Sentences with phrase «at the worst times of»

Now for the panic buys to save his skin, all the work that should have been done in the summer, money to be thrown away at the worst time of the year for buying players.

My birthday could not be at the worst time of the year (November 30th).

Lawyers often see people at the worst times of their lives, he adds.

He understands that people are coming through his door at the worst times of their lives.

«There's no good time for a tragedy like this, but this hit us at the worst time of year possible,» the Grand Isle native said in June.

Not exact matches

«I knew when I was eighty that I would never, for example, think about why I walked away from my 1994 Wall Street bonus right in the middle of the year at the worst possible time.

And how about this uplifting message from Jagmeet Singh after he won the leadership of the New Democratic Party on the weekend: «At a time when people are feeling so despondent, when there is a lack of hope, when it feels like things will only get worse before they get better, Canadians must stand united and champion a politics of courage to fight the politics of fear.»

While more than half of employees forfeited paid time off at year's end, some bright spots in the survey results hint that Americans may be in the process of reversing their bad vacation habits.

At a time when debate about a potential outer harbour project south of Perth is building momentum, a look at the history of development in Kwinana's industrial zone provides an illustration of the impact of government intervention in the state's economy, for better or worsAt a time when debate about a potential outer harbour project south of Perth is building momentum, a look at the history of development in Kwinana's industrial zone provides an illustration of the impact of government intervention in the state's economy, for better or worsat the history of development in Kwinana's industrial zone provides an illustration of the impact of government intervention in the state's economy, for better or worse.

The first part of the suggestion comprises of obliging the financial sector to write off a certain (not huge) amount of their bad debt, while also driving down the costs of doing business a little more at the same time.

Meanwhile, the number of people in «vulnerable» employment — such as self - employment — increased, adding to an outlook of the global employment landscape as precarious at best and deteriorating at worst as the global recovery takes time.

The successful challenger could build a coalition around a platform consisting of what used to be Trump themes — «they are laughing at us,» «we don't win anymore,» «we are weak and indecisive,» «they attack us with impunity» — but this time claiming that it is Trump himself who has made that problem worse.

A little background on the traveler's worst enemy: «Jet lag occurs when we experience a desynchronization between our internal body clock and the external time clock of our destination,» explained Natalie Dautovich, Ph.D., an Environmental Fellow at the National Sleep Foundation.

Jon Bon Jovi on how he feels Steve Jobs and iTunes have altered the music - buying experience... for the worse The Sunday Times, March 2011 Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album, and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

At the same time, members of the GOP are already talking about cutting welfare and other social programs next, and there are signs that they'll be doing so at a bad timAt the same time, members of the GOP are already talking about cutting welfare and other social programs next, and there are signs that they'll be doing so at a bad timat a bad time.

In fact, according to an old folk rhyme that many people at the time would have known — «Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all» — it would have been considered bad luck to get married on a Saturday.

In the talk, which lasts a little over an hour, Jobs shares a number of stories from his time at Apple and NeXT (the startup he founded after leaving Apple), along with the lessons learned through both good times and bad.

Pediatricians have long cautioned that kids under two should spend no time in front of screen at all, while research shows that among older kids lots of screen time is correlated with worse school performance.

As Karl Bode at DSL Reports put it in his brief analysis of the latest MoffettNathanson numbers: «The bad news for cable is the majority of them continue the slow trickling loss of subscribers that, unless you work somewhere in the cable ecosystem with your head buried in the sand, nobody believes is going to stop any time soon.»

As a PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Medical School, Piraye Beim spent much of her time trying to figure out why a particular cancer drug was lifesaving for some patients but useless — or worse — for most.

He noted that mega-incubators like 1871 are great places to get started because they enable entrepreneurs to avoid all kinds of costs and commitments that are bad uses of their scarce capital and — at the same time — to secure access to enormous amounts of «free» resources, education, networking and mentoring that will be crucial to their long - term success.

For bonds this means issues that are not at risk of defaulting on a payment; for stocks a dividend is essential, and not one at risk of a cut, or one that fluctuates through good times and bad.

It's a threat the President has repeated on multiple occasions, having at various times called NAFTA the «worst trade deal in the history of the world» and «the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world» and all terrible points in between.

Asked about the worst career advice she ever received, Ahrendts tells of the time she was working at a big corporation and a human resources manager told her that she needed to make changes — like not talking so emotionally with her hands — if she wanted to be considered «CEO material.»

«Mr Osborne is clearly being badly advised and we can only hope that others help him to understand the damage he is doing to the reputation of parliament and democracy at a critical time in the country's history.

While sites like Google, Twitter, and Facebook spent much of 2017 combatting the spread of fake news on their platforms, it was ineffective at the worst possible time: after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in October.

The fires came at one of the worst times for the marijuana industry.

Eli Finkel: We have arrived at a moment in history where the best marriages are better than the best marriages of earlier eras, while at the same time, the average marriages are getting a little bit worse.

Nearly a decade removed from its acquisition of Guidant — which Fortune labeled the second - worst ever at the time — Boston Scientific is finally pivoting from the pacemaker and heart - stint driven business it had been pursuing.

Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News at the time of the scandal, told the Times, «It takes people responsible for the worst embarrassment in the history of CBS News, and what was at the time a grievous blow to the credibility of a proud news organization, and turns them into martyrs and heroes.

But while West would never have reached the heights he has without the talent to back it up, the incident proves that West also knows the value of trash talking, bad publicity and being it in the right place at the right time.

I started at one of the worst possible times — 2008 when the economy just started to tank.

It's not a bad idea to start taking a look at what open - source software you're already using and spending some time getting a better understanding of how it works — in the case of Becker's example of AngularJS, you can dive deeper with resources like the AngularJS Google Group, AngularJS questions at Stack Overflow and W3Schools» AngularJS Tutorial.

As proved time and again, vigorous trading to catch the market at just the right moment is one of the worst things an investor can do.

What we didn't anticipate was that other factors, including bad weather and other hiccups in commodities markets, would drive up the price of food in much of the U.S., increasing restaurants» costs at a time when they couldn't easily pass those costs through to budget - conscious diners.

«Our studies have shown that companies will switch brands 78 percent of the time if they have a bad customer experience,» says Marie Rosecrans, SVP of small business marketing at Salesforce.

During an economic downturn, your volume of sales is likely to decline — so don't make matters worse by lowering prices at the same time.

Example: I recently met a B2B healthcare payments company that seeks to lower doctors offices» bad debts expense from 40 to 5 percent by helping them collect funds upfront at the time services are delivered, instead of 30 days later with an invoice in the mail.

Omar said Malaysia was suffering particularly because it was an emerging market at a time of capital outflows, it was a net exporter of oil and gas at a time of a significant drop in prices, and it was perceived to be badly affected by the Chinese slowdown as China was its largest trading partner.

«As such, stressed out sales reps will all too often try to sell and negotiate at the same time by layering questions with value points, or worse, answering their own question on behalf of the prospect.»

This latest bit of negative news could not come at a worse time for Nokia.

But at a time when Europe is in the grip of the worst recession since World War II, a cluster of villages in Switzerland has rebuffed the chance to reap the benefits of the gold deposits buried underfoot.

During bad weather or other foreseen events, airlines often give travelers plenty of time to rebook their flights for other dates, a way to avoid chaos at the airport, long before a snowflake falls or tropical - storm winds pick up.

Into this environment steps Pence — the worst of all Trump administration officials to send to Israel at such a time.

Crockett, who is bullish on SeaWorld, notes that even if things get much worse, the company has a portfolio of properties that, in its IPO filings, was valued at $ 5 billion; that's more than two times the current value of its market cap and debt.

If Uber wants to create the same kind of fan base and avoid scaring away new customers with bad - weather sticker shock, it should cap the amount riders pay at two or three times the normal rates, while still paying drivers whatever rates it needs to get them to come out onto the roads.

«These proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports couldn't come at a worse time,» Bloomberg quoted Cody Lusk, president of the American International Automobile Dealers Association, as saying.

Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he'd tried to go behind their backs to arrange the deal without including them (not great diplomacy, because he was working for the co-founders at the time, as chief executive of video company Joost).

Of course, it's open to question whether fiscal policy is effective even at the best (i.e. worst) of timeOf course, it's open to question whether fiscal policy is effective even at the best (i.e. worst) of timeof times.

Only, this time, the vast riches with no strings attached were actually true, at least according to Malaysia's attorney - general, who attempted Tuesday to draw under a line under a scandal that has badly dented the image of the relatively prosperous south - east Asian country.