Sentences with phrase «at attention by»

This sweetie is content to sit at attention by her owner.

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Specific areas to focus attention on are: switching off all lights and electronics at night, turning thermostats down by one or two degrees, and having timers on heating and lighting systems so they are only on when required.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

You may receive a promotion or some kind of attention at work that you've been waiting for (by the way, here's how to find work you love).

They think it will put pressure on companies by drawing attention to the growing inequality between compensation for workers at the top of the company hierarchy and those at the bottom.

Despite that reversal, UPS maintains that its denial of Young's light duty request was lawful at the time and that its policy change is voluntary and not required by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.The Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief supporting UPS, calling attention to companies that offer pregnant employees «more than what federal law compels them to provide.»

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler opened up earlier this year in a blog post about the toxic culture of workplace harassment at the company, alleging that she was sexually harassed by a male manager at Uber whose actions were knowingly brought to the attention of HR.

It's part of a wave of e-commerce players opening up storefronts, a shift motivated by the growing competition for consumer attention online, according to Sucharita Mulpuru - Kodali, vice-president and principal analyst for e-business and channel strategy at Forrester Research.

The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

Then, tune in more by paying attention to the air quality at home, in your office or at the gym — the places where you spend most of your time.

Copies of the prospectus, the related preliminary prospectus supplement and the registration statement can be obtained from Barclays Capital Inc., Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, 1-888-603-5847, [email protected]; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c / o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, Tel: [phone]; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 375 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10152, by telephone at [phone] or email to [email protected]; Evercore Group L.L.C., Attention: Equity Capital Markets, 55 East 52nd Street, 36th Floor, New York, NY 10055, by telephone at 888-474-0200 or by email at [email protected]; and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Attention: Prospectus Department, 3333 Peachtree Road NE, 9th Floor, Atlanta, GA 30326, telephone: [phone], fax: [phone] or email: [email protected].

Research by the University of Southern California, which explores what happens when our brains are at rest, reveals that when our minds wander they engage in a form of neural processing «that is relatively suppressed when attention is focused on the outside world.»

He also noted that many drugs aimed at lessening the effects of Alzheimer's disease work by attempting to improve this attention mechanism.

Moss founded the more corporate Black Hat cybersecurity conference that year, which quickly attracted attention: By 2012 there were more than 6,500 attendees at the annual event, and last year there were more than 9,000.

«Every individual has a different personalized inflation rate, and it is often enhanced by media attention,» Poloz said during testimony at the Senate Banking Committee in April.

You can grab people's attention by tweeting at them and sharing their content.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

By courting like minded voices in those countries, Trump could burnish his diplomatic bonafides at the same time that he draws attention to the issue.

By mid-January, after the other two intelligence officers also sought medical attention at the embassy, the matter began to take on a more ominous cast, several officials said.

As someone who helps prospective and existing business owners for a living, I am heartened by all the media attention aimed at helping people find employment and survive this difficult economy.

But many customer service representatives want to avoid conflict, trying to turn attention away from the issue at hand by deflecting the customer's complaint and routinely reciting «company policies.»

As Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.

While at the time The Daily Times reported that Diana seemed unfazed by the attention, Vanity Fair reported that the lady was severely bulimic prior to the wedding, linking the eating disorder to the intense pressure.

The offering was being made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which may be obtained from: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010, or by telephone at [phone], or by email at [email protected], and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, CA 94104, or by telephone at [phone], or by email at [email protected].

At BlackRock, we have long been saying that the second half was likely to be characterized by more volatility, given increasing investor attention on the Fed's next move.

The idea for that article emerged because we were struck by how many women are involved in philanthropy at a high level — and equally struck by how little attention they tend to receive.

Much of the attention this year will actually be captured not by a startup but by a fund investing at gigantic valuations: SoftBank's Vision Fund is slated to present, with CEO Rajeev Misra speaking alongside Goldman Sachs tech dealmaker Dan Dees.

The second post of the month, about the ending acceptance of credit cards at Loyal3 was by far the most popular, even garnishing attention from Loyal3 themselves when they tweeted out the article!

Adding to this new information is some research conducted by Womenable way back in 2007, Mapping the Missing Middle: Determining the Desire and Dimensions of Second - Stage Women Business Owners, which not only raised the point that not enough policy and programmatic attention was being paid to established women - owned firms that had not yet cracked the million - dollar revenue barrier, but sized this population at between 16 % (if defined to include firms with employees or between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million in revenues) and fully 91 % (if having employees and revenues over $ 100,000 was not a criterion) of the entire women - owned business population.

He first noticed the paper while waiting for the Boston shuttle at La Guardia, his attention caught not by the articles or reviews but by a list: New York's power Seders.

Back at his desk, his attention again on Desktop Metal, he's equally enthusiastic as he describes the metal objects recently printed by the company and on display at its facilities.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

At issue with Uber is a breach brought to its attention by hackers in 2016.

Though markets remained calm, investors likely paid much attention to a speech by US President Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday.

By: Marleny Arnoldi Updated 1 hour 2 minutes ago Greater attention needs to be paid to issues of safety, and particularly the protection of the lives of mineworkers, as opposed to the insistence on chasing production, Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said on Friday after four employees died in a cave - in at Sibanye - Stillwater's... →

In a 6/25/15 address to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) forum (brought to our attention by Luke Gromen in his newsletter, The Forest for the Trees), Dr.Yao Yudong of the People's Bank of China stated, «Main reserve currency issuers may either fail to adequately meet the demand of a growing global economy for liquidity as they try to ease inflation pressures at home, or create excess liquidity in the global markets by overly stimulating domestic demand.»

Credit default swaps on Saudi Arabian debt have ballooned, and Dubai's debt pile, estimated to have reached $ 130 billion at the end of 2015 by the Institute of International Finance, is once again garnering the attention of distressed debt investors.

So, if you're interested in collecting things and continuing to keep your home lovely at the same time, try turning the collections into passive income by selling some of the things you find (especially the ones that are being sold under their value, and you would know, because you are paying attention).

I got some good reading in yesterday and came across this excellent article by Toby Carlisle at Greenbackd about the state of the overall market and thought I'd share thoughts... Focus on Stocks, not Markets I don't usually pay a significant amount of attention to where -LSB-...]

By awakening previously dormant assets like human attention or latent computer memory, the potential for cryptocurrencies to profoundly change our mores and folkways is at the heart of this emerging technology.

He's not just overshadowed by Sir John A. Even John Diefenbaker — who rates two slots below Borden on the Maclean's list in tenth — gets far more attention, including having both an icebreaker and a prominent Ottawa edifice, at 111 Sussex Drive, near Harper's house, named for him.

After the unexpectedly rapid turnaround in monetary policy by the Bank of Canada — with July's increase in Canadian interest rates coming almost a year earlier than had been widely predicted only a few weeks earlier — the attention of market participants turned to Australia, where interest rates remained at record lows.

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Republican presidential candidates might be more trusted by more voters at every level of the income distribution if they focused more of their attention on policies directly impact the working and aspiring middle - classes.

Honorable Mention: The Antlers — Hospice, Sufjan Stevens — The BQE, Taken by Trees — East of Eden, Sleeping at Last — Storyboards, Wale — Attention Deficit, Jay - Z — The Blueprint 3, The Clientele — Bonfires on the Heath, The Decemberists — Hazards of Love, MuteMath — Armistice, We Were Promised Jetpacks — These Four Walls, Deastro — Moondagger, fun.

She was hired by the DEMs to do this and take the attention off Obama's mandate for churches to give free pills and rubbers Grow up people look at this for what it is a political stunt

Last week Ryan Anderson called our attention to a new kind of moral analysis developed by Elizabeth Harman of Princeton University and announced at a conference recently held there.

Given the similarities between some of the major themes of the Philippians hymn and the chief characteristics of the emperor cult (the divine origin or pre-existence of the subject, his apotheosis by acclamation at death, his ubiquitous rule and receipt of universal homage) which have long been noted, and have received thorough attention, it is likely that the original composer of these lines, whoever they were, intended to assert the superiority of Christ over Caesar.

He was indeed a dreamer and was scoffed at by his brothers... so pay no attention to the spirits behind those hope is not the Lord.

The attention and emotion garnered by Alfie's plight and his parents» determined public campaign to get the treatment they believed he needed led to high tensions between supporters and staff at Alder Hey.