Sentences with phrase «lower end of the stick»

Do girls with overly nice, ready - to - please attitudes always get the lower end of the stick?

Not exact matches

With usage limits low and woeful upload speeds, both individual Canadians and businesses are looking like they're going to once again get the short end of the stick when it comes to migrating to the cloud.

Because PMI isn't seeing a surge in device sales, sales of Heatsticks, tobacco sticks that go inside the iQOS device, «are likely to be a little bit lower» than it forecast at the end of last year.

Savers are getting the short end of the stick while it remains a borrower's paradise thanks to low inflation and the Federal Reserve's refusal to raise interest rates.

The orange ones tend to have a bit more moisture, so consider sticking to the lower end of the non-dairy milk range (like 2 - 3 tbsp or so).

As stated in the recipe below, I do recommend sticking the crisp under a low broiler flame to help brown the topping at the end of the baking cycle.

What's got 14 rounds, has been going since the beginning of July, and will inevitably end with Arsenal sticking three past another mid - to lower - midtable Premier League team?

Im extremely pleased by Fabianskis performance... I think the majority of saves made were pretty much bread and butter saves (apart from the first minute low stop — an awesome save for any keeper) however this match will have developed his confidence no end and I really hope AW sticks with him rather than bring Almunia back into the line up.

You'll also want to consider sticking to the lower - end of the recommendations for protein (one palm - sized portion per meal) as your body's ability to safely convert protein by - products is less efficient during pregnancy.

Bummis tell us to «stick to the lower end of the amount recommended on the package» (which would still be significantly more than what AMP is suggesting, and, just in case you were wondering, Boutique Bummis here in Montreal carries AMPs!)

Let me deal with the Government's record, not because we want to oppose for the sake of opposition — indeed we have supported several government measures to tackle low skilled immigration and remove foreign criminals — but because the last few weeks of vanman style gimmicks have both left a nasty taste in the mouth and have suggested that the government have got the wrong end of the stick.

It's a unique field in that a large proportion of graduates end up in faculty posts — the jobs graduate school prepares them for — and yet its low postdoc numbers suggest that most graduates are placed in real jobs soon after receiving their Ph.D. s; few mathematicians, it seems, get stuck in the postdoctoral holding pattern.

Prey often end up facing the hungry lionfish, increasing the chances of head - first strikes and lowering the risk of the lionfish getting stuck by backwards - facing spines.

One reason Sundays seem to end on such a low note: we might be unconsciously stuck in the emotions of childhood.

You end up stuck at a low calorie intake, a lot of exercise, no weight loss, and you have plenty of fat you still want to lose.

And yet if you don't shake that fear of fat even as you reduce your carbohydrates, you'll end up on a low - carb, low - fat, overall low energy diet that won't get you anywhere but stuck and stalled.

If you're lifting lighter weights, opt for the higher end of the rep range and if you're going heavy, stick to lower numbers.

Leave to simmer for an hour on the lowest heat possible and stir often to make sure the sauce does not stick to the end of the pan.

People who are female, older, less active or feel they have a «slow metabolism» should probably stick more towards the lower end of their estimate.

If you're very active or are following a low - carb, high - protein diet, stick to the upper end of the range; sedentary people do not need as much protein.

He has continued to score increasingly desperate - looking horror thrillers (and they don't come much more desperate - looking than Joy Ride) and is now stuck in a seemingly never - ending rut of providing low - budget, low - impact music for these mediocre movies.

Much of of the focus of charter schools is on poor and minority students stuck on the lower end of the academic achievement gap.

McCrory and GOP leaders are pushing for a teacher pay plan that awards beginning teachers who are stuck at the low end of the pay scale a minimum salary of $ 33,000 in 2014 - 15 and $ 35,000 in 2015 - 16.

• Stick shift cars are usually cheaper when brand - new than their automatic counterparts, especially on the lower end of the automobile market.

Lenders usually assume you can spend as much as 36 % to 45 % of your pretax income on all debts, including your house, student loans, credit cards and car loans, but you should stick to the low end of that range.

In short, the more you stick to tried - and - true indexes that track wide swaths of the market at a low cost and resist the temptation to invest in every new indexing variation some firm churns out, the less likely you'll end up «di - worse - ifying» rather than diversifying your portfolio.

«We all know the stories — all our kids getting really good educations but too many of them are still stuck living in their parents» basements, still in low - end service jobs that don't really take advantage of all the education that we've paid for,» Stewart - Patterson said in an interview.

Anyone who can't spend responsibly or who can't pay off their credit card balances in full at the end of every month should absolutely stick with cash or no / lower interest credit cards.

The end result is likely to be Nintendo sticking with their tried and tested formula: release lots of easy to develop games (that's 2D platformers, low budget sports games like Mario Tennis, iterative games like Smash Bros and Mario Party), from well - loved IP, and at full price.

You periodically find notes & audio logs (ala every old - school horror game ever) that fill you in on the story and at the end of each zone, you're given a puzzle (so far, they've just been lame «Put these things in the right order» puzzles) which you gain bonus money if you manage to complete it with no help (if you get stuck, you can ask for hints which lowers the reward).

Unless Microsoft changes its stance on all games working on all three versions of Xbox One, you won't be missing out on any adventures if you stick with or purchase the lower - end model.

Bats use a sonar pulse that has a long period of a single low frequency and then the end shoots up in pitch, just like a hockey stick.

40:30 Ice core records, low - latitudes, like hockey stick 42:00 Glacier lengths, hockey stick 42:50 Boreholes, corals 45:50 Forcings, CO2, CH4 47:00 Sunspots 49:00 Volcanoes 50:00 Other reconstructions, new studies 51:40 Spaghetti curve, look at envelope 54:15 Put spaghetti with hockey stick error bars 56:50 30 - year averages warmest, 400 years likely, 1000 years plausible 58:15 end of talk 58:50 MWP likely varied globally 01:01:50 LIA seems more global 01:03:00 Does it have anything to do with AGW?

But, in percentage terms, many law firms will struggle as they are stuck in the mushy middle between the true high - end of the market and low - cost, low - margin volume players (i.e., ALSPs).

This is quite an exciting news, as most of low - end devices are stuck on older versions of Android without a chance of upgrading.

Like I have said, there are manufacturers like Xiaomi and Honor who have been launching devices with dual cameras, taller displays, much faster processors, Samsung is still stuck in making the maximum amount of profits from their low end devices, so even if we compare this device with any other in this price segment, if you remember Samsung On7 Prime, that is similar to this one.

Again, some of the issues were are structural: Apple's dominance of the high - end market leaves would - be differentiated suppliers like Qualcomm stuck in the low - end.

Amazon's Fire TV stick announcement comes just a couple days after Roku launched a whole bunch of new streaming media hardware, including a tiny, $ 30 Roku Express box that competes at the low end of the market.