Sentences with phrase «lesser pieces on»

A great weapon find is doubly precious for being temporary, so you won't want to waste its short life on weak enemies, and it's always good to have one or two lesser pieces on hand.

Not exact matches

There's been enough frustration to drive former CEO Dick Costolo to step down last summer, and it has caused Twitter shares to lose half their value, falling from $ 36 a piece last June to less than $ 18 at the close on Tuesday.

On the friendship piece, I'd say now I'm less authoritative and also less friendly — and I don't mean that in a negative way.

While we're programmed to retain information that seems relevant and which we can tie to other facts and sensations we're already storing in our heads, if a piece of data, like a name, is context-less and random there's less for the brain to latch on to.

All these techniques can be boiled down to one basic piece of advice: Spend less time focused on yourself.

The average media consumer in 2015 spends less than eight seconds on a typical piece of content, but this company has been able to help clients like American Express and HSBC average 15 times that — helping Contently land more than $ 7.6 million in sales in 2014, up from $ 218,001 in 2011.

«They want to make sure they have control of each piece of their technology,» he says, adding that the reported $ 200 million Apple spent on the start - up is still probably less than they would have spent to develop similar capabilities in - house.

Those pieces could have been used down the road on a better trade with less risk.

Over time, I found that when I broke down big projects into less formidable pieces and put them on my to - do list, the work actually got done — no exclamation marks required.

The piece focuses specifically on informal negotiations at work — those common but less written about moments when it's up to you to secure the credit or influence you deserve, or to get what you want from a reluctant supervisor or colleague.

Auctioned off to an unknown buyer on the phone after a protracted, 19 minute bidding war, the masterpiece's road to fetching nearly half a billion dollars actually began in 1958 — when it originally sold for less than $ 200, an art dealer who once owned the piece told CNBC.

What matters much less is who builds the lease and supplies all of the rental components such as matting, camp, light towers, wellsite trailers and the myriad of other parts and pieces certainly required to drill the well, but which ultimately have no bearing on the quality of the wellbore or the well's future production.

There are less moving parts to break on a three - piece safety razor and would trade that for ease of blade replacement.

And on a front page piece, no less.

The genre also allows producers to invest less time in creating new stories and instead focus on retelling the same story over and over, with younger, cheaper, and more aesthetically appealing casts and the occasional newly invented set piece.

You do realize that the entire article we are commenting on is one long proselytizing piece from a Christian making opinion claims that the less intelligent may take as fact because the writer has a background in science.

On a floured surface, roll out a softball size piece of dough with rolling pin until very thin (thickness of CD or less).

Hot Dogs covered in sauce like chili covered in yellow mustard and white onion, like a buck a piece so I would get 3 and eat them all in less than 5 minutes like my life depended on it no regrets.

Place the ball on a piece of parchment paper and roll with a rolling pin until you have a large rectangle, just less than 1/4 inch thick.

So while it becomes easy to celebrate new technologies and wonder about the impact automation will have on the industry, today's foodservice professionals also need to keep their knowledge base current about some of these less - heralded but essential pieces of foodservice equipment.

These oat - based blender muffins have a slightly bumpy texture (as the blender won't break up the grain completely) and are a bit less sweet than the average breakfast pastry — come on, if I wanted a piece of chocolate cake, I'd just make that.

Devastating as these were, as Colin Hay argued in a recent piece for the drinks business, their impact on the overall quality of the wines that were produced was much less severe than in the bad frost years of 1956 and 1991.

1 1/2 cups fried peanut, shells on (roasted will do as well) 2 cloves garlic 1 lesser galangal (or galangal or small piece of ginger) 2 candle nuts (or macadamia or Brazil nuts) 4 Tbsp sweet soy sauce (Ketjap) 2 Tbsp palm sugar 1 tsp salt

One large head of organic cauliflower, washed and cut into bite - sized florets One pound or more of small red potatoes, skin on — washed and quartered Spray coconut or olive oil Salt Olive oil 1 inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and then grated 1 tablespoon of ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon of ground turmeric powder 1/4 teaspoon or less of ground cayenne 1/4 teaspoon of salt 1/4 cup of water Handful of fresh cilantro leaves — washed and stems removed

Place the cut cookies 1 - inch apart on a a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper (use the top piece that you removed to be less wasteful!).

Toss 3/4 cup Silver Swan soy sauce (or any kind, but this was what my family uses — it's made in the Philippines — and it adds a slightly sweeter flavor), 1 cup rice vinegar, 15 garlic cloves, 2 tablespoons black peppercorns, 3 bay leaves, 3 Thai chiles (more or less depending on your heat sensitivity), 2 tablespoons palm sugar (if you can't find it at the store, sugar in the raw will work), and a 2 - inch piece of ginger with 8 chicken drumsticks in a plastic bag and marinate — no bowl or pan washing required.

The best piece of guidance that can be presented is that the earlier you prepare the meal, the less stressful you will be on that wonderful day..

With the team we have we're still going to be fighting to be in 4th place this season, nothing more, nothing less and it seems to me that wenger is building a team that once again will compete very hard, only to end up on 4th because of injuries because of lack of depth or missing pieces (DM / LW / ST / CB)

He was an avid flyer, and less than a month ago was featured on Icon Aircraft's website (a piece that has since been removed) as the first person to receive a Model Year 2018 A5 plane.

you have to put more pieces on the field, not less.

Granted, this has as much to do with a change in manager as anything, but the moment Luciano Spalletti took over last winter, Roma relied less on set pieces and penalties and, thanks to Stephan El Shaarawy, Diego Perotti and Mohamed Salah, took a more direct route to the goal.

Even at larger fairs where people may bring more money, your less costly items can be used as «add ons» to sell on top of your mid-price or more expensive pieces.

I love that we can take a trip to the thrift store, and for mere pennies of his very own (usually 49 or 99 cents a piece - even less in summer yard sales or on Freecycle), a whole new world of music can be in his hands.

All ticketed passengers are entitled to one checked piece of baggage weighing 50 lbs or less, one piece of carry - on, and one small personal item.

If you are on a tight budget, you can create your own for less than a fiver, over the years I have seen people using a multitude of opaque household items to diffuse their flashes, from a piece of muslin to cigarette papers (they come with a handy licky sticky strip for temporarily attaching to your flash).

As long as the styles are similar, it does not matter that your piece cost far less than the one on the red carpet.

Having a few pieces of food will be less distracting and will help her focus on learning to feed herself.

«It's one less piece of paper to hang on the wall,» explained Bonner.

You can manage to do more or less the same thing by putting down a piece of plastic sheeting or even a thin fabric sheet underneath the toy, but be careful you don't end up using something that will make it slide around and become unsafe for your kids to play on.

The 3 piece gift set offers convenient features for parents such as 4 snaps at the crotch of the romper for easier changing and full snap on front for easier dressing; easy - on, easy - off bib and tag-less care label for less irritation.

I'm working on some longer pieces right now that are taking up a lot of my time, so posting here on TLT may be a bit less frequent in the coming weeks.

While I haven't finished the entire book I feel like the majority of what I have read so far has basically been a very critical piece on what's wrong with hospitals and formula companies, and less on good advice / tips for breastfeeding.

Most menstrual cups are molded in two pieces before assembly, leaving them with a seam on the side of the cup that can cause irritation and less durability.

Finally, you don't necessarily have to pay full price for these double duty strollers — read more on how to buy strollers for less in my full piece over at The Frugal Shopper.

The new media team bought display advertising significantly less than they did search ads, and focused the display piece of the puzzle more on measurable goals such as list - building than on amorphous «influence - the - discussion» ad runs.

Cuomo has insisted that extending high rates on wealthy earners is a key piece of his budget, which also includes a $ 961 million spending increase for education aid and a $ 163 million plan to phase out college tuition costs at state and city universities for those who earn less than $ 125,000.

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As with the Times and Post, the News's editorial is more about hating opponent Eliot Spitzer than it is loving Stringer: the 1,800 - word piece contains less than 500 words on Stringer, and most of them are lukewarm.

The county democratic party hardly focuses on judicial races and judicial candidates seldom reach out to local clubs for endorsements; however, I have elected to include their ratio in this piece because courts have the ability to deeply impact anyone who is involved in the justice system, and people in a lower socio - economic class are likely to have less control over and support with their legal matters.

With less than 34 percent of the personnel on Albany Fire Department right now that's under five years and you're losing your senior firefighters as they retire, it's crucial to have a piece of equipment like this.»