Sentences with phrase «ask things of»

Or to ask things of a God who doesn't go «zap», who isn't a specific interventionist?

I grew away from the church as I found more and more it asked things of me that conflicted with my conscience.

Declan Hayes is used to people asking things of him and saying no.

Not exact matches

«This is a terrific thing, because once that question is asked and answered, it's searchable,» says Wendy Arnott, TD's vice-president of social media.

«If someone is in their 30s and they have a lot of earning power but they've continued to ratchet up their lifestyle to match their earnings, they may have a fantastic lifestyle now, but they need to ask themselves: Are they doing the things they need to be doing so that they can retire on the time frame they want to?»

«If you ask how they're doing,» Will says, «most entrepreneurs will say, «Things are great,» or, «We're crushing it,» and maybe for 1 percent of businesses, that's true.

Now, it's more of technological wonder that when I visit Walmart's website, the first thing it does is ask me if I'm ready to reorder a slew of products I put into a real cart in a physical store, even though I've never ordered these things via the website.

And, not exactly able to announce that fact or ask his sick wife to sign off, the wealthy Edwards turned to some wealthy backers to take care of the woman and the baby and hide the whole thing from Elizabeth Edwards and presumably everyone else.

One of the ways the central bank assesses the mood of business owners and managers is to ask them how things such as current orders compare with a year earlier.

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

Ask Aubrey Hearn, vice president and senior portfolio manager for Sentry Investments, about his investing philosophy and the first thing he'll tell you is that he's a big fan of Warren Buffett.

When Lyft first launched, recalls the company's director of marketing strategy & operations Gina Ma, «it felt like really asking people to participate in this really big sort of social experiment almost — the idea of doing these things that your mom always told you not to do.»

The belief is that most online businesses will never be able to compete with the personalized service of a person at the counter waiting to help you, to ask you how your day is going, to help carry your bags to your car, to lend you a bathroom, and to sell you things you don't really need.

The research had a simple setup: invite 57 volunteers with no history of serious insomnia into a sleep lab and ask them to do one of two things before settling in for the night.

Yet, when I had a bunch of VCs in here last week from the United States and I was talking to them about various things, I was asking how our wireless and broadband are here because we're told in Canadian terms that we have superior networks.

When asked to rate how important it was to run a balanced budget, May said: «In the scheme of things, not very.»

Follow - up studies that asked volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.

If you mess things up at the start, you'll soon enough get to that awful and uncomfortable conversation where someone will ask you about one of the new hires and you'll say «I don't know» or «the jury's still out.»

The second time I sat in their meeting, I realized that Sue asks the same questions at each meeting, and to each rep. Doing things the way we always have done them leads to forecast meetings becoming a waste of time.

The digital platform we're experimenting with, designed by Waterloo - based Plasticity Labs, asks us to make daily estimates of our happiness on a scale of 1 - 100 and to occasionally answer questions like, How often do you make time for things that make you happy?

They were asked to rank themselves at that moment in time on statements like: «I feel like most of my life lies ahead of me,» «My future seems infinite to me,» «Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot of time in which to get things done.»

«Some things have internet capabilities that you didn't ask for and will never use,» says Leon Adato of SolarWinds adding that any devices that don't need to be connected to the internet should be disconnected.

Whereas if we ask ourselves how could we do this in 20 percent of the time, it will make us look at things completely differently which could help us find an alternative or better solution.

Asked what he considers his greatest achievement, he acknowledged the obvious — «the chance to be part of the software revolution empowering people was the biggest thing I have gotten to do» but made it clear it's healthcare that has his attention these days.

Please take some time to go back to the checklist and ask yourself honestly — are you doing all of these things in order to develop leaders who are going to drive sales and revenue opportunities at your company in the future?

She develops the habit of memorizing sports scores off the Bloomberg ticker first thing in the morning, knowing that her bosses will ask her about them later in the day.

Keep in mind that it's perfectly fine to ask things like, «What are the most important aspects of this job?»

The only thing I ask for is patience, and most importantly, that the President of the Generalitat (Puigdemont) and his colleagues urgently denounce the movement for independence in public to give the Catalan people and businesses peace and security,» he said.

And so on days like Wednesday when the stock market sells off, people might be asking about the health of things like the biotech sector.

Case in point: Birch Coffee's «ignition initiative» in which customers can take a sign from the wall of the store (samples include: «Ask Me What I Ate for Lunch Today» and «Ask Me About the Most Embarrassing Thing in My iTunes Library»), and place it in front of their table if they'd like to encourage random conversations with strangers.

I use to do the whole analytical thing and I am still a big fan of collaborative decision - making and have seen great things can come from it, but at the end of the day if there is no clear cut decision I ask the man upstairs.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

The professor at Arizona State University's business school and author of The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse, asks her clients, «What are the things you would never do at this company to get a client, to keep a client, to make sure you met your numbers for the quarter?»

That is, if you're buying a pair of sneakers online, there is no reason that a business should be asking for your birth date, social security number, annual income, copies of your ID or credit card, and so on (you'd be surprised by how many online businesses ask for these things).

When asked about his longer - term strategy for Hitachi, the chief executive said: «Listen to all of the people's opinions, not only internal but also external opinions [and] imagine [how things will be like] five years later.

«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending on the structure.

April Masini, writer of the «Ask April» advice column said Kutcher did a lot of things right — dressing casually for an audience of teens, for one.

If you ask business leaders what they think are the most important things to look for when hiring someone, you'll get a lot of answers.

For those skimming the news in the morning and asking what this wonder technology is that can underlie a currency, solve a connection problem for the Internet of things, keep documents secure and also secure the world wide web, the answer is actually simple.

There's also the new gift service, which looks at the Facebook profiles of your friends and suggests items they might like, and something called Taste Test, which asks you to rate a smattering of random items and then suggests things to buy.

With that said, there are a string of phone scams taking place, asking people to make payments for things such as taxes, hospital bills, bail money, debt collection and utility bills.

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

I asked them to go around the room, say their name, what job they had and to offer two examples of what was working and two examples of things not working.

«You ought to be able to sit in a patient encounter and have my discussion and bring things out of the database that prompt me to ask you stuff,» he says.

But regardless of your race or that of the person you're speaking with, don't be afraid or too proud to look foolish to ask questions about things you don't know — especially when someone says something that needs further discussion.

Before deciding on the location of a new office, for example, he and members of his supergroup ask themselves if the space reflects each of those things.

Looking into a crystal ball isn't exactly a scientific thing to do, but if you ask the right kinds of smart people you can get a pretty good idea what's likely to come down the pike.

It's one thing to ask your senior vice president of marketing to take overseas calls at night from time to time; it's quite another to assume that he or she will be at your beck and call every weekday evening and all weekend.

For some users, the departure of Taylor seemed to sum up a lot of these changes: Poor communication from the site's management, a move that seemed to indicate a lack of respect for the work that moderators and other users do, and suggestions that her firing might have been triggered by her refusal to do certain things that would make the Ask Me Anything feature more commercial.

«We have to look at the white space — big data, cloud, mobility, the Internet of Things — and ask, «How are we going to play with those things?»&Things — and ask, «How are we going to play with those things?»&things?»»