Sentences with phrase «of your little comfort»

The revelation that the Tatts board considered options including a demerger will be of little comfort to activist investors, such as Sandon Capital, which has called for the lucrative lotteries business to be spun out off Tatts.

Wake up people, MAKE politicians answer questions and come up with solutions for the problems that matter (economy, wealth disparity, lost jobs etc etc), whether or not your kids learn the theory of evolution in school will be of little comfort if they have no home to go to after school.

These words may be of little comfort for the young woman who still struggles to believe that her feminine qualities are valuable to God, or to the young man who has been made to feel shame because he'd rather visit an art museum than watch a cage fight.

Your blog, David and Luise, is one of my little comfort zones in a bad gloomy English day!

I was in need of a little comfort food this week because Miss Coco is having surgery today.

The trivial immortality of a 100 percent win ratio will presumably be of little comfort.

There is depth in the organization to handle both of these losses — catching prospect Kevin Plawecki will take d'Arnaud's roster spot, while Blevins will be replaced by minor - league reliever Hansel Robles — but that's of little comfort.

One suspects, though, that the record book will prove of little comfort to Allegri.

I'm very impressed with the absorbency of our Little Comfort fitted.

You can find a list of Little Comfort retailers here.

Well, that might work fine when you are 23, but when you are nearing 30 and see that you have no savings and are living hand to mouth, it's of little comfort.»

But it is of little comfort to the African - American defendants that their names were belatedly cleared only after they'd already served lengthy prison terms.

The assurance that the omissions will be dealt with later is of little comfort.

It is of little comfort now for me to say private loans can be a terrible trap but maybe looking back on what you have learned now from experience you might have a point of view and advice you can offer people.

The Super Bowl in New Jersey recently honored its Lobster Bisque (of little comfort to those rooting for Denver, however.)

It is of little comfort for me to confirm you are a good example of a larger problem faced my scores and scores of students in America.

A healthy heart in an obsessive - compulsive spinner is of little comfort to owner or the dog.

In the case of the PS4, it's since been revealed that Sony requires third party products to be fitted with a security chip in order to be compatible, but that's of little comfort for disgruntled players wanting to get the optimum experience out of their racing game collection.

The online community connects weary cyclists with friendly hosts who know what it's like to feel worn out and in need of a little comfort.

Uterine ruptures are relatively uncommon, but that is of little comfort when it is your child who died as a result of a uterus rupture.

For obvious reasons, that is of little comfort to the purchaser of a family home who has no intention of selling for many years to come.

That this could be evidence of the regulations working will be of little comfort to banks that are haemorrhaging revenue as a result.

All this, of course, is of little comfort to the embittered law graduates and disappointed foreign - trained lawyers now locked in a dispiriting search for articles.

Know that hope will be of little comfort if you find yourself standing in the unemployment line because you hadn't lined up a new job before the hammer fell.

Not exact matches

That seems to have eased a little bit and given markets some sense of comfort, said Harajli.

«In terms of output, it's great to be in a groove and good at what you do, but I feel I'm doing my best work when I'm a little outside my comfort zone.

content while the already tech - heavy world around you seems to be getting a little meaner, harsher, and more polarized, you can take a small measure of comfort knowing that there are people out there who see the world the same way.

Following the murder of 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida by a lone gunman carrying a high - powered assault rifle, the Trump administration has offered little comfort and few solutions for the country going forward.

I was optimistic I could raise the capital on my own, but it appears to be a little out of my comfort zone.

Little wonder that the promise of benefits from oil sands development is cold comfort for Ontarians and Quebeckers as the once - dominant manufacturing sector struggles to reinvent and revitalize itself.

It has a little of everything — it's motto is «international comfort food» for a reason.

The value of the currency is rising rapidly (a little too rapidly for comfort) and every type of goods or service is available for purchase.

PTSD sufferers in the battered upstream oil and gas industry will take little comfort to learn their economic future is in the hands of software written by programmers and traders who have never set foot on a drilling rig or production operation, nor put on a pair of coveralls or a hard hat.

Yet longtime watchers of these issues take little comfort in Cambridge Analytica's decision to declare bankruptcy.

But investors should take little comfort in historical averages because when the swings are this wide, the average is of little relevance.

Myself, I like a little comfort when thinking about the end of my life.

Actuality it was with the intention of your comfort that I made it, as explained, you did seem to be getting a little upset above.

Part of this is learning detachment from sin - not just serious sin, but the little comforts and indulgences which weaken our capacity for God.

The Metropolitan of Philadelphia goes on to say, «Train yourself by reducing comfort little by little, that you may both weaken the strength of the flesh and fortify the soul.»

In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum.17 Into the hands which broke and quickened the bread, which blessed and caressed little children, which were pierced with the nails; into the hands which are like our hands, the hands of which one can never tell what they will do with the object they are holding, whether they will break it or heal it, but which we know will always obey and reveal impulses filled with kindness and will always clasp us ever more closely, ever more jealously; into the gentle and mighty hands which can reach down into the very depth of the soul, the hands which fashion, which create, the hands through which flows out so great a love: into these hands it is comforting to surrender oneself especially if one is suffering or afraid.

David Oliphant, an archdeacon in the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, has perceptively remarked that those who condemn homosexuals have very little appreciation of what goes on within the youth who comes to feel the pain and pleasure of sexual feelings and desire for comfort from someone of their own sex.

If, on the other hand, everyone goes off to their own little world (perhaps of entertainment or comfort) then we lose the capacity to be together, and conflict is all that results.

In religious terms, let me use this illustration: when we are little children, some of our parents comforted us when we were afraid of dying that God wouldn't let us die, that we would be safe... see you in the morning!

Here there is no talk of having a little patience, and of things going well by Sunday; but here is found the Eternal's victorious comfort, and these scourged Apostles have more than conquered.

They even remember Scriptures, learned in childhood, which on troubled days come up out of the garnered treasures of their recollection to comfort them: «The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,» or in a happy mistranslation by a little child, «The Lord is my shepherd; that's all I want.»

This concern about identity sheds some light on why many parishioners find little comfort in strictly theocentic portraits of heaven.

Of course, a few months later, the little girl told her mom (and the healing began), but my older sisters would have never done a thing to protect a tiny little helpless girl — a blood relative — all at the expense of their own comfort leveOf course, a few months later, the little girl told her mom (and the healing began), but my older sisters would have never done a thing to protect a tiny little helpless girl — a blood relative — all at the expense of their own comfort leveof their own comfort level.

To be sure, that is little comfort for those who believe that even one priest breaking his vow of celibacy, with a man or a woman, is cause for grave concern.

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He does not treat the parallel development in Marian devotion in which adult women and men were encouraged to relate to Mary as little children attached to their mother, relying on her to get them out of all trouble or at least comfort them in a motherly way.