Sentences with phrase «on poor uses»

A lot of the bad press QR codes have received are based on poor uses.

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Rosling encourages people to use this framework, rather than use labels like «developed» and «developing,» because, as Gates explains, «It's hard to pick up on progress if you divide the world into rich countries and poor countries.

The report said Qantas recorded poor fuel efficiency because it used older, fuel - intensive aircraft, carried a low amount of freight (therefore making it less efficient) and also had relatively low numbers of passengers on each plane.

Businesses can save on communication costs as its a cheaper than using a traditional phone system and there is no issue of poor call quality.

dPoint Technologies, which ranked 60th on the 2013 PROFIT 500, is the firm that grew out of Dean's desperate search for Plan B. Using specialized membrane technology, the company manufactures modules that reduce the air - quality problems that tend to occur in highly energy - efficient buildings with poor circulation.

The critique doesn't only come from the left; there are plenty of hard - nosed investment firms that are agitating to clamp a lid on ever - growing CEO pay, arguing that it's a poor use of shareholders» money and distorts performance as CEOs start managing to their pay metrics instead of longer - term growth.

If Zuckerberg really is altruistic and wants to help poor people get onto the Internet, he could easily fund free wireless data without any pre-selected applications and let those people choose which services and sites they want to use on their own.

It leads to multitasking — which is a poor use of time, Huffington said — and it can render us oblivious to what's going on around us.

They had seen Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki on TV talking about using real estate investments to build wealth.

He was the inventor of successful products like bifocal glasses, the lightning rod and the Franklin stove (among others) as well as a media magnate where he published several newspapers and his popular Poor Richard's Almanac, in which Franklin used a fictional character to share his own views on topics like politics and philosophy.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

Many startups have become popular simply on the basis of being easier to use than other kinds of software that have poor user experiences.

In addition, the system is only to be used while on divided highways and in good road conditions, so including city driving and driving in poor road conditions could take that 50 percent figure down.

Roof top spoiler on white cab is poor use of space.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

I used to be poor, but now I'm on my way to buying my first home.»

Using a highly complex algorithm with over 200 factors, the search engine giant is on a mission to eliminate poor sites and poor content from its search results — and reward sites that provide useful information and content and actively engage with the social communities around their products and customers.

Message to the GOP: your using of multinational corporations to solve national problems, callous treatment of the poor, war on science will come back to haunt you.

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«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Some of the poor in America are mentally ill and truly can't help it, but I used to help Section 8 renters find apartments, and trust me, most could work if they bothered to try, and those who DO work wouldn't be so badly off if they didn't spend their money on stupid things.

instead of spending all this money and time on something like this can't these christians use these resources on something like stopping pedophiles, rapist, murders or feeding the poor.

You can also poke around on your Nook or Kindle — there are e-books there written for the faithful that give a detailed insight into the cult - like thinking (well, poor choice of words, a favorite LDS saying is, «the thinking is done», but you catch my drift) that's used to control their people from a very young age to find «the world» unbearable and the church to be a haven, etc..

workers who get LARGE SALERIES & a small portion goes to the poor in the form of a hand out - much at times to be used on luxeries like cigarettes, candy, soft drinks & other things that they would be better off without.

Your example of driving on the sidewalks is poor because it directly increases tangible risk to bodily injury of pedestrians, but if you used some other law like paying taxes i'd agree.

They use Reasonable Language and the Calm Tone of what I would guess a self - important psychologist might use when imparting his / her Wisdom on the poor mentally imbalanced patient

Some poor girl... or sheep... has to listen to him rant and spew, eyes bulging, talking non-stop, adamantly raging on about how Russian miners have heard the screams of hell and how some ancient vanished superrace made the pyramids and modern man couldn't which means evolution is wrong... she'd be wondering if she should just run for it, or does he have a big kitchen knife on him ready to use if she does... there she sits, with that «please - don «t - stab - me - repeatedly smile on he fear - petrified face...

Access to birth control and education on the proper uses (like, even if you're on birth control, the guy should still wear a condom) of it, as well as true education about intercourse, what causes disease and how giving birth affects the female body is one of the most responsible things we can help the poor with.

Poorer people used to work on those farms, but they've largely been replaced by the Transformer - size machines you see driving along the road during harvest.»

Having free access to birth control and the education on how to use it wouldn't help poor people?

God doesn't want you to vote democrat or republican, he wants all that lobby money they collect to be used to feed the poor, not to build huge houses to themselves and threat war on other countries.

The Bible itself is lucid on the sin of Sodom: pride, lack of concern for the poor and needy (Ezekiel 16:48 - 49); hatred of strangers and cruelty to guests (Wisdom 19:13); arrogance (Sirach / Ecclesiaticus 16:8); evildoing, injustice, oppression of the widow and orphan (Isaiah 1:17); adultery (in those days, the use of another man's property), and lying (Jeremiah 23:12).

The author should also have touched on the religious leaders who use the church as their personal stepping stone to greater wealth, telling us the poor shall inherit the earth while they're being chauffeured around in their limos, driven to their multi-million dollar mansions or to their private million dollar jets.

DO tax all religions on any money they recieve that is not directly used to feed the poor, help the needy and house the homeless.

The rich powers use their leverage of aid and investment to divide the poor countries, and prevent them coming together to foster common claims on the global scene.

What if Christians took all the money they are spending on lawsuits over Christmas and used it to serve the poor, the marginalized, and sick?

Wrath of Zeus, the Christian bible clearly states that only the rich will get to heaven... Jesus totally hated the poor... if I remember correctly, he used to call them lazy bums and would regularly spit on the beggars as he drove past them on the streets of Jerusalem while driving in his Rolls Royce... it's all in the bible.

Also remember that Jesus chose to use oil on his head so he «Smelt good» rather then feed the poor with the money that it would have generated.

Much creativity is needed in the global situation as the leaders of capital use the most sophisticated and calculated means to increase their economic stranglehold on the poor peoples.

At Boyd's church, for example, they have recently embarked on a campaign to change their building so that it can be used to help the poor and homeless in their community.

The sheer economics of the situation suggests that drastic improvement in the lives of the world's poor can be made by using resources that amount to little more than the crumbs on our tables.

If, for instance, you try to use capitalism to promote greater equality of wealth by imposing on it a steeply progressive, redistributive system of taxation, you frustrate the way in which it rewards its chief dynamic force, the acquisitive impulse, and you are liable to end by making everyone poorer.

Sometimes their upkeep is a drain on resources and some Christians may feel that the money would be better used helping the poor.

as far as using the scriptures in Proverbs to defend prohibition, the same book of the Bible advocates giving strong drink to those who are poor or down on their luck in order to forget their problems.

In this video, we're only talking about $ 0.50, but I sometimes look at the millions of dollars our government and our churches spend on helping the rich in various ways, and I wonder what would happens if we used that money to help the poor and the homeless.

To be sure, as Schmidt's chapter on the poor but prolific cartoonist Watson Heston notes, evangelical Christians pioneered the religious use of comic books and religious cartoons.

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Osteen's magic suit certainly renders his followers unable to use any critical thought on the money thing, and how different Osteen's lucrative approach is compared to the «sell your possessions and give it to the poor» thing Jesus demanded.

on its side, and use it as a sword in an ongoing war against the poor.

Father Driscoll discussed the shocking cost of shipping from Florida, and expounded on coconut palms, and fishtail palms, and tiger palms, and many other species of palms, and noted that as far as he could tell from his inquiries, Our Blessed Lord rode His donkey over the fronds of date palms, which is why our parish makes a strenuous effort every year to obtain date palms, for historical accuracy, but inasmuch as this year the cost of date palm fronds was prohibitively high, he was sure that the ladies would agree with him that the correct thing to do was to use local willow wands instead, and thus save money that could be directed to the poor and unfortunate of the parish.