Sentences with phrase «by bit on»

Although both trailed behind the Falcon Northwest by a bit on the Cloud Gate and Fire Strike tests, they all came in much higher than any other systems we've reviewed.

Losing money bit by bit on a house isn't a tax write - off event.

While the PAC has been rather quiet in recent history, Grimm's racy headlines have been the boost of energy needed to renew interest, said Schwartz, aided in part by a bit on Bill Maher's Flip - a-District campaign which made national headlines.

The anti-suffrage position was unpicked bit by bit on stage and humor served to bring the constitutional issue to fore.

Amazon has put a lot of time and effort into improving its ability to deliver goods to customers, encroaching bit by bit on the country's two giant delivery companies, FedEx and U.P.S..

Not exact matches

I'm thinking for example of the little girl who reportedly suffered a dog bite on Southwest Airlines earlier this year, or the man who was viciously attacked by a dog on Delta in 2017, and the widely reported airline moves to restrict support animals from airplane cabins.

So Obama on March 22 engaged in a bit of political puffery at a storage yard owned by Transcanada, the Edmonton - based company behind Keystone.

It would be hand done, Chaulk explained, by men wearing gloves: a giant game of pick - up sticks, bit by bit, with the family looking on.

A number of Canadian startups are focused on servicing the needs of business exclusively: Vancouver - based software developer Bit Stew Systems Inc. partnered with B.C. Hydro to build a program that constantly monitors data emitted by the two million home smart meters in the province; and New Brunswick - based RtTech Systems» platform monitors and gives «asset utilization and utilities consumption.»

Luckily, Gilbert has elaborated on the idea, sharing more details in a Fast Company article that discusses her new book, a sort of self - help guide for those bitten by the creativity bug titled Big Magic.

Normally many of the object - oriented programming languages clean up for you because they notice when you are running low on memory and haven't used a bit of code in a while, but in the case of these terascale systems, it would be like having a kitchen the size of a football field, so by the time you ran out of room, it would take weeks to clean it up.

Ford tuned the Edge ST to compensate for its high ride by «managing the all - wheel drive system and electronically creating a little bit of sportiness without getting ourselves into any issues on the center of gravity,» Nair said.

As a historian by background who has written quite a bit on the Great War, it's always nice to see the media cover things that otherwise have been long forgotten outside the ranks of historians and buffs.

A project manager by trade, Herrick passes on a bit of wisdom he's learned through personal experience.

In other words, consumers» rather modest gains have been far surpassed by the profits reaped by corporations making stuff in China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goods.

They want to make their purchasing decisions by the bite or the byte on a one - off basis.

The Facebook Developers site offers step - by - step directions on adding Like buttons, but again, it does involve a fair bit of coding.

The cost is nothing more than a little bit of lost productivity on the part of the top employees who act as coaches, and even that's partly if not entirely offset by the performance bump in those they train.

«But you need to make them aware by allowing them to use this device on the corporate network, they have to relinquish a little bit of control to the company.»

Plus, by releasing the leaked files bit - by - bit, WikiLeaks is making it nearly impossible for a big tech company to say that all the problems in the leak have been fixed — what if Assange is sitting on a doozy of a bug?

The way that the company is run is by understanding the importance of the individual: You clearly can run a business just focusing on delivering a task or you can run a business while you focus on delivering a purpose, and the purpose being a little bit bigger than the task.

By handling the immediate task in front of you before moving on to the next, you'll avoid that creeping sense of panic that comes from biting off too much.

Fenty suffered two black eyes, with large contusions under both caused by Brown's ring, a split lip, and bite marks on her hands and body.

There's a bit more moving money around, focusing on innovation, which is clearly in the interest of business, but our view here is that innovation must be lead by business not by government.

«It smacks a bit of the Bank of Scotland (HBOS) / Lloyds where you never know how much pressure is put on the biggest bank in Spain by the central bank so I'd be surprised if they had agreed to it under duress but that will come out,» he said.

By swapping his cookie for a bit of office gossip, he satisfied his need for an afternoon break without packing on extra pounds.

That said, this is No. 10 on our «get» list, because the interest rate on student debt isn't as onerous as personal credit card debt, but we do find it a bit depressing that our list is bookended by debt!

First, the European debt crisis is a bit more complicated than Greeks going on a borrowing binge backed by German credit.

Perhaps a bit more realistically, and minus the dramatics, the theorist's scenario might feature Jesuit deans in black bespoke suits sitting in their offices on a conference call that ends with much gleeful rubbing together of hands by the participants as they confirm their plot to game the system.

By using these findings, as well as the data I'm about to share with you below, I've been able to boost the growth on our Twitter account quite a bit.

«We'll actually have the chef come in and do the final bits of assembly right on site to make it more interactive,» Lorton offers by way of example.

While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

The relationship began to get a bit more complicated in late 2013, however, when Ravikant announced that AngelList would allow well - known individual investors such as Tim Ferriss (author of The 4 - Hour Workweek) and Gil Penchina (ex-eBay exec) to create «syndicates,» or pools of committed capital, allowing them to make larger investments on a deal - by - deal basis.

Early on in her tenure, she became known for being a bit of an intrapreneur unafraid of taking imitative, as she showed by authorizing the 1993 Waco raid of the Branch Davidian cult compound.

At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower returns from this development than they would have expected less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.

On February 21, investors in Brampton - based Loblaw Companies Ltd. got a bit of a scare after the grocery chain announced that its fourth quarter profit fell by about 31 %.

You're by a huge lake and have just enough gas to return to the lodge when a radio announcement indicates that the fish are biting like crazy on the opposite side of the lake.

Typically, the scammers trick people into running pernicious code on their computers that encrypts their contents — a process that is often irreversible, except by way of a special cryptographic key or string of digital bits.

Called Baked by Melissa, Ben - Ishay looked to differentiate the bakery from others by focusing on bite - size desserts.

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

A recent survey of 1,000 adults by mobile app developer BiTe indicated 45 percent of people think Google Glass will be «too socially awkward or too irritating» to don, 38 percent of folks wouldn't buy the glasses, even if they could afford it and 44 percent don't think there is anything appealing about the features offered on Google Glass.

«Dyslexia doesn't necessarily make people more open,» Gladwell admits at one point, before soldiering on: «But the most tantalizing possibility raised by the disorder is that it might make it a little bit easier to be disagreeable.»

The bumbling Peter Parker is still getting picked on in school and still gets bitten by a radioactive spider, but the origin story is a little different and a lot more important.

They worked on it bit by bit for the next four years — intentionally.

«By attaching to the main sale you made, you're giving up a little bit on each product, but they're buying all three, so it's a good deal for both seller and buyer,» Stiving says.

«By making this shift they clearly prioritized one over the other, and are potentially a bit nervous about the current (really negative) narrative about the negative impact of social media on society.»

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

«I've been told by my managers, and praised for it, that this is a super valuable bit that I bring to the team that often results in our launching products on time.»

AUSTRALIA is unlikely to be badly bitten by the Millennium Bug, according to information presented at the first National Infrastructure For - um on Y2K readiness.

In May, a 37 - year old Missouri man who was wading through a river in the town of Nixa was bitten on both legs by a venomous snake and died in the hospital the next day, USA Today reported.