Sentences with phrase «big chance on»

I'll admit they took a big chance on us, but it's been working out really well.

Almost a century later, John's grandson and author Bryan Mealer's father, Bobby, left his steady but dead - end job at a chemical plant near Houston for the oil booms and busts of Big Spring, Texas, taking a big chance on oil with his mercurial cousin Grady.

The first was the addition of the SUS, or «Sport Utility Sedan,» which was the brainchild of Ernie Boch, a man who had taken a big chance on Subaru in the 1970s by purchasing Subaru of New England and building an empire that would account for a significant percentage of the brand's national sales as everyone from Vermont to Rhode Island fell in love with the brand's all - wheel drive offerings.

Comic - book movies have mostly focused on the superhero world as of late, but in the early 2000s Hollywood was taking bigger chances on darker...

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Not having some of the biggest artists in the world on its side only hurts its chances at growth and success.

Besides just being a valuable compendium of wisdom on achieving success, the massive run down of characteristics of the super accomplished could serve as a self - diagnostic checklist, allowing you to uncover areas to improve in order to increase your chances of making it big.

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For Shugerman, the biggest takeaway from the hearing was how «serious» he thought Republicans on the committee were in «asking tough, but fair questions» and «respectfully giving Comey a full chance to answer.»

The bigger risk is stymying our chances of ever discovering whether life existed on Mars before human beings and their grubby microbiomes get there.

And, of course, if you're on an «all or nothing» crowdfunding website, you have a bigger chance of not reaching your goal and therefore losing all the funding you do attract.

Telus has tried to acquire the small provider on two occasions but was denied both times by the government, meaning there's zero chance the company can sell out for relative big bucks to an incumbent.

«I like that they're focused on doing one thing very well, but the more diversified your business, the less there's a chance one area will take a big bite out of your earnings when it's disrupted.»

Offering pre-orders in the middle of the night likely reduces the strain on Apple's servers and gives it a chance to catch its breath before the bigger wave comes when East Coasters wake up.

«The more resilient a company is, the bigger its chances of success are,» Sandberg said during an on - stage interview with Inc. editor in chief Eric Schurenberg.

Keeping inventory levels low helps you cut costs and reduce the chances of taking a big loss on unsold inventory.

It saps productivity by flooding the mind with a full plate of everything before you've had a chance to focus on the bigger picture.

As the Dude puts it in The Big Lebowski, «New s ** t has come to light» and your business model should evolve based on the «new s ** t.» Startups that embrace this will stand a better chance at survival.

It may give Buffett and Munger a chance to address progress on Berkshire's joint venture with Amazon.com Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co to lower employee healthcare costs, or the scandals hurting the stock price and reputation of Wells Fargo & Co, one of Berkshire's biggest investments.

For Dev, the single biggest challenge was convincing Canadian employers to take a chance on someone with limited experience in the country and in the healthcare industry.

But people who rely 100 % on any type of investment — whether it's their own company or anything else — are taking a big chance, because of a dangerous lack of diversification.»

All that time in the air, he says, gives him a chance to focus on the «big picture» for his brand, which is now available in nearly 10,000 bars, restaurants, and clubs in the United States and abroad, and to embrace different culinary traditions.

If we can have a good conversation and get our product in the hands of the right people, we have a great chance of doing something big later on.

What's more, the company is on the verge of what Morgan Stanley analyst Masahiro Ono calls «a big chance to enter the China market.»

Since every state has its own system of taxation, and most counties and cities throw a few extra levies on top of that, there's a good chance that your big move could have a big impact on your taxes.

It's a chance for a neighborhood to be on the ground floor - literally, of the planning stages of a new playground that will be bigger and meet the demands of more children and encourage the timeless art of children, running, climbing, moving and playing.

That's why an increasing number of voices on both sides of the political spectrum have been pressing for additional reforms that would reduce the chances that the federal government will have to step in to save another big, dumb bank.

«I wanted to know how big the effect of chance on CEO performance might be.»

President Trump will take a team of business leaders who may sign sales agreements, but chances of a big breakthrough on trade frictions seem slim.

As it turned out, only nine Courtenay - Comox votes — quite possibly from the very people we spoke with on those door steps, and almost certainly from some of those first - time voters we signed - up — currently make up the difference between another Christy Clark Big Money majority and the chance for a fresh start in B.C. politics.

If you are buying a defaulted piece of paper trading for 15 cents on the dollar, chances are, you aren't going to get very much in bankruptcy court (lose a little), but who knows, maybe you score big in the restructuring and get some stock that rips.

A bail out by Warren is clearly a big plus and it is clearly not by chance that Home Capital features this prominently on its homepage.

But Don had the guts to take his shot and knowingly risk job security (with a young family), for the chance at making a bigger difference, based on a bigger vision for the City.

She was one of the Senators I was warned to look out for before this hearing — many believe she'll make a presidential run in 2020 and this is a chance to be tough on a big tech company in her home state.

«Despite this tightening of restrictions from the two biggest advertising platforms, there is little chance that this will have a major impact on the flow of traffic to the top cryptocurrency exchange sites, given that until now paid search was responsible for less than 1 % of their traffic.»

TMX's collaboration will support MaRS FinTech entrepreneurs with a range of opportunities including the chance to work with TMX's recently launched eXplore TMX Innovation Lab, a design and development space which focuses on market solutions in technology and big data.

Still, I'll be cutting back on travel big time this summer, fall, and in 2015, which should get me back to regular blogging and hopefully give me the chance to finish this next book.

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Last year one of the biggest names in gospel music, Kirk Franklin, collaborated with Kanye West and Chance the Rapper on the song «Ultralight beam».

On a purely secular view, humans are simply the accidental by - products of natural selection, monkeys who by chance grew brains too big for their own good.

Well today I have the chance to be at one of those conferences — Big Tent Christianity — primarily because I'm a poor writer from a small town whose publisher took pity on her and paid the way.

And so this «heavenly lottery» attracts countless thousands who even borrow money to support their evangelist and thus increase the chance of hitting it big like the folk they see on TV.

Big brother (Federalies) is always mothering (state governance) its» folds (citizens) never giving them a chance to choose their own habitual tendencies be it drugs or paying for s3x or deciding what to gamble on and how much to pay for them.

Big brother is always mothering its» folds never giving them a chance to choose their own habitual tendencies be it drugs or paying for s3x or deciding what to gamble on and how much to pay for them.

Big brother is always mothering its» folds never giving them a chance to choose their own habitual tendencies be it drugs or paying for s3x or deciding what to gamble on and how much.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's big chance to make a substantial contribution to the debate on the Bill's second reading: an extempore intervention (that it was unprepared is indicated by the barely coherent assertion that «any lack of clarity in this area seems fatally compromising and ambiguous») of 124 words.

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With the big upcoming move, The Hubby busy with a new job, and me trying to get a house ready to put on the market, maintaining some semblance of order while the house is actually on the market without actually evicting my little boys during this period, packing years worth of crap, and keeping up the blogging gig, I really need some kid - free time to have a fighting chance of getting it all accomplished without completely losing my mind or sacrificing sleep entirely.

The on - pack promotion will feature on 3.2 million bottles nationally during May and June, giving consumers the chance to win a trip to New York, the «Big Apple».

You never want to cook frozen chicken because there's a big chance it will overcook on the outside and not be cooked enough on the inside.

Wayback Burgers invites guests to go big or go home on September 18, presenting a cheesy challenge to take down its monster Triple Triple Burger for the chance to win big bucks.