Sentences with phrase «made matters»

How it's made matters to us.

Meanwhile, in South Korea, so far the only country to have reversed the trend in sex ratios at birth, normative changes related to public policies apparently worked after banning the practice made matters even worse.

It is a hardly a non-issue and I think one could easily argue that adding women into the mix as teacher / pastor / elder has made matters worse rather than better.

Since for ten thousand years agriculture has been practiced in unsustainable ways, and since the application of science to agriculture has thus far only made matters worse, the task is immense.

If Jesus» commands are rules, then the Gospel amounts to the Torah 2.0, and Jesus only made matters worse for us by raising the bar.

They argued instead that this withdrawal from efforts to change the world was a gain, that trying to improve public structures only made matters worse.

Bayer began marketing it as a cough suppressant in 1898, which made matters worse.

Banks lost money and the bad loans they had financed only made matters worse.

A Hollywood nursing home where 12 elderly patients died of overheating after Hurricane Irma knocked out its air conditioning made matters worse by using portable units that were not properly ventilated and increased temperatures in most of the facility, an engineer testified in a deposition.

While the housing markets were shaken up by new tax regulations announced in April 2017 and the turbulence at Home Capital, a large mortgage broker, heavy rains and flooding across the region made matters worse.

Not having the necessary navigational lights on only made matters worse.

The Dodd - Frank Act, which itself made matters worse rather than better in the wake of the government - fueled financial downturn of 2008, explicitly empowered the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as the agency to formulate rules relating to investment advisers who offer «personalized investment advice about securities to a retail customer.»

And while visual content was supposed to alleviate the problem by condensing information into bite - sized, snackable pieces, the bad news is that the explosion of visual content has, in a lot of ways, made matters worse.

Everyone going with the herd made matters worse for all.

A slowdown in funding that makes it tough to raise additional money from investors made matters worse.

Wall Street has made matters worse by the way Lehman Brothers emptied out its European offices of cash the day before it went bankrupt, paying off its closest U.S. cronies.

Most of Houston's construction workers come from Mexico, and that has made matters even more difficult, as immigration policies tighten under the Trump administration.

There was already a labor shortage in the construction industry, and two severely damaging hurricanes only made matters worse.

And then Equifax, reeling from its third major data breach in a year, made matters even worse.

Hasting's next move made matters worse.

In fact, putting it off until she was mentally worn down later in the day made matters worse.

It only made matters worse when TARP's mandate was expanded last December so that the fund could finance the restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler.

When Reputation Defender tried to erase news of one client's arrest from Consumerist.com in January 2007, it spurred a spitting match in the blogosphere that only made matters worse.

I then made matters worse by attempting, full strength, to torque them back out... only in the wrong direction.

Now let me explain what's really going on here and how Sony's response to a perceived no - win situation was the wrong decision that only made matters worse.

Meanwhile, Putin's countermeasures have made matters worse.

Many of the fires were caused by firefighters who used dynamite to demolish buildings to create firebreaks, but only made matters worse.

To make matters worse, labor strife at the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach caused a big drop in shipments of imports from Asia.

Making matters even more confusing is the fact that 26 states have passed laws defining business opportunities and regulating their sales.

Making matters worse, diet sodas that use no - calorie and low - calorie artificial sweeteners like aspartame are losing fans fast.

«The President has made this matter a priority,» said Rex Tillerson, U.S. Secretary of State.

To make matters more confusing, many of the issues we currently face as a society are being presented in a way that makes them seem new.

He also worries that regulating these tech companies or ridiculing them for what they do or say will make matters worse.

To make matters worse, numerous studies have revealed that just checking certain social media sites can make a person feel less happy.

But to make matters worse, Amazon's launch video focused a ton on the communication features at the core of Nucleus» vision, rather than the e-commerce, smart - home or entertainment capabilities that the Echo Show also possesses.

To make matters worse, Cousins has gotten wind of Karl's plan to trade him through his teammates.

Making matters worse, India, one of the world's largest fertilizer customers, has cut the potash subsidies it pays to local farmers.

Headwinds from the global economy are making matters even worse.

To make matters worse, this highly sophisticated strategy is infinitely scalable and not directed solely at large conglomerates.

«The only way you can make matters worse,» says Ballentine, «is by keeping the business loan and your home mortgage at the same bank, which might impose a «cross-default» mechanism on you — so that both loans automatically go into default if you run into problems with either one of them.»

To make matters worse, Canadians typically have smaller monthly usage limits, which inevitably come into play with any sort of online streaming services.

And then to make matters worse, as you alluded to, Hotwire actually sold some of the tickets to the hijackers.

To make matters worse, that deductible is increasing to $ 10,000 in December, she says.

Making matters worse, Teva was saddled with $ 35 billion debt from its $ 40.5 billion purchase in 2016 of Allergan's generic drug business Actavis, forcing it to sell assets.

To make matters worse, the Construction Training Fund was forced to cut subsidies to support apprenticeships because of disappointing financial performance.

Digital exchanges are not broker - regulated by the IRS, which makes matters more complicated for preparing tax documents if you traded cryptocurrency.

To make matters worse, the 2017 vaccine doesn't combat this more severe strain of H3N2 very well.

To make matters worse, major real estate players like Trulia and Zillow have massive advertising budgets, and have driven up ad prices on Google to be too expensive for independent agents to use them.

Making matters worse, most Americans find Clinton dishonest.

To make matters worse, economists can not agree on what has caused America's manufacturing malaise or why the trade deficit is so persistently large.