Sentences with phrase «from facing off»

When they did finally come together for a race or Gameball even, though, it was a lot of fun and a welcome break from facing off against the A.I.

Their stories will provide surprising insights, startling observations and wisdom from facing off against the system, every day of their working lives, and still succeeding.

Not exact matches

On stage in Detroit, real estate mogul Donald Trump faced off against his three remaining Republican challengers in the presidential race: Senator Marco Rubio of Florida; Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas; and John Kasich, the governor of Ohio.

From a business standpoint, the main problem that companies face when an employee takes time off because of an illness or personal matter is the loss of production.

In the gas - energy sector WA industry and consumers therefore faced two public monopolies — Alinta and the DBNGP — after they were hived - off from SECWA.

The premise is simple: Founders Peter Shukoff (NicePeter) and Lloyd Ahlquist (EpicLloyd) pick two figures from history or pop culture and imagine what it would be like if they faced off in a rap battle.

CMO: You know, I've got Annie Scrivner from Starbucks (sbux), because they've faced heavy competition but have still managed to pull off a major resurgence in the last 24 months.

Mr. Meister is forever banned from handling any case that he investigated and will face a one - year «cooling off» period during which he can not contact the agency for business reasons.

Still, Dell and Durban soon faced a new challenge: Getting to No. 1 — and fighting off archenemy HPE, let alone the threat from ascendant cloud services — was nearly impossible with Dell's current size and scope.

But they face an enormous threat from the public cloud, which allows companies to off - load computing and storage to «rentable» data centers instead of building their own.

On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue and current CEO of Azul, talks to CNBC about the PR problems facing United Airlines after a passenger was forcibly removed from one of its flights, setting off an online firestorm.

With some of them having no aspirations to go there, it is purely a spin - off from doing what they absolutely love and continuing to do so with all of their heart and soul even when faced with adversity and challenges.

It is comforting to know that the legislative branch can stand up in the face of withering criticism and dire warnings from the media and even the president to take action and keep the government's finances from going off the rails.

Miniso is taking a page from Target's U.S. strategy when it faced off against Walmart years ago, says Stephens.

As millions of baby boomers flip the switch from gainfully employed to living off their savings, the financial decisions they face are countless and complex.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

The new iPhones will face off against a slew of upgraded models from Samsung, LG and other Android phone makers.

While the central banker is expected to hold off from raising borrowing costs for a second straight policy decision on Wednesday, and retain a degree of prudence in his rhetoric, Poloz will probably face mounting pressure to return to the rate - hike path soon, with inflation and growth beginning to pick up.

If it wasn't already an issue before the apocalypse, working from home has that added difficulty level now that your neighbor — the one whose lawnmower you «borrowed» in 2007 — now has super strength and now wants to rip your face off.

It's not too far off from how startups need to position and define the public - facing tone and voice they want to use.

The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.

There will be a women's round robin and then an exhibition match as the pros from Heron Bay and Coral Springs Tennis Center will face off against their counterparts at Cypresshead and Parkland Tennis Center.

In the face of blistering criticism from both Florida senators that the federal government was cutting off food and water supplies to Puerto Rico, federal management officials said Wednesday that they will continue...

This is consistent with national survey reports from the General Social Survey where employee owners report that they have greater job security and lower likelihoods of being laid off in the previous year compared to other employees.29 When faced with recessionary pressures, employee ownership firms may retain workers to sustain a workplace culture based on cooperation, information - sharing, and commitment to long - term performance.

Postal Doors Staying Open Faced with outcry from the public and in Congress, the Postal Service backed off plans that called for closing as many as 3,700 rural post offices starting next week.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are already insolvent, and face «significant negative impact» on their net worth resulting from the required consolidation of «off balance sheet» loans into their financial reporting, which will take effect in financial statements for periods beginning January 1, 2010.

In late 2002 and early 2003, the global organization — recently spun off from Bass Group — faced bloated overhead costs in the competitive hotel industry, experienced a decline in business and vacation travel because of the worldwide economic downturn and the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), underwent a brand name change (from Six Continents), and battled a hostile takeover attempt by British entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.

Conversely, smaller exchanges faced being cut off from the market through lack of compliance as banks failed to cope with demand.

The new year is off to a turbulent start, with indices across all markets, including biotech, sliding downward in the face of headwinds from China.

A few weeks prior, Buffett faced off against Michael Jensen, a professor from the University of Rochester and the school of efficient markets.

for a jealous Gd is the LORD your Gd in the midst of you, lest the anger of the LORD your Gd be kindled against you, and He destroys you from off the face of the earth.

(No hosenfeffer for you) Lev 17:10 Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood — I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people.

The two come from very different backgrounds; Dupree was raised in a large Christian homeschooled family in Texas, and Bemis grew up a child actor in Hollywood (he appears briefly in the Nicolas Cage flick, Face / Off) with a strong Jewish background.

Groups such as Catholics United and Faith in Public Life got off the ground during and just after the 2004 election when a Catholic Democratic presidential nominee - Sen. John Kerry - was hard - pressed to find Catholic support in the face of condemnations from some Catholic bishops over his support for abortion rights.

so this new job came up, i was bitterly disappointed, god waving it in my face, me not being qualified but 15 years of experience in the business and this new ground floor from scratch spin off that will eventually get spun back in, and the job is a lateral move technically, but in reality i was the top of the old ladder, and the lateral move would be to the bottom of the next higher up ladder.

God repeats his intention to kill «every living substance... from off the face of the earth.»

He can blot them off the face of the earth, and remove their memory from among men.

You've sweated off your make - up, your face is red, your ponytail is wet with sweat, you have dust and pine needles stuck to your ass from the last time you sat down to rest.

Persecuted Christians on Indonesia's Ambon island face desperate conditions and the world is largely ignoring their plight, said two Americans who recently returned from a visit to the island.As many as 500,000 Christians have been driven from their homes and more than 2,500 have been killed by Muslim «jihad» warriors who have publicly declared they will push all Christians off the island or kill them.Christians are fleeing into the mountains, flooding into refugee camps and clogging ports to wait for the few ships ferrying refugees off the island.

Maybe airlines could just take a cue from this restaurant owner, and offer a discount if customers turn off their phones and actually employ the concept of face - to - face conversations...

Cut off from neighbors by miles of forests and hills, utterly self - reliant, they faced the challenge of the primeval land alone.

Miracles... rest not so much on faces or voices or healing power coming to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what there is about us always.

Now, faced by a huge debt from the recent French and Indian War, the British determined simultaneously to make a peaceful settlement with the Indians, to keep a large army intact in order to preserve peace, to pay off past debts, and to handle future expenses by a series of colonial taxes.

This world would be a lot better off if we eradicated all religion from the face of the earth and got rid of those defective genes that believe in fairy tales.

Now wake them up from that dream, and prop them up where they can see the real world again for what it is, and watch how fast that grin gets wiped off their face.

When, in the end, God allows Satan to tear the arms and legs off progressive liberals, I only hope I can watch from above, with a smug grin on my face which I hope those same tools will be able to see, and not be rid of, during their eternal stay.

@WASP Ok first off I am not scared of death If I died right now I would be happy to die and go meet GOD face to face and if you do nt believe in GOD thats fine you will burn in hell but i will pray for you that you will come into the light ad see that HE is real and that you can be saved from an eternal fire that is absolutely real

According to reports from the region, more than 200 individuals were killed in the latest face - off between the Nigerian military and Boko Haram militants in the northern part of the...

Then show me all the Muslim groups and their huge followings that are out there trying to stop the radicals from blowing themselves and innocent people off the face of the Earth in the name of their religion.