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.