Sentences with phrase «actually got some of»

This time Wednesday, it seemed a slam dunk that West Virginia would be replacing Missouri in the Big 12 if the Tigers ever actually got all of their ducks in a row and departed for the SEC.

And if we can all work together, we can actually get some of these things done,» Gianaris said.

If we can work with the administration in raising the discussion from the zero - sum game of testing to the greater vision of «where are we going and how should we get there» — maybe we can actually get some of the district - charter collaboration that was also one of the original goals of the charter movement.

«One of my students walked up very quietly and said, «So, my mom wants to know how I can actually get some of that food,» Stewart said as her voice cracked.

So she actually got some of her friends together, one of her friends to host a book party.

An advance is good because it ties a weasel down and you may actually get all of it.

The law says that a full refund may be given «where appropriate», so act quickly and you may actually get all of your money back — but in general this is likely to be a partial refund.

To actually get some of your student loan debt erased, you need to fit a certain profile.

The next challenge these shelters face is to actually get all of those animals into homes.

You may not think of Japan as a wintery land of ice and snow, but the country actually gets some of the heaviest snowfall in the world.

I also want t play some of the BioShock Infinite DLC I picked up on the Steam Sale last week along with a few other gems but I doubt I will actually get it all of them.

In fact, you can actually get all of the abilities in one tree before leaving the first town.

It's made on a very thick burlap fabric, and this is because, at the time, right after World War II, artists couldn't actually get all of the materials that they needed, so Herrera and a number of her peers would scavenge for materials.

You can actually get some of the best life insurance rates with no medical exam.

«So we've got the right kind of space, the right kind of coming together of different perspectives and disciplines to really grapple with what are at times quite complex problems but also the barriers to actually getting some of the research findings into policy, into practice and into systems,» she said.

Not exact matches

«I felt like it was a never - ending treadmill, and a lot of important emails I would actually end up never getting to because they would take a long time to respond to and I would just end up procrastinating.»

Use your to - do list to make a plan — specifically think through when and where you'll do the tasks and in what order — and you'll find you maximize the actual benefit you get out of the exercise, a quieter mind rather than a series of boxes you'll actually tick.

So this is a fairly significant technical challenge to make deeply cryogenic tanks out of carbon fiber, and it's only recently that we think the carbon fiber technology has gotten to the point where we can actually do this without having to create a liner — some sort of metal liner, or other liner, on the inside of the tanks, which would add mass and complexity.

Where it starts getting hard is when you actually start testing some version of your idea, getting it in front of customers, and then finding out they're not willing to buy your product.

I mean, in order to make it appealing, and an increase that portion of the Venn diagram of people actually want to go, it's got ta be really fun and exciting and it can't feel cramped or boring.

But now I see, when you add your own spin, they have tremendous value,» insists Blackman, who shares a list of 100 templates he relied on during his experiment via Airstory (actually getting to them requires a few clicks but is worth it.)

The pay - per - page system actually makes a lot of sense because it provides for an objective way of assessing an e-book's value to its readers, and authors get payments accordingly.

But I think over time because Hinge is getting better and better, you'll be able to use it for a broad array of purposes and one of them will be if you're serious about finding a specific kind of person, it will actually be a great platform for that and still in a much lighter - weight way then having to fill out a whole profile and just using people's ambient information because there's so much information that already exists about people through their interactions that they already have through Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all these different kinds of platforms that allow us to match you up probably better than stuff you would say about yourself on an online dating site because frankly its more validated and it's more real.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

To - do lists, it seems, are a fairly lousy reflection of what most folks actually get done, and most items that actually do end up getting done are completed very quickly after being added to the list, so quickly that you probably didn't need the list to remember the task anyway.

You may actually get better results — whether in terms of greater revenue, speed or something else — if you bring on specialists, versus trying to learn something new from scratch.

The problem in companies is when they expect a bottom - up approach to innovation to result in actually getting a lot of things done.

Announced last week, the shift will introduce a pay - per - page system where authors will receive royalties based on how much of their e-books readers actually get through.

The liquid oxygen tank is probably the hardest piece of this whole vehicle because it's got ta handle propellant at the coldest level, and the tanks themselves actually form the airframe.

That is actually a terrible idea that will push business away from you, as opposed to getting you more of it.

The best advice I can give you is to try to make sure that you've got some board members and other advisors (not investors) who've actually run businesses to help take your side in some of the silliest of these arguments.

But there's actually another framework that we've had great success with in terms of helping leaders and their direct reports get on the same page when it comes to how issues get delegated on a daily basis.

Part of the uproar over the Cambridge Analytica scandal has focused on the fact that the analysis firm was able to get data on so many millions of Facebook users even though only 270,000 actually installed the app that harvested the information.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

I wanted to get a sense of whether or not these sneakers were as comfortable and easy to fall in love with as other cult - favorites (Allbirds being the most obvious)-- specifically because the greatest indicator of a shoe becoming «the next big thing» is generally whether or not people actually like wearing them.

All these tweaks and improvements are great, but they'll only be of minimal value to you and your business in the coming year if you don't also actually get in the habit of putting out compelling content.

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

One is the live experience they need of actually being in a working enterprise, whether it's a bank or city government, and two it gives them the credibility of being able to say, «Hey, we've got this installed at the city government and they've got this many taxpayers or employees or traffic.»

When we were able to get out of that situation because Chapo Guzman made a phone call, we actually were able to be released.

While Trump won praise for getting Kim to the table, some analysts are worried he'll get outmaneuvered — and that could actually increase the risk of war.

Here is the problem: Facebook and Google built successful, wildly profitable businesses because they have figured out a way to make money on digital content without actually getting into the messy, expensive business of producing it.

It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue about how he or she got there, or what to do next.

«When it's time to actually get to the task we have to do, we're often at a better place, having kind of done everything else,» says Steel.

I was able to go into that negotiation very calmly, feeling confident and feeling fair and I actually got what I asked for and now because of that positive experience, if I have to negotiate I understand how to go about it and how to navigate it.

«If you were to go on to UberEATS in many of the markets now, we'll be one of the early recommended restaurants, just because the operation that we run now we can actually get from order to delivery in under 30 minutes,» CFO Kevin Ozan said in January.

Buy - one - get - one deals are one of the many ways that we think we're saving money — but we're actually spending more in the long run.

Interestingly sometimes the feedback you get is actually just a «perceived» sales blocker instead of a real one.

You would think that cracking an egg against the side of a bowl is the best way to avoid eggshells from getting into your food, but that method actually splinters the shell and creates more errant shells.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

This act of selfishness actually holds back that employee for getting the development that they deserve as is extremely de-motivating.