Sentences with phrase «spend time attempting»

Rather than spend time attempting to market in dozens of wrong directions I can work on the next book, make it better than the last one and release it.

You shouldn't spend your time attempting to predict how much a piece of art will cost in the future or worrying about any kind of financial return.

This entire topic literally stops me from spending any time attempting to date women.

Not exact matches

I did not know it at the time but Lead Belly had spent time in jail for attempted homicide.

In an attempt to convince customers to spend more time — and money — Tims is pushing to renovate its locations with dark wood panelling, mood lighting and brushed chrome lettering above its entrance that highlights some of the chain's new menu offerings: «espresso,» «latte,» «smoothies.»

As consumers spend more time watching video over the Internet, large media companies have attempted to replicate Netflix's success with their own online - only services.

Be careful though, because if it's too high it may also mean that too much time is being spent here, as too much effort (and time) may be spent in an attempt to reach a lead that could be better spent elsewhere.

During the past 12 months, DBA has spent the majority of its time drifting lower, with a few feeble rally attempts along the way.

That's why those groups spend enormous sums of time and money attempting to understand (and appeal to) the millennial audience.

Personally I don't care how a person spends their time or worships... they can worship goats, spirits, god, buddha, nothingness or football... As long as they don't criticize others or attempt to propagate to non believers, and by that definition, these atheist are as bad a evangelicals.

Why do we spend so much time bouncing around from job to job, organization to organization — all in a desperate attempt to escape the very thing that makes these athletes legendary?

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Jeshua, if that were the case then religious authorities wouldn't spend so much time trying to control information, trying to pass off their beliefs as scientific, or attempting to misinform the public on genuine scientific explanations that happen to contradict those beliefs.

I myself have read the bible cover to cover several times in my life and attempted to cross reference nearly every line in the 30 years I spent as a Christian with a decade as a pastor.

I would plan to spend little time, however, attempting to argue them into a sense of connection with that upper room in Jerusalem.

wouldn't wish a tragedy like this on him and certainly not his son, but we are not going to sit back and watch as he attempts to marginalize people because he does nt agree with who they spend their time with....

What he is at.tempting to get across, while ry.hming pha.rses and not real ex.igetic.ally tea.ching th.em, is After like 10 attempts I am just given the reference and not the text, hope you spend the time to look them up

Some commentators spend considerable time attempting to document accounts of fish swallowing men who lived to tell about it.

If you have benchmark goals to achieve, as above, this is the time you'll spend attempting to meet them.

He simply spends the entire time describing the complexity, but never even attempts to demonstrate how it got that way.

Ingenious persons devote time and trouble, which they might well have spent on cross-word puzzles, to the attempt to discover the «key to prophecy», just as others try to predict coming events from the measurements of the Great Pyramid.

I work full - time, and I used to spend my free time daydreaming about (and then making, photographing, and writing about) cookies and breads and cakes... now most of my free time is spent researching baby things and attempting to sleep.

Having fuelled an extraordinary jump in profits from China after re-positioning Penfolds as a luxury product with Wolf Blass in its slipstream, Mr Clarke will now spend much more of his time in the Treasury offices in California as he attempts an even tougher re-invigoration in the land of Donald Trump.

Indeed, 50 % of British people feel there are not enough hours in the day to fit in all their desired activities, while 56 % report making attempts to reduce the time spent on -LSB-...]

The rest of the time she spends traveling — she, her partner Chris, and Rosemary road - tripped and camped across the country after the third season wrapped earlier this year — attempted to garden, and tried to carve out a little self - care time for herself as her daughter grows up.

Further, the only way to put the team in a position to recover all of the signing bonus is to keep him on the roster through the 2020 season, which effectively reduces the number of roster spots the team has for the next three seasons in order to attempt to recover money that McDowell doesn't have because the money he got was taxed and partially spent, which makes going after the money largely a waste of time.

Durant scored 27 points on 17 field goal attempts, but spent much of his time at the free throw line making 13 - of - 15 attempts from the charity stripe.

The 27 - year - old spent last season on loan at La Liga giants Real Madrid, but didn't impress enough to be signed on a permanent basis and could once again be surplus to requirements at Old Trafford should manager Louis van Gaal be successful in his attempts to bring in another forward before the transfer window closes in just under a month's time.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The Manchester City academy graduate spent time in Italy with Fiorentina last year in an attempt to rediscover himself, and Tim Sherwood saw enough in the defender to bring him back to the English game.

Just because a company spends millions of dollars each year on marketing in an attempt to bring their brand to mind first when stroller buying decisions are thrust upon you doesn't mean that the new loaded (sometimes overloaded) version that they are pushing at the time is the best choice for your family.

If your baby fights your attempts to breastfeed, feed another way and spend lots of happy cuddle time at the breast.

Now we spend ages choosing what to eat because we spend most of our time trying to entertain Oliver or stop him pulling everything off of the table whilst attempting to glance at the menu.

When she's not spending time with her husband or taking care of her twins, she loves to write, bake using her great grandmother's recipes, support others still in the midst of infertility, and explore the great outdoors while attempting to photograph it.

The sexy lady's attempt to breastfeed her second child was foiled by her eldest daughter who understandably at two years old got jealous when she saw mummy spending more time with little brother than her.

I don't regret the time that we spent co-sleeping, or the fact that he solely napped on me for the first five months of his life, because I feel like I needed time to get to know him, and for him to become more expressive, before we attempted any form of sleep training.

Kids typically do a little better being left with a grandparent or family friend who they've already spent some time with, and who they've grown to trust a little, so call in a favor, put some wine in the fridge, and plan to spend at least an hour away from the house for the first few attempts.

There are no school runs for a couple of weeks, it is time to wind down, kick the nine - «til - five in the shins, crack open a bottle of wine and spend the time... tackling the never - ending pit of dirty clothes, in an attempt to reach the allusive abyss that is the bottom of the laundry basket.

Having spent a year getting to know the world, by the time your baby approaches his first birthday, he will attempt to take a few steps.

What I found really interesting was GE's attempt to get DVR users to spend more time with its ads by hiding Easter eggs in them — extra content would appear when people paused the ads at certain points, and the company's marketing director said that the average user ended up spending two minutes playing with a 30 - second spot.

Minimal time should be spent attempting to subvert your supporters» typical email experience.

Is this just the sign of a guy who has spent too much time watching sci - fi or is it a more sinister attempt to rouse ancient anti semitic imagery?

But she spent much of the time confirming and defending the administration's attempt to kill a New York and New Jersey rail program.

Phillips spent much of this time huddling with GOP counsel David Lewis in an attempt to figure the best way to kill Gianaris» proposal.

But he said of No 10's attempts to introduce equal marriage: «I have just never felt that this is what we should be focusing on... There was no huge demand for this and we didn't need to spend a lot of parliamentary time and upset vast numbers of people in order to do this.»

Yet rather than welcome or even just tactfully ignore the announcement, Jeremy Corbyn's opponents have decided to spend their time mocking it as some sort of attempted mass - indoctrination programme.

«So it is no surprise Peter Mandelson has found time in his busy schedule of spending time on oligarch's yachts to attempt to undermine him.»

Many female staffers told the panel that Lopez made demeaning comments and he forced them to spend time with him outside the office, where he attempted and forced intimate contact, Kramer reported.

«What has government done about numerous corruption and acts of corruption reported sometimes by its own members against itself since January 2017, meanwhile they will be spending resources, wasting everybody's time looking for non-existing evidence in an attempt to paint the previous administration bad.

Some are suggesting that the time has finally come for the city to attempt to control overtime spending for some officers in the YFD and YPD.