Sentences with phrase «attention on a few of»

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Indeed, researchers have found that getting five or fewer hours of sleep five nights in a row has an impact on memory, attention and speed of thinking equivalent to being legally drunk.

You're lucky if you get a few minutes of focused attention before someone in the boardroom begins to check their email on their phone.

Systrom had developed a few concepts in his spare time, but in late 2009, he concentrated his attention on one: An iPhone app that would combine elements of Foursquare with elements of Mafia Wars, a popular game developed by Zynga.

It was a trend that even caught the attention of Fortune a few years ago, resulting in a cover story that focused on the booming business for bourbon.

Noting that they've been in businesses like paper and natural gas that few people pay much attention to, he wonders whether they really want to take on the quite public glare of newspaper ownership.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

If you have been paying any attention to Canadian politics on Twitter or have tuned into any of the Sun Media outlets over the past few days, you will have undoubtably noticed that the greenwashing website «Ethical Oil» has launched the Great Canadian Banana Boycott.

Pan American Silver Corp (TSX: PAAS), a metals and mining company based in Canada, received a lot of attention from a substantial price movement on the TSX over the last few months, increasing to CA$ 22.16 at one point, and dropping to the lows of CA$ 19.1.

Dissenters said it would distract attention from the main and massive reality of abortions in the early weeks and months of pregnancy, and a ban on partial - birth abortions would save very few, if any, lives.

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

In fact, most of our attention is focused on only a few of the components: film, audio and video tapes / cassettes (storage technologies); and broadcast radio and TV and cable (distribution technologies).

It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had a sensible vision of their Saviour; though enough appearances of this sort are on record, by way of miraculous exception, to merit our attention later.

In my own moves into «ministry» (btw, ministry literally means service) I am hoping to avoid the big - splash approach and rather concentrate on doing a «little for a few people» rather than getting a lot of attention but not making contact with the people behind the need.

A few weeks later I went to Mexico, at the invitation of Ivan Illich — a trip that turned out to be decisive in concentrating my attention on the Third World.

put one on our front stoop, divert attention for a few moments, probably go inside to watch a few scenes of arthur, return outside and meet all of the millions of ants that would be swarming about the oreo.

I've been giving my big boys a little extra time and attention the past few weeks as we lead up to the baby's arrival, and placing bowls of roasted spiced potatoes topped with shredded beef, jus and cheese curds — in other words, poutine — on the table definitely made their day.

One of the few player4s against Everton on that final who struggled was Olivier Giroud and that will not have escaped the attention of Arsene Wenger.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Otherwise, I just plopped the few teams that needed new homes into vacated spots based on some vague combo of merit and geography, without paying much attention to current conference contracts (since those are pretty flexible anyway).

A few minutes later a spectator slumps to the concrete behind us, and the people around him shout to attract the attention of the black - and - white St. John Ambulance Brigade, patroling on the pitch.

In the past few days, there has been significant public attention to a small portion of programming on our MyOutdoorTV app that contains content associated with hunting certain big game animals.

If Arsene Wenger was wondering whether this season would see Arsenal have any better luck on the injury front, he only needed to ask me or just about anybody who has paid the blindest bit of attention to the comings and goings of the Arsenal treatment room over the last few years.

We'll focus on events in the Arsenal history books which do not pertain directly to any specific player, as these get a lot of attention as it is, this list is by no means complete, but it will give the new fan a few places to start digging in order to better appreciate the club of today.

Furthermore, although rather begrudgingly, they no longer have the distraction of any other cup competitions meaning their full attention and focus will be lavished on the league from now on, not that you would have noticed judging by how they fared a few weeks back.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

ONE: Toddlers have a few critical times of the day when they really need your focus to be on them — to «fill their cup» with your love, play, and attention.

However, the baby doesn't need much time to wreak havoc, a few seconds of lapsed attention on the baby are all he needs to do major destruction around your the home you have worked so hard to make.

And, like I was saying about my Great Grandma on another post a few days ago, I think the notion that children must have X amount of their care givers undivided attention is a pretty modern concept.

If you pay attention to your baby's feeding cues instead of putting your child on a schedule, you may find that the baby is hungry every hour or so for a few hours, and then he sleeps for a longer stretch.

«When attention got focused on this issue a few years ago, a lot of companies became more cautious about what they claimed,» said Vicky Rideout, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Just a few people outside the event can draw the attention of participants to the conflicts of interest in accepting formula - company sponsorship and offer them leaflets (left, outside the prestigious Grand Connaught Rooms, London, on 15 July 2014).

«It's easier to give one - on - one attention and be responsive when there are fewer kids in a room,» says Stephanie Glowacki, director of accreditation programs at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a benchmark of quality.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Dacey had a great time getting out of the house and escaping all the attention focused on the new baby, and it gave me a few hours of time to bond with AJ without feeling like I was neglecting Dace.

«It's easier to give one - on - one attention and be responsive when there are fewer kids in a room,» says Stephanie Glowacki, former director of accreditation programs at NAEYC.

For the first few months of my newborn's life, when I was on maternity leave and had little to consume my attention except the needs of my brand - new baby, there wasn't a distinction between day and night.

The signs are many and varied — everyone is that little less patient and quicker to snap, small things become big problems in the blink of an eye, the girls seem to be constantly vying for my attention, the TV is on more often then usual, and these are just a few of the signs!

In a few months of age, babies have a change about sleep patterns, you should also pay attention on this issue

Narrator: Over the next few years, Clinton began to catch the attention of the media and national Democratic leaders desperate to find a candidate who could loosen Republicans» grip on the Presidency.

This is at least the third of these unattributed quotes that you've used in your columns on the leadership of the state GOP, and that's only since I started paying attention to any of this in the last few days.

That'll have to wait for some later election, however, as I'm bound in Europe working on other stuff... Till then, I'll stalk the campaigns via coverage from the usual sources, I've grown particularly fond of the Financial Times «Richard McGregor, who reports a lot from the ground and pays attention to campaign mechanics like few other journalists, and of course continue to follow Sasha Issenberg's great work at Slate.com and various stuff from TechPresident to keep up on the technology side of things.

While her campaign boasted about the amount of money she raised, releasing the totals at 2 p.m. on the Friday of the Independence Day weekend — taken by most as a holiday — could be construed as an attempt to release the news when few are paying attention.

While middle and working class Americans have been devastated by Great Recession, the wealthiest have done just fine, while their tax burden remains the lowest it's been in over 40 years.The last few months have seen the emergence of a counter-narrative which focuses attention on economic inequality and a tax system in New York State out of kilter with notions of fairness and equality.

As much as we have been taught in saner climes to respect opinions of persons on the other swing of subject matters, I am compelled to break my silence just so I can bring a few things to your attention.

Few other than political wonks and the media pay much attention to the annual pronouncements on the state of county, town and city affairs.

Unlike de Blasio's nonprofit, the Committee never voluntarily disclosed its donors, but a number of negative stories focused attention on the outsize influence the group gave a few donors who bankrolled the committee's efforts.

As New York City's campaign season hurtles toward the September 12 primaries and November 7 general election, bringing new flurries of fundraising and spending from mayoral candidates, attention has largely been focused on the «raising,» with a few recent donations getting...

Telling people to do the rational thing — stock up on some things you might need if you're stuck in for a few days but otherwise it's winter - as - usual around here — gets much less attention than «Oh my God snowpocalypse / snowmageddon / snorgy of doom will bury us alive!»

But Shostak thinks we already might have attracted somebody's attention: «The kind of equipment that we have today is within four orders of magnitude of being able to detect radars on nearby worlds, within a few tens of light - years.