Sentences with phrase «than fighting over»

I suggest many tips for reasonable parents, family and professionals in addressing this problem collectively — rather than fighting over determining who is to blame.

Rather than fighting over who gets to keep the family home, some couples opt to sell the house and split the proceeds.

Rather than fighting over who gets to...

Your Frederick, MD Renters Insurance will offer coverage for replacement cost on your personal property, so that if there's a loss you can quickly replace the item with a new one rather than fighting over the actual cash value.

• Lawyers» time is focused on advocating their client's case in a hearing, rather than fighting over court rules of disclosure and discovery.

We fight over the crispy, oily cauliflower bits left on the roasting pan which, I guess, is better than fighting over lots of other things...

Rather than fighting over which side of Barth's dialectic to emphasize — the givenness or the nongivenness of the dynamic gift of grace — we should be seeking to proclaim the gift itself to a world that finds it increasingly hard to believe in such things.

Rather than fight over teacher - evaluation details, though, the governor needs to keep his eye on the larger issue: work rules and excessive job protections teachers enjoy.

«Rather than fight over a shallow pool of talent, we were interested in what it would take to build a generation of teachers,» he told me in Relay's spare Manhattan offices above a public library.

If Indiana doesn't adopt college - and career - ready standards, the state would lose its federal No Child Left Behind waiver, which could cause even bigger problems than the fight over the Common Core.

When it comes to matters of equity and privilege in the public schools, few issues are more symbolic of the challenge than fights over teacher assignments.

Bailey enjoys playing with his toys, and he's not aggressive — just the opposite, he drops the toy rather than fight over it.

Isn't there something else better to do with your time than fight over what colour a dog is?

Moreover a true topdog is more likely to share a toy, a bone, or a sleeping place, than fight over one.

Ask any divorce lawyer about how bloody the custody of pets can get between two warring spouses, much more so than fights over kids or fortunes.

It is usually much less important than the fight over the marital assets as a whole, so thinking strategically about what challenges to make or not make is important.

Not exact matches

Uber earmarked more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam, over the last year.

If your material situation gives you more resources than being surrounded by armed fighting and lacking an internet connection, you have advantages over him.

The lobbyist added that several major firms were more interested in making deals with the Trump administration that could affect their bottom lines, such as tax repatriation, than getting caught in politically charged fights over government surveillance.

No sooner than you leave the family business to the kids, it's likely they'll end up fighting over who got the larger share, who does or doesn't deserve the ownership they got, and who gets the final word.

Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and wife Dr Priscilla Chan have pledged to invest more than $ 3 billion over the next ten years to develop research technology that can fight and cure diseases globally.

Fannie and Freddie fight over $ 7.7 B with Trump administration Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will owe the Treasury Department more than $ 7 billion at...

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

You've been living in another neighborhood, and the people there would rather laugh and chat over their beer than fight.

Harry's last few years were spent fighting the UK government over an injustice that hits more than half a million British pensioners.

Despite the more than $ 22 trillion the federal government has spent over the past five decades fighting the War on Poverty, nearly 40.6 million Americans remain trapped in poverty.

In less than 24 hours, Stormy Daniels has raised over $ 100,000 in her quest to fight Donald Trump and the non-disclosure agreement she signed just months before the 2016 election.

Over the last year and a half, Uber has taken aim at the Asia Pacific region, earmarking more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.

The way I see it, US woud have had over 70 million more Americans suffering, kids that fought old mens war, more jails filled with criminals and a troubled society than we see today...

We here in Yemen our Unity day celebration is on 22 May since 1990 to date but this time because of the troubles in the country related to changes we are threatened by the oppositions that they would make of it a bloody date marching towards the presidency to remove the president against the will of many who prefer having the president finish his legal ruling period rather than those coming to rule by coup rather than legal honest elections... Honestly what a mess we are in by those oppositions who what to take over what the youth have achieved and will be using those youth as their slaughter sheep for them to reach the ruling chair and then again when they both oppositions fight among them over it...

, but less than the number fought over land, money, glory or prestige.

I was just thinking over the last couple of days that one's integrity speaks for itself and I would much rather be able to hold my head high knowing that I fought for what was right than to have given in to the status quo that harms.

Baptist historian Walter Shurden has observed that «to fight over your heritage is not a good way to learn about it; but even that is better than ignoring it altogether.»

More wars have been fought over religion than over anything else.

Brainwashed and fighting over it!!!!!!!!! If there is one God than there is one truth and no need to fight over it.

«WE HAVE THE VICTORY» For those struggling with thoughts of unforgiveness and attacks on the mind especially deceiving thoughts and doubts these are from satan in the word they are called fiery darts we are to quench those darts by faith so we need to read the word and believe that Gods word is true.We also have the victory over these thoughts because when we accept Jesus the holy spirit dwells within us so satan does nt have authority over us he can not rule what belongs to God he can only deceive.We can not defeat the enemy in our strength we need the holy spirit when we try and overcome him in our strength we struggle especially with our thoughs and in the area of sin.If you are having evil thoughts or doubts commit your way unto the Lord and let him fight your battle.Tell the enemy he has no authority over you that you are under the covering of Jesus Christ and when you have doubts memorise verses on faith ie greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.The holy spirit is just like Jesus talk to him be friends with him he helps us to live like Christ and gives us the power to do it.We are overcomers more than conquerers through Christ who strengthens us.brentnz

Why don't we grow up, rather than follow the past and fight over this trivial stuff?

Through these accounts, Schmidt intends to give us a popular, social history of American atheism, one that tells stories of local, concrete fights over religion and the public sphere, rather than a grand history of ideas about belief and disbelief.

Thou shalt not fight for Jesus Aggressive argument bent on winning and humiliating the opponent rather than bringing them over to your side is so unappealing.

Stories help us identify one another as fellow human beings with whom we can laugh and weep and pray, rather than issues over which we must fight.

James Davison Hunter and Alan Wolfe disagreed fiercely over the reach and power of the culture wars, but they agreed on one thing: These wars are fought by politicians and pundits far more than by ordinary Americans.

Rather than rejoicing with McLuhan over the diminution of space and distance between nations, people are fighting against collectivization by loudly asserting their own uniqueness.

For more than 2000 yrs we Christians have fought and killed fellow Christians over minor semantics.

CNN: Chick - fil - A wades into a fast - food fight over same - sex marriage rights Ordering lunch just got a lot more complicated than deciding how to answer, «Do you want fries with that?»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Not that I'm a Christian, i'm an atheist and I believe you all to be sincere ignoramuses fighting over who's insanely wrong conclusions are less wrong than yours.

Meanwhile, the court fight over the executive order — and resulting nationwide temporary restraining order against its enforcement — has allowed more than 900 Christian refugees to make it to America.

Basically, people whom don't believe in anything enforcing their belief over those who do is the same of which you are portraying as «the better option» Your views, of which I do respect, won't help anymore than what you're fighting against.

And one of the key lessons from the fight over the attempted San Francisco circumcision ban is that such bans are far more legally viable than many anticipated.

Energy seems to be a more modern reason than in the past but fighting over resources has always been a role in wars.