Sentences with phrase «mixed blessing»

Rapid developments in computer technology whether in Australia or the United States can best be described as mixed blessings in schools.

I see the various media, Including TV, as gifts of God, with their present content as mixed blessings and — well, cursings.

But doing so brought mixed blessings.

Yet, unlike those who might uncritically embrace the «secular city,» Altizer recognizes that secularization is a very mixed blessing.

However, senior researcher Max Nathan warned: «The evidence says big casinos deliver mixed blessings.

Like so many mixed blessings, this one had its start with the Department of Defense, specifically the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), founded as a technology incubator in 1958 in response to the Soviet Sputnik program.

Theresa May's remarks at the statue's unveiling — «I would not be here today as Prime Minister -LSB-...] were it not for Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett» — made women's suffrage sound a distinctly mixed blessing.

Again this has brought mixed blessings.

That can be a mixed blessing, says Cohen.

Mentors especially can be a mixed blessing.

It is at best a mixed blessing now.

Yet, success is a mixed blessing.

Play Inflation Rising inflation could be a mixed blessing for stocks.

The infographic suggests that erosion of the conventional concept of the workplace and traditional work hours together with the rise of remote working, has emerged as a mixed blessing, with employees working from anywhere and as a result, at any time.

To date, rising incomes have been a mixed blessing for Canada's $ 3 - billion frozen - food industry.

«For anybody who has to pay the bills and has a family, having no labor protections and no job security is at best a mixed blessing,» said Robert Reich, former secretary of labor and a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

While monitoring drivers more closely could boost safety for riders, interviews with current and former Uber drivers suggested the program could be a mixed blessing for the operators of Uber's fleet.

This can be a mixed blessing.

The first year of Trump is a mixed blessing.

This easy access to information is a mixed blessing, as it keeps us in the know but can also cause us to veer off course.

As the Body of Christ on this earth, we have been given the mixed blessing of being His representatives and ambassadors on this earth, commissioned to carry the enormous weight of the Gospel message and make disciples.

Love can be a mixed blessing or a curse in families.

The development of effective birth control methods has made it possible for the unitive function of human sexuality to be expressed more freely, which admittedly given predisposition to selfish predatory behavior is a mixed blessing.

Yet Updike the dialectician knows this to be a mixed blessing.

If the Internet is a mixed blessing when it comes to pastoral contact, it is also a mixed blessing when it comes to frank discussions.

School presented a mixed blessing for Susan.

This was a mixed blessing.

The coming of a child can be a mixed blessing — a microcosm of the problem of evil.

Marty identifies the problem exactly and, if I may dare say it, it is a classic irony of a strength turning out to be a mixed blessing.

But Carroll also saw that pluralism was a mixed blessing.

Mixed blessings are the only kind you get.

The second way the Jesus of the Gospels facilitates interfaith dialogue is by reminding us that religion is always a mixed blessing.

As the Body of Christ on this earth, we have been given the mixed blessing of being His representatives and ambassadors on this earth.

The party was supposed to be weeks ago, but we had to move it because of the storm, and now I say it's another mixed blessing because (a) it took me about 5 hours to make this crazy thing; and (b) we actually have room in the fridge for it.

Lower dairy prices represented a mixed blessing, reducing ingredient costs for consumer products but also weighing heavily on the company's farmer - shareholders whose collective incomes have been slashed by billions of dollars in the last two years.

A golfer who finds himself playing in a cart for the first time may discover that for all its comfort it is a mixed blessing.

But a child's ability to heal quickly from a sports injury is a mixed blessing with pluses and minuses.

There is something called «oversupply» or «hyperlactation» or «overactive milk ejection» that can be a mixed blessing.

I wish the Dad were interested in this child, its growth and its birth... not me (99 % of the time)... his behavior makes him seem like a monster, so his callous attitude is a mixed blessing, I guess.

Tax reform is a mixed blessing for state and local government in Illinois, according to an analysis by the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission, an arm of the General Assembly.

That ball is a mixed blessing — while it has allowed me to get my daughter to sleep for many months, I sometimes curse it because it's the only way she'll fall sleep and it's very tiring for me.