Sentences with phrase «get to a number rather»

While that was a good approach to keep my closet lean it was also a stressor and led to my letting go of things to get to a number rather than trying to make them work.

Not exact matches

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

Once you understand the power of FOMO and how to control it, you can reduce the number of things you're working on, improve the quality of your work on what remains, and get control, rather than letting poor choices control you.

Remember, a number of counties in Massachusetts have higher conforming loan limits, which allows you to get a conventional mortgage rather than a jumbo loan (with higher interest).

But before getting to the texts, I think it is appropriate to warn that the original version of Part V as reconstructed below, is quite different from the final version available in Griffin and Sherburne's corrected edition of Process and Reality.7 This can be explained by the fact that Whitehead did continue to revise the original version a number of times and according to the rather unusual procedure I discussed in the introduction, that is, mainly, by adding new materials.

That is why in every movie theater there shall be established a well functioning alarm system, with cameras outside the door, and sound which immidiately would alert, an adequate number of well trained, armed and background checked security guards to arrive ready to apprehend the perpotrator and provide for the safety for all the innocent individuals who spent their money to have a good time not to get shot at (enterprises cut corners and then we complain about security and unemployment, charge what you charge for the concession if you have to without serving the soda and the pop - corn, I rather stay lean, healthy, intact and alive).

I think this sort of teaching is manipulative and puts lots of people on guilt - trips, and causes people to think that the only thing that matters is preaching the gospel to our neighbors, and getting another notch on our evangelism belt (or dropping another number off the divine scoreboard), rather than actually getting to know our neighbors and love them like Jesus.

I seem to have amassed a rather large number over the recent years since I've developed an interest in cooking, and as much as I love to have them, I don't use them nearly enough, tending to get my inspiration from other blogs or restaurant menus.

Wenger has mostly used the second string squad at the start of any season to great effect, most teams aren't at full strength or match fit and he plays that Wengerball numbers game, throwing in squad players who are fit and raring to go whilst the first team get ready, we'll win 2 of our 3 opening games and he'd rather that than splash 100m on 3 players and get the same amount of points.

we should leave ozil alone, i know that he hasn't been at his best yet but i, d rather have him struggle now while the rest of the team is firing on all cylinders, it, s a long season and i truly believe that he will come good when we are struggling & depending on him he, ll start racking up the numbers of assist, his slow start to the season might be because after recovering from the euros it is taking him a bit longer to get going again compared to other players but not to worry because» FORM IS TEMPORARY BUT CLASS IS PERMANENT».

It seems that the young right back will be free and fit to continue with the Gunners as soon as he gets back to London, rather than be ruled out for a number of weeks as feared.

I'm not saying Wenger is the best we can ever get, I just want to unite against the board so that maybe we can get a board we can trust to deal with these issues rather than leaving us to think either nothing will happen or we will enter the manager lotto, roll a number to see if we get lucky and have a manager that can keep us competing with delusions...

Of course Santi Cazorla is unlikely to get a shirt number at the start of the season, and Per Mertesacker has told us he wants a back room role rather than a playing position.

Perhaps we need to get back to an equitable balance - perhaps five engines is the right number rather than four going to three.»

Rather than providing a battle of wits between two managers with opposing ideas of how their teams should play, or a fight between rival sides seeking to out - play their opponents, the best Anfield got was a scrappy clash between the Belgian and his opposite number, Lucas Leiva, besides Rooney's goal.

Niang, who signed for Milan in 2012 after heavy interest from a number of Premier League clubs, is available on a permanent deal with Milan preferring to get him off their books completely rather than send him out on loan.

Rather than getting more nurses and GPs to meet the needs of almost one million more over-65s in the next five years, staff numbers would fall.

«The intent was not to go ahead and let yeshivas off the hook,» Felder told The New York Times on Friday, but rather to «consider the number of hours of education a child is getting of any sort.»

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

«We're calling our friends to get locations and to get things done, rather than calling an 800 number and waiting for days.»

In the speech, delivered inside The Mall at Bay Plaza in Baychester, Diaz described the number of Latino and black students admitted to the city's prestigious Stuyvesant High School over the past few years as unacceptably low and called for the creation of new high schools in each borough that would use a portfolio of the students» grades and schoolwork rather than a specialized test to determine who gets in.

If this analysis of the economy is right, it further explains why the Chancellor is keen to get the keys to Number 10 sooner rather than later.

«The intent was not to go ahead and let yeshivas off the hook,» Mr. Felder said, but rather to «consider the number of hours of education a child is getting of any sort.»

«So I wanted to take the time to draw some parallels between what I see as women in a rather male dominated field and how we have to break down these barriers, empower each other, because the voices of women are so desperately needed in equal numbers, whether it is in business, academia or in politics and so sometimes it's an internal barrier and if you break through that then we will deal with societal barriers, but right now, you have to at least say I've got something to offer,» Hochul noted.

Some telemarketing firms have used «spoofing» to get users to pick up the phone, because the call seems to be a personal call from a local area code, rather than an 800 number.

Whatever the constitutional convention about the party with the largest number of seats getting first shot at forming a government, the pressure on Clegg to back a Cameron - led administration if the Tories won the largest share of the vote — rather than support a party that had lost its majority — would be intense.

I'm amazed that Hague gets even a positive rating, never mind being rated number one - ok, he's been involved in the ConTreaty referendum (but giving a rather muddled line on whether or not there'd be any attempt to amend it post-ratification) but as Head of the Northern Board he's quiet at best and, speaking as a Loiner now living in Bradford, as «Shadow Minister» for Leeds and Bradford he's been utterly anonymous since his appointment.

If you're getting up in the night to check on a fever, you can rely on the display color rather than spend precious energy reading the number.

As the first matter began to emerge from the Big Bang, it went through a number of phases much as steam condenses to water and eventually freezes as it cools — except rather than water, you get the first recognizable matter in the universe — a hot soup of quarks and gluons.

The finding «explains a number of the rather strange results we were getting» in trying to identify mosquito species in Malawi using routine polymerase chain reaction assays, says insect molecular biologist Janet Hemingway, director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the U.K., who was not involved in the study.

If we want to reduce the number of people getting sunburnt we have to do rather better at empowering people at risk to use adequate sun protection.

I also encourage you to replace your digital alarm clock with a $ 10 analog clock, or at least get a digital clock with orange numbers, rather than blue or green (orange light is the least disruptive to the circadian rhythm).

Getting Candida under control can be tricky since this is a micro-organism that adapts rather quickly to a number of commonly used treatments.

Hopefully this will pass once we get used to this rather grand number.

High waisted pants seem to come and go rather quickly, which means you should never get rid of those high waisted numbers in your closet!

If you'd rather skip the restaurant idea from tip number seven on this list of Boston date ideas but still want to get the magnificent view, The Skywalk Observatory is the perfect place for you.

So eHarmony doesn't match you with every single potential compatible person, but rather the ideal number of right matches that will get you to talk to the greatest number of them, says Gonzaga.

«If that's the number one search term we know that the desire to be in love is so strong and powerful and if someone can come in and be that knight in white armor and that perfect princess and that dream girl, you get so caught up with being in love with love rather than meeting the person IRL (in real life),» says Spira.

This guy on OkCupid totally just got mad at me because he said that I should give him my number so I could talk to one cool guy, rather than talking to a million guys a day.

But the point of this article isn't about fairness, but rather that so many senior men date younger women exclusively, which relegates a vast number of incredible boomer women to wondering if or when men will ever get what they're missing not dating women their age.

Plus with a fun number like «Let's Get Together,» it's rather hard not to like such an optimistic little film like this.

This most unappealing crew includes the pretty boy snowboard champ (Jason London) torn between his growing feelings for his tomboyish best galpal (A.J. Cook) and his lost, lamented love (Caroline Dhavernas), who just happens to be the daughter of the developer; the token black guy (Flex Alexander), who rather insultingly can't get on a snowboard without wiping out; the idiot (Derek Hamilton), who in one of his many unfunny bits takes a shit in a urine test cup; and the idiot's brother (Zach Galifianakis), who gets in a number of compromising situations involving his penis.

Rather than produce some new features that enhance one's understanding and appreciation of both the film and its creation, Disney has spent money on remixed song music videos, childish set - top games, and a new musical number (an addition they foolishly feel is necessary to get people to repurchase the movie on a new format).

While there will always be some students who struggle or who don't put in the work to get a good grade, a high number of students getting lower than expected results could highlight a problem with your content rather than the blame falling on the students.

In the early stages I wasn't worried about getting precise estimates of the numbers of schools or the proportion of children in them, but rather wanted to see if such schools even existed.

There are several key aspects here that are often overlooked - the point of an MVP is that you need to put it in front of users as soon as possible in order to get real «actionable» feedback that you can then feed back into your next phase of development (learn)-- thus asking the right questions — to gain «actionable metrics» — actual figures that will help you with your development is vital (rather than «vanity metrics» — numbers that sound good, but can't be used to improve the product).

Also tucked in the recommendations are such bold ideas as serious acceptance of alternative pathways and «residency» - style preparation; insistence on real standards for entering prep programs and getting certified; the demand that prep programs respond to K — 12 education's actual supply - demand numbers rather than enrolling as many people as possible (thus probably killing the proverbial ed - school «cash cow» within universities); and tracking the performance of those emerging from various prep programs and institutions — and actually closing those that don't produce successful professionals.

I just played with some numbers recently, and I think they go something like this: if every teacher in a district got better by two percentile points every year, that over a 10 year period of time, you can expect student achievement to rise, you know, rather dramatically.

Before I get to this year's numbers, a bit of background and explanation: This year, rather than asking authors to email me responses to my questions, I used an anonymous Google form survey, which had both advantages and drawbacks.

Remember, the strength of NovelRank is not in raw numbers; You will get those from your publisher eventually, but rather in understanding the fluctuations so you can attribute your best marketing efforts to the strongest sales bumps in near real - time.