Sentences with phrase «ending things as»

The great thing is that he's old enough for you to have a two - way conversation about it, which is as gentle and respectful of a way to end things as I can imagine.

At the same time it strangely works because their battle was always personal (more on Voldemort's side than Harry's), so it was fitting that they end things as it began together, alone, no witnesses.

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.

Bless said while uncertainty is never a great thing as far as investors are concerned, he believes the end result will be better for the company's bottom line.

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.

It's worth noting, though, that the Utopia isn't as difficult to «drive» as other high - end headphones, so you don't have to pay that much more for an amp to hear things.

«Ben and Jerry kind of stumbled into making ice cream to make ends meet and then things were added as they went along.»

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

Barring that, the Star paywall will likely act like paywalls before it: as a significant but not transformational shift, the kind of thing that makes a lot of noise, but in the end doesn't change very much at all.

If you rush out to buy a new smartphone simply because it's hyped as the hot new thing — by the people who are selling it, mind you — you'll probably end up disappointed in a few months.

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 we've learned one thing about the TV business over the past year, it's that almost everything that was once written in stone is now up for grabs, including who is in control and what they see as their end goal.

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To the same end, Banks has already earned his own wonderful standalone «Better Call» Saul episode, «Five O,» and seeing the foundation of his storyline is one of the things that makes this spinoff as enjoyable as its predecessor.

If we can really streamline things as much as we think we can, most experts are in agreement that we will end up working fewer hours.

«As we renegotiate NAFTA there are going to be some uncomfortable things, but we realize at the end of this, we are so much stronger together than we are divided.»

The last thing you want to do is launch a campaign, raise funds and then realize that a product idea not possible, will take twice as long or end up costing far more than what was charged for the perks.

I'll end with one final quote of advice — this time from my idol Albert Einstein — that applies especially well for hardware entrepreneurs — «Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.»

It's better to track things as you go along in your day, rather than doing it all at the end of the day (some of the data will be less accurate).

«Craft beer was the best thing that's happened to beer,» says AB InBev's Felipe Szpigel, who serves as president of the company's High End portfolio of craft styles.

Wealthy people believe, with every fiber of their being, that there is no such thing as bad luck — they believe that the lives they lead are the end product of the choices they have made.

(Post-financial-crisis lore has taught us that these instruments are sometimes used to bet against things, but CDS are most often used as hedges against bets that the world won't end.)

The end state is a critical concept for the marines because outside of training, marines don't as a rule tell their subordinates how to do things; they merely specify what the situation is now and how they want it to end up, leaving the details of the execution up to the doers.

But someday, like all things, your days as a small business owner will come to an end, and after a successful run (hopefully), you'll retire.

But one of the most pernicious things about health - related stress is that it seems to become a self - perpetuating cycle: people who are stressed about their health end up experiencing worse health as result, which then stresses them out more.

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.

What began as an attempt to win in the courts what they couldn't get from Congress ended with the FBI acquiring an exploit from a «third party» — reportedly from Cellebrite, from one of the growing cadre of professional hackers who do this kind of thing for money.

As Tim Duy, a University of Oregon economics professor who is an avid Fed watcher, wrote in a recent blog: «When the Fed turns hawkish and steps up the pace of rate increases, is when we need to be increasingly concerned that, like all good things, this expansion will come to an end.»

To me, there is no such thing as a dead end — keep trying until someone gives you a chance.

In the end, there's no such thing as a static market.

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.

«One of the things we're trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole - of - government threat, but a whole - of - society threat on their end,» Wray said.

«What that means in short is that he understands the back - end workings of the business well enough that he could rebuild them himself (well, almost), and he also cold calls customers and says things to journalists aimed to warm consumers» hearts, such as: «On Valentine's Day in Chicago, we had every driver give every woman who got in the car a rose.

Because you don't want this gathering of your team to be a total waste of time, end the current conversation as quickly (but sensitively) as possible, and then ask your team members to take a couple of minutes to think about those pressing things they would like to discuss further.

Things began as suddenly as they ended, when on Oct. 29, Graham and Quebec Premier Jean Charest surprised their respective publics with a memorandum of understanding, the result of nine months of secret talks.

On the extreme end of the spectrum: building a core business around a customized offering, such as Wild Things has done with its design - your - own Insulight jackets.

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

And while the coming debate over the guaranteed income will inevitably focus on political and economic viability, in the end the authors believe we will embrace it, as we embraced those others, because it is the right thing to do.

«Private hackers are a source of talent, for one thing, as well as a degree of separation and deniability between state organs and end users.»

To that end, EMLP also invests in things like pipelines and utilities structured as C - corporations, as well as Canadian firms that used to be royalty trusts, according to FactSet data.

And if these things don't get done, no one's to blame — it ends up just getting written off as an issue of miscommunication.

For a true entrepreneur, there is no such thing as a dead end; there are only new opportunities for growth.

As many analysts have noted, the major issue in «Three Billboards» (and this requires some spoilers to discuss) is whether Dixon is redeemed by doing what amounts to a good thing near the movie's end.

On the other, you want things that are particular enough to your demographic that at the end of it, you get actual active subscribers rather than people who will just cancel as soon as they realize they didn't win.

One thing to note, shaving soap will almost never lather up as much as the canned creams you're used to, and instead you'll probably end up with something a bit looser and more watery.

We think this provides a competitive edge and the best chance for long - term success» Allan Mecham «One thing you can do as a value investor is to arbitrage time and to recognize that you're going to be early, but if you get the right price, it all works out in the end» Preston Athey

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

On the longer end of things, as recently as the summer of 2016, the 10 - year US T - note yield crashed all the way down to 1.3 % in the wake of the Brexit vote.

So many people view the future as a distant thing so they end up not saving for it right now.