Sentences with phrase «general eye on things»

In fact, we should make it a priority and teach the other members of our family how to keep a general eye on things.

I use Bloomberg to keep a general eye on things with nice overview, but will check out the others you mentioned.

Not exact matches

I have had this experience three times now, on three different occasions, in admittedly similar circumstances, but not similar enough to explain the coincidence: I am speaking from a podium to a fairly large audience on the topics of — to put it broadly — evil, suffering, and God; I have been talking for several minutes about Ivan Karamazov, and about things I have written on Dostoevsky, to what seems general approbation; then, for some reason or other, I happen to remark that, considered purely as an artist, Dostoevsky is immeasurably inferior to Tolstoy; at this, a single pained gasp of incredulity breaks out somewhat to the right of the podium, and I turn my head to see a woman with long brown hair, somewhere in her middle thirties, seated in the third or fourth row, shaking her head in wide - eyed astonishment at my loutish stupidity.

Legislation coming out of this year's General Assembly could change a lot for the day to day operations of schools, with the funding formula changing and a variety of structural changes proposed for the State Board of Education, and one thing teachers are keeping a close eye on: their collective bargaining rights for new bonuses.

«It's funny, I didn't have my eye on this — the Caldecott is not in my mind - set; I'm more keyed into the Governor General's Award — not so much things like this.»

General counsel are also seeing their titles getting longer as risk management gets piled on their desks, all with an eye to making sure they keep tabs on areas where things can go so horribly wrong.