Sentences with phrase «end things on»

It's also nice to thank your boss for the opportunity to work for them; you want to end things on a good note!

The Gravity Team did end things on a happy note for two characters who seemed to have been forgotten about.

For me, following what was undeniably (I think most would agree) one of the weaker years of the decade, it was refreshing to end things on such a glorious high note.

But since the two storylines never interact, and the actors playing the Myers family aren't given much screen time, the juxtaposition feels bizarre, as does the uplifting note Clooney decides to end things on.

Be clear and calm about ending the relationship and try to end things on a good note.

-LSB-...] have to end things on a crazy note, so we couldn't help but share this recipe for Caramel Bacon Popcorn.

If I see an argument about to happen, I back off and try to end things on a positive note.

Won a national championship, has had a tremendous college career, will probably declare for the NBA Draft and be a lottery pick, but let's just say he could have ended things on a brighter note.

In these moments of deep gravity, something can be said for taking control of our fate, and ending things on our own terms.

It's of limited interest to non fans, but if you liked this franchise, it ends things on a pretty satisfying note.

The phone ends things on a high, with a battery that easily gets through a day of normal usage on a single charge.

Not exact matches

For one thing, it's on par with what competing top - end devices such as the iPhone are selling for.

For one thing, the bank is sitting on a lot of cash (possibly as much as $ 4 billion by the end of the year, according to one estimate) and continues to churn out excess capital.

And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.

But the jobs that require math skills and social skills — communication, working with others, all of these things you're supposed to learn in kindergarten, those end up being valuable because they're very hard to reduce to code or assign on a spec sheet to people living overseas.

By the end of October, things were verging on the comic: In a superior display of pettiness on both sides, a Google Ventures partner explained why the firm didn't invest in Theranos, and Theranos responded with a full - on he - didn «t - reject - us - we - rejected - him.

Eventually you'll see that these apps that initially, especially like Tinder was very much geared towards hookups, it will end up moving up market and really disrupt the whole traditional online dating area, which I think is the most interesting thing going on right now because as we get better and better at our recommendations, as more people get on the platform, I think people will find less and less a need or desire to use things like a Match.com or Okcupid.

«Sometimes bad things happen to good robots,» hitchBOT's creators wrote on their website following the journey's unexpected end.

It's so easy to get bogged down in email and other people's to - do lists that when you look up at the end of the day you realize you didn't make any progress on the things that are most important.

There are always going to be dark days, so if you're not convinced this is the thing you've been put on this Earth to do, you may not make it through to the end.

I was put on a small team and ended up running the whole thing.

«But then I did this thing called the Westinghouse Talent Search, now called the Intel Talent Search, where I spent about 2 years doing research on neuroscience lab and I ended up coming in third place in that nationally.»

It takes discipline to focus on yourself and your goals, but the end result can be achieving those great things in life.

Even worse, we tend to worry and obsess over the things we haven't done, even though we «should» — when the truth is that when we smartly decide what's right for ourselves and our customers, we end up being way further on top that we expected.

Small things such as creating a to - do list at the end of each business day, or for the week, will help keep you on top of important tasks to tackle.

If the House and Senate don't manage to get an updated bill on Trump's desk before the end of the year, but do get things done in early 2018, then the bill could be made retroactive.

These managers ended up having to follow up with another e-mail, phone call or face - to - face meeting 72 % of the time in order to ensure things stayed on track.

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On the opposite end of things, «Mario Kart 8 Deluxe» is the best entry in the «Mario Kart» series.

«My hope is by the end of this year, we'll have turned a corner on a lot of these issues and people see things are getting a lot better,» he said.

«You have to establish at the beginning: We disagree on a lot of things now, but when do we agree that the negotiations will end?»

So they set their sights on the kinds of things that most people assume have reached the end of the innovation road: earmuffs, beach chairs, sunglasses, and gloves, for instance.

Should the decision end in a draw, the ACA could mean different things in different states, depending on federal court of appeals rulings, legal experts say.

«[Companies] used to be able to do the same thing for years on end, but today if you do the same thing, you're going to be faced with significant business challenges,» he says.

Because what ends up happening is the same thing that happens when you focus too much on protecting yourself from anything — you miss out on the good stuff, the most important stuff.

Companies can operate in different worlds depending on their industry, size, geographic location, and much more, but the companies most prepared for the future of work have plans in place and know how to tailor things no matter what color world they end up in and how things shift.

You can end up spending hours working on items you don't even need until next week and neglecting things needed today.

«The worst thing that could happen on the battlefield is that you end up reacting negatively because you've never been in that scenario.»

EASTWOOD: Iraq, I know was a different deal because there was a lot of intelligence that told us that bad things could happen there and we're never sure how that ended up whether it was pro or con or no, I tend to err on the side of less is best.

Corkcicle and Perfect Endings, two businesses that had a presence before their debut on Oprah's Favorite Things, also felt the impact.

They stick with things way too long and end up beating a dead horse when they should be moving on.

Management tends to focus on growth, adding employees and building the company rapidly, but this can end up slowing things down over time.

That's because those who make decisions on the front end (buying property, building bridges) do not bear all the costs when things go wrong on the back end,» he wrote in an email.

Some say there's no such thing as negative publicity, but most businesses on the receiving end of harsh coverage or public criticism would disagree.

Manufacturers put a premium on things like Bluetooth, built - in controls, and sweat resistance, so you usually end up paying more for something lesser sounding.

In a passionate address Thursday, Mrs. Obama said that after years of working to end «this kind of violence and abuse and disrespect... we're hearing these exact same things on the campaign trail.

To that end, he details on his site six qualities that would make someone not right for his company, things like «You are looking to outsource your marketing,» or «You are looking to outsource your social media accounts.»

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

Instead, she hired a business manager for her current bakery to take care of things on the financial end so that she can focus on doing what she does best.

While the ability to keep our eyes on the end game is fundamental to success, as is our maintaining high standards and an appropriate level of impatience for getting things done, rudeness itself should be left out.