Sentences with phrase «first set about»

Because the IKEA mirror came in a pretty nasty looking frame, I first set about taking it out using the stanley knife to remove the glue from the frame.

To calculate the cost of eradicating extreme poverty, the researchers first set about estimating the carbon footprints of the world's poorest and richest people.

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As YouTube star Mamrie Hart — her popular channel You Deserve a Drink has more than 1.2 million subscribers — set about writing her second book, which some could argue is an even scarier prospect than writing your first, her M.O. was to seek out adventure.

Ellis, for one, says he is psyched about his new set of investors — not least because at least one, First State Super, has been through the ringer once and learned from the experience.

It's true that focusing on the present helps you get tasks done faster, but working on your next day's to - do lists will help in two ways: First, you'll help your future self by setting a prioritized list of items in advance, and second, you'll be clearing your mind of tasks you don't need to worry about today.

Second, because you need to actually hear and process information about the world to be able to set a sensible vision in the first place.

On Tuesday, Facebook announced a new set of community standards and a revamped appeals process, which Zuckerberg called a «first step in this direction is creating full transparency about our current rules and how we enforce them.»

Spirit said ship - set deliveries or complete sets of parts for each aircraft to Boeing fell about 2 percent to 183 units in the first quarter ended March 29, while those to Airbus rose about 3 percent to 208 units.

Annette Tonti, CEO of Mofuse, a mobile website builder, says that instead of creating a bad app just for the sake of creating one, you should first think about what kind of company you are and whether setting up a mobile site might be better suited for you.

But more often it's how we go about choosing those goals in the first place, their nature, and the timeframes we set for achieving them that lead result in them going astray.

First WhatsApp set a new age limit of 16 for its European users; now Snapchat is going to stop retaining certain data about kids under that age in the EU.

We already know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens set records at the box office, but on Tuesday we will find out more about the blockbuster film's ultimate impact on Walt Disney's (dis) bottom line in the first quarter of the entertainment giant's fiscal year.

Setting aside First Amendment issues for the moment, the more I tried to talk to people about the story, and about geo - fencing in particular, the clearer it became that this common practice is just complicated enough and new - ish to consumers that it warranted a closer look.

Amos set about getting that mind working within his first 90 days of taking over as CEO in 1996.

On Feb. 8, the Dow Jones industrial average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite all closed about 10 percent below record highs set Jan. 26, notching the first pullback of that magnitude since 2016.

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

They were able to use Obamacare claims data, information about how much health care enrollees used, to inform rates for the first time when setting rates for 2016.

The first, and most obvious, is to set a benchmark of how many people have actually seen the content, tweeted about it, blogged it, or e-mailed it.

In the first year Mylan owned EpiPen, its price increased nearly 5 %, to about $ 99 for a set of two EpiPens.

Anecdotes found online at first seem unbelievable: floor staff cheerfully accepting unabashedly damaged returns, no questions asked; Nordstrom employees helping mall shoppers carry purchases from other stores to their cars; and an often - repeated tale about a customer in Anchorage, Alaska, who returned a set of tires to a Nordstrom location — despite the fact that the chain doesn't actually sell tires.

It only takes a few minutes to set up and after that everything is automated, so if you're serious about tracking your net worth as you build your first million, you can grab your free account here.

Trump, who has complained about tight lending practices, has ordered three reviews of banking rules, the first of which Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is set to deliver as soon as next week.

[01:13] Episode introduction [01:40] Tony's mission isn't about motivating others [02:15] A different kind of coach [02:42] Tony's difficult upbringing [03:15] What Tony learned from his mentors [04:00] Having to anticipate his mother's many moods [04:40] The role important books played in Tony's life [05:30] First experience with coaching seminars [06:00] Setting goals to help others [06:50] Building his brand [07:10] Tony's start with his own seminars [08:15] Dealing with the higher level of demand [09:10] When did Tony start making investments?

Using an extensive set of data on loan performance that we have developed with Equifax, we find that multiple first mortgage lien holders — that is, people owning more than one home — account for about 40 percent of the dollar volume of seriously delinquent mortgage balances, up from about 5 percent in 2004 (Chart 10).

Electrek is reporting that one of the first solar roof installations in San Jose, California set a customer back «about $ 100,000» for a 9.85 kW solar system and three Powerwalls.

I know getting anywhere in life takes hard work even when chartering into unknown territory (which is referring to myself and not knowing the first thing about setting up a website and all that goes with it).

One of the first questions asked at the Employee Advocacy Summit, was about after setting up an EA program, «what content are my employees going to use?»

About two months ago, $ SHAK first appeared in our IPO scan and we first took notice of the price action as it set a higher low in late February, while holding the rising 10 - day moving average.

We wanted to be realistic about the prospects of a market downturn, so we set the expectations of meeting our first goal by the summer of 2017.

The first thing that you need to know about running a campaign for the purpose of collecting data is that you want to set your campaign up with no daily limit and make sure that it is on the 1st page of results.

In his first public response to questions about the payment, the president said he did not know where his attorney, Michael Cohen, got the money, and he declined to say if he ever set up a fund for Mr Cohen to cover such expenses.

But the interesting things about Oaktree, and I could have said this to Mike in answer to the very first question, is as things gets worse and worse, the opportunity set for us opens up more and more.

Set aside a chunk of money to save or invest when you first get your paycheck, and you can happily forget about it for the rest of the month.

She received her first foreclosure notice from the bank last January and, with the help of her teenage daughter, immediately set about trying to replace a chunk of her ex-husband's six - digit oil patch income during the court's six - month «redemption period.»

And what's important there is, first, that the bubble is identified by a set of experts — a set of policy makers who are focused on this issues — and, secondly, once the recommendations are made it's a broader political decision, not just the central banking making the decision; it's a broader decision made by policy makers and legislators about what to do about the problem.

The first fire, which will burn about 17,200 acres, was set late Thursday morning...

«Well the idea we originally talked about was setting up cameras in the church and I'd attended church and it was a church I wanted to go to, the first church that I really wanted to go to and I didn't want to turn it into a church that I didn't want to go to.

We are talking about something completely different here, that is the Origin / First Cause after which everything was set in motion and automatic.

I would say to any person commenting on your 10 Ways the Non-Violent Atonement Changes Your Theology blog, to read your book first (its not an expensive purchase) before launching into any detailed discussion or disagreement.It answers many of the potential concerns people have and gets the reader to reflect very strongly on what they have been taught about the atonement and to put on a new set of glasses when reading scripture.

Regarding the comment you made on September 12 about noticing the pathologies outside a church setting — the first place I encountered narcissistic personality was in a one - two punch in the form of a self - professed feminist, Roman Catholic department chair.

scott god also told us not to judge, so let cleflo do cleflo and you do you if you do nt understand how to percieve gods word than it could also be you i remember when i first got saved i was taught a lots of religion stuff but i kept running after god and not after man and he revile some things to me thur his holy spirit watch what you say about gods people cause we all have issues and with that being said be blessed and if hes doing wrong by gods word than he has to answer to god not you so why set yourself up to be curse for it god do nt need your help in nothing stay free cause who god set free is free indeed.

About two years ago, and for the first time, the federal government through the National Institutes of Health set up a special fund concerned with the care and treatment of alcoholic persons.

One of my favorite theologians put it this way: Jesus «dies as a criminal, under the curse of the Law — as if to say, «Look, I'm as guilty as you are in this situation because I set it up in the first place; let's just forget about blame and get on with the party» (Capon, The Mystery of Christ, 34).

Kant set the problem with his argument against any knowledge of the Ding an sich, the thing in itself, and Schleiermacher represents the first great attempt to accept that turn and still talk about God in a meaningful way.

So first the animal sacrifices were set up so we could feel better about ourselves then he presented the only sacrifice that can save us, Christ.

Let us now turn back again to the first distinction we made, that the revelation is not any set of propositions about God but is the actual presence of the saving and sustaining power.

Making pop music about boys loving boys and girls loving girls went lower onto the agenda and we got involved with setting up the London Lighthouse, which was the first dedicated centre for people with AIDS and HIV.

In the first three months of this year alone: Son of Man, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmas.

The story is not told about why it was that plantation churches were set up in the first because white Christians did not want to worship with enslaved people.

Lewis suggests that there is an extra-literary quality about the above outline «set down in the first words that came to hand» that transcends the particular presentation.