Sentences with phrase «brass tacks in»

If you are not ready to talk brass tacks in your relationship, try to enjoy throwing around your thoughts on marriage and your expectations in a future spouse.

Not exact matches

Before getting down to brass tacks, it's crucial to find out who to invest your time in and who's «just looking.»

In the next column, we'll look at what happens when you get down to brass tacks.

What's most interesting is that now the bishops are talking brass tacks, having a spirited discussion over concrete proposals for phased action to make a unity that is not just on paper but in reality.

This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp - pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.

But if you want to get down to the brass tacks of it, as a Christian one does already have the answer to this, in general at least.

Room Temperature — Now I'm getting a little «brass tacks» here, but in our house the downstairs feels about 10 degrees cooler than the upstairs so when DaddyB and I are freezing in the winter, the girls are sweating in their rooms.

Dr. Danny Singley: So we cover things like that in the expectant dads class and we also get down to real brass tacks like you know, folks want to know about Core Blood Banking and getting a Doula, a midwife or daddy nesting...

«We are in the midst of brass - tacks, block - by - block assessment of engineering costs and revenue projections for the innovative new streetcar,» a spokeswoman for the mayor's office said in an email.

But, whatever the results, Wadhams» record of brass tacks would seem to mean that Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to the Senate by David Paterson in 2009 and elected to a partial term in 2010, may be in for a fierce fight in her second statewide run if Long is the nominee.

He's also spent $ 12,500 at Brass Tacks Strategies, LLC, and $ 27,000 on campaign consulting services with Cathy Blaney and Associates, the firm of former governor George Pataki's chief fundraiser, who also works in partnership development at Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

So in addition to including the strategies above, what does «doing it right» actually look like when it comes down to brass tacks?

For those of you who don't know, she is the designer & proprietor of Brass Tacks and believes in creating clothes that have a modern silhouette, made out of natural textiles, perfect for the urban woman.

However, when he gets down to brass tacks and lets the drama unfold, he produces some of the most powerful and engaging sequences in any Star Wars film.

(If they did so no state would have adopted the standards, because specific content is a local prerogative in the U.S.) But those words are an impetus to a brave governor or state superintendent to get down to brass tacks.

explains the current self - publishing landscape and covers the truths and myths about what it means to be an indie author now and in the foreseeable future — beyond just «how to write a novel» or NaNoWriMo and delving into the brass - tacks realities of indie publishing.

One bit of important information that you will not find on uTANGO's website is the «terms, conditions and disclosures,» which contains important information such as interest rates, fees and penalties, and the brass tacks on how to maintain your membership in good standing.

Almost immediately, artists associated with European Dada took up the torch from 1916 through the 1920s, resulting in works like Man Ray's The Gift (1921), a flatiron with brass tacks attached to its underside, rendering it bizarrely useless.

Such a brass - tacks perspective would seem to make Forge's pointillist abstractions strange bedfellows with the all - white paintings of the American pragmatist Robert Ryman — both artists approach each new work as tabula rasa, an unpremeditated engagement with the empty surface (in a 1985 interview, Forge cites Monet's claim that he painted «as though he were a blind man who had just recovered his sight»)-- but there is an experiential connection as well.

Except in this case, it is much more brass tacks — if the heat isn't in the Ocean — where has it gone?

When it comes down to brass tacks, the hidden market for jobs is all about who you know and being in the right place at the right time.

In this phase, we'll get down to brass tacks such as writing a powerful resume and LinkedIn profile as well as using social media to demonstrate your expertise.

Paint the walls your favourite colour then crisscross ribbon in a deeper shade across one of the walls using brass thumb tacks, creating a diamond pattern.