Sentences with phrase «losing ground because»

The most popular way to find a Realtor used to be via referrals, but that method seems to be losing ground because you're relying on only one neighbor or friend's opinion.

• Are black students losing ground because they attend worse schools?

Embattled Lib Dems feel they're losing ground because their party identity is being compromised.

They are losing ground because their rhetoric consistently reflects a commitment to an idealized glorification of the pre-feminist nuclear family of 1950s America rather than a commitment to «biblical manhood» and «biblical womanhood» — terms that many of us recognize as highly selective, reductive, and problematic.

And they are losing ground because, at the practical level, evangelicals are realizing that complementarianism doesn't actually promote complementary relationships, but rather hierarchal ones.

What we find is that it takes significantly longer for an individual to make up lost ground because of moving out of the market or becoming more conservative compared to the individual who stands their ground and rides it out.

But teachers say Colorado has a long way to go to recover lost ground because of strict tax and spending limits.

Diesels lost ground because of hybrids» increasing strength.

Traditional websites have lost ground because it takes time to sift through a site to find recent listings, contact info and links to reviews, she says.

Not exact matches

If it wasn't the best of year for you, there's incredible opportunity ahead because you have a whole year to absolutely crush it and make up for lost ground in 2014.

Regaining its No. 1 spot in Bloomberg BusinessWeek's 2013 ranking didn't make all that much of a difference in our composite ranking, probably because Kellogg's EMBA program lost ground in The Financial Times» 2013 survey, slipping to 24th from 17th.

Uber claims Waymo's lawsuit is baseless and is only suing because they were upset they were losing top talent at a time when competing companies began gaining ground.

So while we are starting from a reasonable economic base, a strong fiscal position and a high quality of life, we can not be complacent, because we are losing ground in an increasingly competitive world.

This is especially true because other countries are not sitting still — in other words, we could actually lose ground as other countries become more competitive, so failing to take up these structural opportunities might still mean an erosion of the status quo.

This is unfortunate because I can say unequivocally that if you are not increasing your efficiency and acceleration, then you are losing ground.

Willow Creek loses out in the comparison because of a serious basic weakness: its leaders have not yet worked out how to move seekers beyond self - fulfillment to a thorough grounding in scripture and ministries.

The danger in this is clear: early 20th century fundamentalism may have lost half its children because its theological world view was too small to take in their concerns and ground them biblically, thus forcing them toward less biblical foundations.

The tension becomes frustratingly evident, he adds, in the efforts of those on the ground who «want to pursue the local but then begin to lose their nerve because they feel they're becoming too parochial — people of initiative, people of courage, pastors and local communities, who try to pursue the agenda of inculturation nevertheless looking over their shoulder all the time wondering when they're going to be asked or called to account.»

But what if the only reason that person became alcoholic is because all in the same month, he lost his job, his wife died in a car accident, his son fell off a cliff and broke his neck, and his house burned to the ground?

Just because a strip club or a bar takes over where a church used to meet does not mean the church is losing ground.

Then, at a time when I seemed to be rather rapidly losing ground, I heard some things that gave me interest enough in mental healing to make me try it; I had no great hope of getting any good from it — it was a chance I tried, partly because my thought was interested by the new possibility it seemed to open, partly because it was the only chance I then could see.

Use the back of the spoon and grind the garlic into the bread to help it stick because later on we are going to lose a bunch of it.

I always favour the pods over the pre-ground stuff, because ready ground cardamom loses its flavour so quickly that it can be rather disappointing.

The reason is, because ready ground tends to lose its flavour rapidly (and it varies from batch to batch and brand to brand).

However, «We lost some ground, just because we were dealing with co-packers,» he admits.

(Because if you add the liquid in the food processor, the pieces then get ground up too much and you've lost your beautiful butter flecks).

It's more cost effective and tastes better than ground, particularly because it's pretty slow to get through and pre-ground loses its flavour quickly.

Ramsey can not do that — sure the guy is lauded because he covers a lot of ground, and arrives in the box, but he is guilty of losing the ball coming out of the back too often.

Team Goldin did not play but because a bunch of teams ahead of them in the rankings lost, by doing nothing they really gained some ground!

There are no weak teams or easy games anymore, more so this mad season... the time for experimenting is well and truly over, personally I think we should field our best team in the league every game because we can not afford to lose any more ground, City are starting to purr and we will be severely punished for any slip ups....

Wenger has lost the dressing room, his insane philosophy of running players into the ground and ignoring decent players because of his bias for certain under performing players is simply unforgivable.

Sanchez wasn't impressed because we lost ground.

What we noticed last year is that some of the teams who battled to be safe, once they were safe they lost many games and so it was more difficult to make ground up after April - because some teams, once they're safe, they gave up and were a bit less focused and lost easy games.

This is probably going to be very tight and very tense because of top spot being at stake and Newcastle not wanting to lose further ground, or under 2.5 goals at William Hill is a price of 8/13 with Bet365.

Consequences that take place over several days, like being grounded for a week, can backfire because children with depression may lose their motivation to earn their privileges back.

We're losing ground not because of they might roll the regs back, but because school nutrition departments are being asked to do too much with too little.

Maragos said he was encouraged by the Q poll because he hasn't lost much ground against Gillibrand, despite the fact that there are now two other Republicans in the race.

The LibDems aren't going to lose «a bit of ground» to the Tories, they're going to lose 30 - 40 seats to them (i.e. about half the Parliamentary Party), not least because they have their most ineffective leader since Clement Davis.

«And then he said that, because he was losing ground to the establishment who wanted former Secretary of Labor Perez to be the chair, he said, well he would quit his seat, won't be a part - time chair, starts backing off on Israel - Palestine issue,» Nader continued.

Because what Britain needs is strong enough growth so that we can catch up the ground we have lost and so that everyone can feel the benefit.

If you don't have competition in your party when you go to the national elections you'll also lose because you've not tested the ground, you've not actually activated your members.

Because failing to act will not only risk jobs and investment now, it will also cost the UK taxpayer in the long - term as we lose revenue from oil that gets left in the ground.

The question that has dominated Labour's election post mortem is whether the party lost because it was too left - wing and should therefore return to the centre ground.

Gordon lost more ground not because he broke with «New» Labour but because he failed to break with it.

Mr. Romney may still lose the election, but committee officials said Tuesday that it will not be because of a lack of a concerted, well - organized effort on the ground.

For the mean - spirited, disoriented press trying to find grounding and recover legitimacy on my back, pray that you still have a job next year because you have lost all credibility with the people.

Especially here, because in the shallow water they rub against the ground and against each other, and lose the tags,» Ketchum grumbled as we slogged along.

Nasa did not request help in trying to observe the damaged area with ground telescopes or satellites, in part because it did not believe the pictures would be useful, whereas, on the first space shuttle launch in 1981, Columbia lost a few tiles and Nasa had requested the use of ground telescopes and satellites.

And if Moore did lose her teeth because of grinding - related fractures, he adds, her scenario is still the «absolute extreme.»

And because ground spices tend to lose their flavor with time, whole spices (ground at home with a coffee grinder) taste better.