Sentences with phrase «for hitting people»

I'll drive my snowmobile clear across the Sahara Desert in the Great Race before CREA hires me for anything, except as target practice for their hit person.

Not exact matches

For instance, Kohler hits on the zeitgeist of how people connect with their products.

But for all the attention the subject has received, it's a safe bet that most people still cling to very clichéd notions that only so - called «deadbeats» ever hit the debt wall.

Once the person applies, they might be hit with a message thanking them for doing so and explaining the next steps.

Having hit upon a product that solved a key pain for many people, Buffer has grown rather fast.

At Eleven, we encourage people to «pause» their efforts when they hit a wall and find new stimulation — whether that be joining another agency team for a while to hear how they're attacking their assignment, or going to a movie, concert or event to jump into someone else's story.

With people off on holiday, «summer means you might have to tackle projects without a critical team member, or pinch - hit for a co-worker to keep the wheels turning,» says Brazen Careerist.

We kept believing it was hitting until we realized how few people would actually pay $ 120 for a pair of jeans.

The hit to the paycheck hurts enough but for some people, especially folks in high positions, it's the hit to the ego that hurts the most.

That's been a really big hit for our people.

You're going to react differently to situations, and people and your employees will figure out whom to hit up for what, faster than a toddler figures out that you may not really stop at «3.»

Samsung is hoping for a hit with the new Galaxy S8, the phone intended to make people forget about the fiasco that was the Note 7.

For most people, that will result in a bigger tax hit.

Giordano spoke before hundreds of people gathered at a college in Santa Rosa, one of the hardest - hit cities, for a memorial service to honor the lives lost in the deadliest series of wildfires in California history.

Once people find out you're rich, they hit you up for money.

However, over the weekend it was also hit by fresh outrage over the fact that — as people discovered when they downloaded their Facebook data — the company was for years quietly harvesting users» call logs on Android phones.

BRUSSELS, April 18 - EU antitrust regulators are set to hit French telecoms and cable group Altice with a hefty fine for concluding its 2015 acquisition of PT Portugal without first waiting for official approval, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The deal values Kind at more than $ 4 billion, according to people briefed on the transaction, marking a significant valuation for one of the most prominent new food brands to hit store shelves in recent years.

Nowhere near as sophisticated as things are today, geo - targeting allowed marketing companies to hit a general area (usually a town, county or city) and drill down to the right people in that area using data mined from cookies, so, for example, farmers within driving distance of one of the many Springfields across our great land would get ads from the local Agway there telling them when there was a sale on farmer stuff.

Indeed, Business Insider previously reported that a 2015 study published in the journal Psychology and Aging found that quantity of relationships was more important for people in their 20s, but quality of relationships was more important once people hit their 30s.

We obviously need to hit our business metrics, but if the number of classes people are going to starts declining, that's bad for us.»

Puerto Rico avoided a direct hit from Irma, but the storm knocked out power for 70 percent of the island, and killed at least three people.

If we're using technology to get as many hits as possible and to create gadgets for millions of people so we become wealthy, that's not a good measurement.

When I watched that I was like, «Man, I've just lost an enormous amount of respect for him as a person, but as a public figure, and celebrity and entertainer, he hit that out of the park.»

Ross Fraser, a spokesman for Feeding America, the national food bank network that provides food assistance to about 46 million people each year, says this uneven recovery hits the poorest Americans especially hard.

On the other hand, more than 300 people gave the device a shot at the company's booth, and by almost all accounts, it was a big hit and worked well for virtually everyone who tried it.

If Apple did set a ship date, for example, we'd all know when the Apple Watch is going to hit store shelves and there would already be people camped out in front of Apple stores, cash in hand.

More than 60,000 people have registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after widespread flooding hit the state, according to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards» office.

The two hit it off, and soon after they teamed up at MIT's Media Lab, armed with a near - million - dollar National Science Foundation grant, to prototype a sort of emotional hearing aid for autistic people — essentially a wearable camera that scanned people's facial expressions to interpret social cues, in real time, for the person wearing the device.

It's easy to feel down when you haven't hit your goals, but the fact there are people who believe in you and are cheering you on, is something to be grateful for.

Create realistic targets for them to hit by certain dates, and create a competitive spirit within the company, where people can show off their skills.

Uniqlo's Heattech line has been a big hit with people for whom an extra sweater just isn't enough, while Columbia Sportswear has developed reflective heat tech to keep winter clothing warm.

Young people don't need to wait for an opportunity or idea to hit them.

Something that really hit home for me in the book is you said something like, «Personal finance writers believe that if people would just listen carefully to our advice, everything would be fine.»

People are hit with a double whammy because, not only do they find that their investments have disappeared, they now owe tax on the funds for removing them from the tax - free environment.

It hits the perfect sweet spot for people who want a large screen to watch Netflix or do work with a keyboard attached, but it's not so big that you can't take it with you every day (ahem, 12.9 - inch iPad Pro)

The coffee hit is an essential start to the day for millions of people around the world each morning.

If you keep people informed when you hit a snag and ask for help with a problem, you can build trust with your investors.

Rebecca Brian Pan, the founder of COVO and former chief operating officer of NextSpace, explained how Ricoh's innovation team worked out of NextSpace Santa Cruz for several months to observe how people work and where they hit pain points.

However, as I dig deeper into the names of the venture capital investors listed, it was hard to refute the quality of the people and their work, for these are not just a bunch of one - hit wonders.

Fallows's boss Sameer Samat, who is vice president of Google Shopping, thanked Fallows for his «great work,» adding that «Google Express has become a real hit that people tell us they love.»

The input received from reporting issuers, directors, and the investor relations people that work for Canadian companies shows the idea obviously hit a nerve with many Canadian public companies of all sizes, says Tuzyk.

I reached out to several people from my methadone patient Facebook group who got hit by Harvey to get a sense for how they are coping.

Back in the drug - soaked, if not halcyon, days known at the sexual and drug revolution — the 1960's — many people were on a quest for the «perfect trip», and the «perfect hit of acid» (the drug lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD).

For more than a decade, he was behind every crucial decision as Apple rolled out blockbuster hits from the iPod to the iPad, changing how people listen to music and watch entertainment, reshaping entire industries and making Apple the world's most valuable tech company.

The same tax shock probably hit people who were adjusting their investment allocations to prepare for retirement — selling stocks and buying bonds.

A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.

You hit people who own vacation homes and who have owned these homes for decades in many cases.

Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1 million and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of destruction stretching for more than 300 miles.

Premier Christy Clark is failing people who need mental health and addiction treatment and has failed to meet her election commitment for new addiction treatment spaces — a promise that was made long before this crisis hit,» said Hammell.