Sentences with phrase «rackets because»

On the satellite trail, an inordinate number of players use oversized Prince rackets because, as with vitamins and religion, there is no evidence that they hurt you, and there remains the possibility they will help.

But they can charge higher prices for tennis rackets because there is not this same type of awareness.»

Publishing is a racket because most self - publishing authors see their books as an investment, when it's actually a gamble.

Publishing is a racket because the majority of people making money in publishing are the people selling services to authors.

Not exact matches

If you read the response in context, it is not quite as ridiculous as it sounds: Bowden's point seems to be that the regulatory burdens that his questioner complained about aren't that important, because the private equity business is so good that the additional regulatory costs are easy to bear, and well worth it to avoid messing up a good racket.

Brigham Young had 56 wives whose 19th wife divorced him because she said the mormon faith was a racket for rapists.

Just because the racket didn't invent the problem does not mean they haven't greatly facilitated it.

Just because a company has a pleasant façade and a mission statement does not mean it is not a racket.

I can't hear because of all the racket.

Repeat, please, and we'll try to read your lips because we just can't hear you in all this racket.

This is the circuit where one sees the game's fabric being woven — and sometimes unraveled; where a disgusted player will walk over to a garbage can and junk an armful of rackets only to have a solicitous girl friend retrieve them and hurry after him; where a young player can sit stock - still for an hour at a time, staring at a tennis ball, hoping to improve his concentration; and where groups of players discuss why they lost matches and conclude it was not because they failed to hit the right shots, but because they were reluctant to cheat.

In tennis, for instance, no rule for the tennis racket existed before 1978 because wooden rackets had remained largely unchanged for over 100 years.

Actually it was a lot of fun because it was the first time Ariyana held a tennis racket.

«The big racket has been around for a long time, and anybody who really wants to be effective learns not how to fight it, because they'll outgun you, but how to work around it, through it — even heal it up,» she says at one point, over footage of recent Native American protests at the Dakota Access Pipeline site in North Dakota and a performance of her singing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

Intermittently, it will come down with Skynet syndrome resulting in wild, errant swings of the racket — this is remedied by holding the controller still for a couple of seconds, which is an easy solution but on rare occasions, not even that will work and it's utterly infuriating knowing that a point has been lost because the game decided to give you an extra opponent to contend with.

They routinely block expansion of education choice because it tends to dilute their membership numbers and dues as well as their power, which is really their top priority — it's a protection racket.

Are billionaires like Eli Broad suddenly hitting the brakes on ed reform because they care about pubic school budgets, or are they just upset that vouchers and religious school tax credits will be horning in on the lucrative charter school racket?

The car might be quite quick but I'm reluctant to push it because of the racket it makes when I do.

I called them extremely furious because the control arms they replaced is right next to the steering racket and a real mechanic would of noticed it... This place is extremely sketchy and I will never use them again or referring them to this dealership.

Because consumers equate quiet with quality, don't scrimp on insulation to eliminate racket in the cabin.

I am sure this is correct because I strained my ears to hear over the racket of kids making a joke of the class, waving condoms on their fingers, hooting.

Only Spalding's Racket affected sales, and that's probably because he also posts submissions to the Kindleboards.

Even in the market place, companies like Netflix are jettisoning film publishers because of the racketing up of the price (Netflix dropped Starz).

It's not because of those pesky neighbors making a racket at 2 a.m., or the annoying passenger taking up all the room in your aisle on the plane.

My poor neighbor was sure my huskies were killing each other because of the racket!

In fact, you'll need to do work outside of the story missions because part of your advancement to Don will depend on how many businesses you can bring under the family's «protection» and the number of illegal rackets you control.

Coal and oil won't lose money, but we will have to pay much more for it because a protection racket is getting into the game.

This colossal global biofuels industry exists only because resource depletion and climate Armageddon ideologies do not die easily — and because politicians lavish government mandates and billions of dollars in taxpayer and consumer subsidies on firms that have persuasive lobbyists and reliable track records for channeling millions of those dollars back to the politicians who keep the racket going.

It's not because of those pesky neighbors making a racket at 2 a.m., or the annoying passenger taking up all the room in your aisle on the plane.

When you try the same thing with your Watch, it's slightly less pleasant because you'll be — well, imagine a monkey fumbling with a tennis racket.