Sentences with phrase «rather than helping»

Was his face red because of sunburn or is he peeved that you are running for the camera rather than helping him out?

How does the first time FHA borrower know the FHA - approved appraiser is assigning value to the home for sale that's actually consistent with market practices rather than helping the lender raise the FHA loan amount by over-valuing the property?

«They're focusing on ancillary services rather than helping brokers with recruiting and training.

This is the one book on the list that is intended for struggling couples alone, rather than helping professionals.

Rather than helping, avoidance can often worsen things.

Rather than helping your spouse or partner feel better, such words often makes things worse.

After childhood, the word «repair» may more often be associated with fixing a broken appliance or electronics rather than helping a relationship reconnect after conflict.

Except elements of love and logic parenting of sending the child away for time outs often... can be very harmful for kids who have experienced trauma, rather than helping them connect!

It's easy to give into children and give them things rather than helping them to understand that there are constraints in life.

Punishment focuses on showing the child what not to do rather than helping him or her learn what to do.

The court system is expensive, stressful to everyone involved (including the attorneys), and ultimately assists in tearing families apart rather than helping them to peacefully resolve their divorce.

Then after a comprehensive resume critique highlighting where and why their resume is hurting rather than helping their cause, nearly 47 % (usually the ones with the worst resumes) become a bit defensive and tell me I am nitpicking and being overly critical of their work.

Otherwise, it can hurt your candidacy for a job rather than helping it.

In fact, you have to be really careful with each element of the modern resume - otherwise, you'll end up hurting your job chances rather than helping.

The last few years have seen many examples of patents hindering, rather than helping innovation.

With no intention to fuel the age - old Android vs. iOS debate, the fact that Android allows more freedom to its developers, sometimes becomes a crutch rather than a helping hand.

The court system is expensive, stressful to everyone involved (including the attorneys), and ultimately assists in tearing families apart rather than helping them to peacefully resolve their divorce.

Law schools are accustomed to teaching students about precedent and what's been done before, rather than helping them to identify existing trends and figure out how to move forward.

I prefer anticipating the pitfalls rather than helping people out of them.

The reductive dimensions of this on - going process struck me as the way in which we are now training law students to «handle» the «facts» to which they'll «apply the law» as if they were going to spend their professional lives taking and re-taking the Bar Exam rather than helping their clients secure a relatively predictable future (the transactional lawyers) or resolve conflict without the bitter aftertaste of injustice in their mouths.

Consensus reports whilst useful for highlighting areas of uncertainty, due to their extreme caution, are therefore hindering rather than helping us forming appropriate policies.

Rather than helping, Oxfam looks more like a parasite.

Rather than helping to keep climate authorities honest, The Economist magazine now serves up a steady diet of green pap.

«Business, in general, is harming rather than helping the fight.

«It's troubling that we'd be handing down the remnants of our industrial - era technology rather than helping these places with cleaner options.»

So, indeed, get the text, and then maybe also write something about how this book has really gone off in a biased way here — putting in personal interpretations rather than helping students gain insight into how to approach challenging scientific questions (maybe also cover how the IPCC experience grew out of the CFC - ozone experience and how the Montreal Protocol has worked, etc..

It's just a shame that the end product isn't very scary, with the cutesy art style getting in the way of the horror rather than helping to create disturbing images.

Now I know that usually in games players like to be on the offensive side most of the time — as in they want to be the ones eliminating other players rather than helping the team.

The effect of these two assists can be felt very strongly, and is one of the few things I do not like about the game as these take far too much control away from the player, to the extent that it hinders the learning of the driving model rather than helping.

It might be even more intriguing if the other player was hindering, rather than helping, Aidan.

I got tired of veterinary specialists focusing on the fact that he was fat rather than helping me figure out how to get the dog to sleep at night.

Unfortunately most pet shops keep puppies in poor conditions, and are supporting backyard puppy mills / puppy farms, where the breeders are more interested in dollars rather than helping to breed quality offspring.

And changing foods for sure aggravated my dogs» diarrhea rather than helping cure it.

Rather than helping to educate pet Page 3 of 12 owners, much of it has contributed to common misunderstandings about the health risks and benefits associated of spay / neuter in dogs.

Rather than helping you to reduce your debt through debt settlement, a consolidation loan may increase your debt burden.

Shapiro sued Navient in federal court alleging a raft of illegal conduct, most notably that it «willfully» and «knowingly» cheated struggling debtors who face long - term hardship by steering them into payment plans that postponed bills, allowing interest to accumulate, rather than helping them enroll in plans pegged to income.

The same goes for financial advisers and brokers, only worse, because many people selling stock or mutual funds didn't have to take courses, they only had to pass a test, which is geared almost entirely towards «the business of selling» rather than helping a client meet financial goals.

At the end of the day, this often ends up hurting peoples» finances rather than helping them.

Imagine if you donated $ 10,000 to a charity, only to find out that all of your money was used to air annoying hospital lottery TV ads, rather than helping people.

Unfortunately, rather than helping investors make more money, ETFs may spur them to act on their own trend - following or theme - investing urges.

With fair credit, it doesn't mean that you have to choose an obnoxious card which rather than helping you out, hurt your score even further.

Rather than helping consumers, A1 DocPrep's CEO, defendant Homan Ardalan, spent hundreds of thousands of consumers» dollars on cars, jewelry, nightclubs, and restaurants, according to the FTC.

But when we talk about Amazon aiding Chopra, Ferriss, and even Hocking — we're still talking about helping a few authors sell millions, rather than helping a wider swath of worthy authors get published, or more quality publishers survive and thrive.

For many of us, dealing with email has become a daily chore that distracts from what we really need to do — rather than helping us get those things done.

Basically, this could set up a situation that actually drives more customers to Amazon.ca, rather than helping the booksellers.

And rather than helping power the wheels directly, the stored energy is assigned to powering the car's electrical systems.

In this mode, the batteries are doing everything they can to help you drive like hell, rather than helping you be efficient.

The upshifts are much faster now, and the batteries are doing everything they can to help you drive like hell, rather than helping you be efficient.

When I enter your classroom interested in learning with you rather than helping you a partnership climate is easier to establish.

When that happens, the animation distracts the learner from the content rather than helping to elevate it.