Sentences with phrase «than a promise like»

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Hospitals and health insurers are gaining confidence that their nightmare scenario — millions of Americans instantly losing health insurance once President - elect Donald Trump delivers on a promise to «repeal and replace» Obamacare — is looking more like a bad dream than becoming reality.

Given that the average tenure of a CEO is far less than that, it risks looking like a leadership team making a promise that someone else is going to have to keep.

Yahoo announced Monday that following the sale of its core business to Verizon Communications, the leftover assets would placed under a holding company termed «Altaba» — a name that sounded more like infantile babble than the remnants of a once - promising internet giant.

The results go a long way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry than their previous distribution systems.

These 14 billionaires just promised to give away more than half of their money like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

The only promises that Trump has not wavered on, like his insistence on deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism, would create more problems than solutions for American businesses.

OnePlus isn't making any concrete promises about its new facial recognition, however, as the company said it's designed more for convenience when unlocking the phone rather than security - intensive tasks like making mobile payments with Android Pay.

Since it is more expensive than the rest of the direct - to - consumer mattresses (though promising higher quality sleep for that premium price) Sapira has semi-frequent sales like this one to help close the gap.

Like Pauly, he also believes the organization has proven a positive force, and argues its market - based approach offers more promise than relying on government.

In effect, that means the company won't be raising list prices more than 5.4 % this year — a step further than other companies like Allergan (agn), Novo Nordisk (nvo), and others who have promised to keep spikes in the single digits.

Just like «an apple a day» often comes with wiser choices about diet and lifestyle, the Promise Packet is more than just a monthly newsletter.

Describing itself as the «Zara of lingerie,» the e-commerce startup promises quality lingerie at a price more affordable than brick - and - mortar retailers like Victoria's Secret.

This is significantly less hawkish rhetoric than that of Trump himself, who has promised «fire and fury like the world has never seen» if North Korea issues further provocations.

I know it takes longer to fix all these issues than we'd like, but I promise you we'll work through this and build a better service over the long term.

But for those who take the broader view, recognizing both that even best - in - class healthcare businesses like Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson have underperformed for years on end and that also choose to analyze the company itself, GlaxoSmithKline looks more promising than its track record of investment performance would suggest.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

I know it takes longer to fix all these issues than we'd like, but I promise you we'll work through this and build a better service over the long term, says Zuckerberg in status update.

John also promises new leadership, but the one he announces sounds more like the grim reaper than someone with plans for a kinder, gentler world.

America has been more like Babylon than the promised land of freedom and brotherhood.

STONER»S PRAYER Now I pass out into sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep Grant no other stoner take My weed and bong before I wake Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no crackhead's thrill tonight And in the morning let me awake Breathing scents of wake «n bake God protect me in my dreams and make this better than it seems Grant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - Anonymous

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.»

Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel» (7:14) Less familiar is its context: Isaiah has been pleading with King Ahaz to put his trust in God's promise to Israel rather than in alliances with strong military powers like Syria.

In God's timing, the things He has promised will happen, and if it is anything like the appointed times of Esther and Ruth, it will be a blessing to more people than you think.

The book of Hebrews has more words like confidence, boldness, assurance, confirmation, access, promises, hope, eternal redemption, eternal salvation and eternal inheritance than any other book of the Bible.

He regards the apostles (a word he uses as Mark did not) more highly than Mark did, and he represents Peter as receiving a special promise (16:17 - 19) and, like Jesus, walking on water (14:28 - 31).

When a young woman gets pregnant out of wedlock, rather than come around her in love and support, with promises to protect and provide, we more often than not cast her out like a sheep among wolves.

I know making pasta at home can seem like an intimidating process at first, but I promise it's way easier than you think.

Yep, I promised you another Easter recipe... this one is a much easier and actually turned out a lot more «bun like» than i'd anticipated - winner!

I struggled with what to call this recipe because there are so many yummy things to mention and it really is more like a snack cake than a dense brownie / blondie texture... but Peanut Butter Banana Honey Chocolate Chip Snack Cake seemed like a mouthful...;) So here you go, call them whatever you like, but promise me you'll make these soon.

A promising potential young Afobe was unceremoniously thrown out of Arsenal with no real reason adduced, other than the Boss doesn't like something about Afobe.

Like this haul better than Kiper's... Our secondary would look awfully promising if we went this route.

As far as replacements I think allegri, conte or Simeone are more than capable to take the helm and i promise you if we get real leaders like them walcott / giroud / ramsay / ox / gibbs / arteta / flamini / rosicky will be cleared out.

It's no longer time to experiment with players like this — I'd rather take my punt on Ings who has at least shown he can transfer some of that Championship talent at the top level than someone who has shown promise in a lesser league (not that I particularly want Ings).

He's wise and he's kept the most promising (so far Walcott, Ramsey & Ox) of the British core we have to continue playing but they may all shift to bit part roles sooner or later and with great English prospects growing in our ranks like holding I see many of the underperformers being found out sooner rather than later.

They have a number of promising young centre backs who ought to be given an opportunity to prove themselves for the remainder of the season in the EPL matches.They simply can not be worse than the rapidly declining Koscielny and Mustafi who can not cope with the likes of Swansea, Bournemouth etc. let alone a team like Spurs.The lack of steel at the back impacts on our more attacking players as they know they need to score 2/3 goals to have any chance of producing a win.As usual Elneny has come in for criticism but the real culprits are our centre backs and Xhaka who seems to be a fixture regardless of being bang average.

At 32, Gordon doesn't need a 10 - year promise or anything like that, but the idea of him making less than the 35 - year - old Ben Zobrist on his next contract is foolish.

While there are many who claim that Sterling still needs to reach his full potential and urging the youngster to stay at Liverpool in order to do so, I would like to point out that there is perhaps no better manager in world football than Arsene Wenger who can help him fulfil that potential, like he's done with so many promising youngsters in the past.

We have been linked with players like Fernando Llorente, Charlie Austin and Christian Benteke and I can see them joining clubs who promise them first team football rather than back up and the occasional start in the Europa League.

It is clear that Milner's place in the team, like every Liverpool player, is now purely on merit rather than promises or politics, as it seemed in the final days of Rodgers.

Rather than promise her the world, use your resume to paint a picture of what your world is like.

If I won, I promise to give it a good home, love it like one of my children (no wait... BETTER than one of my children!!)

There are of course lots of other voting systems than first - past - the - post which promise more democratic election results, like approval voting, alternative vote and their many variants.

Wary of the headache this issue caused Senate President Malcolm Smith, who had to do a delicate dance to both appease the LGBT community that had invested more than $ 1 million to help him win the majority and the members like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. who held the votes to his leadership post, Sampson is both supporting the six remaining «no» voters and refusing to promise to bring marriage to the floor for another vote.

Critics say Alcantara — who has taken heat recently for joining the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group of Democratic senators who sometimes vote with Republicans — has put forward a spending plan that looks more like the Republican plan than the one she promised while campaigning.

«Like all my predictions and promises, I have delivered, in that GLA demographics say live births in London will be 136,942, which is more than in any year since 1966 when England won the World Cup.»

It would be no small thing to have a power broker like Cuomo leading the charge, but until he takes legitimate action to prepare for a Trump presidency and the normalization of hate speech that has accompanied his candidacy, his promises will feel like just another callous gesture from a man who is more concerned with his own political trajectory than the actual well being of the people he claims to speak for.

He also hates uncertainty and chaos, and a public pronouncement — however many details are left in the air — is better than a cycle of chatter and doubt about what the Legislature will look like in 2015, what that might mean for the issues he cares about and how that affects his promises to secure action on them.

Cuomo has developed a long track record of making bold promises that he does not keep and, like many politicians, of making bold pronouncements that are less than accurate, but his willingness to attack critics, as he has attacked de Blasio, has generally meant that he has few people criticizing him.

Even some Tories wonder how a Cameron government would tackle issues like poverty (as he promised to do more effectively than Labour) and climate change without more state intervention.

«I appreciate the time Secretary Chao and White House officials like Gary Cohn spent with our committee today, and I am hopeful that we will finally see the long - promised infrastructure proposal from the Trump administration sooner rather than later,» Sen. Tom Carper (Del.), the committee's top Democrat, said in a statement.