Sentences with phrase «close calls like»

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So you or your staff members or salespeople call every lead once or twice, then you spend the time with the leads that look like they're going to close.

Closer to home, a pickup in the U.S. economy, combined with renewed calls for greater infrastructure investment, bodes well for companies like Pentair (pnr), a water - equipment maker, says Todd Ahlsten, manager of the $ 14.4 billion Parnassus Core Equity Fund.

By requiring users to register their drones the FAA hopes to curb a recent spate of close calls between drones and commercial aircraft as well as incidents like the recent high - profile crash of a photography drone into the stands at the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

That's especially true on Sundays, when RBC's much - hyped investment in meeting consumer needs, whenever and however people want, is closed — just like in the good old days, when banks were called banks.

«Something we've called for a long time is they could pursue basically like a pipe deal, a strategic investment from another partner into Yahoo,» Eric Jackson, managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management, said Tuesday on CNBC's «Closing Bell.»

Trump's closest energy advisers, like Carl Icahn and Harold Hamm (who each own oil companies), have been calling for an end to subsidies.

A minute earlier, when the plane had started to spin — it felt like a car hitting a patch of ice — his first thought had been that everything was going to be fine: My first mission, I had my first close call.

As President Donald Trump takes the country closer to an economic nationalism that calls for tearing up agreements like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership, potentially enacting higher tariffs on imports and obsessing over trade deficits, it is worth reflecting on a similar debate that inflamed the electorate 130 years ago.

Gong Labs, This Is What a «Deal Closing» Discovery Call Looks Like, July 5, 2017.

The video and song start off harmless enough, until the 1:19 mark when Duncan gets into a rap battle with a TSA agent and transforms into a potentially offensive hip - hop stereotype to unleash rhymes like On a mission from God; I like to call Him a Friend / I think that people are sick, and He's the med - o - cine, and this mind - expanding verse: Think I'm just a white man with a sheltered life / Nice home, two cars, two kids and a wife / Just look a little closer while you're starin» at me / «Cause sometimes what you get is more than what you see.

I live close to this staue... we call it butter jesus... it looks like its made of butter..

God is always calling and encouraging us forward from where we are to be more than we are, to be closer to God and to be more like God.

I assume that as with others, many of whom, like myself, had become close friends of the archbishop during the three brief years of his leadership, the call to honor his memory was stronger than the hovering sense of possible mass violence.

Unlike you however I am not angry at or frustrated by those who disagree with me, because, like you I can not prove you are wrong and I am not going to waste my time trying, nor am I going to call you names and say you are closed minded in your conviction that science can answer all questions, in time.

The website, called «Signs of End Times,» says pretty close to the top that they «never set dates,» but have drawn their conclusion from things like natural disasters, widespread violence, immorality and Christians around the world being persecuted.

But it is especially pertinent to the «Mormons and Southern Baptists [who] call themselves Christians, but like most Americans... are closer to ancient Gnostics than to early Christians.»

as for you Ahh comment... I've tried to be nice... doesn't work... with those like you who have closed their minds to God and what his Truth is... So I can fight for my beliefs... like I said... what you call hate speech.

Many of the few (about ten million) who are close to the major cities or in so - called white rural areas have been forcibly relocated to the Homelands, remote tribal reservations like the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, or Venda, that are allegedly ancestral.

That said I genuinely like most of the Mormons I know, and based on the display of hatred, intolerance and ignorance I find it hard to believe that most so - called Bible Belt Christians are coming anywhere close to ideals they are supposed to live.

The rediscovery of the classics was supposed by people like Petrarch to bring to a close what was called (by Petrarch himself) the «dark ages.»

Without wanting to offend, irritate or keep going around, as you call it, I would like to add that your reaction reminds me a little bit of the closed circuit preaching of some evangelicals coming from the â $ ˜we know the only truthâ $ ™ stance and the trusting oneâ $ ™ s own perfect theology.

And, of course, one of the reasons is that now we know what collateral damage, as the Pentagon calls it, looks like up close.

the average ancient believed that the body was a container of the thoughts which made you... call a soul if you wish, i have studied all i can of all ancient cultures i can find... the most ancient egpytians had the closest thing you could argue is a soul but even they don't call it nor treat it like those of the followers of jesus.

Eminent theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, Johan Baptist Metz, and Eberhard Jüngel, who envisioned eschatological hope as embodied in social and political praxis, were calling on Christians to close their ears to the siren song of immortality - language.

As far as we know, buttermilk syrup is a Utah creation (just like fry sauce) with it's origins beginning at a local restaurant called «Magleby's» which closed years ago but has many smaller restaurants open around the state, which still serve this amazing elixir.

My son (21) called to say he would like to come for supper and we discussed what we should have as he was on his way out to our home (we live just outside a major Canadian city and he just moved into the city to be closer to school but likes to come home once in awhile for a meal).

SweeGen's unique production process starts with the stevia leaf and uses a proprietary technology to achieve high purity levels of Reb D. Sensory mapping, obtained through a trained sensory panel, shows that Reb D has a sugar - like sweet taste and has a sweetness onset and sweet linger (also called «sweetness time intensity») that is closer to sugar than other stevia products.

So, there's this place on Mill Avenue (which is like restaurant and bar central and super close to ASU campus) called Ike's Sandwiches.

It seems like we just opened the pool and soon I will be calling to close it back up before the leaves start to fall.

Broccoli rabe is also called Italian turnip, which is actually a more accurate name, as it is botanically much closer to turnips than it is to broccoli — like first cousins versus third cousins thrice removed — though they all belong to the big Brassicaceae family.

There's nothing like that moment when the barista at Starbucks calls out something close to your name (Alice?!

Even if Auburn or a team like Missouri wins big over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeyes.

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

Pogba has been linked with a move away from United and missing games like this will surely only push him ever closer to the exit door as the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona could come calling.

Getty could be like «I think I prefer Chubb to Nelson or Barkley, but it's a really close call.»

I feel like that makes it at least somewhat a closer call.

In terms of favourites for the match, it's a very close one to call, but Reading have certainly showed their vulnerabilities in big games of late, with losses against the likes of Huddersfield and Brighton, and a shock 3 - 0 defeat to Preston North End just 2 games back.

But one thing i will like to add is the lack of quality in the middle of the park because our much loved almighty Lord Santi as i love calling him is without doubt going to be out for a while and might not perform close to the level he is capable of, so what i think we need is quality to pair with either Xhaka / Coquelin in a young and talented midfieder called Alexandre Golovin (the CSKA MOSCOW and RUSSIAN INTERNATIONAL) as i think he is worthy to put on the Arsenal jersey.

That has slipped just a tad to 6.5, but it looks like Vegas was pretty close calling the betting action.

I do not really like it when any player loses his cool and calls out their teammates during a match but with Alexis being virtually on his own in terms of effort to close the Germans down, stem the tide and get something going for the Gunners, you can understand the Chilean's feelings.

Of course we have to look like we can genuinely challenge to win things, and I would be happy to call it progress if we came a close second to City in the league this year.

However, it doesn't look as though the former Juve and Italy boss will be able to call on him this season, as he continues to close in on a return to Juve to join the likes of Medhi Benatia, Dani Alves, Miralem Pjanic and Gonzalo Higuain as a «new» signing.

We also have veterans like rosicky, arteta to call up on to control tempo and close games out (chelsea did this with mike last year)

The closest Arsenal will get to the transfer of Mbappe is to rent a house near his agent and peek through the curtains as the representatives of teams like Chelsea, Man City, United and Real Madrid call round.

They used to be called the new Henry, but Mbappe is the only one who looks like he can come close.

We can call this conspiracy or bias or branding or the result of the SEC's best teams playing fewer close games or the polls finally catching on or whatever else we'd like, but it appears to me to be true.

Jason Day played most of Saturday afternoon's round at Whistling Straits like a world - class player who was sick of talking about all the close calls he's had at major championships.

Of course picking Casemiro was the right call, to close down the likes of Andres Iniesta and offer support to Danilo to help shackle Neymar.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

KEY FACT: West Brom have failed to score in three of their four Premier League encounters with Watford MATCH ODDS: West Brom 5/4 Draw 2/1 Watford 5/2 ANDY SAYS: Yeah I can see Watford just edging this and grabbing the three points... 0 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I like how Watford have done, but a win here is a big call but maybe they can... 0 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Another close game this week, I don't see Watford winning though... 1 - 1 LADBROKES PICK: Watford to beat WBA & Both Teams to Score @ 7/1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Andre Gray still under # 1 — with his first goal under his belt, should be on the rise