Sentences with phrase «often at a loss»

So rather than selling off this surplus power (often at a loss), Ontario will now take advantage of the storage offered by Quebec's hydro reservoirs.

I am often at a loss for words when people ask me what I think.

Ideas that previous generations held to be unshakable have turned out to be very shakable indeed, and those still committed to Christian faith are often at a loss as to what precisely it is they ought to believe.

I know I need to eat something healthy, something that has a decent amount of protein, but am often at a loss.

Which means that when children arrive in kindergarten without these foundational skills, there are often few resources in place to help kids develop them, and school administrators are often at a loss to know how to help.

Parents are often at a loss with what to feed sick toddlers.

When I did seek assistance, my labmates were often at a loss because they didn't have the expertise I needed.

Primary care providers are often at a loss when it comes to caring for adult survivors of childhood cancer, according to a new survey published Wednesday in The Annals of Internal Medicine.

Even with my knowledge and education I am often at a loss as to what I should do.

When faced with patients suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) or fibromyalgia, doctors are often at a loss.

When every image I see looks good, I'm often at a loss for how to get from «bad» to «yes, that's what I wanted!»

Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies are often at a loss for how to prevent arrangement failure, or abuse.

I have found that even when principals carve out the time to improve instruction, they are often at a loss for what to do.

Working with many principals across the country we have found that even when principals carve out the time to improve instruction, they are often at a loss for what to do.

I love being an Indie author and having total control over marketing my stories, but I'm often at a loss as to how to find fun ways to share my books.

Smashwords launched their version of an associate program today and highlighted a weakness in Amazon's generally impenetratable armor i.e. selling Kindle edition books at the low $ 9.99 price, often at a loss, leaves no room for amazon associate commissions.

When it comes to securing a home loan, first time buyers are often at a loss.

Consumers are often at a loss on how much life insurance coverage they need.

Skin and coat issues can be a source of incredible discomfort for dogs and a huge worry for pet owners who are often at a loss as to what to do.

From lowering of blood pressure to elevated mood, the positive effects have been proven time and again by medical professionals who are often at a loss as to why animals have such a profoundly positive effect on the humans around them.

When people get puppies with a lot of prey drive they are often at a loss as to what to do to control the little alligator they now live with.

Although dog - watchers are often at a loss to explain why a breed suddenly skyrockets in popularity, Cavanaugh thinks fashion may be behind the upward mobility of Dalmatians: They go so well with the black - and - white fashions in vogue.

While scientists now understand the genetic basis for moderately complex traits such as coat color and pattern, research in other species suggests that there is little or no significant genetic component to such indicators of performance as success in the show ring, The dog breeder, then, is often at a loss for accurate sources of information about performance traits he is interested in.

Not all parrots can talk, but the lucky owners of the ones who do are often at a loss as to what types of words and phrases would be best to teach their pets.

Veterinarians are often at a loss to say what the problem is and end up treating the animal asymptotically — treating the symptoms versus the cause.

«When a cat develops a behavior problem, pet parents are often at a loss as to how to solve it.»

PlayStation and Xbox machines were selling better, but often at a loss.

And the courts, often at a loss as to what determination to make for which children, turn to mental health experts for advice.

We all deal with difficult people and bad behavior but are often at a loss of what to do when confronted with it in our own lives, whether at work or at home.

Managers are often at a loss for dealing with rampant gossip, bullying, and other undermining behavior from sales associates and staff, believing that avoiding confrontation is the lesser evil.

Not exact matches

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

Many traders misplace their stop losses by placing them at the wrong levels, and they are often too wide or too tight.

Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock cryptocurrency trading earlier this year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»

«Investors often want to dump shares during a stock market crash because they want to cut their losses and because they fear even greater declines,» said Kelly Shue, a professor of finance at the Yale School of Management.

But the economic benefit of loss harvesting is often modest, says Kent Smetters, a tax expert and professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

These inexperienced players often enter the market too late, buying at the top and selling at a loss.

So the media's talking about the losses, and it's often during a recession and people are losing their jobs and everything happens at the same time, and you have this feeling of helplessness when you're not doing anything.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

If one considers, however briefly, what conditions will make possible the flowering in the human heart of this new universal love, so often vainly dreamed of but now at last leaving the realm of the utopian and declaring itself as both possible and necessary, one notices this: that if men on earth, all over the earth, are ever to love one another it is not enough for them to recognize in one another the elements of a single something; they must also, by developing a «planetary» consciousness, become aware of the fact that without loss of their individual identities they are becoming a single somebody.

Speaking personally, it means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a real force in their lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.

That knowledge often leaves us tongue - tied, at a loss for words, for what to say and how to say it.

But if religious groups do help bear the burden, often at a financial loss to themselves, then they can reasonably insist on the right to protect their own mission.

Secondly, if Christian leaders use the concepts of the new ethic without explicitly clarifying what distinguishes them from the social doctrine of the Church and from the gospel, as is often the case, the faithful will be at a loss and will tend not to discern the difference.

In our corporate consumerist American culture which celebrates hedonistic materialism and where aggression and a lack of ethics often results in short term economic gain [at the expense of long - term sustainability], taking a public stand for universal human values is likely to result in the end of career advancement or even job loss.

I don't agree with Ellul that accepting mediated security is a repudiation of our security in Christ, God often provides for his people indirectly; but I do think that fear / panic at the loss of these means is a repudiation of our trust / faith in God to provide either temporal or Eternal security for us, whichever he sees fit in his grand scheme of things.

The ingredients are not ones I use often in cooking so I'm at a bit of a loss.

They're good in theory but — for my family — unless I'm freezing half the package, I often find myself at a loss for new and interesting ways to prepare them.

Thanks for sharing the Schezwan Green Beans recipe — I often am at a loss for what to serve with Asian meals!

In emerging markets, however, food loss occurs most often at the farm during harvest and storage.

I have a tendency to turn out loaves of bread that are soggy on the inside and too done on the outside, and I have often been at a loss as to why banana bread is so tricky to make.