Sentences with phrase «control in a few of»

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Implement a few of these actions and take control of the aspects that are in your power to do so.

It's just becoming more and more obvious that a few key players and central platforms in search, social and e-commerce are getting to the point where they will be controlling significant segments of the entire economy and our lives as well.

You'll actually find you seem more knowledge, calm and in control of a situation when you take a few moments to respond.

Well in some situations, generally more challenging ones, we can get ourselves really bent out of shape over a particular situation, pulling ourselves apart over the «what might happen» or «what could be» possibilities, very few of which we have any control over.

There are no controls for gender in the study, although the sample is representative of the real world, with fewer women on the list.

Tightly controlled companies are the unloved children of the public markets, because they concentrate decision - making in the hands of the few to the exclusion of a firm's wider shareholder base.

Since its American launch a few months ago, the program has upset studios, who are wary of giving Movie Pass so much control and access to its industry in fear that the disruption might cannibalize profits.

Over the last few years, Amazon has taken over more control of its logistics, buying stakes in cargo airlines, handling more package delivery itself and leasing thousands of its own truck trailers.

Intarcia has completed several late - stage clinical trials in which it uses the pump to deliver a glucose - controlling drug continuously for months — an idea, that if successful (and approved by the FDA) could significantly help patients with type 2 diabetes, fewer than half of whom maintain the recommended glycemic levels.

Breathing a concentration of a few hundred parts per million can kill a person in about half an hour, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

With Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and GOP control of the Executive Branch, there were few reasons not to think that a swift repeal of the healthcare law was achievable and likely.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

That same year, they incorporated the com - pany, raised $ 2 million in capital, hired a team of five employees, and set to work on still more innovations: a radio - controlled toy hang glider, a stadium seat with self - inflating foam, a self - watering planter, a talking lunch box, and a pop - open beach mat, to name just a few.

I think one of the biggest advantages of streaming, for customers, is that it's created competition in the TV business, which used to be controlled by a few big distributors and that's really changed.

I had a few friends living in the Bay Area, plenty of work, and I was able to lock in a rent - controlled apartment prior to my arrival.

But with the disease still killing a child in Africa every few minutes, those eager to finish the job are worried that the presidency of the United States — a crucial funding source for international malaria control efforts — is now passing to a man whose commitment to global health projects is uncertain.

For starters, it's part of a wave of global consolidation in agriculture that will put an increasingly large portion of the world's commercial seed market — roughly 50 % — under the control of a few giant multinationals.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Sandberg peppers the book with studies, reports and personal anecdotes to back up her premise — that for reasons both in and out of their control, there are fewer woman leaders than men in the business world and beyond.

Netflix is worried because only a few major distributors like Comcast control access to almost all the homes in the U.S. (it's a similar situation in Canada), so ISPs could potentially charge outrageous rates, and it would have no choice but to pay up or go out of business.

Today, Facebook announced a number of changes to its privacy controls, planned to go into effect in the next few weeks.

Besides owning trains (BNSF Railway), planes (NetJets) and automobiles, Warren Buffett also wholly owns or controls huge stakes in food (Heinz), restaurant (Dairy Queen), beverage (Coca - Cola), banking (Wells Fargo), insurance (Geico), furniture (Nebraska Furniture Mart), real estate (Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices), building (Benjamin Moore) and clothing (Fruit of the Bloom) companies, to name just a few.

It was a time of sharply rising debt in China, and the risky shadow banking sector (i.e., off - balance sheet opaque lending) was growing rapidly, with few apparent controls.

Thriftiness is a virtue because costs are one of the few things that investors can control in their portfolios, particularly when stocks and bonds...

From 2001 to 2011, that study found that fewer than five per cent of Canadian taxpayers in the bottom half of the income scale owned at least 10 per cent of the shares in at least one Canadian - controlled private corporation (CCPC).

One possibility, he said, is that frequent traders laboring under the «illusion of control» believe that they can respond easily to information and events during the day but can't do so as easily after hours, when there are far fewer market participants and less money, or «liquidity,» involved in trading.

There are a few more points I want to touch on first bear in mind that Google is the king and it controls around 80 % of all searches done online.

Within a broader framework — which seeks to protect the full range of interests that antitrust laws were enacted to safeguard — the potential harms include lower income and wages for employees, lower rates of new business creation, lower rates of local ownership, and outsized political and economic control in the hands of a few.407

«Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy,» Justice William O. Douglas wrote.171 Decentralizing this power would ensure that «the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudice, the emotional stability of a few self - appointed men.»

To make privacy and security settings easier to find on the network, the company has created «Privacy Shortcuts» as a new menu where users can control their data in just a few taps, with clearer explanations of how the controls work.

Fewer films, more controlled budgets, but more selective releases allowed the fimled entertainment division to post a positive operating profit of $ 7 million in the quarter - a huge improvement from a staggering loss of - $ 114 million in the prior Q2.

Today is definitely not the same world as it was just a few decades ago and the financial industry in particular has embedded extremely high levels of manipulative psychology into their attempts to control us and to keep us passive.

Here on Joint Base Lewis - McChord, we've seen our share of incidents in the past few years, such as when an equipment remote control unit was put away extremely hot after use, causing it to ignite in in the plastic storage box.

Zillow began «with a few people in an office, dreaming about how the Web might be used to empower everyday people to take more control of the scary, frustrating and exciting process of buying and selling a home,» then - CEO and now Zillow Group Chairman Rich Barton said on launch day.

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With rising out - of - pocket costs, higher deductibles in their health plans and fewer doctors in provider networks, many consumers want to take more control of their health care.

In the past few weeks, Iranian businessmen with links to foreign companies have been detained, interrogated and warned against wading into economic monopolies controlled by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to several businessmen interviewed inside and outside of Iran.

Well, considering that 90 % or more of Catholic adults use or have used birth control, there should be very few adults in the communion line.

In particular, more than half of those surveyed knew who ran the oil well that exploded in the Gulf, that the budget deficit is larger now than in the 1990s, that Republicans were the big winners on November 2nd (though fewer than half know that they'll only control the House and fewer still can identify John Boehner as Speaker), that the U.S. has an international trade deficit, and that unemployment is pretty close to 10 percenIn particular, more than half of those surveyed knew who ran the oil well that exploded in the Gulf, that the budget deficit is larger now than in the 1990s, that Republicans were the big winners on November 2nd (though fewer than half know that they'll only control the House and fewer still can identify John Boehner as Speaker), that the U.S. has an international trade deficit, and that unemployment is pretty close to 10 percenin the Gulf, that the budget deficit is larger now than in the 1990s, that Republicans were the big winners on November 2nd (though fewer than half know that they'll only control the House and fewer still can identify John Boehner as Speaker), that the U.S. has an international trade deficit, and that unemployment is pretty close to 10 percenin the 1990s, that Republicans were the big winners on November 2nd (though fewer than half know that they'll only control the House and fewer still can identify John Boehner as Speaker), that the U.S. has an international trade deficit, and that unemployment is pretty close to 10 percent.

Work for a company so anti-choice they won't even allow insurance to cover birth control, so of course no procedure coverage because I «might change my mind» even though I'm married & will be 50 in a few months!!!

The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out of the jet's damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one of the few women at the controls.

More significant for members of Congress, surely, is the question of who would benefit from repeal: while those who will actually benefit from estate tax repeal are few in number, they have a lot of money and control even more (corporate C.E.O.'s can now count on leaving taxable estates behind).

Control of the media is concentrated in too few hands.

After the Ottoman rule, in more recent times, France and Italy seized control of North Africa and held it until in the past few years, Libya, Tunis, and Morocco were able to establish their own governments, leaving only Algeria struggling for emancipation from French imperialism.

The person in front of me wanted to share her views on a few political issues which were obviously important to her, namely abortion, gun control, taxes and Obamacare.

We see socialism as a new social and economic order in which workers and consumers control production and community residents control their neighborhoods, homes and school and the production of society is used for the benefit of all humanity, not the private profit of a few..

The concentration of wealth puts control of the not - really - free market in the hands of a relatively few families.

Some drinking is not wrong, but getting drunk causes a person to lose all control of themselves, and generally a person can go from being happy to being furious in just the span of a few seconds.

Sure, as Shifu points out in the video clip above, there are a few things we can control, but in the grand scheme of our life, these few things are so insignificant, they amount to having hardly any control at all.

Few things are more important in our civilization than churches which worthily and intelligently will fulfill this inner function of religion, which will beget and develop in men a controlling sense of life's sanctities.