Sentences with phrase «achieve much on»

He called for Europe to take a stronger role in world affairs, for example by acting as «honest broker» in the Middle East peace process where the US is too tied to Israel to achieve much on its own.

Furthermore, for all the debate, the government did not achieve much on constitutional reform.

It seems to suggest we'd unilaterally take on all EU rules, but that wouldn't really achieve much on its own.

Demonetisation may not have achieved much on black money, but it did put money to work!

Not exact matches

It's definitely a high valuation level but we believe Salesforce can drive significant revenue synergies and help the MuleSoft business achieve $ 1 billion in revenue much faster than it could on a standalone basis,» Tillman said in a note Wednesday.

Brands tend to focus too much on achieving positive WOM and should focus more on defending against negative WOM.

Whether she'd actually be able to achieve any of these goals as president is hard to judge, as so much hinges on what happens in congressional elections.

In doing this, we lose perspective on how much we have actually achieved.

Then, he asks them to go back over their calendars for the past six months to a year and pinpoint how much time they had spent on achieving those goals.

But I have since learned that you can achieve much greater success if you focus on what you can give.

At UNC — much as athletes need a minimum GPA to remain eligible to compete — each Greek house needs to achieve a minimum average GPA among its members to maintain university recognition and stay on campus.

One of Nadella's first bold moves was to change the mission from the archaic - sounding «a computer on every desk in every home» to the much more customer - focused aim of «empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.»

As John Manley, president of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and former deputy prime minister, noted in a speech last fall on «Canada's Decade of Opportunity,» much of what the protesters fought for — from higher taxes on the rich to more jobs to reining in of banks — has already been achieved here.

According to Military.com, Nimoy achieved the rank of sergeant and spent much of his army service «putting on shows for the Army Special Services branch which he wrote, narrated, and emceed.»

Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

But the huge divergence in what Price can achieve with a pay cut and what the much - better - paid McMillan can achieve with a pay cut goes to show that the math of this kind of enterprise is heavily dependent on the size of the company.

Based on the definitions above, it might sound like index investors are «settling» for average returns while better, more skilled investors are out there achieving much better returns.

Given these positive surprises, and because monetary policy must be forward - looking to achieve our inflation target, Governing Council's discussions focused on three main issues: first, the extent to which recent strength is signalling stronger economic momentum in Canada and globally; second, how heightened levels of uncertainty, particularly about US tax and trade policies, should be incorporated in our outlook; and third, how much excess capacity the economy currently has, and the growth rate of potential output going forward.

Most business can benefit and achieve a remote workforce without too much implementation woes, just think «do your staff come to work just to sit on the computer and access the business data store?»

The legislation enforces limits on discretionary spending until 2021, establishes a procedure to increase the debt limit, creates a Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to propose further deficit reduction with a stated goal of achieving at least $ 1.5 trillion in budgetary savings over 10 years, and establishes automatic procedures for reducing spending by as much as $ 1.2 trillion if legislation originating with the new joint select committee does not achieve such savings.

Much as Walton promised his executives he would dance the hula on Wall Street if Wal - Mart reached a certain mark of profitability — and followed through — Sicupira, upon achieving a 6 percent Ebitda margin at Lojas Americanas, did the samba in carnaval dress in downtown Rio.

His name first came into the spotlight in 2011 with a research paper entitled «Safe Savings Rate: A New Approach to Retirement Planning over the Life Cycle,» and much of his work is still centered on its main concept: That anyone who saves at their own «safe savings rate» will likely be able to achieve their retirement spending goals, regardless of their actual wealth accumulation and withdrawal rate.

But unlike in the personal computer or server market, where Intel and AMD fought for dominance (more truthfully, AMD tried to at least achieve profitability), or the smartphone market where Qualcomm has taken out competitors ranging from Texas Instruments and Freescale on the application processor side (leaving Apple, Samsung, Broadcom and Mediatek standing), this market has a much wider variety of players known for their embedded processors and microcontroller.

The analyst expects this interim product cycle to help Apple achieve about 220 million iPhone unit sales in 2016, and a robust 250 — 255 iPhone unit sales number in 2017 «on the heels of a much anticipated iPhone 7 cycle.»

When you know what you would like to achieve with your advisory board, then it is much easier to put a value on the board's services.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Tony's pioneering goal - directed development in buyer insight and buyer persona development has helped clients to achieve improved revenue performance by as much as 25 % year over year, increase customer retention rates by as much 10 %, improve ROI on content marketing, and grow revenues in new markets by as much as 15 %.

Part of the planning process involves preliminary thinking on how to achieve initiatives and how much should be allocated to an expense or capital budget.

There can certainly be eligibility benchmarks or milestones for share purchase eligibility, and it is common to impose vesting rules on stock once it is purchased, but if employee ownership is not as broad - based as possible, it will be much less likely to deliver the engagement necessary to achieve the employee ownership objectives.

They reorganized programs around four predictable buying scenarios to achieve a much higher return on effort.

Now that you know exactly how much money you need to generate to become a six - figure freelancer, you must become laser - focused on achieving this goal.

Only world - class investors like Warren Buffett can achieve 15 % + rates of return on stocks, but you have a much better chance of earning high returns like that through small - scale entrepreneurship.

I assure you Professor Rorty is a man of influence, and the lectures collected in Achieving Our Country have become a much - discussed point of reference on the left.

The Lahore judges who rejected her appeal conceded that they had based their ruling on a technicality, which they recommended be eliminated in the future to make it much more difficult to achieve blasphemy convictions.

Much that is anything but true democracy may hide behind the fagade of representative democracy; on the other hand, a society which is not democratically constituted in the normal sense of the word may sometimes achieve what a democracy aims at.

Much of the motivation for this form of action for justice depends on hope for success in achieving the declared goals within a foreseeable time span.

The aim is to be OBJECTIVE in our viewpoints and truths and accept as a fact that we can only achieve this with a much higher perspective and a much greater responsibility then most of the humans on this planet are unwilling and incapable of accepting.

Still thinking of discipline in terms of child care, it becomes apparent, however, that the best prevention is education whenever it can be achieved that is, that the child who can learn to anticipate consequences for himself is in a much better position to avoid harmful misconduct than the child who relies wholly on external admonitions.

A new book The Day the Revolution Began (SPCK) brings Wright's kingdom - come theology to the much - debated topic of how Christ achieved atonement for our sin on the cross (see page 66 for our review).

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve...

On the simplest level, they have achieved much of their recent success by learning the current fashions for successful communication.

Much of the debate about the Church and power conflicts now going on in many American cities seems very familiar because it is a replay of discussions in which I was involved in the 1930's when the chief issue was the relation of the churches to the labor movement in its early struggles to achieve power.

Life seems to make sense mostly on the mediocre dignity achieved by Vicki's family, and especially in Franks loyalty to the pathetic Walter, whose impulsive kiss he brusquely rejects and whom he really doesn't like very much, but to whom he represents integrity and a little wisdom.

This Jewish category of Messiahship was not primarily metaphysical; it did not so much concern the essential nature of the divine missioner as his vocation; it could be applied on different levels — to one conceived as a «son of David» specially anointed to fulfil the divine purpose, or to one conceived as a preexistent being, come at last to earth to achieve God's will.

On no other foundation can Christian marriage achieve true fulfillment; on this foundation in spite of much human shortcoming the grace of God can find a waOn no other foundation can Christian marriage achieve true fulfillment; on this foundation in spite of much human shortcoming the grace of God can find a waon this foundation in spite of much human shortcoming the grace of God can find a way.

That said, it would be a mistake to ignore the much - greater impact of increased death rates on lower - achieving whites (and the even yet higher, although still decreasing, absolute death rates among African - Americans) as though changing death rates matter all of a sudden because they also affect more highly - educated whites.

English bishops are now generally freed from the responsibility of maintaining the medieval mansions in which some of them still reside; their salaries are now with a few exceptions equalized at # 2000 - # 2500, while most English dioceses achieve a minimum stipend for incumbents of # 500 or better.24 In available goods and comparable status this is probably somewhat but not much better than the «passing rich on forty pounds a year «25 Of two centuries ago.

You've really achieved so much and reached so many people from all around the world with your stories, recipes, humour and your inspiring outlook on life in general.

And I feel much more relaxed working on my goals on an ongoing basis than trying to achieve something unrealistic starting on January 1st!

She explained the importance of local context, stating that the extent to which this can be achieved by standards in China depends very much on different perspectives, risks and challenges.