Sentences with phrase «be a fact of life on»

Enormous dust storms are a fact of life on Mars, and one big enough to blanket the planet occurs every five or six years, says John Callas of NASA, the project manager for Opportunity and its twin, Spirit (currently exploring the other side of Mars).

Laundry is a fact of life on any long trip (more so if you're packing light) and a lot of ladies clothes simply can't be dropped off at the laundromat down the street.

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At the moment, the ability to watch live sports seems to be one of the few things that keeps large numbers of people subscribing to cable at all, and ESPN — and its owner Disney (DIS)-- have counted on the fact that this relationship is rock solid.

In fact, NatureBox snacks are already living offline, albeit in the air: The company launched a partnership with American Airlines in October, which is now serving NatureBox snacks to passengers on some of its international flights.

About 100 Boardlist candidates (some of whom already sit on not - for - profit, for - profit, or advisory boards, and the vast majority of whom live in the U.S.) were asked a number of questions about their experiences in business, and also about the fact that so few women serve on corporate boards.

There's an old Haitian expression that translates roughly to: «beyond the mountains, more mountains,» which I think should be the everyday motto of all good entrepreneurs because it's a spot - on description of the basic fact of life in a startup.

The fact that all these supposed creations have been spotted (and then debunked) in Martian rock formations has done nothing to cool the Internet's ardor for seeing evidence of intelligent life on the red planet.

«The fact that solitude enables people to daydream and reflect on their lives also means that it's associated with self - transformation, as psychologists Christopher Long and James Averill note in their theoretical paper «Solitude: An Exploration of Benefits of Being Alone» (paywall),»» Cooper points out.

«Two years after commodity prices started returning to life in the spring of 2016, many long - standing themes for the North America metals and mining industry look familiar on the surface but are in fact richly different on a closer view,» explained Goldman analyst Matthew Korn.

It's time we Americans woke up to the fact that our desire to be «tough on crime» has gone way past the point of fairness and usefulness and is now just ruining lives and consuming precious resources that could be far better used elsewhere.

Loneliness might have multiple causes on the national level, but for accounting software company FreshBooks (full disclosure: I'm a happy customer), the root of their concern about employee disconnection was a happy fact of startup life - their head count was growing wildly.

The fact is, many working families are already living on far less than 70 % of their income when you take out non-discretionary expenses like mortgage payments and the feeding and care of children.

I can certainly understand the need for surgeons, emergency workers and in fact anyone on standby where a call may literally mean the difference between life and death, needing to keep their phone on, but how many of us are really in that space?

Personalized pricing for virtually any product is already a fact of life on hyper - active shopping sites such as Safeway.com.

The fact that video is one of the few places where media companies can still make money becomes obvious when you see how many places are banking on it for growth, whether it's Facebook ramping up its live video offerings or services like Genius pivoting to focus on it.

It's an unfortunate fact of life that retirement is forced on many people earlier than they had planned, which is why it's so important to be prepared when the unexpected happens.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

U.S. and Soviet spies during the Cold War assumed it wasn't just their enemy but their own government keeping tabs on them, so maybe this really isn't paranoia at all, but just the facts of life in the brave new world of meta data - crunching by the world's superpowers.

Kotick's online gambit doesn't make the need for consoles obsolete; in fact Activision is working with Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE), both of which sell Internet - connected systems, to ensure that Activision's web - based applications can be accessed on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

While our emphasis is on celebrating people's life stories, there's no getting around the fact that millions of our users will be people who have suffered a significant loss.

Fun Fact: Says Heath: «We've always placed a focus on staying personally connected to the mission first - hand, so in addition to hosting regular team giving events, we also developed our Hive Initiation program: On the day that each new employee joins Bombas, before doing anything else, they are given 10 pairs of donation socks to walk around the city [with] and hand out, while interacting first - hand with those living on the streets.&raquon staying personally connected to the mission first - hand, so in addition to hosting regular team giving events, we also developed our Hive Initiation program: On the day that each new employee joins Bombas, before doing anything else, they are given 10 pairs of donation socks to walk around the city [with] and hand out, while interacting first - hand with those living on the streets.&raquOn the day that each new employee joins Bombas, before doing anything else, they are given 10 pairs of donation socks to walk around the city [with] and hand out, while interacting first - hand with those living on the streets.&raquon the streets.»

As an American, though, Markle will still be on the hook for a slew of taxes, regardless of the fact that she no longer lives in the country.

The fact that this topic is popular on here may serve you well if this was expanded a bit more (which you just did with the couples angle, but perhaps looking at other data sources to help quantify what people's net worth is... and perhaps with respect to geography / cost of living... also how to maximize your relative net worth by moving to a low cost area — which I plan to do (abroad)!.

In fact, Hawaii is the only state on this list where residents have a deficit after covering their cost of living expenses.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

The title of the work, Poor Charlie's Almanack, is a play on the fact that Benjamin Franklin published a collection of wisdom titled «Poor Richard's Almanack», and that Founding Father is the one person that Munger has repeatedly stated he spends most of his life trying to emulate.

If that's the case then the portfolio's asset allocation reflects the fact that you can take more risk on the equity side — in the hope of better returns — as long as you're not banking on those returns to enable you to live.

In fact, AAPL was, at one time, on life support prior to the release of the iPod.

In fact, the percentage of Boomers working with a financial advisor who are highly confident in having sufficient savings to live comfortably throughout their retirement years is more than twice that of Boomers who are planning for retirement on their own, IRI data show.

Daniels went on to clarify that she believed there would be legal repercussions if she didn't sign the statement, saying: «As a matter of fact, the exact sentence used was, «They can make your life hell in many different ways».»

I feel like your views on real estate are highly colored by the fact that you've lived in New York and San Francisco, two areas that have experienced incredible bull markets due to falling crime, falling interest rates, foreign buying, and the increased desirability of living in cities.

The theory of evolution by natural selection is a beautiful explanation for the diversity of life based on observable facts.

Basically the fact that we are living on a celestial ant - farm, subject to the whims of a capricious, celestial dictator, seems to take all of the fun out of aspiring to do more in life.

Fact is, mostly all of us owe Christ a nod if nothing else for changing how LIFE was viewed on the Earth.

If you're truly grappling with the existence of god there is only one decision to make: do you choose to live your life based on fact and reason, or do you live it based on fantasy?

In fact, by failing to do so, you become a culprit by not probing their minds to make sure that whether they are aware of this biblical truth and hence being perished and away from that everlasting love for eternity — and for this very reason and negligence or misguidance, you will be responsible and accountable when you meet with your creator God of love whom he also loved you so much that if you were the only person living on the face of this earth and planet, still he would have come and died for you and the forgiveness of your since and loving you unconditional.

Rice's grim portrayal of our cultural and political circumstance notwithstanding, this is a book marked by a bracing confidence that the friends of life are, in fact, on the winning side.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

To pile on the ironies, Le Rider carefully demonstrates through a minute examination of the relevant evidence that the real Vienna was in fact nothing like the city that her artists and theorizers felt they were living in.

I am scribbling - that's the word - away on a life of Mr. Lincoln - gathering known - authentic - true facts of him.»

I find it funny though that Theo seems to be trying to point out that Hawking alluded to alien origins of life but forgets that he and every single religious person on the planet believe that aliens seeded, and in fact created our planet.

Fiction could be combined with reality and imaginations where as life of Last Prophet Muhammad is TRULY based on realistic facts and no Muslim would deny that, no matter if he / she is practicing Muslim or non-practicing Muslim.

The scholarly orgy of debunking has obscured the importance of the facts that such ideals were professed at all, and that debate about them helped to focus the attention of a large, diverse, professional community on the question of what kind of life a lawyer ought to try to live.

There are dramatically different views on how the Bush administration has handled, or mishandled, that primacy but — moments of crisis, tomorrow's polls, and this year's election campaigns notwithstanding — American preeminence, with all the problems attending American preeminence, is a fact of life for as far as anyone can see into the future.

In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism of the individual only becomes more powerful when collected into a group, to the extent that an individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.

historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with other historians writing about the life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...

There is merely the fact that the outdated scripture of a people who lived thousands of years ago has absolutely no bearing on the law of the United States of America, nor on any person who does not believe it.

In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite different situation, in a quite different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way of life itself.»

Aside for the fact that the editors won't let us comment on that article, that statement holds true in this case where a wonderful life was cut short by a fanatic which was killing in the name of the god it worships.

If abortion and related life issues are in fact the great civil - rights issues of our time» in that they test whether the state may arbitrarily deny the protection of the law to certain members of the human community» then Griswold eventually led to a situation in which the Democratic and Republican positions on civil rights flipped, with members of today's Democratic party playing the role that its Southern intransigents played during the glory days of the American civil - rights movement.