The more often you lift the lid to stir, the longer it will take to finish cooking: the heat escapes, and has to build up again.
There are signs that the system is weakening, however, as efforts are more often made to lift promising young men out of low-echelon positions.
His irascible behavior, at times blaming the players with vituperative public remarks about their talents or their work ethic but at other times insisting the responsibility is his, tends to bewilder more often than it lifts morale.
More often it can lift us, bring an emotional high, be a prelude to an unexpected phrase, bring a dramatic turn, a comic or tragic moment, a defining nuance.
Though men often lift women, the women often initiate, steer, take control, resist.
Carolina Giannini, the group's most lithe dancer, is so frequently lifted by Mr. Cornejo that more often than not she appears to be walking on air.
The not-so-swinging 60s After Mike Sangster's last-four finish in 1961, the Aussies continued their domination, with Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and John Newcombe lifting the trophy more often than not.
They're creating opportunities and it must be a massive frustration to the players, but once they start getting tries - and they do more often than not - that will lift them massively.
Lifts are more often horizontal or upside down rather than upright, while various phrases stretch the dancers as though their limbs were being pulled in different directions.
Some of these times I advanced my training, but more often than not I missed lifts or even injured myself.
