Sentences with phrase «been a useful exercise»

The answer involves categorizing investors, something I don't like to do (because there can be so many exceptions), but it's a useful exercise here.

In addition to reducing third party exposures, risk rating is a useful exercise that can provide more operational clarity.

I thought it would be a useful exercise to use a modified version of Levi's checklist to think about Energy East and its impact on Canadian energy security, so here we go:

I think it's a useful exercise to come up with your own religion.

It has been a useful exercise if only to show them that they can do it.

That being said, it was a useful exercise.

Whilst it can be a useful exercise to use pre-season to experiment with formations and tactics this should be reserved for the latter stages of a game once substitutions are made.Crucially Arsenal failed to use game time to acclimatise the players who are likely to start the Season to one another and to continue to develop a team philosophy which had proven so successful in a crucial game at the end of last Season.Reverting to type will only have one end product and it won't go down well with the Arsenal faithful.

However if he enjoys this (and some children do) it may be a useful exercise.

That's a useful exercise that will help your child learn to balance and stop in time.

Bodyweight rows are a useful exercise for their own right.

Dumbbell pullover is an excellent bodybuilding exercise to develop the size of your chest and improve the overall posture of your upper body, and is useful exercise if training for throwing sports or martial arts.

During deadlifts, rectus abdominis or external oblique muscle activity is moderate, indicating that it may be a useful exercise for the abdominals.

• Walking, squatting, pelvic rocks, tailor sitting and swimming are useful exercises to strengthen the pelvic floor and stay flexible.

This was a useful exercise.

Even if you are a poor writer this is a useful exercise.

Listing is a useful exercise that can open up new pathways for discussion, collaboration, and profound thinking about our profession.

Comparing a book with a movie or a video is a useful exercise to explore interactivity with.

I think this will be a useful exercise.

Get the right copy (book blurb) This is a useful exercise whether you are traditionally or indie published, or are unpublished and setting up your author platform.

Overall, though, this is a useful exercise, and one that should be a requirement from any major programmatic effort.

One could of course posit a series of convenient volcanos to blot all of those out, but I don't think that's a useful exercise.

We should address them carefully; it may be a useful exercise for all concerned.

It's a useful exercise.

Coming from the «one picture is worth a million words» department, I thought it might be a useful exercise in the visual interpretation of graphical information to combine IPCC / AR5 Figure 1.4 with the Hadley Center's graph of Central England Temperature (CET), 1772 - 2013, placing both graphics onto one common page.

Recovering from a hurricane, for example, using only natural weather based energy, should be a useful exercise for any small isolated society.

Vinny is right that this is a useful exercise.

Obviously it would take time to extract all that oil, so the oil will last longer than my basic calculation indicates, but it's a useful exercise to put it all in perspective.

But when preparing a will for a client, it can be a useful exercise, once you have a good first draft, to intentionally play devil's advocate.

Does that sound like something that's a useful exercise to you?

Codifying these procedures can be a useful exercise in itself, as it forces you to consider whether the current system is the best way of doing something.

In retrospect, considering the notions of the «billable hour» and «fee for service» in an academic setting may have been a useful exercise.

Whether or not it's on your resolution list to get a new job, keeping in touch with old acquaintances is a useful exercise, and sending holiday cards around your current workplace can help build relationships that will make the rest of the year go by a little more smoothly.

The Bank of England has conducted a proof - of - concept with Ripple which was completed in July and led the bank to comment that it «was a useful exercise to develop the Bank's understanding of synchronisation and possible technical solutions».

While comparing your skills to competing candidates is a useful exercise (and you can do this yourself, gathering competitive intelligence using LinkedIn), the next step is to develop success stories showing how you've applied these skills.

Since credentials are so key to a successful career in science, showcasing all your academic and professional accomplishments in one place can be a useful exercise — even if your potential employer doesn't require you to submit a CV.

As such failures can happen to anyone who's not vigilant enough in their career, it may be a useful exercise to regularly assess our beliefs and behaviours by referring to this checklist of top reasons for career failure and making sure none of them apply to us.

He believes the facilitation of such opportunities would be a useful exercise for anyone in human services programs to address.

Comparing First Peoples» health status in our two countries is a useful exercise.

, it's a useful exercise to get out of your own head and see what your partner needs.

Not exact matches

This isn't a new thing for exercise earphones, but if it works as intended, it could be useful for athletes without a traditional chest strap or wearable to track how hard they're pushing themselves.

Part research, part science, and part introspection exercise, Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck does help you understand your personality and decision - making traits — useful in itself — but more importantly is filled with cool insights and tips any entrepreneur can benefit from.

Having headphone controls on an earbud instead of a controller is useful, though you'll have to slow down your exercise for a couple of seconds when making an adjustment.

But as useful an exercise creating buyer personas might be, it's something that has always felt a little nebulous — still once removed from yielding any practical value.

These are expensive exercises, which do not seem to serve any useful purpose The Committee failed to abide by the last part of its first recommendation — «irresponsible spending».

Next to developing buyer personas, I think the most useful exercise to help you think like a publisher is creating an editorial calendar.

Non-demand pleasuring exercises also have proved to be useful for couples who do not suffer major sexual problems but simply wish to develop more of their pleasure potentials.

For nearly a dozen years I was a member of the Committee to Visit the Divinity School, of Harvard University, a quaint but sometimes useful device dating back to early days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts had its suspicions about Harvard and exercised them through insisting on such inspection.

Here are some additional communication exercises which many couples find useful in sharpening their skills in transmitting meanings: (a) Look in each other's eyes for at least a full minute and, without words, try to read what the other is feeling.

All three were necessary for military training in the old days and are still useful as exercise and for sport in modern times.

But where most of the children come from religiously ignorant, incoherent or indifferent households, it could be a most useful exercise, introducing pupils to one of the great narratives (that's another very «now» word) of our civilisation, and giving them a chance to sing the carols that are a standard part of our annual collective noise.