Sentences with phrase «precious little power»

I can handle things like changing my computer's power settings and switching to CFLs, but I have precious little power over insulating the roof and changing out the heating thermostats.

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Yet we hear precious little outcry from the public or in the media, and this relative silence only encourages those controlling the levers of power to continue this development.»

A heavy thinker (with his precious little grey cells), Hercule's obsessive - compulsive streak powers his need to solve crimes as well as his need to have a correctly proportioned breakfast — murder puts the universe out of joint, something that troubles him just as much as it frustrates him by interrupting his need for a holiday without such concerns.

With regard to the school board term limit proposal in Amendment 8, Speaker Corcoran neglects to mention that this is one of the «bundled» amendments that will also establish a state governed charter school authorization board that can circumvent the power of our own locally elected officials in addition to establishing a parallel «public» school system that will not answer to local school boards, which is only another ploy to redirect precious, scant taxpayer dollars to entities that have little oversight or accountability.

Snicking through that lovely gearbox, lining up each corner with confidence, feeling the suspension working with the tarmac, not letting an ounce of precious power scrabble away, almost floating through a corner when you get it right... it is a beguiling little car.

«Well... It's about... er...» There is no aesthetic power and precious little to think about.

Mongolia has seen precious little investment in its power system, and the Soviet - era power plants continue to provide most of the country's power.

There's precious little we know about the new Pixel 2 phones for the time being, though it looks like they'll be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chipset.