We are surrounded by images of so called «inspiration» that in
fact do very little, if anything at all, to get us of the couch and to the gym.
At the last general election, what people understood was that the Lib Dems were in
fact doing very little to moderate the Tories and that if you wanted Tory policies you might as well vote for the real thing.
This means those who drink skim milk for bone health are in
fact doing very little to improve their calcium intake.
Not exact matches
«If there is worry about Iran, the
fact that President Trump has been tough rhetorically on Iran and established close ties with [the kingdom], may
very well be the reason the market doesn't seem more concerned.»
«That overlooks the
fact that it is a
very good beer, and that there's a big market for people who want to drink something other than Molson or Labatt beer but don't necessarily want to jump into an IPA.»
This is because they still think of geographic expansion as a costly «bricks and mortar» kind of roll - out process, and they just don't get the cloud and the
fact that there are
very modest costs to distributing almost anything digital today to everywhere in the world.
In
fact, if a small company
does not fully understand their target groups it could lead to
very poor business indeed.
«When I uploaded the British dialect videos, as I expected [my Korean audience] found it quite interesting because they didn't know
very much about the
fact that there are different kinds of British dialects and accents,» he said.
As Cuddy said, «If someone you're trying to influence doesn't trust you, you're not going to get
very far; in
fact, you might even elicit suspicion, because you come across as manipulative.»
Even apart from the
fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the
very age of the prior research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to
do with trend lines, changes in attitudes or different behaviors.
Bernanke said specifically, when citing the lesson of Milton Friedman: «We didn't allow the
fact that interest rates were
very low to fool us into thinking that monetary policy was accommodative enough.»
Meanwhile, Netflix (along with other big streaming players) is
very protective of its viewership data, which the streaming service claims is made irrelevant by the
fact that Netflix
does not rely on ad sales like its traditional TV rivals.
Governments, he says, need to be «
very careful in not removing what has essentially been the only source of growth in the economy for years now and
doing so a) potentially at the peak of the cycle, and b) with cavalier attitudes to the importance of
facts and figures.»
When I look at what's happened to Canadian manufacturing over the past five, 10 years, I would say a big concern is the
fact that the average manufacturer has one big customer — the United States — and it hasn't been
doing very well.
Again, that
fact doesn't obviate the option of (or indeed the need for) social critique; it just means that we can't reasonably roll our eyes at the
very notion of a place like Hooters, and then merrily skip down to the neighbourhood bar where the waitresses wear short skirts and tube tops all summer.
«We really have to consider the
fact up until not
very long ago the best thing a woman could
do for herself and her status and her future was to marry well,» she said.
This isn't up there with the
fact that, until recently, most coders probably
did not know that the
very first computer programmer was in
fact a woman, Ada Lovelace; or that Rosalind Franklin's work on the structure of DNA has been largely overlooked.
Their
very existence reflects the
fact that Medicare, which most retirees rely on for health coverage,
does not cover nursing - home care.
And the
fact that Truman eschewed passing the buck didn't imply that he thought everything that happened in a
very large federal government was literally his fault: he was saying that morally he accepted responsibility, which meant that accepting responsibility was his job.
We don't really ever use cheques anymore and, in
fact, it's
very rare to ever sign for card payment.
Some of these don't have a
very clearly defined mission and objectives and that stems from the
fact that there is no process in place to manage volunteers, which is a difficult and particular task.
The people who died
did so partly due to the
fact that someone in Bangladesh made a
very bad decision: police had ordered the building evacuated the day before, due to structural defects, but factory managers ignored that order.
Nuevo Laredo is a
very important passageway in the state of Tamaulipas for drugs heading to the United States because of its connection to routes leading to northeastern US cities, and also because of the
fact that US customs
does not have the capacity to verify every shipping container that passes through.
In
fact, this has been Trump's strategy from the
very beginning of his campaign: Pen the media up during rallies, encourage the crowd to yell at them and remove their accreditation in retaliation for stories you don't like.
Far too many company founders think people want to know about their company when in
fact very few people
do or you actually only reach a niche market.
The site's tagline is «Tech Untangled,» which it
does using a
very clean, matter - of -
fact interface.
«The
fact that inflation didn't heat up as much as most economists had expected plays into the narrative that the Bank of Canada is going to be
very patient with regards to future rate hikes,» Royce Mendes, CIBC World Markets director and senior economist, said in an interview.
His data and methods were ultimately
very useful to urban planners, who discovered many
facts, such as people don't really like wide open spaces — they prefer intimate surroundings because they feel more secure.
«What it
did have was the
fact it was solving a
very real pain point in the hearts and minds of consumers,» says Ganenthiran.
Here are some
very telling
facts, drawn from thorough research
done in 2011 by an outside, objective team of analysts for a multimillion - dollar producer in the financial services field who markets to modestly affluent to
very affluent boomer and senior clients.
Mr. Speaker, in
fact, contrary to what the member just said, we
do have a
very good idea of what sectors those workers are working in.
To wit: an empty slot in a drink case; two halves of a Pepsi logo that didn't align perfectly; stickers on a cooler door that impede the view of a logo inside; the
fact that two brands of pretzels, Stacy's and Rold Gold, are placed next to each other despite being marketed to
very different customers.
«The
fact is collusion is just not legal so what we were
very,
very careful to
do was not to speak to each other about what the end result was going to be,» he said.
But if you
do plan to ask family and friends for advice, at the
very least make sure they have all the relevant
facts, said Ryan Wibberley, an advisor and founder of CIC Wealth Management.
From my
very cursory reading, the «free trade is what worsened wages» hypothesis doesn't fit the
facts.
That was due to the
fact that Darden has a
very quantitative curriculum and she didn't have a background in finance, she said.
Yet the
fact that these 13 years have included three successive approaches (2000, 2007, and today) to valuation peaks - at the
very extremes of historical experience - is evidence that investors don't appreciate the link between valuation and subsequent returns.
This is mostly due to the
fact that these services deal with chargebacks while Bitcoin by its
very nature doesn't allow for chargebacks.
Value investors care
very deeply about what they're buying; in
fact, they don't buy stocks, but rather shares of high quality businesses with talented, honest, energetic managers.
It is important to understand how debt payments are managed in order to recognize that whether or not China's debt burden is socialized has
very little to
do with the resolution of China's debt burden (aside from the
fact that it never was «off» the government balance sheet in any meaningful way), just as analysts must recognize that an unsustainable increase in debt is embedded into China's current growth model, and is not an accidental bit of bad luck.
And these numbers don't reflect dividends that were reinvested or the
fact that I owned and accumulated shares in a
very cost - friendly way via DRIPs.
«Trump, in his own words, is
very proud of the
fact that he's unpredictable and likes to
do things his own way.
Yet the
very fact that the economy didn't roar back to life from the financial crisis extended the life of the recovery.
I am, indeed, deeply regretful of the
fact that you were not allowed to be compelled to sacrifice your life for the good of everyone else the way that men are required to
do, and I have actually been a
very vocal advocate for women to be allowed into combat conditions — indeed, to lead combat platoons.
The zombies — the walking dead — are those who just don't know yet the state of their misfortune and take solace from the
fact that 90 percent of retail sales still happen in physical stores, so they're still
very much alive.
I
do not see a case for a further rate increase on current
facts and remain
very concerned that macroeconomic policy has inadequately internalized all the aspects of large declines in the neutral real rate and secular stagnation risks.
Housing affordability changed
very little in Ontario in the second quarter and homebuyers
did not appear to be overly concerned by the
fact that affordability remained somewhat stretched for single - family homes.
But the reputation of the bill is that it is pushing against high deductible plans when, in
fact, while it
does increase benefits that
do need to be covered, it's allowed for quite high deductible and, for that reason, also pushed toward
very narrow networks.
This has to
do with the
fact that traders who deposit the
very minimum just to access the markets might not last long enough to enjoy the benefits of binary options trading.
In any event, even if one explains the
fact that the US dollar has crashed in purchasing power in recent times, over a
very condensed period of time, by more than 75 %, because it has been one of the strongest currencies in a pool of rapidly devaluing currencies for the past two years, I've discovered that quite often, even presentation of indisputable
facts can not sway people to believe something that they simply
do not want to believe.