Sentences with phrase «time than fight»

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

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

The intuitive notion of harnessing the body's own immune system to fight the enemy within is more than a century old — and seemingly, each time researchers have seemed close to turning that theory into reality, a new stumbling block appears.

Typically it's less expensive and less time - consuming to settle in a patent case than it is to fight it.

It's time American policymakers started a discussion on taxing meat too, because rather than reform its practices or scale back production, the meat industry has fought tooth and nail to fend off environmental regulation and commonsense nutritional standards, leaving citizens to deal with its mess.

By the time fighting ended in July 1953, more than 34,000 U.S. forces had been killed.

According to research by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.

One setback for these therapies which use the body's immune system to fight cancers is that they are, at times, more effective in certain patient pools than others.

«I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight,» Kalanick said in a statement to the Times.

How much of your board or executives» time is devoted to discussing how to fight the future rather than embracing it?

At that time of the season, demand is lower than in the summer, and ending the cuts in March — ahead of peak demand — could exacerbate the glut that OPEC and friends have been fighting this year.

«They spent more time talking to people than fighting.

It's time for the premier to publicly reject the Petronas plan to use workers and businesses overseas and use the next year to fight for B.C. workers and an LNG industry built by them, rather than giving up on them in her desperation to get an unsupportable project underway,» he said.

I am just saying, we need to stop fighting, we have far more in common than different — even with muslims at an «interfaith» service, and we need to be careful that we don't spend all our time focusing on defending our faith from the the outside, and end up failing to focus on the needs of the families at that service.

He said: «It's a time for her to show her ability to unite rather than divide, an ability to work together will all sides of the party to make sure we continute to be a credible and effective fighting force to move forward into future elections.»

And the truly sad part is, those same atheists might have even been saved if they had only accepted the truth rather than spent their time fighting against it...

Even worse, those very atheists who spend all of their time on forums like this and fighting against the truth (rather than being out enjoying the world in what little time they have) will ultimately die and go to hell only to then find out the truth — that they've been wrong about everything they've believed their whole life.

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...

(I've been turning down as many as half a dozen television interviews per day, because they take so much time in traveling to studios, and mainly because most of them provide an opportunity for no more than a few sound bites and a food fight.)

I would fight anyone, metaphorically speaking, who denies that «He Stopped Loving Her Today» is the greatest country song of all time, but Jones was known for more than his songs.

They could be spending time with their kids, learning a skill, and leaving a legacy behind that is something other than fighting a symbol that brings others peace.

At the same time, Catholics should give up the delusion that they number sixty - five million or more in America, and the bishops should concentrate on equipping for the fight the less than half that number who are real Catholics.

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

The church has expended much time and energy and more than once fought battles in the realms of belief and conduct.

Our children's space was so small that if more than 12 youngsters showed up, we spent our time slowing unchristian fights and skirmishes.

We need to fight against pride, lust, abusing power, apathy, and more than I have time to name.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

It is so sad that so many atheists will spend most of their lives fighting and arguing against the very thing that can save them, only to die and go to hell and then to spend eternity regretting the fact that they wasted all of their time arguing about it rather than just accepting it, rather than just believing, and a belief that could have saved them.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

There was a brief invasion in about 1700 B.C. by the Hyksos kings, and there were imperial wars fought with the nascent Babylonian and Assyrian empires at a later time; but few cultures have enjoyed a longer, more uninterrupted period of development than did Egypt.

Fermented cabbage contains hundreds of times more cancer fighting nutrients than raw or steamed cabbage.

But this time, I understand that what I'm feeling is nothing more complicated than an urge to restore some balance — to be as soft and easy as the coming fights will be hard.

• Organic arsenic and organic cadmium are more common and hundreds of times less toxic than inorganic versions in plant - based food, they are easily flushed out by the body, and may have benefits including organic cadmium helping fight breast cancer (Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry).

This was a Game that both Teams had circled in red marker (hypothetical red marker) and from the opening tip it was evident that more was at stake than a Week 5 W... Both Teams fought hard and at times got out of their Games because of the emotions involved..

For Team Silver, they fought incredibly hard all season long and more than anything another body or two this time of year really could have made a big difference..

from where i'm sitting, conor's strengths: - long and athletic - great power in his hands and feet - throws with speed & accuracy - uses all 8 points of contact (and uses them all in multiple ways)- uses good footwork to circle away from power shots and to control pace / location of fight - has shown good to great TD defense (until tired)- has good chin (tested several times and the proof appears to be in the pudding, as they say)- displays good head movement which allows him to absorb fewer strikes while within range - excellent counter puncher (able to get in and out fast using his karate style stance)- has shown better conditioning at lw than fw or ww - has incredible fight iq (lone exception in the ufc was against nate in first fight when he was clearly fatigued)

But, Ali aside, boxing is in a parlous state: no work for fighters, small purses when they do fight, empty gyms and fewer licensed fighters than ever before; only two American world champions (Ali and featherweight Danny Lopez)-- a long fall from a time when U.S. fighters held most of the world titles.

But in the third round McCauley, about to be defeated in front of a dozen family members who were watching him fight for the first time, saw an opening: Watkins briefly lowered his hands, McCauley unleashed a left hook and a straight right that dropped him, and the ref stopped the fight with less than a minute remaining.

NO Wenger we are all here ready to fight with the players and club but it feels like at time we are doing more fighting than certain players....

I just can't believe that we have become a joke we always start the season well then have a bumpy December and by the time Feb comes our form has taken a dip and we get kicked out of all competitions except for that valuable top 4 that the board loves so much... ultimately if Arsenal want to compete again we need changes from the bottom up... Kroenke and his board need to go cause clearly for them profits matter more than trophies... Wenger needs to go for his lack of tactical naus guy has been using the same fornation since I was in high school and I'm doing my honours in accounting now... our medical team must all go our players always get injured and they never come back in time (take a look at Santi) players like Coquelin Theo Mesut Gabriel Gibbs Giroud just to name a few need to go they're just not good enough seriously these players lack fight tactical Discipline and tactical awareness... at the end of the day change needs to happen things can't keep going like this for us....

What's more important is the team bounce back and come out fighting harder than they did last Sunday, this time better prepared with a lot more quality and ideas.

They, along with the Orioles, Mariners, Rays and White Sox, are just a couple of pieces away from making an impact by this time next year — hey, they're much closer to that than the Astros and Twins were last September, and those two are legitimately fighting for playoff spots today.

He had just one amateur fight before he became a professional, treating his training as a serious hobby rather than a full - time job.

It was also the last time we had a proper title fight between more than two drivers.

I know that most fans can't stand Tony Ferguson and I totally get it but in my opinion, he came across as more likable than Khabib during his run starting with the RDA fight where instead of giving Conor the time of day that everyone wanted him to, he kept his post fight speech short and told everyone to have a good night then proceeded to get flak from the media about it.

He spends more time talking about who hasn't fought the best guys and how he would fight the best than he does actually fighting, after his loss then last performance he's not even next in line, would love to see Bisping KO him again then retire (Unlikely I know but it would be nice)

He's a talented guy whos arrogance is alienating more fans all the time and if he doesn't start to focus on fighting rather than gossiping soon the whole title thing will pass him by fast

I think it is fair enough for wenger to fight and give more chances to these players than buying a player who left us for his «boyhood» club at our most fragile time when he was holding the honourable, mighty captain's arm band..

Giroud needs to take these criticisms from fans and media constructively and at least show more fight and determination on the pitch, rather than sticking his tongue out when he misses open goals or stand around an moan all the time.