Sentences with phrase «at least the goal of»

I want to believe that at least the goal of these programs is admirable, even if the method is terrible.

Not exact matches

Don't just set a goal of landing new clients; commit to cold - calling at least two leads every day.

LET»S be honest, New Year's resolutions seldom have impetus past mid-January, so why not set yourself a goal that is enjoyable and at least has some hope of being achieved, like learning more about wine.

If you're setting individualized goals, practitioners and experts agree that each employee's goals should change at least once a year — if only to stay ahead of people who outsmart the system.

The goal is to raise that percentage to at least 40 % by the end of 2016.

«Tax reform does not change our capital return goals as we remain committed to returning at least $ 60 billion of capital in the current and next two CCAR cycles, subject to regulatory approval,» CEO Michael Corbat said in a press release on Tuesday.

Set a goal to have at least one of these conversations with a new influencer each month to soon build new perspectives and a more influential contact list.

When the time comes to show up in your boss's office and say, «I'm interested in a promotion,» it's important that you have something specific in mind — if not a specific job title, then at least a clear idea of what the responsibilities might include and how this ties in to your career goals.

That prize has been elusive for Netflix despite offerings such as «The Crown» and «House of Cards,» and recruiting Rhimes and Murphy could help the company attain its goal — or at least add to its library of exclusive, buzzworthy shows.

No matter the goal, chances are somebody else has already done it — or at least accomplished pieces of it.

I'm not going to be one of those people who tell you that in order to achieve those audacious goals of yours, you need to wake up ridiculously early, but I am suggesting that you start waking up at least two hours before you have to be anywhere.

Given the bank's goal of 2 % inflation, a normal rate of interest would be at least 4 %.

Without a goal of any kind, I joined a gym in January, and by December, I was going at least four days a week.

Attempt to get at least 7 hours of sleep per night with the goal of going to bed and getting up at the same time each day.

It's hard not to sympathize with the goals of the movement, or at least with the passion of those most centrally involved.

The price point has increased with the new lounge offerings but the goal remains clear: As American Airlines is able to generate significant profits, some of that money will be reinvested in improving travel experience, at least for premium cabin customers.

It's not even clear that wealth itself is an aspirational goal anymore — at least not one that anyone will admit to out loud (especially in the combat zone of Toronto's emerging class war).

So Trump's stated goal of «dismantling» the Dodd - Frank reforms of 2010 presents at least the appearance of a personal conflict.

We instructed our employees to plan ahead for projects or goals that may be impacted by taking time off: keep your coworkers and managers informed, let your colleagues know at least two weeks ahead of time when you'll be on vacation, and report in on days you need to be out unexpectedly.

But a late - stage clinical trial called CheckMate - 026 for the drug failed to meet its primary goal of halting cancer progression in advanced, untreated patients whose tumors consisted of at least 5 % PD - L1.

Projects that reach at least 50 percent of their funding goal during their campaign have a 95 percent chance of reaching that goal in the end, so keep pushing!

«For 2009, our goal was to put an emphasis on Internet marketing,» she says, noting that at least 75 percent of Americans start their search for a new home online.

But these products can help keep you healthy, focused, and on track to reaching your goals — at least for a couple of months.

These products will help you keep healthy, focused, and on track to reaching your goals (at least for a couple of months).

But a socially responsible company at the very least takes note of such externalities, endeavours to keep them to a minimum, and ensures that they are proportionate to the permissible goals they are trying to achieve.

The goal is to have less cars on the road or, at the very least, less ownership of vehicles.

The goal is to get potential customers to spend an extended period of time on the site — at least a few minutes — and to get them to tell their friends by electronically sharing the petition and the video.

Bach suggests having at least three months» worth of expenses: «Take what you estimate you spend each month, multiply it by three, and you've calculated your goal for emergency savings,» he writes.

Some people think having lots of goals is the best way to ensure success — if one idea fails, at least there are plenty more in reserve to turn to.

If you're a numbers oriented person and need something to work towards, Murawski recommends putting away at least 10 % of your income towards your specified goals.

Now, take the time to fill in at least one goal for each of the intersecting buckets you've created between time and category.

Then came the task of assigning people to act on those goals, committing the company's director of business development, for example, to drum up at least one new international business partner within 90 days.

If I was an entrepreneur launching a crowdfunding campaign, I would probably go with IndieGoGo because, if my goal is $ 20,000 and I only raise $ 10,000, at least I'm halfway there and I can try to find other sources of money.

Set a goal of saving at least 20 percent of your salary to investment vehicles such as your retirement account, brokerage account or other qualified accounts.

Starbucks plans to accelerate the development of these stores over the next two years with the goal of opening in at least 15 cities by the end of 2018.

Of all the goals, the worst for shareholders is, ironically, «Do at least one significant deal that creates substantial shareholder value» because there was no accountability for the amount management would pay for acquisitions.

Everybody is ensured of a job at least (not the main goal of a startup employee making below market rate to just work for survival).

A: They're doing a not - bad job of it if that's your goal, to find that big mushy middle where the Liberal party likes to live, where most Canadians or at least a lot of Canadians see themselves: we see the benefits of this industry and want it do continue to prop up our economic success, while we also see that we need to move away from fossil fuels.

The figure falls short of President Trump's goal of at least 3 percent.

Following the separation, we will be roughly 93 % franchised with a clear path to reach our stated goal of becoming, at least, 96 % of franchised by the end of 2017.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Starbucks has hired more than 6,500 veterans and military spouses over the past two years toward its goal of employing at least 10,000 by 2018.

Although 1000 seems like an unreachable goal based off of these first few months, I remain confident I'll be able to reach it (or at least come very close).

The event began last Thursday on November 17 at 11 AM PST with the goal of raising at least 200 bitcoins.

Reason is that setting goal of $ 2000 or even $ 2500 will not be enough to cover the expenses for me and a goal like $ 4000 will be too high a barrier to cross, at - least where I'm standing now.

The legislation enforces limits on discretionary spending until 2021, establishes a procedure to increase the debt limit, creates a Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to propose further deficit reduction with a stated goal of achieving at least $ 1.5 trillion in budgetary savings over 10 years, and establishes automatic procedures for reducing spending by as much as $ 1.2 trillion if legislation originating with the new joint select committee does not achieve such savings.

On Wednesday, a report published by Quebec's interim auditor general said the PQ's goal of achieving a balanced budget by 2015 - 16 was «to say the least, ambitious,» particularly if it rules out tax hikes and caps government - spending increases at two per cent over the next two years.

At the very least, you can see where you stand in terms of your stated goals.

For example, Bill and Melinda Gates — and a consortium of other well - known investors — recently launched the $ 2 billion green energy Breakthrough Energy Ventures fund, whose goal is to invest in technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least half a gigaton.

Since eliminating the ministry of women's equality, at least three different ministries have picked up and dropped responsibility for these goals.