Sentences with phrase «relying on a crutch»

Atheists are a diverse lot, and it is not easy to pigeonhole them into categories, but I would argue that each atheist has had to come to some understanding of the universe and how people fit into it without relying on the crutch of blind faith.

Ultimately, it comes down to simply using Greek every day, and not relying on crutches like interlinears and Bible Software.

The problem with that is, when you've been relying on a crutch for so long and you're not looking for alternatives, having someone yank it from under your arm will probably just result in you turfing it.

When a child uses his own self - soothing skills to fall asleep he does not need to rely on a crutch.

Hedges isn't afraid to rely on crutches from time to time, provided he can do them without losing the spontaneity of the characters and their interactions when these contrived events eventually occur.

Even the fact that a scientific proposition should rely on the crutch of «consensus» tells me that there is something wrong with that science.

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People have to be able to think for themselves and take repsonsibility for thier actions instead of relying on a higher power as a «Christ crutch.»

That is like criticizing someone for sleeping... they have to rely on that whole «well rested» crutch.

Experience is the crutch lesser beings rely on to keep from having to learn how to do things or how to improve.

But of all the crutches divorced people rely on, booze may be No. 1 — not only as a way to cope but because so much post-divorce socializing and dating happens over drinks, and not just Starbucks.

If your baby is not sleeping at night (or during naps), it's okay to rely on your baby's nap sleep crutch to ensure that your child gets enough naps at the right times of the day.

The older your baby is, the more resistance you are likely to be met with, as older babies have had longer to learn habits and often rely on sleep crutches to get them to sleep.

If you have a baby / child who is older than 6 months with no precluding medical issues, who is waking frequently through the night, takes a long time to settle or go to sleep, who relies on sleep crutches to go to sleep every time they wake, and — this is the critical factor — you as the parent are wanting to change this behavior, but do not feel able to do it alone, you may want to consider hiring a sleep trainer.

Try not to throw out all your gains and try not to rely on whatever sleep crutch you've just eliminated.

As time goes on, however, many adolescents come to rely heavily on substances in social situations, creating a false perception that socializing without the crutch of a psychoactive substance is impossible.

As confused, sleep - deprived parents, we desperately need explanations for our infants» strange developments, and teething is a convenient crutch — but it's one that we may rely on too often.

Instead, the urban milk industry ended up relying on pasteurization as a crutch so they could continue to sell unhealthy milk on a permanent basis (see The Untold Story of Milk).

Shows like Modern Family and Big Bang Theory made it through their first seasons relying on some kind of crutch.

The joke relies on how funny these two actors are, rather than the crutch of how vindictive women are with each other.

The Farrellys probably exhaust almost every possible joke that can be told featuring conjoined twins, many of them quite clever, and they rarely need to resort to crass envelope pushing in order to achieve humor, which they have relied on as a crutch more often than not in the past.

At the same time, don't rely on numbers, such as number of resources, as your crutch.

Instead, use a process of systematic training to teach the dog to be left alone in small increments without relying on this initial crutch.

Instead of relying on a friend as your travel crutch, spend some time in a place you don't know anyone.

Surprisingly, the Karmic streaks never get old but they do tend to become an easy crutch to rely on which makes the normal melee attacks seem tiresome.

Why To Avoid It: Relies on boost pads and auto - running as a crutch for going fast in action stages.

No one can accuse either artist of relying on staging as a crutch.

Yet again, you and the NYTimes have relied on the journalistic crutch of defining the «middle» as the difference the psychotic far right and the far left of 1972.

In his reelection campaign, President Barack Obama vowed to take away the comfortable crutch fossil fuel companies had come to rely on and think of as an entitlement: $ 4 billion of oil and gas subsidies.

You need to be able to present your case without notes and without relying on your graphics as a crutch, while also speaking to and effectively using your demonstratives for support and persuasion.

You should not use another lawyer's hard work as a crutch, or an excuse for you to be intellectually lazy — use other lawyers» advice to teach yourself to fish, rather than relying on them to give you fish.

Too many attorneys rely on «gut instincts» and «this is the way it's always been done» crutches as an excuse to operate their firms in the past — and in the red.

The many changes From has made to its core gameplay — the very tenets of combat and customization that have driven the games from the beginning — feel like a direct response to the crutches that players came to rely on in past titles.

It doesn't have the crutch of a cut out for the front camera like the Essential Phone, nor does it rely on curved screens to hide the sides of the phone like Samsung.

But I'll admit that even after I corrected my mistake, I wasn't immediately ready to give up all the other marketing crutches I had relied on.

And while technology is interesting, Vatistas doesn't rely on it as a crutch.