Sentences with phrase «asked about raising»

According to Musk's biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Brown approached her boss of 12 years asking about a raise.

The athletic department is out here asking about raising the Tide Pride membership fees again this year.

Asked about Raise the Age and the final negotiations in Albany, de Blasio said Friday morning on WNYC, «I care that whatever we do is going to focus on rehabilitating these young people although, obviously, some young people commit very serious crimes.

Support falls to 45 %, however, when the question (posed to the second group) asks about raising taxes to pay for teacher salaries.

HR and managers always like to point out the «total compensation package» that you are receiving when people start asking about raises, but it does hold true when you think about it.

They told us what to look for: signs of trouble as well as how to improve work relationships and performance reviews, and how and when to approach your boss to ask about a raise or promotion.

Not exact matches

While investors asked about it, it didn't hurt the fund - raising effort.

«Women tend to ask for about half as much as they need,» explained Stengel, to which MacPherson elaborated: «Raising money is gut - wrenching and exhausting.

Ljung confirmed on July 12 that he's in the process of trying to raise more money for the company after he was asked about a rumoured $ 250 million (# 193 million) funding round.

Schwerin went on to say that adviser Minyon Moore had raised tough questions about the wisdom of making the speech because it could «unintentionally end up elevating questions that aren't yet being widely asked and introduce new damaging information, especially super predator, to a lot more voters.»

As an employee, it could be a decision about whether to ask for a raise, take on a new project, or even leave for a different job.

Asked about the discrepancy, the chairwoman of the polling station's election commission, Oksana Mediyeva, said independent monitors had watched the vote and had raised no issues.

We asked her about the process of raising startup funds from complete strangers online.

Too many Millennials complain about not getting paid enough while they do one of two things: they either do not ask for a raise, period, or they do not take the time to understand what would warrant a raise and going all - in on acquiring that skill set.

When asked about the SaaS sector in the country and the startup scenario, from a fundraising viewpoint, Subramanian stated that ventures like Freshworks (backed by Google Ventures) and BrowserStack (Secured $ 50 Million from Accel) have set precedents in terms of raising the bar for fundraising in India.

And what I hate is that women are always asked the question about diversity, and if you're one of the few women in the room, you feel obligated to raise it as an issue, when you would rather far often talk about the economics of something.

And I think when people ask me about it now, as an adult — I actually raised my own children in the same business — it was just the most joyful way to grow up.»

As part of the survey, SurePayroll asked small business owners about the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 9 per hour.

More than half of 13,592 voters asked (55 percent) about raising the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour say they support the idea.

Comey's testimony raises questions about whether Trump obstructed justice in his interactions with the former FBI director, beginning with a dinner on January 27, during which Comey said Trump asked him for his «loyalty.»

«When I ask my MBA class whether they hope to found a company or work in a start - up, about 80 % raise their hands,» says Ralph Maurer, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tulane University.

The first question asked was about staying motivated on building up your business while you're working a 9 - 5 and raising a family.

Clockwise from top left: Sean Hannity purchases raise concerns about LLCs, SL Green founder and chairman steps down (Credit: Steve Friedman), Hillary Clinton asks RE firms to support Gateway (Credit: Gage Skidmore) and Fed holds interest rates steady.

People use Safety Check to let their friends and family know they are safe; people support one another through Community Help, which enables them to ask for and offer recovery assistance; and people raise money for causes they care about and to help communities rebuild after a crisis.

I asked her about reports that her government is planning to raise Alberta's $ 15 per tonne carbon price to $ 40 per tonne as a means to getting American approval for the pipeline project — a price that environmental critics say would be still too low.

If being able to more easily purchase meat and poultry raised without antibiotics is important to you, Halloran has this advice: «Wherever you eat, ask restaurant managers about their meat sourcing policies and practices and make sure they know that you're looking for options that are healthier not only for you but for the animals and the environment, too — including meat produced without the routine use of antibiotics.»

The Markham, Ontario - based company was aiming to raise about C$ 80 million ($ 62 million) selling shares at C$ 10 each, after lowering the price from a range of C$ 12 to C$ 14, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private.

Maybe going to the gym, talking to your boss about a raise, asking someone out on a date, one of those things you have to will yourself to do.

So while it is heartening from a business perspective that Asia's Top 20 private banks raised their collective AUM by some 30 % percent in 2017, leadership (if it hasn't already) must ask searching questions about what it means as a wealth manager to add value to clients.

The company could raise about $ 400 million from a local market listing, the people said, asking not to be identified as the details aren't public.

Mr. Musk cut off an analyst asking about the company's need to raise additional money from investors.

Consider raising deductibles and ask about any «no claim discounts.»

Not all Jews believe this, BTW, but in Judaism I have yet to run across someone who believe that G - d would punish anyone for their «beliefs» and not their «deeds» (take a good look at the Tanach... the contract with the Jews (known as the «teachings of G - d», not «the law») is all about behaviour; and while many Christians have been raised to view «the teachings of G - d» (the law) as something to be «freed» from... one has to ask the simple question..

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

As a new mom asking big questions about how we want to raise our son in the faith, I found this book incredibly helpful, because it starts so small.

The revolutionary, almost subversive, thing about asking is that it goes beyond making it OK to have secret questions and inner doubts and gives us permission to raise our hands in God's classroom with a «Pardon me, but I don't get it.»

Furthermore, by characterizing allegations of child abuse as a sad case of «disunity» and «strife» within the church and urging his fellow Christians not to ask too many questions about the situation, Challies only perpetuates the painfully common narrative that those who raise concerns about abuse in churches are troublemakers, out to sow disunity and dissention, and that we are wise to keep this matters quiet.

Perhaps the hardest lesson I've had to learn as I've raised questions about Bible - Belt Christianity is that no amount of passion or persuasion can convince others to ask the same questions.

Still, without raising any question of the «fitness» of blacks for citizenship, it is fair to ask now about opportunities unexploited, about rights unexercised, about whether we are too much responsible for what ails our urban centers, about duty and obligation.

Accordingly, to ask about the truth of theological proposals is in part to raise questions about the «logic» of the types of speech and action that comprise the Christian thing.

To ask about the future of the identity «Christian,» therefore, is to raise questions not so much about individuals as about social institutions.

So Business Insider, in its writeup turned this into a lesson about the folly of asking for a raise without knowing for sure how valuable you are to your employer.

For instance, we can ask: How did the social / philosophical / religious environment in which a person was raised affect the way in which that individual thinks about tyranny in general, and the problem of abortion in particular?

I'm raising my kids in the church because the moral lessons are valuable to children, but when they are more mature and start asking the questions that dogma can't answer I intend to be candid about my experiences and encourage them to seek the answers for themselves.

What raised eyebrows about these demands was not their size but the fact that they came from an ethnic group, rather than a nation or state, and a group which was asking that its ethnic identity become the basis for the reparations.

It's about raising awareness of the harm religious dogmatism does and asking religions to stop imposing their beliefs on other human beings.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Asked about what she wants for her future, she replied tentatively, «Hopefully to have one or two more kids and hopefully get married and just raise our family.»

It is one of the greatest weaknesses of our time that we lack the patience and faith to build up voluntary organizations for purposes which we value highly, and immediately ask the government to bring about by coercion (or with means raised by coercion) anything that appears as desirable to large numbers.

There, Matthew's version of the question raised at Caesarea Philippi about Jesus» identity begins with Jesus asking «Who do people say that the Son of Man is?»