Sentences with phrase «remain at the mercy»

Two of the drawbacks to this kind of traffic are that it takes time to build a quality, optimized website and you remain at the mercy of the search engines.

As an important sink for climate - affecting greenhouse gases, forests remain at the mercy of people for whom the life of a tree may stand between them and feeding their families.

A bankruptcy discharge protects debtors from remaining at the mercy of creditors or collections agencies.

This natural canal separates the Xcalak peninsula from Ambergris Key, and as a result, Mexican military vessels lost access to Chetumal Bay and remain at the mercy of Belize for permits.

It is believed that the city was abandoned with the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century and thereafter remained at the mercy of pirates.

[2] Despite the intentions of the Trump Administration, it seems coal is not coming back and will likely remain at the mercy of cheap gas and renewables.

Therefore while we remain at the mercy of nature to some degree, we'd do well to try and not make things worse for ourselves.

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We have been at the mercy of our friends in the Middle East and even have allowed terrible regimes to remain in power in order to sustain access to the black gold.

The remaining two board members are leaders at Mercy For Animals (MFA), which helped found GFI.

Then we are doomed, but for the ongoing mercy of our beautiful Father, who knew, we are not born from above as he was, but were born of sin, to become like him, by his Spiritual process, and at the same time remain uniquely ourselves with a preserved DNA, now fashioned in heaven.

O'Brien, who remains a director of Simplot until the end of August, says the «daily staples» segment of bread, milk and bottled water would remain under serious pressure and at the mercy of the supermarkets» private - label brands.

This report will show clearly the dangers being courted by Buhari's attitude, as well as the need to quickly fill the remaining six slots that would empower INEC with the full complement of its Board as stipulated by the Constitution — over 20 states of the federation do not have RECs as at today, thereby opening the Commission to the mercy of malleable civil servants.

While the character and the film take a wrongheaded turn, Depp's performance remains consistently strong though he is also at the mercy of some unconvincing age makeup (a point driven further home by the image of the real - life Jung that closes the film).

There's more feel through the steering and sharper response, but the overwhelming sense remains that this is a car built to cover ground very quickly and at the total mercy of the driver's preferred style.