Sentences with phrase «own against the grain»

As instances of obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic illnesses are on the rise, a subculture where eating less is prized can seem farfetched and against the grain.

Bruce Flatt likes to go against the grain.

Once again, Major is going against the grain to say yields will fall even further, though the Fed has maintained that it could raise short - term interest rates this year.

Many of them have gone against the grain to create a new solution for a problem within an industry.

It might not always be easy to incorporate these habits into daily life, but that's what makes the people who do so interesting — they go against the grain, and that's undeniably interesting.

«So while it may not be the sexy choice to walk away from young female shoppers, moving against the grain could mean big things for Le Château — and their bottom line.»

When Jeremy Allaire cofounded Circle in 2013, dark - web markets and criminal activities dominated the discussion about cryptocurrency — and he cut against the grain by resolving to work closely with regulators.

One reader suggested that Nokia's new phone / camera went against that grain — its 41 megapixels and loss-less image quality might be enough to drive that final stake into the heart of point - and - shoot cameras.

CNBC's Jim Cramer knew he was «going against the grain» when he came out in favor of Keurig Green Mountain buying Dr Pepper Snapple.

«Be fearless in breaking new boundaries and don't be afraid to go against the grain of criticism along the way,» she said.

That goes against the grain at some major online merchants, who treat their security measures as a competitive advantage.

Entrepreneurs share many traits in common such as independent thinking, blazing their own trails — going against the grain despite the risk to pursue the passion that drives them.

If you can push against the grain of traditional thinking in your organization, all the better.

Musk has always gone against the grain and done things that nobody else expects.

This may go against the grain but let me tell you from my experience, people who have the audacity to ask for six figures have zero regard for what it's like to work at a startup.

I feel like often times when I start something, I'm up against the grain.

As against the grain as this view may be, it's the only one that the data bears out.

A half century after he moved back to Omaha, he was still going against the grain and defying conventional wisdom.

But it is not unusual for Mr. Benioff to go against the grain.

Norwest's ability to invest against the grain in an enterprise mobility company like MobileIron speaks to the firm's belief in its entrepreneurs and backing companies in new markets that aren't yet obvious.

I'm very lucky to be in the USA where I'm tolerated more than I would have been say in China, but to think that people who go against the grain are praised here hasn't really been my experience.

Or if the very way of functioning of the business and the intrinsic properties go against the grain of the customer mindset.

Now, I may be going against the grain again — calling for a short - term correction due to rising oil prices.

, Should I shave with or against the grain?

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

His dynamic presentations usually go against the grain of the usual ways of looking at mining stocks.

There are some franchise owners who like to go against the grain.

When you're ready to go against the grain, turn the razor over hold it in the same way as you would with the shorter handle, except with it resting against the ring finger instead of the middle.

When shaving up against the grain, you'll want to turn the razor over and (using the same three fingers) hold it how you would a pencil with the handle resting against the middle finger.

I also can't get a close shave without going against the grain.

Going against the grain of popular belief, Mr Buffett sees volatility and «old world» stocks as boons and frowns upon an over-diversified portfolio and excessive trading.

And if you are a beginner to wet shaving just make sure that you shave against the grain of your hairs if you are using a blade this sharp.

By adjusting the gap, this razor can be used by men who shave in any particular way or angle (including against the grain).

Must really tick you off that people can now think for themselves, go against your grain, and break the yoke of religion from around their throats.

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

It's never easy to go against the grain and be rational in a world of mass hysteria.

It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological wherein «activists» sometimes revolt against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

Dreher's book is a bracing read, reminding us that the life in Christ is a communal life and that it often requires us to live against the grain of the larger culture.

Always was and is and will ever be no matter what matters of materialized shapes to tend to seemingly clutter up His spiritual abundancy It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmologies as protruding «activists» are sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly being viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

It is truth that God has troubles within the fractal paradigms of inter-cellular cosmological «activists» sometimes revolting against the grains of our embodied sanctifications creating many undulations of travesties not uncommonly viewed by us celestial beings as being viral and bacteriological in the way we understand things to be and become.

It seems like you may be fighting against the grain in trying to doing church in a non-traditional way while being in a traditional context.

He loves to reward those that do obey him too, so why go against the grain?

Naturally, such tendencies go against the grain of the structure and the new productive forces not only permit but indeed demand their reversal.)

But, like Samuel Florman, who fears that «flights through cyberspace, however energizing they may be for the imagination, may weaken the objective rationality needed to do good engineering», I agree with Alan Cromer that the formal linear thinking needed to do science «goes against the grain of traditional human thinking, which is associative and subjective» (Florman 1994).

I should emphasize that there is nothing methodologically wrong with this assertion, although it does go against the grain for many New Testament scholars, who, as J. Z. Smith has observed, are still dominated by the essentially apologetic (and Protestant) myth of Christian autochthony.

But boy does he cut against my grain!

When we say that a social activity, arrangement, or pattern is in accord with or contrary to human nature, we are saying that it works either with or against that grain of nature.

Further, they often tend to revel in taking positions that cut against the grain of contemporary society and are even doomed to failure (as Rod has said his opposition of SSM is).»

This is a sort of religiosity that it is difficult for modern, secular people to understand and appreciate; she goes against the grain not only of the more obvious kind of rationalistic secularism embodied in Rayber but against all of the best in liberal Christianity, whether Catholic or Protestant.

We need to go against the grain.