Sentences with phrase «do an about face»

It's not unusual for young kids to do an about face when it comes to their favorite food.

It's not unusual for kids this age to do an about face when it comes to their favorite food.

NYPD brass have done an about face in regards to releasing details of officers» disciplinary cases.

Three days after making the controversial decision to cut the grants, Komen did an about face Friday.

If growth continues to flat line or the rating agencies suddenly do an about face, this will make tax cuts seem like a reasonable alternative.

After yesterday's easy contest we thought we'd do an about face and throw you the mother of all contests.

I'm all for changing the cover and title — but have you ever witnessed an actual «rebirth» of a 2 or 3 - year - old book... have its (amazon) sales rankings do an about face?

There's also the possibility of an LCD Kindle, but considering how vehemently Amazon has railed against LCDs» suitability for e-readers (the comparison above is from here), I don't see them doing an about face.

They they proceeded to do an about face and released their Android app on the PlayBook using the Android runtime.

I can't think of anything that I've done an about face on, but one thing I am sticking with is my conviction to minimize the home country bias.

Walk in a circle, do some about face turns, stop and sit, etc..

Places like Petsmart are a great retreat from the heat on a hot day; however Walmart as well as most stores will make you do an about face if you you try to enter with your dog.

The winds had done an about face during the night and was blowing out of the east.

Apple can and has admitted being wrong to consumers (when they pushed DV video instead of CD burning Steve Jobs did an about face).

Their minds are made up, and even if they have second thoughts, they can not admit that they are wrong and do an about face.

They couldnt explain it... he literally did an about face.

Not exact matches

While the move will surely appease many angry customers, it does mark an about - face from a pledge two years ago by General Mills to remove artificial colors and flavors from its cereals.

They're ice breakers and help people put a face and name to the people they're about to do business with.

While Soylent wants consumers who aren't avid readers of nutrition labels to be able to understand the concept behind the company's products, it's not looking to do an about - face.

The problem is that we don't often actually see those friends face to face, as the Boston Globe's Billy Baker discovered when his editor asked him to write about the health effects of loneliness recently.

most people take these lightly but some times we have to face big lose due to ignore these things specialy when we don't care about office equipment like copiers, printers and telephone.

The challenge we face now is what can be done about it.»

What is the greatest challenge currently facing Recon Instruments, and what are you doing about it?

Don't be afraid to get out there and show your face to the public, whether at a conference or just being out and about with friend on a Friday night.

What's great about doing it this way is that you're not facing the «blank page» problem.

This is the kind of thing that somebody in the organization knew about ages ago and could have stopped, but didn't and it finally blew up in somebody's face.»

«If the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I'm going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association,» Gonzalez said.

It's weird to me that people put so much importance on skin, and you put sun cream on your face, but no one ever does anything about their hair.»

Does launching a YouTube channel represent an about - face from ineffectual bureaucracy toward new media savvy and transparency?

And that, he says, is the latest issue facing the most important business leaders we don't talk about much, corporate board members.

«The signs they post don't provide the context to help people make educated decisions about the risk they face,» the board wrote.

If my bosses had these conversations in front of my face, who was to say they didn't say the same things about me when I wasn't around?

My advice is that if you are going through a tough time, and everything is kind of OK now, but you are facing uncertainly about the future, and you are getting more and more confused emotionally about the issues or the opportunity, perhaps now is the time to do nothing.

And knowing that one's career hangs in the balance doesn't exactly encourage an astronaut to speak up about any mental health challenges they might be facing.

I've written before about how Netflix is one of the few still doing that, but the mounting pressures the streaming company is facing from all corners don't bode well for this continued focus.

And that is raising questions the social network hasn't had to face before about how it makes the decisions it does.

Employees are a major component of any business and while being self - employed means you don't have to worry about recruitment of others; small businesses will be faced with the issue sooner or later.

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

Young people are more accustomed to facing a new world each day, so they don't worry about it, and usually actually relish the new adventure.

Finally, don't forget about the power of face time.

Although he's been the face of the party since 2003, his candidacy for the country's top job has brought up issues of disclosure and privacy: How much does the public need to know about a prospective leader?

The bottom line seems to be the same whatever the change you want to make — be it a huge career about - face, a new wellness routine, or an update of a stale product offering — don't focus on the end goal, but instead on the small experiments that will start you on the the journey there.

You want to think about what to do in the face of an of these, and if you're trying to get outside funds, having a contingency plan shows that you've considered what to do if things don't go according to plan.

Because somehow «entrepreneurs still face confusion» about what the venture arm does... The company says that Microsoft Ventures was used as an overarching term to encompass its accelerator programs, which spun off and was renamed some time ago.

Business owners are optimistic about the U.S. economy improving and want to grow their business, but they face significant hurdles in doing so, a new report shows.

Shockingly, Jenkins did not direct another feature in the 14 years between Monster and Wonder Woman — a gap that speaks volumes about the barriers faced by female directors in Hollywood.

Marie Stein: «Think about it: If the project you're faced with isn't viewed as drudgery, but rather as a piece of the puzzle that's helping you along your career path, then perhaps the energy required to do it will be easier to come by.»

Even if you really want to bend over backward for your customer, if you mix statements about commitment with statements that say what the customer's not allowed to do, the customer is going to see your «commitment» as a farce, corporate jargon, just a way to save face, or all talk and no action.

It didn't specify what the statistical probability in such cases would be, but it did suggest that those worried about the issue stick to passcodes rather than Face ID.

They could, but it... You know, there's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there was little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.