Sentences with phrase «doing bare minimum»

We do it by pulling out all the stops not by doing the bare minimum - visit - stage - price then hold an open house with our faces and low fees pitch plastered all over the seller's TV screen to drum up business as was noticed to the shock of myself and my clients when we walked into one of your open houses.

Having staff like that in your business is far better for you and your company than trying to push and micromanage unenthusiastic staff who stick to doing the bare minimum they can get away with, especially when you have targets to meet.

Because the platform is getting so crowded now, simply doing the bare minimum is akin to expecting getting displayed on page 1 of google search results just because you have a domain.

I already mentioned what doing the bare minimum will get you — zip.

Doing the bare minimum doesn't get you far in life or at work, and it also won't serve you well when it comes to your credit card bill.

Myself, I'm sticking to Pro Se, as I've wasted too much on lawyers doing bare minimum, and while I do the heavy lifting to achieve the desired legal goal.

The direct translation is «that'll do,» but with more emphasis on doing the bare minimum to create what is a working project but nothing more.

A lot of us are used to doing the bare minimum when it comes to school, but if you want to succeed in the game industry, you'll have to prove yourself to the maximum.

No longer is it left to the whimsy of nature and pleasant surprises to find a rare flower blooming in your town after doing the bare minimum of planting and watering flowers.

I hate that now the PS exclusives seem to be doing the bare minimum and coasting by on the Hype.

I wish Game Freak weren't conformists satisfied with only doing the bare minimum.

Or someone doing the bare minimum while expecting luxury accommodations.

They probably cover small, healthy, young adult dogs with low grooming and training needs, where owners are really doing the bare minimum in terms of treats, toys, medical care, gear, training, food, etc..

A 12 - page fact sheet released by the Justice Department stated that a Franklin American executive vice president wrote in an email in early 2009 that underwriters needed to review eight loan files a day and that those «doing the bare minimum» would be terminated.

It's doing the bare minimum and hoping for the best.

My story starts off with James, early twenties lives and committed to doing the bare minimum in life to just get by.

Doing the bare minimum of inspection and trying to save a few hundred dollars will hurt Perillo's bottom line.

States could have eviscerated their accountability systems, doing the bare minimum under the federal law by identifying their very worst schools, and staying mum about the other 90 or 95 percent.

I know it's a tall order, but if you are preaching to gifted students about using their potential and being innovative, and you are doing the bare minimum to get by as an educator, it simply isn't going to work.

The department does have it on their website - but they are doing the bare minimum.

While myself and many others adored Sonic's first real 3D outings in the Dreamcast «Adventure» series, others would argue it's where he started to show his true colours as Sega went on to produce video games of questionable quality while doing the bare minimum to please long - term fans in - between.

Caine, Freeman and Arkin are all enjoyable in their respective roles and have great chemistry, but they seem to be on auto - pilot for the most part, resigned to doing the bare minimum in order to collect their paychecks and move on to the next job.

«We're not just coming in and doing the bare minimum.

It almost feels like the devs decided that just doing the bare minimum for the sequel style games would suffice because of how well the first games were received.

I have been going through the same thing and I feel like I have been just doing my bare minimum lately!

You can not get a nice looking butt by simply doing the bare minimum (otherwise everyone would have one).

Because, if you're just doing the bare minimum, you can't get the body you want.

So, why did Pelosi feel compelled to thank Cuomo for doing the bare minimum to assist fellow Democrats?

Merely presenting candidates to European elections and doing the bare minimum to get your salary is not «actively fighting» anything.

If all you do is hire a midwife / OBGYN without even considering childbirth education, doula support, placenta encapsulation, chiropractic care, lactation support, photography, etc. — you truly are doing the bare minimum.

The first ten minutes of the second half saw Ostersund continue to impress as it looked like our stars were feeling the cold and were doing the bare minimum to stay in front, but with half an hour to go Ozil took a speculative shot but the goalkeeper didn't hold on to it and it continued into the net.

There is no real answer to the question you have posed because this club has once again hedged their bets on doing the bare minimum then hoping for the best... if they were serious about changing the stagnant culture that has permeated the club since our move from the Highbury, we would have immediately released and / or moved several players in the early days of the window... this would have demonstrated to the fans that they were serious about addressing our obvious inadequacies... likewise this would have forced them to bring in replacements because they couldn't have used the lame excuse Wenger is presently spewing about having too many players... we functionally have the same amount of players as we did when the window first opened but he didn't say jack about it then... he simply waited until the inevitable happened then pulled out his excuse Rolodex, closed his eyes and randomly drew the «too many players» card... the more he opens his mouth, the more I understand his «god» complex when it relates to all things Arsenal... what other manager could continually do the same dumb shit, not address obvious concerns for years, speak to the fans in such a condescending manner, face enormous criticism from many of his former star players and be the architect of so many failed player signings yet be one of the highest paid managers with the longest tenure in Europe... maybe Kroenke is colourblind and instead of seeing all the red flags he can only see the GREEN ones ($ $ $)

Hahaha The simple truth is that he is doing the bare minimum on the pitch which is acceptable for the board and the owners, But most importantly for them, wenger is doing a fantastic job making money!

and he sees that his philosophy of only doing the bare minimum trades & not paying much attention to defence (together w our injury history & referee attitudes) always gets us 4th.

The Bank of Japan is doing the bare minimum to help reboot Abenomics.

Most of them are just going through the motions and doing the bare minimum they can get away with in order to meet the expectations of the consumers who land on their website.

While companies were used to doing the bare minimum to meet their obligations, she insisted they increase their ambition — for their own and their community's sake.

If you're the type of person that likes to skate by doing the bare minimum, the heavy workload of entrepreneurship will likely bury you.

«Are they doing the bare minimum when they exercise?

Many companies just do the bare minimum when it comes to HR — a little bit of onboarding, a little bit of employee relations and the necessary documentation of employee and labor information.

Others do the bare minimum, demonstrating zero drive.

National MI doesn't do the bare minimum it needs to be recognized, they go beyond and it shows.

This often sarcastic phrase makes you sound as though you're only willing to do the bare minimum required to keep getting a paycheck, which is a bad thing if you like job security.

The ploy is this: When you have to play by the rules, do the bare minimum and make a big deal about it.

So this week, Christy Clark did the bare minimum — she introduced a punitive tax that's riddled with loopholes, and expected to be applauded for her efforts.

VANCOUVER — The Christy Clark government is holding a summer sitting of the legislature to do the bare minimum to make bad headlines go away about the housing affordability crisis, while being careful to not anger their top donors.

The husband of murdered Catholic schoolteacher Ann Maguire has said authorities have «done the bare minimum»... More

The midfield being a law unto themselves, believe that it's a free for all and they can do the bare minimum because everyone else is.

an ER is a horrible form of universal healthcare because if the person does nt have insurance it encourages hospitals to do the bare minimum so basically every fix is temporary and the person is right back in the ER a couple weeks later.

The problem is that we always seem to do the bare minimum to get top 4.