Sentences with phrase «things working against»

I had a few things working against me such as the wall is pretty heavy in texturizing and the actual nook has an arched ceiling so those were interesting to work around but I took it all in stride and got started!

Age and simple lack of experience are the two biggest things working against college students in their search for affordable insurance coverage.

We have so many things working against us, but it's just not the same any more.

«She had three things working against her,» says Tony Bechara, a fellow artist and longtime friend.

Iridium Runners has two things working against it right out of the gate.

This will be done by tapping, but players will have a few things working against them.

But when you're looking for Independence Day travel deals, you have a few things working against you.

We had several things working against us: because of the holiday season my fiancé and I were working a lot and didn't have enough time to devote to potty training, she is a small dog and has to go about every 2 to 3 hours, and she was a little older when we got her.

There are three things working against you when you pay monthly.

So many things working against RIM.

All - wheel drive can be an advantage when snow flies, but the Golf R has a few things working against it when it comes to winter performance.

And maybe that's why it's not surprising that despite having so many things working against them, cinematographers Autumn Durald (Palo Alto, One & Two) and Rachel Morrison (Black Panther, Cake) have built not only successful film careers, but also families.

You know the movie Polar Express has a few things working for it (aka: Tom Hanks), and some things working against like it's a little too early for a Christmas movie.

Torrente has a few things working against it, the least of which is the fat, balding, middle - aged, ass that is the star of the game.

Now I have two things working against me lol

Thompson, a former concert pianist who took up running in her 70s, had a few things working against her when she lined up at the starting point of San Diego's Rock»N Roll Marathon this past Sunday.

he is so slow in making decisions on the game, I can't even remember the last time he made a substitution before the 65 to 75 min mark, so it means our game play remains the same for more than an hour of the game no matter the situation where we are having things working against us or not.

I'm a married, Christian man... Anyone here that's married or that's in a relationship knows that there's enough things working against you.

My vertical leap is not quite good enough for the NBA, close, not off by much, and I got that age thing working against me.

Another thing working against both men: There is strong appetite, particularly in the New York delegation, for the next attorney general to be a woman given the abuse scandal that led to Schneiderman's downfall after he made himself a very public champion of women's rights in the era of the #MeToo movement.

As if we needed one more thing working against us (or our not - so - precious love handles) along comes research that shows that weight gain is indeed a side effect of many types of birth control methods.

A sobering look at a life any of us, if enough things work against us, could find ourselves living, «Survivor's Guide to Prison» is a film that should not be missed.

Bookstores have functioned as consignment stores for 80 years, and you're right: the whole thing worked against small presses.

One thing working against Graphicly, however, is its status as a late - to - the - game newcomer.

The only thing working against the BlackBerry comeback seems to be the lack of a competitive ecosystem.

All of these things work against new puppy owners who want their puppies to go outside, usually on grass.

The only thing working against it is that the actual brand name is the pluralized «Pop - Tarts», and Android Pop - Tarts just sounds weird.

When you sell a house in a buyer's market, a lot of things work against you.

Not exact matches

«If you're constantly charging through to the next thing, that determination could eventually work against you,» she warns.

For one thing, companies today have «human resources, we have IT, and we have a real estate division — all acting separately and, often, unwittingly working against each other,» Martin says.

It's great that Google (Alphabet) is working on self - driving cars, but it can compete on a lot of other things beyond advertising against Google.

So if things like flavored yogurt, whole grain cereal, pretzels, and dried fruit are part of your snacking repertoire, you might be working against your workout goals.

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

There are several places where women might be tempted to cave into the silence and say things that work against their best interests.

They are most often ambitious type - A personalities that move fast and get things done but these beneficial traits can also work against them when it come to the seemingly slow and inefficient tasks of management, responsibility delegation and building a desirable team culture.

While that may sound like a great thing, hoarding too much cash (outside of an emergency fund) can actually work against you.

But even with all the factors working against us, we still have the gusto to prevail by doing a handful of great things habitually.

You also ignore the fact that Christians have done just as bad things as those living in the Middle East and those you would call doing the work of the devil: killing those who do not share their faith, using their religious position to gain wealth and discriminate against those who have different beliefs or lifestyles.

When he asked you to do things for him, you decided it was better to work against him.

The funny thing is that those who are against a topic have to do the work to disprove it.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.

Lynn: I think wvpv is saying the opinion of the controlling leader that anyone who leaves is weak and unwilling to work things out and are therefore against unity.

There is no such things as an «idle» word which will not work for us or against us.

Even the disciples did not agree on how to do all things, but they worked together and not against each other.

I see this tendency springing up in your writings, however, and as someone who cares about you and about the work you're doing, I just wanted to caution you against these things.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

If you need a government contract, sanctioned by the government and granted by the government to make sure you are not discriminated against — for rights to make decisions in a hospital or to pass on your SS benefits or for other human rights — work towards that kind of thing.

Unlike the work of bulldozers, which Berry calls «a powerful generalizer» that works against the impulse «to take care of things, to pay attention to the details,» «good work is always modestly scaled, for it can not ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known.

These things says he who... I know your works... But I have this against you... Repent... He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Why is it that all such religions have to threaten those who don't believe... Because, religion is a delusion, prayers, rolling beads around, hymn singing, bible / koran reading do not work... so the only thing that religions have left is to use punishment, blackmail, extortion, and threats against those who refuse to buy into such religious delusions.