Sentences with phrase «rather than a burden»

Pre-Microsoft deal - making A company called the Computer Center Corporation realized that sharing their machines with Gates and his fellow teen computer enthusiasts could be a boon, rather than a burden.

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

This suggests seeing our children's behavior as developmental rather than a burden and helping them through rough times.

Homework time can be a special part of each evening rather than a burden.

Natural parenting is a decision to embrace the change children bring into your life as a blessing rather than a burden.

«I join Senator Kavanagh in urging the Governor to include early voting in the budget so that all New Yorkers can have a fairer government where elections are a right accessible to all rather than a burden on working families,» Senator Leroy Comrie said.

The Office of Management and Budget estimates costs for measurement initiatives, but these estimates focus on the annual burden of entire measurement and reporting programs (eg, Physician Quality Reporting System) rather than the burden of individual measures or the burden for individual institutions.

Rather than burden them by asking for help, I was privileged to lead many of them to better health and fuller lives.

When you do decide to date again, approach it as an adventure rather than a burden.

The results were significant — individuals who focused on their blessings, rather than their burdens or neutral life experiences, exhibited heightened well - being and positive affect.

For that, I can forever be thankful and look at the lesson it has taught me, rather than the burden.

Our mission at Thorium Wealth Management is to help make wealth a source of freedom rather than a burden.

Necessary state budget cuts could be a boon, rather than a burden, to education if state governors and legislators adopt meaningful education reforms by introducing more competition and school choice in their states.

That sounds like work, but most parents see this as a pleasure and honor, rather than a burden.

But he turned out to be a man improved rather than burdened by the needs of his friends.

As also frequently mentioned in our weekly X-Men recap column, X-ual Healing, Marvel Unlimited is a great way to explore references to past stories in current comics, making Marvel's long and often convoluted continuity an asset rather than a burden.

Rather than burdening his children for money, he considers surrendering his policy to extract its cash value to pay for the medical bills.

Our mission at Thorium Wealth Management is to help make wealth a source of freedom rather than a burden.

LA Noire and Shadow of the Colossus spring to mind, focused games that use its open world to create a mood rather than burden us with fetch quests and endless resource collection exercises.

Female attributes and aesthetics became a choice, rather than a burden.

Climate action is an economic opportunity rather than a burden.

Rather than burden those who were so willing to help you in a time of need with this debt if you died, your life insurance policy proceeds can be the best way to say thank you in the end by relieving them of any obligation to pay the loans back on their own.

Rather than burdening his children for money, he considers surrendering his policy to extract its cash value to pay for the medical bills.

Our mission at Thorium Wealth Management is to help make wealth a source of freedom rather than a burden.

I understand the job duties of Team Member in a busy environment of KFC are somewhat tricky — but I take it fun rather than a burden.

«I'll also work with Governments to develop legislation, policies and practices that will improve rather than burden the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.»

Our mission at Thorium Wealth Management is to help make wealth a source of freedom rather than a burden.

Not exact matches

Indeed, it tells you to rather automate such systems for simplification rather than go through the burden of manually implementing them.

I think, rather than threatening to use controversial presidential powers to prevent U.S. companies legally reducing their tax burden as has been mooted recently, Mr Obama must instead bring America's corporate tax rate in line with the rest of the world's developed economies.

According to a SpaceX company spokesman, «We deny the claims made by these employees, but rather than incur the expense, burden and uncertainty of continuing litigation, we elected to settle this matter so that we can continue to focus on our business.»

In fact, were I a first - time entrepreneur, I'd rather launch my product in a competitive space than shoulder the burden of creating an entirely new one.

He wasn't sure what the right answer to that question was, but suggested that shifting more of the burden to other countries would be a start; rather than Americans paying too much, perhaps people in other Western countries are paying too little.

However, because the burden of these attacks falls on innocent third parties, rather than price - conscious consumers or profit - conscious manufacturers, government might be the only entity willing and able to address these vulnerabilities.

But in the 1920s the Allies imposed an unpayably high reparations burden on Germany — largely to obtain the foreign exchange to pay the Inter-Ally arms debts that the U.S. Government insisted on collecting, rather than forgiving these debts as allies traditionally had done among themselves upon achieving victory.

Depending upon the nature of the loan, periodic payments will be either daily or weekly, allowing the small business owner to spread the burden of debt service throughout the month, rather than requiring one larger payment at the end of the month.

What happens in a command economy such as China's is that the element of free social conflict that market capitalism contains is absolutely missing - and that therefore the Chinese economy must sooner rather than later collapse under the strain and burden of «unproductive» investment.

That said, investing some funds back into the company (rather than taking them as compensation) is another way to help minimize tax burdens.

Shareowners should have the burden of proof, rather than companies.

In the wake of an open letter in January from Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, exhorting businesses everywhere to focus on their social impact rather than simply maximizing profits, they wondered whether Moynihan might feel under more pressure to do so now that tax reforms would be lightening the burden in the future.

In November 2017, he achieved precedent - setting victories for investors, when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that direct evidence of price impact is not always necessary to demonstrate market efficiency to invoke the presumption of reliance, and that defendants seeking to rebut the presumption of reliance must do so by a preponderance of the evidence rather than merely meeting a burden of production.

Furthermore, the patients may find that it's better for (half monkeys like you) to have a mega microscopic brain rather than to have a regular size one but only serves as an extra burden for a half human like them that has the intellectual capacity as to monkeys.

• The burden of her later work is blaming Jewish victims rather than anti-Semitic perpetrators.

In fact, rather than matter being a burden and a drag upon the spirit, it is man's incarnate nature that is the very reason for God's personal Incarnation.

Lacking this sensitivity, a counselor's advice, like that of Job's «comforters,» is apt to be a burden rather than a blessing.

But in a world in which good things are expected to happen, in which hope rather than fear is the dominant motif, the burden of proof will lie on those who decide in a given instance that a specific research procedure — in this case the recombining of DNA molecules — should not be done.

It serves to establish a burden of proof rather than certainty.

If it dares to speak, it will find not only that its common life is transformed beyond all recognition, but also that its teachings begin to appear to single and married people alike as a treasure to be shared rather than as a burden to be inflicted.

I think this book would help me to put up with the shortcomings of others and spark a deeper desire to bear their burdens rather than adding baggage.

As education to ever higher levels became a general obligation, it assumed more and more the aspect of a burden rather than an opportunity.