Sentences with phrase «avoid high spots»

Not exact matches

Dress well, don't go over the top, pay even though she refuses to let you pay, let her select the spot even if it is far from your office or place, be punctual, crack small jokes, avoid getting high, avoid talking about the list of exes, Pay a small genuine compliment, give a small, classy surprise gift and you are there.

The optional safety kit is well worth avoiding, though - the lane departure and blind spot systems suffer from lots of false positives and the automatic high beam is almost comically inept at working out when to dip the lights.

Our heavily specced test car is equipped with, amongst other things, Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keeping Aid systems, a Low Speed Safety System (helps you to avoid crashing in town), Traffic Sign Recognition (displays the last speed limit sign you passed), Driver Alert (works out how «with it» you are and whether you should stop for some caffeine), Blind Spot Information, Adaptive Cruise Control, Auto High Beam headlights, Stop - Start and Active Park Assist (which will identify a big enough kerbside parking space as you drive past and then steer you into it).

The alphabet safety soup includes a pre-collision system, which automatically avoids pedestrians; adaptive cruise control; lane - departure alert with auto high beam; and blind - spot monitor with rear cross traffic alert.

In general, we save fuel in three separate ways: first is with a grid charge; second is regenerative braking — we run very high power regen, much, much higher than anyone and we pretty much avoid the use of friction brakes; and third is running the engine at the sweet spot.

High - risk consumers should learn how to spot personal loan scams to avoid becoming a fraud victim.

Research performed by Cambria and set forth in Meb Faber's book Global Value: How to Spot Bubbles, Avoid Crashes, and Earn Big Returns in the Stock Market, shows that historically stock market returns are lower when starting valuations are high, and future returns are higher when starting valuations are low.

You're going to need to do some number - crunching to find the sweet spot between working enough to earn more income and also avoiding a higher tax rate.

Put them in separate areas to avoid tension caused by competition (to separate, you can put bowls on different levels: one on the floor and one on a higher spot).

And even when you can't avoid high season, it's good to consider what time of day to visit the tourist hot spots.

Like all the spots in the North Pacific, it is better on high tide, avoid it during dead low tide if possible.

Zeke's comment was spot - on: «individual consumers tend to use irrationally high discount rates in domestic purchases» — they accept those continuing high long - term costs to avoid paying anything now.

Historically, the US (like many nations) has placed a high value on avoiding species extinctions (cf., «snail darter» and «spotted owl» controversies, not to mention the very existence of the Endangered Species Act.)

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.