Sentences with phrase «even a piece on»

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A study on waiters and tipping published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology demonstrates how even tiny gifts can make a big difference, finding that: «Customers who received a small piece of chocolate along with [their] check tipped more than did customers who received no candy.»

Jump lists for each piece of software, available when you right - click on the respective program, even let you immediately pull up recently opened files and documents — a major time - saver.

Chamath has never been afraid of controversially calling it as it is within the venture world, such as in his late - 2015 piece on what's wrong with venture capital, and is even part of the Golden State Warriors ownership group, which he joined in 2011, during an abysmal 23 - 43 run which seems a lifetime away from two years of triumph.

There are ways you can acknowledge a news event, or even newsjack a content piece to provide a foundation for your own, but blindly jumping on a news event is a recipe for disaster.

I will even say «cash is queen» because on the chessboard the king is just a figurehead and the queen is the most valuable piece.

Everyone wants a piece of the pie and many times, the most successful entrepreneurs are merely judged on how much meaning they can give to a brand that does not even exist yet.

A bit like a PIN, the private key can be stored offline in a text file or even on a piece of paper locked in a safe, where hackers can't get to it.

The Philadelphia - headquartered retailer is known hawking clothing to a younger audience (you usually don't have to look far from a college campus to find one), picking up more of a «hipster» reputation in recent years with plenty of rather high - priced flannel shirts, ripped jeans, and even shabby chic furniture pieces on the show floor.

All of these tools work on their own, but they work even better as pieces of a larger sales strategy.

These are the best pieces of checked luggage you can buy for long - haul trips where even the best carry - on bag just doesn't cut it.

Type the phrases «information overload» into Google and you'll get nearly four million hits offering endless tips on dealing with the problem, first person accounts of brains fried by a deluge of data, even articles and think pieces declaring us in the midst of «the age of information overload.»

«The seasonal colorways, patterns and collaborations continuously refresh the brand even though the core of the offer relies on a few standard pieces and silhouettes.

Maybe it is a piece of homemade fudge you offer on a guest's pillow most evenings; that two - minute walk you describe, where guests can take in breathtaking views of a nearby lake; or even your «famous frittata» that helps start the day: Whatever you offer, make it unique.

Unwieldy, even — like trying to balance a salad on a wet piece of cardboard.

He even bought an original Disneyland sign on eBay by outbidding Michael Jackson, and displays a piece of a «Dumbo» ride in his yard.

Even the pieces for which he won his 2004 National Magazine Award were based more on a p.r. stunt than on any sharp insights: At a press briefing in Doha, Qatar, Wolff stood up and asked General Vincent Brooks why it was worth the media's time to show up for such highly orchestrated, unnewsworthy events.

Gross also responded to Jeremy Siegel's comments on Bloomberg TV earlier Thursday that Gross doesn't know economics by suggesting that he «hasn't even read my piece, let alone understood it.»

Later on you can increase your conversions by taking the lead sheet and then following up with phone calls and direct mail pieces or even add them on LinkedIn, to stay in front of your prospects.

Surely the algorithm in all of it's «glory» can identify a worthwhile piece of content (one that's socially shared and is published on a contextually relevant and valuable website for users) even if it's in the form of a «guest blog post.»

Whenever we have big down days and it seems like the bull market is on its last legs, I remind myself of this line from Martin Luther King: «Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.»

Microbes could load these donated genes together on a single piece of DNA, accelerating the spread of resistance even further.

Even then, however, speculations were still high that the device on Wallach's hands was probably a one - off piece.

Put another way, in an open society where long - term corporate performance is built on trust among its various constituencies, it is difficult to defend hiding such direct corporate action (or forcing stakeholders to piece information together from myriad reports), even though a comprehensive report may cause stakeholder or media scrutiny and criticism.

«For Chinese people, Google is not god, and even if it puts on a full - on show about politics and values, it is still not god,» said a front - page commentary piece.

Since it's on a piece of paper, it can be pretty easy to get it destroyed or even get it lost are a couple of the significant drawbacks for it.

Even if a specific piece of restaurant equipment falls within your cash flow budget to lease — that pizza - baking oven that only exists on remote hillsides in Italy for instance — it might not give you enough of a competitive advantage to be worth the cost.

I do think that being an atheist in light of the complexity of creation (both on an infinite universe - sized level and on a microscopic atomic level) requires some amount of faith in something — even if it is faith in the ability of random pieces of matter to assemble themselves into something complicated.

Ross Douthat, in his piece A Case for Hell, turns the table on the Universalist by asking an even more provocative question: «Is Tony Soprano really in heaven?»

One piece of American exceptionalism is how much we rely on that even now.

Obviously someone at CNN made a conscious decision to start focusing on religious crap (even if that means making up the news yourself with 98 % «opinion» pieces).

But even a quick scan of the piece shows that Meacham actually focuses on the decline of «Christian America,» by which he means an approach to public life that is governed solely by Christian principles.

It is far easier for me to believe that this universe — that is almost entirely inimical to life, even on the little tiny piece of it that we evolved on — was an accident.

Far from being a denial of such emphasis on individuality or even a limitation of its meaning, Jesus» proclamation of the kingdom of God was of one piece with what we have been saying.

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

Last evening I heard a piece on National Public Radio about a twenty - one year old man who has left orthodox Judaism.

Hawaii Guest «even if it was proven on both those things, I still wouldn't worship your god because the god you espouse is an immoral, controlling, vain piece of sh.it.»

If i'm just somebody elses pet project and was meant to happen and my life was preordained then it's a 1 to 1 odds that I am who I am and that means i'm just another chess piece on someone elses board and have no real freedom and no real future even if I was to imagine some fluffy afterlife stroking Gods ego for eternity, that is not for me.

I thought it felt right but that right was wrong All caught up in the eye of the storm And trying to figure out what it's like moving on And I don't even know what kind of things I've said My mouth kept moving and my mind went dead So, picking up the pieces, now where to begin?

For that look on his face, for your hands meeting his across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot or suffer a lot — or die a little, even.

But a constructive interest in the past («rational reconstruction,» as Richard Rorty calls it) adds something to the sober exercise of setting the record straight and may even, on occasion, alert the historian to patterns and pieces in the record that she had overlooked.

Later in his life, in one of the last pieces he wrote on Nazism, Bettelheim was to make an even more extreme judgment.

Our blind spots are exposed, others have radical pieces of truth to feast on, and Jesus comes and shows us stuff we wouldn't even have thought of unless we asked and listened and engaged.

This is the little piece of paper hanging on your wall, or stuffed in your bookshelf at home that tells you how rich you really are, and most of us have never even bothered to read it.

Even with the logistics of a shared festival stage, each brought with them massive set pieces that include pyrotechnics, interactive landscapes and — with Metallica — an onstage choir of fans who sang background on every song.

It doesn't matter whether a movie explores the atrocities of war, glorifies war, or even pokes fun at war — I just can't sit through ninety minutes of human beings blowing each other to pieces without facing the temptation to give up on the goodness of God altogether.

On one side, Jesus» body is real «flesh and bones»; (Luke 24:39) it is the body that was laid in the tomb revivified so that the tomb is empty; it can be seen and handled; it bears still the wounds of the crucifixion; it can even eat food, and Jesus partakes of «a piece of a broiled fish» to prove it.

I don't even read CNN news pieces or watch it on tv anymore the ratings speak for themselves you guys should feel real proud keep it up your doing a terrific job.

Even though that's religious, it would still have been better to put on the front page than a religious opinion piece about some singer.

As has been most aptly remarked, Jeremiah's action here «smacks of the same paradox as if a contemporary should forecast nuclear warfare and then proceed to buy a choice piece of real estate on Manhattan»; 2 yet even more — as if he did this with the sirens already warning of the fatal attack!

What makes it a delight to watch is how Baker avoids the sad sack stereotypes that Hollywood projects lean on when depicting poor people, and finds a way to make your heart swell with joy for the resilience of the human spirit even as he's breaking it into pieces.