Sentences with phrase «little ground in»

Despite more jobs and an improving economy, contract signings have gained little ground in 2017.

Sorry little ground in common apart from interest in the scientific causes.

For too long the gaming world has been polarised into triple - A and indie releases with very little ground in - between, but now it really feels like the middle - tier of gaming — the glue that holds our year together — is seeing a resurgence with some of the most interesting, quirky and curious releases of 2018.

The poll shows de Blasio losing a little ground in the Democratic mayoral primary, but he still leads 2009 nominee Bill Thompson 39 percent to 25 percent.

While Cruz ceded little ground in her first month, she is far from matching Young's overall totals of $ 1.45 million raised and $ 1.1 million on hand.

So Baez, who refused to concede on Tuesday, gained a little ground in the re-count, but not enough to make a difference.

Edward Leigh MP, Chairman of the committee said: «HMRC is apparently making little ground in its efforts to diminish the cash - in - hand culture operating in the UK.»

Labour actually gained a little ground in Flintshire and Swansea and showed impressive resilience to hold onto majority control of both Cardff and Newport.

His well - known and admirable devotion to the education, nurture, preservation, happiness, and well - being of others seems to have little grounding in his formal views.

But because so many mainstream journalists don't understand online politics and generally have little grounding in studying grassroots activism in general, when they hear the word «Internet» they now seem to fall over themselves to give credence to whatever spin someone throws at them.

This can be a difficult game at times but nothing that a little grinding in earlier areas and observation won't fix.

I had done a little grinding in my previous RPG experience, Final Fantasy Legend on the Game Boy, but wasn't prepared for the kind of grinding I'd have to do here.

Not exact matches

To many bankers and others in the industry, SBAExpress occupies the middle ground between a conventional bank loan and traditional 7 (a) credit — trotted out when a borrower is «just a little bit of a stretch beyond the normal credit limits,» according to Joel Pruis, portfolio management analyst at the Indianapolis consulting firm Baker Hill.

Around the bend I encountered a large gaping hole in the ground with a little sign next to it that said THE MARKET: PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

By using the support of those who care about you most, you can put all the little entrepreneurial hiccups in perspective and more easily stay grounded.

Most unusually, he wants to open the door a little to public eyes, long curious about what really happens in the halls of the «McKinsey mafia,» and the Kumar debacle is his first testing ground.

Beijing's plan will change little on the ground and offers a slim chance to become the starting point in talks to avert a trade war with Washington.

Today, most of the largest currencies are little changed, with NEM and Dash trading notably higher, while Monero losing ground for the third day in a row.

He adds: «Those who get in while this industry is still on the ground floor are poised to make a fortune — and we want to give the «little guy» a fair chance to get in on this once - in - a-lifetime opportunity.

The 10 per cent that we cut off has the most carbon in it, so we put that carbon back in the ground,» chief operating officer Mark Little told the company's annual meeting on Wednesday.

He has begun to try to write against type and found little success when he plowed familiar ground: The dreadful Yellow Dog, which appeared in 2003, reads like a parody of a 1980s Amis novel.

Next to the church, down a little swale, young people were bopping and grinding in a tent set up for disco dancing.

I thought I grew out of the flags and the happy - clappy Jesus - is - my - boyfriend songs, that I was too wise and smart for such sentimental things but in my maturity now I want to shout out hallelujah and fling myself to the ground prostrate, in gratitude for dirt and little boys, for babies and the lines around my eyes, for Johnny Cash and pine trees at dusk, for the taste of cold water and the vineyard, for the piano and the ones from among us who stand to lead us out into the day singing.

It was because these events were so understood, that the little kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which grew out of the invasion of Palestine, made a fertile ground for the later prophetic teaching about God's revelation in history.

Unfortunately, all the churches in East Tennessee are above ground, so earthship church is not an option... Besides, First Earthship Church of Chattanooga sounds a little too much like a cult, if you ask me.)

In praise of wide open windows and green trees, of rain soaked ground and early bedtimes for everyone, of full bookshelves and white jammies with the little feet for the baby, of smudged glasses sliding down a boy's nose and ringlets and a pixie who can't stop plotting and a baby who takes us all iIn praise of wide open windows and green trees, of rain soaked ground and early bedtimes for everyone, of full bookshelves and white jammies with the little feet for the baby, of smudged glasses sliding down a boy's nose and ringlets and a pixie who can't stop plotting and a baby who takes us all inin.

I feel like the emergent movement said this: «let's give ourselves a little more freedom from the restrictions that no longer make sense but still be in the safe ground of christianity».

Although its interest in a credible doctrine of God and God's work in the world was grounded in existential and ultimately practical concerns, the relation to practice was little and poorly articulated.

You can sense almost immediately that you have been relegated to little more than the fertile ground in which they can «plant some seeds,» a problem God has told them to fix.

Vegetius tells us that when arranged in this way, and when each soldier understood that all he had to do was stand his ground, his little six - by - six foot section of ground, that those 16 men could stand up against 500 attacking enemies!

The problem with bisexuality in my life (and I can speak only for myself) is that it has been grounded too much in my utopic fantasy of the way things «ought» to be and too little in the more modest recognition of myself as a participant in this society at this time in this world, in which I have both a concrete desire for personal intimacy with someone else and a responsibility to participate in, even witness to, the destruction of unjust social structures — specifically, the heterosexual box.

Lewontin thus saw creationism as falsified not so much by any discoveries of modern science as by universal human experience, a thesis that does little to explain either why so absurd a notion has attracted so many adherents or why we should expect it to lose ground in the near future.

If we simply kill a hundred possible terrorists in Afghanistan and do little about the swamp of poverty, hunger, despair and political disarray in that country and elsewhere in the Third World, we will fail to «dry out the breeding ground of terrorists.»

Unfortunately this conclusion is extraordinarily brief and abbreviated, probably being little more than notes for a full conclusion, but it does reveal the deep ground of the Phenomenology in the Crucifixion, and not insignificantly this work is the first full philosophical realization of the death of God.

Some of these efforts do not impress us; they are little more than a reaffirmation of the dogma that retribution overtakes the wicked in this life; they concede only that the mills of the gods may grind slowly.

It is to be remembered that at this time New Testament scholarship had little if any awareness of the apocalyptic ground of the New Testament, the transformation of New Testament scholarship entailed by this realization did not occur until the end of the nineteenth century, but already the original apocalyptic ground of Jesus and of primitive Christianity was profoundly recovered and renewed in the radically new imaginative vision of Blake, just as it was in the radically new philosophical thinking of Hegel.

One boy got a little overzealous in his play and pushed a girl, knocking her to the ground.

Women who ground their identity in their roles as wives, mothers, and homemakers will have little solid ground on which to stand when those roles, for whatever reason, change.

A view of the world which regards it as a finished product has little relation to the world as the Bible sees it; while a world that is nothing but a complicated mechanism, like a machine which grinds along engaged in nothing but repeating standard patterns of behavior, is not the world of movement and change of which the Scriptures speak.

For all we know there are little, invisible fairies that pull everything to the ground and keep all the planets in orbit, but that's highly unlikely so we call the force gravity instead.

how about we blame the stoneage workers who found metal in the ground and started using it to make stronger weapons... which evolved into guns, and without guns i can't see hilter doing as good as he did as he had little to no real military training.

And the Christian mystics speak of the acies mentis, «the peak of the soul,» with which it touches God; of «little sparks which issued forth from the Divine fire and glow within the human soul»; of the «birth of God in the ground of man's soul.»

There is not a little religious exclusiveness in the history of the Hebrews as it is recorded in the Old Testament, and this gave rise to a Jewish particularism which the greater prophets had to condemn as they stressed the love of God for all men.4 Yet the doctrine of creation that is the common heritage of Jewish and Christian faith asserts unequivocally the unity of mankind and leaves no standing ground for racial exclusiveness.

And we should deeply care about being on the right side, even in circumstances in which there is little ground for hope of success or victory anytime soon.

If, on occasion, Konstan seems to press this argument too far, bypassing a little too quickly the sense one sometimes gets that classical thinkers did have tendencies to ground friendship in utility, his argument nonetheless makes a strong case for a significant degree of overlap between ancient and modern views of friendship.

Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi conceded that there was little new in Monday's letter, but said breaking new ground was not the point - standardizing the church's response to abuse allegations was.

Simply peel the mango and two of the bananas and place them in a food processor with the ground flaxseed and a little almond milk, then blend everything together into a smooth, creamy mix.

The pepper is ground with very little preliminary drying, hence there is considerable difficulty in keeping the powder.

In lieu of buckwheat flour, you could try ground almonds, this may be a little denser but I think it would be great!

I added the juice and zest of one lemon (instead of preserved lemon), a little ground coriander, 3 tsp of harissa paste (bought in Paris and was looking for ways to use it), and a little zucchini for some green color.