Sentences with phrase «buy some time by»

It's worrisome too, when executives repeat a question or attempt to buy time by giving a non-answer, such as, «That's a good question.»

Wilson buying time by running wide as opposed to right up the field also allows his receivers to break away from the defender and get open as the rest of the defense scrambles to adjust.

But still, the Boss has buy time by having 1 or 2 of his youths and some of his fringe Gunners on the bench to cover the starters.

David Cameron was able to buy some time by saying he hadn't heard the Justice Secretary's interview with Victoria Derbyshire but he'll have to comment later.

«The hope is that we can buy time by reducing short - lived climate forcers,» said Patricia Quinn, an atmospheric chemist researching these pollutants at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

, buy some time by fabricating a prior engagement.

The initial rendered backgrounds were used as out of focus plates for close - ups which bought us time by getting 100 or so shots in the pipeline and allowed us to completely rethink and re-render the maelstrom for all of the wide shots.

Until the time is right for Rachel to face the issue head - on — that is, the third act home stretch — Nakata and Kruger buy time by introducing a nominal male lead (Simon Baker) even more bland and useless than the original's Martin Henderson, enlisting recognizable faces such as Elizabeth Perkins and Sissy Spacek to do showy cameo turns, and — above all else — throwing in a lot of literally splashy water effects.

When her high - school sweetheart (Mark Webber) proposes to her, Megan freaks out, buying time by leaving for a weeklong self - improvement seminar.

Renee relates how upon arriving at Auschwitz, her mother was sent straight to the gas chamber, while she and her sister were sent into the prison where she bought time by offering her services as an aspiring fashion designer.

You can buy time by paying people to do work for you so you don't have to.

While some treatments may buy time by curing secondary disease, and others may make the cat's day - to - day life more comfortable, the sad truth is that, at the present time, FeLV is considered a fatal disease and the cat will die sooner or later.

The owners say they can not operate without electricity and believe they can always buy some time by delaying tax payments.

You can buy yourself time by saying something like «Great question.

You can buy time by asking questions.

If you get stumped, you can buy some time by asking a question yourself: asking the interviewer to repeat or clarify the question.

Not exact matches

AT&T has been pursuing video customers, by buying satellite service DirecTV and agreeing to acquire Time Warner (though that deal has been held up by antitrust cops).

Earlier that same day, Time Inc. (Fortune «s parent) announced that it was buying xoJane.com and xoVain.com, a pair of millennial women - focused sites run by Say Media Inc. and veteran mag editor Jane Pratt.

But by buying Aetna, the third - largest U.S. health insurer with 22 million members, CVS is likely to go much further into customer care at its stores over time.

In a deal to chase multimedia opportunities outside traditional print, Time Inc. has bought HelloGiggles, a website co-founded by actress Zooey Deschanel.

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If you aren't the owner or haven't been tasked by management to come up with some new marketing solutions, now's the time to take all you've learned, compile it into a robust pitch and get the buy - in you need.

For example, the paper's authors explain, investors who bought Pfizer five years ago have seen their shares appreciate by 80 percent, while investors who bought 25 years ago have seen their shares grow by six times (adjusted for splits).

The new rules by themselves will likely give the carriers more incentive to buy content - producing companies, as Verizon (vz) did in acquiring Yahoo and AT&T is attempting to do by acquiring Time Warner (twx).

According to Valeant's annual report, the company encouraged distributors in Russia and Poland to buy «inventories above target levels» by offer discounts or an extended amount of time to make payments.

At the time, Ontario's Securities Act operated according to the principle of «individual reliance,» which meant each investor had to prove that he or she was duped into buying stocks by faulty company numbers.

By the time he bought shares of each a mere 10 minutes after his tweets moved the market, it was too late.

«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.»

He eliminates the time - wasting decision of what to wear by buying a few sets of clothes that he can easily pull off the rack and put on.

Instead, she believes Kim is looking for a break from the financial pressure brought on by sanctions, as well as the need to buy time.

Aside from interest generated by Trump, businesses are closely watching the case as a rare instance of an antitrust agency trying to prevent a company from buying a supplier, as is the case with AT&T's purchase of Time Warner.

By the looks of this year's North American Auto Show in Detroit, soon you'll be able to buy a KITT of your own: almost every dashboard boasted touch screens, voice control, real - time performance data and more.

And so in the case of TPG, we had bought Continental Airlines out of bankruptcy, America West Airlines out of bankruptcy, Ryan Air, which is the largest airline in Europe, and we had sold much of the Continental stake to Northwest, so by the time I got there, in the late»90s, we basically controlled four airlines.

Investors can still play it safe by buying well - known, large - capitalization stocks, he notes, but it may be time to move money out of bonds, which continue to experience record inflows, and into stocks.

For example, if you buy several packages of frozen fruits along with whey protein and almond milk don't be surprised if by the time you get home a smoothie blender is waiting on your doorstep.

When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core of HP's problem in this area).

If Time Warner's purchase by AT&T should face antitrust action it, would seem to make any deal to buy more content assets a non-starter.

By that time, Magna was already actively buying or partnering with companies working in alternative propulsion.

«You can get in at $ 10,000 to $ 15,000, you never incur the cost of buying this refrigerator - sized array, and you can scale up to a petabyte or more by adding boxes one at a time.»

That's generally a reflection of how well investors think Berkshire's stock market portfolio, still over 85 % managed by Buffett and his long - time partner Charlie Munger, as well as the businesses they have bought over the years — including railroad company Burlington Northern, See's Candies, and dozens of others — are doing.

The activist investor bought eBay (ebay) stock in January 2014, demanded a split with PayPal at the same time, and he got that split by September 2014.

But these diehards might be in for some tough times following the announcement by electronics retailer Best Buy that it will stop selling compact discs in its stores.

Montilla says bigger hotels can circumvent product shortages by buying toilet paper and other basic supplies from black market smugglers who charge up to 6 - times the regular price.

Jerrit Tan, CEO of New York City - based Canopy, believes more entrepreneurs should take advantage of the billions of dollars in business grants offered by government agencies, which can buy a startup valuable R&D time and boost credibility.

The chain, a unit of Walgreens Boots Alliance (wba), on Monday is launching a marketing campaign to burnish its health and wellness credentials at a time archival CVS Health (cvs) looks to get stronger by buying health insurer Aetna (aet) in a new $ 69 billion deal, and Amazon.com (amzn) is believed to looking into getting into the pharmacy business.

At about this time three years ago, it agreed to complete its multi-billion dollar acquisition of European druggist Alliance Boots, and followed that 10 months later by trying (and failing) to buy smaller rival Rite Aid (rad) outright.

By handling deliveries themselves, Amazon can theoretically speed up delivery times — and drive more people to buy Prime memberships.

His fate is spelled out, lyric by lyric — But now he's got bad credit, can't buy a car / Can't rent an apartment, times is hard / And when the phone rings, do you think it's Vanessa?

But by that time, big box stores like Best Buy were capturing the majority of the electronics business and RadioShack was again getting pushed to the sidelines.

For me, from now on, I'm refusing to buy any product or service that is on auto - renew that doesn't give me the option to quit at any time or that doesn't send renewal notices by email.