Sentences with phrase «rather than pound»

I'm not expecting anyone to hold my hand along the way, but sure is better when others point the way rather than pound.

When you do begin to budget your income, however, it is important to deal in pence rather than pounds and adopt a precise approach towards detailing each transaction.

You will have noticed that the price of this book is marked in dollars rather than pounds.

I sliced my chicken breast thin rather than pounding it.

Yes, that sounds remarkably like «Inception,» however, Dorado smartly chooses to focus his suspense more on real - life personal relationships rather than pounding away at dreams and memories.

The 8» Surface Mini will be a «consumption class» device, geared more towards taking in information or dropping a few notes (with supported pen input) rather than pounding through documents on Office.

Not exact matches

Just like how going on a juice cleanse will deprive you of valuable calories and macronutrients, going on a super low - calorie crash diet will set you up for failure rather than helping you drop pounds.

Produce is priced per piece or per package, rather than by the pound as at cult discounter Trader Joe's.

Which, as it turns out, can be a long - term problem (and distraction) to an entrepreneur — most of whom would prefer building their company rather than working to shed those extra pounds.

I recall Mike McCracken telling Premier Rae «if you are going to get hung, better to be hung for a pound rather than a penny» as he supported my call for a full - throttle Keynesian budget.

Seriously — another benefit of aiming to replace your salary through a passive income stream is you should know roughly the figure required, rather than going after the rather nebulous idea of a million pounds, dollars, or whatever your currency of choice is.

Parents are urged to develop an atmosphere of mutual respect; to communicate on levels of fun and recreation as well as on discipline and advice; to allow a child to learn «through natural consequences» — that is, by experiencing what happens when he dawdles in the morning and is permitted to experience the unpleasantness and embarrassment of being late to school; to encourage the child and spend time with him playing and learning (positively) rather than spending time lecturing and disciplining (negatively), since the child who is misbehaving is often merely craving attention and if he gets it in pleasant, constructive ways, he will not demand it in antisocial ways; to avoid trying to put the child in a mold of what the parent thinks he should do and be, or what other people think he should do and be, rather than what his natural gifts and tendencies indicate; to take time to train the child in basic skills — to bake a cake, pound a nail, sketch or write or play a melody — including those things the parents know and do well and are interested in.

Without having made this version, but as one who has a sour cherry tree in my backyard (yield 150 pounds this year), and makes French farmhouse - style clafoutis every year at this time, the photo reveals an eggy product (texture similar to a bread pudding) rather than a creamy product (texture similar to a custard).

Rather than ordering bottle after bottle, the on - trade can now refuel in an environmentally - friendly fashion and save a few pounds in the process.»

I'd rather have a little bit of extra fat on me and be satisfied with and by the food I eat than suffer day in day out in an attempt to force my body into letting go of those few extra pounds it just obstinately clings to.

Rather than just a slice of pound cake, I wanted to add an element of crunch, kind of like you'd find on crème brûlée.

I love bulk bins for a number of reasons, not just for stocking up on soup ingredients, but also things like, since I bake so infrequently, I'm the person who buys one cup of pastry flour at a time, lol, rather than that three - pound bag that will go rancid before my next homemade pie craving.

if you opt to use boneless, you need only use 2 pounds of beef short ribs rather than the 3 1/2 pounds i have listed.

To keep the costs down, buy a bag of oranges rather than by the pound.

Should it be half a cup or half a pound, rather than half a teaspoon?

So we only used a small portion in the salad, rather than the 1/2 pound that is recommended.

It sadly is Sue, we have a divided fan base, an majority shareholder who is (in my opinion) using our clubs assets to secure lending on his other sporting investments, a board who quite frankly see us fans as customers rather than supporters as shown by the chairman's AGMs performance, players who aren't signing new contracts, if you cut Ian Wright and others open you'd see cannons in their blood with some of our players now you'd find image rights and pound signs.

Manchester City will open their new multi-million pound academy next month as part of a long - term plan to produce their own players rather than buy ready - made talent — their current senior squad cost over # 300m to assemble.

I had rather bring in Lacazzete and Mahrez for 100 million pounds than buying unproven Mbappe for such ridiculous amount of cash.

But let me tell you, the most impressive thing to me about Rodgers» film was that this guy, who is all of 5» 6 and 205 pounds, liked to be the hammer rather than the nail when it comes to contact.

Rather than pay 60m pounds for Lacazette, i would rather pay 65m pounds for LewanRather than pay 60m pounds for Lacazette, i would rather pay 65m pounds for Lewanrather pay 65m pounds for Lewandosky.

Schemers have already found one way to do this and it has been a part of football for the better part of 40 years: Spread players out and create a game of players in space, rather than a clustered mass of beef in cleats pounding away in close quarters.

It's pretty much going to be Alvarez against Petis with more attempt to actually pound rather than just ground.

It's about time someone at the club not Wenger did an internal investigation as to why we get all these injuries and why the players stay out longer than those of other clubs, rather give our greedy yank a 3 million pound bonus we should use the money for this.

Rather than wait our time with him, I'd sell him off to a European team, get the 40/50 million pounds for him and add it to make a Lemar bid that Monacco can never refuse.

He has two Masters wins but other than that his play at Augusta has been rather pedestrian and he seems to have lost his fast ball (and should lose those hideous pink Volviks) along with the 20 pounds.

One of the last before Tomlinson finished his Alabama career was Raekwon Davis, a 6» 7», 315 - pound freshman who looks as if he was chiseled rather than born.

Marcus Davenport showed up at the University of Texas at San Antonio — which played its first game in 2011 — weighing less than 200 pounds, having switched positions late in high school and viewing football as a means to a good education rather than a potential lifelong pursuit.

He's not quite «Thunder», but he does run like a 220 - pound back rather than one 15 - pounds lighter.

Spot on mate we are defiantly a very amateur club when it comes to incoming transfers as unlike our rivals who get deals done quickly ours drag on and on, it seems we are yet again shopping in pound land rather than waitrose.

I don't like criticizing play - calling with the benefit of hindsight, but still, I would have liked to see the Lions pound the rock there and simply try run for a first down rather than try to trick this Seahawks defense that is known for their discipline.

The combination of Petit - Frere having a chance to play sooner rather than later at Michigan and the academics the school offers gives the Wolverines an excellent chance to land the 6 - foot - 6, 272 - pound player.

Women, it seems, are still the only people worth talking to in the multi-million pound maternity and baby industry — and the same goes for our health professionals, who tend to see their client as the mother, rather than taking on the bigger challenge of communicating more holistically with the support network that surrounds the baby — which in most cases includes its father.

Older offspring - the class imposes a 25 - pound weight limit, rather than an age restriction - sometimes take a break from the exercising by playing with other baby exercise partners.

One of the biggest problems with this seat is that it only sits up to 22 pounds, so you'll have to buy a new seat sooner rather than later.

If you have big kids, or see your kids using this double umbrella stroller for a while, it will make more sense to get a stroller that has higher weight capacity (i.e. 55 pounds rather than 35 pounds).

Now it's true that Iran supports the Hawthi rebels to some extent, but if anyone has been striking anyone, it's the US and Saudi Arabia pounding rebel - held areas rather than the other way around.

With budgets set to be painfully tight over the next decade, every pound of public spending should be tested on whether it actually solves a problem rather than creates one.

Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Fallon said he was «appalled» at the way human rights law was being used against the British military, with the result that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money were being spent on fighting «fairly spurious cases» rather than on kit and personnel.

Nowhere was this truer than him lavishing tens of thousands of pounds on slanted private polling rather than in helping friends and colleagues get elected.»

The weight is measured by the individual ankle weight rather than the combined total, so if you buy the 1 pound set, you will be adding 2 pounds overall to your routine.

«Plus, you're saving on material costs by using 100 - pound devices floating on air rather than 200 tons of cement for a traditional wind turbine.»

Rather than slip below 190, for the first time in my life I had tipped, by a single pound, over 200.

Sea otters must eat about 25 % of their body weight daily to maintain their body temperature since unlike other marine mammals they rely solely on their fur rather than an extra layer of blubber to stay warm — it's like a 120 - pound human eating 30 pounds of food per day.

Rather than penny - pinching to preserve pounds, crowns and shillings, Bucklow believes that Henry III deliberately chose cheap materials and fake gemstones to accentuate one of the key themes of the altarpiece — miraculous transformations.