Sentences with phrase «be a sprint of»

It's going to be a sprint of an election — though it's not clear how many candidates are running or how many voters will participate — with ballots likely to be cast sometime in February.

This is the sprint of folly.

Not exact matches

«Building a company is a decathlon — it's a test of skills, capabilities, endurance and sprints.

With nearly two full weeks (and nights) of activities, you quickly realize that SXSW isn't a sprint, but a marathon.

The road from Kickstarter campaign launch to ordering the first 80,000 jackets has been nothing short of a sprint for Sanghavi and his team.

The reason the most productive 10 percent of our users are able to get the most done during the comparatively short periods of working time is that their working times are treated as sprints.

Along the way, we make sure that we're on the right path by using a practice called a «HIPA sprint,» which takes place at different stages of the development process.

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it requires the patience of a marathon runner.

«It's a series of sprints,» he says, and urges us to manage our energy accordingly.

The winners of the sprint for sites and tenants will be resolved within the next two or three years, playing out against a backdrop of broad change in the Canadian retail scene.

Woo disputed this, saying that the company was testing «a couple different variants» of SPRINT, and while this one is «very similar» to the product now sold as the third iteration, it is not identical.

Two sources told CNBC that the product tested would have been the next evolution of the SPRINT product.

The lengthy research cited on HVMN's website and others are primarily animal studies, rather than human studies, and primarily test one of two compounds in combination, rather than the half - dozen contained in a product like SPRINT.

«As we expected, the caffeine had some positive effects, but the SPRINT formulation they gave us was not really effective,» said Arjan Blokland, head of the department of neuropsychology and psychopharmacology at Maastricht University, in an interview with CNBC.

It was called «agile development,» and they'd follow the new philosophy of computer - programming project management that emphasized rapid iteration and working in sprints.

In an effort to dull some of the pain, and perhaps a sprint around an unfamiliar airport, United is now giving passengers access to their boarding passes on connecting legs provided by other airlines.

Every 12 - week engineering internship starts with an orientation sprint meant to get newbies adjusted to Facebook's codebase (this is a shortened version of the six - week «Bootcamp» that all new engineering employees go through).

One study found that after participants completed ten minutes of short, periodic sprints, «performance on the Stroop Test — a long - established measure of mental control, or what psychologists call «executive function» — seemed to be enhanced immediately... and 45 minutes afterwards.»

The company this fall is hiring staff and lining up enough financing to allow it to withstand the cash flow shocks that occur when a business sprints out of the starting gate.

On a daily basis, the impact of doing five sprints isn't that significant, especially when you had planned to run three miles.

«A lot of the things we do in the sprint are meant to help people who are introverted — people who aren't as comfortable or as capable of pitching their ideas — to be on a level playing field with the founder or with anyone on the team,» says Knapp.

To become an FBI Special Agent, candidates must be between the ages of 23 and 37 and successfully complete a battery of physical tests including a timed 300 - meter sprint (women must run it in less than 65 seconds to qualify; men, 55 seconds) and pushups (women must do at least 14; men, 30).

Eventually Google Ventures will be putting out a book - length elaboration of the process but in the meantime it has made a simple DIY version of its «design sprint» available online.

The ideal ratio, DeskTime showed, was a 52 - minute work sprint followed by 17 minutes of recuperation.

If it was Camp who gave the idea its legs, supervising the building of its first few iterations, it was Kalanick, a brash entrepreneur, who saw its potential and helped those legs go from a trot to a sprint.

According to Vaynerchuk, to be successful at social media, brands need to think of it not as a sprint, but as a marathon.

In an athletic display of prowess that can only be analogized to the dynasties of the Chicago Bulls in the 90's and the New England Patriots of the 21st century, the No. 17 ranked Black and White captured the Eastern Sprints Championship for the fourth year in a row.

It's all part of the fun and by «fun» I mean the kind of fun my trainer refers to when she says we are going to run hill sprints.

After last year's solid sprint, which saw the Dogs of the Dow strategy return 30.3 % before dividends, performance has been decidedly more mixed so far in 2014.

But the game of investing, it is often said, is more akin to a marathon, rather than a sprint, and we still have 10 more months to see how things pan out.

I hope all of you are planning a sprint to the finish like I am!

The Exponential Sprint is a specially formulated design sprint to get teams ideating and prototyping high tech 10x solutions to some of our most difficult challenges.

Aligning your ducks in a row, understating a venture is a marathon with hundreds of sprints in between, and knowing how to make other people feel successful are not only applicable to founders of start ups but are values of life we should all integrate.

Keep in mind that community management is a marathon, not a sprint, so teams need to be mindful of who they dedicate to handle this aspect of the business.

Saving for retirement is more of a marathon than a sprint.

Phoneum revolutionizes the cryptocurrency mining with the introduction of its decentralized mining algorithm which is a mobile - based cryptocurrency and sprints only on mobile devices via app.

Sara Matthis thinks community journalism is important, but not serious; likes weird and wonderful children (she has two); and occasionally tortures herself with sprint - distance triathlons, but only if she has a good chance of beating her sister.

The recovery has been more of a marathon than a sprint and that has been challenging.»

It is the pearl of great price, it is like the Torah of old, «more precious than gold»; you sell all you have and don't notice the door slamming behind you as you sprint after this Jesus.

The important thing with Christian dating is to rush through the various stages of romance as quickly as possible, all culminating in a variable sprint down the aisle.

The first one in particular is like grabbing a 1990s box TV off the side of road, tying it around your ankle, and then trying to run at a full sprint.

And right here, at the big copper beech tree that marked the entrance to the thicket, my plans went awry, for I discovered that the faint sound of sneakers I thought I had heard was my next - youngest brother Peter, who stood there panting, ready to resume our sprint through the woods to Mass..

I've been maintaining levels close to those since 2012 by including sprint interval training in my exercise regimen, and by taking supplements of grapeseed extract, vit K2, magnesium citrate, fish oil, vit E complex and the highest quality mens» multi - vit / min supplement available.

And hydrating with coffee leaves you as jittery as Steve Buscemi (though you are finally logging those 10,000 daily steps — even if a quarter of them are for bathroom sprints).

This time of comfort food eating has to be looked at like a marathon, not a sprint, and sometimes to happily taste each and every creamy, saucy, savory and sweet comfort food masterpiece, a little smoothie interlude is required.

This particular reappropriation of chicken, potato, beans and spinach was prepared all at once and then served on separate nights, the second of which I found myself doing sprints at the gym instead of on the pasta aisle the hour before my friends arrived to eat.

Some are the batons for the city's current relay sprint toward gentrification; others live on as they have despite the pressures of a city in full - on boom.

The first time Vallejo High's new coach, AbeHobbs, met him, CC was an eighth - grader gnawing on a supersized Snickers bar.His cousin Nathan Berhel brought him over to be introduced; a pack of Hobbs «spitchers was doing wind sprints.

With a sprint record of covering 30 metres in just 3.7 seconds, the 25 - year - old is faster than Jamaican Olympic star Usain Bolt, as well as the world's fastest footballer, Bayern Munich star Arjen Robben.

You can't, of course, pick a Derby winner from the results of a sprint, so it wasn't altogether too surprising to see that speed colt, Decathlon, run off with first money while Rex Ellsworth's entry of Terrang and Like Magic (first and fourth recently in the Santa Anita Derby) wound up fourth and sixth, just in front and back of Calumet Farm's Liberty Sun.