Sentences with phrase «because of my prior work»

«It was a natural thing to get a business license and start off doing employment and unemployment law right away because of my prior work experience,» said Lockerby, whose business degree from Western Washington University in 1997 had a hand in her confidence.

Not exact matches

Nate Kontny, an entrepreneur, discusses the importance of luck in his success: «I got lucky a writer with a lot of clout took interest in my project — interest that started because he once worked on a similar project seven years prior, so he understood the challenges I was addressing.

At one point, the challenger argued that crime continues to drop not because of de Blasio's policies, but because of the work of the NYPD and prior administrations.

Blakeman spokesman Matt Coleman said the campaign was unable to make the League of Women Voters event because of a prior speaking engagement, but said they are working directly with FiOS to schedule a debate.

After viewing before and after photos of the Hart property, town board members said the work accomplished seemed to be reasonable and appropriate, but the fine was warranted because of the lack of prior planning board approval.

A spokesperson for the Hidarys said the family contributed to Greenfield's campaign because of his «commitment, hard work and devotion to his district in Brooklyn,» noting that the donations occurred prior to his entry into the real estate world.

Partly out of fear of not finding a faculty job, and partly because of the temptation to work with one of the legends in plant environmental physiology, I accepted a postdoctoral position with Paul Kramer at Duke University, just prior to defending my thesis.

The findings might have departed from prior studies because of the difference in size and study design, he said, explaining that much of the previous work in this area has been conducted in groups of 100 or fewer and mostly involved student subjects.

Take short naps, meditate, and if you believe you have high levels of toxic exposure, as evidenced by symptoms prior to your detox, plan for more sleep, because your body does important work while you rest that isn't possible while you are active.

The antiinflammatory effects of fiber are intriguing, because prior work had focused on the ability of fiber to reduce other substances that cause inflammation (eg, the inhibition of hyperglycemia and its effects on lipids, particularly LDL cholesterol).

But because of the work I put with Parsley Health prior to getting pregnant, I was able to have a healthy pregnancy.

Annihilation is best viewed as a trip deep into an otherworldly house of horrors, offering a deliberately illogical twist on the formula of horror movie storytelling — because when assessed as a science fiction movie, its lack of weighty ideas makes it pale in comparison to both its influences and Garland's prior work.

I was lucky because I had some prior relationship with Warren; I basically just sent him an e-mail that said: «I saw your job posting for designers of all experience levels and I would love to come work for you».

This can eventually create problems as the staff works with one another because they do not have any understanding of each other's idiosyncrasies or life stories prior to working together... more»

This was critical because the district and union had not done this kind of collaborative work together prior to TURN.»

The new contribution rate increases do not significantly impact teachers who were teaching prior to the benefit enhancements, because they already worked most of their careers without the higher rates.

Prior to Flint, Markle worked with Tawwab in his hometown of Detroit, where he was an assistant superintendent, overseeing dozens of priority schools — so - called because they're among the bottom 5 percent academically in the state.

Working with a book publicist prior to the launch of your first book is a smart move, because if you know how to hire a publicist, and then learn from her on your debut release, you'll be well positioned to self - market your subsequent releases.

I was initially drawn to this book because of the title and my admiration for Danticat's prior works, most of which have been set in Haiti.

A company I worked for in the late 1990s had an IPO and my stock options had a revised strike price because of a reverse stock split that was done prior to the IPO.

Because you'll be working with animals in a clinical or laboratory setting upon graduation from your program, it is essential that you obtain hands - on experience in at least one of these settings prior to completing your education.

It is probably a little high because of the location, but this is a very reputable, full - service hospital who will do blood work - ups prior, and then have the cats monitored overnight by professional veterinary staff while they recover.

More likely scenario in that case would be that it would be sold off for a huge sum, which would actually positively effect MS because of the way stock reporting works, as a loss in prior years doesn't take away profit in current or future years.

I was lucky because I had some prior relationship with Warren; I basically just sent him an e-mail that said: «I saw your job posting for designers of all experience levels and I would love to come work for you».

Bioshock2 showed us this; Subject Delta is a completely different person from the first installment of the franchise, BUT, it works out well because they obeyed the «Golden Rule»; a sequel needs to advance the plot enough that it feels like a new game complete with new plot and progress but without feeling like a rehash of the prior game.

The works in this group exhibition were selected because of their archaeological undertones, their appropriation of materials, their reference to prior points of artistic practice, and their layers of the handmade.

It so happened that Imane Fares, the gallery who represents him in Paris, applied for a SOLO presentation of his work, and as I select the solo shows it made sense to show him at the fair, prior to the Biennial and also because he is an important Brussels - based African artist.

If there is no threat of catastrophe — and as I said, prior to the hockey stick nobody had the slightest bit of luck convincing anyone that the sky was falling because global climate today is geologically unremarkable in every single way except that we happen to be living in it instead of analyzing it in a geological record — then there is little incentive to fund the enormous amount of work being done on climate science.

Because AGI [Artificial General Intelligence] safety is so under - researched, we're likely to find low - hanging fruit even in investigating basic questions like «What kind of prior probability distribution works best for formal agents in unknown environments?»

The bulk of Chapter 5 is spent talking up geoengineering — how it'll work, how it's «harmless» because the climate would just revert to its prior state if the straw were turned off, how it's cheap.

Because the input is totally independent of the empirical work (it would not be a correct prior without being totally independent), it's not conceivable that the authors of the empirical analysis would somehow limit the choices that others make.

It's not an error or contrary to the experimental work to do this part using a different prior, because priors are subjective and must reflect thinking of that one, who is using it in the analysis.

Here Justin Sheffield et al. show that this prior work was flawed, because of an inappropriate calculation of drought metrics.

In the predictive sense, Lasso may work a bit better than L2 (gaussian prior) with a huge number of variables, but it is not favored for inference, that is, where the coefficients of the model are interpreted, because as a prior it is unnatural.

We have extensive experience understanding the «mindset» of insurance company claim representatives and defense lawyers because our lawyers have worked for many insurance companies prior to devoting their full time and attention to representing injured victims.

In fact, arguments had occurred prior to the date of the alleged offence wherein M.N. had suggested that their son would be better off living with him and his family because the complainant was working long hours and travelling extensively.

According to Jeffreys, Page is suing because that «prior to the time when she informed her supervisor that she was pregnant, the supervisor... was «highly complimentary» of her work performance.

In considering your prior firm exposures, you can not assume that because your new firm carries Excess insurance that this will protect you against claims arising out of work at your former firm.

I was lucky because I had some prior relationship with Warren; I basically just sent him an e-mail that said: «I saw your job posting for designers of all experience levels and I would love to come work for you».

Having a prior experience in a similar work environment highlighted in your resume may prove to be an important section of the resume because most employers find it better to hire an applicant with an understanding of the job functions than someone they will need to train.

My three years of experience at Sirius XM Satellite Radio combined with my prior experiences at various television - and radio stations worldwide have equipped me with a multitude of production skills and I believe that I would be a good candidate because I am a hard working ind...

In reality, parties to a contested divorce proceeding often require more than six months prior to the hearing date, because during that time they are working to negotiate a voluntary settlement, often with various court - required steps along the way, as, for example, a status conference with the judge or a pre-trial conference; and, if no settlement is reached, the judge will set a trial date, which may require a wait of several more months, during which time the lawyers and parties will prepare for trial.

Many people shy away from premarital counseling because of the fear of what may be revealed and because of the fear of the wedding being called off, but it's better to work on issues beforehand, instead of waiting until you're married to decide to deal with what you had a problem with prior to getting married.

SOMEBODY has some explaining to do — not just to the public but to the paying membership, who — deprived of member by member vote at CREA level (because that's just how it is set up), yet having the mere - listing system foisted upon a membership system that otherwise was working fine, to date — this business of rules and regs should have been addressed prior to the NFLD meeting??? and its being ratified?