Sentences with phrase «at least better off»

People throughout the poor world want to be rich, or at least better off than they are, and cars are a sure sign of attaining the desired higher status.

Our policies will be aimed at the least well off and will address the need to support vulnerable families, provide proper education, tackle the epidemic of debt, fight crime and drug abuse and give people a decent environment to live in.

Not exact matches

In the long run, you are better off making sure that you at least meet expectations as opposed to always trying to exceed them.

The good news is American workers are beginning to take at least a little more time off.

While you're planning your marketing and operations, give some thought to finances and whether you're ready to jump into this venture full - time or would be better off keeping your day job - at least until your new business has some revenue.

Partly they criticize you because it's a way of letting off steam, but mostly they do it because we all think, at least some of the time, that we can do a better job than the person we work for.

As Richard Branson stated, «So please, take it from me: no matter how incredibly smart you think you are, or how brilliant, disruptive or plain off - the - wall your new concept might be, every start - up team needs at least one good mentor.»

The businesses that could not meet at least three of those four elements, we figure... they will be better off with a different owner.

You're far better off working from home at least some of the time, and allowing employees to do so, too.

The study authors suggest that the prime takeaway is that cutting yourself some slack about, well, slacking off is good for you (at least if you're tightly wound), or, as BPS puts it, «the people who could most benefit from the restorative effects of lounge - based downtime... are the least likely to do so.»

They found that regular bragging was better on both counts, because it at least comes off as genuine, Sezer says.

And, while there many more steps that you'll need to take as this process evolves, like researching the opportunities you find, choosing the best one, writing a business plan, obtaining financing, and getting the proper legal advice, at least you'll be starting off on the right foot.

So please, take it from me: no matter how incredibly smart you think you are, or how brilliant, disruptive or plain off - the - wall your new concept might be, every start - up team needs at least one good mentor.

Indeed, two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, co-founded The Giving Pledge, an organization that encourages the exceptionally well - off to donate at least half of their wealth.

So while omitting a salutation on follow - up replies seems to be increasingly common, it looks like you are best off including an opening, at least in your initial email.

Despite the financial challenges they face, millennials themselves still feel pretty optimistic: Recent surveys have found a significant majority believe they will be at least as well off as...

Because I have long argued that these reforms would at best reverse the process by which the imbalances were created (especially the elimination of the financial distress «tax») if the balance sheet approach to rebalancing were the appropriate model, and are implicit in the trade - off among three outcomes I list above, they are at least consistent with what I believe is the correct analysis.

The closer we can bring capital stock per worker in Guizhou to Shanghai levels, according to this way of thinking (which implicitly assumes the capital frontier constraint, at least within China) the better off China is and the less income inequality there is likely to be.

I do have a very well - paying day job, and I am hoping a continued saving rate at 60 - 70 % for the next few years will pay off in at least a semi retirement by 45 years old.

That's far better, especially when it's generous; Travis CI mandates at least five weeks off.

«The type of Net Neutrality regulations the administration seeks to impose on the Internet threaten to cut off tens of billions of dollars in private investment annually, and will cost our struggling economy good - paying American jobs at a time when we can least afford it.»

The other side of the debate would argue that individuals who don't know how to select a sector's best stock are better off investing in the index as a whole to at least gain some form of exposure.

Because Chinese are more likely to buy off the plan and give developers the reassurance they need to start construction, new dwelling approvals have been well above their long - run average at least since 2015.

It looks like 2018 is off to a good start — for Canada's biggest banks at least!

The other thing with natural gas is that well at least we know where the bottom is... and having fallen from close to $ 14 per 1000 cubic feet last year to just above $ 2.40 last Thursday, well the absolute bottom isn't too far off now... and I can't see suppliers giving gas away for free anytime soon!

Most everyone else is better off using normal applications because they are 10x better on every other dimension, at least for now

Laugh if you want, but we think you will have to acknowledge that this Nascar ad, which depicts a carnival Ferris wheel coming off its frame and turning into a free - moving thrill ride uses special effects at least as well as the other nominees in the category.

Or at least, they'll be better off than most of us.

And I mean the wealthy, not the merely well - off: only someone with a net worth of at least several million dollars is likely to find it worthwhile to become a tax exile,

To our own consciousness there is usually a residuum of worth left over after our sins and errors have been told off — our capacity of acknowledging and regretting them is the germ of a better self in posse at least.

and another thing, i live in MD and when i was in high school we got off for at least 3 jewish holidays as well

Well, there's at least one more thing to scratch off his bucket list:...

You were better off on the booze and coffin nails; at least those only destroy your body, not your soul.

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.

Roger Boesche is not among the top ten Tocqueville scholars in my opinion, but he probably deserves to be in the top fifteen or at least twenty; he has at least three serious books on Tocqueville I can recall off - hand, the most well known being The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville, and....

Perhaps we can aspire, if not to full - blooded resistance, then at the very least to the irony of the Duke of Wellington, who is supposed to have signed off a letter: «I have the honour to be, sir, your humble and obedient servant (which you know damn well I am not).»

Well phretbuzz and Mike, I can tell you at least one area where we are all better off.

The one good thing about this farce is that it may head off at least some of the Doomsday cult hoaxes that are going to be triggered in 2012.

I personally know at least 6 business owners who display a christian symbol prominently, only to get the business of bigots who would buy from them, instead of a business with better quality & better priced merchandise who recognize gay rights.They make money off the bigotry & ignorance of those high and mighty, «Bertha better than you» types.

They have essentially cut off their noses to spite their faces... at least we are staying together to find a new home, and we'll be the better for it!

In The Stand, King's magnum opus — or at least his best book, since he would probably give the magnum - opus nod to his bloated, interminable seven - volume Dark Tower saga — the survivors of a global superflu face off in an apocalyptic battle royale, but the superflu itself is an entirely human creation, a dark thing conjured up by the just - doing - our - job good men in the U.S. military and released into the world by simple human error.

ok first off, if you think the world is going to end and you are preparing your self WHY i mean why prepare and say good bye to loved ones when every night or at least every day you say goodbye and or goodnight to your loved ones, why do you have to prepare for that if you believe in gos, you'll see them soon.

Sure, if you want great nutrition you are better off with broccoli but dates do at least offer some vitamins and minerals and are a whole food.

I burn my face off at least twice a week prematurely opening the oven to check on muffins / sweet potatoes / almond joy snack bars that I very well know are not nearly done.

At least I'm off to a good start with 2011 recipe disasters.

RJ however won't touch it with a ten - foot pole, well not in the cook - on - the - stove - eat - with - a-spoon form at least... However, I've just discovered that if I bake it into a cake - like slice, all bets are off.

When I was growing up outside of Detroit there was a company called Sanders and they made the best pre-maybe caramel cake and icing I've ever had in my life... This comes right underneath that... The only thing that I will do differently is I would make the frosting the day before and let it sit out in a cool place at least 24 hours... Because this allows the frosting to stiffen up even more... Putting it on when I did, which was like An hour or so after I made it, it's still kind of went down the sides and onto the plate but when I went back today to get another piece and I pulled it up off the plate and re-frosted it then it stay this time... Thank you so much for this recipe... I'm going to make this as much as I can... I tried to rated 5 stars but it would only let me Rate 4

I use this recipe and add dates and groundnuts and seeds anything healthy, when I need a chocolate «fix» at least I know it's better than the sugar laden crap they pass off in the supermarkets.

I know, my fellow Philly peeps are cursing me now, but I love a pretty winter snow and tend to feel ripped off if I don't get at least one good one.

Invariably, the top of the guacamole turns brown, and I have to scrape at least an inch off to get to the good stuff below.