Sentences with phrase «rather than a disaster»

The reform of parishes is long over due and if the Synod serves to galvanize bishops, priests and lay people to turn their attention to parish life, it will be a felix culpa rather than a disaster.

My celiac journey became a journey — rather than a disaster — because of you.

Keep Ken Clark out - he will just be an excuse for the political media to talk endlessly about the tories rather than the disaster that is our current government.

Rather than a disaster - predicting premonition, this time it's a cursed game that finds its way into the lives of a group of college kids, enjoying their final spring break in Mexico.

That may seem like a nightmare for traditional publishers, but just as innovations like the VCR and the compact disc seemed to spell doom for the movie and music industries and later turned out to be massive profit - generating mechanisms, publishers could find that e-books — even at much lower prices — are a boon rather than a disaster.

Though it's every homeowner's nightmare, when you have a good homeowners insurance policy, damage to your home becomes an inconvenience rather than a disaster.

Not exact matches

Rather than one big mistake, the disaster likely was the result of numerous small decisions that caused normality to shift and that ultimately caused a fatal explosion.

Unfortunately, disasters cause economic disruptions, and rebuilding replaces rather than adds to productive capacity.

Buffer, by being transparent rather than silent about the issue, was able to turn a near - disaster into a net positive.

«Unfortunately, the convenience of investing - by - slogan, rather than carefully thinking about finance and examining evidence, is currently leading investors into what is likely to be one of the worst disasters in the history of the US stock market.»

Make sure you specifically request a disaster - related administrative forbearance, rather than a general or economic hardship forbearance; you'll also want to ask about whether any outstanding interest will be capitalized (added to the principal balance).

Is it important that our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, refers to man - caused disasters rather than terrorism?

I believe from what I see in scripture that God most often allows a natural disaster to occur rather than directly sending one.

However why anyone would make a thing out of homosexual orientation being wicked and the cause of natural disasters rather than anything else which can more obviously be determined «sin» is prejudice beyond reason.

Many will say that The Disaster Artist is more about empathizing with Tommy's dream rather than mocking him.

BP, the company that caused the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, has opted to funnel tens of millions of dollars through state governments rather than private charities doing the bulk of the work in the Gulf Coast region....

I'd rather see society try to PREVENT disaster rather than manage it after it's already happening.

Only a blind man can not see we are at end times, third world countries with nuclear arms, a finacial system that is about to collapse, global disasters becoming more prominate, Godlessness that would try to redefine nature, men marrying men, women marrying women, mothers killing their babies rather than loving their babies and those who would mock the only one who could save them, JESUS, all that will hear prepare to stand before him let him be your savior rather than your judge, just a little while not much time is left before this world learns his wrath.

The concepts reported in this paper represent the author's attempt to analyze the impact, upon general audiences, of constant media disaster viewing, rather than focusing on victim's families.

Convinced that the principle of the sovereignty of the people embodied in the French Revolution rather than the sovereignty of God leads to disaster, he headed a political party and from 1901 to 1905 was prime minister.

The disaster of the 2003 — 2006 occupation of Iraq lost the Republicans the presumption that they were the party of realism (meaning common sense rather than ideology) and competence in foreign affairs.

Oh dammit, I wish I followed my instincts and used regular salt rather than coarse salt, what a disaster!!

Thankfully, though it took a while to perfect my approach, the following 5 or 6 attempts only resulted in a trash can full of unsatisfactory baked goods rather than more kitchen disasters.

try to enjoy these moments, rather than getting sad about the disasters going to happen in the future..

We will either go all out and try to make the next round to avoid embarrassment, or more likely play like we have been in the CL, in order to make sure we come 4th rather than 3rd, which would be a disaster.

Only 21 years old, Asano was viewed as a project for the future, and barring disaster was unlikely to see first team action with Arsenal this season, so this move allows him to get games in an actual league (rather than the reserves).

In 2007 UNICEF released a film called «Formula for Disaster» showing the reality of formula promotion in the Philippines and how parents are being misled into believing their children will be more intelligent if they are fed on formula rather than breastfed.

Tummy Rumble Quake & Elephant Wind are educational picture books that help teach children what to do in case of a disaster in a way that empowers rather than frightens them.

Unfortunately, too much of the current coverage comes only when disaster strikes, rather than when NGOs and their partners achieve positive gains on behalf of people in the developing world.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

«While we're complaining — could politicians trying to talk about policy do so in an intelligent way, rather than preaching disaster and standing outside Greggs?

It's also 100 % voluntary rather than compulsory, and the most common duties are acting as additional emergency services during natural disasters (The Federal Military can not act as a police force, though I think the National Guard can in the event of unrest such as was observed during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots or the 2015 Baltimore Riots).

Hester admitted that RBS's focus on implementing new computer systems rather than upgrading current ones was partially to blame for the disaster.

«This is a disaster of public policy,» said Queens Councilman Barry Grodenchik, one of several legislators who resented that the bill allows stores to keep the extra nickel it requires them to collect, rather than passing the money along to the city.

During her State of the County address, Mahoney argued that there is «not a single thing» in the Consensus report that will «spell disaster for anyone,» and that people should see it as an opportunity rather than as a threat.

«While the County Executive refuses to answer the remaining questions about undue political influence affecting county operations, COMIDA board members have chosen to resign their volunteer posts rather than be dragged into the quicksand of this ethics disaster,» County Legislator Mark Muoio, D, said.

«The part of the UK that's going to have most of it left is Scotland, so I thought that rather than it be the English Broadcasting Corporation that reports on the disaster, as it is in the book, it made more sense for it to be the SBC, and I thought it would be quite amusing to see if Nicola would play herself.»

Responding to those concerns, Mahoney said there is «not a single thing» in the Consensus report that will «spell disaster for anyone,» and that people should see it as an opportunity rather than a threat.

The governor also called it «lunacy» for Trump to be «arguing with football players» about taking a knee during the national anthem rather than focusing on helping Americans recover from disasters.

Her maternal grandmother, she said, was one of the few third - class passengers to survive the 1912 Titanic disaster, because «she made a run for it» rather than kneeling to pray.

More damagingly, let's be generous here and call it self deceit, rather than deliberate, is lurching the UK towards a hard Brexit disaster, whilst they sing loudly with their fingers in their ears and with blindfolds on.

Most obviously, disaster warnings would be much more effective if they emphasized actual distance rather than abstract political demarcations.

After the public soured on nuclear power following Japan's 2011 Fukushima disaster, a previous administration even decided to build new coal - fired power plants rather than turn to renewable energy, Yun says.

Kirk used these post-Katrina shifts — driven by an outside natural disaster rather than internal forces such as rising poverty or gentrification — to see whether changes in the concentration of people just out of prison affected reincarceration rates.

Many scientists and environmentalists warn that the government's present strategy of simply storing the plutonium could do more harm than good because it does nothing to reduce the risk of environmental disaster, and, rather than discourage other countries from developing nuclear weapons, it could provoke them to increase their efforts.

Some who find their homes and communities destroyed may move away rather than face the risk of another disaster, says Elizabeth Fussell at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

The effects of geoengineering could be worse than climate change, so we need to do our homework rather than assume it can stave off disaster.

Rather than a gradual transition, the anoxic - to - oxic transition, triggered by a chance evolution occurrence, may have been a catastrophic event: the world's first biologically - caused climate disaster.

Rather than seeing a bad date as a total disaster, we'll see where we perhaps could have gotten more information or used better discretion about who we spend our time with.

As Tommy, he is the strange, unknowable presence at the center of both «The Disaster Artist» and «The Room,» and audiences need to believe this is a real person rather than a caricature.