Sentences with phrase «which do little»

Justice Esther Rosenberg, Ontario Court of Justice: «What I experience more often than not as a judge is what I would call «boilerplate» submissions, which do little to enhance the argument.

Without the FCA license, it looks like OctaFX rejoins the sea of weakly regulated forex brokers, which do little to inspire trust and confidence.

(Much like gun laws which do little or nothing to slow down a law breaker but hinder only the law abiding person.)

There are also a number of visual gags referencing old stories such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, which do little for developing the story and feel a little inconsequential.

But his boast that he had won the argument on the merits of wind were dealt a blow, as London Mayor Boris Johnson dismissed turbines as «moaning seagull - slicers» which do little to not help keep the lights on.

The 65 - year - old entrepreneur says he learned about risks from his parents who «liked to gamble, leaving me to fend for myself... I learned the difference between gambling, which I do little of, and risk - taking, which I do all the time.»

Which does little to deflect the growing criticism that Keurig Green Mountain is not seriously prioritizing sustainability.

Over the years, more than a few have referred to his reported habit of needing to be the best on the training ground, which did little for morale.

Rajiv van La Parra responded by unleashing a shot which lack any sort of effective power which did little in the way of troubling a relatively quiet Fabianski between the sticks for Paul Clement's side.

Costa was widely expected to be missing here, which did little for pre-match optimism.

Johnson, for his part, for too long was inexplicably opaque about his résumé, which did little but fuel the sense there was something to be uncovered.

Ronk appointed a special oversight committee late fall which did little more than observe passing events from a distance.

The impression of Amedore as an entitled Republican, which Tkaczyk played up and which he did little to dispel, no doubt hurt him.

However, much of the research conducted to date has been post-mortem, which does little to help researchers understand the early development of disease.

Separate studies by Australian and French scientists have that post-workout cold - water baths boosted strength and power on subsequent workouts, even when they were conducted on the same day, compared to passive methods of recovery and hot - water baths which did little to nothing to accelerate recovery and strength gains in athletes.

Certainly, we don't get to see Gerard Butler work out to achieve his cartoonishly perfect form in 300, which does little to inspire anyone to get off the couch.

The film, which is helmed by French directing duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury (the original Inside), has been collecting dust on Lionsgate's shelf for a while now, which did little to instill any confidence amongst fans.

Unfortunately the makers of this film realize that it isn't enough to make a movie, so they unwisely injected a hackneyed plot about adultery and redemption, which does little but to bog down the film with a lack of realism and unsympathetic characterizations.

But then there's the whole Mary element, which does little to enhance Alice's frazzled state of mind or inform her relationships with Ben's general - issue spawn — dweeby eldest son Andy (Nicholas Coombe), nonconforming middle child Dora (Matreya Scarrwener), and precocious younger daughter Bunny (Erica Tremblay).

The film's synopsis (which does it little justice) states that the film is about «a killer named Cinderhella [who] stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake [and the] group of co-eds [who] band together to survive while they're all serving detention.»

David Thewlis (Dragonheart) gets most of the screen time, which is a shame since he's totally unappealing, and Kilmer is totally wasted in a role that has very little for him to do and with which he does little with.

With nothing new in its characters, settings, or themes, Shame has little to offer except McQueen's style, which does little to elucidate anything around it.

Finally, the state makes a minimal contribution to school facilities funding and plays a small role in supporting capital outlays, which does little to offset the vast inequity that is a result of tier II tax rates for higher - income districts.

The greater height also improves the view out, which does a little to relieve the claustrophobia that could set in among taller occupants of the rear seats.

Our V90 was shod with low - profile, 20 - inch Pirelli P - Zero summer tires, which did little to mitigate bumps and shudders in greater Detroit's often choppy pavement.

The test car came equipped with a four - speed automatic overdrive transmission, which did little to dampen the G20's enthusiasm for high - revving performance.

Instead, the Obama administration created programs like HAMP, which did little good for most, and actually harmed some.

Maintains reinvestment of long - term securities, which does little to hold interest rates down, assuming that is a desirable goal.

Antioxidants alone (which did little by itself), 2.

Included are Before Crisis, which never came to the Americas; Advent Children, which made little to no sense; Last Order, which told nothing anyone who had played the game didn't already know; Dirge of Cerberus, which did little to contribute to the plot of the FFVII saga; and lastly, On the Way to a Smile and The Maiden Who Travels the Planet (Hoshi wo Meguru Otome).

A side story was released shortly after the second game titled Shin Megami Tensei If, which did little to improve the formula, but offered players a chance to choose their allies, changing the game's dungeons and ultimately determining the ending.

The best game in the series had to be Mega Turrican, which did little to shake up the free - roaming, aggressive format but built on the quality of the first game's graphics and sheer mayhem.

Put it down to her abiding interest in eastern religion, which she never practiced, or to her perhaps closeted sexuality, which she did little to claim.

Kromm acknowledged that merit selection can be a good reform «when done right, but what this body has supported is legislative merit selection which does little to stop special interest influence over our judiciary.»

The company, which does little actual inventing on its own, is also spending millions to grow its lobbying footprint in Washington at a time of increased public outrage over so - called patent - trolling.

And not that we put much stock in mobile benchmarks, but for comparison, the Desire Eye's Quadrant score of 23,802 and 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited score of 18,113 was roughly in line with the One M8, which did a little worse on Quadrant (22,700), and a bit better in 3DMark (20,600).

Not exact matches

Coyne noted that Morneau did little to address the root of the problem, which is the wide gap between the small - business tax rate and individual rates.

So, the U.S. talent pool is doing six things in six places, little of which directly leads to new business formation or is likely to alleviate income inequality.

We have talked a good game about installing new software and applications, some of which are even developed in our own city, and using those to provide for more advanced traffic management but we've done very little.

This need to let go a little and let your people do their jobs isn't ever easy for anal - retentive entrepreneurs — which I guess may be oxymoronic.

Do a little testing to see which tweets get the most responses, and at which times.

Sunlight helps you battle afternoon sleepiness because it increases the levels of vitamins D and B. On top of that, sunlight in moderation will improve your mood, help you focus and give your immune system a little boost, which is needed because you put your immune system in danger when you don't get enough sleep.

Before we get started, I do want to be clear: I'm not advocating being deceitful, but instead providing a number of options that will help you grow your business by adjusting positive perception of your organization — which if done effectively, can allow you to accomplish a lot with a little.

This data actually understates how many emails he actually gets, as it doesn't account is the fact that Hsieh still does reply to emails that he receives which might require little time to delegate or reply to (e.g., a simple two - word email response or acknowledgment).

The system could not reliably detect cross traffic and «did little to constrain the use of autopilot to roadways for which it was designed,» the board said.

Far better, Friedman argues, to emulate forward - thinking companies like LinkedIn, Netflix and Calgary's BluEra, which offer unlimited vacation policies to emphasize that it's OK to take as much — or as little — time off, as long as employees get their jobs done.

Big Data While the definitive source of the term big data — which is used describe a collection of analytics that companies use to predict customer behavior — is a little fuzzy, according to some digging done by New York Times reporter Steve Lohr, the person responsible for its popularization is a man named John Mashey, a computer scientists who was VP and chief scientist at company called Silicon Graphics in the early 1990s and 2000s.

«Every mayor here talks as if they are the tourism secretary... and doesn't plan for residents so that they can live with a little dignity,» said Celina Izquierdo, of the Social and Gender Violence Observatory, which monitors security issues.

«Any way you look at it, the bank tax is simply a new tax over which the people who pay it — ordinary citizens — will have little or no say over what is done with the money,» said one respondent.

There are concerns that in some cases companies have little incentive to do so when they can access inexpensive labour through the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program, which has expanded dramatically over the past few years.