Sentences with phrase «only kept it off»

Lose the same 10 pounds that I lose every year, only keep them off this time (or at least until my 10 - year high school reunion!)

One look at the Premier League table at the moment is enough to send most Arsenal fans reaching for a strong drink, as the Gunners are not only in the bottom half of it but we are way down in 16th place and are only kept off the bottom by Brighton, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and West Ham United.

Now, six years later, I've not only kept it off, I've lost another 15 pounds, too!

An anecdote of a woman who lost 55 pounds 10 years ago and only keeps it off with an 1800 calorie diet and regular exercise.

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One of the Germans «started off by saying that he thought it only right to come over and wish us a happy Christmas, and trusted us implicitly to keep the truce,» Hulse wrote.

One group was told to keep their email inbox closed, turn notifications off and check their email only three times per day; the other group was told to leave notifications on and check their email as often as possible.

And among the borrowers who had paid off their debt, only a third could keep their businesses going — or just 15 percent of all of the program's borrowers.

Not only is it 10 feet long, it's also durable and has a weighted knot that keeps it from pulling your iPhone off the table while it's charging.

The only major suppliers still capable of turning the taps on and off in short order are the Saudis, and they are keeping them on.

Peabody's problems have only expanded so far in 2015: Forecasting greater losses than originally anticipated, the company reduced its dividend, laid off workers and even cut the salaries of its top executives temporarily in a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat.

Push yourself each day to do something you keep putting off, even if you work at it for only a short time.

The warning letter is kept at the back of that arsenal, only dusted off when there is a serious or chronic problem.

Such reinventions can be expensive, but Simon is gambling they will pay off in future income increases — potentially the only way it can keep growing in a country that has more malls than it needs.

I keep a hands - off approach on it and only put in maybe an hour / month.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Keep in mind that if you pay only the minimum payment each month, it will take much longer to pay off your credit card balance.

If you're only making minimum payments or you keep using your credit after paying some off, getting a loan to consolidate it can help you stay disciplined in paying it.

Investors have been turned off not only by their higher fees but also by the fact that most have failed to keep up with index funds over the long term.

In this week's Outside the Box, Niels has compiled a sobering set of data that suggests that only massive government involvement in Europe on a scale that is unprecedented will keep the wheels from coming off...

Yes you can pay off mortgages but I would rather spend my capital acquiring new properties and keeping them financed (8 - 15 % return on capital) rather than paying down mortages (only 4 - 5 % return depending on interest rate).

Since non-black ladies already know the domestic violence and crime statistics, the community of colour had little to worry about black men running off wit dem uppity white women... but now that da black man is startin to get a taste for the DARK OAK... the community is getting hit hard... the ONLY way to presevere and keep the dark ladies from dyin» virgins is to condemn to hel l any black man who dares to dream (realistically of course) of coming home to anything but Thunder Thighs.

Sorry, if this comes off as some super-sensitive defensive reaction, it just struck me really odd as I've only ever heard one person phrase the differences between men and women quite that way before and it was a man who was also an engineer which he kept bringing up to point out that that made him more analytical than any woman was capable of (apparently they don't have women engineers where he comes from).

«keeping people off the street»: well, that's pretty obvious, the only problem with that is (in the determinist view), you are treating the culprit in an immoral way, punishing them for an action they had no option but to commit.

One has to keep in mind that he rebuked Peter for cutting the ear off the Roman soldier, but was that only because Jesus did not want Peter to thwart his plans?

Not only is it not in keeping with our faith to write off any group of people, but to ignore this common sense would be to write off the future.

So sometimes, when we hear «Turn in your Bible to the book of Jonah» not only do we keep our Bibles closed, we zone out completely to what the speaker is saying, and let our mind wander off to the problems at work, who is going to win the football game, or what our neighbor said to us last week.

You can only keep this tissue of comforting delusion alive by walling it off from all the rest of reality, building it in a vacuum.

Personally, I don't care if you want to dance around with snakes, only ride in horse - pulled wagons, and only have s ex with the lights off and a hole in the sheet, but the problem is that you keep trying to force everyone else, through peer pressure but more insidiously the legal system, to be as inhibited as you are.

Luther's countrymen were not only interested in keeping the Turk at bay or cutting off revenues from indulgences for the pope.

Here's a simple history lesson that seems to be forgotten: you tend the sheep in order to keep them alive, away from predators, when they grow more, you take their only possessions off their backs, and eventually slaughter them for dinner.

They probably don't believe in gravity since they all wear metal shoes which is the only thing that keeps them from floating off into space with the their «air head» ideas.

This patently self - serving argument imposes, in violation of Article VI of the Constitution, what is in effect a «religious test» that would keep off federal courts not only Catholics but Jews, Muslims, Baptists, and anyone else who adheres to a tradition of moral truth that is sustained by communities that are labeled «religious.»

My kitchen is HOT right now so I only left the oven on for 2 hours, then turned it off and kept the door closed for the final hour.

When it slows to a halt, make sure the water does not boil too hard, but you may want to turn the heat up and down bit to keep it only just off the boil.

You can also keep them in their pan and only cut off the amount you need.

Fold the dough, you won't get far with kneading as the sourdough is wet and sticky, and only scraping it off the bowl, pulling and folding over, and pushing back to the dough is the way to keep things reasonably tidy in my experience.

This not only helps to keep the weight off by has dramatically helped my sleep patterns.

Because when Barbara sent me the recipe she noted that the only problem she has with this Almond Cake is that her daughter keeps picking the almonds off the top.

The crunchy noodles on top are what dreams are made of, my fiancé kept picking them off and eating them which I informed him is only ok if I do it.

But There is no INHERENT BENEFIT for the rest of us to only eat grain free, it is completely off the scale stupid to keep hammering that into peoples minds.

I've also created a subscriber - only downloadable cheat sheet with the basics that you can print off and keep in the kitchen for when you're experimenting with butter / dairy free baking.

I made these recently again in my healthy plane travel snacks post and for my last trip to Salt Lake City and they really helped not only to keep hunger at bay, but also to help stave off the sweet sugary treats in the airport.

This moussaka is definitely like that — the portion is big enough to have dinner or lunch taken care of for a solid few days, it keeps well and only gets better with age, can be eaten hot or cold, and can even be re-imagined as, say, a toast topping, if its initial layered charm ever wears off.

Throughout his journeys, Michael kept himself immersed in continuing his education, and in 2015, Michael's experience and studies paid off, as he became one of only 230 people in the world to achieve the title of Master Sommelier.

We couldn't keep up with the demand for Butterbeer, so I ended up taking one of the barrels from inside the Three Broomsticks, rolling it out in the middle of the street, and having a server sell Butterbeer right off the barrel for cash only.

you know I wish I could have been able to bring you my chicken soup — it's full of antioxidants with enough jalapenos to open up those sinus passageways... I know, I have been plagued with bad sinuses as a doctor once told me, had 2 surgeries in my life and only in the last few years have I found how to really take care of»em... ya got ta keep them open... I do it with washes, ya know... — yeah, this is your rambling dude and so sorry you were so bad off, but I know the feeling....

I've been crossing items off my to - do list only to find more keep appearing.

So not only do you have the Nationals, with a cozy relationship with Boras and an obvious desire to keep the best player they might ever draft for the next 100 years, but you'll have some big - market bullies in the right stage of the success cycle, with money coming off their books.

It is a title at the end of the day and we was only 1 point off UCL football, if we can keep Alexis then I hope we can improve enough over the next few months.

Murray is a work in progress, offensively a long way off, Parker will come back on Vet Min, White is the only one I would keep going forward from the other 3 Last 9 games Patty has been second top scorer with 11.8 pts with day light 3rd, Patty also plays at his best along side Kawahi which hopefully he will be returning next year