Sentences with phrase «than fall victim»

My reasoning was, as it tends to be, pragmatic and simple: I would much rather create the technology that replaces my job than fall victim to it.

Floating rate structures offer investors the opportunity to participate in, rather than fall victim to, a rising rate environment.

I also feel so proud for sticking with the way I wanted this birth to be (i.e., natural and at home) rather than falling victim to the fear and uncertainty that exists around natural birth in our culture at large.

Chihuahuas are more prone to injury than regular dogs owing to their small size, rather than falling victim to illnesses or diseases.

As in all other matters, change in political discourse comes through striving for what we can do, rather than falling victim to what we can not, and it is change in the political discourse that these resolutions so fundamentally seek.

Not exact matches

To fall victim to such bogeymen comes across as undoubtedly more defensible than succumbing to weak or inept opponents.

They're pretty low maintenance and may even be easier to care for than metal frames, which can fall victim to rust.

In the process of buying a mattress, you'll likely be pitched all kinds of different accessories to get, and if you don't go in with a clear idea of what you want, it's easy to fall victim to those pitches and spend way more money than you thought you would.

To make sure you're not falling victim to diet - derailing health myths or following antiquated advice, we've rounded up bogus «healthy» habits that will only leave you wider and softer than before.

The blistering consensus: that in shopping itself at far too rich a valuation and pretending to be more than it was, Wired Ventures fell victim to its own greed and famous arrogance.

But you could get more than you bargained for if you fall victim to a scam.

The company's 16,000 Realtor network has raised more than $ 20 million through the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, the largest public foundation in Canada committed to ending violence in the home, and providing support to the women and children who fall victim to it.

More than a few questions linger in the wake of these six attempts to reimage redemption: How, one may ask, can we experience the process of letting - go without falling victim to the surrender imagery that has done such harm to women and children, particularly in abusive situations?

Time and again the number of those who are kept SAFE is greater than those who fall victims.

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

Again, another Team better than their record who have fallen victim to many close defeats..

Among other things, ISU's and OSU's victims this week — Kansas and Baylor, respectively — fell as much or more than the Cyclones and Cowboys fell.

Sinks and tub drains tend to fall victim to hairballs more than anything else.

... We see more clearly now how our parents tried to do better for us than their parents but, like many, fell victim to the parenting advice of the day whether from religious leaders, psychologists, or medical professionals.

Perhaps I'm falling victim to formula marketing myself by thinking it's better than what I could mix up, but I guess we all have our own comfort level.

In a study that tracked 1,024 women during the first three months after they gave birth, researchers from the University of Heidelberg in Germany found that more than 11 percent fell victim to postpartum anxiety disorders, while roughly 6 percent developed postpartum depressive disorders.

And if we fail to adequately understand the differences between our two systems, we will likely fall victim to the campaigning equivalent of having eyes bigger than our stomachs.

Gillibrand said more than 25 million Americans have fallen victim to these scams and central New York seniors have been robbed of $ 3 million.

Addressing the issue of excessive consumption of fossil fuel is one of many problems that have fallen victim of this need to self justify and hate, rather than solve a problem that affects everyone.

Former Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta infamously fell victim to such a trap, though the person who preyed on him had more nefarious intentions than mockery.

Preoccupied with correcting all those false claims about the golden ratio, I copied and pasted the algebra box directly from an old passage and fell victim to the classic danger of reading what I thought was there rather than what actually was there.

More than 10.6 million people worldwide fell ill and 1.7 million died from tuberculosis last year while a quarter of the world has latent TB, which will develop into active tuberculosis for one in ten victims years or even decades later.

We have fallen victim to the societal, culturally constructed concept that our input (the effort and energy we expend) is more vital to our success than our output (the actual value we produce).

Although the rate of transactions related to online dating fraud was lower last year than it was in 2014, new research by Norton confirms the number of people falling victim to dating scams in Europe remains high.

KYODO NEWS — Feb 17 — Alleged Japanese offenses related to online dating fell 9.2 % in 2004 from the previous year to 1,582, while the number of victims younger than 18 in these cases dropped 15.1 % to 1,085, reported the National Police Agency.

The fact is that more people than we think fall for and are victim of online dating scams.

found that more than 8,000 people fell victim to online dating fraud from...

If you fall victim to being rescheduled more than once, chances are you have found a serial dater.

Instead they fall victim to «illusory superiority,» a psychological phenomenon that describes people's natural tendency to believe they are better than average.

According to some aggravating statistics, more than one million women and around 370,000 men fell victim of cyberstalking each year, and the numbers don't cease to grow.

More than 200,000 people in Britain have fallen victim to online romance scams,.

Alas, plenty of recognizable and game supporting players can't save this bloated, hit - and - miss affair, which possesses the same basic nougaty center of ribaldry and sentimentality in which producer Judd Apatow specializes, but falls victim to a sagging hour - plus in its middle, as well as an ending which feels more the product of test - marketing approval than genuine romantic rallying.

His star pupil (Kerri Russell) has fallen victim to a particularly nasty black - market arms dealer (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and rather than follow standard operating procedure by disavowing her as she languishes in Berlin, the IMF would like Ethan to get her back.

The difference is in the little things — it still falls victim to the most obvious traps (apparently there's nothing funnier than seeing an overweight grandma on an out of control sled) but at the same time its rather straightforward intentions are pure.

It was always going to be a difficult project to get right - a single - player adventure infused with the spirit of the world's most popular online game - but over the course of its creation the game has fallen victim to countless delays and reshuffles that saw the project tossed around no less than four different developers.

But the way of grace will probably fall victim to voters» nature — to not give tech trophies to movies that earned an anemic $ 13 million (except costume design, where they prefer their winners to have grossed no more than $ 13,000).

McCarthy has a far wider acting range than Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School, yet eventually Life of the Party falls victim to script and tonal issues, leaving too many conflicts to be resolved in too short a period of time, which then prompts the tone to lurch unsteadily from comedy to drama.

Last year the BBC's Panorama programme reported that more than 169 schools had fallen victim to the widely publicised large ‑ scale equipment leasing scandal, with some schools signing deals that left them paying as much as 10 times the value of the leased computers and photocopiers.

It was an ambitious initiative that, in subsequent years, fell victim to a political backlash against Common Core and led more than two dozen states to back away from the standards - based tests.

Although millions of consumers are victims of financial fraud each year, none fall prey easier than the elderly.

The company's 16,000 Realtor network has raised more than $ 20 million through the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation, the largest public foundation in Canada committed to ending violence in the home, and providing support to the women and children who fall victim to it.

More often than not, these behaviors happen to individual stocks and sector funds, although some diversified funds fall victim to similar behaviors.

In their never - ending travels they will much sooner than later, fall victim to one of the following deaths:

According to a 2013 ASPCA study, black cats actually are adopted from shelters at the same rate as other cats — but because there are more black cats than any other - colored felines, it can appear as though they're being overlooked by adopters (black dogs fall victim to this same misperception).

Your puppy's mouthy behavior and still - developing immune system mean the youngster is apt to fall victim to more causes of upset stomach than a healthy, well - adjusted adult dog would.