Sentences with phrase «at the attention of»

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Just days after a gunman opened fire at her school and killed 17 of her peers, Florida high school senior Emma Gonzalez used her voice to call national attention to gun law reform.

«It has called to attention the importance of having a work environment that is safe to speak up [in],» New York City - based Mila Singh, culture strategist at culture management platform CultureIQ, said of the #MeToo trend.

«It's laughable that nobody has paid attention to that,» says Rafi Tahmazian, a portfolio manager with oversight of several energy funds at Canoe Financial in Calgary.

Even if it's small, they at least have a lot of attention from a few people.

Keep in mind that web development companies have other clients beside you and your project will not be the center of their attention at all times.

The first is to make sure a group of administrators new to power understand that Canada is important: the prime minister said Canada and the U.S. were each other's «most essential» partner, an assertion that might have surprised some of the members of the White House press corps, if they were paying attention at all.

The same way a creative advertisement or guerrilla marketing campaign (which should be part of the entrepreneurial arsenal, even though the lion's share of budget should go toward direct response advertising that has trackable results) is meant to get your attention, so too is the initial schmooze with a prospect supposed to be worthy of the attention they have given you — exciting them at the possibilities you have shown them, and delivered in an educational and entertaining way that leaves them fascinated and wanting more.

«We're less likely to pay attention to the negative,» said Nathan Spreng, director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at Cornell University's Department of Human Development.

Pay close attention when packing clothes for the workday, lest you, say, forget a shirt and find yourself scrambling to find a department store open at 8 a.m. (Pro tip: use the dry cleaner downstairs and keep a change of clothes at your desk.)

In case it has escaped anyone's attention, Amazon is well on its way to becoming the nation's largest apparel merchant; and that's even before the rollout of its just - announced Prime Wardrobe business, which provides an at - home, try - it - before - you - buy - it clothing service.

The idea of everyone getting together and promoting small, independent businesses is popular at the moment — so your small business will benefit from the extra attention.

Leader Pauline Marois also drew media attention for musing about Quebec's currency if the province was to separate from Canada — Quebec would use the Canadian dollar, she said, and hopefully get a special seat at the Bank of Canada.

«All of a sudden, the event got international attention at the BBC and CNN picked it up.

«Make sure you're paying attention to what the latest versions of the bills are,» said Tim Steffen, director of advanced planning at Baird Private Wealth Management.

She first launched her all - natural granola, Gr8nola, at a local farmers market, where it caught the attention of a Google employee.

Forrec ended up designing the five - acre indoor water park at the mall in 1985 (the biggest of its kind at the time), which attracted attention and brought in new business.

Here's a look at 20 companies that have mastered the art of getting and keeping customers» attention.

Torenberg, Fishkin and Feld are among six prominent figures within the industry bringing attention to 7 Cups of Tea's new startup listening service and startup support guide, kicked off last March at a well - attended launch party at 500 Startups» San Francisco headquarters.

In other cases, Silver argues, media organizations chose to not focus on the polls at all, but turned their attention to secondary or even tertiary events that had little impact on the outcome of the election.

Anyone who has stayed in areas where cases were recently reported should be aware of the symptoms of infection and seek medical attention at the first sign of illness.

It highlights fun new features like Animoji, but calls attention to the black bar at the top of the screen, which Levy calls «Area 51.»

The company has had its fair share of attention as of late, as it was revealed this week that Sean Rad is stepping down as CEO, but staying on at the company as president and board member.

Since mattresses are big investments, trying the pillow first provides a glimpse into the complete sleep experience you could be getting (and the attention to detail that goes into their products), at a fraction of the commitment level.

However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder of Junar, an open data platform for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job for at least a year.

Research conducted at the Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital in Northport, N.Y., concluded that a short sleep session can improve cognitive functioning and alertness, resulting in a 30 percent decline in attention failures from the baseline measure.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

His name is on the honour roll at Aquinas College for academic excellence, which I brought to the attention of my grandson on grandparents day in May of this year.

Police will be monitoring impact of the fake girl on traffic; she was designed to jolt drivers into paying attention but give those travelling at the street's recommended 30 kilometres per hour enough time to stop.

«When we're watching advertisements, if we're paying attention at all, we're trying to see some better version of ourselves in what's being sold,» says Philp.

It's a world where we use multiple devices, divide our attention between screens and multi-task dozens of tasks at once.

«If you look at the old model of advertising, it has an ascending story arc with a big reveal at the end, whereas in today's world, with everyone on their phones, you need to deliver the headline first to get their attention,» she says.

While nominally a chemistry major, Conrad focused much of his attention on his duties at The Harvard Crimson, the university's daily newspaper, rising to the position of managing editor.

Named Vibrant Curiosity, it doesn't, strictly speaking, have giga status, but has received plenty of attention since he ordered it at the same time he instituted staff paycuts at his company.

The result: at the second fair, Vincent says, Exam Master caught the attention of some venture capitalists who want to follow its growth.

Whether it's the gentle stroke of your fingers on the keyboard or your posture in your chair, you can direct your attention from your thoughts to your bodily sensations at the spur of the moment.

Forward this to other members of your team at the same time, just to bring attention to the blight of lazy communication.

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You may receive a promotion or some kind of attention at work that you've been waiting for (by the way, here's how to find work you love).

Jobs's legendary attention to detail was well in evidence at NeXT where, Tacchi reports, the men's room dcor was done in the same shades of black, white, and gray originally available on the company's products.

It requires people to use a number of cognitive skills at once — including processing speed, sustained attention, and visual skills.

At every moment, millions of things compete for your attention.

«This was a victory for Dimon, clearly, but you wonder if it was a loss, too, because of all the attention focused on him,» said Charles Elson, a corporate governance expert and a business professor at the University of Delaware.

They think it will put pressure on companies by drawing attention to the growing inequality between compensation for workers at the top of the company hierarchy and those at the bottom.

«This was the first time we saw self - publishing turn into an audition for commercial prime time,» says Nathan Maharaj, director of merchandise at Kobo, which recently launched Kobo Writing Life, a self - publishing e-book service for aspiring writers that Maharaj's team closely monitors for «opportunities that are worth mainstream attention.»

Pay attention to the related search terms Google shows you at the bottom of your search result page.

Ridiculously productive people know that they won't accomplish much if they're at the beck and call of anyone or anything that needs their attention.

The allure of «going viral» is that you can garner attention with one red - hot video or build a brand when your quirky post about firing everyone at your company (and rehiring them) hits Facebook.

As Alexandra Troy, founder and CEO of Culinary Architect Catering, explains in my book The Good Ones, a brave employee we'll call Sarah revealed that another employee, Mabel, was bad - mouthing Alexandra behind her back and not paying attention to details at work.

Researchers at the Universities of Rome and L'Aquila in Italy recently conducted a study about how eating chocolate effects brain functions like memory, attention, and processing speed.

«They focused all of their attention on the product itself and the engineering, rather than what the experience is like for their core audience,» says Rob Jekielek, a director at the institute.