of stairs, having lived in a bungalow her whole life.

Some countries also take a less contentious approach, I am told that Denmark will most of the time accept the Commission's interpretation as soon as it gets a letter of formal notice and seldom drags the proceedings in court.

The protesting organizations dispute those accomplishments, arguing that the Governor dragged his heels on spending for supportive housing to help the previously homeless with additional social service, and moreover the money will only create six thousand units, less than a third of the total need.

In March, 2017, the hooliganism rose further to the point where another group, also associated with the NPP, Delta Force, operating dangerously, invaded the offices of no less a person, than the of the Regional Security Coordinator, had him beaten, and dragged out of the office.

These kinds of fins perform better in the water because they have a little less drag and give you a smoother kick.

Air slows down as it flows over the top of a conventional plane, thereby creating drag and making the craft less efficient.

In environments with no SCN infestation, the team saw evidence of yield drag, where resistant varieties yielded slightly less than susceptible ones.

The stars are much less affected by the drag from the gas [3] and, because of the huge gaps between them, do not have a slowing effect on each other — though if two stars did collide the frictional forces would be huge.

(Less massive bodies also cause frame dragging on a smaller scale; NASA's Gravity Probe B launched in 2004 to measure the frame - dragging effects of Earth's rotation with sensitive gyroscopes.)

Coaches have said in the past that swimmers should lift their bodies out of the water because air has less drag.

After that, it takes less than a million years for the gas drag to move the black holes to within just a few light years of one another.

Current techniques can't avoid dragging a small number of the mother's mitochondria into the donor egg, totalling less than 2 % of the resulting embryo's total mitochondria.

Here the focus is on blended - wing - body craft, where the structure of a conventional airliner is stretched into a single flying wing, generating more lift and less drag while using less fuel.

The cropped length of these sleeves is great because if you're out to dinner you have to worry less about dragging your sleeves through your food to grab something on the table.

I found enough likeable aspects in it to keep me preoccupied from dwelling on the parts less interesting to me, and that's how I suspect the average moviegoer will view it... nothing great, but worth seeing for Bialystock & Bloom's slapstick, Ulla's sexpot antics, Liebkind's hilarious eccentricity, de Bris» goggle - eyed impression Reagan - in - drag, a procession of walker - clad ladies that would make Fellini proud, or, perhaps, leggy, female stormtroopers?

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.

What starts as a fascinating tale of a psychological horror game, soon changes into a repetitive experience that feels like it drags on even in its short length of less than two hours.

Whereas in «The Crossing Guard» he dug into his bag of grimaces and dragged out a hundred sinister variations on the narrow - eyed killer's glare that might be described as the Nicholson Look, here his acting is magnificently understated but no less compelling.

The scenes of Jeannette and her two sisters and one brother being dragged from small town to small town, with nothing but what they can jam into their beat - up old car, with little money and even less food, are the most powerful.

It helps even less that just when it seems the movie has mercifully drawn to a conclusion, it drags on for several more minutes of song, dance and broadly played tomfoolery during the unduly protracted closing credits.

As enjoyable as the bulk of Mini-Me's antics are, his knock - down, drag - out fight with Austin is a less effective retread of the MTV Movie Award - winning Ben Stiller - Puffy the Dog confrontation in There's Something About Mary.

The film does drag ever so occasionally — some of the deep and meaningfuls have less impact than others — but for the most part the cinéma vérité style filmmaking doesn't work against the enjoyment factor.

The more desperately he tries to find an exit, the less chance there is for him to get out of his quagmire - and he still thinks he can do that while the mounting evidence drags hims down to the bottom.

It's Howard's more workmanlike, less antic sensibility that infuses «Solo» and, in many cases, drags it down, with the few remaining traces of quippy, flippant humor either falling flat or sounding hopelessly derivative.

As far as the «getting away» goes, I'll admit to being a bit less impressed: clocking in at nearly two hours long, Logan Lucky limps to the finish line, dragging out the finale for an artificially happy ending that takes altogether too much time tying up loose ends of characters we simply do not care about.

What you might not have heard is that this adaptation of Pete Dexter's pulp novel is less a so - bad - it's - great pleasure than the cinematic equivalent of the Hindenburg crash, and that no amount of Matthew McConaughey daringness, drag - queen - ready dialogue or shots of Efron in his tighty - whities can save this movie from its own incoherence.

If it sounds like the kind of beautifully lit period romance that usually arrives in theaters in the fall, well, it is — but look at this way: here's one less tearjerker that your wife or girlfriend will try and drag you to during football season.

Flamboyant London drag queen (Chiwetel Ejiofor: Serenity) meets buttoned - down shoe - factory owner (Joel Edgerton: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith) from the hinterlands — he needs a gimmick to turn his floundering business around, «she» needs fabulous footwear that can support her less - than - feminine weight.

Teachers» retirement benefits become a drag on total compensation when the increase in benefits for an additional year worked is less than the amount lost from the lost year of collecting a pension during retirement.