Sentences with phrase «get at these questions»

We get at this question by looking at the relation between size and systemic importance from several perspectives.

One way to get at these questions is through examining the word «unique.»

We've built a lab at the museum that is able to get at these questions by measuring very, very small quantities of material.

«Our work can get at questions about mechanism and questions about the functional properties of emotion states, but we can not get at the question of whether or not flies have feelings,» Gibson says.

As a psychologist, I'm interested in the techniques we use to get at these questions: Can other creatures share, cooperate, punish cheaters, show empathy, and act altruistically?

To get at that question, they recruited an additional 81 children ages 4 and 5.

Müller said he and his colleagues might try to get at that question by testing «hand - raised» wolves at the Wolf Science Center in Austria.

What we really want to do with In the Dark is to get at questions we.

Similarly, it would be ideal to understand the intensity of use of blended learning in schools — for what percentage of the day are students in blended - learning environments or how many classes on average do students take that are blended — but the survey didn't get at these questions.

First, we know that in the instruction of world languages, there are not enough teachers, so using technology to give students access to teachers proficient in other areas and other disciplines will be one way we get at the question, particularly in rural communities, on how we teach these subjects to all children.

«It doesn't get at the question of, «Are we losing lots of effective teachers and keeping ineffective teachers?»»

Joel Friedlander, whose BookDesigner.com is a dependable hub of information for self - publishers, gets at the question Should Authors be Salespeople?

[Response: Getting at your question in a slightly different way, one thing that is peculiar about eddies embedded in the western boundary currents (there are analogies for the atmosphere too, e.g. the jet stream), is that they exhibit the property of «negative viscosity».

«It gets at the question of who is a shareholder,» said Miller, whose initial real focus was retail.

Not exact matches

Mostly it poses the question of what do you do with a country where we simply just can't get along — where we are at a political impasse so profound that we can't agree on simple questions, much less passing a budget?

We all ask questions daily and learn from each other and get better at being entrepreneurs.

But it's very good at answering those questions that get asked over and over again so your employees can get back to things that matter.»

So to get back to the question, look at our initial response as a means of some immediate relief.

Now that we know where our corks come from, we can get back to the question of what the heck are we supposed to do with it when someone hands us one at dinner?

Thanks to my experiences, I like to think I got pretty good at asking questions.

After Vetras had returned to headquarters the following Monday, he got a call from a vice-president at Comp USA, asking a simple question: «Why aren't we carrying your line?»

Keith Weiss at Morgan Stanley also questioned whether Salesforce would be able to get a return on its investment.

So, to get back to the question at hand: is the Lumia 800 a big deal?

They all get at «that fundamental question — whether we believe women and families of all races and backgrounds and income levels deserve an equal shot in life.»

Not only did he score just 11 points, including none in the fourth quarter, but things got worse after the game when he had a confrontation with a fan and took a shot at a Cleveland radio host for only asking questions after the Cavs lose.

«So the question that we're asking is not only is there a light - attack capability off the shelf that we can use that can increase lethality and readiness, but is there also a shareable network that allies and partners who are already with us and those that may choose to join us... in the campaign against violent extremism, can we actually get into a new, shareable network that allows information to flow at a far faster rate so we can take out the enemy?»

So remember, before you make the decision to fire anyone, remember to ask that question — you might be surprised at the answer you get.

Facebook got some nasty comments, not just from the head of the Republican National Committee, but also from the head of the Senate Commerce Committee, who asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg to make his staff available for questions about how editorial decisions were being made at the social network.

Yellen turned the question around: «When you say that central banks kill them, the usual reason that that has been true, when that has been true, is that central banks have been too late to tighten policy and they have allowed inflation to get out of control and at that point they have had to tighten policy very abruptly and very substantially and it's caused a downturn.»

Initially they seem like good candidates asking all the right questions however in reality that's all they have got good at doing... asking questions!

Robots who run the chat lines never get tired or cranky, always look closely at your inquiry, and don't have to sift through a mountain of 5,000 emails just to respond to your question.

The researchers asked 122 students to answer that question the way they would in a job interview, getting answers including: «My inability not to be nice to co-workers» (ouch) and «I'm not always the best at staying organized.»

Alan Middleton, a professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, points out that the big banks now train tellers to upsell whenever they've got a customer standing at the wicket or asking a question on the phone.

He's looking to see if the executive gets annoyed with queries, squirms at something he says or responds with an answer that doesn't relate to the question.

To get started with self - publishing and Quora at the same time, answer all questions about a topic you're passionate about.

Andrew Chen, who adopted the term in 2010, described growth hackers as «a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of «How do I get customers for my product?»

Flynn has denied that the extrajudicial removal of Gülen was discussed at the September 19 meeting, but with such an ample record of reasons to question Flynn's credibility, it is getting difficult to concede that he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

The first looks at the question of who actually gets ahead.

Get good at asking questions of the people with whom you come in contact.

Question about why no restructuring charges at Berkshire, Munger said it would be like killing your mother to get insurance money.

After my traditional line of questioning and selling the great points about the career ahead for anyone lucky enough to get this position, I launched into my full disclosure and she sat staring at me like one does a child who is walking a fine balance atop a 4 - foot brick wall — with anticipation, excitement and a heaping does of sheer shock and wonder all mixed together.

I put the question to Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and got pretty much the answer I expected: it doesn't matter.

Take your most important goal right now — whether it's to lose weight, make more money, or land the promotion at work — and spend some time focusing all of your attention towards getting very clear about the answers to the questions I just proposed.

«The more questions that you ask, the more facets of it you get at, the more you minimize the margin of error, the more you minimize the noise in any survey,» VanAmburg says.

The same goes for «thrive under pressure;» we test that by acknowledging and at the same time telling people, «We're going to ask you, in the next ten minutes, to answer x number of questions, just to see can you maintain a high - quality bar while getting through this?

So at New Relic, product managers want to understand what their customers are thinking, ask them specific questions and get the right feedback from the right customers.

It's not a bad idea to start taking a look at what open - source software you're already using and spending some time getting a better understanding of how it works — in the case of Becker's example of AngularJS, you can dive deeper with resources like the AngularJS Google Group, AngularJS questions at Stack Overflow and W3Schools» AngularJS Tutorial.

Jeff Bezos Even though Amazon is so successful that American cities are actively bidding to host the ecommerce giant's second headquarters, at the beginning of the company's life, Bezos was met with a lot of questions about whether it could even get off the ground.

That's because with larger acquisitions, «you start getting questions on national security... and overall stability and growth of the Chinese economy, so there's a lot more scrutiny over large, marquee deals,» said Benjamin Cavender, principal at consulting firm China Market Research.

At the end of the day, straightforward questions get straightforward answers.