Sentences with phrase «at doing certain»

In games with very hard execution, sometimes it takes years to discover that ultimately, the game is shallow because it took that long for people to be good at doing certain combos or techniques.

Every Ling has a name, traits that make them better at doing certain things and even their own levelling system where you can put points into three different stats.

In other words, each corporation has its own strengths, down to the fact that they draw different action cards and are therefore better at doing certain things.

It's only an innovation in fitness that trainers always knew about 10 years because today we see there are some studies that show yeah, it actually is really effective at doing certain things.

It covers very little, in many ways, though it is strongest at doing certain things around party discourse which have fallen out of national media discussion.

Not exact matches

«There are certain sectors we used to invest in where we no longer do,» notes Ben Cukier, a founding partner at Centana Growth Partners, which specializes in PE investments in financial services and enterprise technology.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

At least in the case of ridesharing companies, these background checks don't always meet the rigor of checks required for taxi drivers in certain areas.

And certain things are better done on the federal level than at the state level: national defense, a monetary system, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international diplomacy.

The bureau says it has reason to believe the stores «failed to offer certain sleep sets at the regular price or higher for a substantial period of time [and]... did not sell a substantial volume of some sleep sets at the regular price or higher for a substantial period of time.»

The first part of the suggestion comprises of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs of doing business a little more at the same time.

«At a certain point it almost doesn't make a difference where you got them, if you got them and internalized them,» he added.

I also recommend finding out if there are people with whom you can partner who have a certain level of expertise to do the things that you're not necessarily the best at or don't particularly enjoy.

«That doesn't mean you shouldn't work on yourself and develop yourself and learn to make people more comfortable, but at a certain point it's like, what are you trying to accomplish?»

«At a certain point, I realized that there's a percentage of the population that no matter what you do or say, they're just not going to like you, and it's beyond your control,» Levy says.

What can you do to engage your target base without scaring them away, while at the same time making certain that your voice is heard above the competition?

Maybe she does a little further analysis on some other tool to check social media engagements, or look at time spent on certain pages on your site.

It's debatable if you can ever have too much money but at certain point just figuring out what to do with it is a job.

Most of the business community, and many of the president's own economic advisers, are urging him not to do it, or at least soften the blow by targeting certain offending countries.

Products that do well at certain stores are typically launched nationally the following year.

He trained 100 salespeople and monitored their performance as they rotated through different branches, and a pattern quickly emerged: new agents would consistently do better at certain offices.

But one thing that's certain is that if you don't have what XPRIZE founder and executive chairman Peter Diamandis, a panelist at the event, calls «a crazy idea department,» you're likely on your way out of business.

When using it on a smartphone, all I had to do was forget about looking at the keyboard while trying to type out a message, and my brain would remember, almost subconsciously, where certain letters were on the QWERTY system.

Or stop doing certain things so you can be happier at work.

I may not get a shot at Floyd Mayweather's belt, but I do know that certain principles about performance apply both inside — and outside — the ring.

Instead, a sleuth had to peer at certain numbers that disclosed what Berkshire subsidiaries were doing the buying.

While certain factors are out of our hands, such as an economic downturn, we do have the opportunity to make sure that we're at least investing in the right startup.

Like a certain entrepreneur who had just seen the graphical user interface at Xerox Parc and wanted to build one of his own, McLean wanted to get it done, now.

We can spin any tale we want, but what I am saying is that the market doesn't work at certain points.»

«To a certain extent, this means playacting at adulthood until your inside catches up with your outside... It means that if you see a garment and think «costume,» that doesn't mean you should avoid said garment; it may even mean you should buy it.

The market doesn't work well at certain points, Cramer said, like when the volume of trading is too high.

With enough experience and cleverness, certain folks get pretty good at picking up patterns and trends, so that they can say with a degree of certainty, «people who do this, tend to have that result,» or «X traits are often correlated with Y outcome.»

«No matter what they do in their careers — go off to a private equity firm, to consulting, go work for a big company, be in the marketing unit at Merck — they're almost certain to be involved in launching new businesses or new products, or working with people who are,» Eisenmann says.

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

At this point, it looks like the «new and improved» Kinect will be bundled with the Xbox One, meaning that the console's price will inevitably be pushed upward by something that certain wrestlers and I — not to mention a whole bunch of people — don't want or need.

Even after the crisis hit, though, the company was still able to pay its bills The problem was the debt holders were able to call in their loans when revenue at the company fell past a certain point, which they did.

When asked if he was worried about U.S. shale producers ramping production and eclipsing the recent international cuts, Novak said, «Undoubtedly the joint action by many countries to achieve the balance and to reduce the output are aimed at giving stability to the market and as a result we see a great level of investment, lower volatility, prices stabilizing at a certain level, which does play out to move investment going into shale production so one needs to assess the overall supply and demand balance.»

I am nearly certain that the folks at the campsite figured they were doing us a great favor by saving such a plum space — boasting as it did a view of the Virgin River, a cow pasture, and the rust red cliffs against the horizon.

«When everyone thinks that [a certain kind] of advertising is the «right» thing to do, that's when it has a terrible rate of return,» says Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at the Stern School of Business.

It's done to create «liquidity» at certain prices for big offers, and then make money from smaller offers, CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said.

When Jack Cheng, the founder of Steepster, looks at his desk and chair, he doesn't see a mere place to work, but a space full of memories that subtly cue him to behave in certain ways.

And while it's true that there's really nothing you can do to ensure that you never have to deal with everyday psychopaths, apparently there is at least one way you could decrease your chances — you could avoid going into certain professions.

«I was used to doing everything myself and at a certain standard.»

Or consider setting the timer for a certain amount of phone time so you don't get carried away, says Dr. Jane Thomas, marketing professor at Winthrop University.

«If one supplier quotes us a slightly higher price, but at net 60 days instead of net 30, we'll do a complete cost analysis to figure out which way we're better off, making certain we factor in our costs of money,» Blocher explains.

In Foursquare, for example, people can be noteworthy and attain badges within the system for doing such things as being the biggest regular at a certain place (What Norm and Cliff from «Cheers» would do with this...) and going to a venue in which a lot of Foursquare members of the opposite sex are present.

The story of Detroit as a dystopian wasteland has a certain twisted appeal, at least for those of us who don't live there.

«If you dispense with the formality that you want to use ATGCs to really encode binary symbols at a certain location, you can come up with much smarter and more efficient means of storing information, because you don't need to synthesize strands over and over again,» Milenkovic explains.

In the same way, you don't go out to eat merely to eat food, but for a certain experience that transcends eating at home.

I look at how traditional entertainment games help us build up certain powers, and we can occasionally use them to do something that matters.