Sentences with phrase «as if i»

«Act as if you're the president of the firm,» he commands.

Entrepreneurs who build inflexible cultures will eventually see their brainchild behave as if it's brain dead.

Sometimes people take offense about «acting the part,» as if doing so means that they are fakes.

One expert says the anonymity of the Web makes everyone behave as if they were in Palm Beach in April.

No honorific (like «Mr.») and absolutely no «Dear...» Write as if to a colleague, not your Great Aunt Mable.

He said having shelters in Massachusetts would have no impact on town budgets and when an immigrant child moves into a community, he said, «it's just as if your cousin moved to town.»

It feels as if leadership truly cares about making sure everyone can grow and become their best selves — whether they stay within Amex or not.»

We asked some of Canada's finest marketing minds to evaluate 2015's Federal Budget as if it were a product launch (which, in many ways, it is).

It would seem as if nothing can stop this market.

This is supposed to make it seem as if your email is personal, but the actual effect is the exact opposite.

Researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia found that those who talked to service providers — like a barista or a package deliverer — as if they were an acquaintance were left happier by those interactions.

He smiled, as if he had been waiting for that question.

She also says that her work at Facebook helped distract her from her grief and encouraged the new graduates to «live as if you had eleven days left.»

We cruised toward a row of pylons at 40 mph — and then the steering abruptly lurched to the left and swerved right, as if it were trying to regain composure, before skidding to a stop.

Hyundai pointed out that «when he drives a French car it is not as if he says that the French eat horses and frogs.»

Here's how it works: A company receives an email that looks as if it came from the CEO.

With the rise of social networking, search engines, text messaging and email, it's easy to feel as if business cards are a thing of the past.

In the end, the implanted employees at Epicenter in Sweden all had the chips inserted by choice, so it's not as if the company forces employees to take part.

It's as if they have Jekyll and Hyde battling it out inside their very own body.

Running a big company as if it were a small one, as we do at Virgin, comes with tremendous advantages.

Then, as if he wasn't busy enough, he launched a podcast with some friends, recording the first episode on Super Bowl Sunday 2010.

«When men only list their height, it's as if that's the only thing to offer in this world,» Ettin said.

The system makes a determination such as if people are tweeting about a program more than a competing show, how many people those posts and tweets reach, what people are saying about a program, if the program is driving an action like making people visit a website, and much more.

When I coach politicians, I tell them to start behaving now as if they had already won the election.

As you graduate, can you ask yourselves to live as if you had eleven days left?

I won't look at my inbox until I've completed one big - picture, time - intensive task — which I will choose ahead of time and block out on my calendar as if it were a meeting with myself.

When applying for a loan, treat it as if you're applying for a job.

There's also a risk that bad advisers will make trades to appear as if they're doing something in order to justify their fees, says Davis.

Investors responded to the Fed's quarter - point increase as if a weight had been lifted.

But today, every Starbucks customer has become a potential citizen - journalist, and every social media user feels empowered to react as if he or she had witnessed the event first - hand.

The key with this is simple but powerful: You need to write out exactly what you desire as if it has already happened.

As if this weren't confusing enough, there is another class of RIAs, so - called dual - registered RIAs, who are affiliated with a brokerage and sell financial products for a commission.

The Netherlands is one of just five countries that actually tax homeowners as if they're paying themselves rent.

«So if you finance a house by equity, it's as if you have money invested in the house.

And 40 % reported feeling as if their family didn't take their work seriously because they did it from home.

Painting with a broad brush, some clients feel as if they're being taken for granted.

You read that right: Retirement plan providers — a $ 6 trillion market — have long behaved as if Americans» retirement savings belonged to the providers.

«I think, in hindsight, we talk about those days as if we had this grand plan and we were executing flawlessly,» Joe McCambley, a member of the creative team that came up with the AT&T banner ad, says in the podcast episode.

She had chosen the life of a crafter because she wanted to be close to her 5 - year - old son, but she felt as if she hadn't spent any meaningful time with him in months.

In the court filing, Berns says it is as if the IRS learned of someone using Amazon to avoid taxes, and then demanded the company turn over all its customer accounts.

CenterCal's team begins by creating a place where community members can gather — somewhere people don't feel as if they have to spend money.

The exit tax looks at the asset's value and assesses taxes as if it were sold.

With the exception of subpart (e) above, if any part of this arbitration provision is deemed to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, or otherwise conflicts with the Applicable Rules, then the balance of this arbitration provision shall remain in effect and shall be construed in accordance with its terms as if the invalid, unenforceable, illegal or conflicting provision were not contained herein.

You might be better off just living in the new time zone as if you were at home.

Canadians have a bad habit of answering surveys as if they're being asked whether someone's new pants make them look fat.

It's almost as if we have some sort of control over our lives when we hear about someone who got tired of the grind and left it all to find success in the job of their dreams.

Where is it written that leaders should act as if they were injected with enough steroids to turbocharge a racehorse?

Next Issue has more than 100,000 users in Canada, says Maich, with readers spending the same amount of time with the content as if it were a print magazine, rather than a website.

They seemed to be acting as if they had no fear of a war breaking out.

It's a very hard question to answer, because it's as if I asked you what is the right price for gold?