Sentences with phrase «few act on»

While many automotive dealerships promise the lowest prices for their vehicles, few act on that promise.

This is common advice, and every startup founder has heard it, but few act on it.

Not exact matches

Michael Dell doesn't talk specifically about the companies he's interested in, but according to an April 2012 Forbes interview, Dell said he, personally, looks at over 250 companies every year that might fit into the company's acquisition strategy, even if the company only acts on a few.

Haven't meaningfully acted on the environment (I wouldn't call recycling a few bottles meaningful)

Fellow hip - hop act Astronautalis says he makes a few hundred dollars a month via streaming on his back catalog because he owns all of the publishing rights to it and doesn't have to split anything with a label.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

I know this legislation (and the HIRE Act) had a minimal impact on small businesses, but it does contain a few worthwhile provisions.

There are only a few acts left before the Black Keys and Lana Del Rey simultaneously close out the festival on separate ends of Randall's Island.

It allows a few representative and committed plaintiffs to act on behalf of the interests of an entire class of injured parties.

Or, on the other hand, is it an admirable act of charity — a rich guy giving a bunch of his own money to a few dozen colleagues?

On the other hand, as defenders of the company point out, the factory is giving jobs to a few hundred Palestinians, and giving someone a job is hardly an act of aggression.

There are a few huge benefits to being on relevant online forums: you gain the customer insight you need by acting as a good citizen and promoting your content at the same time.

After a topsy - turvy few weeks that saw deep divisions among Republican lawmakers on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, draft legislation is finally expected to be released in the coming days.

Instead, the Financial Choice Act would offer the industry other types of relief: Institutions would have to undergo fewer stress tests to prove they could survive another economic disaster and they would get more information upfront about what they would be judged on, for example.

It has been proven time and time again that investment success has two key ingredients - understanding and acting on the few things that really matter, and focusing on sound process.

Policy makers in the United States acted quickly to clamp down on myclobutanil use when it was discovered a few years ago.

The past few months, with a series of disasters seemingly one on top of another, have felt apocalyptic to many, but the bright side to these dark times has been the outpouring of donations and acts of generosity that followed.

I don't know how much Starbucks can do about employees» racial biases in one day of training, but by providing clear - cut, companywide policies on restrooms and customer ejections and posting them in its stores, it will give its employees fewer chances to act on whatever biases they have.

Also, there are a few different places online that act as Bitcoin faucets that hand out a few Millibits to new users on regular intervals.

In the few months following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, utility companies in 48 out of 50 states, and DC, have taken action to pass their federal tax savings on to their customers.

I had a few ideas, but I didn't make a decision on which idea I was going to act.

One of the few negatives on an otherwise fairly positive day of trading was the 5 % decline of Reckitt Benckiser, producers of a drug used to help get drug users off of Heroin called Suboxone, which acts as a replacement for the Class A. Reckitt's patent for Suboxone is due to expire in the relatively near future, so they have been trying to push doctors and other pharmaceutical vendors towards their film version of the drug, which is still under patent and will be for quite some time.

Global TV manges to have a few of the more vitriolic ones on every weekday morning, acting like shouting louts drowning out differing views, looking pityingly on those who beg to disagree.

It takes a few seconds to set up but can provide real time mentions that you can act on immediately.

On Friday, Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, a $ 1.5 trillion proposal that gives corporations a massive permanent tax break, temporarily cuts rates for individuals, and repeals the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate — a move that is estimated to leave 13 million fewer insured in the next 10 years.

That is a tough balancing act for a country that relies on foreign capital to finance its current account deficit - which has doubled to $ 55 billion over the last few years, according to Citigroup - but where the government says three in five children are stunted from malnutrition.

I think I'll try acting like a TeaBillieRepublican for an hour — I'll spit on the poor people, threaten to shut down America, and maybe make a few homemade bombs.

I've been acting as a bit of a fly on the wall of this blog for a few weeks now, but I saw this cartoon, felt my heart break, read the comments, felt my heart break even more, slept on it, woke up with a still - aching heart, and so thought it appropriate that I break my silence.

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Unless the poor understand that their poverty is caused by a few people who are exploiting them, sucking their blood... It is not caused by your past lives and bad acts, it is caused by the social system which depends on exploitation.

Isn't it a fact that it offers to us ways of thinking, behaving and acting that are played out on a vast arena by a privileged few, while the teeming others can only look on, wonder, stare, or pass by with incomprehension or contempt?

I find that with a few exceptions its not the religion that makes the person but rather there decisions to act on it.

At the same time, although democracy presupposed a basic rationality on the part of the citizens, few Greeks were under the illusion that men acted according to principles of reason alone.

I can't prove that Jesus didn't walk on a lake, transmute water into wine, dispel a rainstorm, wither a fig tree, cure blindness and muteness with his magic spittle, or reanimate a few corpses, although we call these acts miracles because they're impossible.

For a Biblical concept of justice has been the real concern of a few of these writers.58 Evidence is of course mixed, but the overwhelming thrust of Scripture's discussion of «social justice» suggests the following Biblical definition: «to each according to his or her needs» Rather than act on the basis of society's most common definitions of «social justice» those of merit or equality - the Christian seeking a Biblically derived social ethic must respond, first and foremost, on the basis of need.

Soldiers that served in Iraq have blown the whistle on such acts... and these are just the few we hear about.

No disciple is present; only a few sympathetic women look on from a distance; the last acts of piety are performed by a respectable Jew who probably never knew Jesus.

That teaching is supported by a few flimsy sentences on why the Church rejects homosexual genital acts before the programme equivocates on the seriousness of the issue.

A few weeks ago, I began a blog series on being a godly man with a post entitled, «Act Like Men: What It Means to Fight Like a Man.»

I think «Ishing» must be some sort of perverted act a few demented fishermen have performed on fish they have caught, something to do with the rear fin...

If church members are going to get along, they might need to agree on a few basic ideas on how to live and act in this world and with each another.

Public opinion polls show that most Americans are fed up with the tone of American politics and the broader cultural coarseness, but few seem willing to act on these beliefs.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

The few health care parts of the bill were pretty good and we will still act on the health care part.

Even though they may be few in number on the campus, biblical Christians engaging in acts of prophetic discernment can be crucial in the movement for transforming the university.

There isn't roomhere to do more than illustrate the case with a few examples, but an attempt will be made to show how rich Paul's view of ethics is, how his teaching on law is original and relevant, how his emphasis on love is important, and how he forces us to consider not only the human act that, as St Thomas says, is what moral theology is all about, but also the adjectival human agent transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit into a friend, indeed a child of God.

Dr. Fleming's description «that [Church] teaching is supported by a few flimsy sentences on why the Church rejects homosexual genital acts before the programme equivocates on the seriousness of the issue» is unmerited.

The spaghetti sauce acts like a gravy that you can lather your meatloaf in which I love, I definitely will put a few spoonfuls on.

And if you want to get real snazzy, buy some pretzel rods so this will act as your center stabilizer and stack a few scoops on top of each other.

Most ketchup ends up on french fries, and few stop to consider that it's actually acting to make the fries more unhealthy.