Sentences with phrase «getting close to something»

They also sound off when you are getting close to something when parking.

His tactics and his lack of winning mentality so often often gets us close to something (i.e. we have all the top 4 in the league), but it has not given us a great result for more than 10 years.

It aspires to Natural Born Killers, but has barely enough competence to get close to something like Feeling Minnesota.

It shows a surprisingly clear picture of what is behind me, shows a guide on how to park and there are parking sensors that beep when you get close to something.

Beagles love food, and they'll do everything they can to get close to something that smells good and tasty.

If she were a different sort of dog who was curious and once she got a look at something or got close to something she identified it and calmed down, I might bring her closer, but she's not that sort of dog, and many dogs aren't.

It was really our conscious effort for us to see how we can get closer to something that feels even more real, even more in line with what people would experience.

There definitely ARE choices for green bikes, some beautiful bamboo models that get closer to something we could call sustainable.

How might we get close to something resembling reliable guidance?

Not exact matches

I go for a quick walk, get something to eat, do a few stretches by standing up and moving a bit, or just close my eyes for a quick mind - cleansing meditation.

However, getting close to accomplishing something that means so much to you can be overwhelming or make you question whether you're making the right move.

'' If there's a real effort made to try to close out and to compromise and to do some of the things we all know we should do, I'm optimistic we can get something done, in principle, in the next little bit.

When you see something start to get close to a penalty, you acknowledge it.

You can't make money running a showroom, and as brick and mortar stores close, jobs and tax revenue are getting lost — and even Amazon customers are losing something, in the form of a convenient place to check out products.

«After buying RelateIQ, Benioff was going to call everything «blank IQ,» but when he saw the traction IBM was getting with Watson, he wanted something else, and Einstein was born,» said one source close to Salesforce who insisted on anonymity.

In a Facebook Live, high - performance coach Todd Herman had us reflect on what we have done these past five weeks and filtered them through something he calls the «Power 5,» a process that helps us continually evaluate our choices and make sure we're getting closer to where we want to be.

Cohn got the money, one of his investors says, by doing something usually associated with Silicon Valley but doing it far from America's technology capital: growing a company for close to a decade using his own capital and a small team.

Every time you buy something, you get closer to receiving a free treat.

When you move quickly, there's always the chance you forgot to close the door, and something got in that wasn't supposed to be there.

More and more I want to get out of the city and do something that's closer to the earth.

The closest Harford gets to bullet points is coining three «Palchinsky principles» that underpin Adapt's argument: «First, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along.»

The only content that gets effectively communicated these days is authentically shared material (often user - authored) and SquareOffs encourages and accelerates that behavior by helping publishers and authors provide current and compelling bite - size choices and content (suitable for sharing) that triggers our natural (water cooler) inclinations and behaviors to share something new, something timely, something political, something we're concerned or passionate about, etc. with those around and closest to us.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

I thought something else as well: with her five - year term as F.D.I.C. chairwoman drawing to a close — her last day was July 8 — she never really got her due.

Top tip: Do something every day to get you closer to your business goal.

This is when Pure Barre entered my life, and little did I know at the time it was something that would get me closer to achieving these goals.

(FTAlphaville) Iran is getting close to a big nuclear breakthrough... maybe Obama should have lunch with them or something, maybe a...

In an industry where the life cycle of a binary broker or binary option robot goes something like «Grand Introduction to the market — On the news for all of 5 seconds — hundreds of traders go online to complain of foul play (or rather futuristic miracles where money disappear from their accounts in mind boggling speed)-- the complaints get louder and everyone takes note — broker closes after mass trader exodus», that 240ptions has lasted that long is absolutely commendable.

So if something is close, but not enough to get you really excited, the right move is to pass.

Combined with the fact that you pay the short term gains taxrate on the interest no matter what and at best you get a capital loss when a loan goes into default means the 6 - 9 % Lending Club claims investors average is probably closer to something like 3 - 5 % after the unfavorable tax treatment.

Iran is getting close to a big nuclear breakthrough... maybe Obama should have lunch with them or something, maybe a beer summit.

As a Biologist he should know the iterizations of error science goes through to get even one «fact:» remotely close to do something useful with as technology.

They were stubborn, and ungrateful, and this Job had to face, and let go of the «pride» something that many of us uselessly hold on to wasting time to what is truly important, and that is being a crucial part of your family staying close to them no matter what and spending time with them don't let them get away from you.

The more institutionalized something becomes, the closer it gets to death, and we've got to breathe new life in by reinvigorating the atmosphere.

Even if things get better for one, or two, or three years, a ration of six years of recession and economic uncertainty followed by a few years of something close to economic security should not be what anyone hopes for from our economy.

The only time I experience something close to a feeling that would get me choked up would be if I'm praying.

If you have to preface what you are about to post with a warning that — despite the forth - coming comments — you are not racist, bigoted, closed - minded (or fill in the blank), then we've got some unfortunate news: You're probably about to write something racist, bigoted or closed - minded.

Sometimes I feel like the harder and faster I run away from Christianity, the closer I get to something that resembles the gospel of Jesus.

I've heard something to this effect too, but not just the Talmud, but that that what we have in the Masoretic Text, was «too messianic» and that got change, and that the» 70» or septuagint, is much closer to the originals than the Hebrew Text.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

But before any of this happens in The Hobbit, as the company gets closer and closer to the mountains, Gandalf suspects that «something unexpected might happen.»

If he lacks this intensity, if his soul from the beginning is dispersed in the multifarious, he will never get time to make the movements, he will be constantly running errands in life, never enter into eternity, for even at the instant when he is closest to it he will suddenly discover that he has forgotten something for which he must go back.

CH: But Sherburne likes Tillich, so he's got something very close to a theology unless Tillich was a fraud.

After I had got into bed and blown out the candle, I lay awake awhile thinking on the previous night's experience, when suddenly I felt something come into the room and stay close to my bed.

I began having intrusive thoughts, and «voices» saying they were God, and to curse God and die... something I never wanted to do, or I would look my baby in his crib, and something or someone said...» this is the closest to heaven you are ever going to get!»

If once we get behind the prejudices and tastes of this or that group of modem Christians, and try to discover what the great continental reformers like Luther and Calvin — yes, and like Zwingli, too, for be has been much misunderstood and misinterpreted by many of those who have claimed to interpret his teaching — not to mention the English reformers with their rather closer contact with the Catholic tradition, we shall find that with varying emphases and in varying idiom, they were all of them intent on saying something very like the summary outline which I have just given.

Don't fall into CNN or Fox Network lies, they don't care about God or your eternal salvation, just posting something so Ungodly like this is so Bad, (listen... Get close to Christ the redeemer of mankind) don't get into foolish arguments like this, Hollywood and all media is just the tipping point of the iceberg of something more evil happening, and to believers: get your doctrine straight and don't defend the works of this man (Stephen King) he is not giving glory to God with his live and work, there's many men of God that need your support that really give glory to GGet close to Christ the redeemer of mankind) don't get into foolish arguments like this, Hollywood and all media is just the tipping point of the iceberg of something more evil happening, and to believers: get your doctrine straight and don't defend the works of this man (Stephen King) he is not giving glory to God with his live and work, there's many men of God that need your support that really give glory to Gget into foolish arguments like this, Hollywood and all media is just the tipping point of the iceberg of something more evil happening, and to believers: get your doctrine straight and don't defend the works of this man (Stephen King) he is not giving glory to God with his live and work, there's many men of God that need your support that really give glory to Gget your doctrine straight and don't defend the works of this man (Stephen King) he is not giving glory to God with his live and work, there's many men of God that need your support that really give glory to God.

Yo, have you ever you noticed that the hotter something gets, the closer it gets to being, like, the hottest thing in the world?

Like, the more intense that something gets, the closer it gets to being, like, the most totally intense version of that thing?

As the stars arrive and walk the red carpet to the Academy Awards show, E! gets us up - close and personal to something almost as important as Oscar: the dress.