Sentences with phrase «put off by»

As the sun shone and several members of the crowd stripped down to T - shirts for perhaps the first time this year, one attendee wondered whether people had been mistakenly put off by the recent spate of stormy weather.

And I've never been the least put off by the strict movie rule that having a robot can only result in its owner being pushed down the stairs, sucked into the vacuum of outer space, or enslaved with what's left of humanity.

And please don't be put off by that description.

Candidates for top NIH jobs also might be put off by money problems: NIH's budget hasn't grown in a decade and could face cuts.

Such news offers a ray of hope for those wanting to work in pharmaceuticals but who are put off by the doom and gloom of the rest of the sector.

What if large migratory whales got put off by the turbines and traveled farther with less food?

Wworld of Warcraft Don't be put off by the folkloric Dungeons & Dragons veneer of the latest massive multiplayer game, in which thousands of players connect to shared virtual environments via the Internet.

On the other, electronic engineering graduates may be put off by the fact that the centre started life as a physics department, while the majority of the other engineering doctorate centres are run by engineering departments.

Life scientists in particular should not be put off by any new mathematics involved and would receive training in line with their research.

The other group was put off by the demands of teaching science.

Through the impromptu table topics I have learnt not to panic and be put off by questions, but to relax, take my time, and think laterally.

Visitors trying to find his lair can be put off by the first floor, which is occupied by a large sporting goods store.

Put off by low wages and scarce lab resources, young people were choosing other careers.

He recommends that other young scientists apply for the award and suggests that they should «not be put off by the title — it's rather scary.»

People who would be put off by the word «science» but who would, say, go to a dance performance.

If you are starting a new activity, don't be put off by some aches and stiffness during the first couple of days.

And while a would - be entrepreneur should not be put off by calculated risks, entrepreneurial young scientists should be aware of the tradeoffs; even now he hopes someday to go back to where he came from.

The book skims too lightly over the surface to interest most science enthusiasts, and religious readers are likely to be put off by the barbed comments.

I think that a lot of women are put off by the fact that they don't see more women engineers, although there's nothing in engineering that a woman can't do.

Many people are put off by the bureaucratic requests,» he says.

But If Ed went who could replace him who could appeal to the roots of the organisation of the party, could appeal to those put off by the westminster buble, like the Northern wokring class, who admire Blue lABOUR, YET HAVE THE APPEAL OF MIDDLE ENGLAND, but have tried to accept the dificulties of the road ahead, and could actually get the party to accept that we need to change drasitcally,

«I would say to people if you don't like that point of view, if, like me, you are really put off by this very divisive, nasty approach to things then please go out and vote.»

They say that Lamb «has committed himself to leading a policy and political fightback, reaching out to those millions — particularly young people — who share our values and instincts but are put off by closed party structures and tribal political behaviour.

This seat is socially liberal and I suspect many here were put off by the Tories» fixation on reducing immigration.

But Mr. Trump was put off by the fact that Mr. Flood, a Republican, had represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment process, and Mr. Flood has made clear that he will not represent the president if Marc E. Kasowitz, his brash longtime personal lawyer, has any role in the effort.

In an admission that he is losing the propaganda war, Cameron, in his letter appointing Hughes, claimed there was a «material risk» poor schoolchildren would be put off by «misinformation» from applying to higher education institutions or staying on to study A-levels.

There were even some former Conservative voters saying they had been put off by Theresa May.

She said many were put off by the fact that, in allowing him to keep his salary and perks despite losing his departmental responsibilities in the reshuffle earlier this month, Mr Prescott appeared to have been rewarded for his affair.

Take heart, New Yorkers: You're not the only ones put off by Mayor Bill de Blasio's delusions of grandeur.

Lord Berkeley went on to say that those pushing for greater use of the railways for freight should not be put off by a «rail industry that is famous for saying no» to new ideas.

«Switchers to the Tories were more likely than Defectors as a whole to say they had been put off by the impression that Labour were not ready to form a competent government.

«I also think many women are put off by the brawling, bullying approach that we see depicted in the House of Commons.»

Osafo Maafo continued, «When there was a problem in Cote d'Ivoire, people wanted to relocate from Cote d'Ivoire to Ghana and I was involved, but they were put off by the rent advance.

In southern swing towns where voters were supposedly put off by Jeremy Corbyn's left - wing policies, the party held up and even strengthened its majorities.

She was put off by it,» said the mother.

Younger campaigners, especially, are likely to be put off by debates over organisational structures, and by the bitterness of the dispute.

More who might have voted for the smaller parties on May 7 may have been put off by first past the post.

Approximately 25 % of those who've looked into switching (60 % of all consumers) were unable to find a cheaper supplier, and 21 % were put off by the tariff system.

We recognise consumers can be put off by the wide range of financial products available.

Five candidates have declared an intention to run against Ms. Stefanik, who, like several other Republicans, will most likely have to balance between pleasing conservatives who adore Mr. Trump and appealing to independents who may be put off by the president's first year in office.

They had been put off by tribal hostility, discouraging results and — in the 1960s — escalating regional violence as the Marxist - leaning National Liberation Front tried to extend its control over southern Arabian sheikhdoms and sultanates, culminating in the establishment of South Yemen in 1967.

Chukwu denied reports credited to the Uchenna Madu faction of MASSOB that the elections were put off by Uwazuruike for fear of arrest by security agents over an agreement he allegedly signed with the federal government to abandon the struggle for the actualization of an independent state of Biafra.

I was just so put off by that that I attempted to strategically vote to block him.»

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is trying to win over moderate Republican women put off by Donald Trump.

Those students from lower and middle income backgrounds who aren't put off by such enormous debt will make their choices based solely on cost and the perceived benefit in the job market a course will provide.

People tend, by and large, to be put off by aggressive secularism, and that strand of thinking seems to have become aligned, almost wholly but not quite, with the metropolitan left.

I have looked at the co-sleeper cribs and did want one at first but I'm a bit put off by their cost, especially if a normal cot would do the job just as well and be for significantly longer.

Grapes have a natural «bloom» which gives them a whitish, dusty look — don't be put off by it, as it's there to protect the skins.

When Chloe calls she's put off by their impersonal tone — a receptionist asks her for her height and weight, how far along she is, if she knows if she's having a boy or a girl, and says that an «adoption guide» will call her.

Many moms are put off by the idea of getting into contact with poop.