Sentences with phrase «engage in a bit»

So Obama on March 22 engaged in a bit of political puffery at a storage yard owned by Transcanada, the Edmonton - based company behind Keystone.

We first meet them as Ryan decides to pull over a Lincoln Navigator in which yuppie film director Cameron (TerrenceHoward) and his wife Christine (Thandie Newton) are engaged in a bit of horseplay.

At Spa he really went the extra mile for one fan, engaging in a bit of conversation and banter whilst signing her cap and posing for selfies, not once looking like he was doing it out of obligation or that he didn't want to be there.

During the league game, the noisiest section of home fans seemed to be in the same stand as us (to the left of the away fans), and managed to engage in a bit of banter.

May 11: Engage in a bit of collaborative, creative problem - solving at Youth CITIES: Mini-Hacks (Cambridge)

Between the ages of one and three years old, many children will engage in biting.

And she might have to engage in a bit of non-work-related business, like making dentist appointments or checking in with the babysitter.

The majority of toddlers engage in some biting between their first and third birthdays.

The cupcake toppers went into the third bag — but E immediately decided to dump them out again and engage in a bit more play dough poking.

Also, to engage in a bit of self - criticism, it occurs to me that in one sense the freedom of association criticism is misplaced - or, rather, it might not be quite right to state the criticism in these terms.

The two veteran Democrats engaged in a bit of heated back and forth last spring when the former mayor first launched his PAC and pledged to call everyone who wouldn't join his effort an «enemy» of reform.

Instead the brash populists of the right are hoping to seize the vacated space — and won't be afraid to engage in a bit of business - bashing to get there.

Cuomo also engaged in a bit of finger - pointing, saying legislative leaders told him that their conferences were leaving today, whether there was a final budget resolution or not.

Engaging in a bit of healthy physical activity is a great way to spend a first date.

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.

It is soon revealed that unlike the exciting sequences of Tarzan where true peril was repeatedly threatened, Tarzan II's opening scene actually just depicts the wild child engaging in a bit of playtime fun with Terk (voiced by Brenda Grate), his savvy, sarcastic gorilla sidekick, and the red elephant Tantor (Harrison Fahn), who accordingly have reverted to juniority.

Ultimately, the two characters have engaged in a bit of a dialogue over time that finds the two reflecting eachother.

«Fish Schticks» (4m) The sort of thing that would typically play under the closing credits, with the characters engaging in bits of silent comedy.

Just recently, Forbes magazine engaged in another bit of embarrassing hyperbole, titling a cover story on the Khan Academy, «One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education.»

I think Daniel's engaging in a bit of hyperbole.

You'll have to engage in a bit of trial and error.

After spending an hour in store with Emily, my own dog, Dexter, was ready to do some shopping and engage in a bit of retail therapy.

If possible find a quiet spot away from the busy entrance, roll out your dog's mat and engage him in a bit of training.

But I decided to engage in a bit of it today.

The intention is to engage in a bit more contract work and eventually «bring a couple more individuals into the fold» going forward.

Most stages are linear, going from point A to a boss battle at point B, and when you are not wholesale slaughtering minion mobs, you're engaging in a bit of Quick Time Event («QTE») platforming.

There are also opportunities to do business with various trans - national corporations, buying technology, funding research, and engaging in a bit of industrial espionage.

Even as roaming groups of Peggies would patrol the streets seeking my head, there were serene moments of simply taking in the fresh air and engaging in a bit of fly fishing to contrast with the action.

What's prompted me to start today is that Hugh McLeod — of the excellent gapingvoid — and Robert Scoble — of, well, scobleizer — are engaged in a bit of to - and - fro over Microsoft's «next big idea».

To neutralize the environmental impact of this electricity, Palo Alto engages in a bit of financial engineering.

At that point, it would be sensible for the doctor to engage in a bit of «policy advocacy» and stress how the proposed solution is dangerously inadequate.

I'd like to engage in a bit of pedantry for a moment and question whether that's an appropriate characterization of Google's offering.

AT&T and Verizon have been engaged in a bit of a cold war for some time, vying for the top spot in the U.S..

But while Microsoft is supporting the Touch Bar, it couldn't resist the urge to engage in a bit of timely Apple - trolling.

Engaging in a bit of Q&A is another effective method for busting through a case of employment stage fright.

I wanted to discover what else we could learn from Rowling, so I engaged in bit of strengths - spotting and found that there are far more than just the two lessons.

(MCT)-- I was engaging in a bit of therapy the other day, viciously attacking a wallpaper border that had fouled my powder room for far too long.

Not exact matches

In some cases, where an issue is above the water line, you can afford to wait a bit before engaging with it.

Nike has also caught on to a bit of luck in perhaps one of the most effective ways of engaging business in Asia: teaming up with the government.

«Unfriending someone entirely may feel a bit too harsh,» she says, but if people in your social circles are regularly posting negative content (especially during election season), you could get a much - needed mental break by engaging with them less frequently.

With just one quote on each of its 135 pages, it's engaging in very short bites or as one cover - to - cover meal.

After reading about Tan Le, the co-founder of Emotiv, and her vision of a world in which machines respond to our mental commands using implanted sensors [«Reality Bites,» December 2008], I couldn't help thinking that this is the same kind of hype Dean Kamen engaged in when he predicted that entire cities would one day be built around the Segway.

Instead, the ads strike a down - to - earth chord, tracking the daily activities we all engage in, like napping and cooking dinner, while celebrating the sofas and stoves that help us do them a bit better.

You're seeing a little bit of caution about tax reform, and so that seems to be dampening things a bit, but overall if you look at the origination business, clients are engaged in a lot more activity.

In addition to being easier to use, chatbots that employ these two key features can display a bit of personality to help captivate and engage users on a deeper and more personal level.

While not contending with these headline - grabbing controversies, Clement has also quietly been pushing forward with initiatives with major implications across a host of sectors «One of the nice things about politics is you get to engage in a little bit of self - definition as to what your job is,» says Clement.

Gallup's workplace research shows that employees who spend at least some time working remotely are a bit more likely to be engaged in their jobs than those who never work remotely.

The authors engage in misleading category comparisons, and quite a bit of guesswork.

Okay, here goes: You are engaging in a perceptual bias, a fallacious bit of reasoning, and you have no reasonable argument as to thinking some other species» mental idiocy to be significant in any way whatsoever beyond the mere biological curiosity of their neurological problems specific to them.

Or do you engage in «cafeteria» style religion, i.e. taking bits and pieces from here and there that fit into what you want to believe.