Sentences with phrase «more than a boon»

More than a boon to squeamish students, the see - through frog could aid biologists studying how organs develop and respond to tumors or toxins.

The company admitted during its CES reveal that there have been a few missteps in recent years, focusing on products that became a distraction more than a boon to the brand.

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The firestorm sparked by President Donald Trump's executive order on Friday to ban immigration and travel to the U.S. by people from seven predominantly Muslim countries proved a boon to the American Civil Liberties Union, which reportedly collected more than $ 24 million in contributions over the weekend.

But the growing number of investors, particularly in Silicon Valley, on the hunt for technologies that do for medicine what apps have done for tech can be a boon for new companies like Theranos whose narratives may be more compelling than their science.

With the advent of the smartphone came a boon for the gaming industry, and new niches within the indie - gaming scene have created a whole new lens through which games can be viewed; we are more aware than ever that games can teach us or exist as experiential art in addition to the entertainment they provide.

Even if it winds up being little more than a marketing stunt, the move may prove to be a boon for PepsiCo, as soda sales in the U.S. have been flagging recently — carbonated soft drinks have seen their sales plummet 14 % in the past nine years.

Some hard - core open - source advocates disapprove of Ubuntu's compromise with the closed - source world, but end users who care more about usability than ideology will find this arrangement a boon.

Central American countries are also enjoying ripples from growth in the US, and for them, lower oil costs are more of a boon than a bane.

While we believe lower commodity prices are a boon to the economy over time, the abruptness of their price decline and a lingering «commodity super-cycle» mentality likely caught many with more commodity inventory (acquired at higher prices) than proved desirable.

It's also a boon to those who've gone gluten - free, as well as gardeners who have more squash than they know what to do with.

Two titles are needed more than ever, and its been a boon for several careers so far.

And the return to ocean conditions last seen in the Ediacaran period more than 540 million years ago — when jellies last ruled the seas — has been a boon for certain fishes in habitats like the Benguela Current in the South Atlantic off Namibia in Africa, where jellyfish - eating gobies have replaced sardines in the food chain.

Despite the boon to animals, some worry that when it comes to research, such enrichments could do more harm than good.

By linking Canadian fields to refiners in the Gulf Coast, the 1,200 - mile (1,900 - km) Keystone XL pipeline would be a boon to an energy patch where oil sands are abundant but that produce more carbon pollution than many other forms of crude.

And that's why a group of scientists set out to better estimate how much methane is escaping in the U.S. To do that, they surveyed more than 200 sets of field measurements and scientific papers from the past 20 years to learn whether increasing use of natural gas could prove a climate boon or bane.

The animation (helmed by The PJs» Mark Gustafson) is almost more distraction than boon.

Remakes, by design, carry more baggage than original fare, which can be a hindrance as much as it can be boon at the box office.

To that end: Daniels is brilliant, as he's inclined to be when given the chance; Linney quietly stuns by doing more than meets the eye, as she is wont to do; and Eisenberg's nervous creepiness is a boon to another role of need much like his questing teen in Roger Dodger.

MLO elections have been a boon for school districts; more than 300 such override proposals have come before voters since 1999.

For an industry that spends more than a billion dollars on training (Source: Merck Capital Ventures), online training comes as a boon as it helps impart training at considerably lower cost.

Necessary state budget cuts could be a boon, rather than a burden, to education if state governors and legislators adopt meaningful education reforms by introducing more competition and school choice in their states.

Tesla is very nearing its incentives cap, which will disappear when the automaker hits 200,000 cars produced in the U.S. And if the Model 3 is the boon Tesla believes — the company believes that it will help Tesla sell more than 500,000 cars each year — the Model 3 will likely cost more than everyone believes it will after these incentives go the way of the dinosaur.

It's one of the few luxury vehicles of any type that regularly sells more than 100,000 units a year in the U.S.. It's been a boon for the Lexus brand.

Launching the Tesla Model 3 is proving a massive boon for the company, raking in more than 300,000 deposits on a car that is still at least two years away from being produced.

Visually the old and new cars are barely distinguishable, but big tech boons should make it more desirable than ever.

Memory seats and mirrors often reserved for the higher - end Murano make their way into the Rogue, a boon to households with more than one driver.

The new Kindle Fire is packed with a horde of cool features at a surprisingly low price, and bottom line (short of a few idiosyncrasies) it's a boon for the book enthusiast, the tablet novice, and the student who needs / wants more than just a textbook reader.

This no doubt will come as a boon to the more than 285 million partially or completely blind living throughout the world.

First Baldur notes that ebooks have brought about a considerable devaluation across the industry (which presumably has been a boon for readers) something I question and isn't really held up by the figures either even if you look at the most recent figures from the UK, print sales were down modestly but digital sales more than made up for it.

It's hard to get a handle on exactly what «tens of thousands» means — will students find most of their textbook needs met this way when they arrive back at school in a few weeks, or will the number included be small enough to be more of a frustration than a boon?

The great translator Constance Garnett introduced English - speakers to more than 70 books by the great Russian writers, and when much of her work fell into the public domain it was a great boon for publishers who were unable or disinclined to pay translators to work on 800 - page books.

My device of choice will probably remain my iPad, which is more ideally suited to reading comics than either of my other devices, thanks to its size, screen resolution, touch screen, and rotating interface (see my earlier review for more details), but cross-platform availability is a boon for fans without iOS devices, and does remove some of the pinch from Viz's regular pricing for those of us with multiple points of access.

Even better, this lifetime exemption isn't limited to one family member — a boon for small businesses that will incur more than $ 800,000 in capital gains when sold.

Getting 50 % more than you normally would in retirement is a huge boon.

He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

This lifetime exemption, however, isn't limited to one family member — a huge boon for small businesses that expect to incur far more than $ 800,000 in capital gains when they ultimately sell the shares.

Carrying more than one outfit can also be a boon, since some outfits offer better protection against certain types of damage.

Smash Run was little more than a truncated version of the subspace emissary that saw players trying to beat up filler enemies to pick up power - ups, boost your characters stats in an erratic way, and then enter the fray with a stats that could either be a boon or a curse.

Plastics have been a boon to industry, but are now the bane of the planet, even as plastic pollution is expected to continue unabated (and even increase), with experts now predicting that by 2050 «the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by weight..»

A cost - benefit study conducted for Scenic Hudson by Glenn Erikson of Black River Advisors, a credentialed Manhattan investment analyst, indicates that this alternative plan would be an economic boon to investors, providing them with a return of more than 30 percent — the top - of - the - industry standard.

So you haven't studied the evidence, but you take it at face value that someone who practices «normative science» is correct when he states that the case for atmospheric being a «boon» to calcifying marine life is equal if not more persuasive than the case that it will be harmful?

Greg Pavelka, a wildlife biologist with the Corps of Engineers in Yankton, SD, told the Seattle Times that this event will leave the river in a «much more natural state than it has seen in decades,» describing the epic flooding as a «prolonged headache for small towns and farmers along its path, but a boon for endangered species.»

This could be a boon for ebike sharing and it has everything to do with Uber's * uber * popular app and the integration of «ebiking» as a cheaper, more fun, and often quicker option than calling a car.

So it's hard to argue — and frankly, a pretty arbitrary point — that Palin's presence is more boon than bane for environmentalists.

While Martin - Porath is focusing on co-working mothers and has more than 100 women who have expressed interest in the concept, the idea of built - in day care would be a boon to any gender of entrepreneur.

Legal Week reports that UK firms Freshfields, Clifford Chance and Simmons & Simmons are introducing support systems to help their lawyers make such transitions — a boon for those lawyers who «want more options than simply retiring in their early 50s and spending the next 30 years hacking their way around a golf course,» as Legal Week's Richard Lloyd put it in an earlier editorial about lawyers» post-retirement opportunities.

The crisp efficiency of EasyDrive makes Most Wanted a more direct game than its predecessor, a boon for achievement - oriented players, but there's no sense of messy freedom and goofiness here.

Not only do you have a massive 6.3 - inch display offering more screen real estate than pretty much anything else out there, it's also the only handset that comes with an included stylus, which is a huge boon for anyone who likes sketching or taking handwritten notes.

In addition to being a boon for custom ROM users, this means the S9 should get significantly faster updates than the S8 ever did — for more information on why that's the case, check out the following link.

These apps would have been presented within the SteamOS Big Picture mode, and would have been a boon for anyone who wished to use their TV computers for more than just gaming.