Sentences with phrase «more than a stranger»

They're not out to fuck up your day any more than a stranger is on the street.

The American bishops wanted Vatican II to affirm the American constitutional separation of the institutions of Church and state as something more than a strange experiment to be tolerated, much as one tolerates the ways of energetic but unruly children.

Some parents may even hope that a child will think innocently, that a condom is nothing more than a strange deflated balloon.

That's not what my color therapist told me and i think he'd know a thing or two more than some stranger on the internet.

This is not your therapist you're talking to, in fact he's hardly more than a stranger: do not spill your problems out on the table.

Life is more than strange... Looking for a copilot for adventures and stuff.

And so it was more than strange when...

More than strangers, relational partners can be counted on to share goals, care for young, assist when ill or injured, and share vigilance for potential threats [50].

Not exact matches

For my part I am sixth of seven children and, reasoning that anything more than five children are spares, my mother would always tell me «if a stranger offers you a ride; you take it; you never know how long it will be before another stranger comes along.»

Come to think of it, having strangers shoot pucks at me at high velocities sounds more appealing than journalism these days.

In most cases, the sketches based on the strangers» perspectives corresponded to more accurate and flattering depictions than those based on the women's own self - effacing descriptions.

For example, reaching out to strangers on Twitter is more socially acceptable than it is on Facebook, since most people try to restrict their Facebook visibility to close friends and family.

«There are so many more worthy causes than sending cookies to a stranger.»

The company recommended that customers install the new Windows update if they «are running an impacted device,» meaning their computers are automatically rebooting more frequently than usual or are exhibiting other strange behaviors.

We're all strange in our own way, and more often than not, that's what makes the difference.

After all, the dismal science never looks more dismal than when there's a choice between staying in to study Keynes or going out to flirt with strangers at a party.

Stranger Things led the social - media pack out of 65 different brands, which ran 104 spots in 49 ad breaks on Fox for just under 49.9 minutes of dedicated ad time, according to iSpot.tv, which measures activity from more than 10 million smart TVs and tracks responses to TV ads on social and digital platforms.

Abbott is no stranger to lawsuits against the federal government, having filed more than 25 during his tenure.

Microsoft's critical advantage is that in our new connected world, where we get into strangers» cars, invite strangers to stay in our homes and buy things from strangers all over the world, nothing matters more than trust.

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

While all micronations are interesting, some are more strange and storied than others.

More than 90 million people worldwide use it to communicate with friends or strangers, be it while playing an online game like Fortnite or simply to discuss the latest trend in cryptocurrency.

This is much more effective than working with strangers.

It's admittedly a strange gizmo to notice amid the cornucopia of technology that is CES, but with the reports of chillingly cold weather back home that I've been getting from my wife, I'm perhaps more aware than usual of the need for such emergency tools.

«The defendant did far more than exchange typed words on a lifeless cellphone screen with a faceless stranger.

They skip telling their friends about their latest project or business because they think strangers will care more than the people closest to them.

More strangers asked me questions about this unfamiliar - looking Chinese - branded smartphone than any other gadget I've tested.

I'm in decent shape, so I was fortunate to be in a position to help people who were having a more difficult time with the course than I. My help was useful for them, but being able to connect to other people, sometimes strangers, with open - heartedness and helpfulness made the entire experience much more rewarding for me too.

By exploiting the strange mathematical properties that reign at the subatomic level, D - Wave's chip is theoretically able to do more calculations, faster, than any comparable computer chip that currently exists.

The seven - year - old Plug and Play Tech Center is no stranger to startup investment; in the course of more than half a decade, it has accelerated 1,500 early - stage companies, by Amidi's reckoning.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

More than 80 strangers downloaded the photo, and many of them contacted her.

In more than a decade, Dermer has crisscrossed the globe, evaluating more than 40,000 toys, meeting with everyone from strange tinkerers toiling in their basements, to rocket scientists, mompreneurs and, of course, professional inventors.

He's clearly confident, despite the hesitations and the endless «um «s and the strange cough - laugh he uses as a kind of diffident pause, but there's also something breathlessly unsophisticated about the way he speaks — in some ways he's more like a teenager who's been asked to stand up and speak at a family dinner than like a titan of industry.

For my idea, there is no national competition other than PaperlessSolutions.com but they have a different business model (everything is done by mail) which is more concerning for many people as the scanning is happening by strangers somewhere other than their home and the prices are far more expensive.

He was determined that the R. Kelly the world would know — the one who would sell more than 30 million albums, have 36 Billboard Hot 100 hits, invent his own strange musical language, write hits for countless others, and conceive one of the weirdest syntheses of video and music of all time, Trapped in the Closet — would be someone else.

Jones is also more popular than Strange, who ended his 11 - month Senate tenure with 42 percent of constituents approving of his job performance and 34 percent disapproving.

This blog is more than 10 years old, and I've been blogging for nearly 20 years now... so the break from writing and sharing my life has been strange, but good.

It's always been strange to hear people say their situation is more real than mine, like my experiences don't count.

As I weighed the options, a strange series of events led me to Denver, where I found myself coordinating several cannabis projects, including the execution of a career fair boasting more than 2,500 attendees and forty cannabis businesses.

People trust their friends, family, and, sometimes, complete strangers more than they trust brands (or brands» employees).

The strange thing about the tariffs is that they end up punishing US allies more than the country that Trump has singled out most often in his protectionist rhetoric: China.

Last week's strange diesel exports are more likely an anomaly than a trend: As the U.S. continues to ramp up output of light, sweet, Texas oil, refiners» ability to pump out diesel will be threatened, and the U.S. will soon face a shortfall, Fitch's BMI Research analysts said Wednesday in a note.

The U.S. presidential election, starring Donald Trump and a growing cast of antagonists, is now officially stranger than fiction, and more estranged from reality than the most implausible reality TV plot.

(Ritholtz is no stranger to social media — TED Talks credits his Big Picture blog as one of «100 websites you should know and use,» while Matt Miller of Bloomberg says Ritholtz «consistently makes more sense than anyone else in media» and Randall Forsyth of Barron's calls The Big Picture «a must - read blog.»)

Tweeters are more active in connecting with strangers and sharing links than Facebook or other social media sites.

It's a bit strange that those two names have been highlighted, since Kudlow is a committed supporter of free trade and holds far more conventionally conservative views on economics than Navarro.

Stunned by his honesty — especially with a complete stranger — I closed my laptop and began to share a few of my more than 20 business failures.

Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

The dirt in our minds, like someone hurling insults at other religions and strangers, that bothers God more than the frequency of our baths.