Sentences with phrase «by handing off»

By handing off control to software, the hardware can become a lot more simple and efficient.

I was actually playing last night, and by handing off a «tasteful erotic novel» to a character in my party, she actually started quoting off lines from the book during a lull in the action.

Any means of paying off a debt burden by handing off something less valuable than what was received, plus interest, is a form of default.

You can acknowledge family members» desire to help by handing off diaper changing, burping, housekeeping, dog walking, and colic rocking duties to anyone who wants to help.

The Falcons started the next drive by handing it off to Tevin Coleman, who picked up a first down and a lot more.

Build confidence by handing off responsibilities before you leave.

Not exact matches

Their first sale came when someone bought the sunglasses off their own faces that they had made by hand.

Photos and videos of the bloodied passenger being dragged off the plane by security quickly circulated via social media, and soon enough, the company had a PR disaster on its hands.

On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

That could cut off a major supply of oil while potentially handing the region's balance of power to Iran, which could end up in control of the routes used by 40 % of the world's seaborne oil.

When a shipment of Microsoft Office products was returned to the office by a customer and examined by staff, the security foil embed ded in the CDs, a feature used to denote authenticity, slid off in their hands.

For last season's NHL games, about 93,500 tickets changed hands on resale sites by the Sept. 12 cut - off date.

By then McManus was harboring serious doubts about the wisdom of simply handing over certain functions to an operations chief, despite the «early tip - off» he had gotten from reading Corporate Lifecycles.

Laissez - Faire: A form of management that is characterized by being very hands - off and allowing group members to make many big decisions, a laissez - faire management style has generally led to the lowest productivity level among groups.

In large part, industry insiders say Disney has done this by being relatively hands - off with Marvel, just as it has been for the most part with Pixar.

But it was enabled both by the hands - off stances of social media companies, and by what the New Yorker's Evan Osnos calls the «news illiteracy» of many Americans — an inability to identify trustworthy news sources, or spot red flags like grammar and spelling errors.

It could be an old coin, an item owned by a celebrity or something totally off the wall like a hand crank corn - shucker.

The debt, part of a bond deal sold by Citigroup Inc. and Deutsche Bank AG in March 2007, was handed off to a firm specializing in troubled loans.

While I truly want to be with you on the hands - off - free - market argument, I just have to believe that these rules are in place for good reasons... like making sure your sweet Granny don't get fleeced by a huckster.

Kogan seemed most comfortable during the session when he was laying into Facebook's platform policies — perhaps unsurprisingly, given how the company has sought to paint him as a rogue actor who abused its systems by creating an app that harvested data on up to 87 million Facebook users and then handing information on its users off to third parties.

If on the other hand China's investment rate declines faster than its savings rate, its current account surplus will by definition grow, and the world economy will be worse off.

Our New Government — that is the New Government of the New Prime Minister, Stephen Harper — has taken the view that the economy is best directed by the market itself and that government — new or otherwise — should just keep its hands off.

For instance, Bojangle's still makes its trademark biscuits by hand, and is fresh off holding its 19th annual «Master Biscuit Maker Challenge.»

By contrast, dealers in countries such as India were building both types of inventories until mid-2013, before selling off their sovereign holdings during the taper tantrum (Graph 3, right - hand panel).

Gold, on the other hand, is influenced by risk - off sentiment, geopolitics, interest rates and inflation, among others.

Pullbacks off the highs that are succeeded by tight - ranged price action should snap back quickly after shaking out the «weak hands.»

Indeed, Alberta forced previous Prime Minister Trudeau's hand in 1980 by cutting off oil flow.

The trick is to persuade employees to hand retirement funding over to financial managers whose idea was to make money off the economy by extracting interest and dividends off workers, homeowners and companies being bought on debt leverage.

Cut off from the world economy by sanctions, Pyongyang is looking for ways to get its hands on cryptocurrency.

The problem at hand is to make these conditions a new normalcy — that of paying debts, and re-defining solvency to reflect a nation's ability to pay by selling off its public domain.

It's kind of by design you're hands off.

Recently CNN has posted an article by a Palestinian - American woman visiting her family in Gaza during the latest upsurge in violence, another article suggesting the US cut off aid to Israel, and now this shallow back - handed attack on Israel (comparing Israels security barrier to a «knife» and the contrasting it to the fields where angels announced the birth of Jesus).

Do you have a moral standard written upon your heart that informs you that if you were married and suddenly attacked by a stranger and your wife defended you and touched the genitals of the attacker, that she should be PUNISHED by having her hand cut off?

As we saw in South Hadley, instead of challenging these definitions, or even the kind of cruelty endured by kids like Phoebe Prince, teachers and administrators often adopt a hands - off approach.

But the New York Times writer failed to grasp that the article in Italian was commenting on off - hand remarks by Pope Francis at an audience in November, suggesting that perhaps he agrees with Paul VI, who once said to a young boy that his dog would be with him in heaven.

Under foreign oppression it was natural to feel, as the Zealots did, that only by rebellion could the Roman yoke be cast off; but many of the Jews must have agreed with the Pharisee that an attempt to take matters into their own hands would be both impious and futile.

Deuteronomy 11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand.

On the other hand, there is no God of a religious tradition cut off from critical reflection so that «it is wrong for religion's advocate to confound the object of this affirmation with the modalities of the affirmation; it is wrong for him to believe that the transcendence of the divine mystery is extended to the materiality of the expressions that it takes on in human consciousness; with greater reason it is wrong for him to consider that his problematic is canonized by this transcendence.

Jacobs was thrown off at first when Rabbi Schacter introduced the session by handing out a three - ring binder filled with photocopies of rabbinic legal sources regarding the proper execution of a get (a» get» is a traditional Jewish document of divorce)-- a matter with no apparent relevance to the session's supposed topic.

I held a loaf of bread in my hands, tearing off a piece for each pair of cupped hands that went by, slowly, as music played.

Catholic educators refined their teaching on virginity so that it had at least two major components: a practical «hands off» approach bolstered by examples from the saints, notably St. Maria Goretti, and a healthy dose of Mariology.

Now, in an unexpected twist, the LA Times reports that a folding knife was found by a construction worker at Simpson's mansion and was handed over to an off - duty cop from the traffic division who was working security on a nearby movie shoot.

On the other hand, by refusing we may harden our heart and cut off the bonds of human sympathy.

But if these events have not set off alarms, it is even less likely that people would be sensitive to that subtler shift of power that runs to the root of the American regime itself: In one issue after another touching the moral ground of our common life, the power to legislate has been withdrawn from the people themselves, or the «consent of the governed,» and transferred by the judges to their own hands.

A college Prof.s hand was cut off by Muslim terrorists in the southern state of Kerala for questions about the Prophet.

Whoever sends a message by the hand of a «fool» cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

Some Sunday mornings the minister should take the congregation by the hand and with them step off the dimensions of their inheritance as children of God.

«When two men are fighting and the wife of one of them intervenes to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hand and catches hold of the man by his privates, you must cut off her hand and show her no mercy.»

As we checked in, E and I were hauled in front of a security officer to taste the revolting baby food we were carrying; Hugh's Calpol was unceremoniously confiscated; E had to prise the teddy bear from his hands [the response was what E fondly calls auto - waa] and just in case mother and child were not feeling sufficiently browned off by this stage in the proceedings, I was forced to stand the other side of the security barrier while my baby and hispushchair were searched.

And I also know that by 2:42 a.m. when all has been restored and babies are sleeping again and the window is cracked open for a bit of fresh air, when we are back in our bed and quietly groaning at how over-the-puking-thing we both are by now, it's then, when he reaches out for me and moves the hair back off my neck before resting his calloused hands on the baby still growing within me, when the baby rolls up against his palm, and he whispers, «hey, you» quietly, it's in that moment that I think the love we make or find or reimagine at the unexpected moments is still the sweetest.