Sentences with phrase «end of the stick of»

«As both you mentioned to me, it does not make sense for Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire to produce 64 % of the world's cocoa, and, yet, be at the short end of the stick of not being able to control the market.

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Lawyers get the short end of the stick.

They say, «I'm stuck here,» looking at their cubicle job as the end, there is nowhere else to go, and they feel like they will never reach the desired destination of «success.»

And, while in some cases, there's nothing wrong with a two - way street, when that's the only way you build your network, it's a sure thing that one day you'll wake up at the short end of the stick.

While it may be pragmatic to stay in the job you're in and stick with the status quo, «you'll end up living a life of mediocrity, unfulfilled and bored.»

«A 1986 - style approach that promises upfront rate cuts to the wealthy is almost guaranteed to give middle - income earners the short end of the stick,» said Schumer, the third most senior Democrat in the Senate.

With usage limits low and woeful upload speeds, both individual Canadians and businesses are looking like they're going to once again get the short end of the stick when it comes to migrating to the cloud.

«It's not a can of peas where you can stick in on an end shelf.»

-- Toward the end of the Federal election campaign, gas prices proved a final sticking point.

Yet this obscures the reality that, already by late 1914, all belligerents were stuck in a war that was supposed to have ended soon, according to optimists across Europe, but inconveniently had not, leaving the armies jammed in a conflict that generals and politicians could see no easy way out of.

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Investors planning to buy a mutual fund in a taxable account by the end of the year can get stuck paying taxes on gains they didn't earn.

There was a flurry of interest recently in a lawsuit launched by some Facebook shareholders, who apparently believe that they got the short end of the stick in the company's recent share restructuring.

Second, only two consumer phones (one from HTC and another from Samsung, but not the best - selling iPhone) will support LTE by the end of the year, relegating it to use initially by the Rogers Rocket Stick.

The lunchroom cook appeared in the show's debut in 1997, and stuck around through the end of its ninth season in 2006.

«Merchants are at the short end of the stick,» says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan.

Not only are his 200 workers likely to stick around longer, he says, they're more productive, and they do a better job, which is important to Klock, whose company provides high - end all - natural food to some of the biggest organic retailers in the country.

If you don't have a clue about who's in the game or the pool and what they're doing, the patsy at the party is most likely you (or it will be soon enough) and that's an unhappy and ultimately untenable situation that never ends well for the ones who end up with the short end of the stick.

Long known for its wood sticks (and official game pucks), Sher - wood has only a small share of the high - end composite market and knew it would make little sense to launch a me - too product in a category that Bauer and CCM dominate.

Passage of the tax reform bill would deliver Trump and congressional Republicans a significant victory in 2017 and allow the president to stick to his promise to enact tax relief before the end of the year.

I do my best to stick to some semblance of a schedule yet end up being thankful for having someone who rolls with the punches when a last - minute recruiting opportunity, networking event or client appointment arises.

Lewis and Klein — no friends of global capitalism — portray the workers as revolutionaries, sticking it to the Man by doing an end - run around the evils of modern business.

At the end of the day however, stick to the basics.

Of course, Mozilla could very well stick with its Yahoo deal and not walk away, assuming that Yahoo's buyer — whoever it ends up being — is just as interested in search as Yahoo has been during CEO Marissa Mayer's tenure.

«At the time I thought it was kind of pointless, but it ended up really exposing me to leadership opportunities and showing me that I wasn't good at a lot of things, instead of sticking to things that I was comfortable with.»

Yet as ubiquitous as this advice is, how many of us have joyfully scribbled down a long list of travel destinations, lofty goals, and crazy activities only to end up sticking it in a drawer somewhere and never consulting it again?

We ended up getting stuck in exactly that sort of heavy mid-afternoon traffic, so our hoped - for quick jaunt across town became a half - day excursion.

Though the two leads get along and stuck around in the end, it's the people calling the shots who might actually be the biggest source of friction.

Because PMI isn't seeing a surge in device sales, sales of Heatsticks, tobacco sticks that go inside the iQOS device, «are likely to be a little bit lower» than it forecast at the end of last year.

However, after the company's profitable IPO, in which shareholders made millions, Sanders began to feel as though he got the short end of the stick.

It happens to all of us: We become comfortable in how we think, how we lead and how we behave and react to things, and then we end up stuck in our ways.

The crying is happening because the crier was ready to cry, and that thing you just said — or that thing Kevin in accounting just said or the fact that the Twix got stuck at the end of the vending - machine coil — triggered it.

Then I got stuck in L.A. for a couple of days, and I didn't have a guitar to practice on, so I ended up buying a ukulele, and now I just play ukulele all the time.

The July policy document is packed with pie charts allegedly showing B.C. gets the short end of the stick.

Most regular joes, though, end up with the short end of the stick.

Craft acknowledged Wynne's argument that the Canadian and U.S. economies are among the most closely «intertwined» in the world, but insisted that Americans are on «the short end of the stick» in many trade deals, including NAFTA.

However, the creditors still get the short end of the financial stick: the face value of the common stock to be received will almost certainly be less than the face value of the original debt.

In other words, Alberta is using a carrot instead of a stick to create higher - end manufacturing jobs.

Savers are getting the short end of the stick while it remains a borrower's paradise thanks to low inflation and the Federal Reserve's refusal to raise interest rates.

Buffett, who is famous for his «buy and hold» mentality, stuck with his initial investment, which ended up losing more than $ 700 million toward the end of the year, according to CNBC.

Investors should stick to larger companies at least until the end of June, as the enforcement of stronger supervision against the financial markets could raise their wariness for high - flying smaller firms, according to Wu Kan, a fund manager at Shanshan Finance.

In this week's Reading Roundup, we start and end with the topic of the importance of sticking with things, and being consistent.

It turned out to be the short end of the stick.

The spot ends with the dad branding Peanut Butter Cheerios as «The Official Cereal of Dadhood,» a label General Mills is sticking on boxes as the product returns to shelves as a permanent item after a limited release back in March 2013.

This is why you may have a harder time sticking to your goals at the end of the day, after you've already been putting your willower to the test all day long.

Twitter shareholders are painfully aware of the fact that Twitter has often come out with the short end of the stick competing...

Russia could pull out of the OPEC oil production cut deal before the end of 2018 — or right after — as it has no obligation to stick with it, Iran's Energy Minister, Bijan Continue Reading

I had to make budgets and stick to them, but in the end, I no longer felt like wanting to buy a product just for the sake of it.

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

He said that the central bank would stick to its guidance on the sequencing of the next steps, meaning that the first interest rate increases will only start well after the end of the bond purchases.