Sentences with phrase «more stingy»

The more you play, the more stingy it gets with the in - game currency, which is also needed to purchase guitar upgrades, skins and hero powers.

Over the past few years American Airlines has been getting more and more stingy with the award seats it releases.

Or are we more stingy than a generation that welcomed our great - grandparents, even if they had stronger negative views against those of different ethnic groups?

Reality is a lot more stingy than the models of most financial Dr. Feelgoods out there.

As everyone knows, airlines are doing whatever they can to make money from us so they have also become more stingy and mysterious with their rewards programs.

Are they just more stingy with their vendors and merchants?

While the AAP frustratingly has become more stingy with its print book sales figures, they did provide percentages that I used to estimate print book sales for the month (fortunately, I keep a spreadsheet with each month's figures going back to last year).

When it comes to handing over an actual trophy, however, it's a bit more stingy.

The Bloomberg administration has been far more stingy than Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's was in granting tax breaks to corporations threatening to leave New York.

Defensively the more stingy team centered on yards per rush calculations is New England by 1.2.

Defensively the more stingy team centered on yards per rush calculations is Baltimore by.4.

With more money coming onto the game, Arsenal head the opposite way and become more Stingy.

The game's board are more stingy than the real one!

Not exact matches

Munger and Buffett now say they were stingy in their initial offer, but Munger's friend Ira Marshall convinced him it was an unusual company, worth spending more to get.

I also know taxes are necessary for civilized society, but that doesn't make prying a third of my income from my stingy mitts any more joyous.

Those who had an ends - justify - the - means mindset were likelier to be stingier with others if they were reminded of their past good deeds and more generous if they recalled past unethical behavior.

We are much more willing to offer grace to people outside the Church, but inside the Church we are stingy with it.

And after you've killed a couple million more, turn the tables again, and accuse those so - called pro-life people of being stingy for not wanting to bankroll your family.

The recipe is very stingy with the dried fruit, I added more than the recipe and it still wasn't enough, needs double the fruit.

Somehow with the quantities I've ended up with far more frosting than I needed (maybe I was a bit too stingy on the frosting, my excuse is I was doing it at 6 am this morning), but that's fine, I'll just make a plain sponge tomorrow and smother it.

Thanks to a stingy defense and two solid veteran starting pitchers, the Ugly Eagles have allowed more than one run in just one of those 10 wins.

Wenger is notoriously stingy with Arsenal's money and has only spent more than # 30m on two players — Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil — fees confirmed by The Express.

The Cornhuskers, long one of college football's stingiest defensive units, have yielded at least 40 points in four of their last six games — which is one more time than they gave up 40 in the 1990s.

Maybe we won't be able to find that mythical guaranteed 25 + goal scorer to upgrade at striker, but we'd be stingier giving up goals that we'd end win more games if our current goal production remains the same.

So the facts favour a more nuanced view towards Wenger's «stingy» habits.

Kobe was rusty in his season debut, the Thunder offense dominated the stingy Pacers defense and more from all the action in the NBA on Sunday.

Do we really have an old stingy manager or do we have really impatient fans who are just growing more impatient because we can't find those two players who can make us world beaters in today's market.

But if the new manager spends a bit more care freely than Wenger (I mean c» mon we have been stingy compared to the United's, Chelseas and City's) then we know for a fact that is was indeed Wenger being tight fisted / stubborn etc..

Please Mr Wenger don't be stingy, he is worth more than # 90,000.

«While the tradition of being stingy on defense continues, the ability of the team to attack more aggressively is directly related to the boys understanding of how best to capitalize on each other's strengths within the system,» Curtis said.

He's going to get few chances against a stingy City defense that should see new signing Mangala start next to defensive stalwart Vincent Kompany, which is why he'll need to be more accurate than the 38.6 % accuracy he's been clocking so far.

we r sure of the transfer fee put forward by the club, even abt the view of the player, his agent, his brother, his father and other family members... then, the player signs a contract extension or signs for another club, its chaos... moaning starts, which become blaming the board and more frequently arsene wenger... IF ONLY THAT STINGY OLD BAT COULD OFFER «A FEW EXTRA MILLIONS» WE COULD HAVE HAD THIS DEAL DONE AND DUSTED A LONG TIME AGO.

Even more impressively, he has done so while making only minor adjustments to his playing staff in each close - season, taking Bordeaux to the top table of European football with a team containing only four regular internationals and featuring a notoriously stingy defence that cost just # 3.8 million to assemble.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

Add more dry powdered milk, don't be stingy with this as it will protect your grains.

The Sarah Silverman Program is a welcome outlet for Silverman's brand of outlandishness, blessedly stingy with its desire to breach mores, and much more concerned with decorating its late - night comedy turf so that it can welcome any kind of unexpected laugh: shock, parody, irony, insult humor or absurdity.

Maybe instructors used to be too stingy with their marks and have become more reasonable.

You can then splash out thousands more on Mercedes» long list of options, though a basic SL is hardly stingy in terms of equipment, with 19in alloy wheels all - round, an AMG styling pack, LED headlights, a panoramic folding hard top, leather seats and climate control.

Non-editorial Ward's staffers returning from extended trips with the A4 inevitably insist that this engine delivers power more fitting to something twice its size, yet similarly praise its fuel - stingy ways, particularly in long - stretches of steady - state driving when the turbo lies dormant.

And whereas most of General Motors» problems leading up to bankruptcy stemmed from decades of poor decision - making, Chrysler's ills could be traced more to stingy owners — not to the people who work in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

For reference, the stingiest VW Up is a 929 kg car, a basic Fiat Panda 940 kg, while even the dinky Smart Fortwo somehow weighs in at 30 kg more than the Ignis 4x4.

Cons: Stingy trunk space; weighs a bit more than some competitors; adding optional equipment pumps up the already steep base prices

The new, aggressively styled bodywork Audi rolled out recently makes more sense here, on this musclier incarnation of the model, but still, if you're stingy with the pedal travel, it's a smooth, easy driver... just like the A5.

In a 2001 interview with BookPage about her memoir Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, Reichl said, «You can't be a good cook if you don't have a generous soul and the impulse to take care of people... I only know two good cooks who are stingy in their souls.»

All this information should make your «retirement salary negotiations» much more meaningful than simply a tug of war between the stingy owner of the portfolio and the retiree who's eager to spend money.

More than just being stingy, Thrift is the wise use of material resources, encompassing self - sufficiency, stewardship, and sustainability.

Compared to stocks, however, bonds have acted more like a stingy Ebenezer Scrooge than a generous Mother Theresa.

And perhaps more importantly, city officials remain stingy with land and permits in the places where most people want to live.

At the same time, other users complain that Chase is actually stingy with the automatic increases, referencing year - old cards (or more) that have never seen an increase.

Infographic: Issuers stingier with credit post-CARD Act — Since the CARD Act went into effect in early 2010, you need a higher credit score to get more measly credit limits, according to the American Bankers Association... (See Credit after CARD Act)