Sentences with phrase «rather than useless»

So why don't lenders offer a true reverse mortage which would compute and lend a stream of payments (at interest of course, but hopefully a rate reflective of the low risk given the high property value / loan ratio) rather than a useless lump sum which has seniors paying pretty high mortgage interest rates on a large amount of loan, rather than a interest on the (rising) amount of loan as the stream of payments accumulated.

If you truly disagree with another persons choices how about offering them alternative suggestions that may actually help a person care for their infant rather than a useless negative judgmental opinion that serves to help no one.

That's how you make your emails valuable and opened, rather than useless and ending up in the spam folder.

Not exact matches

To put it bluntly, «Call of Duty» multiplayer now has so many useless upgrade systems that you spend way too much time looking at menus rather than playing the game.

This is why, in strongly uptrending markets, we find it much easier and more profitable to focus on the price action and technical patterns of individual leadership stocks and ETFs, rather than paying much attention to whether or not the charts of the S&P, Nasdaq, and Dow are «overbought» (we hate that useless term).

When death came to be understood as the ultimate evil rather than as a stage on the way to eternal life, utilitarian philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham found it easy to dismiss capital punishment as «useless annihilation.»

Aggression and reciprocity are equally etched in our brains, but scientifically informed moral sensitivity can reprogram useless or harmful adaptations for cooperation rather than violence.

But Thomas Blackburn, another NCR columnist, describes the attempt as «another useless document on sex certain which deals with Latinate abstraction rather than with real people» (January 13).

Martha's case raises broader issues: the availability of assisted suicide to physically sound but depressed individuals; the «quick» solution of death for the elderly when they feel useless; thinking of death as a «right» rather than a fact; and too much social concern with the legal rather than the psychological condition of those contemplating suicide.

And the useless of land was decided on business principles rather than religion.

If the main reason our reps have been chosen because they believe and pray to the spaghetti monster in the sky, based on the mess hey have produced and keep making worse, there prayers have been a useless waste of time which would have been much better spent to actually work on the problem rather than praying about it.

Rather than leave a blathering comment on the useless nature of religion, you may want to consider the ultimate ends of holding on to a belief system (assuming atheism here) that can not sufficiently explain where meaning, purpose or value (ethical right and wrong) could come from.

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I would rather have a laidback but controlled and calm player like Ozil in this team, than a dashing Sterling he was compared to by that useless pundit Michael Owen.

Ramsey thinks he's Beckham, but he's rather proving to be his old useless self rather than proving critics wrong.

Fan should rather safe their energy for cheering our team to glory rather than dwelling on useless issues like Adebayor.

Chambers was looking at the referee hoping for a free kick rather than chasing the ball, Flamini was his usual useless self and Koscielny really had a bad game.

they rather prefer paying 80k — 100k to useless 6-8-10 years core over rated and injury prone players in our team than giving the chance to players like him to develop and perform game in game out but not..

Rather than respond with over-the-top and useless sarcasm, I would personally prefer that you offer some empirical evidence that says to you (since you have so much experience scouting players) that he will be the exception to the trend.

OH, and I'm going to an alternative gift fair where you donate in someone's name rather than giving them more useless clutter.

They prop the bottle up rather than holding the baby and then scream at the baby for being useless and / or don't notice at all if the bottle drops and the baby can not continue eating.

Sorry, attempt of economic justification of USSR collapse are useless, it was not economy in normal sense - rather big communal living - with certain equal member to be more equal than others.

Yes Labour have failed and most of their leading lights are fairly useless people but their voters have largely turned to us rather than the Lib Dems for which the leadership and CCHQ should be heartily congratulated.

«People see interns as useless people — just another part - time worker rather than a colleague,» complains one participant, who requested anonymity.

Rather than wasting my time complaining about scam websites hawking expensive, useless programs I have acted and provided my own free fitness information.

Interesting, too, is the inescapable idea that the only genuinely convincing relationships in the film are homosexual, and that the picture could be read with profit as an escalating evolution of father relationships from low to positively Christian (mad steward Denethor and son Faramir, Frodo and Gollum, Gandalf and the hobbits, Aragorn and mankind)-- but part and parcel with the oft - fascinating subtext and beautiful images is a parade of useless cameos (please, enough Cate Blanchett), de rigueur expository flashbacks, and the squandering of opportunities to locate the genuine interest in unlikely epic heroes (women and, essentially, children), rather than just pay lip service to them.

Rather than leave Suzu with her negligent stepmother (their dad's third wife — though useless, he doesn't seem to have been idle), Sachi impulsively invites Suzu to come back to their family home.

It sure does look ugly to have a windscreen mounted GPS rather than a built in GPS into the car... if only Mercedes Benz Malaysia had included it as standard or optional equipment and with the RM22k price tag... even more so to have it as part of the kit list guess the NAVI button on the dashboard is useless!

This probably won't come as a surprise, but Mustang's 2 +2 array is rather a nomenclatural protocol, the rear seats being virtually useless for anything other than your handbag.

I mean, obviously I learned eventually but to me it is a completely useless safety feature and could only do me harm rather than good.

A little more of an objective position would go far to establish you as a contributing member of these forums, rather than just useless spammers.

It's not so much that I think the PlayBook will be useless; it's more that reserving e-mail, contacts, memopad and other built - in apps as loyalty perks rather than core functions available to anyone willing to pony up $ 500 strikes me as an easy way to estrange anyone not already in the BlackBerry family.

Rather than suggest useless apps, I am going to list the ones that I plan to test.»

I'd rather save it and make use of it wisely than spending it on some useless things.

But Macklin does ask us to remember that play is useful because it's useless, a call that seems to try and resist the corporatization of gaming that seeks to churn out products, rather than experiences or tools of liberation.

While there is a slow - down / pause function built into the special abilities contextual menu, the fact that you need to hold ALT while hovering over an enemy makes the pause rather useless — unable to issue any orders but special attacks, the whole thing comes off more as a way to buy time to use an ability than a tactical pause meant to coordinate your attacks.

- The compass which helps guide players to the next objective can sometimes feel a little useless as it simply points to the quest giver rather than actual destinations, but Yonder's theme of exploration and wonderment actually makes this fault not as bad as it could be, as it's best that players run around and find things as they go rather than take things in a linear fashion

This new element may almost feel like cheating to Resident Evil purists, as manual aim is rendered useless in combat and the only threats to the player are running out of ammo or not avoiding attacks rather than missing and wasting ammo.

The pages on Anthony's blog spawn are useless because their agenda is obviously to smear and influence rather than to legitimately inform or debate.

While Google Now isn't quite a Galaxy class starship computer today, it's way more impressive than Siri, which frankly, I've found rather useless.

So it may be a good thing that so far it has proved to be merely useless, rather than worse than useless.

Rather than getting the kind of specific, constructive feedback that can help us improve our skills, most of us will receive guarded or politically correct feedback that is fairly useless in practice.

Or, we bury law firm management in an avalanche of useless statistics regarding our activity rather than demonstrating true productivity.

Some suggestions seem completely nonsensical or useless, with three replies that essentially say the same thing rather than offering some variety.

to these phone, well in budget phone 3.5 mm jack is must as these phone are mostly buyed by youth and they tends to travel a lot lesteing their song on favorite earphone as there are many earphone with great quality like jbl, skullcandy etc are available without than the phone is useless rather comparing to high end phone like Apple iPhone 7 which are used by business class people and they really do nt care as these feature they rarely use it!

You can definitely take help of the tricks and available over the internet for writing a good cover letter, but majority of them conveys useless information rather than providing the obvious facts.

There really needs to be much more focus on what to do rather than this next - to - useless information which may make politicians feel good about themselves but I don't think that is what public policy ought to be about.

Prevention rather than years of useless and expensive therapy plus destroyed lives.

One idea is to find an Inspector who will give you the punchline / highlights for the cost of say, one and a half hours of their time, rather than a 96 page Report that would take longer and cover a lot of relatively useless minutiae.

I'd much rather have a pretty cereal bowl than a useless object d'art sitting on a shelf.