Sentences with phrase «first order of business in»

As always, my first order of business in Texas was to go visit with this sweet family's farm animals.

The first order of business in designing your own bathroom is picking the right theme.

While we went into the downturn as No. 6 in our market, we came out as No. 1, largely because a positive attitude is the first order of business in my life.

The agency's first order of business in the climate change fight should be to adopt limits on industrial carbon pollution from power plants, which account for the biggest share of our carbon pollution.

The first order of business in Real Basketball is design your in - game avatar.

My first order of business in a case like that is calling the vet, or, during after - hours, the Pet Poison Helpline.

That matter was the first order of business in the new Congress for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, which devoted three days of hearings to it last week.

And our first order of business in 2018 is the Golden Globes.

Paddington's first order of business in jail is trying to make things better for himself and others around him.

Protecting pitchers is the first order of business in planning next spring's World Baseball Classic

Moore's first order of business in the planning session is to ask why there are so many damned people in the room.

However, one of the first orders of business in earning a position is completing a rock - solid accounting resume that can open the door to interviews and job offers.

One of the first orders of business in pursuing a job is completing a rock - solid accounting resume that can open the door to interviews.

Not exact matches

Bombardier sold the C Series to Delta at a significant discount, standard practice in the aviation business, because Delta was one of the first to place a big order.

Further, the current monetization offerings for mobile websites and applications fail to generate the scale of opportunity most require to build a robust business strategy, so you need to think outside the box in order to create more opportunities that engage consumers in a mobile first environment and eventually, bring in more money.

Their first order of business: burying the other Pete Kistler in search results.

From the 90 sales she made in her first few weeks on Etsy, Shaffer has grown her business to an average of 150 orders a day, resulting in $ 960,000 in annual revenue.

In order to cut down on your endless to - do list, you have to first identify the activities that drive the success of your business... and the ones you enjoy doing.

The move, which would dramatically pare down federal regulations on small businesses (earlier in the day, Trump told reporters he wants to eliminate «a little more than 75 percent» of the current regulations), is not unexpected — Trump included the executive order in his plan for his first 100 days in office.

Solo act: Barr spent his first year in business as a one - man show — designing the product, managing the website, taking care of order fulfillment and everything in between.

And although her first pitches were successful, Claros thinks she'll most likely enlist the help of a broker as her business grows in order to expand her reach.

In order to take care of business, we first have to take care of ourselves.

For instance, the «dark side» of being obsessively customer - focused and putting the customer first is that we'll often do things that are not good for our business in the short term, in order to satisfy customers.

In fact, average order size increases 15 % among businesses that offer consumer credit and 93 % of first - time consumer credit users said they would use consumer credit again.

«We were in need of more leads in order to grow our business and Bant.io team was on top by delivering ideal customers for us, right from the first week.

Even to the point that First Solar should be held up differently and as an example of what Suniva and SolarWorld should have done in order to effectively manage their business in order to compete, and if they would have done that they would have been successful and they wouldn't need the protection of tariffs.

Entrepreneurs should treat their business pitch similar to a sales process and clearly understand that the goal of the first meeting with an investor IS NOT to get a funding commitment but to win them over in order to establish a solid relationship, and possibly, to secure future meetings.

And in order to get a feel for what kind of future dividend growth to expect, we must first build an expectation of underlying business growth.

In order not to do harm, whether it's with medicine or with public policy, the first order of business is accurate diagnostics.

Adkins» first order of business was to build simple - frame bunk beds in order to house as many volunteers as possible.

I was foolish enough to get married without having a job in hand, so the first order of business after the honeymoon was to find work.

But perhaps their first order of business should be repentance for having helped to foster a national moral environment that features a laissez - faire approach to moral decision making, that serves in turn to perpetuate economic irresponsibility.

Then the social - ethical task of the church would not be simply to develop strategies within the current political options — though it may certainly include that — but rather to stand as an alternative society that manifests in its own social and political life the way in which a people form themselves when truth and charity rather than survival are their first order of business.

The first order of business is realizing that the issues do affect us, and we, in turn, can impact their outcomes.

The FCC set hearings on the matter as one of its first orders of business, and in January of l935 recommended that, since the broadcasters were making their facilities available in a spirit of «unity and cooperation,» no fixed percentages of broadcast facilities should be allocated by Congress for the use of nonprofit activities.

First, the caste community consists of four castes that are hierarchically ordered) The Brahmins (priests) are the preservers and protectors of the eternal laws of the Universe (Dharma); the Ksatriyas (rulers and warriors) are the defenders and the guarantors of the safety and security of the community; the Vaisyas (business persons) are the conservers and distributors of wealth; and the Sudras (the laborers) are the working majority involved in the production of essential commodities.

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«The first order of business is that they need a brand plan that is executable in the marketplace,» he says.

The men and women in white suits will be helping those wearing business suits tweak their business models in order to promote greener eating, with a range of Sainsbury's stores the first to test drive a number of new ideas.

My first order of business was organizing everything into jars — and labeling them with a Brother label - maker that printed gold text and felt a little fancy — so I knew exactly what was in there.

With a price tag coming in at only $ 65, we're thinking we'll be sipping on slushy frozen cocktails for the first order of business as soon as we get home, whether we can snag a Vitamix 5200 or not.

The first order of business was to address wastefulness — a top of mind topic for Myint, whose side hustle is a non-profit he runs with Lucky Peach editor - in - chief Chris Ying, ZeroFoodprint, which encourages restaurants to reduce their carbon footprint.

First order of business — knock Man Utd out of the FA Cup with a comprehensive thrashing in their own backyard and fill the stadium with our song!

The younger children more or less ignored it, but when the older kids arrived in the afternoon, their first order of business was to raise one end by adding a tire.

Its first order of business was to help establish Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center, a 67 - acre wildlife sanctuary in Mattapan, just two blocks from her son's school.

Three nearby businesses also owned by Housing, and also in the footprint of the first part of the Willets Point project, had full or partial vacate orders issued in 2009, yet the locations were not shut down.

The first order of business was a series of resolutions using the Congressional Review Act to repeal regulations made late in the Obama administration.

Sturgeon and Cameron horse - trade over devo - max and the financial settlement for Scotland in exchange for immediate, first - order - of - business «English votes for English laws» legislation.

MANHATTAN — Andrew Cuomo rang in the new year as the 56th Governor of New York — and demanded a symbolic opening up of Albany as his first order of business.

The bill undoing the president's prized overhaul will be the first order of business when the House reconvenes this coming week, marking a sharply partisan start on Capitol Hill to a congressional year in which legislating may take a back seat to politics.