Sentences with phrase «by piling on»

«They did not add risk by piling on debt and bringing in a financial partner,» he notes.

The government has been chewing away at Realtors» rights for so long by piling on more and more responsibilities, which was really their job.

Now that the stakes are so high (apparently), Big Science has slapped 2,500 signatures on a fat report in total contravention of every word of wisdom in Brook's «Mythical Man Month»: you can't accelerate solid results by piling on resources or amassing «looks good to me» chits by the basket load.

Pousette - Dart has often seemed a lesser light because he never did entirely work his way out, attaining a mural scale only by piling on the implicitly male icons.

It dwarfs and reduces the stature of art — which has worked there at all either by stripping down, as with Marina Abramovic in performance, or by piling it on, as with Martha Rosler and her «garage sale.»

Gerhard Richter almost escapes, but only by piling on all three modes at once.

The atmosphere in the animal welfare community is charged with angry invective,  protest petitions and polls, and efforts to gain publicity by piling on criticism of the decisions made in this tragedy. These are not solutions either.

That means value investing has had to get more sophisticated — and, one might argue, riskier — by taking more short positions, as Einhorn does, which can bankrupt someone who shorted a stock at $ 20 and has to cover that short at $ 100; by piling on more debt; or by investing in situations where a total loss is possible.

But once you've got got a core diversified portfolio, any extra potential benefit you may reap by piling on more investments declines.

NCS then gets a bite out of that by piling on more fees and penalties.

They try to make up for the poverty - area schools» weaknesses by piling on extra programs like after - school tutoring.

The lack of action and suspense within the proceedings becomes increasingly problematic as the film progresses, as the viewer is never entirely given a reason to care about Tom's plight - as screenwriter Matthew Aldrich disguises such deficiencies by piling on one complication after another.

The typical cooler shades and earth - tones seem to mix together magically, and also let you indulge by piling on all your favourite pieces.

Dress them down for day with cool pumps or sliders or take it to night by piling on some statement accessories and killer heels.

The easiest way to accessorize in the summer and take your outfit to the next level is by piling on jewels and arm candy.

«When skin gets dry or inflamed, it tries to protect itself by piling on extra layers of dead skin cells,» Dr. Bowe says.

Gas giants like Jupiter grow by piling on more and more gas.

Many endurance athletes swear by piling on the carbohydrates before a race.

By piling on one example after another of problems that have resisted the onslaughts of our very best minds, Maddox gives us a bracing affirmation that future scientists will have a lot more to do than to add footnotes to the work their predecessors did in their first three hundred years.

It is done by piling on risk to those who would challenge the government or local authority.

After all, anybody can make something weird by piling on the shapes and splashes of colour.

In my experience, HR has done nothing but bring down morale by piling on expectations with no additional compensation.

Finish by piling on fresh chopped oranges, beets, avocado, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and, of course, salmon!

Black beans and kale appeal to my Californian sensibility, but I'm not afraid to get a little Texas by piling on the cheese.

Buffett, on his part, has disdained private equity's method of investing, which often adds value to a company by piling on debt, and slashing expenses before turning it back on the market.

Not exact matches

(Incidentally, we don't know how many people died in the Great Leap Forward, piled up in village ditches or abandoned on empty grasslands: the 16.5 million once given in official tolls or the 45 million estimated by some historians.)

And, if your business is like most of the SM newbies out there who are running to catch up while wearing concrete sneakers, you've got a lot of otherwise productive time and energy being spent by your people (and possibly a pile of money as well on outside vendors) in the unclear pursuit of who knows what.

In 2008, at the start of the financial crisis, Freddie Mac, along with its sister company Fannie Mae, was on the hook for piles and piles of unwise mortgage loans, and had to be bailed out by the government.

Given the softening economy in the latter half of last year and first months of 2013, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's target of getting back to balance by 2015 — after piling up $ 172 billion in debt in eight years — will depend on three assumptions all coming to good.

It also maintains everyone's sanity by not piling on unnecessary IMs, chats, and Slack mentions that needlessly spread key information about the solution across a myriad of channels.

Emerging - market companies have piled on debt in recent years, allured by low interest rates from yield - starved investors.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

Rather than piling into distressed strategies based on a hunch about the cycle turning, LPs may be better off diversifying by type of manager.

That day, traders piled into the stock, driving its price 22 % higher on volume spike that was nearly 500 % greater than average (highlighted by the pink ellipse on the chart below).

Investors are piling money into bets on a victory for the «Remain» campaign, led by Prime Minister David Cameron.

First, the environmental devastation brought on by the industry is piling up liabilities that far outweigh the gains to most Canadians.

After a decent rally in early 2012, the distribution days began piling up in late April and early May, forcing us out of several long positions by May 3 and generating a 100 % sell signal on the close of May 4 (as annotated on the chart above).

The budget highlights the huge imbalances created by five years of economic crisis: Spain will set aside $ 36.6 billion ($ 49.5 billion) to service its fast - rising pile of public debt, $ 2 billion more than it will spend on the 13 government ministries.

Credit default swaps on Saudi Arabian debt have ballooned, and Dubai's debt pile, estimated to have reached $ 130 billion at the end of 2015 by the Institute of International Finance, is once again garnering the attention of distressed debt investors.

While some investors are tempted to cash out their profit from the past three years and want to avoid the next crash by all means, there are other investors piling up their portfolio with more shares of companies on sale at a discount.

These low rates have encouraged investors in recent months to pile on risk, taking U.S. equities markets to record highs earlier this year despite an economy that's still being slowed by relatively high unemployment, huge debt levels, and tighter government spending.

U.S. corporate debt — piled on by both strong and weak hands — sits at an all - time high of $ 13.7 trillion.

But now those are already there at yours maybe if you prepare them right as to education and training for finally deputing them to return to their own countries with the needful backup and authority they will be useful tools for the advancement and prosperity of their nations then you will have no one wanting to immigrate leaving behind their own families and friends... in addition to that you will see those who immigrated towards your country start moving back to their own countries and this is the only solution to resolve the issue of illegal immigration and to find peace... otherwise if things go on as it is today surely slowly slowly you will find that your own countries become inherited by piling up immigrants who might get starved due negligence turn on against the Host country... that has contributed in the destructions of their countries but not towards and advancements or developments of their countries and nations to find peace and make a living..!?

Religion: myths invented by simple desert dwellers, with lies piled on top of lies, believed by mentally ill fools, pretending to know things they do not.

The cost is more than individual: when multiplied by the over 1.1 million divorces per year — which affect almost 1 million children annually — an enormous cost is piled on society every year.

@mennoknight, not to be seen as piling on, I didn't read all the responses I admit, but the story of Jesus, if written by the Greeks, would have been a comedy or a tragedy, depending on who wrote it.

[5] Costumes worn by singer Carmen Miranda in several World War II - era Hollywood films featured turbans, including increasingly outrageous and oversized piles of fruit - as - headgear, supposedly modelled on those worn by Brasilian market ladies.

This is nothing new though: Acts 28:3 - 6 Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.

Left all alone on this mysterious day, the «ghost train rumbled by» and the leaning chimney collapsed, burying Becky under a pile of rubble.

There have been times when, after long on my knees in a cold chancel, a stone has rolled from my mind, and I have looked in and seen the old questions lie folded and in place by themselves, like the piled graveclothes of love's risen body [«The Answer»].