Sentences with phrase «than a balancing act»

The darkness removes some of his most crucial stylistic elements: the handmade surfaces, texture, and color that make his craft more than a balancing act.

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«Sustainability» is a catch - all phrase that refers to the science, or practice, of acting so as not to harm the environment, protecting (rather than depleting) natural resources and supporting long - term ecological balance.

Women's retirement - savings balances generally tend to be lower on average than men's, due to the ongoing gender wage gap and the fact that women are more likely than me to take time off to raise kids or act as caregivers for other friends or relatives.

She credits her children for their support when she was moving at «break - neck speed,» and she prefers to characterize the balancing act of business and family as a series of opportunities rather than challenges.

More often than not, maintaining it is a balancing act between credit and cash on hand, and it's a tricky tightrope to walk.

Until he decides to stop hiding and act like he actually cares I think it more likely we'll get a balanced budget than he exists.

It's a balancing act and some cities are more conservative than others, it's not a bad thing it is just different.

Last month she gave only a soft slap on the wrist to Trump's reckless act: but with her international reputation in the balance, she must publicly show that on climate change she has far more in common with the rest of the world than with Donald Trump and join other leaders in defending and advancing the Paris Agreement.»

Its always more about balancing the books than it is about moving forward and that's a fact Next season will be the best chance we've had in a decade to really compete with the oil rich clubs and Wenger is acting like its another day at the office while all the talented players in the 2 positions we need to fill are drifting towards clubs that are showing interest.

It's going to be a difficult balancing act for chairman Daniel Levy this summer, and so perhaps things could get a bit more problematic than many envisage.

To integrate players immediately into the EPL style of play from abroad is a very difficult balancing act than the casual fan would have you believe.

Doesn't this sound better than a tricky balancing act?

In fact, more than half (56 %) of all working parents say this balancing act is difficult.

Your weight is a balancing act, but the equation is simple: If you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight.

It's about more than making and serving meals — school nutrition is a balancing act; strict nutrition guidelines, challenging budgets, making meals the students will love, and navigating student allergies — these are just a few of the daily considerations of your «average» school nutrition superhero!

As dislikeable as he can be, Andrew Cuomo is the choice, if for no other reason than that he had the guts to push through the SAFE act gun control measure, a mild reaction to heinous events, but more than anyone else could muster and that he's passed four balanced on time budgets in a row in a state that couldn't for two previous decades.

He has a difficult balancing act: he also has to try to maintain Labour unity, so today's attack on «scaremongering» by the No camp is aimed at its Tory, rather than Labour, figures.

When the team looked at the chromosomes of more than 1000 people from populations around the world, they concluded that the prevalence of two of these variations was due to an evolutionary balancing act that had kept them in the gene pool for as long as 500,000 years.

But in a recent study, researchers described a balancing act that seems more counterintuitive than most: Bacterial cells prioritize transcription — the process of making RNA transcripts of genes as the first step in protein production — over repairing double - strand breaks in their DNA.

Two hormonal regulators which have been studied are leptin and ghrelin, whose effects on energy balance are in a large part mediated by the hypothalamus.87 Leptin, a peptide hormone secreted by adipose tissue, acts to reduce appetite.87 Circulating levels are proportional to adiposity and so decline during weight - loss, thus increasing appetite, however this reduction is believed to be disproportionately greater than the change in fat - mass.82 As expected, IER (60 - 85 % ER on restricted days) weight - loss interventions have all noted a decline in leptin levels 39, 41, 46 - 49, 52, comparable with energy - matched CER protocols after three months 48 and six months.41

Rather than the simple balancing scale of calories in calories out, it appears that our body acts much more like a thermostat.

Barbell squats while balancing on a stability ball, single - arm - single - leg - rotating - kettlebell - clean - with - jump - press - into - handstand - push - ups, etc are little more than overly - complicated, dangerous circus acts that are not only impossible to master, but also prevents proper progression and intensity which limits any beneficial results you would get.

Life is a balancing act of holding on and letting go, and how my life feels is always more important than how it looks.

Essentially, in the case of the movie, they exist more as plot points than anything else — and Javier Bardem practically snoozes through the last act as Liz's new love [and threat to her newfound balance], Felipe.

Whilst the film isn't going to reach the heights of other Australian comedy classics, there's something to be said for a film a film that manages to tick all the simple boxes; great acting, witty script, a fine balance of comedy and drama, with characters and themes that are more complex than the surface reveals.

With its frank discussion of female bodily functions and a balanced commentary on the shackles of modern twentysomething womanhood (neuroses, immaturity and all), the film is so much more than its third act abortion - themed twist.

However, Deathly Hallows — Part 1 is such a delicate balancing act that every wobble is a bit more pronounced than it would be in an earlier film that had a tighter structure and a faster pace.

It's grittier and more grounded than anything else Nolan has done, with an ingenious structure and sci - fi flourishes that are balanced by a moody realist setting and strong acting work.

So, there's a difficult balancing act to be struck I think, but I would say that the balance at the moment is far too far towards telling students where they are, rather than helping them get better.

The tricky balancing act between teaching these skills and giving children play - based learning is better understood today than it was when the movement toward standards began in the 1980s and 1990s.

Rather than present a definitive answer or solution to the dilemmas being presented, the responses from both of the cited threads move the conversation forward by acknowledging the many balancing acts that teachers negotiate on a daily basis.

But when that's all you can do, when making a sandwich becomes a feat of balance worthy of Cirque du Soleil, and the simple act of taking a shower requires more planning and protective gear than a space mission, well, suddenly the idea of being stuck behind the wheel during rush hour on the 405 sounds downright liberating.

In turn, benefits from its finely balanced, clean - responding steering, which acts only less direct and jagged than the extra charge Integral Active Steering (1,450 euros) of the BMW.

It's really just another stem off this trend of some housewives (not all, just some) acting like their lives are the more difficult than everyone else's, when really they do the same things working women have to or try to do while also balancing the jobs they * have * to do to survive.

With millions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages — meaning their homes are worth less than the outstanding mortgage balance — the 2007 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act eased the burden on underwater homeowners and facilitated short sales by making tax - free mortgage debt forgiven through a short sale.

It's a balancing act, for sure — but if your surplus can benefit you someplace other than your checking account, you need to move it.

While the Pension Protection Act has required employers to allow employees with company stock in the plan to gradually diversify out of it, a recent Vanguard study of its clients showed that 8 % of employees had more than 80 % of their account balances in company stock, revealing a lack of understanding of the risks of not diversifying.

But under the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, taxpayers are allowed to exclude debt forgiven on their principal residence if the balance of their loan was less than $ 2 million.

The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 says that on foreclosures, short sales and mortgage restructurings for less than the current balance on the mortgage, there will be no tax on the forgiven debt, if:

Lines of credit act more like credit cards than installment loans — you can borrow and pay back money and then borrow it again and you're required to pay a minimum payment each month representing a percentage of your balance rather than a set payment each month like an installment loan.

A consumer considering a balance transfer might want to act sooner rather than later, Riley says: «If you're on the fence, now's a good time to take a look rather than six months from now.»

For the record I turned out to be fairly balanced person and have never once tried to reproduce an act in the game other than for comedic effect.

Green too references this v.tricky balancing act, noting with a hint of terror: «The actual name of the magazine has still not exactly gotten much easier to say without cringing somewhat, and that has not been helped by the less - than - stellar rollout of the entire GFW platform so far, but, hey, far be it from me to bite the hands that feed!

T - G: Perhaps more than most genres, racing games must nail the fundamentals, with control that balances accessibility and finesse, and AI that doesn't seem to rubber - band or act too robotically.

Her interest in natural science and cyclic rather than linear conception of time — reinforced by the overwhelming exuberance of nature in Brazil, which prevaricates the immediacy of urban digital culture — has put her in the role of facilitator for balance, gravity, pressure and tension to act as the main agents for her sculpture and installations.

Rather than a trend, it has become a balancing act.

That's no different than making withdrawals from a savings account without keeping track of the amount or the remaining balance: irresponsible without question, and a recipe for disaster when multiple account holders are acting independently.

But we have a difficult balancing act, because if we cut consumption too fast, this is damaging as well, and could be worse than the original problem.

ComEd's transition charges to consumers were more than balanced by residential rate cuts under the deregulation act.

We can not be emitting more CO2 than is staying in the atmosphere, have nature acting on the balance as a sink, and magically have the increase in atmospheric CO2 be attributable to natural rather than anthropogenic emissions.