Sentences with phrase «be in this off season»

I have been obsessed with football this past season, and continue to be in this off season.

For the past 3 months I've been in my off season training for the 2013 beach volleyball season.

Although the sales is in off season during the first quarter, the revenue is similar compared with the same period last year.

Not exact matches

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

While the NRF no longer provides an estimate in dollar amounts of how the key weekend went, the consensus among analysts and economists is that the 2017 holiday season got off to a great start for the retail sector at large.

While it's a good sign that flu activity is starting to level off, it's a far cry from the precipitous drop in doctor visits typically seen when a busy season starts to come to a close.

November's retail advance showed the holiday shopping season was off to a strong start, and dispelled the gloom from a drop in Black Friday weekend commerce.

The hope is that by showing faith in the worker, you give them confidence and experience that could pay off later in the season.

A change at the center of a team's offense will always come with a few hiccups, and pulling it off mid-season is no easy task, especially with a quarterback who has played a regular - season game in nearly two years.

Not only will buying corn in the winter be more expensive than in the summer, as Erin Brodwin of Business Insider reported, but off - season produce travels from further away and will perish sooner.

These types of forecasts are starting to accelerate, with earnings season set to kick off in earnest this week.

While Black Friday is a diluted event, with sales starting earlier in the month at most major chains, it still anchors the biggest shopping weekend of the year and can get a retailer's holiday season off to a good, or bad, start.

He said that he was talking about the idea of killing off the character since the fourth or fifth episode of season eight but that it was something the showrunner Scott Gimple could have had in mind for a while.

Wilson, in fact, was impressed enough that he decided to invest in the company this off - season.

With earnings season set to kick off in less than two weeks, one strategist says the market's pain could be behind it.

He was coming off a season in which he won the U.S. Open for his first major, was voted PGA Tour player of the year for the first time, won the PGA Tour money title and captured the Vardon Trophy for the lowest adjusted scoring average.

No only does Smith have a history of on - and off - the - court issues, he was also playing the worst basketball of his career with the Knicks where his player efficiency rating (PER) had dropped to 11.6 after averaging 15.8 his first three seasons in New York.

Year - round, Fortune recommends stocks and investing strategies to help readers capitalize on the business trends of the day, and this is the season when we look in the mirror and ask ourselves if our picks have paid off.

Bryant's suspension is the latest in an off - season riddled with suspensions and controversy.

Fox Sports and NextVR are teaming up to kick off March Madness season in virtual reality.

«I actually thought, «Oh, that's gonna be a major plot for the season,»» Banks said about the fictional startup in Silicon Valley laying off its new sales team — and mostly failing to follow labor laws in doing so.

Since it's off - season in Turkey, the each person can have their own en suite for a mere 27 a night, all inclusive,» she says of the Coworking Camp program.

And it has been paying off: Walmart U.S., a retailer with some $ 308 billion a year in sales, reported comparable sales rose 1.8 % during the holiday season quarter, above the 1.3 % Wall Street was expecting, according to Consensus Metrix.

So if you're looking for inspiration on how to be productive when business drops off in the summer, check out Young Entrepreneurs Council's round up of 12 founders» responses to the question, «What odd jobs and tasks do you work on for your business during a slow season to keep busy and prepare for a busy time ahead?»

She was of course talking about «The Apprentice,» the NBC reality show hosted by Trump that was a giant hit when it premiered in 2004 and is still very much at the core of his appeal to his voters (though after 14 seasons, he's now off the show for good).

This is positive news in a hit and miss off season.

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

«Similar to last year in the sense we're coming off a rather disappointing first half, this holiday season brings to light several crosscurrents that still exist for American households,» said NRF Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz.

In the wake of a holiday season that was worse than the company expected, Target has decided to cut two of its most ambitious long - term projects before either even got off the ground, according to multiple sources.

To that end, Kestelman also claims he will be able to sell the Brisbane Bullets — also under his control since returning to the NBL two years ago — in the off - season as well.

This is also a crucial research tactic for seasonal businesses so you have enough content written in advance to rise in the search rankings during the off - season, and keep you in the top when your season is in full swing.

Its growing legal bills alone are expected to add $ 2bn in costs when it kicks off the banks» earnings season on October 11.

First - quarter earnings season kicks off this week in earnest and I expect investors who stay long in good stocks amid volatility to be well rewarded.

And remember to negotiate because they're usually looking for work in the off - season, and may be more willing to give you a better rate.

Interestingly, we know now that the big boys needed a robust retail buying season in order to off - load their portfolio positions so the narrative was, understandably, that earnings would be «blow - out» and take stocks higher and that is the shenanigans that transpired back in February and March with the rescues at the 200 - dma.

«Fundamentally, it makes a lot of sense that the fourth quarter of this year looks particularly bad because refining demand drops and driving season drops off... if you get through the fourth quarter and you still have this oversupply, then maybe it's the second quarter of next year when you have this drop off in demand again.»

Hartford Funds» Summer School is Back in Session for Advisors Third Season Kicks Off by Discussing Retirement Under Trump

There is a natural harmony of times and seasons, governed by natural law; that is to say, by a successive harmony which turns on, and turns off periods of desire in terms of proper times and seasons.

The fact that humans do not have a limited «mating season» tied to the fertility of the female should be a tip off that our species is somewhat unique in this department.

We are currently in the midst of Ordinary Time on the church calendar — the time between the times, or even «off season,» to borrow a sports metaphor.

She is a gifted Bible teacher and she kept putting it off and putting it off because it was hard to figure out a way to make it work in her season of life as a mother to young children and a full - time job.

This is played for laughs later in season, but the real comedy is how obvious it probably comes off to everyone watching that there's no real argument here.

The reason why we don't give new clothing here in Chicago is only due to the danger of having someone take it from them or City of Chicago that only allow them to have so many items so if you give it to them off - season, they wind up throwing them away because they can not store them until they are usable.

In both cases, you're probably best off picking another battle and learning to love your football fan friends through the season.

So you're a fig tree, and one day you're just minding your own business being a fig tree in the off season, when Jesus comes along and curses...

Also I know of rual school districts that take the first day of hunting season off because they know alot of kids will not be in so why cant the NYC schools do that for days they know their good sized population of Muslim kids wont be in?

I know there are evangelical biblical scholars who assert that it was the season for what the Arabs call taqsh... small little buds that the fig tree produces and which fall off before the figs come in.

In seasons where I'm feeling that gnawing lack, I have to remind myself to take my eyes off the one thing and place them back on God.

If you're looking for a boost to power you out of winter and into spring, especially now in the heart of Lenten season, these Netflix movies all carry inspiring or significant messages, prevalent themes or ideas that will compel you off your couch and out into acts of service.

And then, growing off of that deep root of knowing, there are tendrils announcing that where He has placed me, in this season of my life — that's enough, too.