Sentences with phrase «with a handicap of»

This is a game where I do not see anything other than a home win so even with a handicap of -1.5 I see a comfortable cover.

You could bet on MU with a handicap of -2 to avail better odds from the bookmaker, thereby giving a straight two - goal benefit to the opposition.

While David Fincher's film underlined the sharp wit and moral ambiguity of Gone Girl, this latest Flynn adaptation starts off with the handicap of a less gripping yarn, combined with the uneven track record of director Gilles Paquet - Brenner (Sarah's Key, Walled In).

given that I merely have «average Joe» wits about me, I've been trying to figure out what's «average» about your post, even with the handicap of not being able to discern all your codes.

He was a keen footballer, playing twice a week and played golf several times a week with a handicap of 6.

I teach everyone who is able to learn including those with handicaps of all and every kind.

Not exact matches

You're better going short, since the majority of your shots in a golf game are made with your wedge and putter: «Everyone likes a long drive, and it's exciting, but to really lower your handicap, chipping and putting will do it a lot faster.»

Johnny Avello, the director of race and sports operations at the Wynn Las Vegas casino, handicapped this year's Oscars race for USA Today, with The Revenant taking the lead with even odds that outpace Spotlight (8 to5) and The Big Short (6 to 1).

VR has a bright future, to be sure, but if there's one thing that we've learned from the last five years of VR being «The Next Big Thing» each year, it's that VR's handicaps make fuller adoption limited and leave the door open for a much less invasive technology with a much brighter future: augmented reality, or AR.

But some of us are the opposite: a triple handicap, which is pasty stick legs with hair - pattern issues.»

says this Wilson wedge was a perfect addition to a set of clubs purchased earlier, as the set did not ship with a sand wedge, which is common for sets of clubs aimed at average to high handicap players.

Amazon reviewer Craig says this Wilson wedge was a perfect addition to a set of clubs purchased earlier, as the set did not ship with a sand wedge, which is common for sets of clubs aimed at average to high handicap players.

He would associate his childhood with simple pleasures and ongoing loss, a general longing for simpler times and the physical handicap of his blind left eye, injured at age 7 when a neighborhood girl jammed a bottle in his face.

By using the game of golf, this charity provides injured Service - members and Veterans with the opportunity to play in the only game with a level playing field due to the golf handicap system.

Hence the moral of the story: Once you are established and somewhat wealthy, having built your portfolio with diligence and care for a while, flitting between company to company in a taxable account can be a costly undertaking that handicaps your after - tax results.

From the Canadian side, much of the criticism has to do with rising costs in pharmaceuticals, as well as the potential for outsourcing to severely handicap the dairy and automotive industries.

http://grist.org/politics/2011-04-28-policy-in-an-age-of-post-truth-politics/ A bit of a handicap for political parties that strive to align their actions with their policies!

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She is using her religion and this email as a way to cope with the news of her child being born handicapped.

Although the scientific community is constantly proving the veracity of the Bible, bear in mind that science is extremely handicapped in dealing with certain issues (such as cosmogony), and to deal with those types of issues, one has no recourse but to take that which is subjective as his only evidence.

Either, like the Pope, you believe that all human beings — no matter how small, weak, or handicapped — have a right to be protected, or, with Singer, you adopt the doctrine of lebensunwertes Leben and recognize the need to eliminate the unfit.

Koop describes his campaign for the rights of handicapped children with considerably less relish, and understandably so.

Someone has described parents of a permanently handicapped child as living with chronic grief, a dark cloud always hanging somewhere in their consciousness.

- The variety of people who shared memories of Uncle Gary at the funeral — a student, a racquetball companion, a son - in - law, a friend, a colleague, my sister, and a handicapped kid whose stories we could barely make out on account of his disability but who clearly had a special connection to this man who treated everyone with equal respect and love

It began with the killing of the handicapped and infirm.

Arguing with the mentally handicapped is a waste of time.

Both the pathos and the courage of many such children, suffering appalling handicaps and sometimes with the certain knowledge of imminent death, was for me a kind of trek with Job.

Our society moves very slowly to improve or create agencies to deal with various special kinds of sickness or handicap.

How many of you have sought to serve and build a relationship with a disabled veteran, a mentally handicapped soul or simply not cursed an elderly couple driving to slow for you?

Although they will in their future life be confronted with handicaps, sometimes very severe, their future prospects and their actual experienced quality of life can not be predicted with such certainty at birth that their lives can be regarded as hopeless or meaningless («quality of life judgments» as such being unacceptable in this decision making).

We are today called upon to be in solidarity with many other groups who are made helpless in modern society The needs of the handicapped should receive serious attention.

This is what Chiara did, using her extensive knowledge and experience with horses, not for her own glorification, but for the benefit of the physically and mentally handicapped.

(«Unless process philosophy is informed by existential analysis, its lack of an explicit anthropology, which handicaps it for theological employment, can hardly be remedied in keeping with its own implicit principles.»

We now treat the handicapped and mentally ill with more compassion knowing the cause of their distress.

IOW, you are born with such a powerful handicap (i.e., Original Sin) that no amount of good deeds can save you.

Groups for coping constructively with common causes of stress — e.g., aging parents, physical handicaps, a handicapped child,» «adolescing» children.

«Because of the extrava.gance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations.

My experience has strengthened the empathetic bond I feel with others who have handicaps and with persons who have gone through any kind of major loss.

But as I have made partial peace with the reality of my handicap, unexpected fringe benefits have emerged.

This group, whose major goal is to help provide tools, concepts and practical suggestions for creating caring congregations, is also working toward models of ministry with handicapped persons and creating access to professional theological education for them.

It also urged the church to employ such persons, encouraged individuals with handicaps to become part of the ongoing life of the church, and specifically called attention «to removal of environmental and architectural barriers.»

Why debate the theological meaning of the unity of the church and persons with handicaps?

Underlying the presence of physical barriers in churches and seminaries is a set of still - perpetuated attitudinal barriers — primarily the following: (1) low expectations on the part of both pastors and laypeople of just what a disabled person can do; (2) a psychologically defined negation, usually unconscious, reflecting the Jamesian response of «fight or fly»; (3) simple lack of experience with handicapped persons, and consequent embarrassment; (4) biblically derived sanctions, expressing thousands of years of tradition.

Appended to the resolution are a dozen pages of information on site development, ramps, entrances, doors, stairs and rest rooms, The UCC — on Independence Day 1977 — called on «each local congregation to take affirmative action assuring the full integration of persons with handicaps into membership of the Christian fellowship at all levels.»

Many American denominations, with sensitivity and with considerable expenditure of money, have led in the creation of institutional care for handicapped and retarded persons.

And if I, a healthy young man with a certain sense of adventure, could not emigrate, what about young children and old people, the sick and the handicapped?

Could it be that He doesn't decide which families shall give birth to a handicapped child, that He did not single out Ron to be crippled by a bullet or Helen by a degenerative disease, but rather that He stands ready to help them and us cope with our tragedies if we could only get beyond the feelings of guilt and anger that separate us from Him?

Dealing with these handicapped infants is really an extension of women's reproductive freedom rights, women's right to control their own bodies.»

The sexuality of the aging, the infirm and those with handicapping conditions needs to be affirmed.

We are — all of us — blind beggars, with genuine hurts and handicaps.