Sentences with phrase «about face for»

It does come as an about face for OnePlus, a manufacturer that hasn't embraced Qualcomm's Quick Charging standard in its phones.

This is seemingly an about face for an agency that has threatened to prosecute anyone who tries to grow non-psychoactive hemp in America.

He and I had fruitlessly talked about his faces for months, and in one moment the photo changed everything.

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Uber also faces a challenge we talked about earlier: Since they're aiming to disrupt an established industry, a very regulated industry, one with close ties to municipalities, other companies can not only come back at them, they can call in regulations to make it even harder for Uber.

I was working on creating an indoor, year - round space for a farmer's market, and through that I heard about the challenges wholesale buyers face in sourcing local food.

In the face of a continuous stream of headlines about a potential trade war between the United States and China, one technology CEO has called for collaboration between the world's two largest economies.

Despite early excitement about an all - digital future for news, «a long - time problem facing a vast majority of newspaper firms persists,» the study says.

That's because Generation Z has been less about face - to - face communications — they more commonly communicate via text, emoji and video — and they're unprepared for a field such as customer service, where they could interact with irate people.

Buddemeier estimates that radioiodine is just 0.2 % of the overall exposure you may face outdoors and says the pills are more helpful for addressing longer - term concerns about food - supply contamination.

Just thinking about the event sends your body into fight - or - flight mode, a survival mechanism that forces you to stand up and fight or run for the hills when faced with a threat.

The best thing about Ultron is that his origins paved the way for Stark and the heroes in the MCU to face serious consequences for their actions, starting with «Captain America: Civil War.»

But those commenting on her choice of shoes also faced criticism on social media for caring about her footwear and overlooking the point of her visit.

In an April op - ed for the National Post, Rempel recounted some of the routine sexism she's faced in politics, furthering the ongoing discussion about the treatment of women in the workplace.

Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

For example, you can't really think about how to invest without also considering why you're investing, including the time horizon associated with your goals, your current and projected tax status, the type of benefits you have in place and the unique risks that your family may face.

This would be been a fabulous opportunity for a company like Two Doulas, who provide perinatal, birth and postnatal support to talk about the 5 biggest challenges that new moms face when breastfeeding.

Yet there is another scenario, which, many observers believe, is just as likely: that Putin, with about $ 465 billion in foreign cash and gold in Russia's Central Bank, could try to ride out sanctions, perhaps for years, and emerge even stronger (his approval ratings are above 80 %) as the Man Who Faced Down the West.

But we also learn a lot about what brought them to the business in the first place, what challenges they're facing, how they've overcome obstacles in their industry, and about their plans and goals for the near and distant future.

I've written before about how Netflix is one of the few still doing that, but the mounting pressures the streaming company is facing from all corners don't bode well for this continued focus.

Talking for just shy of an hour, Trump's banter shows how little he knows and cares about the domestic politics and constraints other leaders face.

According to former employees, Facebook, Google and Twitter all worry that if they are public about their true level of cooperation with Western law enforcement agencies, they will face endless demands for similar action from countries around the world.

I sat down with Chesky for a wide - ranging chat about why investors ran away from Airbnb in the beginning, the pushback the company has faced from regulators, the challenges facing its sharing - economy peer Uber, and the company's plans for an IPO.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

That could limit the political backlash he faces for divisive rhetoric about immigrants and Hispanics.

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports the highlights so far from a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing where United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz and other airline executives face lawmakers about oversight for airline customer service.

About 1,500 entrepreneurs are in attendance at the Summit, which is jointly hosted by the governments of India and the U.S. Rao introduced Trump by saying that in Hyderabad, «IT also stands for Ivanka Trump,» and indeed, her face appears on billboards throughout the part of the city where the conference is being held.

Although he's been the face of the party since 2003, his candidacy for the country's top job has brought up issues of disclosure and privacy: How much does the public need to know about a prospective leader?

Perhaps it is because he's already so close to the ground, but Canada's diminutive finance minister Jim Flaherty has a knack for jamming his head into the sand just as he's about to get slammed in the face with bad news.

What's more, this change flies in the face of almost everything we've been told by so - called experts about raising successful kids — at least for the past 15 years or more.

Abigail Bozarth, a spokeswoman for AstraZeneca, said «AstraZeneca believes it is important to engage with policymakers, key partners, and the public — across all states in the United States — about the very challenging issues we face as we all work to strengthen our nation's health care system.»

Investors are right to be concerned about the device's momentum, especially given that smartphones are already facing rapid commoditization for every other manufacturer.

«When deciding how to handle the review, we suggest thinking about what your customer service policies are for face - to - face interactions and applying that same logic to your written response,» Holloway says.

Nothing about the drug has changed in that time, and the fact that it's generic flies in the face of the argument that lack of generic competition is the reason for drastic price hikes.

Meanwhile, Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, has faced questions about whether he received cash payments reportedly earmarked for him for his work with former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's political party throughout the 2000s.

Like all young scions, Galen G. Weston faced questions about whether he was ready for the job when he joined the family business at 34.

This was a curious about - face for the Cupertino, Calif. - based tech giant whose success has been inextricably linked to shoulder - to - shoulder assembly lines in China.

Steve Krouskos, global vice-chair for transaction advisory services at EY, speaks about the most pressing issues boardrooms today are facing.

«One of the things that I think is remarkable about black women is that even with all of the headwinds that we face in terms of advancing ourselves, there is this incredible appetite for learning and preparing ourselves for leadership,» says Susan Reid, Morgan Stanley's global head of diversity and inclusion.

About a quarter of U.S. workers in the technology sector, which has faced criticism for a lack of diversity, said they felt discrimination at their workplace in a survey released on Tuesday by job site Indeed.com.

For instance, they applaud and encourage employees who read about or enroll in courses or seminars designed to further develop life skills such as goal setting, overcoming obstacles and facing fears.

No, we're not talking about the most sculpted faces — or cutest faces for that matter.

Even if you really want to bend over backward for your customer, if you mix statements about commitment with statements that say what the customer's not allowed to do, the customer is going to see your «commitment» as a farce, corporate jargon, just a way to save face, or all talk and no action.

That flies in the face of everything we hear about monster rounds for unproven companies.

Cantaloupes imprinted with the face of the popular Sanrio character are currently being grown in Furano, Hokkaido, one of Japan's best regions for growing the fruit, according to Rocket News 24 The Hello Kitty Furano melons weigh about four pounds, and with only 300 being sold, they will be priced at 5,500 yen, or just over $ 50.

Still, while business owners are facing plenty of more immediately pressing struggles and will need to find their own unique approaches to parental leave, Siegel is convinced that the competition for talent will drive more and more companies to think hard about these sort of employee lifestyle issues.

Though his conditions in 10 South appear to be slightly more accommodating than those other inmates face, Guzman's representatives have called for Amnesty International — which has raised concern about his treatment there — be allowed into the facility to investigate.

The industry also faces a lingering, low - level panic about Airbnb and what the home - rental business will mean for the sector — particularly in the battle for millennial loyalties.

Buddemeier estimated that radioiodine is just 0.2 % of the overall exposure you may face outdoors, and said the pills are more helpful for addressing longer - term concerns about food - supply contamination.

It's an about - face for a CEO who swore that commercial satellites would be the wave of the future.

In order to succeed at this game, you have to have enough mind space available to think about the business, leading, innovation, your team — how could you possibly stay competitive if you take on the additional burden of thinking about how hard things are for you or what additional barriers you have to face because you're a woman or have darker skin?