Sentences with phrase «big people up»

Gettleman kept saying he believes in big people up front, tough people, dominating offensive lines.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

Independent developers — often just a handful of people and sometimes just a single individual — are popping up faster than mushrooms in a Super Mario game, and they're taking a big chunk of the pie through a thousand little slices.

The book shows «how we could cut emissions by up to 50 percent without asking people to make big sacrifices,» Gates says, and he even claims it's a relatively light read.

Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. estimates that the U.S. currently faces a shortage of up to 190,000 people with analytical expertise and 1.5 million managers with the skills to understand and act on what big data can reveal.

«At Wazoku we are all about innovation and as a start - up we know that one of the biggest challenges faced by new businesses is getting seen and found by the right people.

The consumers are part of the big three credit bureau's estimate of 145.5 million people affected by the breach, a figure it marked up from an original September estimate of 143 million.

He described the families of people with such difficult diseases as «so close to breaking,» and said that «science is going to catch up... But a big piece of that is... changing the paradigm of [medicine], dealing with costs, and dealing with availability.»

As often as not, the biggest hurdle isn't even coming up with an elegant and cost - effective solution; it's getting people to accept the prospect of change and to adopt your answer to the problem.

«One of the biggest attractions of Invoke was that [people] could wind up getting hired in an agency and being employee number four or five at Hootsuite,» says Tedman, who is no longer involved in the company's day - to - day operations.

In a realm of swirling, incomprehensible big biological data — which is, perhaps, another way of thinking about the human body — the opportunity to use computer learning to better anticipate which drugs will work well (and not so well) in any one person is one we shouldn't pass up.

You could also earn some tips in the process so it's a great option for people that are looking to do something in their spare time, similar to the big ride - sharing apps that are hogging up app stores everywhere.

It is the biggest scam ever, such a huge gigantic scam that's going to blow up in so many people's faces,» he said, adding: «It's far worse than anything I was ever doing.»

Because disruptions are nothing new: We've seen dozens of them in recent years: A young entrepreneur has a big idea, shakes things up and emerges with a multi-billion dollar business that leaves people gaping, imitating, disbelieving and envying, all amid a dizzying swirl of emotions.

The biggest single negative factor was too little sleep because young people stayed up late on social media.

Skyscrapers were popping up in big cities, and many people found using elevators to be a nerve - wracking experience.

«What we've had to do at Harry's is actually think out multiple years ahead and say, how big do we want to be, in 2018 and 2019 and 2020 and start buying equipment today so that it gets put in place and we can train people on it and we can have them up and running by the time we're that size.»

In a call with the media, Wal - Mart executives said super centres are getting bigger purchases on each trip from people stocking up on bulk items, but traffic has been weaker, particularly in the bottom performing 10 per cent of its stores.

«The long - term bet is that by enabling people to have good organic interactions with businesses, that will end up being a massive multiplier on the value of the monetization down the road, when we really work on that, and really focus on that in a bigger way,» Zuckerberg said.

«But in this age where everybody is triple booked, unless you have big news or a big draw, it's hard to get people to show up.»

You'll often hear people tell you not to get caught up in the details and to focus on the bigger picture.

The rollback of these privacy rules wouldn't be as big of a deal to people if they had a choice between an ISP that collects data en masse and one that makes it a point not to serve up targeted ads.

Instead, the co-founders recently decided to open the company's big decisions up to an 11 - person leadership team, including senior executives hired away from companies like Google and Kate Spade.

Almost any brand that gets acquired by a bigger brand, people just start saying, «Oh, they're going to screw it up.»

To scroll up and down, users must press tiny buttons on the side of the watch — a clumsy maneuver for people with big fingers.

And when people start searching for structure and they want to apply it to business, you know that something big is up.

More than 90 % of wireless subscribers in Canada are locked up in contracts by the Big Three, and though people love to complain about their carrier, parting ways isn't so simple.

«A big mistake people make is continuing to work full - time up until the application date, or until they get a decision,» Laurence said.

While there are many reasons for this, a big cause is the fact that not enough people focus on the follow up.

But each of those decisions can roll up into a much bigger picture, turning you into the kind of person you never wanted to be.

Halloween is just around the corner, and while some people prefer to save money and make their costumes at home, the run up to October 31 is now one of the biggest for UK retail.

The Clintons burned up their trust and couldn't convince people this server thing wasn't a big deal.

Airbus manufacturers the world's biggest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, a four - engine monster that can fit up to 800 people.

«With a movie like this, it's important not to get too carried away with expectations because... in the lead - up to a big movie, that's all people are talking about, and it's easy to keep saying, «It's going to be bigger, and bigger, and bigger.»

The biggest trip - up in this transition is that people keep trying to do all the work themselves.

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

When they do meet, it turns out that even the biggest names get flustered around people they look up to.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

I think two of the biggest reasons are that computer science, as a major, has been dominated by men, and so the people coming out of CS programs have been male, and the venture - capital partnerships that have grown up since the»50s were almost exclusively male.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

If you don't, if you continue holding people's hands, then they'll never grow up to be big kids.

«One of the biggest flaws with the UK set up is that it is based on self - reporting and Companies House (which runs the UK Corporate register) has limited resources to go after people who fail to provide information or provide incorrect information,» he said.

One of the biggest wild cards when it comes to expenses is dental care, they explain: «It's something that not too many people think about, and without dental insurance, you could end up with a $ 3,000 t0 $ 5,000 surprise dental expense.»

Watch out for: The person who holds up big data as a solution to a problem, but can't offer a plan of attack.

«One of the biggest mistakes people make when they're trying to be good on Vine or social media is skimping on props or setting or production equipment,» Logan tells me later as a bunch of us are helping to blow up several huge goal posts.

Yet he is the architect of a revolutionary platform built on people freely disclosing information about themselves, offering up the stuff of everyday life as worthy of the biggest stage.

(U.S. - based Coinbase, the world's biggest Bitcoin exchange, is presently overwhelmed with demand with as many as 100,000 people per day signing up.)

«The general message to big brands and agencies from Silicon Valley and all the digital networks is leave the creative people at home, show up with the data scientists,» he said.

Remember, the financial sector is more than just the 10 biggest banks, and the 10 biggest banks are made up of far more people than just their top executives.

This week's big news is that Michael Kors, one of the largest luxury fashion brands, is closing up to 15 % of its retail stores over the next two years, after slow sales and fewer people shopping in - store.