Sentences with phrase «bad at writing»

I'm good at programming, but as I'm bad at writing I couldn't make a good resume.

So solicitors are just as bad at writing wills as will - writers are.

Are you bad at writing?

I guess this is another sign that I'm out of the loop — or not on Twitter enough, because I'm one of the few people who are bad at writing and tweeting simultaneously — that I end up seeing only the pushback on the outrage rather than the outrage itself, but it kind of starts to wear on me (not because of you Kait!

I am medium cute, and bad at writing in the third person.

It's not uncommon to hear students say, «I'm not good at math,» or «I'm bad at writing essays.»

In what is clearly an attempt to lull American protagonists into a false sense of security, British person Daniel Radcliffe has declared that Americans are bad at writing British villains.

I am bad at writing about myself!

I am usually bad at writing self descriptions but none the less will give it a try.

I'm also really bad at writing these things.

I am Dutch and looking for interesting people It happens to be that I'm bad at writing short, funny pieces about myself.

Most people I know are average to poor resume writers who learn through trial and error; and they are even worse at writing a cover letter.

Not exact matches

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.

As I wrote back in 2013, the findings of the Guelph study (and now the findings of the New York attorney general) suggest a quality control problem at best, and outright fraud at worst.

«Ignorance is one of the professional world's least respectable traits — if not the worst,» Roberto Rocha writes at AskMen.

«Even if the current minimum wage increase proposals don't affect your company, it sets a bad precedent,» Merrill Matthews a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas wrote in a recent article for NCMM.

I was exceptionally happy with the wi - fi — I've written several times about how universally bad it is at hotels, so having a decent connection was a refreshing change.

That's bad news for most workers, who typically put in at least 55 hours a week, recently wrote Sara Robinson at Salon.

Because so much of communication is derived from nonverbal cues such as body language, an effectively - written email is particularly important: without those nonverbal cues, emails can so easily get misinterpreted, at best leading to minor misunderstandings, and at worst, derailing important business projects.

Why, then, do so many business websites (perhaps even yours) still read like books, brochures, or reports — and often badly written ones at that?

«There is extensive academic literature suggesting that populism is bad for economic growth and prosperity but also for most investment classes,» economists at Macquarie wrote last week.

«When we succumb to disdain, we transform our worst fears about ourselves into a kind of reverse - affirmation levied at someone else,» Bacon writes.

In 2012, I wrote about a study that looked at the winners of bidding wars for contested acquisitions, and found they generally do worse over the next few years that the companies that lost.

«The worst type of perfectionists are those who expect others to match their own impossibly high standards,» notes PsyBlog in its write - up of Flett's research, so be particularly worried if your perfectionist tendencies are often directed at others, not just yourself.

Even after raising a remarkable $ 63.6 million from the sale of 19 million shares at $ 3.35 in October, it seemed the worst was over though there have been continued mutterings from serial doubters about the need for more asset value write - downs on exploration properties.

He writes, «They'll buy miserable employees latte machines for their offices, give them free lunch and sodas, or even worse — just let them all work at home, hailing an «enlightened» policy of telecommuting.»

Much is written about the lack of basic knowledge, wrong expectations and a bad or no strategy at all.

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There is only a «New Normal» economy at best and a global recession at worst to look forward to, PIMCO Chairman Bill Gross writes in his monthly commentary for October.

On the credit front, the Preliminary Bank Earnings Report just released by the FDIC shows that banks have increased the rate at which they are writing off bad loans, but the growth in bad («noncurrent») loans is increasing even faster.

I'll repeat what I wrote during the 2000 - 2002 bear market: at meaningful market lows, «the tenor of news reports has always been something to the effect that «conditions are bad, expected to get worse, and there is no end in sight.»

There is a basic moral principle at work: If debts can not be paid without radically transferring property from debtors to creditors, the loan should be deemed «bad» and be written down to the ability to be paid while living a normal life.

Ethereum was one of the worst performing cryptocurrencies on Sunday, with Ether diving some 17.5 percent in value to $ 476.1 (at the time of writing).

The Hashtag Test: Best and Worst Practices for Social Media Marketers At this time I wrote this post, I was beginning to learn more about specific social best practices.

A closer look at these write - downs, however, reveals the situation might not be as bad as it appears.

The bailout is not efficient, he writes, «because it can only deal with insolvency by buying bad assets at far above their true value, thereby guaranteeing big losses for taxpayers and providing an open - ended bail - out to the most irresponsible investors.»

«The Fed front - loaded 20 years of stock gains into the past decade, that's bad for passive but good for active,» wrote Barry Bannister, head of institutional equity strategy at Stifel.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Can you imagine being in a group that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 can not get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug - related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

A noble effort, and probably a positive contribution to life online — but at its worst, Laura Turner wrote for Religion News Service, «Instapray can be like the worst possible version of Pinterest,» another forum for auto - worship and self - congratulation.

If you are using a book that reads like it was written by someone on a really bad acid trip, that isn't evidence at all.

In Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be), Kevin DeYoung, the senior pastor at University Reformed Church in East Lansing, and Ted Kluck, a sportswriter who has written for ESPN, are quick to admit that they «don't think of our emergent sparring partners as «the bad guys.

The first - year reading program at Williams College, «turned out to be kind of like a bad blind date,» wrote Michaela Morton, a freshman at the time, in an article in the student newspaper.

At worst, I hope to write things that would make someone want to know just a little more about God.

I think when we consider the scriptures we see differing examples of Christians — the church at Corinth that Paul wrote to was doing more harm than good, the church at Antioch was doing good, the church at Ladocia was doing neither good or bad.

So I know this was a billion years ago when you wrote this, but I just read it today because I yelled at God today and now I feel bad.

For those accustomed to writing, editing, and sending their thoughts from the safe haven of their devices, real - life conversations are difficult at best and frightening at worst.

Journalists have lately been writing about the Watergate syndrome in almost apocalyptic terms: as not merely the worst political disaster in U.S. history but also the nemesis of U.S. world power and effective leadership in government at home.

But he writes to American Christians, and to those who identify with the American religious right — most of whom, at best, think of the Church as a «voluntary organization» or, at worst, hardly think of her at all.

The original is in French, and though the subject was evidently in a bad nervous condition at the time of which he writes, his case has otherwise the merit of extreme simplicity.