Sentences with phrase «for saying things»

That defence — a defence which recognizes that people in particular positions, such as investigators for regulatory bodies, must be immune from lawsuits for their saying things that may lessen someone's reputation, even where the plaintiff alleges «malice» — was accepted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in D'Mello v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2014 ONCA 912:

It drives me nuts that this man can be financially rewarded for saying things that would land him in prison if he declared them under oath.

Thank you to @richardscourtney for saying the things to @G that I wanted to say but in a much better presentation.

Assaulted or killed for saying things those in power didn't want to hear (or just by sociopathic nutcases who were «offended» by what they were saying).

For saying these things, Mariel received some harassment on Twitter.

Well you are shaming MS for saying things to sell their product but everyone does it.

Having a code for owner is useful for saying things like «owner's request» «owner's shampoo», «owner is difficult» and so on... you get the drift!

Because women are often evaluated by higher standards, men «don't have the same consequences as women do for saying things that aren't perfect.»

Don't you think people have reasons for saying these things?

Strong - willed kids are famous for saying things like, «But you didn't tell me that!»

He ultimately was killed for saying the things he saw and never once did he deny any of it.

I would not accuse him of «complicity in the explicit slander»» his words about Obama's view of America» of the Church for saying things other Catholics, including me sometimes, find wrong.

They're the advertisers I want to know about because I won't support a company who supports Rush Limbaugh or who wants to target the kind of people who would listen to and support him for saying the things he says.

Not exact matches

Working in groups is «the most important thing,» says her teammate Adelina Corina Cozma, 15, whose computer - based communication system for people with autism went on to win several awards at the May event.

The last thing I'd say is, and we haven't discussed it, is what's going on in China for Starbucks.

Trump has made it clear that he is not a fan of the media, and has said that if he becomes president he intends to «open up» libel laws to make it easier to sue the press for reporting certain things.

Here's a simple rule of thumb for when to keep your own mouth shut: don't say a thing unless it's going to help someone else in the meeting do their job better.

, Brian Tracy quotes Mark Twain saying, «If you eat a frog for breakfast, chances are that will be the worst thing you have to do all day.»

One thing Jeff Bezos has said that resonated with our experience is that if you want to innovate you have to be willing to be misunderstood for a long time.

In this beautiful citation, wrongly attributed to Buddha, it is said: «In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.»

«From our standpoint, instead of having a patchwork of local governments trying to figure out how to legally classify these things, the bill just creates this baseline framework so no matter where you're at in California, these scooters will be classified for legal reasons under the same category,» Gray said.

BEIJING, May 3 (Reuters)- A U.S. trade delegation arrived in China on Thursday for talks on tariffs, with state media saying China will stand up to U.S. bullying if need be, but it was better to work things out at the negotiating table.

«Those two things moved him from being just another sheriff in the Midwest to someone who has to be reckoned with nationally,» said Daniel Bice, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel who has spent years covering Clarke.

I imagine most executives could say the same, but if you don't take the time to recognize those things, you risk your team taking them for granted... creating the monster of ingratitude.

You might recall his regrettable taste in romantic companions (a Hells Angels associate), his habit of leaving sensitive documents in random locations (said associate's home) and his talent for saying foolish things (such as calling for the ouster of an Afghan governor).

That's only if the company has at least one full - time employee eligible for a premium assistance tax credit or cost - sharing reduction created by the legislation - and analysts say that eligibility isn't an easy thing to judge, meaning all larger employers could face the responsibility come tax - time.

«If you ask how they're doing,» Will says, «most entrepreneurs will say, «Things are great,» or, «We're crushing it,» and maybe for 1 percent of businesses, that's true.

When I was talking to psychologists, they said that's not using a to - do list for productivity, that's using it to do what's called «mood repair,» to make yourself feel good, rather than get things done.

«As a matter of fact, for those of you who are still using email, one of the things that I've done in my business is I've said, «If you talk about somebody in the company on email to me, then copy them on it,»» she says.

«We were very quietly dating for about six months before it became news, and I was working during that whole time, and the only thing that changed was people's perception,» the 36 - year - old «Suits» actress also said.

Sometimes, though, there are no apparent explanations for the odd things kids say or do.

«The challenging thing for investors is we're in this environment of muted returns, but it's accompanied by the risk of higher volatility,» Cooper says.

«We were encouraged by many pieces of the bill that align with what we've been saying, in particular a ban on paid prioritization and blocking are things we have advocated for,» says Althea Erickson, Etsy's head of public policy.

e embrace that and make content for the whole person, for all the quirky different things people are interested in,» said Jonah Peretti, the founder of BuzzFeed.

«If you can stomach a shortfall for an already cheap stock, this might be exactly the kind of thing you'd want to own during a downturn,» he said.

Bless said while uncertainty is never a great thing as far as investors are concerned, he believes the end result will be better for the company's bottom line.

All this being said, there is still obviously such a thing as too much awkwardness, and most of us will continue, despite Dahl's pep talks for the self - conscious, to strive to behave stupidly in public as little as possible She very much understands that impulse and offers many tips she dug up speaking to researchers for the book, including:

«One big theory is that women are asking for just as much as they need — same thing that women in the workplace do,» she says.

Caplan said the best bet for super powers through gene editing would be greater muscle strength, better memory, quicker reaction times, better night vision, and turning up receptors to experience things like alcohol, drugs, and sex more intensely.

Rashid said that one of the hardest things for entrepreneurs to do is to be completely honest with themselves about how they are spending their time on projects.

«The first thing to keep in mind is that, in some long run equilibrium, wage inflation should be equal to what the growth rate of productivity is — so how much workers can produce — and the increase in prices for the goods they produce,» he said at the UBS Greater China conference in Shanghai.

As hard as it may be for most people (and even for some curmudgeonly editors) to understand, certain things worth saying simply can't be said in a sentence or two.

I smiled and waved and said I was fine, that I was just waiting for my wife to pick me up... the last thing I wanted was to crawl into another person's car because I wasn't feeling well.

Start saying «thank you» as often as you can for all the little things your employees do.

«But he keeps winning these Democratic primaries, and he's getting the support of a majority of Democratic voters despite his views that are clearly not Democratic, which tells me that the things he says transcend politics and if there is not universal acceptance, there's more widespread acceptance for his beliefs and viewpoints than I think people realize.»

«Other people have to be able to speak for your brand,» says Jonah Berger, author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and the James G. Campbell Associate Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He said: «I would suggest turning off the television because that's probably the single worst thing you can do for consumption.

Everyone knows that Travis is not coming back; still, Benchmark said a lot of nasty things about TK and is now sitting back and watching other people try to convince them that the best thing to do «for all concerned» would be to sell out.

It is not unusual for a president's staff to tell reporters to focus on some facts and not others, but things are qualitatively different now in the Trump administration compared to that of his predecessors Barack Obama and George W. Bush in terms of «the number of untruths,» said the Times «David Leonhardt.

«It's probably one of the prudent things for management to do at this juncture,» said Raymond James equity analyst Steve Hansen.