Sentences with phrase «as a couch for»

Use larger tables and chairs for group - work areas, soft seating such as couches for private reading areas, and individual desks for independent work.

Investors sometimes work around this limitation by offering to buy something from the sellers at an attractive price, such as a couch for $ 5,000.

Not exact matches

UPS is in talks with at least one U.S. trucking firm to launch an in - home delivery service for large, heavy goods such as couches and treadmills.

Couch began caring about healthcare as a high school senior when she was diagnosed with lupus and since then has become something of a reluctant expert on how to manage not only her treatment but also the insurance that pays for it.

In the five years since they launched it from a San Francisco loft, Airbnb has single - handedly legitimized couch - surfing as a hotel alternative — and provided a not - insignificant revenue stream for entrepreneurial homeowners.

So far, it's been wireless carriers giving customers discounts on the devices in exchange for multiyear data - plan commitments, but with most people using their tablets at home and on the couch as a sort of second TV or computer screen, it might make more sense for television or Internet service providers to offer the contracts.

Satyanand's transformation from couch potato to runner may have been slow and steady (and clearly mimicable for most people), but just because it wasn't the stuff of late night fitness equipment infomercials, doesn't mean it wasn't just as transformative.

If you want to get really weird with it, you can imagine subtle ways that glasses can be exploited for misuse: What if you sold a couch on Craigslist, and found that you had been paid in a bunch of $ 1 bills that had been doctored to appear as $ 100 each to your glasses?

It may seem like a guy who tools around his home base of Los Angeles in a white van emblazoned with «1 -800-Autopsy» — and a guy who, as a side gig, sells couches made out of coffins — would be a sucker for attention.

Sure, there are pieces that wouldn't look out of place in West Elm, but then there are furnishings tailor - made for the middle - aged man cave, such as a massive black leather sofa with built - in surround sound, a power - reclining feature, phone - charging ports and Bluetooth connectivity to allow couch potatoes to play music from their smartphones.

You can take a cue from the search engine giant and use a large sofa, or try smaller «hobbit hole» spaces such as enclaves with padded benches, acoustic couches, a long communal table for lunch or telecommuters, the modern version of old - school desk attachments to rolling chairs, and general seating that helps employees feel comfier.

For instance, instead of sitting on the couch with each person in the room playing a game like Crossyroad on his or her smartphone (and then comparing scores), you find yourself cheering (or jeering) one another as each person attempts to one - up the high score.

The bold thinkers at the core of these companies are able to work as they see fit — they can stand for phone calls, sprawl out on a couch to decompress, hold meetings outside or close all the doors for focused work when they're really motivated by a new idea.

Instead, it focused on what managing partner Michael Chu calls «gallery stores,» which are larger, multistory spaces that emphasize the airy, aspirational lifestyle Restoration Hardware customers buy into as they shop for its tastefully minimalist couches and throw pillows.

As for his own situation, Charney — whose most recent annual salary as American Apparel's CEO was $ 800,000 — painted a bleak financial picture for Regan, telling her that he is down to his last $ 100,000 and is currently sleeping on a friend's couch in New York CitAs for his own situation, Charney — whose most recent annual salary as American Apparel's CEO was $ 800,000 — painted a bleak financial picture for Regan, telling her that he is down to his last $ 100,000 and is currently sleeping on a friend's couch in New York Citas American Apparel's CEO was $ 800,000 — painted a bleak financial picture for Regan, telling her that he is down to his last $ 100,000 and is currently sleeping on a friend's couch in New York City.

Apple's announcement, couched as a major investment in the United States instead of a massive financial windfall, followed years of criticism that the company did not do enough for the American economy because it makes most of its products in China and parked its profits abroad.

That as a society we are okay with the idea that you can't purchase a television, we're okay with the idea that you can't purchase a nice couch, but we're not okay with the idea on some fundamental level that you get cancer and you can't pay for care, or even lower than that, that you break your leg and you can't get it put in a cast by a reputable doctor.

Of course you can always couch yourself as saying you are building a site for the long term.

It shows that assertions questioning the capacity of the FEDERAL government to pay for programs, usually prefaced with the call for â $ ˜â $ ˜adult conversationsâ $ ™ â $ ™, and couched in terms such as fiscal sustainability, solvency, and unfunded liabilities, are red - herrings that will lead to needless reductions and privatizations of public programs in health care, elder care, pensions and so on.»

As I got off my couch at 5:30 in the afternoon to eat «breakfast,» I realized I had played for six hours and the end was still nowhere in sight.

Whitehead has chosen to couch his whole philosophical discussion in the book in Platonic terms and to adopt «Eros» as the term for the primordial nature of God.

Therefore it was also natural that the kerygma as we find it in the New Testament should not only be couched in biblical terms but also that these terms require for their proper understanding an awareness of the whole Old Testament witness and record.

These are they who shall be brought nigh to God, In gardens of delight; A crowd of the former And a few of the latter generations; On inwrought couches Reclining on them face to face: Aye - blooming youths go round about to them With goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine; Their brows ache not from it, nor fails the sense: And with such fruits as shall please them best, And with flesh of such birds, as they shall long for: And theirs shall be the Houris, with large dark eyes, Like pearls hidden in their shells, In recompense of their labours past.

To David as well as to Cain, Yahweh might have said, «Sin is couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it» (Gen. 4:7 b) Neither Cain nor David does master it, and the sins of both lead to violence.

Rupert can be asked whether The Concept of Nature can be used to provide a philosophic background for his notion of «morphic resonance,» and I want to see whether the concept of a bare sensory awareness in a passage of nature couched in terms of durations can sufficiently produce boundaries so as to yield breath groups in spoken speech and semantic reiterations in paragraphs and language; and Chris wants to know whether Whitehead's starting point can be used, though not in Whitehead's manner, to develop a realistic conception of space and time.

They couched the promise of eternal life (in other words the terms to receive eternal life, which is faith into Jesus Christ in His promise) in the message of the gospel, which has as one of its purposes, to persuade and convince its hearers that Jesus Christ is worthy, sufficient, authoratative, qualified, and trustworthy to receive our faith in for eternal life.

As you may have noticed, I've watched with some consternation as headlines about the (not - so - revelatory) disclosure that I attend an Episcopal church declare that I've «left evangelicals for Episcopalians,» «dropped evangelical pretense for mainline Christianity,» and «departed evangelicalism to embrace a couch potato, cafeteria - style Christianity.&raquAs you may have noticed, I've watched with some consternation as headlines about the (not - so - revelatory) disclosure that I attend an Episcopal church declare that I've «left evangelicals for Episcopalians,» «dropped evangelical pretense for mainline Christianity,» and «departed evangelicalism to embrace a couch potato, cafeteria - style Christianity.&raquas headlines about the (not - so - revelatory) disclosure that I attend an Episcopal church declare that I've «left evangelicals for Episcopalians,» «dropped evangelical pretense for mainline Christianity,» and «departed evangelicalism to embrace a couch potato, cafeteria - style Christianity.»

We've been battling bugs for two weeks now, and as I am writing this, the finally - healthy Bug is at the pool with daddy while I sit on the couch while Little Dude takes another long nap.

As I sit here on this new - to - me couch, with my feet propped up on a borrowed coffee table, I wonder how long it will take for this new place to become home.

It will call to you from the refrigerator while you fiddle with your stir - fry for dinner; it will entice you while you recline on the couch to watch your soap opera; it will torment you as you slog through another session on the treadmill; it will whisper to you while you lie in bed and think about what to write in tomorrow's blog post.

You want to do something special with your significant other this year, and as much fun as falling asleep on the couch in your pajamas is, you're in the mood for something a little fancier.

As I type this, my cat is sitting behind me on the couch, desperately breathing into my ear, waiting for her dinner to be served.

Or a hit with yourself and your couch if you decide one batch is meant just for yours truly (I almost insist you make one as so).

Some little guy in your head hits the garage door opener for your eyelids and they start to slowly slide down the fronts of your eyeballs, as your stomach seduces you into lying down on the couch.

It features comfortable couches and chairs, teak flooring, while a glass railing all along the edge allows for majestic views of the Chao Phraya River as you sip your drink of choice.

But he criticised Mr Joyce for not outlining more detail, describing the proposed measures as vague and couched in qualified terms.

Empire, is coming back tomorrow and we can't wait to mix up some cocktails and have the gang over for our own version of «People's Couch» as we sing our way through the season premiere.

For the last five days I have been on the couch, yes on my lonely couch hunched over sick as a dog.

I am so excited for you... and it's no surprise the out - pouring of support and couch - offers as you are just a little gem

As he gets soaked, Lal Heneghan calls Clark and Policy to update them on his three - hour negotiating session with Tom Condon, the agent for Couch.

«Only the best for you, Tim,» Heneghan says as he, Couch and Condon duck into the only private space they can find, a men's room at Madison Square Garden.

As for the guy Woods still hopes to surpass on his way to 19 major championships, he'll follow Tiger's progress — but not from his couch.

By the time the quarterback donned his Jets cap on Day 3, he'd been sitting on a couch for 44 consecutive hours, or what's known in Tallahassee as time served.

As in, the hours beginning last Thursday night, which was couch - potato nirvana: NBA Finals Game 7 (highest rating since 1998), Team USA's stirring comeback against Slovenia (most TV households for a soccer match in U.S. history) and, for a snack, the U.S. Open and its ocean views.

It has been a long year for NASCAR's most popular driver, and as soon as he collapsed onto a couch in the cool of his coach, Little E let out a deep sigh and acknowledged a sobering reality: In his last season with Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI), the team that his father founded, he isn't likely to challenge for the Cup.

Kentucky's Tim Couch completed 29 of 39 passes for 498 yards as the Wildcats bolted to a 41 - 10 halftime lead and a 34 - point win.

As for his happiness, well if you refuse the trade then you take the playing time the couch gives you.

Unfortunately for the multitudes of fans stacked up at Innisbrook and those planted firmly on their couches in record numbers, when his birdie putt on the 72nd hole came up just short of forcing a playoff, that's as close as Woods would get to hoisting his first PGA Tour trophy since 2013.

As I laid motionless on a couch for two straight days, sipping hot chocolate, watching previews for Trista and Ryan's wedding while reading the latest Women's Home Journal, which I picked up because it had Kelly Ripa on the cover, I began to think that I had lost my game.

Childhood obesity and Type II diabetes have reached epidemic levels as more and more children abandon the playground or sports field for the comfort of their couches and Play Stations.