Sentences with phrase «figure head in»

This week on the Vergecast, Nilay is joined by Casey Newton, Chris Plante and Nicola Fumo (who is keeping Project Figure Head in full effect).

In the distance, you see a shambling figure heading in your direction but you think nothing of it.

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Canada's tech ecosystem is in rare form, with companies regularly raising nine - figure amounts from investors, and lots of young firms overcoming early challenges to rapidly grow revenue and head count.

The streaming service still has plenty of time to figure it out, and Jones» appearance in «The Defenders» next year could offer up some early clues as to where the show heads next.

The head of virtual reality at Ottawa - based e-commerce company Shopify brought out the technology again when furnishing and renovating his home, using it to figure out where to place couches and tables without having to put in the manual labour.

But underlying weakness in the department store's sales figures — a symptom that's already reared its head in early releases from competitors J.C. Penney and Kohl's — signaled that despite predictions of a consumer rebound this Christmas, things still aren't easy for department stores.

«I sort of laughed it off because I figured cooler heads in Washington would prevail, and it was just an idle threat,» he said.

While you have visions of dollar signs dancing in your head, read on to see other figures in the infographic below, courtesy of human - resource firm Addeco.

And it doesn't sound like Facebook's new «head of news» will help the social network figure out its role in this evolving media landscape — the company announced Friday that it has hired former NBC host Campbell Brown to be its head of news partnerships, but said she will not be involved in content decisions.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who serves as both the head of state and the highest - ranking religious figure in the country, condemned the protests Tuesday.

I figured a book would be the most efficient way to get the knowledge I had in my head out to the masses.

Scientists have figured out the specific gene mutation responsible for red hair — and why it's more common in beards than on heads.

As the head of Microsoft's $ 25 billion cloud and enterprise unit, the 17 - year veteran is a key figure in the company's renaissance.

Public figures come with a built - in audience, giving marketers a head start in reaching out to audiences.

In short, «The tiara of «America's Sweetheart,» assumed by figure skaters Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill, as well as gymnast Mary Lou Retton, has never rested on Serena's head.»

Getting into your customers» heads to figure out exactly what happened in each abandoned - shopping - cart situation is difficult, but understanding their big picture behavioral trends using data is not.

«You don't need to be a top - notch interrogator to figure out what is going on in someone's head.

Businesses, from startups to Fortune 500s, need to adopt a similar mindset when it comes to their own commanders - in - chief, because cyber attacks are a low - cost, low - risk way to steal intellectual property, business intelligence and ultimately the company's money — and the C - suite (along with other key figures, like a head engineer or programmer) is definitely a focal point for criminals.

That has intensified every time an establishment figure criticizes those intending to vote for Brexit, whether it be Jean - Claude Juncker, the pantomime villain who heads the European Commission, or Barack Obama (who is genuinely popular and, for the most part, admired in Britain).

Those views appear to be weakening optimism among Americans, with 32 percent saying they thought the country was headed in the right direction — the lowest figure of Trump's presidency.

Since he joined the drug trade as a teenager, Chapo swiftly rose through the ranks, building an almost mythic reputation: First, as a cold pragmatist known to deliver a single shot to the head for any mistakes made in a shipment, and later, as he began to establish the Sinaloa cartel, as a Robin Hood - like figure who provided much - needed services in the Sinaloa mountains, funding everything from food and roads to medical relief.

So Rachel and I just jumped in head first and thought we could figure it out as we went.

In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said on Wednesday that the heads of state and other senior figures who attended the Boao Forum agreed that China's commitment to opening up was clear.

The installation is an introduction to blockchains as seen by the artist, 35 this year, and is centered on three views of the concept as represented by three of its leading figures: Blythe Masters, head of Digital Asset Holdings in New York; Balaji Srinivasan, head of 21.

Develop a great relationship with your Head of Marketing and figure out how to generate more inbound leads, and just as important, have a process to QUICKLY follow up on those leads that come in.

«The Retail Revival is a critical read for all marketing professionals who are trying to figure out what's next in retail Doug Stephens does a great job of explaining why retail has evolved the way it has, and the book serves as an important, trusted guide to where it's headed next.»

It can be challenging to figure out how to turn all of the useful information in your head into organized lessons that others can follow easily.

If Mr. Letta loses Wednesday's vote, Mr. Napolitano, who has opposed calling new elections, has signaled he would try to piece together Italy's fourth government in two years, either headed by Mr. Letta or another figure.

Prices were traditionally the purview of the second - most - powerful figure in a retail organization: the head merchant, whose intuitive knack for knowing what to sell, and for how much, was the source of a deep - seated mythos that she was not keen to dispel.

I have to believe that the Fed (not the FOMC figure - heads but the Phd «rocket scientist» personnel who work behind the scenes at the Fed) is well aware of this possibility and has taken the necessary steps to ensure the readiness of a «safety net» that will buffer the selling deluge that would accompany an uncontrollable spike in the VIX.

Such exports hit a peak of 874,260 barrels in total in July, before falling back to 346,921 in August... The re-exports have become a relief valve for both countries by reducing some congestion of supplies within the U.S. «We've got so much rail capacity now and pipe capacity is really starting to come on line, especially heading down to the U.S. Gulf,» said Martin King, analyst at FirstEnergy Capital Corp. «One way or another, the market's figured out a way to get Canadian crude to a country other than the U.S.» Tidal Energy Marketing Inc., a unit of Enbridge Inc., is one company that has shipped Canadian crude from the Gulf Coast, sending a cargo to Spain in May.

* still twisting my head at my monitor trying to figure out how on earth that girl in the picture does that.....

(CNN)-- He's the top Roman Catholic figure in the United States, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and one of the princes of the church who will decide on a new pope.

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South African ministers arrived in the Zimbabwean capital on Thursday for talks involving military figures and Mr Mugabe who, at 93 years old, is the world's oldest head of state.

Thus do we encounter Treebeard, the huge dendroidal Ent who has a face that belongs (in Tolkien's words) «to a large Man - like, almost Troll - like figure, at least fourteen [feet] high, very sturdy, with a tall head, and hardly any neck.»

«Those hearing that jabbering Lancastrian monotone for the first time, taking in that 6ft 9in shaven - headed, motor - mouthed, deeply menacing figure, might be tempted to dismiss Fury as simply a bully and a goon, a Twitter troll made flesh, Dapper Laughs with muscles.

Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure - head in the unfolding of a new cycle in the life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity of his scientific vision but also by his love, his immense love, of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority of men are blind to: the constant presence of the Creator.

While concordism leaves the reader scratching her head as she attempts to figure out how there could have been waters above the sky (Genesis 1:7), Walton's approach «maintains that this terminology is simply describing cosmic geography in Israelite terms to make a totally different point.»

Juxtaposed beside flashes of his successes are images of the Cash museum in a state of disrepair, broken shards of those successes whose significance is now altogether subverted by the figure of Cash himself, sitting at the head of the festal table.

Pere Teilliard de Chardin, a figure - head in the unfolding of a new cycle in the life of mankind, moves us profoundly not only by the amazing lucidity of his scientific vision but also by his love, his immense love, of God, which enabled him to see, everywhere throughout the created world, what the majority of...

When I got old enough, I got it in my head to try to solve all of the world's religious strife by figuring out which religion was the right one if any.

The setting of the myth reflects a conventional Hindu plot: the divine power emerges through a process of transposition of heads.27 Furthermore, the mythological characters contained in this song present easily identifiable figures from common Hindu stories that are fairly well - known in South India.

I think Chuck McKnight hit the nail on the head in his defining of what Paul means when using the figure «dead in sins».

I really messed myself up in the head trying to figure out «what» «satan» is.

I have a head on my shoulders and believing in mystical father figures living somewhere in the sky doesn't really make sense to me.

Despite his humble origins as a baker's son from Trastevere, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, longtime curial head of the Holy Office («successor to the Inquisition,» in journalese) and scourge of the nouvelle théologie of the 1950s, was a formidable figure in pre-conciliar Catholicism.

Out of the situation in which men and women had found Jesus to be their Master and Lord and Savior, God brought into existence the community in which (as John Knox has often said) «Jesus is remembered,» and not only remembered as a historical figure but also known through the influence he exerted and continues to exert in a fellowship that looks to him as its head.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

Well, we also have to distinguish between an atheist that curses the imaginary figure that others build in their heads and use it to do damage in the world, vs an atheist that has a part of themselves that is still angry at god.