Now, I'm a fairly slow learner, but eventually it occurred to me that maybe what passed for design wasn't all that important making things more attractive, making them a bit easier to use, making them more marketable.

OK, so why is the problem accelerating? Part of the problem is, ironically, because the industry has put so much thought into making things easier to use.

Instead, most IMF shareholders seem to favor making the organization s financing easier.

Thereby making easier their integration and civil participation in the labor market.

The volunteer speaks Arabic well, making it easier to confuse her as Moroccan.

Licensing requirements for foreign investment have also been reduced, making investment easier for enterprises.

And as other things become easier to use maybe protein we'll work with those.

The specter of a British withdrawal from the EU will not make things any easier.

His rough diplomacy frightened France, Britain, and Russia, making it easier for them to unite against Germany.

And in fact, making things using technology and I'm being serious here, even though I'm using my sarcastic voice I won't hold on. Making things, you know making things actually does give me a lot of joy.

Moreover, new products were invented, which lowered upfront payments, making it easier for individuals to take bigger mortgages.

There is a tendency to focus on things that are easier to measure, like economic growth statistics.

Brazil, meanwhile, aims to gain a competitive edge by making it easier for foreigners to immigrate with their families.

But all of those things are going to be much easier if we have communities that are vibrant and coming up with ideas and leading from the front, making unelectable policies electable, over the next 5 to 10 years.

More women registered at the village level (11,142) than the city (6,743), perhaps because of easier access to decision making.

Épées for use by children under 13 are shorter and lighter (size 2), making it easier for them to use.

Lyle Yost invented an auger that would lift grain out of a combine in 1947, making unloading grain much easier.

His war approach is making it easier for Islamist terrorists to view the West as an equally united and malevolent force.

On Twitter, hashtags are used to as a way of identifying and grouping tweets, making it easier to follow a conversation.

Unfortunately, the world s rich countries currently are making things worse.

First, devaluation would distribute the costs of rebalancing more evenly, making it easier to clear the burden sharing hurdle to deeper reforms.

The team helped translate the Ushahidi platform into Spanish, making it easier for other Latin American teams to organize a similar effort.

And these things happen all the time. You're making these predictions.

Large new housing developments should naturally attract those who already have ample social connections, making it easier to kick start more integrated communities.

The spacer is a plastic cylinder that mixes the medication with air, making it easier to receive a full dose of the drug.

The calculation is that this will prove politically popular (probably true) while making it easier to implement spending cuts down the road (less obvious).

Rous made a major contribution to the game by rewriting the Laws of the Game in 1938, making them simpler and easier to understand.

A reformed United Nations would give developing countries a sense of ownership in the Organization, making the decisions of its organs easier to implement.

As economies develop and become richer, manufacturing making things inevitably becomes less important.

Market arrangements have a larger meritocratic component than the alternatives, and they encourage positive sum entrepreneurship, making it easier to do well by doing good.

Probably easier if you got a Rottie much easier to train.

Once any major country develops a market for GDP linked debt, the concept will be established, making it much easier for other countries to join in.

That will give developing countries (many of which face difficult domestic policy choices) a tailwind, while making the substantial challenges in Europe and Japan easier to address.

The separate applications in a suite usually have a user interface that has some commonality making it easier for the user to learn and use each application.

They worry that international bodies, lacking democratic oversight, make it easier for the rich, powerful, and well connected to run things to their own advantage.

Graphic images of the damage that smoking causes can counter balance the power of these appeals to the unconscious, thereby facilitating more deliberative decision making and making it easier for people to stick to a resolution to quit smoking.

Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them.

It was easier.

DD So it goes on to show you people making things out of wood, a grandfather making a ship in a bottle, a woman making a pie somewhat standard fare of the day.

With this procedure, we were able to ensure that the kids across the three groups all did the same activity, making it easier for us to compare performance.

The US military s protective umbrella gave large swaths of the world a vacation from war, making it easier for them to focus on economic growth and regional integration.

Second, electronic money will advance globalization , expanding the scope and versatility of the Internet and making it easier for people to interact constructively with others around the world.

The involvement of most, or all, current and future eurozone countries would enhance the group s coherence, making it easier to win public support for cooperation in other areas.

Let's wait and see if it will stick to its promise of making life easier for entrepreneurs or as they usually do, keep it in the back burner.

There is a basic view that real value involves making things, involves labor. It involves engineering.