Sentences with phrase «someone latch on to»

That, too, is a creation of Daniel Zhang, who latched on to a day celebrated ironically by romantically unattached Chinese college students and turned it into a behemoth e-shopping event.

While we're programmed to retain information that seems relevant and which we can tie to other facts and sensations we're already storing in our heads, if a piece of data, like a name, is context-less and random there's less for the brain to latch on to.

«We're not too latched on to any one player.»

«If the victim really doesn't know» who did it, «and is tuned into social media, and sees a frenzy of people ID «ing someone, they will latch on to it,» said Philadelphia - area defense lawyer Michael Fienman.

And as a nod to the success of this model, even the traditional hotel suppliers of accommodation who are being disrupted are now latching on to Airbnb as a reliable source of new bookings.

Americans have not yet latched on to the tax policy the way GOP lawmakers had hoped ahead of critical midterm elections.

Still, it's not hard to see why politicians have latched on to entrepreneurship: It's sexy and founders make much more palatable economic heroes than the corporate titans who triggered the financial crisis.

I latched on to index funds pretty early on in my investing career.

In my experience, I have found that when the markets are overextended, it latches on to some news and starts a correction and I have found that such occurrences happen at important technical levels.

All too often, we tend to latch on to authenticity as an excuse for sticking with what's comfortable.

In a year of historically low volatility in the conventional securities markets, writers have latched on to bitcoin as something that is interesting even if inexplicable.

It is refreshing that a person with such power is able to call out the blockchain revolution for its many inherent advantages and is not latching on to the small amount of bad press it receives.

This led to a big split among those that latched on to the words that having faith in Jesus is what is needed to get to heaven vs words that say things like how it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven or help the poor.

@Fact — I'm sure you want to be faithful to God, but you've latched on to the wrong set of requirements.

Religion latches on to its mistakes for dear life and defends them to the death, kicking and screaming all the way, insisting the entire time that everybody else has to believe them, too.

«In what it is to believe, in what it is to understand and be a tool and be a beacon and a light for those who are looking for that in someone who is looking for... I'm not going to say a hero, but who's looking for someone that they can latch on to.

But in today's political climate, when establishment politicians fix on trying to find the right policies to appeal to interests, disempowered voters (or perhaps more accurately, voters who feel disempowered) latch on to this promise.

Sometimes the shaming escalates into a mob, a faux - community that latches on to the negative verdict and piles on.

They can't come to terms with the idea that there may actually be nothing after we die so they latch on to a belief that gives them comfort... belief in an afterlife, eternity or any version of «god» is nothing more than a coping mechanism for those who can't accept that we are in fact finite creatures that are born, live, and die and are not meant or destined to exist for eternity.

What makes someone latch on to a belief is the exact same thing that makes people turn to prescription drugs.

Euclid's axioms, for instance, may not be logically demonstrable in a strict sense, but they do seem to latch on to reality in a fitting and manifest way that deductive reasoning only begins to describe.

Many churches have latched on to this false image.

Once people abandon reality there really is no accounting for what nonsense they latch on to.

They latch on to certain parts, usually to parts the church tells them are important, but forget other parts.

I always laugh a little whenever an entire group of people latch on to a response.

Just because people, even millions of them, latch on to a comforting fiction, does not make that fiction fact.

The challenge with competing worldviews is that there are fragments of similarities to some Christian teachings, and some may recognize and latch on to these ideas, not realizing they are distortions of biblical truths.

It seems that we religious types are always latching on to something, some special piece of knowledge that sets us apart from those unwashed heathens down the road.

Then respond to the rest of my post, instead of latching on to one thing in order to avoid the whole point of the post.

The one thing she latched on to was an insignificant point I only mentioned in passing.

But I guess today's media will latch on to anything it can to manufacture news which serves the purpose of the association very well as well.

I'd latch on to a portion of lip somewhere, crawl up his nose, and dig straight down into the corner of eye..

We live in a world where most share this mass delusion and wonder why people with psychiatirc disease latch on to religious mythologies.

Atheists will always latch on to whatever flimsy excuse they can come up with at the spur of the moment to support their own desire to continue to be their own little emperor of their own little fragile life.

In today's world, they haven't yet latched on to the fact that such ploys can only have a very limited effect.

What is so sad is the Repubs have latched on to things they don't care about (like abortion) to grab «Christians» into their fold.

Then in later summer, still ill and liable to fainting fits, came something further for his depression to latch on to, but at the same time a strong physical challenge.

The green movement is one that many consumers have latched on to and so to win their business, a commitment to environmental sustainability is second to none.

But there's a bigger story than just Murray Goulburn — and it's the one politicians from Barnaby Joyce to Jacquie Lambie are latching on to: the fate of the $ 13 billion dairy industry.

Speaking to the drinks business, beer expert and co-founder of the Beer Academy, Rupert Ponsonby, said that «the restaurant industry in the UK has been slow to latch on to the excitement of beer, and too few have educated and enthused their staff».

Not only does in bind on to minerals but it also binds on to metals (aluminum, mercury...) and anything else it can latch on to.

Latch on to the good thing going here: this one's a no brainer for your meal prep this week.

George had yowls to scare an opposing end about to latch on to a pass and yowls that reverberated through the field - house rafters and sent encouragement gushing through basketball players at the moment they needed a lift.

So, everyday, reading not just about Fabregas playing for Chelsea but also making many of those disparaging comments about Arsenal, or much worse being the point that the English press latch on to troll the Gunners, must have been very unacceptable to Hleb as it is to all Gooners.

He barely touched the ball (18 in total), and spent the entire game separated from the build - up play, sitting on the last shoulder of the defender waiting for a through ball to latch on to.

There's the previously - mentioned Zverev (who can't cut it in five set matches yet), there's Dominic Thiem (who is very sweet and talented but as vanilla as they come), there's Borna Coric (who mostly keeps to himself and hasn't done anything major since his promise was first flaunted a few years ago) and there's Andrey Rublev (who hasn't really shown a breakout personality trait for fans to latch on to).

Alexis had started slowly but he started to work his magic and have more of an influence, almost latching on to a Cazorla pass and forcing the Dortmund players to double and triple up on him in wide areas.

And you can't sensibly latch on to Ozil's decision to cross instead of pass and conclude it is due to a lack of confidence.

And Lynn Swann latched on to 10 passes for 148 yards.

It gives us several different ways of playing, Sanchez can run at people, beat his man, Giroud can use his strength and height to win the ball in the air, and knock it on for faster players, and Theo can play on the last man to latch on to our passes beyond the defense, I also believe at full flow, it is either him or Sanchez who are our best finisher.