Sentences with phrase «first line does»

Kathryn was quoting developmental editor Lisa Rector - Maass, who said, «A great first line does at least three things: shows movement, evokes emotion, and raises a question.»

If your profiles first line does nt have a hook, someone may not even bother.

Not exact matches

First the line about «it shows how unreliable interest rates can be as an indicator of appropriate monetary policy» means that low interest rates do not necessarily mean loose policy.

«If you line up the previous El Niño outlier of 1998 with this March 2016 El Niño (as we might do in lining up bull market highs) it gives an idea of when 2 degrees Celsius might first be broached in a future El Niño effect: just 17 years!»

Do your bottom line a favor: Create powerful yet succinct landing pages with strong calls to action that always relate to the advertisement that brings visitors to your page in the first place.

What did I accomplish there that I didn't accomplish at my first job?Pretend you're the candidate and look beyond facts and figures; read between the lines to get a sense of the person's interests, goals, successes, failures, etc..

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

Look at what your business already does — no matter how mundane or insignificant it may seem at first — and then focus on a byproduct that provides more meaning, happiness and even a better bottom line.

First, the «you get what you pay for» line does not in any way apply here.

Take a step back instead to see if there might be a silver lining in the form of a big organizational change you probably needed to do to avoid the crisis in the first place.

JG: What we do is described in three lines: First, we do service performance, which looks at the result.

It was the first new product line from Apple in some time, and many were excited to see what the company would do to make a splash in an already crowded smartwatch market.

As a first line of action, start healing the damage that was caused (if possible)-- post an apology on social media, broker a new deal with your vendors, give your customers a heads - up — do whatever is necessary is to preserve the company's reputation and minimize the effects to its bottom line.

These days, we don't write a line of code until we've already done the roadmapping and the validation to answer the questions of exactly what the app needs and whether there's a strong enough market for it in the first place,» Lee explains.

«While we still have a lot of work to do and the progress won't happen in a straight line, Q3 was a good first step and we are committed to executing our new strategic direction going forward.»

They could, but it... You know, there's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there was little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, it doesn't have that mechanical feeling.

I don't mean this literally: The «from» line might still be your company's name, but the content should feel as if it comes from a human being, speaking in the first person (using «I» or «we» and addressing the recipient as «you»), with natural - sounding language.

For example, Mary Barra started out as a quality inspector on the General Motors (GM) assembly line before going on to become the company's first female CEO, and she says her time on the line helped her really value the people who did that role for the company.

«According to our flight logs for Nov 23, 2017, this alleged incident did not take place, nor has there been any instance where a Coalition aircraft crossed the river without first deconflicting with the Russians via the deconfliction phone line set up for this purpose.

«The first thing I do when I sit down in a conference room is to find easy sight lines to the clock.

Acthar is used to patients who don't respond to first - line treatments (steroids) or who can not tolerate them, the company said.

The company reported earnings and revenue for the first quarter that were roughly in line with consensus estimates, but did not provide much new color on an unfavorable tax allowance decision from federal regulators.

«It's your responsibility as an employer to set your employees up for success, and making sure their values and work ethic is in line with your culture before extending an offer is the very first thing you can do for them and the rest of your workforce.»

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The first thing we wanted to do was to see if the participants in our study lined up reasonably well with Mamoon's benchmark of 4 as a goal for promising SaaS companies.

Next Friday, Kim will cross the Military Demarcation Line that has divided the peninsula since the end of the Korean War, becoming the first North Korean leader to do so since the war ended.

The fact that we always patiently wait for such price confirmation is the reason we did not immediately buy $ DZZ on its first touch of support of its 20 - day exponential moving average (beige line) three days prior.

Still, sticking with the first figure, soon the aging runner will likely finally cross the goal line, and we're doing better here than most other advanced economies.

Solid earnings performances from Corporate America and an in - line update from the Federal Reserve did little to spur a recovery from softness in the first part of the week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average diving about 200 points into the red as the closing bell approached.

In short, the first piece of Billon technology (blockchain genesis block) is put behind banking (or e-money institution) firewalls, so everything we do is in - line with banking regulations, especially with Know - Your - Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money-Laundering (AML) procedures.

In the world of retail payment technology, the line between who did something first and who did it second can get a...

The key to why the earnings aren't good enough and the stock is falling is this line in the company's shareholder letter: «Revenue came in at the low end of our guidance range because brand marketers did not increase spend as quickly as expected in the first quarter.»

The top - and bottom - line numbers rarely give a good picture of how a company really is doing, so here's a couple of highlights from Genworth's first quarter that can help explain why investors seem to be happy:

John Morgan, my mentor and business coach, has a great line: «You don't ask somebody to marry you the first time you meet him or her.»

Your friends are not going to use your name when they email you - people who know you don't begin emails with «Dear Tommy» (and they definitely don't use first names in the subject line!)

I wanted to build up a large solid base of boring, stable long time dividend payers and raisers first, which I'm still not done doing, and then add the more «exotic» higher growth names down the line.

VANCOUVER — B.C. workers must be first in line for construction jobs and apprenticeship opportunities, but the Christy Clark government does not track temporary foreign workers in our economy, says B.C. New Democrat leader John Horgan.

Rather, his description is very much in line with the view that the market crashed first, and the underlying economic strains emerged later: «the crash did not come — as some have suggested — because the market suddenly became aware that a serious depression was in the offing.

(which is, afterall, what marketers are looking to do in the first place - increase the bottom line!

We're doing a happy dance in our sticky socks today because we're just so excited to show you our very first studio exclusive apparel line, Pure Barre ® by Splits59.

The district court in First Solar ultimately applied the standard from the Daou line of cases and held that plaintiffs did not need to show that the market reacted to the fact that First Solar had committed fraud in order to satisfy the loss causation requirement.

You don't have to trust me on this one, trust this guy; who's the former CEO of Wells Fargo (WFC)(okay, put «trust» and «Wells Fargo» in the same line may not be convincing at first, but check the video):

First, if growth did not recover and surprise on the upside (in which case high asset prices would be justified), eventually slow growth would dominate the levitational effects of liquidity and force asset prices lower, in line with weaker economic fundamentals.

Years ago when I first worked the «front lines» talking to employees of some of the largest 401 (k) plans, it seemed that many of the calls I received had something to do with employees who left or were leaving their employer.

I spent the first 30 or so years of my life not only believing I had most of the answers but also actively condemning those whose lifestyles / answers didn't line up with mine... and I really only «loved» those who looked like me — no grace for anyone else.

I am the first in line to step up to the plate to help someone in need (a friend told me about a homeless man living under bridge in a small town of 1500... everyone knew he was there; police, mayor and other community members, though NO one did a thing, I personaly went bought a sleeping bag and 100.00 worth of food, storage bags and toiletries and whatever I thought he may need and this is the first time brought up.)

If someone found out their spouse was cheating, and in that first moment, without grief, despair or anger, simply recited that line and «forgave» them — you'd think they were faking it, didn't really love the cheating spouse anyways, or was a sociopath (or some combination thereof).

The JW's would not contribute toward the event for the reasons you listed but would be the first in line to chow down citing they were part of the company and had a right to participate even if they did not contribute.

The first line in the Bible says: In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)... where does science with all of it's infinite knowledge say that time, space and matter come from?

THE FIRST LINE OF THE ARTICLE: Editor's note: Marya Hornbacher's latest book, «Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power,» explores what spirituality can mean to the recovering person who does not believe in God.