Sentences with phrase «little consolation for»

Great, but it's little consolation for those who are literally starved for sexual contact.

LG has openly admitted that it needs the extra space around the screen to accommodate the fully circular display's electronics, though that will be of little consolation for anyone looking for a compact smartwatch.

It's probably little consolation for Pebble devotees who've slowly watched the hardware startup sink into oblivion, but Fitbit's offering up a good will gesture by extending support for the smartwatch's ecosystem for another six months.

Tsonis et al. (2007) is little consolation for skeptics.

While I'm sure the 25 people Martin D. «indirectly employs» are grateful for the opportunity of working on his parts plantation, this is little consolation for the millions much less fortunate.

But that's of little consolation for Brooks.

It's a generous gesture, but it may be of little consolation for those who simply want a replacement copy of an e-book that's no longer available from a publisher, which seems to be the most likely reason we'll lose content.

While positive momentum for Ford - brand products may help counteract the loss of Mercury, that likely is little consolation for dealers who relied on the marque to offset low Lincoln demand.

This is little consolation for students, families, teachers, administrators and central office staff who are all working so hard to show gains in student performance.»

Even if that is true, it is little consolation for patients right now.

The zombie - ant fungus's doom, of course, is little consolation for the infected ant.

While that's little consolation for the tenants in these buildings, it is a positive step by the City to help prevent other properties from getting to that point — hence the title of «Proactive Enforcement».

They have scored in each of their last five home fixtures though but that has been little consolation for them.

Getting to obliterate NIU in its home state is little consolation for the loss of the undefeated season, but that's all I've got to offer.

There are no answers and little consolation for those still struggling to understand.

In fact, such texts, most of which date no earlier than the late second century, favor an extreme dualism between spirit and body and offer little consolation for those hoping to celebrate the sexual passions that are so much on Brown's mind.

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Although the main reason for this is a continuing worsening in the global economy, this will be of little consolation to the Finance Minister.

One begins to look for a few pitiful rays of light in all this, but, alas, only «Little Testament,» with its utterly brilliant «the sun / unwinds its bolt of bullion» offers even the slightest consolation.

What consolation is it to me or to my loved ones if the spiritual being I am to become in heaven cares little for the mundane being I have been here below?

Ozil managed to get an assist for his Arsenal side but that would have come as little consolation to him.

Everton did manage to register a consolation goal through Yannick Bolasie in the second - half but it was too little too late for Sam Allardyce's side.

There was little danger although Imoro Ibrahim got a consolation goal against the run of play for the away side in the second half.

IT WILL be little consolation to hungry polar bears in northern Manitoba, Canada, who have had to wait weeks longer than usual for sea ice to form on Hudson Bay, but their habitat is not irreversibly doomed.

, collects the usual suspects (the always - delightful Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, the always - fallible author / historian Bill Krohn, the always - quick - to - Rich Little Peter Bogdanovich) as a series of talking - heads discussing Suspicion's inferior source material, the difficulties Hitchcock had with RKO, and the fact that Fontaine won an Oscar for her work here likely as consolation for her un-awarded work in the astonishing Rebecca.

Instead, Academy members seemed to dole out little consolation prizes across their ballots: a costume design prize for Phantom Thread here, visual effects and cinematography prizes for Blade Runner 2049 there.

He brings his little neighborhood together, doing small favors for the locals that they barely notice (bringing a woman her breakfast in exchange for a ride on her bike, helping a garbage collector with an upcoming test, and offering kind consolation to the vendor at the newspaper stand for the state of her love life).

It's a category where even the notoriously conservative Academy have been known to push the boat out a little, but the new faces it sometimes features (last year's winner Lupita Nyong» o, for example) tend to need to break out in an otherwise recognized, buzzed film (like «12 Years a Slave») and even those picks are often offset by nods for established actresses who either deserve a consolation prize or who in general feel like they haven't ever really been given their due.

Kidman is the obvious bet for consolation prize: it feels like she's moving into the Grande Dame phase of her career in which every major role she takes has one eye on the little gold fella, and if a lot of the time she's going to aim and miss (the specter of «Grace of Monaco» hovers on the horizon, not eligible here yet, but still its stinking word of mouth and distribution troubles are already part of the narrative), in general the Academy loves a trier, so a nod for something as unexceptional - but - prestigey as «The Railway Man» would not be out of the question.

Probate is not so much for the beneficiaries as it is for financial institutions and the province, so the fact that the siblings will sign off is of little consolation.

It's little consolation that these behaviors are normal for dogs; what matters is that the housetraining go smoothly and relatively quickly, that the nipping of children be held to a minimum, and that chewing on furniture and clothing be stopped or prevented.

The fact that we had Peony's for years and our cats and dogs never touched them would be little consolation if yours decided to take a sample.

It's little consolation, however, considering DriveClub still doesn't have a firm release date, and is still supposedly on - track for a release in «early 2014» until we hear otherwise.

But this will be little consolation to Uber and Lyft users who will ultimately pay for troll - related legal costs in the form of higher ride fees.

This is precious little consolation if you're stuck on KitKat, but a new video tour of Lollipop on the Galaxy S5 will at least give you a good taste of what you're in store for.

Today's admission that the acquisition was in effect a failure — the write - off is more than the $ 7.2 bn Microsoft actually paid for Nokia in the first place — will likely come as little consolation to those opposing voices.