Sentences with phrase «getting up to that point»

She was paid $ 10 per hour and given just enough work to get her up to the point (but not over) where she still remained ineligible to receive health benefits.

You obviously have not gotten it up to this point.

But getting up to that point is something other than what has been discussed so far.

Just made this with my kids for my husband / their dad and I got up to the point where we were mixing with beater but was then unsure becasue we then had not added the cake mix.

The Coyotes have a pretty mean goaltender and a strong transition game that they've used to get up to this point.

This pump was instrumental in getting my supply up because my daughter never really breastfed, therefore it took a long time to get my milk to come in via the pump and to get it up to the point where I was able to provide her with all of her intake.

«You have to spin your system five times as fast to get it up to the point where you thought you had to be.»

1) It's taken these people years to get up to that point, and it's far from ideal.

Meanwhile, checkpoints require a small fee (10 coins) to access, but the coins you got up to that point aren't saved if you die, giving a nice twist on checkpoints where you have the choice of using their security or keep more gold at a greater risk.

It is important to grind like crazy to get up to the point where you can progress, it's important for you to constantly fling yourself at enemies to gain new powers and go up a bunch of levels, and it's important for you to check your XP and unlock all your abilities along the way.

So I've got it up to this point, and basically I had to figure out where do I take it from here.

For example a 59 - year - old person may take out a 10 year policy to get them up to the point where they retire at age 69.

You need to have an ultimate goal, but you also need some small, short - term goals to get you up to that point.

Not exact matches

You keep looking at sponsorship and I think it gets the point where we're almost anyone if they saved up, and this was their goal, they could ultimately save enough money to buy a ticket and move to Mars.

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter: «Eric Hellweg over at HBR said on Twitter this is one of their all - time best sellers,» Dickerson points out.

There's nothing wrong with a little perfectionism in the workplace, and encouraging your employees to do their best is always a good thing, but when it gets to the point that you're scrutinizing every detail of their performance, it ends up being counterproductive.

A doctor showing up at your door in San Francisco is convenient but access to products and services in consumer health that you may not have been able to get before at an accessible price point is a new level of access.

«Over time, we've been optimizing our clinical lab to bring up tests that are more commonly ordered, and in some cases move resources off the proprietary tests that are less commonly ordered to get to a point where the ordering patterns we are seeing can all be accommodated through our finger - stick technology.»

New developments would allow connected cars to link up with smart city infrastructure to create an entirely different ecosystem for the driver, who is simply used to the traditional way of getting from Point A to Point B.

Step two couldn't be simpler, and as Business Insider pointed out in its write - up of Boothman's book, «research also suggests that smiling when you meet someone in a happy context is a useful way to get them to remember you.»

Kitchener, Ontario - based Vidyard gets points for making a video that carries off a hat trick: It's funny; it's creative, marrying old - school»80s workout gear with Rocky - style training; and — most important — it's useful as a tool for those looking to up their video marketing game.

Only one thing is really standing in the way at this point: «The biggest challenge to adopting that is really for [wireless] operators to come up with a good way to manage your plan, because clearly you don't want to pay another $ 50 a month just to get a SIM card.»

It's actually smarter to commit to a particular airline (to marshal up your frequent flyer points towards free flights) and get the sponsored credit card.

So what we're trying to do is help now to get the business up and get the numbers right so that he can kind of get to that point.»

«If you sign up to get really great bonus points with an airline, it may not be your best card in the long run if you don't use that airline,» points out Amber Stubbs, senior managing editor at credit card comparison site CardRatings.com.

It's true that at some point you have to stop soaking up the motivation and actually get to work.

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.

The strategic thinking that Lamstein used to get WorldWise up and running is a case in point of double - bottom - line thinking.

«The technology has gotten mature to the point that it's now pretty easy to make the Silicon start - up model work to get into the drone business,» Anderson said.

«At some point, big wireless companies made a decision for you that you should have to wait two years to get a new phone for a fair price,» said John Legere, moved attribution up president and CEO of T - Mobile U.S., in a statement.

What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core of HP's problem in this area).

Once they get the basic point — a car rises up to drive over traffic — they move on, share it, or comment.

In one instance, he got an actress worked up to the point of hysterics and then put the camera right on her as she cried uncontrollably.

If you get to that point, you can then slowly inch your prices back up (assuming you retain the same level of customer service) and expand your profit margins.

«I make it a point to respond to every email and every Facebook message I get for Ranger Up.

«Startup Garage focuses on the seed - stage of funding — getting to the point where you can stand up in front of investors and ask them for $ 250,000 or half a million or maybe a million,» Zenios says.

You might think that talking up your good points was the fastest way to get over regret, but the results suggested otherwise.

The point is to dream up the most absurd thing that could possibly happen if you get zero sleep.

Other announcements made at CES 2014 have pointed wearables in the right direction — the Netatmo June got it right, FitBit is teaming up with Tory Burch, and Intel has tapped fashion and celebrity favourites Opening Ceremony to design a line of wearable tech that will be carried at Barney's.

They know where to «punch» a point in the script to get your viewers» attention but also where to soften up the mood to induce certain emotions, like trust.

I've just got to keep showing up and hammering my points.

To get a clearer picture of how these behaviors operate, my colleague and I examined how they work from a third party's point of view — that is, how do observers of sucking up to a boss process iTo get a clearer picture of how these behaviors operate, my colleague and I examined how they work from a third party's point of view — that is, how do observers of sucking up to a boss process ito a boss process it?

The problem at that point is that once the required minimum distribution starts, they end up being forced to take more money than what they necessarily need at that point, and they get thrust into a higher tax rate,» explain Plessl and Houser.

To buy a home, you'll need a credit score of about 640, explains Bill Liatsis, CEO and co-founder of online loan platform CreditIQ, and it would take about two years to get your score up about 200 pointTo buy a home, you'll need a credit score of about 640, explains Bill Liatsis, CEO and co-founder of online loan platform CreditIQ, and it would take about two years to get your score up about 200 pointto get your score up about 200 points.

He points to Coors as an example: «When I was growing up, you had to go to Colorado to get it, and that made it very cool,» he says.

Yup, he says, but that's the point: «As long as you adhere to the rules you've created for yourself, over time you'll find that the strength of the habit fields keep you in place — the act of getting up, walking over, and getting situated in the chair becomes just tedious enough to keep you at the desk, leading to a prolonged work period.»

At one point, his computer server started choking on too many ads, slowing to «a chug, chug, chug,» says Davis, who had to spend an unexpected $ 500,000 to get his systems up to consumer - friendly speed again.

To get to the next low point on the chart you have to go back to 2001 and the dot - com crash, when you could have picked up a barrel for a little more than US$ 26 in today's dollarTo get to the next low point on the chart you have to go back to 2001 and the dot - com crash, when you could have picked up a barrel for a little more than US$ 26 in today's dollarto the next low point on the chart you have to go back to 2001 and the dot - com crash, when you could have picked up a barrel for a little more than US$ 26 in today's dollarto go back to 2001 and the dot - com crash, when you could have picked up a barrel for a little more than US$ 26 in today's dollarto 2001 and the dot - com crash, when you could have picked up a barrel for a little more than US$ 26 in today's dollars.

While we haven't yet got to the point where Canadian oil production is literally stranded — shut down for lack of a place to store, let alone ship it — our product is selling for far less than the North American and world benchmark prices that continue to make filling up your car an expensive proposition.