Sentences with phrase «than happy by»

I am sure the creditor was less than happy by its move to try and execute and sell, which created the right of the deceased wife to convey her half.

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Pharrell Williams» «Happy» — the theme song to animation film «Despicable Me 2» — was crowned America's best - selling song of 2014, after selling more than 6.4 million copies, followed by John Legend's «All of Me» and Katy Perry's «Dark Horse.»

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

The satisfaction level of Australian business banking customers has reached its highest level but, rather than the big four, it's the smaller banks that are making them happy, according to a survey by Roy Morgan Research.

CareerBliss, a job search site, compiled a list of what it deemed to be the top 10 happiest jobs by assembling data from more than of 25,000 reviews submitted by users.

By taking the time to process the scenario and understand what the buyer may have been thinking (which was obviously different than he initially thought), he ended up with a deal that they were both very happy with.

Happy employees are employees that feel like their responsibilities matter, and you can make every assignment count by simply trusting them with it rather than beating them over the head with constant checks and updates.

Her other film credits include: «Happy Anniversary» (1959), «By Design» (1982), «Willy / Milly» (1986), «The Hitch - Hikers» (1989), «Prelude to a Kiss» (1992), and «Bigger Than the Sky» (2005), among others.

But then, newspapers have often been more than happy to print ridiculous assertions by their favorite politicians, so that's not really anything new.

We are happy to report that — in addition to continuing to serve chicken that has always been 100 % pure breast meat with no fillers, additives, hormones or steroids — we have converted more than 20 % of our poultry supply to our «No Antibiotics Ever» standard and are on track to be fully transitioned by 2019.

Facebook distinguishes itself from its fellow tech giants by hiring engineers in a general rather than specialized way, and then uses Bootcamp to determine where they will fit best and be happiest.

The company recently made analysts happy by announcing a $ 1.2 - billion stock repurchasing program, plus it's cheaper than many other alcohol companies, trading at 13 times earnings.

Another study recently cited in the Harvard Business Review found that happy, thriving employees «demonstrated 16 % better overall performance (as reported by their managers) and 125 % less burnout (self - reported) than their peers.

Today, Price's utopian vision of doing his part for income inequality by making sure all his employees had incomes that would make them happy — or so said the psychology research he read — is looking more than a little shortsighted in the cold light of reality.

Simultaneously, the conservative news media sought to lock in its audience by characterizing the mainstream press as an industry comprising dishonest liberals — something with which the GOP was more than happy to go along.

In your book, you talk about how games make us happy by providing satisfying tasks, achievable goals and the chance to be part of something bigger than ourselves.

According to the International Monetary Fund, though, not only should fuel taxes jump by more than 50 percent, the increase should have Canadians whistling a happy tune.

Most of these behaviors are driven by investors trying to be above average rather than tailoring their securities holdings to their own personal goals and being happy with the results.

Individuals are more stressed by prospective losses than they are happy from equal gains.

Ireland has been more than happy to oblige by imposing on Apple a tax rate that's laughably low — 0.005 percent in 2014, for example.

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When a stock or industry is being driven more by speculation than fundamentals, we're happy to sit on the sidelines.

Reason I ask is, you told me you were «pretty happy» with your current provider — and that is a lot different than saying «we're crushing it with our current provider and I don't see any reason to change» — which is what DiscoverOrg's clients say, judging by our incredibly high retention rate.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- McDonald's Corp said on Tuesday it will soon tweak its Happy Meals, reducing the french fry portion by more than half and automatically adding apples to the popular children's meals, after coming under pressure from consumer groups to provide healthier fare.

China is more than happy to own almost a fifth of the U.S. debt owned by foreigners.

Jordan points to a quote by Montesquieu: «If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.»

By the way religious people are also happier, and more generous than the non-religious.

«Not many people,» Elliott notes, «feel a moral duty to take part in these studies»» though, of course, we are more than happy to reap the benefits brought by new drugs.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

The liberal that takes happy meals away is somehow better in your eyes than the conservative that wants to limit $ exualization of our society by corporate interests.

So for those who still feel the need to «do» something to be happy, I have devised a simple four - step program — that should, simply by simple arithmetic — work three times faster than those 12 - step programs.

Similarly sizable majorities said that h0m0s are generally less happy than heter0s 73 % and less capable of mature, loving relationships, 60 % A total of 70 % said that h0m0 problems have more to do with their own inner conflicts than with stigmatization by society at large

You don't want other people to justify their own sin, but you are more than happy to justify your own by saying, «Christians aren't perfect»?

She paints a vivid of picture of women both more privileged and less happy than at any time in history and of men absolved of all responsibility by the sexual revolution but also stunted, trapped in a perpetual adolescence.

In short, married love, to be true, must be more determined to make the other person happy than to be made happy by that other person.

This makes me happy: By creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater, chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional techniques.

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

The people of the nations that have newly won independence from imperial control are exhilarated by the prospect of a brighter future in the political firmament, and peoples whose resources have long been exploited for the enrichment of others now see their own prospects for material improvement happier than ever before.

okay so lets start a new religion that says we need to sacrifice 2 Northern Arapaho Indians for every bald eagle sacrificed by them cause my creator says that will make it happy — losers oh and SB killing something for food is VERY different than killing something for no reason!

After all, if all these smarter - than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest, what chance does a slim yellow book by a happy - clappy Canadian mama - writer have?

Obviously Noah would not be able to reproduce by himself so God saved them all because He is merciful and for some reason likes full households and happy families more than individuals (for more information, ask James Dobson).

So are you happy with that to happen because of the no faith that is being followed by many who are in favor of «Jungle Law» rather than any heavenly law...???

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

The definitional slicing and dicing, the claim that the instruction means by «maturity» that one is happy being gay, rather than that, as it explicitly says, deep - seated same - sex desire is evidence of an «unfinished adolescence» — it is all evasion and mendacity.

Joy itself is evangelical, and people are more easily shocked by a happy, chaste Christian than they are by hearing about statistical studies of homosexuality or even philosophical arguments, such as sexual acts having intrinsic meaning and being open to new life.

I would like to think I have hit a happy medium here, but I would rather the book be returned or discarded than that it satisfy any reader who hopes only to be entertained for an evening by that living prophetism which proclaimed and still proclaims God's judgment and redemption of Israel, and through her life, of the world.

Chapter 4 makes the modest claim that Solomon «was wiser than all other men» (v. 31) It asserts in v. 20 that under Solomon «Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea: they ate and drank and were happy.»

All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

We'll be more than happy to crack open a brew when the obit notice gets sent out by your white trash grandmother who was waiting for you in the next room.

By calling for a least - common - denominator public faith, Barton seems happy to settle for less than the God of historic Christian orthodoxy.