Sentences with phrase «call things what they is»

If we are to have any hope of seeking justice for the victims of attacks like these, we must call things what they are.

We call a thing what it is, and we know that before the resurrection happens, we must first go through the cross.

Thankfully we have people like Dan Cantor who call things what they are and believe in social justice!

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When I was talking to psychologists, they said that's not using a to - do list for productivity, that's using it to do what's called «mood repair,» to make yourself feel good, rather than get things done.

«He calls Darlene and asks her what she's seeing, how to improve things.

That has encouraged what many are calling a housing bubble and unsustainable consumer debt loads in Canada, among other things.

The problem we OWGs (Old White Guys — that's what they call us) have is that we built our companies» cultures around the things that motivated our generation: money, career progression, and retirement plans.

It was just trying to make people do a double - take as they walk by and ask, «What is this thing called Splatoon?»

To hear Herbalife tell it, the FTC settlement was one of the best things to ever happen to the company, pushing it to make what new CEO Richard Goudis called «the most significant advancement of our business,» by forcing it to develop the ability to better track distributors and sales.

One problem the company faces is what Laurence calls «legacy complexity» — meaning old, inefficient ways of doing things.

The first two have already inspired Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals to launch, among other things, the new Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) and what's being called the Invest in Canada Hub.

The second polite thing to do is to call the restaurant and ask what their policy is regarding bringing wine to dinner.

-- this is only the start of what's being called the «Internet of things.»

«The thing I love the most each year is coming up with what I call new «ancillary animals»» says Morris, who comes from a background in human - centric reality TV.

«One of the things at Tinder that is sort of what you would call gospel is creating an incredible user experience,» Norgard says.

But one thing that's certain is that if you don't have what XPRIZE founder and executive chairman Peter Diamandis, a panelist at the event, calls «a crazy idea department,» you're likely on your way out of business.

Like many small businesses, Fresh was accustomed to what you could call seat - of - the - pants onboarding: There were a few formal procedures, but it was largely an impromptu affair, a sensibility that newbies would figure things out as they went along.

Vlieghe told the committee: «I'm never confident of any forecast, and I think the big thing that we risk missing here is that every time there is what we call a forecast error — which means the outturn is different from the central projection — to think that «Well if only we'd had a better model we wouldn't have made that forecast error.»

Your brush is used both to generate a proper lather and to apply it to your skin, and the bristles of the brush, arranged into what's called a «knot,» also help to soften and stand your whiskers up before your razor does its thing.

Homogenous work environments create what tech veteran Mitch Kapor — the guy who built Lotus 1 -2-3, among other things — calls «mirror - tocracies,» in which the people who get ahead are those who best exemplify the status quo.

The first thing I did was call my wife and say, «We've had troubles, but now I have no idea what to expect.»

And he finally said... He called me up and said we're on the last day of a picture and then the last day of the picture if you'll come out I'll just shoot some film on you and nobody will know the difference and then you can see what you look like and all that kind of thing.

These are what economists call «credence goods» — things whose quality is difficult to judge, even after you pay for them.

Perhaps that is the most remarkable thing about Logan Paul — not his money, not his internet content, not even his dreams of being what his dad calls «the next white Will Smith.»

Among other things, Facebook started what it calls the Journalism Project, which it says is aimed at helping media outlets figure out how to use the web to improve their content and their business models.

«One thing that we noticed is that if you want to get large number of people to do something, they tend to have a what we call a shared identity,» Baghai says.

Few things are more annoying in a conference call than someone chiming in with «What was that?»

A: This is what I call a «high - class question» — you wouldn't be asking unless you've done things right long enough for your business to grow to a significant size.

One of the dumbest things you can do during a sales call is to spend it watching the customer's mouth move while you formulate what you're going to say next.

There are so many things parents can address, says Welch, that are unrelated to what she calls «the content of the work.»

The part of the cannabis industry selling what you might call «things» is one aspect of the commerce.

What it's about: In a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker gets tangled up with a Jedi knight, pilot Han Solo, a giant bear thing called a wookiee, and two droids — all in order to save the galaxy and rescue Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader.

He has since said of the potentially life - shattering revelation, «I'd say it was a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn't what I'd call traumatizing... As a matter of fact, it made quite a few things clearer to me.

«What that means in short is that he understands the back - end workings of the business well enough that he could rebuild them himself (well, almost), and he also cold calls customers and says things to journalists aimed to warm consumers» hearts, such as: «On Valentine's Day in Chicago, we had every driver give every woman who got in the car a rose.

Our healthcare «networks» frequently send us to specific providers (for things like imaging, blood tests, surgical procedures)-- and those providers call the shots when it comes to whether we can get an appointment and when, how long we'll wait, and what the cost is.

One of the most interesting things I discuss in my book Mapping Innovation is what I call the new era of innovation, which will create profoundly new technologies, classes of data and business models.

Small figures that much of what we call induced demand may be a good thing, since it reflects reduced demand on other, otherwise more congested parts of the system.

I was shocked when I took my first job and encountered this thing called sexism — I didn't even know what to call at the time.

The last thing I'll say is third, what I'm going to call «volatility navel - gazing,» because it can cause us to lose focus on what's most powerful for investors, and that's the persistent and unrelenting force of technological change in the future.

How Xerox fell so far is a case study in what management experts call the «competency trap» — an organization becomes so good at one thing, it can't learn to do anything new.

I get the thing about the «greater good» but BC taxpayers should be able to decide what happens in their province... I think you call that «self determination».

She's what older folks call an awkward adolescent — too tall, too plump, too shy — a little too much of a lot of little things.

In actuality, if an SDR knows too much, they're actually likely to chase what I call «false positive» opportunities - they look really good in the beginning, but they quickly fall apart when things get serious.

Said Staver: «The nice thing about what President Trump has done, different from other Republican presidents, is that he is appointing, he's nominating, so far, judges who are what I would call constitutionalists, originalists, dedicated to the original understanding and interpretation of the Constitution and the statutes.

«At Talent Plus, the first thing we did was engage our associates who do not work in the office every day and ask them what they wanted to be called as a group,» says Cydney Koukol, chief communication officer.

One thing you see is this huge increase in what's called leveraged loans — high - yield, syndicated loans.

This is what we call the NAP (Name, Address, Phone Number), and also usually includes things like your website URL, photos, hours, categories, and more.

All of these bubbles and crashes have one thing in common: If you tracked them on a line graph, the sharp price gains people made day after day on the investment would form what's called a «parabolic curve» — one of the most reliable warning signs that an investment may be overheating amid hype and euphoria.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

For some reason they don't realize it's training to live the life I want by enabling myself to choose deliberately what I want to do, not just to follow paths others lay out for me, which I call the rat race, or surrender to whatever shiny thing appears in my vision, which I call blowing in the breeze.