Sentences with phrase «cautionary tale when»

Jedd Gyorko has been dreadful for about 14 months now, and he has a chance to be the league's greatest cautionary tale when it comes to long - term deals for pre-arbitration players.

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For would - be Amazon partners, this is just the latest cautionary tale about the risks of doing business with the online retail giant: No matter what the company says, there are no equal partnerships when Amazon is involved.

When the company went under in 2001, after only four years in business, it became a cautionary tale.

Last May, when Wisnefski launched WebiMax, which owns several consumer websites, he recounted the cautionary tale during a meeting with his new management team.

His tale of failure is a cautionary tale of what happens when you dream too big without enough capital, cash flow or planning.

The data seems to serve as a cautionary tale for publishers that have hitched their wagon to Facebook, only to get hit when the social giant's traffic firehose slows to a trickle.

This should be a cautionary tale about what happens when a publicly traded company misplays a political issue.

This may particularly be true in Iraq where Saddam Hussen's brutally repressive secular regime is viewed by some as a cautionary tale of what happens when religious influence is absent from government.

What starts as a standard «follow your dream» story arc slowly becomes a perplexing cautionary tale about the potential dangers of ambition, even when it appears to be totally innocent.

Not long ago he shared a cautionary tale from the work of Chuck Brodsky, whose 2002 album The Baseball Ballads includes the story of Fred (Bonehead) Merkle, who cost the 1908 Giants a chance to win the pennant when as a base runner he failed to tag second base on what would have been a walk - off single.

Here's a cautionary tale lawmakers will likely forget all about in 10 years when the next round of redistricting comes up — unless Cuomo's constitutional amendment on redistricting reform passes and turns out to be effective.

My patient Liz's story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when we focus solely on managing pain of endometriosis with medication, rather than getting to the root causes.

As a cautionary tale, martial artist Bruce Lee once injured himself when doing good mornings with too heavy of a weight and without a good warm - up.

Instead, it's a goofy, confusing mess of a sequel, a cautionary tale of what happens when a filmmaker lives too long inside his own franchise to realize that no one takes it nearly as seriously as he does.

Splice, directed by Vincenzo Natali and written by Vincenzo Natali and Antoinette Terry Bryant, is yet another scifi movie that delves into the ages old cautionary tale of of what happens when humankind attempts to «play God» through reckless scientific research.

That it simultaneously spawned a genre of crap in a devolution chart from its already low bar to the bonding - over-cannibalism flick Fried Green Tomatoes to the bonding - over-coprophagia flick The Help functions as a cautionary tale about what happens when you, Titanic - like, find a new field to strip - mine.

While highlighting the mostly good in humankind, his San Andreas is also a cautionary tale that shows no matter how fabulous the means of communication and technology we have at our disposal to try and control our everyday lives and surroundings, it's all basically pointless when Mother Nature is out to flex her muscles.

And while the three young actresses put in strong performances, Houston's final film appearance is hauntingly predictive when Emma refers to her life as «a cautionary tale».

Despite some snazzy camera angles and showoff - y technique, «Limitless» dashes any hopes of originality when it ends up being nothing more than a cautionary tale about drug addiction.

In retrospect, all seem to understand that Never Say Never Again is perhaps best regarded as a cautionary tale: When a movie like this is produced as a simple prerogative of copyright, no one's going to feel terribly passionate about it.

And for all of Spielberg and Lucas» enthusiasm in remembering the advances that made «Jurassic Park» possible in 1993, only production designer Rick Carter recognizes the parallel between the film's cautionary tale about unchecked technology and how the movie helped usher in an era when digital effects were the new stars of summer blockbusters.

That the scientific method can be both illuminating and wrong, even when practiced by a distinguished researcher, is a cautionary tale for educators, school leaders, and policymakers.

- Edward B. Fiske, a former education editor at the New York Times, is co-author, with Helen F. Ladd, of When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale (Brookings, 2000).

It's also a cautionary tale regarding charter - school authorizing, particularly when done on a large scale, and will inevitably be used by school - choice foes in the U.S. as evidence in support of their scary predictions that chartering will lead to «witchcraft schools» and such.

So while international approaches to apprenticeships can be promising, Kraemer smartly notes that the study amounts to a «cautionary tale of focusing on the short - term needs of an economy when designing a career preparation system.»

When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale examines the history of school reform in New Zealand, an island nation with 3.6 million people, roughly the same as South Carolina.

Using these recent examples as cautionary tales, what should we be talking about when we talk about «universal pre-K»?

When reform leaders point to New York now, it serves as a cautionary tale about how sweeping reforms can dissipate seemingly overnight.

Now reformers look to New York as a «cautionary tale» of «how sweeping reforms can dissipate seemingly overnight,» a parable of what not to do when lobbying for changes that privilege children over adults.

But for folks here in this quirky swath of tech - start - ups, shopping malls and renovated artist studios, the citywide plan has proven to be less of a solution and more of cautionary tale, a lesson in how hard it can be to take a community schools dream and turn it into a workable reality, even when almost everyone likes the idea.

This is a story not just about one low - performing high school in D.C. but rather a cautionary tale about what can happen anywhere when administrators and teachers are pressured to do the impossible: ensure that students who enter high school years behind grade level nevertheless graduate within four years.

This is a story not just about one low - performing high school in D.C. but rather a cautionary tale about what can happen anywhere when... [Read more...]

I was impressed when I read this cautionary tale of publishing horror stories from a recent newsletter from Tim Grahl's OutThink Group and immediately asked Tim's permission to share it with Published & Profitable friends and members.

Zac Bissonnette's latest book, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, is a fascinating cautionary tale about where financial hysteria can lead — and who gets hurt when a bubble abruptly pops.

«A naturally gifted storyteller, Simmons, has put her heart and soul into this cautionary tale of perseverance, hope and strength... This is the story of how Pecan finally finds her strength, and when she does it will make you want to cheer.»

Romance author Victoria Pinder shared her experiences with Scout after reading the cautionary tales and then basking in success when her novel Winter Peril was accepted.

I get the feeling that B&N will be the cautionary tale for what happens to your digital goods when the company you bought them from no longer exists.

For a cautionary tale of what can happen when corgis rule the roost, look to Buckingham Palace.

So while my story can serve as a cautionary tale for what not to do when volunteering with a rescue, it's not meant to dissuade anyone from getting involved in such a rewarding and worthwhile effort.

His story is the cautionary tale of what happens when government mandated political directives override careful scientific process.

The cautionary tale: Qualcomm paid more than $ 8 million in fines for engaging in misconduct and concealment when it failed to preserve 46,000 e-mails in its review process during Qualcomm Inc. vs. Broadcom Corp..

Consider this cautionary tale: A 25 - year - old Florida man was killed in January when the dirt bike he had borrowed collided with a Toyota Camry, according to CBS.

The case is also a cautionary tale for those who write out «living wills» setting out their directions for when they lose capacity.

The case provides a cautionary tale to clients and their Vancouver Surrey Marriage Agreement Lawyers.Vancouver Surrey Marriage Agreement Lawyers implore you not to cut corners when you negotiate a marriage or separation agreement.

A cautionary tale about when it may not be appropriate to use technology for legal purposes from Gizmodo.

A cautionary tale of an Apple fanboy's inner conflict when it comes to whether or not it's worth upgrading from an iPhone...

It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life.

A few cautionary tales can help your interview game when the time comes: