Sentences with phrase «even hold off»

An age - appropriate planning meeting will help stoke their interest, and if you involve them in planning and assembling their dream backyard you might even hold off some of the impatient «is - it - done - yet?»

If you have a specific request, maybe even hold off on it until you send a follow - up note, especially if the timing doesn't seem right.

Because of the hard work they did leading up to this meeting, student's met with a superintendent who was excited to hear from youth about how to move forward on the committee, contributed ideas of his own, and even held off another meeting to prioritize continuing the important conversation he was having with students.

Heck, I even held off on playing the demo version at a retail store, to avoid wasting some of my «fun level» there.

Not exact matches

(I go to bed fairly early and not eating in the evening is harder for me than holding off in the morning, so I try to make sure my window «closes» a little later.)

I kept holding off, though — the $ 450 annual fee just seemed like too big of an upfront, even if I made that value back.

But even a conservative organization needs to be careful about holding an employee's off - the - job activities against him.

Even though Neometals is now holding less than 15 % of Mt Marion, company management had the exceptional foresight to insist on the right to purchase a sizeable percentage the lithium off - take after about three years of operation.

Even when you hold your holiday party off - site, you're still the host and a successful party relies on your good planning.

Even with local programs like the one being launched in New York, a future in which most workplaces are holding meetings in virtual reality and using holograms to work on a 3D model is still far off.

The Rio events introduced the world to several breakout performers with the potential to become true household names — even if some of these athletes must hold off on those oh - so - lucrative endorsement deals for a little while.

Imperial even decided to hold off building an upgrader at its Kearl mine, now under construction.

With this, it's probably best if Facebook holds off on announcing new products that seem like a ploy to acquire even more user data.

Bitfinex, which is officially incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has been fined by regulators in the United States and cut off by U.S. banks, and it has lost millions of dollars of customer money in two separate hacks, leading critics to question whether it even has the money it claims to hold.

However, as The Washington Post noted, even selling off their holdings offers an opportunity for Trump's cabinet members to enhance their fortunes.

On top of all this, the fund's index holds a synthetic protective put on itself — in practice, this means DMRI shifts more assets into notes and bills after a significant decline, potentially staving off an even larger crash.

In this case, you would pull the trigger on 20 % of your holdings (40 % of 50 %), and then work off the additional 30 % on short - term strength (even if that strength follows a decline that took you below your original selling point).

Each time you buy or sell a bond it cost a painful # 39.95, which works out at about 0.5 % one - off charge on even a large portfolio of # 40,000 assuming you hold to maturity — which you might not.

Thomas Kelleher, president of Morgan Stanley, said on March 20 that tech «holds no fear» for banks, even though it caught the industry off guard:

* The holdings of dollars and other reserves prop up the dollar against the yuan even if China's bank decides to sell off some of its holdings.

While patience to hold winning stocks definitely pays off, there are times when the stock trades can be equally profitable, even when held for only a few weeks.

On the other hand, private industry has laid off a good chunk of their workforce while squeezing every last bit of productivity out of those who remain, held back raises while telling their employees they're lucky to have a job, stopped making 401k matching contributions even after their profits have soared to record highs and they've banked a ton of cash that they're NOT spending to hire or rehire laid - off employees.

TAX CHURCHES NOW as the commercial enterprises they have become... saying and claiming anything to recruit and hold customers and make their executives a nice living or even «personal jet» rich while foisting their incredible burden on municipal infrastructure off on individual homeowners.

That this is so seems the more evident in view of a belief widely held today, even among Christians; namely, that no man is worthy of that name unless he is fairly well off financially and enjoys a certain level of consumption.

This was based not on principle but on necessity, but even it could not hold off the storm.

In what ended up being one of the more nail - bitey of recent Super Bowls, the Ravens managed to hold off San Francisco's post-blackout rally and claim the victory on a first - filled evening.

«Hold off sexual activity as long as you possibly can, preferably until you've chosen a mate; but if you can't wait, use birth control, and if you use birth control, it is never 100 % successful at preventing pregnancy, nor is it always successful at preventing STDs, even if used correctly.»

The Kingdom is that great pearl that when you find it, you sell everything else off - even your right answers - just to hold it in your hand, roll it around your teeth for the joy of the clicking sound it makes, falling into place.

The Kingdom is that great pearl that when you find it, you sell everything else off — even your right answers — just to hold it in your hand, roll it around your teeth for the joy of the clicking sound it makes, falling into place.

We also decided to hold off on naming the baby even if we knew the sex, just in case there was an error.

When I visited Amanda in Hyderabad back in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount of photographs, crying like a baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl in her arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.

Being self - compassionate is a state of mind that you deliberately choose and consistently hold onto, even when you've made a mistake or fallen off the track.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.&raEven when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.&raeven a sound atheist.»

So churches eager to help have taken an «already - but - not - yet» approach, rallying resources for more large - scale and long - term recovery, even if they have to hold off on major outreach right now.

There are certain ways of speaking about Jesus which imply, or even come near to stating, that Jesus did something to change the attitude of God to men, that somehow Jesus changed God's wrath into love, that somehow Jesus persuaded God to hold his hand and to pacify his anger to withhold his judgment of condemnation, that, to put it very crudely, Jesus by his sufferings and his death bought off God.

Holding such beliefs, a significant body of citizens in Northern Italy and Southern France «cut» themselves off (sectare) from the Catholic consensus, and began to form churches, even dioceses, of their own.

«Now I will continue expressly pointing out to (indicating and even underlining for) you people [him] of whom you folks should be made fearful: Be made to fear (be wary of; have respect for) the person [who], after the killing off, continues possessing (having and holding) the right (or: authority) to throw you into the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna; = the City Dump outside of Jerusalem; [= to dishonor you by giving no burial; to treat you as a criminal]-RRB-.

Everything about chili con carne generates some sort of controversy — the spelling of the name, the origin and history of the dish, the proper ingredients for a great recipe, the awesome society and cook - off rivalries, and even what the future holds for the bowl o» red.

Tartlet Crusts: this recipe, made with whole wheat flour, yielded beautiful, sturdy 4 inch tartlet crusts that held up even when removed from the tart pans and slid off the removable bottoms.

After we had danced our butts off until 1 in the morning, everyone came up to us and said that it one of the best weddings they've ever been to, albeit them holding brie in their hands... So even if you have a small thing screw up, don't stress - it will be magical no matter what.

Note: this crust, made with whole wheat flour makes beautiful, sturdy 4 - inch tart crusts that hold up even when removed from the tart pans and slid off the removable bottoms.

FOR LUNCH (AKA SNACKTIME) I don't even know why I have a lunch section because Thom will probably still be full from eating nearly an entire batch of cinnamon rolls (my prediction is that he gets through 2 1/2 before being horrified by the realization of how much sugar he ingested) and I'll be trying my damnedest to hold off on eating until dinner.

On Tuesday evening, April 17, exhibitors, attendees and guests kicked off the 2018 Fresh Produce & Floral Council Northern California Expo with a reception held the night before the event at the Doubletree Inn in Pleasanton, CA.

It heats very slowly, but evenly, and will hold onto the heat for a long time even after you take it off the flame.

Now Hector Bellerin has given us all a glimpse of what Alexis gives to the club off the pitch as well, in comments reported by Metro, and from that it seems even more vital that we keep hold of our star striker.

I know all race fans are hoping for the later time arrival because that allows the race to get started and if it holds off until 3 PM or 4 PM maybe even get us past halfway.

One of the most famous rivalries, Teddy Sheringham and Andrew Cole played alongside each other for many successful years at Manchester United, even though the two could not stand each other off the pitch, with Cole long holding a grudge against Sheringham for snubbing him on his England debut.

By his teens he was spending his off - hours at pool halls and in the pavilion at Fenway Park, where even after the Black Sox scandal the gamblers still held sway.

With City needing to beat QPR to win the title and QPR needing to win to (potentially) avoid relegation, the underdog visitors held a shocking late lead before the Citizens pulled off an even more shocking comeback.

Chiellini is a free agent this summer he is world class and i know he is old put what would asd to the squad for a season or two would be invaluble what holding chambers even mustafi could learn off him in 2 years wenger couldnt teach in life time