Sentences with phrase «brick by brick on»

The conspiracy theories around Exxon and other fossil fuel intense companies disregards the important reality that everything we are today is built brick by brick on the fossil fuel economy, I think you fall into the trap of thinking that you are somehow removed from that system, free, independent and pure... you are not.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, May 2 - U.S. consumers spent a record $ 100 billion online in the first quarter, helped by holiday promotions, Adobe Analytics said on Wednesday, highlighting the ongoing switch to web retailers from brick - and - mortar stores.

Running your own business can mean a lot of time on your own, in the trenches, building your company brick by brick, pushing the gears forward inch by inch.

The deployment of such technology is the latest move by a Canadian bank to beef up its digital capabilities as customers increasingly conduct their banking on mobile phones and computers, rather than over the phone or in a brick - and - mortar branch.

Brick by brick, the tech giant plans to cash in on the game's popularity with educators and students.

She was still building the fund brick by brick — but now, when she had conversations with prospective investors, she could point to Kimberlin's and Butterfield's names on her list of limited partners.

In retail, the likes of Walmart are utilizing the IoT to aid in inventory management and loss prevention, helping to link their brick - and - mortar locations with the importance of their online store through the use of RFID tags on merchandise, which can help with tracking and scanning by employees.

Online stores and service providers must always be on the cutting edge of web by necessity, but brick - and - mortar store owners often put up a basic website and neglect it, thinking it can't really help their business.

It began by helping web companies such as Facebook collect payments and then moved into mobile; it released software that ran on point - of - sale terminals to help bricks - and - mortar stores.

The company is focused on grabbing more of these customer's overall spending by moving them into Amazon's low - margin grocery stores and other bricks - and - mortar retail locations.

LONDON (AP)-- Ai Weiwei is taking on Lego, brick by brick.

The on - demand economy, also known as O2O e-commerce, is geared to deliver greater convenience to consumers — and more sales opportunities to retailers and service providers — by marrying mobile Internet technology with traditional brick - and - mortar stores.

In the West, the bulk of ecommerce is done on either websites established by traditional retailers («clicks and bricks») or on pure - play sites that carry their own inventory.

More surprising to me, though, was the rare public white flag waved by Bezos, one of the richest humans alive, by looking to a brick - and - mortar retailer for help; after 10 years of trying and mostly failing at making grocery delivery a workable business, this was a «We can't do this on our own» moment.

Too late for the tour and the history lesson, too late in the season on this southern plantation, and the ancient, front - line cedar soldiersbacked up by a strong regiment of holliesare not telling what they know.I walk on the old brick, caulked with thin moss, but soon overlaid with a thickening....

He will be buried beside his wife, Ruth, at the foot of the cross-shaped brick walkway in the Prayer Garden on the northeast side of the Billy Graham Library, in a simple pine casket made by inmates at the correctional facility in Angola, Louisiana.

Biblical or Nonbiblical: I was surprised to see that in the whole of the Paulsons» book only a half - dozen signs were composed of Bible verses — including one church in Corinth, Kentucky, which cut the Gordian knot of ever - changing signage by erecting a permanent red - brick diptych with the Ten Commandments engraved on it.

No doubt this results - based culture influenced Driscoll's decision to use church funds to pay for a spot on the New York Times bestseller list and to vow to «destroy» other area churches «brick by brick.»

I had a good rise on the bread before baking, but by the time the baking was done, the bread was flat and a brick!

(I sometimes speed up this process by wrapping an unvarnished, unpainted brick in foil and placing it on top of the chicken to weight it down and get more even coverage and crusting.)

And I'd also tell her to keep on going on, to build her castle brick by brick, laying the foundation for a future goal by showing up every single day.

On one side of the store, there was a cafe counter occupied by beautiful people sipping hot drinks; on the other, racks of clothes lined an exposed brick walOn one side of the store, there was a cafe counter occupied by beautiful people sipping hot drinks; on the other, racks of clothes lined an exposed brick walon the other, racks of clothes lined an exposed brick wall.

Tara Jensen hosts a monthly pizza night, and every time she's sure that no one will come, and every time, nearly 100 people show up, finding their way to the town of Marshall, North Carolina, then heading six miles northwest on Route 70 along the French Broad River, winding around the knoll called Walnut, and stopping at the dirt driveway leading to her compound, which consists of an algae - covered pond, a shack in the woods, a brick oven, and two pitched - roof houses, one of which is a bakery that goes by the name of Smoke Signals.

By the time the loaves bake the next day, the oven will be on a slow descent from its peak temperature of 800 degrees, and the heat trapped inside the bricks will shape the shaggy lumps into crackly, crusted loaves.

The Bengals controlled the hell out of the clock by relying on their brick - wall - on - a-treadmill rookie Jeremy Hill who rushed for 148 yards.

A federal lawsuit Tuesday alleged that the Chicago Park District violated a couple's constitutional rights by refusing to display their religious message on a commemorative brick at a Far North Side park near their home.

In April, a U.S. District Court judge ruled on a case against the Park District that had been brought by an Edgewater couple who wanted to donate a brick as part of a fundraising effort for new playground equipment in Senn Park.

Although children aren't developmentally ready to share until they're nearer three, we can encourage it at two when we're playing with them by saying «your turn to put a brick on the tower»; «now it's your brother's turn».

She said the rail industry has historically been defined by asset lifecycles, budget ceilings and infrastructure built on «steel, brick and iron» rather than «wires, microchips and apps».

Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell said: «Brick by brick government policy on Iraq is collapsing.»

Neighbors, sick and tired of looking at a crumbing one - story brick building abandoned by Verizon years ago, called Schumer, who's known for jumping in on behalf of the most local of issues.

Even today those nano - pauses and gut responses save us from getting flattened by buses or dropping a brick on our toes.

Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research and Innovation Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea, written by Jonathan Adams, David Pendlebury, and Bob Stembridge, highlights these countries» public and private investments in research and development, their scientific and engineering labor forces, their output of research papers and particularly active areas of research, their academic impact as measured by citations, and their economic potential based on innovation and patenting.

The algorithm accomplished this feat by learning to dig a tunnel through the wall on the side, allowing the ball to quickly destroy a large number of bricks from behind.

Rats wear them down by continuously gnawing on everything around them, including cement, brick, wood, lead pipes, and other small animals.

Moses is currently working on having it make a complete replica of its own structure using Lego - like bricks, though the machine still relies on conventional motors — which have to be installed by hand — to drive its activity.

Our work was able to investigate the variety of the self - assembled structures offered by the chosen bricks and to characterise the specific collective behaviors occurring on tuning the relevant parameters of these systems.

Ranked by Forbes as the first on the list of 200 best small companies, Nutrisystem was once a brick and mortar business.

Products used on my lips: My lip color is custom made by mixing the Manhattan X-treme last lip liner in the color 46 N, a violet berry with the Manhattan X-treme last & shine lipstick in the color 54 V, a brick red.

The Andrea skirt costs # 65 and is mostly out of stock on Collectif's site at the moment, but they have 3 brick and mortar stores in the UK and you can sign up to be alerted when new stock of this item is added on the website by visiting the Andrea product page and clicking «Let me know when it's back in stock» found under «Item is out of stock.»

If you saw on my snaps this weekend, I was surprised by Mark with our brick in front of the stadium (the brick walkway leading into the stadium in the front).

The discount footwear retailer is the latest US retailer to be dragged under by declining brick - and - mortar retail traffic, announcing it had filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday.

Okay, the fact that it is sprayed on historic brick isn't so wonderful, so don't go doing that, but you can make graffiti art in your own space by painting on stretched or non-stretched canvas, plywood, or any large piece of discarded construction material like plasterboard, or mdf.

That's why I'm encouraged by innovations in online dating such as Coffee Meets Bagel (where you get paired with one person a day only), HowAboutWe (which focuses on the experience of going on dates, as opposed to «finding your life partner» — reminds me of WBW's «laying brick» anti-procrastination paradigm), and Siren (Seattle - based app that's been dubbed «anti-Tinder,» because women get to control their visibility to men — and men know that if a woman makes herself visible to him, that's a sign of interest).

Retired and trying to scrape by on his retirement check, Joe Harding (Michael Caine) is about to hit an unexpected brick wall.

For every sequence involving Lino's parkour skills — usually followed by a shot of Damien looking on in disbelief (Walker, playing second fiddle in terms of physicality, displays a real sense of self - deprecating humor in these moments)-- or a neat gag involving two bricks, two cars, and two perfectly timed landings, there are at least two setpieces that are rather nondescript.

The title of this supremely fresh, witty and thought - provoking new film by Swedish writer - director Ruben Östlund («Force Majeure») refers mainly to a new exhibit on display at a museum of contemporary art: a neon - bordered bit of brick flooring of...

Did critics get collectively hit on the head by a brick when they praised Goodnight Mommy?

What North Country does instead is pile on the piety with giant brick - laying slops, even pausing for a moment for the mother figure played by Spacek — perhaps the most decent - seeming actress of the last forty years — to make an antiquated stand for the plight of the housewife: «Maybe I should charge you for all the loads of laundry I do!»

But by the way I remember took a short cut in the bathroom on the left side in a rift on the marble bricks wich took me to a room and then outside I was close to the entrance of the house againg, where that was the end of the race.