Sentences with phrase «than springing for»

Of course, you can pick up a battery pack for far less than springing for an alternate pair of earphones that come with a charging case.

After purging my closet, I need way more Fall and Winter items than Spring for sure!

For pickup fans who go off - road — seriously off - road — the ZR2 lets you buy one all - round pickup, rather than spring for, say, a docile SUV plus a second 4 × 4 with skid plates and a jouncy suspension.

Apparently, Konami chose to make the connectivity peer - to - peer rather than spring for a dedicated server, so one player with a spotty wi - fi connection can easily drag the experience down for all involved.

Not exact matches

While many people believe that spring break is nothing more than an excuse for wild college debauchery, it is actually the ideal time to get away from work, school, and cold weather — no matter your age.

I checked my cell phone carrier's website, and found that by the end of my planned travel for this winter and spring, the Solis would be less expensive than any useful international roaming plan I could sign up for — that includes the cost of the device and day passes, though factors in my travel companions who can also avoid the pricey roaming plans.

Yangmingshan National Park is known for more than its hot springs.

Sturdy metal side rails add stability and durability, while the platform bed frame is supported with 24 wooden bed slats to provide more than adequate comfort without the need for a box spring.

As for the «awesome technologies» that sprang from Jobs's Apple laboratories, would not an impartial observer describe the iPad as just a small laptop computer without a keyboard and a cover rather than an innovation on par with electricity, vaccination or hybrid crops?

That momentum will carry it through the following spring, when a lack of competing blockbusters will allow for the same kind of run that helped current record holder Avatar reap more than US$ 760 million in North America alone.

The Gap's travails have persisted in 2015, with Peck suggesting on a conference call last month that efforts to renew the brand won't pay off until the spring, months later than his original prediction that a turnaround could take hold in time for the holiday season.

In 1995, when Father Bernard McCoy moved in to the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in rural Sparta, Wis., he had much more to do than pray for nearly five hours a day: He needed to figure out how to earn enough money to keep the abbey going.

After Red Hat reported a much better - than - expected quarter and sprung to all - time highs in June, the stock tapered slightly and sold off some of its gains, a typical post-earnings pattern for the cloud provider.

The Mini, slightly larger than a countertop bread maker, will be available to consumers this spring for a still pricy but no longer prohibitive US$ 1,375.

And yet, more remarkable than even the Cubs» World Series victory is Sharon Belvin, whom I interviewed last spring for a feature on Sean Parker.

They were thinner than some other jeans that I wear, so I wouldn't necessarily have these as my go - to pair for the winter, but I'm really excited about wearing them in the spring and summer.

According to a study commissioned by his company and conducted by IHL Group, «out - of - stocks» accounted for $ 634.1 billion in lost retail sales for the year ended in the spring — 39 percent higher than in 2012.

The $ 18 million investment is much less than the company was looking for last spring, when it was contemplating numbers that ranged from $ 35 million to $ 70 million.

«As an early gauge of spring buying activity, purchase applications for the last four weeks were all higher than the corresponding week a year ago, up an average of 4.8 percent on a year - over-year basis.»

The number of homes for sale did increase slightly in February, which always happens as the busy spring market approaches, but supply is still down more than 8 percent from a year ago; supply is up on the high end and far lower on the low end of the market.

In the spring of 1991, an associate from MIT looked at me and said, «You know, that computer you use for word processing and desktop publishing is more than a tool — It's a medium.»

And few developments affirm that more than news that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un plan to meet for talks this spring.

It's looking like an unsettling spring in Canadian housing, a market that has proven far more even - keeled and less scary for investors in recent years than in the United States.

Addressing the media on the sidelines of the on - going Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group in Washington DC, United States of America, yesterday, Lagarde warned that while most of the nations around the world are experiencing growth, they should endeavor to get ready for a downside effect sooner than later.

In a call to the trucking industry for name submissions for the mascot last spring, Burch said more than 1,000 names were submitted before a public vote was held.

Rather than confuse consumers with a billion random - seeming promotions, new messaging will be organized around four annual tentpole events for spring, summer, fall and the winter holidays.

To be sure, Lululemon's plunging share price follows a string of frustrating PR nightmares for the company, including a massive quality - driven pants recall last spring, the sudden departure of visionary CEO Christine Day early last summer, and some less than savory comments from Lululemon's founder — and now former chairman — Chip Wilson.

The cost of living in Tampa is slightly less than the national average, and a spring 2011 survey of 93,000 rental units in Tampa showed the average monthly price for a 1 bedroom / 1 bathroom was about $ 730, with 2 BR units averaging out at $ 925 a month.

For analysis contrary to all of this, which regards the coup and the protests backing it as a «second Arab spring,» see this piece by Lebanese - American scholar Walid Phares, one of the few analysts who even more emphatically than Gerecht predicted the first Arab spring.

Let others, fulfilling a function more august than mine, proclaim your splendours as pure Spirit; as for me, dominated as I am by a vocation which springs from the inmost fibres of my being, I have no desire, I have no ability, to proclaim anything except the innumerable prolongations of your incarnate Being in the world of matter; I can preach only the mystery of your flesh, you the Soul shining forth though all that surrounds us.

Spring Harvest has raised more than # 10m for charities in the last 20 years.

The contrast between Santayana and Whitehead here springs partly from the fact that for Santayana moments of spirit, being non-efficacious, are less intimately related to other events than are physical events.

A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father - figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever.

In the winter, the men «went to the bush» for long months in rough company and risky work, until the great spring drive when the Ottawa River, more than a mile wide, was filled with the booms of millions of logs heading south to feed an insatiable market for wood.

This chronological parallelism notwithstanding, nothing would seem more improbable than a bringing into dialogue of these two works, for not only do they spring from disciplines breathtakingly remote from one another (political theory, neurology), they appear to have radically different centers of interest.

When Jason Boyett and I realized we had both written memoir - style books about our experiences with doubt to be published byZondervan in the spring / summer of 2010, we decided to team up rather than compete — an arrangement that has probably worked more in my favor than his, seeing as Jason's already published a shelf - full of books and has earned a reputation for being one of the industry's most thoughtful and humorous voices.

More than 1,400 people met for the Emergent Conventions in San Diego and Nashville this past spring.

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

Evangelicals, like most Americans, are more likely to favor a path to citizenship for Dreamers (54 %) than undocumented immigrants overall (43 %), according to a poll conducted this spring by Morning Consult and Politico.

The core of the festival - no doubt known by some other name - may well have been much older than the thirteenth century B.C., originating among pastoral people as a spring celebration of the birth of the lambs, with appropriate attendant rites for the consecration and protection of the flocks, and probably a communion meal shared by the shepherd group and its deity.

The largest bodies were Baptists (in several national or regional conventions, some of them Negro, for the majority of such Negroes as became Christians were Baptists), Methodists (in more than one ecclesiastical structure, some of them also Negro), the Disciples of Christ (of American origin), the Church of Latter Day Saints of Jesus Christ (Mormons, also sprung from the soil), Christian Scientists (likewise indigenous), and the Seventh Day Adventists (born in the United States).

The life of faith becomes Pelagian since it depends on our activity rather than being something that essentially depends on and springs from what Christ has done for us.

I bought a package of spring rolls for $ 1.50, much less than the typical $ 4 sticker price at Whole Foods.

Ingredients Shanks - lamb shanks (1 for each person)- 1 yellow onion, roughly chopped - 4 carrots, sliced - 6 garlic cloves, minced - a few springs of thyme - 1 tablespoon of beef base (we used Better than Buillon)- 3/4 bottle of red wine

They are perfect for when you want a summer - y barbeque burger situation, but A) it is much much too hot to even consider standing outside in the scorching sun over a 400 degree pit of fire, or B) it is one of those spring / summer days where is is raining and the thought of holding an umbrella over the bbq is more sad than anything.

Other than the crust going into the oven for a few minutes to set, this dessert is no - bake, which is especially nice during the spring and summer.

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I also had to adjust the timing a bit to account for it being more shallow than it would have been in the spring form.

So for the person who wanted a flavour boost try something else other than spring onion.