Sentences with phrase «fix things on»

Scott got incorrect tax advice and now he's trying to figure out the best way to fix things on his tax return

His main point is that monetary policy can't fix things on its own.

Jumping off the cliff and fixing things on the way down is business as usual these days.

However, talent like Lattimore and Hooker really would have fixed some things on Defense and made those position groups incredibly strong.

I followed their instructions step by step, word for word, and then had to spend two entire days loading the file, previewing the book, fixing things on the file, reloading the file, previewing the book, etc..

Instead of making pretty TV spots... you could wander over to the BetterPSN campaign and spend a few bucks fixing things on the Wishlist and making the service catch up to where Xbox have found themselves at the end of this generation.

Not exact matches

«On some buildings, if we had to fix other things, we couldn't do the solar panels,» says Barauskas.

You hear variations on this theme constantly: Perfect is the enemy of done; move fast and break things; launch it now and fix it later.

«This funds the wall, fixes the military, fights opioids and does the things that we said,» Ryan said Thursday on Fox News» «Fox & Friends,» a show Trump frequently watches and tweets about.

Make sure your customers» attention is always fixed on one thing at a time.

But he didn't have high standards on operational process: the actions needed to «keep fixed problems fixed» and «to eliminate defects at the root,» among other things.

But none of the broken things would be fixed by Donald Trump's proposed budget, which does away with federal subsidization of interest on student loans and eliminates the program that forgives loans for people who enter public service (including teachers)-- among other education - related cuts.

The complete article is chock full of other suggestions, including specifying what type of feedback you're after (so as to avoid your team telling you about things you don't have the time or power to fix) and most importantly, actually acting on at least some of what they tell you.

Sure, fixing this issue on a single small account won't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

While European leaders are focused on finding financial fixes for Spain, Italy and Greece, he says things won't improve until people start dealing with France.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

Cassidy added that he thought the Paris agreement allowed for too many countries to renege on their word but that if such things were fixed, more Republicans would get on board.

There will be some plumber in America who becomes famous by doing two minute videos broken up in 20 sections on how to fix things yourself.

Aside from helping you notice the obvious things you need to fix, recording yourself on camera is the most effective means of improving your public speaking for two other reasons:

For one thing, his punishes savers by giving them anemic returns on fixed income products.

Pressed on why he didn't inform users, in 2015, when Facebook says it found out about this policy breach, Zuckerberg avoided a direct answer — instead fixing on what the company did (asked Cambridge Analytica and the developer whose app was used to suck out data to delete the data)-- rather than explaining the thinking behind the thing it did not do (tell affected Facebook users their personal information had been misappropriated).

But now, in the aftermath of the FBI raid on the offices and residences of his most prominent personal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen — he of the $ 130,000 pre-election payment to the porn star — the same techniques that Trump's lawyers have employed for decades to smooth his business path are the very things that threaten to blow holes in his still - young political career.

Once we'd fixed the problem and set things back on course, we created a system that allowed us to account for lead quality in our campaign decisions.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

Order requiring an Orlando, Fla., seller and distributor, of cosmetics and cosmetic distributorships, among other things to cease using its openended, multilevel marketing plan; engaging in illegal price fixing and price discrimination and imposing selling and purchasing restrictions on its distributors; and to cease making exaggerated earnings claims and other misrepresentations in an effort to recruit distributors.

Or my favorite: the Customer Happiness Fixit, when we fix all those little things that bug our users and make them sad — for example, when the hotkeys aren't just right on mobile phones.

We need people out there to debunk stereotypes, because these sorts of things don't get fixed on their own.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

And as for the question of why are their bad things going on in the world and why god does not fix them or help, the answer I would give would be too ask god and the way to do that is too pray (don't worry praying is like Facebook, you post on gods wall and wait for a reply)

Non believer, approaching 70, retired US Navy, spends a large part of his week fixing things up around the neighborhood for those who do not know how, installing water heaters, replacing broken parts on automobiles, helping repair damage to piers and bulkheads (they live on the water), in general, he can fix anything, so he does, for free.

Let us think of process philosophy as a method designed for use on such occasions, evoked by such disputes as an instrument of reasonable good sense and creative imagination, one that will serve to fix what had broken down and to get things running smoothly once again.

Despite all this, Milligan would have us believe that Pell spent nine years «fixing» things on Little's behalf.

Because when I did those things in / with Him my eyes were fixed on Him and His complete love.

Although you may see it as just some sort of rough weekend and not a big deal, or that the whole sacrifice thing may have happened on the fly to fix some faux pas by God the Father, I see it as something that was specifically planed right from before this world was created and that it was not some sort of ad hoc contingency, but something that was part of the Father's plan all along.

Fixing the world is one thing, fixing the people who live on it is anFixing the world is one thing, fixing the people who live on it is anfixing the people who live on it is another.

At least atheists can take a practical solutions to the table instead of depending on prayer to fix things.

It fixes time, and not just in the announcement of the hour or half hour, or simply in our awareness that it's 3:00 in Seattle when «Prairie Home Companion» comes on or 6:30 when «All Things Considered» is over.

His love is not conditioned on you fixing up your life or changing your priorities so you do more of the things you should be doing.

We sense in all of this the dawn of a new dispensation, a fresh, if sometimes uneven, point of departure for the apostolic heritage, a galvanizing hope, born of proven confidence that we can move beyond Day One of the missionary landing to enter new fields and spheres with our hearts and minds fixed on the right things.

While everyone is eagerly awaiting the Mansfield ball, Edmund has his mind on other things, being «deeply occupied in the consideration of the two important events now at hand, which were to fix his fate in life — ordination and matrimony.»

On this view, the only new thing, which is still the old, is the state of motion, and this involves no increase of being, and in it, by definition, the static, fixed element can as little be regarded as something in itself and as a definite reality, as the individual parts in a continuum can be considered separately in themselves as constituting, in that distinct condition, the whole quantitative continuum.

It feels as if the world is burning down and we feel powerless to help and so we grieve and we get angry and we post things on Facebook, we march and we protest and we gather and we tell politicians what the problem really is, we watch the news and we cry and yell about things and then we look around our daily lives and wonder, am I doing enough to fix it?

Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.

Religion might preach grace, but another thing they practice Tend to ridicule God's people, they did it to John The Baptist They can't fix their problems, and so they just mask it Not realizing religions like spraying perfume on a casket See the problem with religion, is it never gets to the core It's just behavior modification, like a long list of chores Like lets dress up the outside make look nice and neat But it's funny that's what they use to do to mummies While the corpse rots underneath

Jesus, pondering how best to describe the depth of God's love, surveyed the crowd before him, fixed on the ordinary objects held in their hands, and told a pair of stories about how we look for things that are lost.

Once we resist critiquing and make the correlation between their actions and the things that need to change in us, our business is simply to own the issue and work on fixing ourselves (and ask God to work in us).

One thing there was that he held on to: a fixed conviction that a man who had been executed, who was dead and buried, was alive now, a living person: that so far from that man's death being the end of him, he was Paul's own Lord and Master, the one whom he must follow, trust in and obey if life for him was to have any meaning.

I choose to see the logic of why all things exist, even the ones I might not necessarily agree with or like, but I don't make my own understanding a fixed destination that everyone else must meet... and I don't think any person has that right to impose on me either.

The heart is fixed on things that it believes the institution will give it to serve it's own selfish need rather than to think of others.

One thing there was that he held on to: a fixed conviction that a man who had been executed, who was dead and buried, was alive now, a living person: that, so far from that man's death being the end of him, he was Paul's own Lord and Master, the one whom he must follow, trust in, and obey if his life was to have any meaning.