Sentences with phrase «much ground on»

Consumers are afraid to spend today because they have lost so much ground on their efforts to finance their retirement accounts.

Also, since you're paying yourself the money back with interest, you won't lose too much ground on your retirement plan.

An opening day 5 - 0 loss to Fulham, has seen them lose much ground on the relegation front, and since have garnered draws against West Ham and Sp * rs, but have lost to Newcastle, Liverpool and Chelsea.

We need a guy who can hit the ground running for us from day one We can't have a potential who is going to be a novice at a our club We have lost some much ground on the top 5 that is is becoming embarrassing Winning a cup or two only papers over the cracks Which he might do..

Good news for Captain Holway's bunch is that they didn't lose much ground on the teams right above them in the Standings and they are still in a Playoff spot for now..

Not exact matches

So even without much snow on the ground we have more to do, higher costs and less time to work in winter months.

Cooper, one of the first journalists on the ground after the massive earthquake that reduced much of Haiti's capital of Port - Au - Prince to rubble, on Thursday night detailed harrowing feats of humanity and strength he witnessed there.

For those students who are the first in their families to attend, quality advice is thin on the ground, but even if your parents are grads, much has changed in the worlds of work and education since they sat in a lecture hall.

SnowEx — a NASA - led research campaign — will be spending the next five years studying how much snow is on the ground worldwide at any given time.

While the book is stuffed with helpful big picture observations, it doesn't offer much in the way of specific on - the - ground ideas — though Keen does call for reforms to data privacy and gig economy labor laws, and for a serious discussion of a universal basic income.

Since the «Star Wars» prequels, in which George Lucas was heavily criticized for using too much CGI to create the worlds and characters, many big - budget movies have tried to find that happy medium of practical and visual effects to give the action on screen a more grounded feel.

«This is one of those things that's really difficult to test on the ground,» said Musk, looking much more energetic than he did at a National Governor's Association meeting last Saturday.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters on Wednesday that the legislative process had «pretty much ground to a halt» amid the tumult in Washington.

The fields and arenas of professional sports are a testing ground for the return on investment that's possible from data analytics, and nothing did as much to popularize the concept of big data in sports as «Moneyball.»

This «indirect control» gives them some influence over street - level dealers, Campbell said, but it may not mean those cartels have much or any on - the - ground presence in the US.

I had spent so much time building my business on the ground level that I had created a company that could not survive without me.

By his reckoning, much credit is due to commanders on the ground like Colonels H. R. McMaster and Sean McFarland, who saw first - hand that the American war strategy was doomed so long as it failed to engage with and earn buy - in from the Iraqis themselves.

A base on base chart pattern occurs when the price action of a recent breakout is unable to extend much beyond the highs of the prior base (former resistance), but also doesn't give up much ground.

Some felt that Andreessen's comments were utter bullshit and not much more than the bluster of an investor with an obvious and vested financial axe to grind on behalf of the technology companies he was so deeply involved with.

Mr. Bonforte's team, for example, has spent much of the last two years rebuilding Yahoo's email and instant - messaging services from the ground up, focusing on features such as better searches in email and the ability to unsend or delete an instant message at any time.

If your credit score is already on shaky ground, you might want to consider equity financing instead, where credit scores don't play as much of a role.

It is hard to believe, for example, that Canada could not in the end find common ground with the US on some extension of patent protection for pharmaceuticals, since it was able to do so in the just - completed negotiations with the EU, or that an extension of the term of copyright protection from 50 to 70 years from the agreed baseline would have much if any real practical impact on Canada although it would be seen as a gain by the US given the heavy copyright portfolios of US entertainment companies, allowing them an additional period of time to exploit their copyrighted content.

As long as the Keystone XL pipeline stays on the drawing board, much of that cheap and dirty crude will remain in the ground — right where God left it.

He and his wife still have their jobs to fall back on, and with so much skin in the game, both are prepared to weather out Bitcoin's volatility until their mining business gets off the ground.

Seems there's no end to the trillions of Dollars, Euros and Yen they're finding these days and, with so much above - ground paper in circulation, it boggles the mind that it's still worth more than lighting on fire to heat your home with.

Although nothing much has actually taken effect on the ground as of now, once the regulations come into effect, investors in all probability will begin to shift their investments to the other popular cryptocurrencies, such as ethereum, litecoin, ripple, stellar and dash.

For the time being, much of the analysis on the financial losses focuses on the plunge in oil and coal prices, and the potential that a huge portion of the global reserves of oil, gas, and coal will be «stranded» in the ground to curb climate change.

Mr. Bush's much maligned Air Force One flyover came two days later, and he was on the ground two days after that.

The Nikkei 225 tumbled as much as 7.1 percent on Tuesday before regaining some lost ground to close 4.7 percent lower.

In any case, because there is so much noise happening in the above ground world currently, we choose not to spend time on any particular theme or trend that popular media is busy talking up.

Interesting Pope for sure — but BTW: None of his core beliefs differ AT ALL from the two previous Popes, it's just that his communication style is more focused on everyone's common ground — the other Popes had the same beliefs, it just that they were more outspoken on the controversial issues — so the media did not warm to them as much.

Mark 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

«But,» he continues, «the idea that calling the descent glorious excludes suffering from it, I take to be on much less solid ground.»

[26] K. Miller, Finding Darwin's God: A. Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (New York: HarperColliins, 1999), 53f, distinguishes the «fact» of evolution, grounded on so much evidence, from various theories of evolution.

They will not, however, reflect very much on what is the ultimate ground of this dignity, which turns the conditional into an absolute principle, namely that the «object» which makes the principle of objectivity an absolute principle is man, that is the person.

They will be smart enough to pick fights on favorable ground, and they will work (in collusion with much of the mainstream media) to hide their abortion extremism.

The missionary methods which he employed on this and on his third journey which covered much of the same ground were to determine the main lines of Christian development that followed his imprisonment and death, and through the later circulation of his epistles to have a permanent influence upon the form of Christian organisation and belief.

We are on much more solid theological ground if we turn to the other choice.

Here we are on much firmer ground than in the case of the Gospel narratives, for not only is it the earliest written testimony to the resurrection (written about twenty to twenty - five years after the death of Jesus), but it is first - hand testimony, and most probably the «only written testimony to come from one who could claim to be himself an «eye - witness» of the resurrection».18 Admittedly Paul, on his own admission, was in a very unusual category.

Two books that changed me in late high school (they set me firmly on the path I still follow): Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis (it grounded my faith in reason)[and] Out of the Saltshaker by Rebecca Manley Pippert (for many reasons: loving Jesus so much that it overflows into your relationships with non-believers, and it gave me a picture of a strong, intelligent woman who was doing ministry)-- Laura Mott Tarro

That way we're much more likely to find a positive response from very, very many people on the ground than we are to find a negative one.

After all, it was the Lord himself who warned us that much seed would fall on shallow or stony ground or would be choked by weeds later on.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

No, I think that you are on much firmer theological ground to just assume that the weather is random, and that God isn't actually favoring some Christians over others, which I think you began this discussion asserting, right?

I am also in the process of writing a book on the cross covering much of the ground mentioned above.

Christian Theology is grounded firmly in Plato, Aristotle and Socrates, Augustine relying heavily on Plato and St. Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle so much so he simply refers to him as «the Philosopher.»

I believe that the humility that God wants us to have comes from, not so much looking at the dark side of ourselves, analyzing all we think and do, or even recognizing our hypocrisy [you seem to obcess on that]; that can become a grind and lead us down the road of great depression.

To my mind, Gioia is on much firmer ground when he criticizes the state of the public conversation in serious journals, newspapers, and other venues.

Here in New York City, there's been much focus on the Cordoba House that's near ground zero, but did you know there was a church destroyed on 9/11 that has yet to be rebuilt?