Sentences with phrase «become spectators»

When did business become a spectator sport?

In the world of the internet, customer service has become a spectator sport, according to today's guest, Jay Baer, author of Hug Your Haters.

Jay teaches the critical steps necessary to retain and delight customers in this disrupted era when customer service has become a spectator sport.

You will become a spectator.

He pitched one touchdown to Roy Jefferson, a wide receiver, another to Larry Brown, a halfback, and another to Moses Denson, a fullback, and became a spectator in the fourth quarter after the game became a laugher.

The players became spectators as the ball left Hunter's hand.

Once his man beats him, he straight gives up on the play and becomes a spectator.

On the legal front, the government has provided so limited leadership, direction and energy for the anti-corruption effort that it has itself almost become a spectator, conveniently declaring that it will strengthen the relevant anti-corruption agencies.

If math ever becomes a spectator sport — and stranger things have happened — we can look back on these problem sets and the massive tournament they eventually spawned and thank Tim Kelley.

«People come to a race track to see the drivers in action,» said Fitch, «but when I took the wheel of the No. 3 Corvette with Lance at my side, it was I who became the spectator.

Photographic and video evidence can also play an important role in prosecuting abusers, but never put yourself in harm's way or become a spectator.

NotifyBecomeSpectator: Notifies mutators when a player becomes a spectator (not fully implemented)

Viewing figures are on the rise, and a strange phenomena is occurring, one that offers a potential third option to Overwatch's future: it becomes a spectator game.

It stands to reason that if a game's playing community is overwhelmingly male, it may be primed to become a spectator e-sport.

As you become a spectator while waiting to respawn, there are few things as intense as watching the last player on your team sneaking around a corner to score a kill or frantically trying to escape a two - on - one scenario.

Scholl is mainly working on a life - size scale, altering the viewer's relation to the image: drawn characters become the spectator's counterparts.

I started by becoming a spectator.

Not exact matches

The raucous crowd, a bigger turnout than most local soccer games, underlined how popular gaming as a hobby and spectator sport has become in China.

Valuation gawking has become the official spectator sport of Silicon Valley.

The minister maintained that France must «anticipate» these changes and not be «mere spectators» but «become actors in this revolution.»

«As I read it, the message of the Christian Men's Movement is this: Following Jesus is not for women only, nor is it merely a spectator sport, which it tends to become for men in our domesticated, mostly female congregations.

Our life of suffering is not a spectator sport for God; indeed, it is he who submits to become the object of our speculation: «Look and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.»

It usually means becoming interested in travel, television programs, and spectator sports.

The people of the United States became mere spectators as an array of ideological extremists, vested interests, and foreign operatives — including domestic neoconservatives, Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi exiles, the Israeli Lobby, the petroleum and automobile industries, warmongers and profiteers allied with the military - industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment — essentially hijacked the government.

Hard to do, I think, when some churches are so highjacked by bureaucracy, or are full of just spectators, or have become no more than a social club.

In fact, sluggers Ronnie Ford and Bert Smith of the Caesars and Benny Holt of the Storm hit so many home runs during the first weekend of play that the league office became concerned that Chicago spectators might view the sport as some sort of freak show and never come back.

In the 20th game, with tension becoming almost unbearable and the spectators groaning in suppressed but polite excitement, MacKay broke Llamas» serve with a brilliant cross-court placement.

It might also keep the exuberant old alums from pounding the backs of innocent spectators sitting in front of them before it becomes clear that State's touchdown isn't for real.

«I became convinced,» he added with conviction, «that bowling had a great future as a spectator sport.»

But for better or worse, it's becoming clearer all the time that if soccer does succeed as a spectator sport in the U.S., it will be the indoor brand that will thrive.

But as Bill Center, an SI correspondent who has been covering soccer for the San Diego Union since 1968, notes, «One of the first things said by the owners of the original San Diego Toros was, «When the kids playing soccer today grow up, soccer in the U.S. will become the Number One spectator sport.»

I am also concerned that Rosicky had his nose smashed, and no action was taken against the villain involved, and I am also concerned that Theo had objects thrown at him, and he became the focus of judgement, whilst more recently someone else had coins thrown at them, and the FA immediately stepped in and spoke of banning the offending spectators.

Breastfeeding which was always a personal experience for the child becomes something of a spectator sport, something which they no longer participate in, but will often see other children in the act.

What Corbyn described as the «new politics» had become something of a spectator sport.

In a brief post on Facebook, Mr. Mahama also questioned the silence of «moral society» which he said had become mere spectators.

Old, white, impoverished males — once the people who decided elections — have been left behind, becoming little more than spectators of a political battlefield now dominated by a university - trained metropolitan elite.

They chose not to be powerless dismayed spectators and instead to become active, engaged players.

The Margaret Simpsons and Vida Anims have also phased out and Ghana has now become mere spectators at the Olympics.

All these crazy guys have suddenly become passive spectators.

When you present your work at a meeting, you become an active participant in the field rather than a spectator.

Long before meteorology became a national spectator sport, 12 - year - old Joshua Wurman built a makeshift weather station in his backyard in a suburb of Philadelphia, erecting a wooden shelter to shield his instruments from the elements as they captured temperature and relative - humidity readings.

But this pledge has been sidelined: a missed opportunity to find out how spectators can be persuaded to become participants.

No more than ten minutes later there was a scene lasting five whole minutes (it felt like hours) wherein the walking fat joke of a character (who nevertheless becomes a full - fledged lifeguard because he has «determination») gets his erect penis and testicles stuck in between the panels of a wooden beach chair and a hot female lifeguard and Dwayne Johnson proceed to try and coach him through the situation while a beach worth of spectators look on and take video with their phones.

Your whole body will hopefully tense up during the climax, as you become that spectator in the crowds hoping for Watley's safe return.

Wheatley posits that, through the production of cinematic unpleasure, Haneke forces the spectator to examine the source of unpleasure and thus become a rationally aware spectator who takes up some responsibility for viewing.

Haneke's debut trilogy Der siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent, 1989), Benny's Video (1992) and 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, 1994), according to Wheatley, are art films which aim to be treated as intellectual products but insufficiently allow the spectator to become a moral agent engaging with film content autonomously.

John Gavin, star of many a plush romance, was a male star for women — a handsome hunk (hence the bare chest here), smoothly well - mannered («beautiful manners», even in a heel, were a major pleasure for female spectators) and redolent of wealth and «class» (he later became US ambassador to Mexico).

Truly, I had become a facilitator to their learning, more a spectator than an instructor.

An exploratory jaunt to the nearby town of Velden am Wörthersee - scene, we're told, of some of the craziness that Wörtherseetreffen has become known for - turns up little more than a few wig - wearing spectators with a bawdy hand - drawn sign.

A delicious tale of when society gossip became an art form, a spectator sport, and eventually a lethal weapon.