Sentences with phrase «less than welcoming»

It's perfectly okay to take some time off to regroup and focus on self - care and your hobbies, especially if the working world has been less than welcoming.

Except when you look at that spray bottle of cleaner, the list of lab ingredients seem less than welcoming.

Following the death of his mother, 16 - year - old Joey Crouch travels by train from Chicago to a small town in Iowa to live with the father he has never met, who is less than welcoming when Joey arrives at his dad's dilapidated, smelly cabin.

She tells us frankly about her initial gaffes and missteps (some of which are quite funny), as well as the insularity of the townspeople, who are less than welcoming to this foreigner.

Several users on Yelp, for instance, suggested that employees at Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago were less than welcoming.

Canada has always taken a defensive posture with regard to dairy and pharmaceutical issues — these were the stumbling blocks that made it less than welcome when it first lobbied for TPP participation as a latecomer in 2011.

This side effect was less than welcome for me (I love my nails super short and find clipping them an annoying waste of time) but could be a boon for some people.

While hardly a radical, 18 - year - old Ellis discovered his interest in the arts, and his slightly longer than average hair made him a less than welcome presence in Mississippi.

Clothing is one way for kids to express themselves and the thought of wearing a uniform is sometimes less than welcome.

You are now thrown into what is a very close - knit crew, trying to do a good job using your skills while trying to learn a new system, and experiencing other technicians making you feel less than welcome.

«Human: Fall Flat's journey has been, at times, confounding but never less than welcome,» said Tomas Sakalauskas.

However people such as myself are less than welcome at ABC's Drum Unleashed where the vitriol from some of their regulars make this site resemble worshipers at a catholic mass wishing all around them peace be with you.

While that particular change of heart was less than welcome, environmental campaigners are calling for another government u-turn.

Not exact matches

Although 400,000 migrants did travel through Hungary in 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in the country was small, perhaps in part because of its less - than - welcoming attitude.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will get a decidedly less lavish welcome than her French counterpart when she takes her turn at the White House today.

More than 80 % of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets.

Eighty - one percent of the 462 companies included in the survey, among them U.S. and multinational firms, said foreign business was less welcome in China than in the past, up from 77 % in 2016.

A recent survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China found that more than 81 % of its members feel China has become «less welcoming» to foreign businesses, up from 41 % who felt that in 2013.

The state's agricultural body has welcomed the Commonwealth's decision to reduce its planned backpacker tax to 15 per cent, less than half than what was originally proposed.

«It's refreshing and welcome and no less than we would expect from Jeff Sessions.»

Prices, which rose 84 % in the last 10 years, are still rising, though they were up less than 3 % from last year in March — a slowdown welcomed by everyone but sellers.

They not only welcomed me, and treated me like a valuable person right from the start, but they got me through two of the hardest years of my life, when I had to leave the job I had to take 10 and a half weeks post op from my second open heart surgery in less than a year, (couldn't get disability) and try one more time to get SSDI.

You're more than welcome ttm ~ > The word treasure is a good word to use because what He offers us is nothing less than a treasure.

But while poor Latin Americans agree that gifts of food, clothing and other handouts are an incentive to convert, many say that the gifts are less important than the welcoming religious atmosphere in fundamentalist churches.

In light of the debate on whether Syrian refugees should be welcome in the United States and why Christians compose less than 3 percent of those resettled so far, here's a look at where America's current Christian refugees have come from.

Like the United States, Europe's newest counter-terrorism measures have made it clear that migrants are less welcome than they previously were.

That gets the point across in 59 seconds less than the one - minute movie «Welcome To The Neighborhood» (You can grab it from the Downloads page of my site.)

At first they welcomed Cook as a god and believed his ships came to the islands on the winds of Lono, but his incessant and arrogant demands for provisions soon made him appear considerably less than divine.

White does not simply present Malory's romance as an allegory for the ills of his age, though he recognizes its relevance, much less as a panacea for his own afflictions in any sense other than the humble one in which all polite literature is a welcome respite from terrestrial agonies.

Espelette, with a population of less than 2,000, welcomes some 18,000 visitors during its annual 2 - day celebration.

In less than 15 minutes I had mixed together a cornbread batter, and in 10 more minutes enticing aromas accompanied the welcome heat radiating from the oven.

With ingredient sourcing you can trust, Kite Hill is a welcome reprieve from processed «cheese products» that can sometimes contain less than 51 % of actual cheese and an array of emulsifiers and artificial colors.

Whether it's the fact that winter is lingering around far past it's welcome (it snowed... again), the fact that I'm going to Puerto Rico in less than a month -LRB-!!)

I did not included you in the list because you worth less than a $ hit but hey, you're welcome to the ranks.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is known for trusting in youth, and has enjoyed a very busy summer transfer window to date, with the Northern Irishman welcoming in no less than seven new signings thus far.

Less than 10 hours after the deal gets done and is out in the public eye, the locals see a welcome - home billboard.

And English football rolls on, institutionally oblivious, having managed to become a slightly less welcoming place for women than it already was.

Personally, I welcome — this being a debate site - real people with real fan opinions and have no intention of saying less than I mean, since to me that is hypocritical at worst or sitting on the fence at best, in true Alan Smith style (as opposed to fine proper and honest, as they see it, pundits like NEVILLE, CARRAGHER AND SOUNESS, who are above all honest and earn their corn - unlike Walcott - by doing the job they are paid to do.)

karma hit against the penny pinching manager, Valencia will not cell mustafi for less than 30mil pound, jonny evans welcome to Arsenal

As such, it's less than likely that Wayne Rooney will surpass Bobby Charlton's record of 49 goals tonight, however welcoming a mood San Marino might be in.

SHANGHAI: Argentine star Carlos Tevez arrived in Shanghai to a hero's welcome but sneaked out of China less than a year later and has now sealed a return to Boca Juniors.

Beautiful as it is, it can be less than glamorous to experience — so products that make pregnancy less uncomfortable are welcomed with open (albeit swollen, sometimes numb) arms.

«Some are welcome: a silly promise to put workers on company boards, for instance, was abandoned; a dreadful plan to make firms list their foreign employees lasted less than a week; and hints at curbing the Bank of England's independence were quietly forgotten.

Trump will embark on his first foreign trip as president Friday less as an anti-Obama figure than as a latter - day Richard M. Nixon or Bill Clinton — a wounded president fleeing political storms at home for an uncertain welcome overseas.

With Speaker Bercow barely able to warm his new big green chair, the daggers were already drawn, with some unpleasant off and on the record briefing against him, a less than gracious welcome by Alan Duncan, Shadow Leader of the House, and a quite distasteful contribution from Nadine Dorries parading herself round the media outlets the day after Mr Bercow's election.

Jeremy Corbyn has welcomed back a Labour MP who resigned from the shadow cabinet less than a month ago.

«It is with great compunction that this Court renders this decision as this Court recognizes the benefit that such a law would provide,» Judge Wright wrote in his decision, going on to question «the wisdom in the Mayor's zeal for the possibility of welcoming to New York City a business that would pay its building service employees less than the prevailing wage.»

MIDTOWN — St. Patrick's Day Parade - goers greeted Mayor Michael Bloomberg with a less than warm welcome Thursday, booing and jeering him along the route.

And it's worth noting that Ukip supporters are only slightly less willing than Labour or Tory voters to welcome more immigrants:

We are the British left, after all, and we don't want to make anyone feel less than politely welcome.