Sentences with phrase «broken by a phone call»

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Just like you have a breakdown of every call you make on your phone bill (and a local call usually costs a lot less than a popular keyword), they could offer their advertisers a statement broken down by click, IP address, keyword, cost, and so on.

By the time I get off the phone with their call centers I feel like my brain is broken.

However, their sense of connection is fragile, and is easily broken by something as simple as a parent giving attention to another sibling or getting distracted by a phone call.

Bragman's crucial error was giving Silver time to break the coup by bolstering his support over a weekend of phone calls and cajoling.

A new study commissioned by online dating... to prefer a call after a good date, to break off a casual relationship via text, and to have checked their phones during sex.

Written and directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen, the film follows Gunnar, who receives a strange phone call from his ex-boyfriend, Einar, months after they broke up.

Set on a Canadian college sorority house during the Christmas break, a crazed psychopath is camped out in the attic making obscene phone calls to its sexy co-eds lead by the breathy Oliva Hussey, a frumpy Andrea Martin, and boozing Margo Kidder.

The old guys getting confused for terrorists; going on an excursion to buy something mysterious called a cell phone; breaking down Eminem's «Without Me,» which Sal is stunned to learn is sung by a white guy — these are all regrettable diversions from the truth of the film because they all feel so completely like a writer's contrivances.

Unsurprisingly this new fad has also sparked further debate on the nature of police forces, with many calling them out on this particular video for being too harsh and for breaking one of the amendments by reading the persons phone.

MacCartney claimed that as she could be interrupted at any time when she tried to take a break by residents calling on her mobile phone, the working arrangements failed to provide for rest breaks as required by the regulations (see reg 12).

I'm done with iPhones, this ipad is going soon, and the Apple TV is going on Kijiji too soon, never mind the Apple Store recently making us come back 3 times for the same iphone 5 power button replacement recall they kept telling us they fixed but never did, the last event spent an hour screwing around trying to get it work on anything and it didn't, my iPhone 4s power button broke after 14 months like millions of others, and oh ya, let's go spend a grand on an iPhone 6 that's going to bend in our pockets after less than a day, followed up by an ios 8 update that's leave our phones incapable of making phone calls.

Provide back up support to the front office by greeting visitors, answering phones and directing phone calls to appropriate parties when the Receptionist is on break, or not available for work.

When a covered item breaks, request service online or by phone and pay your Trade Service Call Fee.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.