Sentences with phrase «than a bit like»

Sounds more than a bit like a bully, doesn't it?

Though it wears Audi's familiar understated, elegant styling and is based on the Volkswagen Group's corporate MQB architecture, the S3 feels more than a bit like a red - blooded Yank.

The MediaPad M5 Pro 10.8 is more than a bit like an iPad Pro - but it's more affordable.

If you think that the Kobo eReader Touch Edition looks more than a bit like the Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch, you aren't the only one.

It shows a human in an android development lab that looks more than a bit like the labs on HBO's TV show Westworld.

Not exact matches

That said, there's a little bit more sensitivity in the arts than in the military, and I'm nothing like that character.

Just like you can trash a supercar with no maintenance and rough handling or keep that old Toyota humming along nicely with a bit of TLC, intellectual performance is about much more than hardware.

He's much bigger than I am, so I bit his ear like Mike Tyson.

Yes, that does sound like a bit more work than simply hitting «post» on the Facebook app, but these days technology makes building a site relatively easy.

Tinier than a single grain of rice (2 mm x 12 mm) and encased in a glass cylinder, the radio frequency identification - enabled (RFID) chips are a bit like the implants pet owners have veterinarians insert into their furry friends to follow their whereabouts.

«Just like anything on the Internet, there is a bit of a learning curve, but the Internet is changing fast, and people learn faster than you would expect,» Wardi says.

Boeing recently acquired Liquid Robotics, which makes a surfboard - like drone that's a bit smaller and slower than a Saildrone.

True, many things are cheaper to buy than a generation ago, but the big - ticket items like shelter and post-secondary education are taking a much bigger bite out of household budgets today.

The polling gap between Clinton and Trump right now is a bit wider than final polling between the Leave and Remain camps showed, but after a shock vote like this, it is worth keeping your guard up ahead of the actual vote.

According to the 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer, you trust «a person like yourself» only just a bit less than an academic expert or a technical expert, especially when you're looking for information on a new company or business.

The menu was like a snapshot of my youth, with offerings like Filipino - style spaghetti (it's a bit sweeter than what most Americans are used to) and «Halo - halo» (literally translated, «mix - mix»), a delicious dessert made up of shaved ice, evaporated milk, fruit, coconut, ice cream... and boiled sweet beans.

All of that translates to the Pixel 2 feeling a bit more like an older smartphone than the Pixel 2 XL.

Conditions in Las Vegas are horrible, Asian expansion isn't enough, and if this lasts too long then LVS will end up in bankruptcy court looking like it bit off more than it can chew.

Baseball season started a bit earlier in the calendar year than usual this year, leaving games in cities like Detroit, Chicago, and all across the Northeast to be played in cold, wet, and sometimes even wintry conditions.

Storonsky, who is a former Credit Suisse trader, said: «I'm sure companies like Amazon were told that they were biting off more than they could chew.

To me, this sounds a bit like targeting «early adopters» and using the 1800s version of «social media,» despite the fact that Twain was working more than a century before anyone had coined either term.

Crash dieting or binge exercising is a bit like spending an unsustainable amount on marketing to generate leads at a cost greater than the client is ultimately worth to you.

It might feel like pressing the snooze button in the morning gives you a little bit of extra rest to start your day, but the truth is that it does more harm than good.

In early March, the J.M. Smucker Co. recalled more than 107 million cans of dog food — sold under popular brands like Gravy Train and Kibbles»n' Bits — after determining it had used ingredients containing toxic euthanasia drugs.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Also like the Bit More, the surface of the Breville Smart Toaster stays cooler than that of the other stainless steel models we tested, which is especially great if you have children in the house.

«I would say it's a little bit like we're willing to go with junk bonds rather than AAA stocks because the payoff is big,» he said in a 2013 interview with Bloomberg Television.

Business financing is a bit different than other term loans most consumers are familiar with, like fixed - rate mortgages or auto loans.

That weighting feels a bit like cheating, an index based on investor choice and convenience rather than market definition.

Revenue matched analyst expectations and the Swedish streamer's losses are slightly down year - on - year, but it gave guidance for the current quarter that was a bit lower than expected, suggesting slower growth than investors would like to see.

While the company's five consecutive years of dividend increases is a bit shorter of a track record than I'd typically like to see, the dividend growth has been tremendous: the stock's three - year dividend growth rate is sitting at 44.2 %.

I'd like to see something closer to (or even a bit higher than) the revenue growth rate, but AT&T's reported GAAP EPS can bounce around a bit from year to year.

I just want a bit of everything that is listed on every stock exchange, so for that matter I do nt» even like the ftse all share and the wilshire 5000 - just can't do better than that now.

If you want to be a successful business a year from now, you need to think through your product a bit more than simply launching to see if people like it.

Datacenter YoY compared to Q1 2017 was +24 % with $ 5.2 B. Makes Epyc look more like a bit player rather than a major competitor.

While I tend to like ETFs that use equal weighing, it's important for investors to understand that smaller - cap companies tend to be a bit more volatile, and that's especially true of biotech stocks, which means this ETF might be more prone to even more volatility than a weighted - average ETF would be.

Nations like China and the U.K. have been somewhat more lenient on this issue than the United States (the U.K. paved the way for three - parent babies to combat devastating genetic disorders back in 2016), but most things involving even a whiff of genetic engineering still come with a fair bit of bioethical controversy.

Maybe it's because God is a bit bigger than you and His ways are not like our ways.

rather than seeing these as an imposed set of rules, we can see these as a benediction, empowering us to be better... a bit like visions, rules can make failures of us, where as with a benediction we are not bound, but free to become more human.

So I think your blog might qualify... though again, it is more of a blog about parenting and marriage than about Scripture and theology, and Paul's is quite a bit like Hyatt's, in that it is about leadership and influence.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

If I had to pick one Doctor, I'd say he's almost more like the Ninth Doctor perhaps than any other but with a bit of that Third Doctor disinterested scientist thing going on.

Has been added to my collection of Chad - bites like this delusional doozy — ... «I dismiss all other gods other than the God of Abraham because the God of Abraham has told me that they aren't real.»

Maybe some people like to spend some of their time with different bits of this larger family rather than spending all of it with the same group of people?

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Although, as I said, that seems more like a commitment responsibility than an ent!tlement issue, but I'll bet it comes up quite a bit these days with couples that are separated in one way or another in certain states.

God, making him a little bit other than He is, a little bit more like a loving father who all too much indulges the child's «only wish.»

American * Christianity * has always been a bit heretical with its emphasis on law over love; but with the advent of the Moral Majority / Religous Right many Christians have become more like the Pharisees than like the disciples who followed Jesus.

So when you run across a prophecy that looks like it has failed, just remember that you probably should split the passage into bite - sized pieces and convince your congregation that that is the proper way to break up the passage because you know more Greek than they do.