Sentences with phrase «at serious look at»

He's grown weary of the light fare and wants to try his hand at a serious look at the problems of ordinary folk.

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If you're serious about diversity at your company, the recent efforts by Intel show what a path to greater diversity and inclusiveness might actually look like.

Designed to look like a doll's house, the multicolored meeting rooms at architecture firm MVRDV each serve a different purpose — a dark blue room is used for more serious board room meetings, while a bright green room houses table tennis.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

But there's also another benefit: They're more willing to take a serious look at the product once you've made them feel comfortable saying no.

Look at some of the biggest successes of our era and tell me the founders / CEOs haven't gone through some serious stresses: Levie at Box, Houston at DropBox, Kalanick at Uber and recently Costolo at Twitter.

«But when it becomes clear that we won't be able to do that and it's not our fault, it's time to take a serious look at the relationship.»

Many times, reps looked at me quizzically wondering if I was serious or not; I was completely serious.

And when you look at the comparables in the U.S. — in the U.S. guys give away serious money.»

The review of Amazon's discount pricing is an indication the FTC is taking a serious look at the e-commerce company's agreement to buy Whole Foods (wfm), a deal that critics say could give Amazon an unfair advantage.

Today, Toews's bill is long dead, the government is unlikely to resurrect it, and Canada's online privacy regime is looking not just robust but, to at least one online legend, like a serious business opportunity.

If they say they are looking at all types of businesses or if your business falls outside of their range, then this is a potential warning sign that they may not be serious.

Looking at the current job market, the comprehendable fact is that many people with serious academic degrees are not being able to find a satisfactory job, which is giving a stagnant rise to the underemployment.

Frankly, I don't think they are represented in the Canaccord share price, but they have been improved quite a bit by Canaccord, and they look to be at, or close to, the inflection point, when they could add serious value.

«Survivalism,» or preparing for societal collapse, has become serious business among some of America's super rich, as illustrated by a recent article from The New Yorker which takes a look at the great lengths to which some of the richest from Wall Street to Silicon Valley have gone to protect themselves against cataclysmic civil unrest.

While this may be the high bar that Thurman is suggesting, as corporate leaders, we each have the opportunity to take a serious and deep look at our values and responsibilities and make lasting contributions to society.

Take a serious look at the way your existing customers are using your products, services and solutions and ask yourself if you can impact one or more of the following areas:

Anyone who is serious about being fair needs to look at the whole picture without cherry - picking evidence or pretending that generally accepted principles don't apply to some.

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.

«We're taking a very serious look at it.»

In the end, this may well be a case where the corporations need to trust the experts, or the bulk of them, and at very least lend their weight to the argument in favour of giving the Summer Olympics a very serious second look.

«Hes serious about calling their hand on this, and my understanding is they are looking at a broad array of options to do that,» Brady said.

«He's serious about calling their hand on this, and my understanding is they are looking at a broad array of options to do that,» Brady said.

With the prospect of serious Chinese investment in Canada now a reality, however, Harper is signalling that American environmental concerns about our oil are «all the more reason» for Canada to look at trade diversification, particularly diversification of energy exports.

These costs add up over time, meaning that the company could be looking at serious expenses to advertise new positions.

I didn't intend to write a novel, but looking at the poll, 70 % of so of people are in agreement that there is a serious student debt problem.

At first he was grim - faced, looked tired and serious.

As interest rates rise, RIAs should be giving a serious look at fee - based annuities as client bond portfolios lose value, according to some insurance company managers.

They'll agree about whatyoudo with your time and once the «yes» momentum is going, more often than not they'll agree to take a more serious look at your opportunity.

«You're looking at an economy where a lot of consumers are under some serious pressure from food and fuel costs.»

We get 4,000 hot line reports a year and most of them are frivolous, but there are a few serious ones and the head of our internal audit looks at all those,» said Buffett.

No doubt I'll be looking at the higher growth stocks down the road as his portfolio is lacking any serious growth stock.

And the Archbishop looked at him, like, he's an idiot and said, Mr Peeler, he says, last year, I had some very serious surgery and I did not look around for the leading Catholic surgeon.

Dec 19, 2016 If you've been too afraid to take a serious look at your investment portfolio, this could be the perfect time to finally do it.

Most of the time, the investors will just go on to look at the next investment opportunity rather than try to help rectify serious structural flaws.

Mainstream market forecasters are taking a serious look at the bitcoin boom — noting a bust could cause collateral damage in the stock market.

If a product looks very promising at this stage, it might be worth getting serious about investing in some Facebook ads to test and hone in on demand.

Bill Watson's Reason magazine article «Hillary Clinton's Protectionist Promises Would Do Serious Economic Damage,» looked at Clinton's trade agenda.

(5) The most urgent ecumenical dialogue between Russia and Rome today must focus on a new generation of Russian Orthodox thinkers: those who, having looked hard at the crisis in Ukraine and their Church leadership's propaganda activities on behalf of the Putin regime, have concluded that Russian Orthodoxy needs a new theory of Church - and - state — and should develop one in vigorous conversation with serious scholars of Catholic social doctrine.

and that is» O.K.» Recently when the young jewish boy was kidnapped and butchered it was revealed that in that area jews are allowed to have their very own «police force» and that is «O.K.» Every hard working, law - abiding, tax - paying legal citizen in this country needs to take a VERY SERIOUS LOOK at jews in the USA and how they manage to to have their own police, ambualnce service, ect.

i'm only asking that you actually take a serious look at what the other side believes» How am I misrepresenting it?

i'm only asking that you actually take a serious look at what the other side believes (because you ARE misrepresenting their position).

If Christians want to be a part of government, they need to take a serious look at that, because that's exactly what America's vote was about.

First in the United States, then in France, Italy, Spain, and Latin America, more recently in Holland, Belgium, and Germany, and now at last in Great Britain, serious attention is being paid to its work, not least among Roman Catholics who are impatient with the older Thomism, which for so long has been quasi-official in that communion, and who are looking for a conceptuality which will be comprehensive in its sweep, open to newer knowledge and science, and available for Christian use.

In his new video, comedian John Crist gives a behind - the - scenes look at a very «honest» worship leader, who also happens to be a serious prima donna.

If you associate the word «witch» strictly with vampires and zombies, it's going to be hard for you to look at a religious community using that term as a serious one.

Looking more closely at the first of these categories, it is well for the clergyman to remember that many alcoholics are in serious physical condition by the time they are ready to accept help.

Serious critics look at the Book of Mormon more closely.

Judaism itself post Israelite time and due to their life in Persia for a millennia became a serious Zoroastrian hybrid version of their faith so in every direction one looks at it, Christianity is nothing but a copy cat or a sect of Zoroastrians, w some Jewish beliefs.

The debate over abortion (most recently focused on what are called either «late - term» or «partial - birth «abortions, depending on your position) reveals a reluctance to look at the facts surrounding both sides of a serious issue out of fear that one might discover or publicize a fact that does not support one's stance.