Sentences with phrase «longer at the mercy»

Even resistant - to - change farmers are taking control: No longer at the mercy of the natural elements, they're harnessing big data to maximize crop yields and increase productivity.

We are no longer at the mercy of the elements in the same way our ancestors were.

There was no forgetting, no Korsakov's then, nor did it seem possible or imaginable that there should be; for he was no longer at the mercy of a faulty and fallible mechanism — that of meaningless sequences and memory traces — but was absorbed in an act, an act of his whole being, which carried feeling and meaning in an organic continuity and unity, a continuity and unity so seamless it could not permit any break.

I take my own photographs using a tripod as I have very shaky hands and some soft box lights I bought cheaply online, so I'm no longer at the mercy of the grey northern light.

I bought some soft box lights cheaply online, so I'm no longer at the mercy of the grey northern light.

«In this new approach, writers are no longer at the mercy of large, traditional publishers.»

I have choices and I am no longer at the mercy of an agent or a publisher or a sales force.

«Writers are no longer at the mercy of large, traditional publishers,» said Kawasaki.

SECOND, this site is no longer at the mercy of other selling site algorithms.

These days with the online options we have in front of us as customers, we are no longer at the mercy of agents or anyone else for information or for help in finding the lowest price.

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Not too long ago, Gormley was at the helm of the Jumbo Video chain and at the mercy of Blockbuster's rapid expansion, which eventually led to Jumbo Video's sale to Quebecor Inc..

So - called «captive» shippers, who rely solely on a single carrier to move their product, have long complained they are at the mercy of Canada's two main carriers, CP and rival Canadian National Railway Co..

We may see the infancy of the human race, as the long period of man's origins when he was completely at the mercy of his environment.

All of these considerations do not change the fact that for a long time American society has been organized around the image of the successful white Anglo - Saxon man, nor assuage the bitterness of those excluded from the central rewards of the society because of the fact of sex or race or age.22 Plato long ago pointed out that the tyrant who can gratify every whim is the greatest slave of all, because he is completely at the mercy of his own desires, but he did not mean that argument as an excuse for tyrants.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

In the Christian faith, so long as we are real persons we are never wholly at the mercy of our neuroses or maladjustments or purely external influences.

The longer we tolerate his foolish authoritarian behaviour, the longer we fans will suffer and continue to be at his mercies.

For too long Arsenal were at the mercy of Spain's bit two clubs as well as our main Premier League rivals and any other club that had a lot of money to spend and a good chance of a trophy or two to win.

I did it for a while with both of my children, and usually enjoyed it, until I couldn't take the feeling of being penned in any longer and at the mercy of the constantly ticking nursing clock.

That said, a year is a long time, and it's understandable — and totally okay — if you're ready to move baby into her own room before then, says Ashanti Woods, MD, a pediatrician at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore.

Large institutional investors have long been at the mercy of flash traders who use computers to make thousands of trades a second, skimming off tiny bits of profit from pension and retirement accounts.

So Gordon will probably have to turn to Plan B, putting himself further at the mercy of events and risking the longer term threats to his bubble economy.

Once they can no longer appeal to a British consular officer for help, these former citizens may find themselves at the mercy of the Djibouti's intelligence services or the CIA's drone pilots.

In fact, I have come to think that as long as you are in the job market, you are at the mercy of people who may not like you due to other more subtle reasons.

We have long since abandoned Einstein's idea of a static, unchanging cosmos in favour of a universe that is not only constantly expanding, but whose expansion is continually accelerating, at the mercies of the mysterious agent called dark energy.

Though better educated, today's postdocs do have a good deal in common with those unionists of yore, many of whom were foreign - born and all of whom put in long hours for low wages, without job security and at their employers» mercy.

Will also provides a system for scoring supplements and once you are armed with this information you will no longer be at the mercy of an unscrupulous salesman.

Fortunately, we no longer live in a time where we are at the mercy of the closest doctor we can find.

Whatever it takes to get centered so you no longer feel at the whim and mercy of your followers» ever - changing mood and interests!

They slip out of the embassy and find shelter with the Canadian Ambassador (Victor Garber) in his residence while the rest of their compatriots are taken hostage for a long stay in the embassy compound at the mercy of the revolutionaries.

Long story short, he ruled the universe, killed off half of its inhabitants, and (nearly 30 - year - old spoilers here) eventually ended up at the mercy of every superhero, supervillain, and cosmic entity.

No longer are talented and qualified authors at the «mercy» of traditional publishers to be passed over and shunned by an editor who is looking for a safe bet or the «old tried and true».

Authors can no longer tolerate being at the mercy of the publisher to accurately and honestly report the actual numbers behind these revenue streams as opposed to just some bottom - line figure computed in secret; it's essential to know how many people are accessing a work and the income attributable to it in clear and precise terms.

While there may be some argument for limited differential pricing, the current situation, which essentially puts the library's long - term ability to carry out its mission at the mercy of publishers, should be sounding alarms in the public policy arena.

When we don't check for facts, when we don't pay attention to the whole arc of an event long enough to build a reliable narrative, we're at the mercy of unreliable narrators.

While it will certainly create chaos in your household (for as long as six weeks), and while it will be expensive (good bathroom expansion jobs easily creep up past $ 15,000 or $ 20,000), it's the type of job that many reputable, busy contractors will schedule in at the last minute if you don't mind being at the mercy of the contractor's schedule.

When you see that in a future letter, think back to the lessons of this letter and know that over the long term, we are well positioned but over the short term we are at the mercy of the market.

As award - winning documentary filmmaker K.P. Sasi shows his film Resisting Coastal Invasion, the resorts appropriate prime beachfronts, leaving the villages at the mercy of the sea, or fence off once - common areas with long swaths of barb - wire, blocking fisherfolk from accessing the sea.

I do like the idea of decentralized electricity generation as the umbilical cord would no longer force people to be at the mercy of the utility companies frequent monopolies.

Another benefit with de-centralized energy is that people would no longer, or at least not nearly to the degree that they are now, be at the mercy of the power giants that can raise rates whenever they feel like it.

«Gamers are no longer held at the mercy of a battery or cable.

With cryptocurrencies, as long as you keep your private keys secure from hackers by using a hardware wallet or a paper wallet, then nobody can touch your money and you are in complete control, not at the mercy of banks.

I began my work in private practice with some stints along the way as mental health therapist in a transgender program in the Bronx, mental health supervisor at the Staten Island LGBT Center, president of the NYC Chapter of the New York Mental Health Counselors Association, Member at Large of the New York Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and adjunct faculty teaching human sexuality and psychology courses in various departments (Rockhurst College, Park University, Hunter College, Mercy College and Long Island University).

You are at the mercy of the economic cycles, interest rates, getting finance, raising deposits, however there are many ways to overcome that and the medium to long - term benefits outweigh the short - term ones.