Sentences with phrase «by hitting the book»

You now have the option of improving your prisoner's mental faculties by hitting the books in the library or just building up pure brawn by hitting the weights.

You can also cut corners on your legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar Legal (free), Fastcase (free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law library.

Not exact matches

Alex Garcia and Matt Buchan, the owners of Emerson salon hit it off with an aggressive social media campaign on Twitter, Facebook and other media by promoting their services, linking their social profiles with their websites and adding a button through which users can easily book the appointment to get their hairs cut.

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

Everyone knows reading is an important source of knowledge, but many don't understand how much they can actually learn by hitting the pause button, sitting down and picking up a book.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

United said this week its chief executive met with the Chinese consulate in Chicago over the possible impact to bookings from a customer being dragged off a plane but it was too early to tell if business in China had been hit by the event.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

His 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (also co-authored with Levinson), was published in April, 2016 by Morgan James, and hit two different category best - seller lists in its first two weeks.

By the record books, it was the fifth - strongest storm ever to hit the US.

A Quill & Quire «Book of the Year», Slow Death by Rubber Duck has been featured by the Washington Post (which said it «is hard - hitting in a way that turns your stomach and yet also instills hope»), Dr. Oz, Fox News, and Oprah Magazine, and translated into six languages.

The collapse in total consumption was much larger in states that were hit hardest by the decline in house prices, something we show in our book.

It would take a few pages to lay it out, but the highlights are hit on in the book «Jesus Among Other Gods,» by Ravi Zacharius.

The film took in $ 67 million, a surprise hit that was buoyed in part by a built - in audience familiar with the bestselling book the movie is based on.

The production, called «The Book of Mormon,» was written by «South Park» creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, along with Robert Lopez, who wrote the Broadway hit «Avenue Q.»

Helmed by Noah Hawley, the mind behind the surprise TV hit Fargo, the tone of the show owes as much to The X-Files as it does to comic books.

Hit with books, pointers, slapped, choked by my Catholic school tie.

The New York Times best - selling book Freakonomics was a hit because it was written by «a rogue economist exploring the hidden side of everything» and Peter Thiel, in his best - selling book Zero to One, says «successful people find value in unexpected places.»

I would like to think I have hit a happy medium here, but I would rather the book be returned or discarded than that it satisfy any reader who hopes only to be entertained for an evening by that living prophetism which proclaimed and still proclaims God's judgment and redemption of Israel, and through her life, of the world.

This TV station knew their pocket book would get hit by those choosing to boycott them so they made a financial decision and very likely the correct one since what they are concerned with are advertisment revenues, and thats it.

It talks about it in the book, but he had an accident where he was hit by a truck, while doing construction at a worksite.

The book hits shelves in a short 3 weeks (on August 16th) and I'm overwhelmed by a feeling of thanks.

I hit the books when we got home and offered a few suggestions based on an old copy of Bon Appetit and my handy How to Cook Everything Vegetarian cookbok by, you guessed it, my food idol Mark Bittman.

Rebates hit the headlines in 2014 when global supermarket giant Tesco was caught overstating profits to the tune of # 263 million by incorrectly booking rebates from suppliers.

Musial's lack of controversy may explain why his fame has ebbed compared with that of Williams or DiMaggio, but as Vecsey's book proves, being neglected by history is as much a part of the Musial narrative as all the hits and handshakes.

There are rules governing how hard you can hit — each league has its (not very long) rule book, but in practice each game sets its own violence level — a balancing act of boundaries tested by sudden escalations of rage that are remarkably similar to the rules of conduct governing a street fight.

After books were hit by UNDERS in 2014 - 15, would they continue to set high totals, or scale back?

hit the shelves for the first time and it has become a must read Christmas book every year chez Thinly Spread - I'm pretty sure my daughter knows it off by heart!

If you publish a website - related book, by the time it hits stores — let alone the library — it's dated and no longer applicable... to much of anything.

(Within reason — hitting kids, for example, is never OK in my book, but that is a statement that is well - supported by solid research.)

The book hit the CRM points really well, but a campaign's website (as opposed to its action forms, which are handled by the CRM) is usually built on different technology (say, WordPress) and is also an important choice.

A former aide to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE criticized Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Thursday after the New York Democrat became the first of many senators to join a successful push to force the resignation of Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart Franken100 days after House passage, Gillibrand calls on Senate to act on sexual harassment reform Eric Schneiderman and #MeToo pose challenges for both parties Senate confirms Trump judicial pick over objections of home - state senator MORE (D - Minn.).

Crook hit out against the government argument that prisoners were still able to acquire books by spending their prison work salary on them in a new statement this afternoon.

Pensioners have been hardest hit by the measures, with many of them still relying on bank books rather than cards to withdraw money.

Then on Monday, as first reported on this blog, BBC bosses were hit by the bombshell that the Treasury now instead planned something far more burdensome to the BBC - transfering the # 556m cost of providing free TV licences for over-75s from the books of the Department of Work and Pensions to the BBC.

By the time a law hits the books, all the legal and ethical arguments in the world can't make a difference.

A GOP candidate running against Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Sunday sharply criticized the New York Democrat.

Two Democrats are running to challenge Katko: Colleen Deacon, a former aide to Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE (D - N.Y.), and attorney Steve Williams.

Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE (D - N.Y.) on Monday slammed the GOP for its «near silence» on sexual misconduct allegations against former Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chairman Steve Wynn.

But, sadly, Stephen Hawking for Beginners by McEvoy and Oscar Zarate (Icon Books, pp 176, # 7.99 pbk) suffers because it seems to have been put together in a rush — perhaps to hit the bookshops alongside the paperback of Hawking's own A Brief History of Time.

Written by a controversial atheist - neuroscientist named Sam Harris (no relation to the guy from the book above)-- the author provides a mash up of personal storytelling to back up his heavy hitting — science - backed — arguments about why spirituality isn't all fluff.

If you're inspired by books turned into hit movies like Wild, Under the Tuscan Sun, or Eat Pray Love, you may be dreaming of your own inspirational travel - infused journey.

I read it back when you first posted it, and went out and bought the New Atkins book (the original Atkins book wasn't available at my B&N and I wanted it RIGHT AWAY), then I got hit by a bad stomach virus and lost all the water weight I would have lost during the induction phase.

Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with sales exceeding half a million copies to date.

The EOR VIP Package features the greatest hits from this ground - breaking event by featuring the interviews and transcripts from the Top 10 interviews, as well as 3 books written by host Dr. Eric Zielinski, centered on the evidence - based use of oils.

Four things that we can do that may reduce our risk of developing Parkinson's disease is exercise, avoiding dairy products, pesticides, and avoid getting hit in the head (which means wearing your seatbelt, bike helmet), and — if you read journal articles written by scientists with way too much time on their hands — avoid getting attacked by extraterrestrials, a leading cause of traumatic brain injury in comic books.

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