Sentences with phrase «first caught on»

In the USA, staging first caught on in the housing downturn of the 1980s, giving some sellers an edge for buyers» attention.

The concept first caught on in the Netherlands, but it wasn't long before an American reality show was proposed on the concept and now, a company out of Fort Wayne is offering to help couples do just that: Basically, take a long weekend at a resort and get divorced.

We first caught on to the idea when some friends offered roasted broccoli with dinner a few weeks ago.

It should have: It was this scrappy, five - man team of mechanical engineers that first caught on to the German giant's emissions - cheating ways, kicking off the biggest business scandal of the year (and possibly the decade).

Not exact matches

Whether you work on the fifth floor or the 23rd, you must first go to the sixth and catch an escalator or elevator from there.

But because it was the first smartphone Samsung launched after discontinuing its Galaxy Note 7 — some of which were found to have a battery defect that could cause it to explode or catch on fire — the company delayed the launch to implement a new safety - testing protocol to ensure the phones» batteries were safe, it said.

I know this caught his attention because the first thing he said when we got on the phone was to ask me how the BYU football team was doing.

And with traditional automakers slow to cannibalize their combustion engine vehicles, he thinks it's going to be hard for them catch up to on electric, despite the production problems plaguing Tesla's new Model 3 sedan, its first vehicle aimed at the mass car - buying market.

You'll start with an understanding of why things catch on in the first place and how you can use those lessons to create viral content online.

First off, the optimum time to catch a few extra winks depends on your natural body rhythms.

On the first strikeout, Tebow got caught looking on a pitch he disagreed witOn the first strikeout, Tebow got caught looking on a pitch he disagreed witon a pitch he disagreed with.

The fast - food chain has good intentions, and I could see this idea catching on eventually — maybe at the library first or in other formal settings.

Though the Best Actor category is often brutally crowded, Spall is likely one of the year's first legitimate Oscar contenders - and, the actor admitted at the same lunch, he's also a candidate for an unlikelier honor if the film catches on after Sony Pictures Classics releases it in December.

I first wrote about the company back in 2011 for New Scientist, but just happened to find myself sitting next to some of the principals on the flight down to Vegas this year, which was a great opportunity to catch up on what they've been doing.

The logic: I love Zach Ertz and expect him to get free on a short slant at least once on Sunday for a big first down and some solid yards - after - catch.

I wake up at 4 a.m. and am in the office by 5 a.m., which means I have gotten ahead of my emails, communicated with board members and clients on the East Coast and in Europe, and caught up on the news before most people have had their first cup of coffee.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark caught almost everybody by surprise on December 15 with the unveiling of a program to give qualifying buyers no - interest loans of up to $ 37,500 for down payments on their first homes.

But the inventor who had first caught Fortune's eye more than two decades earlier was someone else: a rebellious physics genius, not yet 30, who «never took the trouble to graduate from Harvard» and who had started a small company in a cellar on Boston's Dartmouth Street.

Since the first movie got all of the exposition out of the way, «Catching Fire» gets to focus on world building.

The iPhone X, Apple's first smartphone equipped with an organic light - emitting diode display, has failed to catch on globally — something many put down to its hefty price, which starts at $ 999 in the U.S.

It was a major shift — and one that took a while to catch on; first used with The Princess and the Frog, a well - reviewed film with disappointing sales, it began to catch hold with Tangled (2010) and Wreck - it - Ralph (2012), each of which outperformed financial and critical expectations.

But this is less of a check on power than it first appears because the impact of social media on society and the economy is still poorly understood, and regulation takes time to catch up.

A utopian case for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, if one even exists, is still struggling to articulate itself as merchant adoption hasn't caught on nearly a decade after the first block of Bitcoin transaction data was generated, and prices continue to fluctuate too wildly for it to be considered a store of value.

First, employees catch on quickly.

Yeah, but it was never about turning into Facebook because those people never believed in Facebook in the first place — for all the reasons that the mainstream populace is catching on to now.

At first we were nervous, but we're much happier now that things are catching on.

Cryptocurrencies have been the first blockchain innovation to catch on.

There will likely be numerous alternative cryptocurrencies launched in the future, each one constructed to first enrich its originator with a large number of units, and then released in the hope that it will catch on.

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«It was a tumultuous first week of the quarter that has left the markets caught between more truculent tweets on trade from President Trump, and slightly more diplomatic messages from his advisors.

Catch up on all the presentations from NEO's first ever visit to Sydney, feat.

When not actively trying to catch up on Game of Thrones, she is outlining and writing her first fantasy novel, working in a nursing home, traveling, or spending time with her family.

Her first eye - opener: after receiving notice from the bank she sold a motorcycle and a four - wheeler in the hopes of catching up on her payments.

We caught Arthur Kent, the former NBC war correspondent known as the â $ œScud Studâ $ during his reports from the first Gulf war, on Jesse Brownâ $ ™ s Canadaland podcast this week.

$ LMAT first caught our attention as a potential swing trade on July 28, when the stock opened about 10 % higher («gapped up») in reaction to earnings.

Your first stop should be the Canadian government, which has, in cases where there's a good argument, made representation on behalf of Canadian businesses who get caught in this quagmire.

At first blush, the variable universal life sales increase might prompt industry professionals to think that the first half's rising stock market made VULs catch on once again among consumers — but not so fast...

I caught her on the way out and had to send her upstairs to change into looser clothes first NOT because I had a problem with what she was wearing (shorts and a tank), but because I sensed that the boy's fundamentalist mother would!

On the day the bomb was first tested in the New Mexico desert, he wrote in his journal that «machines are ahead of morals by some centuries, and when morals catch up perhaps there will be no reason for any of it.»

Especially in the latter case but also in the former, however, it's not typical for whole neighborhoods to be targeted in fraudulent cases, as that is (a) a lot riskier than doing something to your own property both in terms of getting caught in the first place as well as the penalties you will incur, (b) makes you at most part of something apparently bigger and denies the fraudster of the unique victimhood they seek and (c) in the case of insurance fraud, involves damaging things you can't collect on.

No long flowing robes for these sheep herders — the material would have caught on the first cactus they encountered.

On the first night the story of the woman caught in adultery from the Gospel of St. John is read, followed by a guided meditation in which the retreatants are invited to enter into the woman's experience of shame and despair.

America prides itself on always catching that first wave of change.

I live in secrecy In the deep moist banks of darkness depression and despair Always I sneak up on you I catch you off guard I come through the back door Uninvited unwanted The first to arrive I was there at the beginning of time With Father Adam, Mother Eve Brother Cain I was at the Tower of Babel the Slaughter of the Innocents MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

fishon: First of all, I am absolutely SHOCKED that you didn't so much as make a comment on my fishing trip and the photo of my little brookie that I caught!

With the emergence of new concern in our own century for the people caught in problems of urbanization, racial discrimination, industrialization, and the like, the churches moved first — through the so - called social gospel movement — to correct the previous emphasis on soul - saving as dealing only with individual persons.

Jeremy have been asking the holy spirit for his help with this and in regards to the lame man that Jesus healed I do nt believe that sin was the issue for him just like the blind man was it his parents or did he sin the answer was neither but so that God would be glorified.What was the sin that may have been worse for him.The two situations are related of the woman caught in adultery the key words being go and sin no more only two references in the bible and will explain later the lame man we see at first his dependency on everyone else for his needs he cant do it he is in the best position to receive Gods grace but what does he do with it.Does he follow Jesus no we are told he goes to the temple and Jesus finds him now that he has his strength to do things on his own what his response to follow the way of the pharisees that is what is worse than his condition before so he is warned by go and sin no more.We get confused because we see the word sin but the giver of is speaking to him to go another way means death.Getting back to the two situations of the woman caught in adultery and the lame man here we see a picture of our hearts on the one our love for sin and on the other the desire to work out our salvation on our terms they are the two areas we have to submit to God.My experience was the self righteousness was the harder to deal with because it is linked in to our feelings of self worth and self confidence so we have to be broken so we are humble enough to realise that without God we can do nothing our flesh hates that so it is a struggle at first to change our way of thinking.brentnz

Had another thought on this Go and sin no more in the first instance when the pharisees were condemning the woman Jesus says you without sin cast the first stone thats present tense when he said Go and sin no more that future tense he is letting us know that since we all are sinners deserving of death he does not condemn us but came to save us and we see him do that for the woman caught in sin as we all are.Humanly speaking none of us can walk without sinning it is impossible unless we submit ourselves to Christ and walk by faith by the holy spirit and we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us.brentnz

After I sat down, being all in confusion, like a drowning man that was just giving up to sink, and almost in an agony, I turned very suddenly round in my chair, and seeing part of an old Bible lying in one of the chairs, I caught hold of it in great haste; and opening it without any premeditation, cast my eyes on the 38th Psalm, which was the first time I ever saw the word of God: it took hold of me with such power that it seemed to go through my whole soul, so that it seemed as if God was praying in, with, and for me.

It was the Jewish philosopher Philo who first explicitly linked Sodom's sins to same - sex behavior, and his idea caught on.