Sentences with phrase «at least a good first»

While the policy needs to be lifted to allow ALL pit bulls to be transferred, this is at least a good first step for the county shelter.

Not exact matches

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

(It's a good idea to assign a co-worker or a hiring manager as a mentor to check - in with the new hire throughout at least the first week.)

According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own portfolio, companies with at least one female founder provided them with 63 % better returns on investment than companies with all - male teams.

It's a good idea to schedule a lunch or other informal get - together with your new hire and at least one or two members of the team he or she will be joining prior to the first official day at work, says Raz.

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

Zukunft: Well, the first is you think beyond the tyranny of the present, and you need to think at least five to six years out, and you can't just think of what's going to happen during your four - year tenure and then just truncate it and just say it's going to be somebody else's problem four, five years from now.

At first glance, at least, its prospects are looking better: in 2015, it partnered with SSI group, a publicly traded specialty retailer, in order to establish franchises in the PhilippineAt first glance, at least, its prospects are looking better: in 2015, it partnered with SSI group, a publicly traded specialty retailer, in order to establish franchises in the Philippineat least, its prospects are looking better: in 2015, it partnered with SSI group, a publicly traded specialty retailer, in order to establish franchises in the Philippines.

However, the softness in economic data, particularly as it relates to inflation, coupled with market expectations that the first Fed rate hike won't happen until well into 2016 have inspired at least a momentary burst in high - yield confidence.

In its survey, WalletHub also singled out the Lufthansa credit card as the best for airline rewards, due to its signing bonus of 35,000 miles if you spend at least $ 1,000 in the first three months — a value of about $ 780 in airfare, according to WalletHub's calculations — as well as the lack of foreign transaction fees.

With an itchy vagina, your first thought would probably be a yeast infection, and that is a good place to start — after all, an estimated 75 percent of women will get at least one yeast infection in her life, making it far more common than a semen allergy.

Not everything worth doing is worth doing well — at least at first.

There is at least some good news: The FDA in May approved Radicava, the first ALS drug greenlighted in 22 years on an application by the Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, a subsidiary of the tech giant.

Instead, they'll be put into service with ride - hailing companies like Uber Technologies and Lyft: They'll be automated taxis, limited (at least at first) to well - mapped cities.

At the very least, it seems like a good bet to top the previous ratings record for presidential debates, set in 1980, when 80.2 million people tuned in to watch the first debate between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.

Third - best market for first - time buyers: Chicago Chicago is at least America's Second City when it comes to entry - level housing, offering the second - largest supply of starter homes of any city that Zillow analyzed.

«It requires at least one and sometimes multiple facilities in or near every major consumer market in the U.S.,» notes Good Jobs First in a report on Amazon subsidies.

All of these are not euphemisms, exactly, but they were powerful signifiers to the Playboy reader: She had been recognized as a perfect physical specimen, and had been rewarded for it in the farm leagues, but while she may have been circling close to the venues where nudity is required, there is very good chance — or at least it was plausible for the consumer to believe — that these Playboy photos were her first experience with the form.

By the first or second week of November, we should have a pretty good idea as to whether or not persistent bullish momentum will at least carry itself through the end of the year.

However, monthly data on corporate income tax revenues for at least the first nine months of the fiscal year may not be a good indicator of the potential outcome for the year as a whole.

For online marketplaces, one of the main goals is to land on the first page of Google search results (well at least it should be).

As with the other second - place finisher, Kalispell, Libby's top two least expensive options were State Farm, at a rate of $ 115 per year, and GEICO, at $ 119, so renters in Libby should look at these companies first to get the best deal.

I am not sure I can keep that quarterly amount up for the whole year, but at least I laid a good foundation in this first quarter.

At the very least, the Nielsen data makes a strong case for the theory that the time we allocate to consuming entertainment content is valuable in direct proportion to its finitude and therefore may be better spent by side - stepping the advertisements for all those things we've never had any interest in buying in the first place.

I've listed the best ones (well, at least in my opinion) first, followed by a couple of special categories, a few honorable mentions and the most popular posts of Wiep.net.

And if you literally mean a flat tax with from the first dollar (which is * NOT * what most flat tax proposals are, by the way — they all include at least a significant standard deduction)-- one with no deductions & credits (not even home interest deductions or charitable deductions or college deductions, etc), then we may as well be discussing what type of pig would fly more efficiently.

First, «Abenomics is working well... thus leading us to believe the foreign currency rate won't fluctuate widely from the current levels at least for next several years,» Mr. Tanaka said.

You know I find it odd that you only claim it's a fake post when it is blantantly psychotic, which you are very well known for around here from at least a year back when I first came to this blog.

The heretical philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, on the other hand, claimed that new theories frequently contradict the best available evidence — at least at first.

Well, since the first «gospels» were written at least 40 years after Jesus supposedly died it's all revisionist history, if it's history at all.

The interpretation of the no religious test clause propounded by good people like Bill Bennett and William McGurn would put it at odds with at least two clauses of the First Amendment.

If you want to do well by your kids find out what wealthy, educated people (not entertainers) are naming their kids and use those names, at least for the first names.

Prudentius is, first and last, a believer: «With voice at least let my soul honor God, if with good deeds she can not,» he declares in his own preface.

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneAt first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat the whim of the gardener.

It is a distinct pleasure to respond to the critique of Father Eric C. Meyer, who was the first Catholic theologian to respond seriously to my work, and who in many ways knows my own position, or, at least my route to it, better than I do myself.

What has been discovered... is that, on one main point at least (the choice between the three propositions), religion at its best was literally and philosophically right, and theology was but a first approximation, vitiated by ambiguities or inconsistencies.

Hauerwas insists that the first task of the church is not to make the world more just, but to make the world the world — by which he means that the best favor the church can do for the world is to live as a different sort of people, and thereby at least offer the world something interesting in which not to believe,

According to Trena Mewborn, Director of Counseling Service at First Baptist Church at the Mall, there are addicts in the church as well: «Just based on the couples that I've seen through the years, at least 50 percent of the couples who are coming forward have some type of struggle with pornography or internet affairs or some type of sexual issue.»

A denominational press can feel good about sales of 6,000 to 10,000 over the lifetime of a book; HarperSanFrancisco does not want to publish a book unless it is likely to sell at least 15,000 in the first year.

Phenomenology, at least in its first practitioners and its early stages, was conceived as a conscious rejection of subjectivism and an attempt to recover, without abandoning inwardness, the experienced reality of external things and of the self as well.

At least that is what mature clergy often report to me at conferences where we try to review some of the best and worst times of the first five years after graduation from seminarAt least that is what mature clergy often report to me at conferences where we try to review some of the best and worst times of the first five years after graduation from seminarat conferences where we try to review some of the best and worst times of the first five years after graduation from seminary.

But, the very first one in dictionary.com seems to fit at least fairly well.

sounds more like «corporate brainstorming», but what I was trying to suggest is that it appears that we're witnessing (not intentionally) an evolving understanding of what wd become more central to the narrative and eventually orthodox.That is, if you cdn't believe it, you were out the door.A good example wd be the higher Christology that the fourth gospel reflects and more specifically, the virgin birth which it (like Mark and Paul) doesn't mention.If the birth narratives that we're familiar with are absent from the earliest gospel and the most theological gospel that came decades later, and can only be found in the other two gospels that we know used the first, it at least suggests a growing and evolving understanding of who Jesus «was» and «is».

And the one you heard was not our best, at least not mine... It was the first time that Liz had ever read any of those Scriptures, so I thought we would have enough to talk about just confronting the content of the story, but it was actually kind of slow.

«Based on organ donation data from the first full year of the opt - in system in Wales, the message for other UK jurisdictions tempted by the an opt - out system is - for the moment at least - leave well alone.»

At least adults (except for mentally ill) can usually come to this conclusion: «Gee, if I want to be treated well by others, then I suppose I had better treat them nicely in the first place.»

It was actually really good, even though I think being part of what will eventually be a trilogy might hurt it a bit, there kept being points that I expected him to hit that were never quite paid off, in the first book at least.

Alternatively, and in contrast to the first two positions, there is the view that value is rooted in a «moral universe» which can be at least fairly well known and approximated by man through his rational capacities; this moral universe participates in, yet in its fullness transcends, the actual shape of culture, history and human will; and the task of moral agents is to discover and act on the principles, laws and rules that this universe contains and reveals to the discerning moral conscience.

And though neither side represented anything resembling a conventional view of Christianity, what transpired (at least for the first half of the interview), was an entertaining and relatively well - mannered discussion about the dangerous — but passionately followed — theological perspective and hate - speech of the «church» members.

There is a dark side to this universe which, at least at first sight, seems utterly inconsistent with faith in a good God.