Sentences with phrase «get a break at»

Even during the school year, we don't get a break at 3 or 4 p.m. when the school day ends.

US motorists certainly don't get any break at the pumps.

If we get any break at all, we should come out O.K. I think we have the potential to beat everyone.

Or you may not get a break at all if the kids balk at participating — the preschooler uncomfortable in unfamiliar turf, the grade - schooler who thinks the activities, no matter how spectacular, are «lame.»

get a break at 3:50.

This dramatically increases the tension on the delts throughout the entire exercise - they'll get no break at all!

«At least we came away with a fifth place, but it's frustrating that we can't seem to get a break at the moment.»

It's very hard to ever get a break at any time during the year.

Not exact matches

«So we're a ways away from that actually starting to break at this point, and frankly I'd be surprised if that level did get broken,» he added.

BEIJING, April 24 - China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers» meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice - breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.

«Hitting these times gives us a great opportunity to report more in - depth, to get things right, to provide analysis on the breaking news that happens throughout the day, but also to serve readers at the times they want it,» Times head of digital Alan Hunter told the Nieman Journalism Lab.

In the case of your new hires — the inbound talent that will ultimately make or break your business — if you get the messaging and the training wrong at the beginning, these are generally unrecoverable errors.

This reached a fever pitch at the beginning of the decade when we saw many integrated oil companies get broken up in a bid to «unlock» hidden value.

You can work 9 to 5 in a suit and tie in a stuffy cubicle, skip your lunch break and stay heads - down, and still get less done than someone who comes in at 9:30, takes several breaks, dresses casually, and communicates with his / her coworkers often.

Technology has enabled efficiency at record - breaking levels when it comes to getting things done.

At the very least, your people will get a brain break from the doldrums of work.

Getting the audience to laugh (or at least crack a smile) early on is a great way to break the ice.

Instead of staying late at the office every night, employees can get a much - needed break without stunting their career growth.

I got my first big break at Deloitte Consulting when the external consultant I worked with at my first job, with whom I had formed a really good working relationship, called a friend of his there and recommended me.

At a 3X CMR, you finally start to break even as long as you can get at least 20 sales from your online marketing effortAt a 3X CMR, you finally start to break even as long as you can get at least 20 sales from your online marketing effortat least 20 sales from your online marketing efforts.

It's really hard to get noticed at South by Southwest because it's so big, but we broke into the top 20 most mentioned brands because of this one event.

Where you get your break — from an hour on blogs, a day in the park, or a week golfing at Martha's Vineyard — doesn't matter so much as that you get it.

Agents bugged his hotel rooms, followed him, tried to break up his marriage, and at one point even sent him an anonymous letter trying to get him to commit suicide.

During a break at a conference where I was teaching the 21 Laws, a young college student came up to me and said: «I know you are teaching 21 Laws of Leadership, but I want to get to the bottom line.»

«Find a way to read around your schedule and your life situation,» says Foroux, who suggests you could read on the train, while waiting at the doctor's office, while breastfeeding your baby (I can personally testify you can get through quite a lot of books this way), or during breaks at work.

That's how you get a more balanced culture as well since Hunters tend to break a lot of china in order to land a deal at any cost while Farmers tend to be far more steady and reluctant to make waves inside the organization.

After all, this is the place where legend has it that Google employees were warned prior to their IPO that showing up at work in a fancy car after the big day would likely get them a broken window, and where a Facebook employee once told The New York Times that if anyone working there bought such a car and posted a picture of it online, they could expect to be «ridiculed and berated.»

Those are the breaks, when you're getting a night out or daytime activity for what remains — compared to other ticket - taking events — a bargain, at an average ticket price of $ 8.43.

Repairs If a product breaks down, customers could aim a smartphone camera at the object to get information about how to fix it themselves.

During its brief stint at the top of the Canadian corporate hierarchy — before a series of scandals crashed its share price and gutted its C - suite — Valeant Pharmaceuticals International got used to breaking records.

What I have been trying to do is to break down my skills, strengths and weaknesses, and get better at them by practicing.

I finished a 30 - minute period at 4,010 pushups, meaning I got a five minute break.

The Globe and Mail first broke the story that Verizon was looking at getting into Canada, possibly by acquiring Wind Mobile, back on Jun. 17.

Through 2010, S corporations beyond the seventh year of this so - called «built - in gains holding period» get a break: the taxes on realized gains, normally paid at the highest corporate tax rate before being taxed once more on an individual return, are waived entirely.

The hotshot «dealaholic» selling machine, who got his first taste of sales success at the age of seven selling a record - breaking number of books and Christmas calendars door to door in his native Stockholm, returned to the City That Never Sleeps at 25 determined to make it big.

On the topic of taxes, getting Section 179 and the bonus depreciation break extended is at the top of the wish list for rural communities in battle ground states like Arkansas, Kentucky and Iowa, Moore explained.

Between his renovated and re-renovated home, his country estate, his Damien Hirst spot painting, his children's tuition, their nanny and weekend nanny and the # 10,000 for an annual summer party, Roger worries that «if he didn't get his million - pound bonus this year he was at genuine risk of going broke.»

Read MoreWhere Ferguson's «military» police get their gear Twenty - one windows were broken at local businesses, Slay wrote, and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department made 21 arrests.

When seated he leans forward when he gets to a big point the way we do when we are fired up, and he is great at breaking complex information into the magical 3s: Three points provide a verbal agenda, making it easy for everyone to follow and remember.

BEIJING, April 24 (Reuters)- China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the end of a foreign ministers» meeting of a major security bloc on Tuesday, ahead of an ice - breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.

• Accidentally spilling food on people at a restaurant I worked at • Burning the chicken at my girlfriend's house, nearly causing us to break up • Accidentally throwing my phone away in a public trash can and having to dive in to get it back

In fact, I've found that slacking off makes me more productive because I slack strategically — meaning that I take breaks at designated times, for regular intervals, in ways that sharpen my focus when I sit back down to work,» she argues, asserting that «strategic slacking has enabled me to dramatically increase both the quality of my work and the amount I get done in a given day.»

Stapling the weekly CD sales reports at Motown got White thinking about why some artists break big while others fizzle.

If we're going to break that ceiling for women and get more women in the C - suite, it starts there at the mid level.

To get legislation through the Senate, Republicans would need the support of at least eight Democrats to break an expected filibuster.

You don't have to be a blockchain developer or tech nerd to get started, nor, at the moment will accepting bitcoin make or break your business.

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From there, you've still got to break down your oil sands supply curve, which means looking at all the potential production, and the costs of getting those barrels to market.

I also got a chance to travel to Texas this past summer for several weeks of training in San Antonio which I combined with some leave days visiting Denver, the Grand Canyon, Albuquerque New Mexico (saw all the Breaking Bad film locations), and Austin, Texas (along with a fun night at 6th Street seeing a ton of live music and drinking way too much beer).

In this episode of the Tony Robbins Podcast, you will hear from Renée Mauborgne — professor at INSEAD and co-director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, and author of the best - selling book, Blue Ocean Strategy, which has sold over 3.5 million copies across 5 continents and was recently updated and expanded in 2015 — as she discusses how any business can break away from the competition, build a strong brand, and get the world of social media to start talking.