Sentences with phrase «at the best of»

It takes confidence to face potential investors at the best of times.

Consensus on the economy is hard to come by at the best of times, but these days, the difference of opinion seems especially pronounced.

At the best of times, everything a CMO does is a gamble with ephemeral and uncertain results; that's a hundred times truer now, with marketing tools multiplying faster than anyone could truthfully claim to keep up with.

Most people struggle to say «no» to others at the best of times.

Flying with a two - year - old is challenging at the best of times.

If there's a common theme to be gleaned from looking at the best of the year, it might be that Canadian indie developers are really good at making fun, downloadable platforming games.

Even at the best of times, the online hacking subculture is notoriously untrustworthy — full of hoaxes, disinformation, and catfishing (impersonating people to defraud others on the internet).

Although as mentioned before the data is hopelessly lagged, completely untransparent and unreliable at the best of times, the anecdotal evidence is piling up.

Executive health is a touchy subject at the best of times.

That's petty at the best of times.

It's not a bad description of Russia at the best of times.

I have vivid dreams at the best of times.

Wendy: I never saw the nasty name comment (I can't do more than skim the vitriol on here at the best of times).

To illustrate this point, we shall briefly consider what is surely one of the most eloquent descriptions of such an encounter: Jesus's meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob (Jn 4).

It was difficult at the best of times to share what I believed God might be saying from the front of the church, let alone in front of Tom.

I love Tsh's playlists at the best of time and her approach to this season with an eye on simplicity might be just what we all need.

i can say i feel that God did so and so in my life, but no one has to believe that, and if seriously questioned about it, it would only sound believable to me at the best of times.

So do you after that you prefer to be Zero created by chance looking like Ape developed until today's Mankind or rather be God creation created at the best of looks and abilities.

The second characteristic of «social justice rightly understood» is that it aims at the good of the city, not at the good of one agent only.

As for me would rather be of Adam and Eve, part of a holy spirit, at best of formation and structure, honored, preferred with a marked preferment above many of God creations, and hope to have my Book in My Right Hand.Amen.

I guess I'd recommend that rather than dismiss it, you take an honest look at the best of what it has to offer.

They can make such an appeal because they have drunk deeply at the well of this tradition; they also assume it is intelligible and fundamental to their hearers.

Joe is a snuggly boy at the best of times and when he is sick or tired, he is a clinging monkey desperate to be held, twisting my hair around his baseball mitt of a hand.

You have a «testimony» at best of some old guys from 2000 years ago.

But I know that I am a pretty useless individual at the best of times... prone to anger, impatience, unrighteous judgment, envy etc etc..

LOVED this, it can be such a pain searching for good, natural skincare products — ingredients are so complicated at the best of times!

I'm pretty obsessed with mushrooms at the best of times, I just love their texture and their ability to absorb so many flavours, which is why they work so well here.

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Thanks for sharing with us at Best of the Weekend — being featured on my blog tomorrow night as a after school snack!

Thanks so much for sharing at Best of the Weekend and pinning - have a happy Saturday and a wonderful weekend!

Not exact matches

One of a number of reasons I stayed out of my business offices and worked at home as much as possible was because when I went to the office, I was «drawn» to listen in on, interfere with or critique every phone call, look at every fax, poke my nose all the way into everything — to the extent that I ruined everybody else's productivity as well as my own.

If all goes well, they will ratify an agreement that will unlock bailout funds that would allow Greece to pay the the almost $ 2 - billion it owes the IMF at the end of the month.

In making its case to cities, Uber can start by better explaining the benefits it can bring to municipalities, says Jui Ramaprasad, a professor of information systems at McGill University's Desautels faculty of management.

It turns out the index has jumped into territory that exceeds what it registered in 2013 at the time of the last government shutdown, notching well over 400 points.

For one thing, many open - Web advocates argue that these kinds of deals cement control of the internet with a few large platforms such as Facebook, which may not always have the best interests of news and journalism at heart.

You may be ending up with a person with fake credentials and therefore is, at best, unable to complete the requirements of the job.

«The CEO wanted to have a certain culture at the company, but he had a lot of other priorities to focus on as well,» Duffin says.

Regulators such as the Financial Services Commission of Ontario have also strongly expressed the opinion that telematics devices should be used primarily for the benefit of the consumer, and to help individuals become better drivers (as evidenced by a presentation given by the FSCO at a UBI Symposium this past February).

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

Let's say after paying all its costs, advertising, payroll, taxes, and more taxes, a small business has a margin at the end of the day of 10 % (that's pretty good nowadays, especially for a smaller business); that means your 3 % credit card fees are costing them 30 % of their profit!

If we can accept them as reasonable judges, they all name Frances Hesselbein — Presidential Medal of Freedom Honoree, advisor to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, and more — as the best leader in the country.

Combine that with weak commodity prices, flat global trade and the governance risk associated with companies in many of these countries, and safety - minded investors are perhaps best served by limiting their exposure to the grouping at this time.

At the lowest levels, the campaign offered backers exclusive access to Ries's new book, «The Leader's Guide,» as well as a copy of Riese's next non-exclusive book.

Only moonshots matter; being in the middle of anything else is mediocre at best and boring, which is even worse.

It places the customer at the center of business, and it focuses on the ultimate endgame, which is leveraging blockchain to prevent disruption as well as ensure that both parties benefit from such a secured transaction.

Without experiencing it, Slack admittedly sounds like garden - variety instant messaging; the difficulty of quickly summarizing what it's good at means that converts often have a wooly, evangelical way of talking about it.

If you don't take care of your nutrition and daily exercise, you aren't going to be at your best — and you definitely won't be unstoppable.

«Deep down at heart, we are like kids at Christmas and want to be surprised with something cool,» says Ruhlin «The element of surprise can elevate a gift from good to great.»

«One of his repeated phrases was «the best,»» David Jr. recalls of his dad, who died last year at age 101.

I think at the root of everything being better now is that I don't judge things by a young person's values.