Sentences with phrase «about the efforts made»

We truly have outstanding commerce here and I was impressed to learn more about the efforts made to keep companies operating, especially in these difficult economic times,» said Legislator Dixon.

Last but not least was Roberta Grossman and Sophie Sartain's «Seeing Allred,» a film about the efforts made by women's rights attorney Gloria Allred to bring Bill Cosby and Donald Trump to justice.

The lawyer's affidavit contained little information about the efforts made, and instead confirmed a lack of meaningful effort to pursue the information that was available.

Yes it was hard and there were days I'd rather forget, but I started to think about the effort we made to have special days with kids and to manage with what we had.

Not exact matches

So when it comes to making decisions about how to spend your time, it should all be laser - focused on either doing the things that deliver you the greatest return or investing in marketing efforts that will generate more demand for those high - return tasks.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

Not only will you be making someone else's day, you will feel great about your efforts as well.

If you project that you care about yourself and your appearance, others will recognize that you will put in the effort to make this new assignment or client relationship a success.

At the end of the day, most of the rhetoric and some of the efforts around small business owners seem more about administrative game - playing instead of providing help and assistance to small business owners to make their lives easier and their businesses more successful.

The bottom line is that Bannon knew his comments would enrage journalists, and that they would pound their desks and tweet passionately about how wrong he is, and redouble their efforts to make Trump the enemy.

As rivals like McDonald's ramp up their own efforts to take over the $ 100 billion delivery business, it's about time that the chains made an investment in figuring out how to deliver fast food.

In the letter, the two also make a good faith effort to answer what they say are the 10 toughest questions they get asked about their philanthropy.

«It is something that benefits our company and community,» she said, explaining that many of the company's associates are veterans or are part of a military family and these efforts make associates feel good about the company for which they work.

«We truly care about our customers, and when there has been a loss of service, we bend over backwards to understand exactly what has happened, take strides to make improvements in an effort to prevent future losses of service, and can honestly identify with the experience our customers have reached out to let us know about.

Here are some facts about that form and the efforts I have made to supplement it.

Eventually, since they feel that their efforts have been ignored (or rebuffed), they make negative assumptions about their co-workers along these lines: «They don't really care» and «They aren't that great, anyway.»

For me, the benefits of having a nice set of knives with which to cook was less about the time and effort it spared me (which was noticeable), and more about how enjoyable cooking was when it felt like I wasn't fighting the food to get it made.

The Chinese leadership, and particularly the military, is very concerned about oil import dependency and has made a concerted effort to keep its foreign oil sources as diversified as possible.

Even if you feel negative about a situation, you can still make an effort to turn your emails into more positive messages — which usually get better responses.

I could not tweet about immediate needs, so when I was lucky enough to have access to email I made sure I was intentional with my requests for the recovery effort.

Make a conscious effort to spend time in asking your peers about their work roles, what drives them, where they've had the most success and how they behave in adverse situations.

«It depends on what Republican and what they've done about it, and whether or not they've made a serious effort to try to address it,» Ayres said in an interview.

While the campaign was met with tough criticisms, Schultz made no apologies about the company's efforts.

Make a conscious effort to think about the positive advantages of sleep when tempted to burn the midnight oil.

But Bochy calmly went about making decisions on starting pitchers and lineup changes in an effort to give his team the best chance to win.

Sales - order apps make it easier and more efficient for salespeople to obtain data about the top 20 percent, so you can spend more effort on impressing them and less with the nitty - gritty details.

Instead of tweeting repeated promotional messages about your products and services, make an effort to retweet, share and pin your followers» content often.

At IO, Google announced a slick new smart speaker and a jacket that controls your phone, but didn't make a peep about its Glass efforts, which now fall under a division called Project Aura.

I've written before about content creation and distribution and how actually committing to content marketing makes a difference in your efforts.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

Communities across America rallied in efforts to show congress how serious the are about making efforts to address gun violence.

However, that effort has largely stalled, both because of a lack of decision - making in the West Wing and concerns among some potential recruits about joining a White House under the cloud of investigation.

It's not about filling their heads with ancient philosophies and rote facts; it's about filling their hearts with a passion for learning and the desire to make a difference - to make their efforts and their lives meaningful -; both in the near term and in the long run.

Make time and take effort to show your contacts and connections that you really care about them and value them.

Make an effort to attend social events to learn more about your industry and to connect with people in the field.

Viewers know more about Vaynerchuk's companies and endeavors because he is putting in that extra effort to make his brand more human — and I don't think I would be going out on a limb to say that this human element has definitely contributed to his success and massive social following, which includes more than 1.17 million followers on Twitter.

«While we have made progress on some of our efforts to modernize NAFTA, I remain concerned about the lack of headway,» he said in a statement.

Everyday, whether I'm at work, the gym, the grocery store or church, I make an effort to engage somebody and find out something interesting about them, what they're doing and what motivates them.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In an abrupt reversal, the US military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about US war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

And since intellectual property law is largely defined by individual countries, they have to make a continual effort to find ways to defend their mark in every country they care about.

They make a genuine effort to ensure you are comfortable, confident, and prepared to do your job, and if constructive criticism is needed, they are very encouraging and motivating in the way they go about it.»

The effort is about far more than making a great burger, says Brown.

The TakeOffElectionDay campaign started about a week ago with some tweets (sidenote: this awesome website was made by two brothers who saw the beginning of the effort and ran with it).

When you think about what to include in the investment cash flow portion of your statement, consider things like marketing and brand recognition expenses, purchases of equipment or intellectual property, or any goodwill efforts you've made.

Warren Buffett donated about $ 2.2 billion of stock in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, betting that risk takers at the group will make breakthroughs in global health and U.S. education even as they acknowledge that some efforts will be unsuccessful.

The Kremlin's increasingly aggressive efforts to control social media, however, seem to have made Russia the immediate testing ground for Facebook's most complicated questions about balancing user rights, government demands and the quest for profit for shareholders.

In this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structure.

As author Adam Grant recounts, «It was clear that Dave made a concerted effort to recruit people who cared about others, who loved to learn and have fun.

While many companies started out using social media to get the word out about products, the most successful have significantly expanded their efforts to engage their customers at every step of what we call the «customer corridor,» touch points that start when a potential customer first learns of a product and extend through the moment they opt to make repeat purchases.