Sentences with phrase «about given up on»

I had just about given up on my light when I came across a box of old Christmas decorations in storage that had bags and bags of wood bead garland I bought at a yard sale years ago.

Sadly, I hv about given up on the idea of getting it organized.

She's about given up on getting her guns back, figuring that hiring a lawyer would cost her more than the value of the weapons.

I'd about given up on you then you come along with that great graphic showing the folly of using hundred year temperature baselines for predicting the next hundred years.

And I've about given up on the on - line library — there is more selection on KU.

In other words, even the most passionate digital book advocates had just about given up on eBook readers.)

I had about given up on the genre until this masterpiece was recommended to me by a trusted friend.

It is set in New Orleans, a city with a film noir soul, and it stars Mickey Rourke as a weary loser who has just about given up on himself.

Hi names Bryan I've pretty much about given up on the whole dating thing so hopefully somebody can change that I'm not really good at these things so just hit me up if you wan na get to know me

I had about given up on wearing a color that I love on my eyes.

In fact, based on the temps we were enjoying just a couple of weeks ago, I'd just about given up on winter in these parts.

I had just about given up on the zesty, spicy salad of my dreams, when I stumbled unexpectedly into a veritable jungle of flavor known as the Antique Taco Salad from Antique Taco in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.

I had about given up on gluten free baking because of dry or crumbly, grainy results that were so disappointing when I found your website, and saw all the glowing comments.

Make one last attempt to collect seriously late invoices that you've just about given up on.

Before David I had just about given up on using today's technology always claiming that it was Gen Z teenager's stuff.

As reported by Metro the Spurs star has basically lain into his own club for a number of reasons and even suggested that he is thinking strongly about giving up on the annual under achievers because he is in danger of going through his whole career without lifting a trophy.

This summer I just about gave up on him, everything was there for him to do something but still let his ego and arrogance get the best of him.

Jesus man, i am seriously thinking about giving up on watching football, just playing on my own, but forgetting about wachting it.

Many breastfeeding issues can quickly turn painful, lead to a low breast milk supply, cause a slow weight gain in your baby, and even have you thinking about giving up on breastfeeding.

E.H.: I am pretty sure I would have to think about giving up on my dream of being an impactful scientist, or at least compromising on it.

Understandably, both my parents were quite uncomfortable about giving up on the family business, which had been built by my grandfather over decades, to start life afresh.

He talked often with Amber and his friends about giving up on the game.

Well, that title may overstate it a little and perhaps it comes from a sullen mood, but in recent days I've found myself ruminating about giving up on grad school...

How about giving up on 3 bottles of wine a month and getting a pension of about Rs. 45,000 per month post retirement?

Surely giving up smoking will for Bebe not simply be about giving up on cigarettes, but about letting go of a very meaningful engagement with life...

No, it's about giving up on stuff that's not entirely good for me.

One of the signs: I started wearing very unflattering Kmart trakkie daks to school pick - up... No, it's about giving up on stuff that's not entirely good for me.

Not exact matches

Once employees are hired at RFRK, they go through a comprehensive onboarding process in which they meet with the owners as a group for up to an hour to learn more about the company's inception — a story that involves two fed - up parents on a mission to give kids healthier food options.

On the plane here I was thinking about how it's really not that hard to do something extremely disruptive and do something positive for the world if you just apply yourself, and stick with it, and don't give up.

Governor Stephen Poloz gave a speech in December about the three things that keep him up at night; NAFTA was not on the list.

Amid growing concerns about government scrutiny of encrypted email in the United States, Silent Circle decided to give up on that part of its business.

As an avowed supporter of open data — or the government freeing the information it gathers to the public — I really wondered how Kundra felt about the issue, especially given that he's now on an advisory panel set up by Tony Clement.

A lot of people might make excuses about making videos, or publish one video and see that it doesn't do anything and then give up on it.

So unless revenue rises substantially and operational costs remain stable — a tricky proposition as Tesla is still struggling to get Model 3 manufacturing in track — Tesla will spend itself down to either nothing on the cash - balance side or end up with about $ 1 billion in reserve, give or take a few hundred million.

He writes about advice he wishes someone would have given him six years ago when he first arrived on the tech start - up scene.

Whether it's understanding the types of emails clients are responding to, how reps are handling follow - up calls or what issues prospects care most about, the tool gives sales professionals real insights they can use to pivot on - the - fly.

An entrepreneur will put up a detailed description of his / her business on a platform such as Kickstarter — goals of the business, future financial strategies for turning a profit, the target audience, how much funding he / she needs and for what reasons, etc. — and then consumers can read about the business and give money if they choose.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

Raj Peter Bhakta, the founder of Shoreham, Vt. - based WhistlePig whiskey, and his wife, Danhee Kim, who runs sales and marketing, say that bringing their new hires up to their farm generates authentic bonds between the staff and gives new hires a chance to build their own, firsthand stories about the rye whiskey brand, which prides itself on being distinctive and irreverent.

The show needed someone to set the piece up, give a little background on the industry and talk about the robbery.

The «What About Us» singer posted an Instagram video of her daughter applying makeup on Wednesday, and the sped - up clip shows Hart giving YouTube beauty gurus a run for their money.

«Probably about 2008 is when I gave up my cubicle, because I didn't have to sign papers,» Hastings said on Reid Hoffman's podcast «Masters of Scale.»

«Things didn't change until the company owned the problem and began to not completely give up on the politics of blame but understand that it had to do something about the problem and to change.»

Defenders of the bill argue that it would give more clarity to the legal status of interception requests, helping to clean up the mess exposed and aggravated by Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of NSA spying, including on targets outside the U.S..

«Lie flat on your back and look straight up — give yourself about 30 - 45 minutes for your eyes to adapt to the dark.»

And I've kind of given up on reading anything that anyone writes about Tumblr.

In thinking about my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, in an American context — which I've been doing a lot of lately given its U.S. launch this week — I've been reading up on something called «exceptionalism.»

Given the budget is inherently a financial document, specific details about immigration reform are unlikely to be in it, but it certainly would not hurt to see more financial resources allocated to speeding up the turnaround times on Labour Market Impact Assessments and other applications.

That pushed shares of the company up 4 %, giving it a market capitalization of about $ 25.4 billion by midday trading on Tuesday.

Instead of thinking about the control being given up, however, they should focus on what's gained by backing off.