Sentences with phrase «still at the mercy»

Dotdash is still at the mercy of search - engine and social referral traffic from Google and Facebook, and its articles aren't likely to win any Pulitzer Prizes.

Of course you are still at the mercy of the economic cycle, but overall you have much more leeway in making wealth optimizing decisions.

Those of us in other cities, though, are still at the mercy of others to remember to turn their phones off.

While Arsenal are still hanging onto the hopes of yet another top four Premier League finish after the recent run of wins continued this week with a 2 - 0 win over Sunderland at the Emirates, we are still at the mercy of the teams above us in the EPL table.

Or are we still at the mercy of our biological destiny, as evolutionary psychologists claim?

No matter how much planning we do for our big day of labor and delivery, we are still at the mercy of the rules and regulations put upon us by the doctors and hospitals.

«We're still at the mercy of the City of Chicago taking these rates up aggressively.»

Replace the lead with its less toxic cousin bismuth and you are still at the mercy of the fluctuating price of tellurium, a metallic by - product of copper mining.

When Sidney Lumet adapted Paddy Chayefsky's scathing satire Network, we were all still at the mercy of three TV networks, whose trusted nightly news anchors were the stentorian voices of God.

As a veteran of both huge production and micro-budget indies, leading man Anton Yelchin — who plays a horror buff who's freed from under the thumb of his sexy but controlling girlfriend (Ashely Greene) when she dies, only to find himself still at her mercy when she's revived as one of the walking dead — was impressed by the blend of Dante's vision and efficiency.

But as a green car, the CR - Z is still at the mercy of petrol prices.

But we are still at the mercy of how large the community pot happens to be each month and the number of pages read.

The downside is that you lose control of uploads, price changes, and timely distribution (Draft2Digital is better than Smashwords in these regards, but you're still at the mercy of someone else to distribute).

It's important for new index investors to understand that the strategy guarantees simplicity and low fees, but it's still at the mercy of Mr. Market.

On consoles, even if you pay extra to go Pro you're still at the mercy of publishers and devs.

Whether you spent your free Cryptokeys or paid with CoD points to unlock them from the supply drops, it doesn't matter, because you're still at the mercy of the RNG system in the game.

No matter how engaging your site's content and design, you're still at the mercy of...

No matter how engaging your site's content and design, you're still at the mercy of visitors who may or may not decide to contact you.

You can drive as safely and as expertly as you like; you're still at the mercy of every other driver.

Tesla may be on the verge of creating a truly autonomous car, but for now it is still at the mercy of human error from its...

But it is still at the mercy of the market.

Not exact matches

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

When I don't know how to love my enemies — I'm still rather poor at it — Rich reminds me there's a wideness in God's mercy that I can not find in my own.

An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all - powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.

They open up the possibility for God to be related to the creation, and in this instance at the level of human existence, in the light of the new occasion, by the responsiveness of God to that event and by his employment of that event to bestow upon his human children still further «graces and mercies».

The deeper one is that, at the frontier of a system creaking at the seams, one human being still looks upon another with affection, pity, and mercy, Heart of Jesus to Heart of Jesus, whether we know it or not, whether we admit it or not.

Still, the restrictor - plate track is the one venue in the postseason that gives every title - eligible participant a pit in their stomach due to its propensity for chaos, where drivers are often at the mercy of circumstances beyond their control.

If the move does not work out and Benzema is still a Real Madrid after the transfer window closes, Benzema will be at the mercy of the fans all next season... like the son of an Elephant washer did at the Emirates after having his head turned by Barcelona all Summer and the Player himself throwing himself at the club, saying «come and get me».

Still others have decided to stay in Muskegon and show up in labor at Mercy Health Hackley, while home birth after cesarean (HBAC) is a clear choice for others.

«We're sort of at the mercy of the presidential race,» said a Democratic operative who works on House races, noting that with a month to go, plenty could still change overnight.

It's kind of an unavoidable effect of living unlawfully in the country that one's continued presence is at the mercy of enforcement of the laws being violated, or those laws being changed (and it being decided that past violations are not grandfathered in as still extant violations).

Are we safe at all because if at this age in Ghana, with the various security intelligence in place, we still live under the mercies of unscrupulous men who in the name of banking throw deception to rob the citizens of their hard won currencies because of institutional failure then it questions the relevance of these state institutions manned by finest of intellectuals from parading universities of the country..

«Outside of the EU, we will be at the mercy of a right - wing Conservative government determined to push that agenda still further,» he said in a statement.

Still, even gathering those samples «was very tough» at first because of the tense relationship between Jordanians and the Syrian refugees they were hosting, says Natasha Shawarib, the project manager for Mercy Corps in Amman.

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A year after the release of Get Out, the hit horror - comedy - satire by Jordan Peele, in which Kaluuya plays Chris, a good - natured photographer who finds himself at the mercy of a plot by his white girlfriend and her family to body - snatch African Americans, he is still uncomfortable with the apparatus of fame.

Even if one fails to believe this point matters in the debate, it still highlights the fact that coverage of such already - filtered information is at the mercy of that filtering, whether that then can be validly transferred to intention or not.

Fortunately for those who missed the chance to catch up with Mercy, the central character, they can still do so via the Ice and Fire app, available at the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.

Vulnerable members of society still find themselves at the mercy of those who have more power and predjudices.

In the end, the reason the literary community is still stuck in the Stone Age of publishing, where writers are at the mercy of some agents and publishing houses, doesn't matter.

If you wanted something practical for reading, there wasn't really an alternative: the first iPad was still five years in the future and the technology of the time would have left almost anything relying on an LCD horribly underpowered and at the mercy of a mains cable, not to mention a fair bit more expensive.

* artificially because the hardware will still be fine, but the manufacturer will stop supporting it, so you're left at the mercy of the hacking community for further updates.

For all the promises and expectations of control, authors are still very much at the mercy of the marketplaces in which they're establishing new prominence.

«You also are at the mercy of your creditors while enrolled in debt consolidation and they can still collect and bring suit.»

But there are still a lot of misunderstandings out there, like this one: a bond index fund is a black box that robotically buys and sells bonds at the mercy of active investors.

But still it is remarkable to see the way consumers are at the mercy of some parts of their lives that are out of their control and other parts of the world that affect them without having any control at all.

Since there is no record left of the transactions, the debtors can often be left at the mercies of relentless junk debt collections agents who cant testify with uncanny assurances that you still owe the debt, and they can do it often.

Well, some of our itinerary is still up in the air, so we're at the mercy of our Swedish hosts.

If you wanted to talk about a game where a male protagonist is hunted through the darkness with terrifying results, we could perhaps summon the spirit of Alan Wake for discussion at a later date — though that still wouldn't quite scratch at the situation Lara finds herself in when initially at the mercy of the Solarii cult running the island.

Images of people struggling in nature are still compelling to me, but I've gotten less interested in people trying to control it than in those times when people are at the mercy of it.